Pros: Very fast
sleek design
full keyboard
good for carrying

Cons: bad track pad
heat problems
loud fans

Other Thoughts: This is a great computer, I got it during the winter holidays. It can easily run games like fallout 4 and planetside 2 at 40-60fps with no problems. One downside is the heat it generates, I would recommend buying a cooling pad or laptop stand with this if you are going to use it to game for more than 30 min at a time.

Pros: - Top line latest specs
- Great value for the price it's at
- Thin and light for a gaming laptop
- Good design

Cons: - Unreliable parts prone to failure
- Poor quality control

Other Thoughts: I really, really wanted to like this laptop and make it a keeper but I went through 2 of these that failed pretty much right off the bat and had to return them. At this price (it's even $150 cheaper as of this writing), you can't find a better value considering the CPU, GPU, 16GB memory, SSD, and 1TB HD. Not only that, it's not some heavy, bulky monstrosity like a lot of other gaming laptops. So it seems great on paper, but the quality control is poor and the machine is unreliable.

The first one seemed to work completely fine until I unplugged it from the outlet. It would immediately restart and or restart at random intervals. It would last at most a few minutes on battery power. The battery was fully charged and I also tried the battery reset pinhole on the bottom. It would not work at all on battery power and had to kept plugged in.

The second one worked for about a week before it started exhibiting a lot of problems. It suddenly started emitting static like noises and high pitched beep and blips. This happened at random, even when the laptop was idle. The speakers no longer worked and would just output static like noise. The red backlighting would flicker as well or sometime not work at all. It would have frequent BSOD's, often with a video card related error or when I was working off data on the HD. After restart the discrete Nvidia GPU and the 1TB HD would no longer be detected. Sometimes the HD would constantly go in and out of detection. Sometimes after restarting, the GPU and HD would come back, sometimes it wouldn't. It seemed random and would drop at any moment, causing data loss.

The bright side is that both machines exhibited these problems very early, and I was able to easily return to Newegg for a refund.

Pros: Core i7, 16gb ram, 256gb SSD and GTX 960M.
Thin and light for a 15.6in gaming laptop
Great wireless performance with AC
Excellent IPS screen
Good build quality
Quiet when not gaming
Fast SSD
Great value considering the specs

Cons: Fingerprint magnet
Sharp front edge
Bloatware installed

Other Thoughts: I bought this to replace a work laptop that I use when traveling. As I usually am bored in the evenings I use the laptop for light gaming too and this laptop has been excellent. It's fast and quiet and the GTX 960M is able to play most of the modern games I play at med details in 1080 without issue, including BF4, which is impressive. The fans ramp up a little when gaming, but nothing too bad. The keys are ok for typing, little shallow, but easy to get used to, my accuracy remained constant when typing. The screen is great, colors are vibrant and angles are good. Expected from IPS. I run some databases from this computer for work and the Core i7 and 16gb of ram chew through them without issue. Laptop runs cool which is more than I can say for my last Lenovo.
All round I have no complaints. The laptop looks good, works well and plays well.

Pros: Price-to-performance ratio: No one else even comes close. 16Gigs of RAM, iCore 7, two hard drives and the 960 GPU. Anyone else, that setup would cost you $1500+ to $2000.

Thermal Management: Due to excellent thermal management, the cooling fans didn't even come on while viewing websites like SI.com and breitbart.com, which have two of pop-ups running. Cooling only kicked in while playing high-res games.

Design: The Black Edition is just cool looking and feeling.

Build Quality: Very good quality. It is not the high-end of competitors, but is 10% better quality and use of metal worth and extra $500-$1000? No!

Wireless Performance: Picked up signals that my other laptop couldn't. Speeds did tend to vary and the farthest distance, but I would expect that. Peaked performance was 144, which is as fast as my router allowed.

SSD-HHD setup: Very fast SSD. Great HHD setup, as you can save files to the second drive.

IPS Screen: Great screen that is very clear HD. It is not 4K, but looks great and unlike 4K, it doesn't drain the battery at a record pace.

Cons: Touchpad: It is not the best I have used, but it is not all that bad. I have used other laptops that cost more, that had far worse touchpads.

No other cons!!!

Other Thoughts: Acer built the best extreme gaming laptop, now just go and get it!!

Pros: Ease of use: This is basically plug and play. Windows 10 is actually pretty nice. Last PC had Windows 7 and I held off upgrading due to horror stories from friends with Windows 8. Boots up in 8 seconds! This thing is blazing.

Screen: Beautiful 1080p HD. I still use a gaming monitor but this screen is truly gorgeous. I can game in-between classes (and sometimes in class) and hardly notice a difference.

Size: Shockingly thin and lightweight. Fits in the laptop pocket of my backpack nice and snug. Case feels solid. It's plasticy, but a very smooth matte black. I think it looks really slick and feels pretty comfortable on the wrists. Don't really see how Acer fits all that hardware into this shell. You'd think there'd be heating issues, right? Wrong.

Heat: Even plugged into the charger and gaming on medium to high settings, the "CoolBoost" technology plastered all over the box must actually do a superior job of cooling. Some people mentioned the fans were noisy--I have no idea what their threshold for "noise" must be. This thing is silent to me. For the first few days, I thought the fans weren't running at all.

Hardware: Of course, for the price I'm not sure this hardware can be matched. Core i7 6th gen, 16gb DDR4, Dedicated 4GB NVIDIA Graphics card, 256 gb SSD and 1TB HD.

Ports: Some people said the ports were all on the same side--Not sure which laptop they're looking at. The V15 Nitro comes with an audio port, SD Card reader, and USB port on the left. While the right houses HDMI, two additional USB ports, an Ethernet port.

