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Acer Aspire V Nitro Review 2015-Acer launches new products and sleek laptop for gaming laptop called Aspire V Nitro with the Black Edition at the annual trade show Gamescom in Cologne, Germany, in August. At that time, there is no availability of the price, but now with three models, two with a 15.6 inch display and one with a large 17.3-inch screen that comes to America, starting at $ 1,099 selling price in the USA and AU $ 1,399 in Australia (in the UK, the price has not been confirmed but the US price will be converted to about 680 pounds).

All three models are built around the hardware with the same combo, with an Intel Core i7-4710HQ and Nvidia GeForce GTX 860m graphics. GPU which puts a few steps behind the latest gaming system from Origin PC, Alienware, and others, who have the GTX 870M and 880M graphics card. But most gaming laptops smaller and sleeker we have seen recently, such as Lenovo Y50, depending on the card 860.

Both models have 15.6-inch V15, 1,920x1,080-pixel display, 8GB of RAM and a great and strong. With a price of $ 1,099 configuration, Acer said it would be available in the US from an online retailer Newegg, including 1TB hard drive is standard, while the price of $ 1,199 configuration is available on Amazon that has a combo 128GB SSD / HDD 1TB. Thin and lightweight for a gaming laptop, with a weight of 5.6 pounds (2.5kg) and a thickness of 0.9 inches (24mm), this model leaves the optical drive, which is a feature that you see slowly began to disappear from secondary laptop.

The larger 17.3-inch version, called v17, it is available on Amazon, Fry and other US retailers, starting at $ 1,499. CPU and GPU are the same as the 15-inch version, but only got a boost RAM 16GB, 256GB SSD storage bumped up / HDD 1TB, and no optical drive Blu-ray players.

To look and feel according to the latest trends gaming laptop, but a little softer and smoother than great gaming laptop striking predefined categories for many years. Instead of colorful light shows, lighted accents or glowing alien head, Aspire V Nitro Black Edition allegedly wrapped in matte black. Soft touch finish on the lid causes the silver hinge, and then more matte black on the base and keyboard tray. Once again as recently Lenovo Y50, the keyboard has a thick red backlight.

Price version of $ 1,099 V15 will be available in the United States in mid-January next, while the step-up $ 1,199 and $ 1.499 SSD version 17-inch v17 will be available in February. We will immediately update when we have more information about the release in Australia and the UK.