Acer Aspire 5 A515-45-R1YC Slim Laptop | 15.6 Full HD IPS | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U Hexa-Core Mobile Processor | 8GB DDR4 | 256GB NVMe SSD | WiFi 6 | Backlit KB | Windows 10 Home

Good

This laptop is now running perfectly and set up to exactly to my taste. But getting there was not so easy. I detest WIN 11 and will stay away from it as long as I can. So I was disappointed when this laptop came with Windows 11 installed despite the fact the description said Windows 10 Home. And the Windows 11 installation was almost useless because the start menu did not work nor did run. Researching this on the internet I found out this was a fault in a beta version of Windows 11 that should never have been installed. Fortunately my old laptop was still mostly functional so I made a USB Windows 10 installation thumb drive and did a clean Windows 10 installation. One way to get rid of any pre-installed Acer crapware or, I guess, anything useful that Acer loaded, but I am not sure what that would be. This laptop is running very well now. I am ready to use it 8 seconds after hitting the power button which is nice. Getting it to this point was a bit more than I had bargained for. The speaker volume was feeble, like my previous Acer but I knew how to be able to turn the volume up by installing an equalizer utility.

Could not log in after just a couple days. Returned for refund, bought an HP Envy at Costco.

love it got newest windows 10 version 20h2

I purchased this laptop in Dec of 2020. It was kept in pristine temperature regulated conditions. By July 2021, the laptop would not turn on. This is way below acceptable life span. I also haven’t been able to get Acer to respond to the issue. I really regret this purchase and hope others are not victims of this poor product.

This is a great laptop for general computing (internet, word processing etc). It is lightweight, starts up quickly, and has a great screen. I highly recommend this model if you are on a budget and need a solid laptop at a great price.

I originally found this when it was around $350, now its over $400. The model I received has 4GB RAM soldered on the motherboard with the ability to go to 32GB, but obviously with the soldered RAM, the highest I could get it to was 20GB, for an additional $60.

This is for A515-44-R93G - Ryzen 3 4300U, 4gb RAM, 128gb NVMe SSD.

So far Im not having any luck with these Ryzen mobile processors.

Good basic laptop. Fast and runs basic word processing programs, etc. al. Its been really dependable. I own three basic Acers and all of them have done well for the money.