Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin when it comes to gaming laptops when you go below $1,000 typically you have to deal with a lot of compromises take the Acer Aspire 5 at $600 I've been incredibly impressed with this laptop and sure it's not going to be the most powerful thing in the world but it delivers a ton for the money step up to something like the Dell Inspiron 7000 series and for $800 you are going to be getting a ton more performance but you're still going to be lacking the fun toy that the higher-end laptops at $700 though the asou stuff FX 504 looks like it could be the perfect sweet spot at least on paper let's see how it actually stacks up though a first glance it looks pretty decent so they're definitely going for the whole gamer aesthetic with the red accents and the fake brush metal which I will mention is entirely plastic about something that has soos claims on Amazon and will pretty much in all their marketing material is that this is a thin and light laptop weighing in at only 5 pounds and one inch thick but I mean it like this definitely is not you're gonna notice this guy in your backpack this is one of those cases where I actually feel like the laptop looks better on video than it does in person now the idea of having brushed metal is nice but honestly it feels very plastic E and that comes across the stuff like the screen so I mean if you just do a little bit of flexing here it well it doesn't really inspire a lot of confidence especially considering that this is going to be a $700 laptop speaking of the screen it's exactly what you would expect at this price point so it's going to be a 15.6 inch 1080p panel and it's going to be pretty much mediocre make sure the resolution is going to be decent when it comes to the color and especially the contrast it's not going to be particularly accurate or particularly contrast d and on top of that as soon as you get it even remotely off access the viewing angles fall off and even though it does get bright when you start to crank up that brightness it washes out even more it's going to be fine but at 7 under dollars it would be nice to see a little bit of an upgrade speaker why's this actually is going to sound pretty decent so it does have a pair of speakers that are going to be on these sides so it's not going to be quite as good as something that's going to be on the decklid facing directly toward you but it's a lot better than most laptops that fire down into well whatever it is that you're sitting on now the keyboard is going to be backlit in the same red that's all over the laptop and there's some good stuff with it so I do think it actually has a really nice layout and is able to get up to speed with it almost immediately however there's a lot of key travel and it kind of feels a little bit mushy it's maybe not quite as precise as I would like but cuss plating here is here for some hundred all a laptop there's really no complaints we've also got a decent trackpad so it is using Windows precision drivers and while it's not going to be the biggest trackpad in the world again totally fine what isn't so great is the port selection we have a pair of USB 3.0 one USB 2.0 HDMI as well as Ethernet that's going to be fine those are going to be the essentials but what you are losing or things like an SD card reader USB C Thunderbolt support it's going to be pretty basic here now don't let the looks fool you even though this does look like a premium laptop the build quality is only going to be so-so however it is clear that a su spent the money on the internals what really drew me to the ethics 504 is the core i5 8300 agent sign now this is one of the new 8th gen 45-watt H series processors that are coming out in laptops if you guys caught my video that I did last month where I took a look at all of the new chips including the new I sevens and I 9s you know this is actually really exciting this is the first time in a long long time the gaming pcs are getting a major update on the laptop side where the core i7 and core I nine are jumping up from four cores to six cores the new core i5s are adding hyper threading essentially giving you four cores and eight threads very similar to what you used to be able to get in the last generation core i7s there that's simple right the idea of having a cheaper computer that's on par with a core i7 gaming laptop from last generation is exciting and as you'll be able to see it is a step up however it's not going to be perfect take a look at the benchmarks and you'll see if this is going to be a step up over the last generation i5 although it's not going to be a massive leap and while it comes close to the i7 dulo 2.3 gigahertz base clock actually does hold it back a bit here here with the i5 is that gtx 1050 you know this is actually going to be a pretty decent performer at 1080p as you guys will see a little bit later in the gaming section and if you stack it up to some of the other competitors including the 1050 Ti in the Dell as well as the MX 150 in the Acer you'll see that slots right in there as you would expect at the price remove about 12 screws to get at the inside of the laptop you'll see there's actually be a fair bit of space here so first of all you're going to see our 8 gigs of ram you can't expand that to 16 gigs pretty easily or 32 if you really want to go all out and you're also going to find an m2 Drive slots now that is because this only has a one terabyte hard drive mind you it is going to be an SS HD so it is going to be faster especially when it comes to things like Windows however if this is going to be my everyday system I would definitely install a full SSD in this guy the battery is going to be a fairly small 48 watt hour cell so don't expect to do hours and hours of gaming on this guy what you can't do is well not overheat it is going to have true cooling fans as well as a pair of heat pipes for the CPU and the GPU that combined with the heat sinks on the back should keep this fairly cool under extended gaming sessions just remember to bring your charger get into some gaming and first of all we have rocket League now here at 1080p on high settings we're getting a pretty impressive hundred frames per second rocket League is not exactly a demanding game especially with a gtx 1050 inside is absolutely no problem next up we have everyone's favorite pump G not like people play any other game these days so oh ok shot we have 1080p low settings here and with that we're getting somewhere between 50 to 60 frames per second if you do want higher settings you will sacrifice some frame rates of here okay with 30 you can probably go up to medium but for me I like having something that's going to be a little bit smoother and this is again totally playable it's almost like when you spend $700 on a laptop you're able to play games at reasonable settings amazing right moving on to everyone's actual favorite game we have port night now here on 1080p on medium settings we're getting it's still very impressive 75 to 90 frames per second I think this is really a good example of the kind of game dinner's really meant for a system like this I mean sure you're not running at epic settings like 300 frames per second but for most people I would say the vast majority of people a medium 1080 piece experience that's going to be running at this high of a frame rate is going to be more than good enough we went to a game that's going to be much more demanding we have Middle Earth shadow of war now here at 1080p on low settings we're still hovering around these 60 FPS mark again you can bump some settings up to medium if you want a little bit of a better graphical experience but if you really do want to get that 60 frames per second you're able to get it and pretty much any game at 1080p providing you true things download it this laptop is kind of in a weird position on one hand for $700 the performance is really impressive getting that new 8th gen Core i5 processor paired with the GTX 1050 well that's really handle 1080p gaming very easily but in this kind of price the trade-offs do start to add up so stuff like the build quality on the screen I can mostly overlook when it comes to the sshd that's where I start to have real problems for $70 I don't want to deal with a slow hard drive making windows feel super super slow the fact that it's an SS HD helps some but I would much prefer to find a full SSD like you would find in the Aspire or the Dell at the end of the day there are options that are going to be cheaper and better in some ways and they're going to be options been a little bit more expensive and better in pretty much every way it's an interesting laptop there's a lot that I like with it but it's kind of hard to recommend at this price if only if only they had an SSD I know you guys are really tired of me complaining about SSDs but you need an SSD and computer in 2018 ok so here you're spending 7 or 8 dollars anyway let me know what you guys think about these suits in the comments below as always there will be a link to this guy to check it out over on Amazon and I will catch you in the next one