This Acer laptop comes in a single-colored box that, as far as I can tell, is 100% recyclable. Good work, Acer!
Once unpacked, you have a solid laptop with a beautiful design and a sleek chassis that feels exceptionally solid without being heavy. It feels like a larger tablet in terms of weight, making it ideal for portability.
Once opened, you get a great backlit keyboard and touchpad that respond as expected, although I still use a wireless mouse and separate keyboard for daily work. The excellent OLED screen has excellent colors and is easy on the eyes. Blacks are truly black, making other colors brighter as well. For an OLED screen, the reflection is not too bad, and the brightness is sufficient for reasonable work. I often miss the touchscreen, but in this price range, that's not a big deal. You can lay the screen completely flat if needed, as it can be rotated 180 degrees.
As soon as you turn it on, you're guided quickly and smoothly through the installation process, and you can start using the laptop in 5-10 minutes. Everything works smoothly thanks to the 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and i5 processor. For more demanding applications, you can choose the more powerful versions.
Acer pre-installs some useful applications on your laptop that you can use or not, and these are all easily accessible via the dedicated Acer button. The downside is that, as far as I can tell, you can't easily add applications yourself, so if you don't use them, the button is useless. Furthermore, Co-pilot is, of course, an integrated part of this laptop. With a press of the Co-pilot button and without much AI knowledge, you can quickly get started, and with a few clever questions, help is quickly available. This works reasonably quickly and as you'd expect.
If you also want to use the laptop for entertainment in addition to working, watching a movie or playing an online game is still reasonable, but real gaming isn't its thing.
