Acer Aspire 5 Spin 14 review: The 2-in-1 laptop with an active stylus

Acer’s 2-in-1 laptop, complete with its Core i5-1335U, 16 GB RAM (dual-channel) and PCIe 4 SSD (512 GB), is sufficient for office and internet use as well as playing some frugal games. Although, the laptop does produce quite a lot of noise under load. 

Acer’s Aspire 5 Spin 14 is a tenacious 2-in-1 laptop perfect for indoor use.

Its relatively lightweight build (1.6 kg), great runtimes (WLAN: 11 h), Power Delivery support (via Thunderbolt 4) and the stylus housed in the computer’s case all make the Spin 14 a very portable laptop.

The device’s touchscreen display (1,920 x 1,200 pixels, 14 inches, IPS), which has a 16:10 format, foils the laptop’s portability ever so slightly: Due to its reflective surface and dim lighting (235 nits; battery: < 200 nits), the Spin 14 should really only be used indoors. Its contrast and color space coverage were just as unimpressive. 

An alternative to this device could be the Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 7i 14IAU7. It features better performance and a brighter screen with sRGB coverage – but it can’t boast the same great runtimes as the Spin 14.