Acer Nitro 5, 7th Gen Intel Core i5-7300HQ, GeForce GTX 1050, 8GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, Windows 10 Home, Shale Black, AN515-51-56U0

This right here is $800 worth of laptop. Which doesn't sound like a lot, but Acer (who sponsored this video, by the way, thank you Acer) is particularly proud of what they've managed to pack into their eighth generation Nitro 5. So let's crack this bad boy open and have a look at it, shall we? All right, so while I pack these boxes open, let's talk the specs of this thing. It's got a Core i5 processor (Which again doesn't sound "gaming" or anything) but if you look a little closer at the specs, the 8th Gen Core i5 8300H, (which is what this thing is equipped with) is actually nearly identical to the last generation Core i7 7700HQ which was kind of the "de facto" standard for gaming laptops. So consider this: Over one generation we are getting slightly better performance actually and at $128 less on the CPU alone so that is a BIG part of why Acer was able to hit this fairly aggressive pr