Acer Aspire 3 15.6" NX.KDEAA.00E Silber 2025

The Acer Aspire 3 gets you 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD for a low price, but the TN screen is one of the worst we've seen and the CPU is underpowered. It's fine for basic tasks if you can get it cheap. If you care about display quality or reliability, look elsewhere.

The Ryzen 5 7520U is a 4-core chip that sits in the 20th percentile for CPUs in our database. That's not great, but it's honest work for everyday tasks. The 16GB of DDR5 RAM is a nice surprise at this price and helps with multitasking, landing right around average. The Radeon integrated graphics score in the 97th percentile, but that's a bit misleading since it's being compared against all laptop GPUs, including much weaker integrated options. Don't expect to game on this thing beyond light indie titles. The 512GB SSD is on the smaller side, sitting in the 37th percentile, but it'll get the job done for documents and a few apps. The real bottleneck is that TN display, which drags the whole experience down.

Stacked against the competition, the Aspire 3 is in a different league entirely. The Apple MacBook Pro M5 and ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 are premium machines with excellent displays and performance, but they cost several times more. The Lenovo Legion 5i and MSI Vector 16 are gaming-focused with discrete GPUs that blow the Radeon integrated graphics out of the water. The Microsoft Surface Laptop 7th Edition is the closest in spirit, a thin and light productivity machine, but it has a far better screen and build quality. The Aspire 3 only wins on price, and even then, only if you catch it on sale.

Without a listed price, it's hard to judge value precisely, but the CAD 750 listing gives us a ballpark. For that money, you're getting 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, which is respectable. But that TN screen and the weak CPU make it feel like you're paying for specs on a spec sheet rather than a good experience. If this drops below CAD 600, it becomes a more interesting option for a basic school or office machine. At full price, you can do better.

The Acer Aspire 3 is a budget laptop that tries to punch above its weight with 16GB of DDR5 and a 512GB SSD. On paper, that sounds like a decent deal for a family machine or a student on a tight budget. But the second you look at that screen, you'll remember why it costs what it does. A 15.6-inch TN panel at 1080p in this day and age is rough, and our database puts it in the bottom 10% of laptop displays.

Acer markets this thing as thin, light, and ready for all-day productivity. The Ryzen 5 7520U is fine for web browsing, email, and streaming, but it's not a powerhouse. The 50Wh battery and claimed 11 hours of life sound nice, but real-world use will vary. This is a laptop that does the basics, and not much more.

Skip this if you care about screen quality at all. The TN panel is a dealbreaker for anyone who watches movies, edits photos, or just wants colors that don't look washed out. Also skip it if you need a machine that'll last more than a couple of years, since reliability scores are in the bottom 10%. And if you do any gaming or creative work, the weak CPU and integrated graphics will frustrate you quickly.

This is a laptop for someone who needs a basic Windows machine for school, light office work, or casual browsing. The 16GB of RAM means you can keep a bunch of browser tabs open without it choking. But if you care about screen quality, reliability, or any kind of performance beyond the basics, this isn't the one. It's a budget laptop that feels like a budget laptop, especially every time you look at that display.