Sales €899 Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001, well equipped (Core i7, RTX 2050) this thin and light versatile Ultrabook with 1 TB SSD sees its price drop to less than €900
Our opinion on the Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001
Multimedia the thin and light versatile laptop PC Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001 benefits from fast SSD storage with a large capacity of 1 TB which reinforces its responsiveness and an NVIDIA Ampere GeForce RTX 2050 ray tracing graphics card suitable for games that are not too demanding. This GPU accelerates processing like the hybrid Intel Raptor Lake Core i7-1355U processor and 16 GB of RAM that perform well in everyday use. This elegant silver Ultrabook equipped with a 15-inch IPS Full HD anti-glare screen also benefits from a backlit keyboard, a biometric fingerprint reader and connectivity with USB-C Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E.
Features of the Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001
Screen(s) | 15.6'' Full HD LED IPS thin edges (1920×1080, anti-glare) |
Processor | Intel Core i7-1355U Raptor Lake (10 cores: 2P 1.7 GHz/8E 1.2 GHz, TDP 15W) |
Installed RAM (max) | 16 GB LPDDR5x 5600 MHz (soldered) |
Graphics card | NVIDIA Ampere GeForce RTX 2050 4GB dedicated GDDR6, Intel Iris Xe integrated into the processor and Optimus |
Storage | 1TB M.2 SSD (NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4) |
Connections | 2 USB 3.2 (Gen1) + 1 USB 3.2 Type-C (Gen2) Thunderbolt 4, HDMI 2.1 |
Network | Wi-Fi 6E ax (2×2), Bluetooth 5.1 + Gigabit Ethernet |
Backlit keyboard | Yes |
Numeric keypad | Yes |
Windows Hello | Yes, fingerprint reader |
Audio system | 2 speakers (2 x 2W) |
Operating system | Windows 11 64-bit |
Announced autonomy / Battery | 8 hours / Li-Ion 3 cells 50Whr |
Weight / Dimensions (mm) | 1.78 Kg / 361 x 237 x 17.9mm |
The Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001 faces the competition
The Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001 is currently displayed in promotion at Acer France and offers a configuration/price ratio attractive for its category where it is one of the cheapest to offer such a recent processor with such a high number of cores (Raptor Lake) with such a high-performance graphics solution, such a large capacity SSD or even Thunderbolt 4 and Ethernet connectivity.
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Chassis, connections, screen of the Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001
This versatile laptop, cooled by the TwinAir Cooling solution using 2 fans, 2 heat pipes and ventilation grilles, has a sober and elegant appearance with its thin and light anthracite design.
This Ultrabook integrates good connectivity including 1 USB-C Thunderbolt 4, Wi-Fi 6E ax and Bluetooth 5.1 wireless modules for remote connections and communications, a useful HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV for example , Ethernet and audio ports or even 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) guaranteeing transfers up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0 if peripherals USB 3.0 are connected to it.
As a biometric reader is integrated, you can authenticate by fingerprint recognition via Windows Hello technology.
We can obviously backlight the keys of the chiclet keyboard to better discern them in the dark.
Thanks to its IPS technology, the screen has significant viewing angles, both horizontal and vertical. Furthermore, it lends itself well to displaying videos and more generally High Definition content due to its 16:9 format and Full HD definition.
Performance, autonomy of the Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001
The Acer Aspire 5 A515-58GM-001 is a 15-inch laptop designed for versatile multimedia use on the go.
It will interest certain nomads such as those looking for a Student laptop because it is easy to transport due to its controlled weight and its finesse while offering a battery life of around 8 hours in light use.
To ensure such autonomy, this Ultrabook relies on energy-efficient components such as its SSD storage, which is more energy efficient than a hard drive while being more resistant to shocks, silent and much faster.
The SSD, which offers a large capacity of 1 TB to accommodate multiple software and files, therefore clearly improves responsiveness and fluidity on a daily basis compared to a hard drive.
Thanks to the SSD, starts/stops, processing and launches of software/games are carried out more quickly and you can access online game cards more quickly.
Whether with the Iris Xe graphics module inserted in the processor or the dedicated GeForce RTX 2050 graphics card, we can obviously watch photos and videos but also play modest games. The GeForce RTX 2050 is in fact activated by Optimus technology to carry out graphics work deemed too heavy for the Intel Iris Xe.
NVIDIA Optimus technology actually switches automatically and in real time between the GeForce RTX 2050 and the Intel Iris Xe. The latter is favored as much as possible to ensure the best possible autonomy because it consumes little energy.
Featuring the NVIDIA Ampere architecture, the GeForce RTX 2050 ray tracing is a dedicated graphics card that is more demanding and powerful than the Iris Xe. In particular, it allows you to play games that are not too demanding on 3D resources.
The GeForce RTX 2050 will interest creators. Because it accelerates processing under software using the power of GPU calculations, such as VSDC, Adobe Photoshop/Premiere or Sony Vegas.
The Iris Xe takes its place in the Core i7-1355U, a low-consumption hybrid processor Raptor Lake here associated with 16 GB of RAM to deliver good performance in everyday use. But also to carry out multimedia work taking advantage of multi-cores and RAM (eg: photo editing, video encoding).
Keep in mind, however, that to often carry out work requiring processor resources, it is better to turn to a PC based on a non-low consumption processor.