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Acer has this week unveiled its new Swift 3 and Aspire 5 laptops, the companies first laptops equipped with AMD Ryzen 4000 U-series processors. The Acer Aspire 5 (A515-44)laptops will be available ...

There’s a lot to like about this inexpensive Ryzen 3-powered Acer Aspire 5, including its slim and light chassis and its solid performance when it comes to mainstream computing tasks, but the middling ...

The Core i3-powered version of the Acer Aspire 5 offers middling speed, and we wish it had more storage, but this still manages to find the sweet spot between size, power, and price. It won’t win any ...

Bottom line: The Acer Aspire 5 is a 15.6-inch thin-and-light that definitely delivers more for your money. Starting at $400 with an Intel processor or $350 with an AMD chip, the 15.6-inch Aspire 5 is ...