Lots of gaming laptops use 16:9 1080p screens because they’re cheap to buy and usually boast a high refresh rate. However, they’re not great for doing office work or any productivity tasks, unless the panel is really big. But when they are, the low resolution just looks yuck.

Enter stage left this Acer Nitro 16 gaming laptop. Here you’re getting a 16-inch IPS panel that has a resolution of 2560 x 1600, resulting in a 16:10 screen ratio. That means you get a little more vertical height to work with and once you’ve used such a panel, it’s hard to go back to something smaller. This one’s fast, too, with a refresh rate of 165Hz so it’ll be very easy on the eyes.

The rest of the hardware is just as good, although there are a couple of things that spoil the party a touch. Kicking things off is the CPU: a Ryzen 7 7735HS. It has eight full cores, 16 threads, and a boost clock of 4.75GHz. It doesn’t have as much cache as the desktop Ryzen CPUs but it’s still a great laptop proces…