If you are looking for a cheap laptop to buy in the UK but worried that it won’t be good enough for gaming, we have a heads-up on one model that may fall into this category.
The Acer Aspire ES 15.6 Inch AMD E1 4GB 1TB Laptop is now selling with a big discount at places like Argos and actually we saw that prices will drop as low as £179.99 – a nice price from the usual £250-300 price that you’ll see elsewhere.
Acer ES1-522 specs include a 15.6-inch display with a 1366 x 768 resolution, a AMD E1-7010 1.5Ghz dual core processor, 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard drive.
It also has AMD Radeon R2 graphics, 3 USB ports with one USB 3.0, HDMI, Bluetooth, SD card reader and runs on Windows 10. Is the Acer ES1-522 Laptop with AMD E1-7010 good for gaming though?
Sadly, we can’t recommend this laptop if you are looking for a fast system that can play games on medium to high settings. The warning signs are there right away with only a dual-core processor but the Radeon R2 graphics are already outdated by today’s standards.
We couldn’t find any AMD E1-7010 gaming benchmarks at the time of writing, but we have however picked out a brief gaming demo of the slightly older E1-6010 running Skyrim and performance is not good at all – just 25FPS and lag everywhere, that’s the old Skyrim as well not the Special Edition.
In the Acer Aspire ES 15.6-inch AMD E1 4GB 1TB laptop reviews left at Argos in 2016, many buyers have already commented that while storage is fantastic, it suffers in slow performance.
A price tag of under £200 is still very appealing though, especially if you are just looking for a casual browsing experience and are not looking at gaming aspects at all.
Are you interested in this model? Leave your thoughts below and let us know if you are planning to buy one and have further questions.
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