An all-round device with some point deductions! The Acer Aspire 7 offers a good performance for an acceptable price. Thanks to the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, the 15-incher also offers an appropriate gaming performance. However, the case and the display are losing some points.
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Don't the "7" models usually have wider-gamut displays? Yeah it's not low-quality-TN, which is good, but there aren't enough sub-$1K 1050 / 1050 Ti notebooks with proper 72% NTSC / 85%+ sRGB displays.
I bought this unit, because it supports 32GB of RAM, which I need for virtualization (Microsoft trainer) and is still portable. I exchanged the 1GB drive with a 2GB Samsung SSD and the performance is superb (120'000 IOPS). I don't care about display, gaming, sound or battery. If you want a gaming or multimedia device, buy the Nitro or Helios 300.
Is it one 8GB ram or 2*4GB ram?
I own this device with a i7-700HQ. I consider it a business notebook, not a multimedia device. For this size, 2 drives, 32GB RAM and a RJ45 are rather unusual. I can easely run my Hyper-V training and demonstration workloads on it. The GTX1050 is not there for gaming, but for driving big screens like my 34" Samsung ultra wide.