Pros: Price to specs. ratio

Has worked incredibly well for me in gaming and all other functionality

Cons: The track pad and keyboard have gradually become unresponsive, at this point (2 years after purchase) the track pad is essentially useless; I use a wired mouse instead

The construction/enclosure of the laptop itself is very fragile, it seems like it shouldn't be carried around at all, essentially requiring me to keep it as a "desktop" computer for fear of further difficulties. I do not lead a very rugged life but after two years of carrying it around in my backpack for school plastic pieces that surround the hinges of the screen have broken off - finally a broken piece of plastic fell into the interior of the laptop and got ground up in one of the fans, causing a horrendous grinding noise that eventually went away. There is a seemingly loose connection to the HDD because if I risk moving the laptop there is the possibility that the HDD will suddenly disappear.

It's incredibly frustrating to pay any amount of money for something that I feel like needs to be replaced / sent in for serious repair after just two years but it has been awhile since I have owned a laptop and this kind of planned obsolescence may be the norm now; either way, it's been disheartening to me.

Overall Review: I would recommend this to other people but with the caveat that it needs to be handled like someone with osteogenesis imperfecta.

Pros: - Has played every game I've thrown at it so far
- Decent battery life
- Lightweight
- Lots of space

Cons: - Absolute fingerprint magnet

Pros: Great looking computer
Great specs for the price

Cons: Acer has absolutely the worst customer support I have ever experienced.
Windows 10 is awful and refuses to work with SSDs.

Overall Review: I bought this computer from here and on the exact date of the end of my return window, I started having the 100% C Drive SSD issue. I got in contact with Acer and after several different people at Acer customer service were rude with me about trying their troubleshooting methods, all of which I had already done, they finally today me to send the computer in. After sending the computer in and waiting on them for over 2 weeks and several follow up calls to Acer Customer Support, I finally got an update on the repair of my computer. After shipment of the computer back to me, I had some issues with the BIOS not finding Windows on the HHD. After I had fixed the BIOS to boot the HHD first to find Windows 10, I rebooted the computer and pulled up Task Manager and noted that my D Drive was now operating at 100% from booting. I did some investigating and it appears that Acer removed the SSD I had purchased from Newegg and gave me no notification of doing so. Now, since the D Drive operates only at 100% from boot and I am only using my HHD, any time I open File Explorer and try to access the D Drvie, my whole computer freezes up and I am forced to hard reset my computer. This is the exact same issue I was encountering with my computer before I had sent it into Acer Repair and they claimed they had fixed the computer and sent it back to me. Acer Customer Support Services have been absolutely awful, they provide no insight on to the status of your repairs if you need them, I was contacted by the shipping company before Acer when my computer was shipped back to me, and now I have to follow up again with Acer about getting my computer fixed.
Highly recommend never buy this computer or from Acer. Ever.

Pros: - Fast as all hell.
Ive never had anything as fast as this before. It will literally boot up to the log-in screen within 2 seconds of booting up, if not shorter. Immediate response, no complaints with speed. I originally bought this for AutoCAD and Solidworks, and wanted something I could bring around to school and whatnot, but have not yet tested that. Its literally the fasted thing I have ever owned. I totally dig it.

- Keyboard response
I dont use this laptop for gaming so much as I do for typing, and it does a very good job at it. I like the responsiveness and the fact that it has a seperate number pad on the side, and its not clicky-clacky like most keyboards, and the keys are not "loose".

- Speakers
Loooooooorrrrdddddd. I was literally jaw dropped by the speaker quality, and I fanboy'd inside to show my parents at how good these speakers were. I was blown that the sound wasnt coming straight to my face, rather from the sides, and we were trying to figure out the wizardry behind the speaker placement on this.

Cons: -Bloatware.
Like other people have said, this laptop comes with a stupid amount of software preinstalled. I mean yeah, you got plenty of psace and you have plenty of memory to run it, but its just annoying. McAfee is preinstalled, BUT only has a 15 day trial, and annoys the bonkers out of you saying that you're not protected etcetcetcetc. Annoying.

- HEAT.
Oh. My. Gawwwddd. Tthis thing runs stupid hot. Right now, its like 15*C outside. Everything hovers around (roughly) 34-39*C, according to SpeedFan. Under load, no, USING GOOGLE CHROME will bring this thing to 60*C+. Im not talking about running 4K resolution (I'll get back to that in a second) VR 60FPS videos, Im talking about keeping two tabs of Google Docs open to type up a paper, and it gets stupid hot for no reason.
I originally thought I kept Steam open in the background or something, or McAfee was running in the background (this triggers the surge in heat as well), but it was literally not doing anything. at all. Elevating the laptop off the surface of the table helped....by like 1 degree. I was gonna open buy a pad cooler for this, but seeing as how I just spent nearly $1300 for this thing, $8 at Chipotle sounds like a million bucks right now.

