Acer Aspire V5-471P Review

Acer Aspire V5-471P Review

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The Acer Aspire V5-471P is an ideal machine for those who are looking at an entry-level Windows 8 machine with a touchscreen. Students are the first candidates that come to mind. At Rs. 39,139 we think it is a tad expensive specially considering an older processor and issues with the display and the battery life. Under Rs. 35,000 this would make for a good purchase if you can overlook its issues. We would really like it if they bundled an Ivy Bridge generation chip. If you want to run heavier applications then you should probably look at Core i5 version of this laptop.

We’d tested the Acer Aspire S7 with adapter such as Acer Extensa 4100 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 200 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 2300 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 2480 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 290E Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 3260 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 360 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 5720 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 8000 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate 8100 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate a550 Ac Adapter, Acer TravelMate C100 Ac Adapter not too long ago and came away impressed with the touch and type experience on the 11.6-inch screen. The Aspire V5-471P is another touchscreen-based laptop from Acer although coming with a 14-inch screen. So, how does it fare? Let’s have a look.

Acer Aspire V5 houses a comparatively older Intel Core i3-2365M processor which belongs to the Sandy Bridge line up, clocked at 1.4 GHz without any Turbo Boost. It has HD 3000 integrated graphics and no discrete graphics component. It bundles this with 4 GB of RAM, around 500 GB of HDD and the monitor is touch-sensitive. So in essence, Acer have tried oto present a budget laptop with a Windows 8 OS onboard and a touchscreen monitor. What’s more, it also offers an optical drive for those of you who still have a stack of DVDs. Acer have adopted a smart way to hide the actual thickness, by having a tapering design approach. The V5 does feel heavy at 2.1kg.

The Aspire V5 has a limited number of ports and all of them are present on the left hand edge of the laptop. Starting from the top edge, you have the power port, followed by an HDMI port, a single USB 3.0 port and two USB 2.0 ports and finally the audio jack. On the left hand side of the front edge, you have an SD card slot.

It comes bundled with Windows 8 Home operating system and also some bloatware in the form of Acer specific apps. In spite of reinstalling Windows 8 on the Aspire V5, we still got most of the Acer apps. So you will have to uninstall them individually to get rid of them.

The Acer Aspire V5-471P is an ideal machine for those who are looking at an entry-level Windows 8 machine with a touchscreen. Students are the first candidates that come to mind. At Rs. 39,139 we think it is a tad bit expensive especially considering an older processor and issues with the display. Its battery life does not make it a worthy enough for users who travel a lot.

Under Rs. 35,000 this would make for a good purchase if you can overlook its issues. We would really like it if they bundled an Ivy Bridge generation chip. If you want to run heavier applications then you should probably look at Core i5 version of this laptop. In this price bracket, the competition it has is from the touch and type Dell Inspiron 15z which has a 3rd generation Core i3 processor and which comes for around Rs. 40,000. So we would advise prospective buyers to wait till we review the Dell Inspiron 15z as well as it looks quite good on paper.