Acer Nitro 7 review: A good budget gaming laptop that made some hard choices
Summary
Acers Nitro 7 opts for an above-average (for this price point at least) 15.6-inch display, a generous amount of SSD storage, and a top-tier CPU—but it skimps on the graphics card, a fairly important component for a gaming laptop. While in most ways its just your typical chiclet slab, theres a generous amount of travel to each keystroke and a crisp, tactile click that makes it a joy to type on. This test is longer and more intensive, tasking the machine with encoding a 30GB MKV file down to HandBrakes Android Tablet preset, a process that usually takes the 8750H and 9750H around 30 minutes. The difference is immediately noticeable in 3DMarks FireStrike Extreme benchmark, where the Predator Helios 300 runs laps around the Nitro 7, as does MSIs GS65 Stealth and its GTX 1660 Ti. It also has a smaller 256GB SSD, which is basically useless for any serious gaming at this point (though easily upgraded), is slightly thicker and heavier, and gets worse battery life, as you can see in this chart.
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