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I found an acer nitro 5 with 1440p display and an RTX 3070ti for a crazy price around ~1000$. It sounds too good to be true and I suspect aggressive corner cutting. Is it an actual crazy good deal? Should I buy it? Should I leave it and keep looking for ASUS deals?

Laptop in question: https://www.amazon.in/dp/B0C5R13NGB/?psc=1

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[–] MIDItheKID 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Seems like a pretty good deal, and it's actually being sold by the Amazon Acer store, so it's not a shady 3rd party retailer. Acer historically hasn't been well known for quality, but they have gotten better over the years. It's a lot of laptop for that price. They may be trying to offload 12th Gen devices as the 13th Gen refresh is right around the corner.

[–] Darth_Vader__ 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So, go for it? Is looking for ASUS for their 90Wh battery and better build worth it? (Looks like they have a premium price tho)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I'm looking for better build at value prices it'd be a Lenovo Legion, not any Asus.

[–] Darth_Vader__ 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Lower prices, best-in-class cooling.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

Go for it

I also picked up a similar one for a similar deal

Only deal breaker was a poor trackpad, poor battery, and very heavy. But performance was very good for the price