Best Desktop Replacement Edition: Acer Esprev Nitro Black Edition (From £999) (171N)

If you’re looking for a laptop that’ll challenge a desktop PC for pure power,

it’s easy to get sucked down the black hole of gaming laptops. But what if you don’t really care about games, and don’t want something that looks like it belongs in a teenager’s bedroom? Sounds like you? Check out the Acer Aspire V Nitro. It offers game-ready spec options if you want ‘em, but also offers much more affordable configs that leave out the flashy GPU in favour of something a bit more modest. All of them feature a muscular CPU, though: perfect if you’re going to ask a lot of your laptop, and want to use it as you main PC. With soft-touch black inner and outer panels, it’s not too showy either. It doesn’t show off its guns like so many brash high-end laptops. This is the perfect choice if you want something that can act all professional and polite in the day, before showing its true colours when it needs