Acer Aspire 7

    Acer's latest 17-inch multimedia-gaming hybrid from the new Aspire 7 series comes equipped with a powerful GTX 1060, a fast quad-core, and an IPS display but is consequently optimized with regards to costs in all other aspects. The mostly black Aspire 7 A717-71G-72VY is incredibly large, and its display is surrounded by very wide bezels. The lid and the base unit’s top cover have a cold metal-like feel and are quite susceptible to fingerprints with their brushed metal surface. As can be seen on the photos below, we have had trouble wiping the fingerprints off the surface. The base is very sturdy and rigid, and only flexed minimally under intense force, but remained completely quiet. The thick and pressure-resistant lid is very rigid as well, and barely reacts to torsional forces. The hinge is incredibly tight. So much so that it lifts the entire base when opened. On the plus side, teetering is practically non-existent.

      Acer has decided to not only include a TPM 2.0 chip, but also a fingerprint reader, which is located in the upper left corner of the touchpad and turned out to be very reliable and fast. The barren box oh-so common for most Acer notebooks these days contained no extras apart from the charger and the usual quick start guide and warranty leaflet. Accessories made specifically for the Aspire 7 do not exist. he pressure-resistant keyboard is almost as wide as a standard desktop keyboard and narrower by only a few millimeters. The touchpad framed by a silver ornamental strip is sufficiently large, but is placed too far left where it can get in the way of a hand resting on the WASD keys. It offered decent sliding properties even with slightly moist fingers, but did not detect movement or inputs at its edges. Precision and response times were more than decent, and fast movements were detected reliably every time. Drag & drop via double-tap worked every time.