Laptops under $400 are predicted to have sluggish performance and poor screens. Acer hopes to change that with Aspire 1. This $249 laptop features a sleek, lightweight design, and its 1080p display is better than comparable laptops in this price range. Although its flaws — poor battery life, a bad webcam, and fragile construction — are disappointing, the Aspire 1 is still a solid option for customers looking to save money on a new laptop.
Design & Build
One thing is certain: the Acer Aspire 1 A114-33 isn’t a light laptop. It’s a big piece of equipment to carry about 1.9kg. It’s also quite thick, coming in at just under 20mm. After all, it is a pretty low-cost laptop.
Even before you attempt to pick up the laptop, it will have left an effect in some way. It’s certainly not understated, coming only in a delicate hue of ‘Peachy Pink’ and with a metal-effect plastic case. You’ll either love it or loathe it, though if you don’t mind a lower-grade processor, there are silver and blue options. The laptop’s body has some flex, but it holds up nicely in the important sections. When rested on palms on the bottom corners of the keyboard while typing, there was no noticeable movement or creaking.
Because this is a budget laptop, there are plenty of telltale corner-cutting details, such as a hinge that is too rigid for the weight of the bottom half, requiring you to open it with both hands. Still, the strong hinge serves a dual purpose, ensuring a rock-solid viewing experience with no wobbles.
With a thick border and an especially big chin, the screen bezels are about as subtle as that shade of Peachy Pink. The gleaming Acer logo almost gets lost in all that plastic, but that’s to be expected in such a low-cost laptop.
On the web, unlike the Lenovo IdeaPad 3i, there is no physical privacy shutter. However, its front-facing camera does support 720p resolution.
Screen & Speakers
The Acer Aspire 1 (A114-33) has a 14-inch IPS display with Full HD resolution, which is basically all you can ask for at this price point since low-grade TN panels are sometimes an option, even at HD resolution.
In the tests, it produced a decent 310 nits maximum brightness, which means it’s completely workable on half-brightness in normal daylight interior situations. Though this is a ComfyView panel, which means it has an anti-glare, matte surface to increase viewability in bright circumstances, you wouldn’t want to take it outside on a sunny day.
Color reproduction is good, but it lacks the pop of more expensive computers. It’s great for office chores and the occasional YouTube video, but it’s a tad washed out for movies and box sets.
Acer has incorporated a set of stereo speakers on the underside of the base, which appears to be hidden. The sound quality is adequate, but it is thin and weedy, with plenty of trebles but almost no bass end.
To summarize, if you’re going to consume any long-form audio or video content, you’ll want to use the built-in Bluetooth 5.0 or plug it into the 3.5mm headphone socket.
Battery Life
In the Battery Test, which involves continuous web surfing over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, the Acer Aspire 1 scored below average. On a single charge, the laptop lasted 6 hours and 31 minutes, which is less than the HP Stream 14’s and the budget laptop average. The Acer machine lasted longer than the Dell Inspiron 15 3000, which was only available for a brief time.
Software and Warranty
Because the Aspire 1 doesn’t have a lot of storage, Acer didn’t load it up with bloatware. Acer Documents and Acer Product Registration are two Acer-branded apps on the machine’s Windows 10 Home operating system. These support apps simplify new customers to find the user manual for their laptops and register it for support updates and warranty purposes.
Microsoft’s preinstalled software wasn’t as generous. The Aspire 1 comes with all of the bloatware we’ve come to expect, including kids’ games like Bubble Witch 3 Saga, Candy Crush Saga, Candy Crush Soda Soda, Hidden City, Minecraft, Cooking Fever, and Dragon Mania Legends, as well as pre-installed tools like Booking.com, Evernote, and Netflix.
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