Acer Aspire Lite 15 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 15.6" FHD Laptop (AL15-41) vs Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
What separates them
These two differ on 3 recorded specifications. The Acer Aspire Lite 15 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 15.6" FHD Laptop (AL15-41) is ₹14,991 dearer. They are different kinds of product — laptop against accessories — so read the table as two spec sheets rather than a like-for-like.
Acer Aspire Lite 15 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 15.6" FHD Laptop (AL15-41) vs Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
Acer
Acer Aspire Lite 15 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 15.6" FHD Laptop (AL15-41)
₹31,990
The Acer Aspire Lite 15 handles browsing, documents and video comfortably at around ₹32,000. Its 250-nit screen is dim for outdoor or bright-room use, and 8 GB of RAM is limiting — though a spare SODIMM slot makes memory the cheap upgrade worth making.
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Samsung
Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2
₹16,999
The write figure worth planning around is not 1000 MB/s but what happens after the cache fills: on a sustained multi-hundred-gigabyte transfer it settles closer to 600 MB/s.
Full details →Who the Acer Aspire Lite 15 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 15.6" FHD Laptop is for
Buy it if: Students and home users on a tight budget who need a full-size laptop for documents, browsing and video, and who work mostly indoors.
Avoid it if: Anyone editing photos or video, working outdoors or near bright windows, or running many applications at once.
Who the Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 is for
Buy it if: Anyone offloading video or photos in the field who needs the drive to survive being dropped.
Avoid it if: Anyone who needs sustained 1000 MB/s writes for hours -- no consumer SSD holds that.
Specifications, side by side
3 of 21 rows differ. Differences first.
| Specification | Acer Aspire Lite 15 AMD Ryzen 5 5500U 15.6" FHD Laptop | Samsung T7 Shield 2TB Portable External SSD USB 3.2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | ₹31,990 | ₹16,999 |
| Form factor | 15.6-inch laptop | Portable external SSD |
| Warranty | 1 year onsite | 1 Year Official Brand Warranty |
| Weight | 1.59 kg | 98 g |
| Battery | 50 Wh | not published |
| Brightness | 250 nits sustained full-screen | not published |
| Cache behaviour | not published | The advertised write speed holds for the first several tens of gigabytes, then drops -- this is normal and rarely stated |
| Capacity | not published | 2 TB |
| Display size | 15.6 in | not published |
| Drop rating | not published | 3 metres |
| Encryption | not published | AES 256-bit hardware |
| Interface | not published | USB 3.2 Gen 2, 10 Gbps |
| Memory | 8 GB DDR4, one slot free | not published |
| Panel type | IPS, matte | not published |
| Ports | 2x USB-A 3.2, 1x USB-C, HDMI, 3.5 mm | not published |
| Processor | AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, 6 cores / 12 threads | not published |
| Refresh rate | 60 Hz | not published |
| Sequential read | not published | Up to 1050 MB/s |
| Sequential write | not published | Up to 1000 MB/s, falling to roughly 600 MB/s once the SLC cache fills on a large sustained transfer |
| Storage | 512 GB NVMe SSD | not published |
| Sustained TDP | 15 W | not published |
| Water and dust | not published | IP65 |
Every row is a figure one or both products record. A blank is a figure the catalogue does not hold, not a zero.
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