In the dark box, the broad, slim, not too light notebook is.
Otherwise attached only the AC adapter and a folder to set up the Windows application and Internet connection.
The initial setup takes as described there less than 30 minutes, everything else one may even explore.
Fortunately, in the default installation no flood of bloatware available:
an older version of PowerDirector, McAfee antivirus software, Acer tools and a few games.
There remain approximately 420GB memory for its own use.
The rest occupy system and programs, as well as a hidden recovery partition 16GB large.
You can let copy them to a correspondingly large USB flash drive on the Acer tools
which is thereby also made bootable and should be used for nothing else.
Mysteriously, Acer is also in terms of hardware and use of the notebook.
The Handbuchapp is a 3-page PDF that describes again the only connection to the Internet.
And into the notebook Acer can only accessories / devices via the ports on the right side:
LAN, HDMI, 3xUSB 3.0 and 3.5 "headphone jack.
Over the rest of the lid of silence is screwed.
§Nice
The black held Nitro, with dark carbon-like and silver-metallic application make her a lot.
Due to the price, it is almost entirely plastic with carbon and metal finish, the appearance of this makes no great breakdown.
Underlined the great design by the red backlit keyboard.
The shade of red has the additional advantage that in a dark environment, the lighting does not bother so quickly.
Unfortunately, the lighting is not very evenly, so that some second and third assignment symbols are difficult to detect.
A pity is that there is no status LEDs for WLAN, Bluetooth, disk accesses and the Tempts Asten.
About this shadow of doubt is the IPS display.
In full HD resolution it shows details, sharpness, clean font shapes, colors and gradients, there is a real pleasure.
Not a single pixel errors, no tail behind the mouse or video pans, banding in gradients is low.
Sure Black could be even darker, but that's whining at a high level.
§Schnell
Here is the direct recommendation, if possible, to take the version with pure SSD hard drive, the 8GB SSD addition brings almost nothing here.
Safe for traditional magnetic disk is the start (15 seconds until login, 45 seconds to fully load) quickly and it is even barely audible.
If you install a few programs to the extended months quickly to 1-2 minutes.
Immediately one notices it in every system function and program call, with magnetic disk that is always indirect, tough.
The i7-4710HQ in combination with the 860 chip Nvidia have to power to supply enough steam to desktop level.
If you do not work to intensive video editing or virtual systems, it comes with the 8GB memory of good.
As a low power version of DDR3 Ram while not playing in the highest performance league, a brake but rather the hard drive.
It is sufficient in any case to Civilization: Beyond Earth in 1920 at the highest resolution level of detail smoothly display
despite the fact that large number of concurrent units and Zugberechnungen graphics and CPU challenges to the utmost.
Quick are the network components.
Paper values are one thing ultimately is important to me that in practice remains enough übig to form no bottleneck.
About LAN I get just over 100 Mbps to the limits of my internet connection. Here I would like to commend in particular the design of the LAN jack cover.
This is practically attached that it is pushed to the connector when connecting down and so the LAN cable can be plugged in one hand.
About WLAN I arrived at wieistmeineip between 70-120 Mbit, so even in individual cases, actual limit my Internet connection, in the upper part but on average about 20 Mbit slower than my Air2.
More surprising is that the Acer notebook to the cover edges of the radio network problems earlier than the latter receives.
§Wenig persevering
In around 2.5 hours the battery is 100% charged.
Acer promises up to 8.5 hours of run time on it. How this will be achieved is beyond me.
Maybe if you Offline with minimum brightness level written text.
I have not even done half of it in the best case.
In office use with a bit of internet research via WLAN, I came to a maximum of 3-3.5 hours.
In games of this value drops more significantly.
Mentioned Civilization: Beyond Earth made sure that the battery was empty in an hour!
In addition, the otherwise moderately warm quiet notebook when gaming gets critical hot and noisy,
way too hot for use on the thighs or temperature-sensitive materials.
§Wenig expandable.
Most at Aspire bothers me the limitations on upgrades and connections.
This begins with the lack of microphone connector.
Sure you have a micro integrated with the camera, but wants to make higher-quality recordings remains only USB.
This is rather suboptimal for sound recordings and the fact that there are only three USB ports into the tightest spaces are even worse.
If you have a wider parallel USB stick or similar, is blocked quickly the neighboring port and you can only use two.
For USB devices, need the power from two sockets, the fast close.
The lack of DisplayPort can get over by the HDMI output yet.
Here it is not stated whether it is the zukunftssicherere HDMI 2.0 version.
HDCP 2.2 dominates any case no Nvidia card.
Almost is an insolence that the battery, as usual for notebooks, a separate unit is not.
The underside should be completely and screwed without flap for a memory upgrade or hard disk replacement.
When unscrewing the bottom, the connecting cables shown:
HDD is only pinched, reasonably easy to change for an experienced hardware hobbyist,
left is an empty space where other Nitro models have a PCMCIA hard disk.
Even the (surprisingly small) battery bottom left is fixed only with a plastic and removable terminals,
should reasonably just let go, because you should come to a replacement battery.
Bad does it look with the main memory.
To reach this, one would have to remove it, I then but otherwise the motherboard.
In addition, Low Voltage memory is nowadays often glued anyway.
Regardless of the effort, threatened with replacement / upgrade warranty.
§§§Fazit.
You get a lot on offer and as a desktop replacement can be talking about 4 star for about 1000 euros.
As a notebook on the go, it does not have enough stamina, is too sensitive to the WLAN, except that it did not particularly portable dimensions.
Since it is almost in conjunction with the other disadvantages also with 3 stars.
Regardless, I advise to little more expensive variant with SSD hard drive:
Acer Aspire Black Edition VN7-591G-77A9 39.6 cm (15.6-inch) notebook (Intel Core i7-4710HQ, 2.5GHz, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD + 1TB HDD, Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M, Win 8.1, Full- HD IPS display) black
A magnetic disk matches the other fast team like a wooden wheel of a Ferrari.
