Review on Acer Nitro5 I5 11400H Thunderbolt Keyboard by Adam Bronisz ᠌

The laptop makes an ambiguous impression. Powerful and modern iron, good ergonomics, compactness. At the same time, everything spoils the BIOS, in which, by and large, you can only choose the boot order from different media. It seems to be done so that users do not spoil the laptop with inept actions. But, as a rule, they enter the BIOS with an understanding of what and how to do. Immediately after the purchase, I upgraded the RAM to 32 GB, since the upgrade does not void the warranty. I won’t tell you how many FPS in games and how many mega hashes in mining it shows. The laptop was not purchased for this. Where the Dell Inspiron 7567 with its GTX 1050 turned into a heater and roared like a TU-134 in takeoff mode, the hero of this review does not even think about warming up and slowing down. Heavy scenes with 4k textures and animation digest vigorously. There was a nuance with SSD: this model is equipped with two m.2 slots, which, as it turned out, only support the PCI-e interface. SATA is not supported. There is also no SATA cable for the HDD, although there is space for it. Regular Windows was eliminated immediately, it was replaced by Ubuntu. For a long time it was not possible to configure the Nvidia driver. The problem was solved by selecting the correct version. In general, the laptop is recommended for purchase. Those who already lack the capabilities of i5 / i7 6 and 7 generations, as well as 1060/1660, will come in just right. If it weren’t for horse prices, I would have looked at models with 3080 and Ryzen 7.