Sale €899 Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K, Ultrabook 15″ 2.5K Silver thin and light under Intel Core 7 150U with fast SSD 1 TB RAM and Thunderbolt 4
Our opinion on the Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K
Thin and light laptopAcer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K benefits from a 15-inch High Definition 2.5K screen with sRGB colors that are more faithful than average and fast SSD storage with a high capacity of 1 TB which reinforces its responsiveness. This Windows 11 laptop is efficient in everyday use thanks to its hybrid Intel Core 7 150U Raptor Lake Refresh processor with Iris Xe graphics solution and its 16 GB of RAM. Coated in an elegant and discreet dark silver design, this Ultrabook also benefits from a backlit keyboard, a biometric fingerprint reader and connectivity including USB-C Thunderbolt 4 and Wi-Fi 6E.
Features of the Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K
| Screen(s) | 15.6'' QHD 2.5K LED IPS 100% sRGB 16:9 (2560×1440, anti-glare/matte) |
| Processor | Intel Core 7 150U Raptor Lake Refresh (10 cores: 2P 1.8 GHz / 8E 1.2 GHz) |
| Installed RAM (max) | 16GB LPDDR5 5600MHz |
| Graphics card | Intel Iris Xe integrated into the processor |
| Storage | 1TB M.2 SSD (NVMe PCIe 4.0) |
| Connections | 2 USB 3.2 (Gen1) + 1 USB 4 Type-C Thunderbolt 4, HDMI 2.1 |
| Network | Wi-Fi 6E ax (2×2), Bluetooth 5.3 |
| Backlit keyboard | Yes |
| Numeric keypad | Yes |
| Windows Hello | Yes, via fingerprint reader |
| Audio system | 2 Bang&Olufsen speakers, HP Audio Boost |
| Operating system | Windows 11 64-bit |
| Announced autonomy / Battery | 6 hours / Li-Ion 3 cells 50Whr (65W adapter) |
| Weight / Dimensions (mm) | 1.77 Kg / 362.9 x 237.5 x 17.9 |
The Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K faces the competition
The Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K is out now sold by Acer France and offers a configuration/price ratio interesting for its category where it is one of the least expensive to offer such a high definition screen with such faithful colors with such a recent and efficient processor as well as such large capacity SSD storage.
If this Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K does not meet all your criteria, you will find in our guide Gaming laptop other configurations to play with a similar budget. For the same budget, choose the model with the most powerful graphics card, it will have the greatest impact on performance.
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Chassis, connections, screen of the Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K
This laptop has a sober and elegant look with its thin and light dark silver design.
The connectivity integrated into this Ultrabook is good, including 1 USB-C Thunderbolt 4, Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E ax modules to communicate and connect remotely wirelessly, a useful HDMI video output to easily connect it to a TV or monitor for example, an audio port as well as 2 USB 3.0 (USB 2.0 compatible) providing transfers up to 5 times faster than USB 2.0 if peripherals USB 3.0 are connected to it.
Biometric authentication is possible on this laptop using the fingerprint reader and the Windows Hello functionality.
When you need to better distinguish the keys, simply activate the backlighting of the chiclet keyboard.
The screen represents the major asset of this configuration because it is adorned with 2.5K High Definition. It will particularly delight those who like to watch videos because of its 16:9 format.
In addition, the screen benefits from sRGB color accuracy that is more faithful than average as well as IPS technology providing significant viewing angles, both horizontally and vertically.
As it has an anti-reflective coating, the screen also ensures better visibility in a bright environment (e.g. outdoors) than a shiny panel.
Performance, battery life of the Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K
The Acer Aspire 15 A15-51M-720K is a thin and light 15-inch High Definition portable PC intended for everyday use.
It benefits from SSD storage with a high capacity of 1000 GB, which is very comfortable for installing and storing quantities of software and files.
Shock-resistant, energy-efficient and quiet, an SSD offers high speed which clearly enhances responsiveness and fluidity.
This manifests itself in particular on a daily basis by rapid starts/stops as well as the launches of applications and treatments.
We can precisely carry out small multimedia processing taking advantage of the multi-cores and RAM under this Ultrabook, such as light video encoding or photo editing.
Because it is powered by an Intel processor Raptor Lake Refresh low consumption Core 7 150U integrating 10 hybrid cores as well as the Iris Xe graphics module, supported by 16 GB of RAM.
Although no dedicated graphics card is included in this thin and light laptop, you can obviously watch HD photos and videos using the Iris Xe.
Because a greater number of calculations are required to play in 2.5K than in Full HD, which results in a lower number of fps.
As for autonomy, count on around 6 hours of battery operation in light use for this relatively thin and light Ultrabook and therefore quite easy to transport which may interest some wishing to equip themselves with a Student laptop 15 inch High Definition without needing high battery life.
