Pick the right spec and Acer's Nitro V 16 is a very good gaming laptop

Acer's Nitro V 16 comes in a bewildering number of SKUs, but if you can get one with the RTX 5070 at 95 W and the Ryzen 7 260 inside, you're in for a good time. The price is right, performance on point, the screen quality solid, and the battery life mops the floor with the competition.

The laptop shows the sharp Nitro embossing, cut edges and a mid‑range satin black finish; the keys are remarkably comfortable even if they don't rival a mechanical keyboard. The trackpad is large, the speakers boisterous, and connectivity is generous, with three USB 3.2 Type A ports, a Micro‑SD card reader, Ethernet, a headphone jack, HDMI 2.1 and a USB4 Type C port.

There are extras in the OS—three months of Game Pass and McAfee among them—so uninstall McAfee if you prefer Windows Defender. I tested an almost top‑of‑the‑line unit with 32 GB of RAM and two 1 TB SSDs, though those additions don't massively affect performance; the core hardware—the Ryzen 7 260 and the RTX 5070 (95 W)—is what matters.

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