Acer ConceptD 5 CN515-51 laptop review: Kaby Lake G lightweight struggles with cost cutting

[Redaktion]

Acer leaves known paths with its ConceptD 5 CN515-51 to differentiate itself from the competition, with especially lightweight materials, Kaby Lake G with an integrated AMD GPU and a 4K UHD screen that covers a wider color gamut. At the same time, the Acer ConceptD CN515-51 is also cheaper than other multimedia laptops with a 15.6 inch screen. Unfortunately, the necessary cost cuts are showing up quite fast in this comprehensive review.

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[ymcst]

Such a strange item.

Make it 8gb ram, change the screen to a proper ips with 1080p (I still cant believe 4k on laptops are even a thing, such a waste of money), drop the ssd to 256, make battery bigger (there are literally empty places in case)... and change the price to 1k and you have a compelling case.

Also Acer's thermal solutions are really funny. Their probably most famous GAMING laptop, acer nitro 5, and this multimedia laptop without a dedicated gpu, has basicly same cooling solution.

They must have been intoxicated while designing this.

[jeremy]

Such a strange item.

Make it 8gb ram, change the screen to a proper ips with 1080p (I still cant believe 4k on laptops are even a thing, such a waste of money), drop the ssd to 256, make battery bigger (there are literally empty places in case)... and change the price to 1k and you have a compelling case.

Also Acer's thermal solutions are really funny. Their probably most famous GAMING laptop, acer nitro 5, and this multimedia laptop without a dedicated gpu, has basicly same cooling solution.

They must have been intoxicated while designing this.

This laptop does have a dedicated GPU... it's listed and benchmarked in the review.

Is it a good dGPU, especially given that it uses HBM2? Not a chance. It does have a predecessor to AMD's SpeedShift, which is apparently a whole new thing or some other nonsense that tech review sites like to spout whenever AMD side decks come by.

Either way, you are still correct. Acer, IMO, may have abandoned "quantity over quality," but they don't even aspire to "quality." The same lack of USB-C PD input, the same cheap battery (and no battery charge limit options - not that they have much use on such a pitifully tiny battery), even soldered RAM. Typical Acer junk.