Review on Acer Aspire 5 A515-55-35SE, 15.6-Inch Full HD Display, Intel Core i3-1005G1 Processor, 4GB DDR4, 128GB NVMe SSD, WiFi 6 AX201, Backlit Keyboard, Fingerprint Reader, Windows 10 Home (S Mode) by Chris Willis

This recently purchased Acer Aspire 5 A515-55-56VK replaced my tired old (but wonderful!) Dell XPS15Z. All in all, Acer is a pretty good laptop for the time I'll be using it. It's fast, the screen is very good, and it's pretty light. However, I would not recommend this for heavy users. My main complaint is that the keyboard layout isn't very natural, as the main letter keys are on the left/top of the keyboard area, which pulls me away from the center of the display when typing. And the Delete key and cursor arrow keys are pretty small and occupy odd positions in the keyboard layout. Also slightly annoying is that the Caps Lock key is not backlit in CAPS mode, which is also very frustrating. (But the keyboard is nicely backlit, which earns some points.) ANOTHER BIG DISAPPOINTMENT: THE MOTHERBOARD HAS ONLY ONE (1) RAM SLOT. This one slot was equipped with an 8 GB memory module at the factory. So if you're looking to add more RAM, be extra aware that you'll have to forego the lovely 8GB memory modules and buy an expensive 16GB memory module to bring this laptop up to full storage capacity. This is very bad. I wish my Dell XPS15Z still worked. Spring. In any case, if I were to buy another laptop, I would look at the competition before settling on this Acer model, which causes too much frustration, anger and hassle for serious computer users. JM January 19, 2021