-Fingerprint. Magnet.
This thing attracts fingerprints like mad, like everyone says in the reviews. My fingers literally have to be just washed in order to type on this keyboard and the inner soft-touch finish, otherwise it'll just get oil everywhere and smudged everywhere, especially the trackpad.

-The Trackpad.
It sucks. The entire trackpad clicks like a Macbook. I dont know if its supposed to do that or not, but its kinda lame, and its difficult to use at times when you completely dont expect it to behave like that. I dont dig it.

-Yellowish hue?
When I first turned this thing on, I noticed that there was a very WARM temperature hue. After having my laptop being stolen, and sighing on with Windows 10 on that laptop, my background remained the same. Upon booting THIS laptop, with the same background photo, I noticed it was SUBSTANTIALLY yellower. Like, the whites were a warm honey-mustard yellow. I tried adjusting the settings to no avail. I've become used to it, but I still dont like it.

Overall Review: Make sure you really want to buy this laptop, not because it looks dope and the specs fit within it.
Its an alright laptop, its quick, but within a couple of months, this will just be the new standard.
It gets hot. That's all I gotta say.

Pros: - In my opinion, you can't beat the Acer for price to performance. It runs quickly for everything I do, like gaming, browsing, and the occasional video edit
- Its not too loud, but it still seems to keep relatively cool under load
- The ssd balances out the slow 5400 hard drive
- Display is top notch for what you pay; its not gonna blow you away, but when I compared it to my pro-calibrated desktop monitor, it was impressive

Cons: - Battery life is so, so. I get maybe 3 full hours with a half hour of gaming and the rest being 5 tab browsing and listening to music. Not great, but not horrible
- When I first got it, games seemed to flicker and freeze quite often. I requested an RMA, but after messing with the nvidia settings a bit, the problem (cross my fingers) went away
- Typical Acer bloatware, I had to remove a few things because they were conflicting with some programs

Overall Review: Overall, I'd give it 4.5 stars since all the problems are manageable and fixed with a bit of knowledge. It has an i7 and an ssd so it keeps up with day to day use easily. The backlit keyboard was a big selling point for me along with the unbeatable price. Compare this to the other $1000 laptops and then decide if you want something that is portable or powerful, or maybe something in between. I definitely recommend this to anybody that wants performance but doesn't want to have to sell their house to afford it.

Pros: Price... specs... but that's all meaningless if the 4 year old computer I was replacing performed better

Cons: Everything. My first machine showed up dead. Got it replaced, and the sendond one has been full of problems.
Wifi cuts out all the time
Audio crackes before each beep
HD is soooo slow - thumbnails show up as blank and take a while to show
About 1/5 times when it wakes up, the screen is black and I need to restart. Then it asks for a disk, then restart again and it's ok.
It's painfully slow considering the specs.
I use this for design - using Adobe and MS products. It's useless at both.

Overall Review: Avoid this laptop at all costs - it's better to spend more on a computer that works, than get a good deal on such a piece of junk.

Pros: Lightweight, can play games on high detail

Cons: I have had this laptop for 2 months and so far it has froze on me two times and I just got kicked out of my first game of Civ5. It also has other small problems that you would not expect an 1100 dollar laptop to have.

Overall Review: Overall specwise it has good value but reading other reviews has led me to believe they have poor quality control which means you may get one that has some problems. If youre like me you dont want to spend time going through a return process when you have a busy life.

Pros: Features
Works fine if you don't play high intensity graphics games.

Cons: I purchased two Nitro's last November, one for my wife and one for me as home and gaming laptops. After installing a fairly intensive graphics game, I noticed the core temperatures at 95 C and above, frame rates dropping severely, and choppy gameplay. Research on the Internet indicates that because of inadequate cooling, the cores overheat and cause thermal throttling. Both of my Nitro's have this problem.

In addition, this laptop does not support Windows 7. I can't abide Windows 10 with all of the privacy destroying "features" that Microsoft is shoving down our throats. Since I can't run Windows 7, I'm in the process of getting rid of these two Nitro's as I write this.

Overall Review: Cannot recommend after 8 months of use.