For the original German review, see here.

The new Acer Aspire E5-553G-109A is an affordable 15.6-inch multimedia notebook, which, at the time of writing, was occasionally available for less than 700 Euros (~$747), but it will most likely become slightly cheaper with time. Acer went with a combination of the AMD A12-9700P quad-core ULV APU (2.5 - 3.4 GHz, TDP 15 W), 8 GB of RAM and the AMD Radeon R7 M440 dedicated graphics card that, together with the Radeon R7 integrated into the APU, forms the dual graphics Radeon R8 M445DX (Crossfire). There is also a 128 GB SSD and a regular 1 TB hard drive for mass storage. The TN display has a resolution of 1920x1080 pixels. Those who still want to watch or even burn DVDs will be pleased to find an optical drive.

As can be seen here, Acer does not list other possible variants, so we consulted a big price comparison based in Berlin. Besides the review model, they know two more versions with more than one price: 15FM and T48C. Because the listed specifications are not always correct and seem somewhat implausible in this case, and we also do not have any other information source at the moment, we cannot give any reliable information about the details and prices. There appears to be differences in the area of the display, RAM, mass storage, and graphics, but the case and the APU stay the same. Windows 10 Home is always preinstalled.

There is plenty of competition in the segment of affordable multimedia notebooks. For this review, we selected some current laptops with similar basic specifications for comparison that are in the same price category as the review unit. We did not find a suitable device with a current Intel Core i3, which is a shame, since the AMD-APU competes with exactly that series performance-wise.

The candidates are: