Acer Aspire Vero 16
LAPTOP | £799 from Currys www.snipca.com/53704
Green fingers
Acer is clearly fully committed to the green credentials of its Vero line – this is the fifth laptop in the range we’ve reviewed and the first to come with a 16in screen. As with its predecessors, the Vero 16 is made from a chunky plastic formed from 60-percent recycled materials and has a speckled appearance.
We noticed some slightly rough edges, but overall it looks stylish and well-built. The 16in screen means it takes up a lot of desktop space – 360x247mm – and at 1.8kg it’s not light. But if you can take it with you, it’s robust enough to survive most environments, meeting MIL-STD-810H standards for durability, temperature, sand and humidity resistance, vibration, and drops of up to 1.22m, even if there’s a little more flex than we’d like in the lid.