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hey guys this is Austin is a $650 gaming laptop worth it so this is the new HP Envy x-360 now while it might not look like a gaming laptop inside it is rocking the brand new AMD rise in mobile if you've bought a laptop in the last few years more than likely it was powered by Intel however AMD has stepped it up in a big way with rising mobile not only does this have a much more powerful CPU but the graphics should be good enough for actual gaming so it is definitely a larger laptop with a 50 inch display but as part of their x360 line or getting here is a fully convertible design which actually isn't too thick either however wise it feels pretty nice so we're getting a slightly sharp angular design which a lot of HP laptops have had these days but considering the 6m $50 price point it looks and feels pretty premium open this guy up I'm going to see the full-size keyboard as well as number oh as well as the Bang & Olufsen speakers something you won't find however are any stupid Intel stickers all over the laptop actually there are no AMD stickers at all are they reports there's a pretty decent selection including HDMI a USB 3 as well as your headphone jack and on the other side you're going to be getting one more USB 3.0 a USB C that supports charging as well as a full size SD card slots HP doesn't claim that this is a gaming PC but with horizon 5 inside it should be capable of some decent gaming so not only are we getting a quad core Xen processor we're also getting 8 Vega GPU cores now that's not going to be able to blow away some proper dedicated graphics but the idea is is that for $602 especially considering that this is a very battery focused sort of lightweight laptop it should give us decent gaming performance Rison has proven to be pretty impressive on the desktop side offering a lot of fast cores at a reasonable price thankfully that comes across to rise in mobile so in Geekbench while it's not quite on par with Intel's latest 8 gen 15 watt processors it actually performs really well compared to slightly older Core i5 definitely plenty of performance for pretty much any kind of normal usage where things get really interesting is with those Vega graphics so it is a huge step up over something like Intel integrated graphics and it's even on par with some of the lower end dedicated graphics options now this might not sound that impressive beacons that this is all in a 15 watt chip it nearly matches until the latest and greatest on the processor side and completely destroys them on the graphic side and again this is from AMD to put this to the test we have csgo now here running at 1080p on medium where she's getting pre decent frame rates so we're averaging somewhere between the high 40s to mid 50s and that is definitely very playable obviously ideally you're running it like three hundred thousand frames but considering that we've got a 6m 5000 laptop I'm definitely I'm complaining next up we have rocket League now this is a game that is pretty popular and it's also not that hard to run and yet again here running at 1080p this time on quality settings now the frame rates actually really impressive here where's pretty much staying above sixty frames per second at all times while I was terrible so in theory we actually could bump the settings up all the way up to a high quality if we wanted to move over to GTA and we're actually getting pretty decent performance so on normal settings at 1080p we're getting between 30 to 40 frames per second for less demanding areas like this we're actually in the mid 40s or so we get a lot of explosions sometimes the dips around 30 but again pretty playable to really put things to the test we have pub G and well this is not so great so I had low settings at 720p we're barely getting like 27 28 frames per second I mean this is a little bit more of an open area but you can't really walk beside this building we're still barely touching 30 it's kind of usable it's not the worst experience I've ever tried but um maybe not the best pub G machine in the world things aren't all perfect and normal use either so his first thing out this laptop I had some weird driver issues where the screen would go really dim and I would have no control over it and sleep mode just completely disappeared thankfully if you windows updates fix that but still not the best out of box experience now it's not a huge surprise considering that this is one of the very first rising mobile products to actually go on sale so there might be a few kinks to be worked out I will say though the envy x-360 is a nice piece of hardware and of course you do have that fully flexible hinge and while it is nicely weighted I don't like how much wobble there is when you actually touch it although again this is a very common complaint with pretty much any of these sort of convertible designs the keyboard also isn't too bad it's not like do I like the spacing in the layout with having the number oh but it also has a nice feel and importantly especially considering the price it is going to backlit with the screen issues patched it's a good panel so if 15.6 inches with a 1080p resolution it looks pretty good and especially with this kind of size and price point I feel like 1080 is a totally reasonable sweet spot for gaming as well as productivity now the actual display itself the color is nice and the contrast is pretty impressive however it just doesn't get that bright so you're looking at a dead on it's okay but that combined with the fact that it's really reflective means that if you get this guy even slightly off access it is really hard to see anything so like a lot of other HP laptops recently it does have Bang & Olufsen branded speakers especially considering that's a pretty big speaker oh that's directed straight at you not only does it sound pretty good but it gets surprisingly loud however it's not all great so the trackpad is just kind of okay now I really wish it did have Windows precision drivers as is the tracking is okay and it does support most of the major gestures but the tracking could be a lot better and especially the trackpad size feels a little bit small for a laptop in 2018 there's also Windows hello support for facial recognition which is a nice feature except that for me it really only works when I get my face very very close to the laptop the webcam isn't much better so it is at least 1080p so as you guys can see even this quality team crispy this is definitely not the biggest issue though is the hard drive so while the rest of the system is pretty well inspect out with Verizon five dual Channel eight gigs of memory however having a mechanical hard drive and a laptop in 2018 just feels slow it would be so nice if they had actually configured this with an SSD on one hand rice and mobile is seriously impressive look mat just a few months ago and Intel was selling 15-watt laptop processors with lackluster graphics and only two cores yeah they've stepped it up to quad-core now you look at AMD who has come out of nowhere with an impressive park core design and some seriously powerful graphics again this is from AMD I know it keeps saying that but it is really impressive what AMD has been able to pull off especially coming out of nowhere like this now sure this is not going to be a super high-end gaming PC that's going to work for everyone but it does have enough power to play some pretty decent games on the other hand the ndx 360 is good but not perfect I feel like the guy had about 85 percent right with a better trackpad a couple of tweaks and especially standard SSD I would like this thing a lot more what gives me really excited is that this is forced Intel Nvidia to price some gaming laptops in this sort of $600 price range so if you guys want to see a video on one of those definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one