Acer Aspire 3 (A317-54 / A317-54G)

Acer Aspire 3 (A317-54 / A317-54G) - Specs

  • Innolux N173HCE-E3C (CMN176F)
  • Color accuracy  7.1  3.7
  • HDD/SSD
  • up to 1000GB SSD
  • M.2 Slot
  • 1x 2280 M.2 PCIe 4.0 x4 + 1x 2280 M.2 PCIe 3.0 x4  See photo
  • RAM
  • up to 16GB
  • OS
  • Windows 11 Home, No OS, Linux
  • Battery
  • 40Wh, 3-cell, 40Wh, 42Wh
  • Body material
  • Plastic / Polycarbonate
  • Dimensions
  • 402.1x 265.9 x 20.90 mm (15.83" x 10.47" x 0.82")
  • Weight
  • 2.23 kg (4.9 lbs)
  • Ports and connectivity
  • 3x USB Type-A
  • 3.2 Gen 1 (5 Gbps)
  • HDMI
  • Card reader
  • Ethernet LAN
  • 10, 100, 1000 Mbit/s
  • Wi-Fi
  • 802.11ac
  • Bluetooth
  • 5.0
  • Audio jack
  • 3.5mm Combo Jack
  • Features
  • Fingerprint reader
  • Web camera
  • Backlit keyboard
  • Microphone
  • Speakers
  • 2x Stereo Speakers
  • Optical drive
  • Security Lock slot

 

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Office Work

Office Work should be used mostly by users who spend most of the time looking at pieces of text, tables or just surfing. This profile aims to deliver better distinctness and clarity by keeping a flat gamma curve (2.20), native color temperature and perceptually accurate colors.

Design and Gaming

This profile is aimed at designers who work with colors professionally, and for games and movies as well. Design and Gaming takes display panels to their limits, making them as accurate as possible in the sRGB IEC61966-2-1 standard for Web and HDTV, at white point D65.

Health-Guard

Health-Guard eliminates the harmful Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM) and reduces the negative Blue Light which affects our eyes and body. Since it’s custom tailored for every panel, it manages to keep the colors perceptually accurate. Health-Guard simulates paper so the pressure on the eyes is greatly reduced.

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CPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the CPUs that come in the Acer Aspire 3 (A317-54 / A317-54G) series.

Results are from the Cinebench 20 Multi-core test (the higher the score, the better)

GPU performance

Here you can find the price/performance difference between all the GPUs that come in the Acer Aspire 3 (A317-54 / A317-54G) series.

Acer Aspire 3 (A317-54 / A317-54G) in-depth review

As usual, Acer is a key player in the 17-inch affordable notebook market. Today, we are going to tell you everything about the Aspire 3 (A317-54). In a nutshell, it is a large device with a rather low weight, reasonably high performance, and fair price.This is thanks to Intel's 12th Gen processors, which not only offer a good power capacity, but also great efficiency. Especially the Alder Lake U-series, which we find in this particular notebook.In addition to that, we are happy to see a 1080p IPS display, although you shouldn't expect accurate color representation. After all, we are t[...]

Pros

  • 2x SODIMM, 2x M.2 PCIe x4 (one supports Gen 4 SSDs)
  • Surprisingly good performance and cooling
  • Good price
  • No PWM (Innolux N173HCE-E3C (CMN176F))

Cons

  • Not the best input devices
  • No SD card reader
  • Lacks a USB Type-C port
  • Unimpressive build quality
  • Only 55% sRGB coverage (Innolux N173HCE-E3C (CMN176F))

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Games you can play on this laptop series