A Mashable Choice Award is a badge of honor, reserved for the absolute best stuff we’ve tested and loved. UPDATE: Nov. 13, 2023, 2:27 p.m. EST After an Acer rep's request, this review was updated to ...

Matti Robinson is a veteran of the industry originally from Finland, with nearly 20 years of writing and editing experience. His love for gaming started with the Commodore 64 and grew with each ...

Managing Editor Josh Goldman is a laptop expert and has been writing about and reviewing them since built-in Wi-Fi was an optional feature. He also covers almost anything connected to a PC, including ...

AMD may have rolled out its second-gen Ryzen processors for desktop PCs last August-- and it's already prepping the third generation-- but it's only recently that its latest CPU technology is starting ...

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In this scenario, Acer might have you covered with the $749 Nitro 5. As configured, it’s an $849 “casual gaming” laptop, with an eighth-gen Core i5-8300H quad-core processor (with up to 4GHz ...

Acer's Nitro 5 gaming laptop lineup isn't one I've found terribly appealing in the past. In fact, previous Nitro 5 models have accounted for some of my lowest scoring reviews. But for the last two ...