Keyboard: Feels pretty nice. Backlight is nice and can be quickly disabled by holding the function key + f9. Would be cool to change the colors but that's a little nitpicky. Keys are very responsive and pretty normally spaced for a 15.6 inch laptop.

Service: Price dropped $50 10 hours after my purchase. Chatted NewEgg and they gave me a giftcard for the difference. Plus their free Premiere service for students is a really nice bonus. Saved me $12 and the priority shipping was quick and laptop arrived in mint condition.

Cons: Clock issues: I had similar problems with another user about the clock not syncing correctly. Took a few tries but eventually I disabled the "auto-sync" feature and set the time myself. It still wound up 20 minutes ahead. One final manual reset and a week into use and the issue hasn't reappeared. Spent a very worrisome 10 minutes debugging the issue, but all seems good now.

Bloatware: Fair amount of bloatware. Takes maybe 30 minutes to uninstall everything

Other Thoughts: Would absolutely recommend to students/gamers. PC can handle large software. It's thin, light weight, and a beast. I don't believe there's a better budget gaming laptop on the market.

Pros: - very fast
- amazing hardware for the price
- looks great
- great monitor and keyboard

Cons: - Bluetooth driver crashed less then a week after purchase
- very difficult to open up and swap/check hardware
- absurd amount of bloatware
- touch pad takes a very long time to get used to
- keyboard is a fingerprint magnet
- relatively large for a 15.6'' laptop
- Windows 10 sucks

Other Thoughts: If you buy this product make sure to get the warranty as well

Pros: powerful package, plays ARK, LOL, WOW, and Dead Floor at decent frame rates.....when not overheating.

Cons: Customer pays for shipping back to ACER for repairs.
ACER does the bare minimum trouble shooting and returns the product prior to solving the issue.

Other Thoughts: Only down fall i had to this so far in the two months i owned it was i had to return in to acer for an overheating GPU/Fan issue. while playing ARK the comp heated up to the point where the frame rates went down to 1 FPS. I noticed the fans were not spinning/working. i contacted ACER who prompted me to send the laptop back to them for a diagnosis and repair. the shipping from NJ to them was 135 dollars and ACER does not pay for the shipping. Two weeks later i received my computer back with an invoice stating the computer was running as intended and the fans were functioning properly. Only "repair"that was done was an update to bios. Contacted ACER again to see if they performed a stress tested the GPU and fans using a benchmark software or anything as such and they replied there is nothing stating that was done on the service order. So now I'm waiting for the GPU to overheat again so i can open another ticket, spend another 135 dollars to send it back to them.

overall the comp has alot of nice hardware but i wish ACER would stand behind their product more and perform the proper tests to diagnosis the problems. Also the customer should not have to pay for shipping back on a warrantied item that has defects.



update 03/07/16 after posting this review i was contacted by a member of ACER and they are attempting to reimburse my shipping costs, they have also extended my warranty on the product. As for their customers service i can not say enough good things for this company, again time will tell if the product holds up.

Pros: - Nice design and relatively lightweight.
- Good performance - processor and SSD.

Cons: - Bloatware
- Black wrist rest is a fingerprint magnet.
- Trackpad is suboptimal - even when adjusted for maximum cursor speed it still takes several swipes to get across the screen.
- Video glitches - I get black flashes of the screen when playing World of Warcraft.

Other Thoughts: I bought this laptop specifically to play WoW, a game that is not exactly the biggest user of GPU power. But when I play, at random intervals the screen flickers to black and then goes back to normal. Sometimes I can play for several minutes without a flash, then a few in quick succession, then none for another while. There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to it. I've tried updating to the latest drivers for both the Nvidia card and the Intel graphics, BIOS is up to date, Windows 10 is up to date, I've used the Nvidia control panel to force World of Warcraft to use the Nvidia GPU - nothing seems to fix the black flashes. No problems are listed in the Windows system event log, either. Doesn't seem to be temperature related, either, since it sometimes happens just as I'm starting the game, other times when I've been playing for a while.

I've seen reports of other brand laptops with the same combination of graphics having similar problems which were fixed with BIOS updates, but there's no way of knowing if Acer will release a fixed BIOS before the return window on my purchase closes, so back to Newegg the laptop will go.

Pros: This laptop has great specs for the money. I especially like having both an SSD and a 1TB hard drive. Memory is good at 16GB of DDR4, and the 4GB GTX960M is better than similar recent laptops I have seen with higher prices. So far it has run every game my son has tried with solid performance.

I also like that it is compact--small enough to use as a regular laptop, not just a gaming beast! The IPS HD screen is bright and well saturated with good off-axis viewing. I have not tried it yet, but it is cool that it has a USB C 3.1 port that is also a full speed Thunderbolt 3 port.

Cons: Not many really. There was a modest amount of bloatware, which was easily uninstalled without needing to reinstall Windows. It makes some occasional fan noise, but that is rare and not intrusive.

Other Thoughts: Overall a very good machine for the money. It feels up-to-date with a Skylake quad I7, ddr4 memory and all the latest ports. It is a nicely-made regular laptop that also can handle real gaming rather than some noisy, hot, garish and overpriced Alienware or its ilk.

Pros: - Excellent, subtle design for a gaming laptop.
- Speedy start up (though expected for a laptop with an SSD)
- Great screen

Cons: - Trackpad stopped working properly after 1 day. It behaved as if I had one finger down at all times.
- Graphics card was broken; black flashes seen in many games. Driver updates did not help.

Other Thoughts: I purchased this laptop after seeing the great reviews. It might just be my luck, but I got an awful, defective product. I will never trust acer again. One defect could be bad luck, but two is stretching it.