Acer Aspire 5 A515-56 15.6 inch Laptop – (Intel Core
Acer Aspire 5 A515-56 15.6 inch Laptop – (Intel Core i5-1135G7, 8GB, 1TB SSD, Full HD Display, Windows 10, Blue) – Amazon Exclusive
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Professional AppearanceThe slim 17.95mm body gives a professional appearance and there is an ergonomic hinge design which increases airflow on the underneath. | The Latest ConnectivityThrough the use of USB-C users get superfast data transfer over SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps. It also includes a total of four USBs: one USB 2.0 port and an HDMI 2.0 port and two SuperSpeed USB 5Gbps Type A ports – one of which can be used for offline charging. | Sounds GreatSound is of importance when communicating and listening. This laptop has been designed and certified to work with Cortana. For enhanced sound quality it also comes with Acer True Harmony |
| Weight: | 2.4 kg |
| Dimensions: | 23.85 x 36.34 x 1.79 cm; 2.4 Kilograms |
| Brand: | Acer |
| Model: | NX.A8LEK.001 |
| Colour: | Blue |
| Batteries Included: | Yes |
| Manufacture: | Acer |
| Dimensions: | 23.85 x 36.34 x 1.79 cm; 2.4 Kilograms |
Brilliant Laptop.
Work well, very fast, easy to set up
Only cons are the lack of usb ports and no Micro or SD card slot – that was fixed with a USB card reader though.
Great laptop but needs a light to easily see when caps lock is on. Also the setting should be that the functions keys work without pressing “fn” key. Or an easy toggle to make they change.
I had to go into bios to fix. Otherwise great.
I’ve had the computer for a while, I can honestly say that it is a vast improvement on my old one, in every department. It’s so nice not to gave to keep it plugged in, as the battery easily lasts all day. To be honest, I don’t use the computer that much, so the battery lasts forever! It boots up so quickly, the screen is big enough for all my needs and once you’re online, I’m finding that any downloads I’ve made have been SO much quicker than on the old machine. It’s got all the ports you could need and I love how light it is, never had a computer I can walk around with it in my hand before. I will be buying another one for a friend in a few months time, that’s how much trust, faith and enjoyment I have in and am getting from this machine.
Update:
After uninstalling of ‘Norton Security’, Camera does no longer have issues at all.
Updates are running smooth too and wife is more than happy with everything.
But I found the USB ports and the LAN connections are all pretty “narrow” – making a bit difficult to insert/remove the USB cables or the Ethernet cable. With the worry this could cause a potential damage in the long term…
No clue why it didn’t have drivers. It was an open box so maybe they were removed for display or something? I have no idea
My old laptop had become really slow and despite all attempts remained slow. This machine is almost instantaneous, the screen picture quality is excellent from all viewing angles the keyboard is well laid out and the ports adequate. I did miss an SD card slot though, but I have an external device. The battery life is as advertised, and I have not operated it for long enough to test it to the limit yet.
Very pleased with this machine.
The product for me is good for its battery life, watching videos and is decent for producing music.
It was supposed to be a family machine but I fell in love with it SO much I forbade my wife from using it. Yes I know, I’m evil but she still loves me!!
This is much faster and more powerful than my previous Acer 5. The i5 processor multi tasks well. The webcam is much better than I expected, after seeing some other laptops. Keyboard and touchpad are very responsive and easy to configure. The Acer Aspire 5 fan runs very quietly and only occasionally needs to operate in medium power mode.
The screen is excellent for everything I’ve used, including pictures and videos. Speakers have improved since the previous version too. Overall it’s a good ‘all rounder’ and more than adequate for most applications. Definitely recommend it as a well equipped, good value laptop.
This was to replace an Acer Aspire E15 which was unable to upgrade to Windows 11. The old machine had a 2TB HDD with about 650GB in use. All the old programs and data transferred to this 1TB SSD easily. The older machine took between 30-60 minutes to boot up. This new one is ready to use within 30 seconds – lightning fast.
UPDATE – 07/02/2022
Weirdly the following day after posting this review, i closed the laptop lid as i have been doing from new, but this time it didn’t go into “Sleep Mode” …. i came back to it a couple of hours late and nearly burnt my hands it was that hot, It hadn’t helped that i’d slipped it into a laptop sleeve, any longer and only god knows what might have happened ! …. a couple of days later while watching a downloaded film, it “Blue Screen Crashed” …. OMG ! What the hell is going on here ?
I’ve only had the laptop for a couple of weeks. Downloaded stuff on to it really quick..responds well. Haven’t had it long enough nor had time yet to explore all the functions but so far so good
Works fast, but the screen would turn off, in a noisy scratching/schhh type and blocked. Only way to stop it is to keep turn off button pressed until shutting down. Pressing again to start, ordered replacement, amazon team very helpful.
Replaced a poorly laptop for my business – the bonus being Amazon Prime next day delivery. A great laptop that has everything I need – can be a little noisy when the fan kicks in.
Everything was dead, just a single bar of light at the top of the screen flashing different colours. I could not even turn it off. After a fairly long session with Amazon help (Thanks Ronnie) the decision was to return it to Acer, which I arranged immediately.
The next morning the battery had run down and the laptop was off.
I plugged it in, switched it on, and everything has been fine since!
Just a glitch, annoying, but not fatal. I could have just returned it to Acer anyway, but the process was cancelled by agreement, and that suits me because I would have had to go through the set up processes again.
If it goes wrong again, Acer already know about it.
An interesting lesson, Computers are complex and are quite capable of having a hiccup. Shut down and restart often works – even in these circumstances!
It a basic lap top quite fast works well worth the money
It will suit the middle to older person like me
I am pleased It has a 1 tb storage
Make it great for photos of my gran childre
End of update.
I’m an IT pro with several high spec laptops all using Windows 7 and 10. I brought this because I hate Windows 10 and wanted to use this as my first adventure into the better, faster and free LINUX operating system. Unfortunately after many attempts and a lot of research the Acer would not allow LINUX to be installed!
Instead I installed LINUX on an older but higher spec HP at the *first attempt!*
As for using this machine with Windows 10 – its good, well made, good screen and fast for an Intel i5. Only thing I really really don’t like is the power button replacing the delete key on the keyboard instead of being a seperate button. As a coder I use the delete key often alas this is how many manufacturers are doing it not just Acer.
I haven’t tested the battery life as I’m usually plugged in.
By pre Covid prices it is a bit expersive but based on today it is good value for money.
As for ease of use – don’t like the power button but otherwise its fine.
All-in-all though, a good laptop.
My old one had been problematic for a while – I’m not sure whether I killed it with overwork or whether it’s just that technology has improved so much over the past few years that the new model just doesn’t seem to have any of the peccadilloes associated with the last one.
There’s no DVD drive on the new one, but since I use it mostly for work and for my MA studies, that’s not a problem. There’s a fast internet connection and it’s happy to talk to my wireless printer. All in all, I’m very happy with it – and the colour (a metallic turquoise) is an added bonus.
Needed to upgrade my work laptop and looked at a lot of different options and reviews. In the end I went for this one. Very pleased I did – it is fast and lightweight with a good screen and plenty of battery life (although this was not a critical criteria for me).
There are some simple but effective design features eg. the lifting hinge on the screen which allows the fans room to circulate the air better. The only downside I can see so far is that the fans are a little noisy.