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hey guys boston i do videos on a lot of very expensive gaming hardware but today i want to find out can i game on this $400 laptop this is the lenovo z50 and it's currently less than 370 dollars on amazon right now based on the giant Gears of War 4 picture they have on the product page I think it's pretty safe to assume that they're aiming this at gamers typically with budget laptops you're getting integrated Intel graphics which are fine for basic use but really can't handle serious games over here we actually have an AMD FX APU which in theory should work a little bit better also I was very meaty CTO I think I actually cut through the blocks here cuz in the box so inside first of all we get CD laptop itself and the first thing I noticed is that the battery actually doesn't come install it's been a long time since posting a laptop with a detachable battery like this this is a twenty eight hundred million power battery for reference I feel like a lot of smartphones have bigger batteries than that also have the power cable and when I'm sure is the power adapter so nothing too exciting in the box but of course this is a budget laptop what we're really getting here is actual performance at least hopefully it's are getting the batteries taking me back I smell a long time since I've actually use a laptop like this so if first glance it looks very plastic II but once you open up you do see that it looks pretty decent inside and mostly thanks to the sort of fake brush metal here this is a very interesting selection of ports so not only is there VGA which is really weird a laptop in 2017 we also have Ethernet HDMI USB 2.0 as well 3.0 but the really weird part is when you actually come around to the DVD drive yes this laptop and 2017 comes with a DVD drive standard which actually is not really a bad thing just weird a big downside is that this does lack AC Wi-Fi instead opting for the older school Wireless n as it be fair you do have an Ethernet port so it's not all bad but there are a lot of very unusual design choices with this laptop what makes this special are the specs inside it has a quad-core AMD FX 7500 apu with radeon r7 graphics as well as a gigabytes of RAM this should give us a fair bit of power to gain no no it's not going to shame a laptop with dedicated graphics but the Radeon stuff really isn't bad and this cost less than $400 you really can't be picky at this price however there are some sacrifices to get that much power this sort of price the biggest one is the screen this guy is rocking a 15.6 inch panel with a resolution of 1366 by 768 it is not very good as a low-end TN panel this really does bring you back to the days where budget laptop screens are kind of terrible one of the biggest places that you can see are with the viewing angles so if you look at it straight on it's not that bad but you get off access it ghosts really badly plus having such a low resolution on such a big screen just makes everything was a little bit weird there's very little screen real estate now I have to delicately balance the laptops so it doesn't completely washout on camera 330 our laptops and I'm going to be using it for the next week these speakers are okay but this is not going to be a great video watching experience thankfully the keyboard isn't bad so it has a sort of classic lenovo layout and it feels pretty good to type on what some is there's a fair bit of flex on the actual keyboard itself but it's totally usable on same thing goes for the trackpad it's maybe not the most accurate thing in the world however you are probably going to want a mouse for gaming although that's like true for every trackpad ever so remove three screws on the back it's actually easy enough to open the laptop up and one of the nice things about being a bit more of an old-school design is that there's a lot that you can actually upgrade yourself not only can you get access to both of the memory slots there's also a one terabyte hard drive pre-installed that looks super easy to swap out this is my PC I'd spend a few extra bucks and throw an SSD in here it will make a big difference the real sensitive laptop though is to play actual games so to start with we had csgo so right now we're playing at 768 P which is the max resolution of the screen and we're playing with a mixture of medium and high settings and we're getting decent frame rates it bottoms out in the mid 30s but in some of these more open areas we're getting in like the 40s and 50s next we have rocket League this is another game that isn't incredibly demanding but here on quality settings which is roughly equivalent to medium it's pretty smooth we're getting in the mid 40s to low 50s next we have minecraft now yes this will run pretty much anything including a Raspberry Pi but on the lenovo we're able to crank the settings up pretty much all the way to the max and we're still getting really solid frame rate you can flying around here as loads chunks we're still in the 60 to 70 frame per second range next we have overwatch this is a little bit harder for the laptop to handle we even on low settings here it's a little bit choppy so in less action-oriented scenes it's fine but once we get a lot of characters a lot of effect on screen we do sometimes duplicate below 30 it's kind of playable but you've got to really want to play overwatch the Lenovo is v50 is definitely not a perfect gaming laptop but for less than $400 it's actually not bad as always I'll have a link to check this guy out in the description and let me know would you pick up a three hundred seventy dollar gaming laptop let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one