We analyze the new Acer Travelmate X5, a great co-worker

Acer continues to work to position itself as one of the most powerful manufacturers of both laptops and desktops on the market, which is why it is rushing to offer solvent alternatives in almost any sector, because there are laptops of all kinds and for all tastes in the catalog of the company.

This time we have been testing the new Acer Travelmate X5 and we want you to stay with us to discover all its features. We are going to analyze each of its aspects and that is why you cannot miss a single line of the review that we have prepared for you.Go ahead!

As always, we are going to follow a fairly simple order that allows us to go directly to the characteristics that interest us most at every moment, from the design and materials to the multimedia performance and of course the technical characteristics, so you can sit down and read our analysis in depth or go directly to the section that generates the most questions and that of course interests you most, so without further ado procrastination let's go there, But if you want to take a look at this laptop on Amazon first, don't miss out on this link.

Materials and design: If it works, why change it?

At the design level we have to say that Acer has not chosen to innovate too much, but the reality is that nobody asks for it in a product like this. Personally, I have always thought that when a laptop stops being thin, light, compact and relatively powerful, it loses all its personality. The brand has taken this very into account with this Travelmate X5 that is designed so that you can go wherever you want with it without it being a burden. For it we have a 14 ″ screen, accompanied by a height of 14,9 millimeters, a width of 32,9 centimeters and a depth of 229 millimeters for a weight that does not reach a kilogram, more specifically 980 grams.

• Size: 14,9 x 329 x 229
• Weight: 980 grams

Without a doubt at the size-weight-thickness level they have done a pretty good job, As you can see in the photographs we can hold it without complications just with the palm of our hand, and this really has a very important engineering work behind it. It is made of plastic almost entirely, has a backlit keyboard and a fairly compact key system. The trackpad is not as big as I would have liked, but it is not difficult to use either, in terms of design and materials we have few freckles, I deduce that if they had not used plastic we would not have reached those heights of weight.

Technical characteristics

As we can imagine, this Travelmate X5 Pro lacks absolutely nothing, but the most basic thing is that we have 8 or 16 GB of RAM depending on our preferences, accompanied by the range of 5th generation Intel iXNUMX processors with a very well-known reputation.

The features are more than known to all of you, we will not find any flaunting at the graphics card level, but rather a series of components that go hand in hand with the intention of offering the most stable experience possible in our case we have the unit that has 8GB of RAM, the eighth generation Intel i5 and a 256GB SSD storage unit, a good balance that has proven efficient in our day-to-day testing.

Connectivity and multimedia content

At the Bluetooth connection level we have the latest version that will allow us to quickly transfer files but above all an audio transmission without noticeable losses or disconnections. At the WiFi level more of the same, totally compatible with 2,4 GHz and 5 GHz networks which are the most common in our country, we can not put any but in this section, the truth. We count in turn with two stereo speakers located on the bottom of the notebook and that they are enough but they do not leave us any kind of boast, they lack bass but the content sounds clearly, they help us to cautiously reproduce movies in that FullHD screen It does not suffer from reflections and is displayed with a sufficient brightness. We also have a webcam more than enough for the usual conferences.

At the level of connections we have one USB-C and two USB-A, not a but in this section. The HDMI port could not be missing either that so many brands are choosing to eradicate, this from my point of view is very much in favor of the Travelmate X5, because HDMI for me is still a standard in common use and that is far from being able to be ignored by brands, few things They get you more out of trouble than a smooth HDMI, a plus.

Autonomy and experience as a work tool

This Travelmate X5 has left us approximately seven hours of continuous use with the brightness of the keys at a medium power while we edit text in the different processors we have, both through WordPress with the same Office Word. Things change when we go through image editing tools such as Adobe Photoshop when the fans start to turn on and autonomy drops to five and a half hours in combination with video editing, and only three hours if we dedicate ourselves to playing such as Cities Skylines.

At the performance level, more of the same, it defends itself openly against image editing tools such as those mentioned above and is capable of moving the Cities Skylines with its integrated graphics at medium levels despite increasing energy consumption. Things change with video editing or if we require more demanding games. This Travelmate X5 is definitely not a gaming laptop, nor is it a potentially remarkable tool, Rather, we are faced with a very versatile tool that can become a fantastic daily travel companion for students and for people who base their day-to-day life on writing and editing documents, Excel and even first steps through Adobe Photoshop.

Editor's opinion

We are once again faced with a fairly balanced product that is shown with a pleasant design as a good option for employees and people who need to go everywhere with the laptop. The problem comes when we are in a market where many firms such as LG, Huawei, Xiaomi and Apple are fighting for the title of the most bearable laptop, and Acer has put its cards on the table from approximately 900 euros (link), missing a very clear opportunity to adjust the price and break the market. It is a good and recommendable product, but it cannot differentiate itself from the competition.