I found an acer nitro 5 with 1440p display and an RTX 3070ti for a crazy price around ~1000$. It sounds too good to be true and I suspect aggressive corner cutting. Is it an actual crazy good deal? Should I buy it? Should I leave it and keep looking for ASUS deals?
Laptop in question: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0C5R13NGB/?psc=1
Heating issues gets mentioned a lot… Also battery life is apparently $hit
Those two issues are normal in the gaming laptop world.
My Zephyrus G14 reaches 80°C on both the GPU and CPU, they’re not made to be running at ice-cold temperatures. I got it in late 2021 and it still runs like it’s brand new, even with high temps in AAA games.
Gaming laptop are made to be used while plugged in, on the move. You CAN play games on the battery but it’s perfectly normal that it drains faster than a soda bottle found by a toddler. If you use it on the battery to do light work (database, IDE, YT, Facebook etc.), there are battery modes that will disable the GPU and use the integrated graphics. I get up to 8 hours from light tasking on mine.
Enjoy your new acquisition!
So, just go for it? Is ASUS’s 90Wh battery not worth the premium, or is this too good of a deal to skip?
Too good of a deal to skip it.
Unfortunately that is fairly normal for gaming laptops on the heating and battery life, for the price though it does seem tough to beat at least if you are set on a laptop instead of a desktop
You can also turn off the dedicated GPU generally to save on battery life when you aren’t gaming on it
It’s Acer, what did you expect?
If you want good cooling on a laptop, go with Asus or Dell.
I can’t in conscience see a recommendation for Dell and not complain about my awful experiences with Dell computers. Though, to be fair, my bad experiences have always been related to running Linux on laptops or customizing desktops. Both have not been a good time.
I love my Asus laptop, though. I have the 2021 ROG Zephyrus G15, and it slaps. Runs great on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
So, not worth it? Would you buy this if it was your money?
Not worth it (at least to me).
I personally am the kind of user that prefers a 768p display on his laptop (i know, really retro).
But i just would rather invest on everything else.
Ideally i would like Ryzen 5 + a 50-tier Nvidia GPU combo, a non-Realtek network chip, and of course, a good quality chasis (Acer does have good models when it comes to feel and shock resistance, but their cooling is always terrible.)