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this video is sponsored by Squarespace whether you need a domain online store or website make it with Squarespace hey guys this is Austin recently I did a video on this guy a six hundred and fifty dollar gaming laptop entirely powered by AMD risin that got me thinking how would it stack up to an Intel an Nvidia option that's where this comes in this is the Acer Aspire 5ml only does it have a Core i5 processor and MX 150 graphics but impressively it comes in with an even cheaper $600 price tag on paper this guy looks very similar to the HP Envy so we're getting a 15.6 inch display and it's actually reasonably thin considering it is a gaming laptop I will say at first glance the build quality does not match up to that HP it's all plastic well it doesn't look bad you sort of lacks that premium feel of the NV over what it lacks and feel it makes up for in actual functionality not only are we getting a full size Ethernet jack but we also get USB see HDMI a USB 3.0 port as well as an SD card reader and on the other side we're also getting two more USB ports you're getting a full size keyboard layout in addition to the number row even though most of the laptop is plastic it does have this metal shell on the inside which does feel pretty nice as a palm press inside this guy has an 8th gen Core i5 a 250 u so it's going to be one of the new quad-core chips eating those Nvidia MX 150 graphics a gigabytes of dual-channel ddr2 hundred fifty six gigabyte SSD however all it takes is for you to fire up the aspire 5 before you realize that there is one major thing missing a decent looking screen so on paper it's not bad we're getting a 15.6 inch panel with a 1080p resolution the issue is it is a very very unimpressive looking TN panel color is OK but the contrast is straight-up terrible especially with the viewing angles the screen just doesn't look that great I get it Acer wanted to cut some costs to be able to get this much performance in such a cheap laptop but the screen is little bit tough to deal with thankfully though it's not all bad so the keyboard is classic Acer it's not the most tactile thing in the world but especially for gaming you're gonna be totally fine and thankfully this guy also is using a Windows precision touchpad I'd love to see these as they're pretty much always now a track more accurately but especially have those nice multi-touch gestures when you put the Acer side-by-side with the HP Envy you're gonna see if this guy has a much nicer display sure it might not be quite as bright as I would like but compared to the TN panel over here it is night and day plus this guy is going to be a touchscreen it's convertible and built quality wise no Lee this guy going to be thinner but also just feels a lot more premium one thing the Acer definitely has going for it is upgrade ability so underneath a couple of flaps on the bottom you'll see Nelly do you have access to your memory if you want to upgrade that but over here if we pop up this little cover you're going to see that we have a full two and a half inch drive bay that's completely empty so if you want you can upgrade with a bigger hard drive or you can even throw a second SSD in this guy when it comes to performance the aspire is just in a different league so sure the envy does have that nicer screen and better build quality but in return you're getting not only an SSD but you're also getting just a potent combination with the Core i5 and dedicated graphics the i5 8250 you delivers good quad core performance it's right up there with a lot of higher-end gaming laptops and a fair bit above the horizon inside the envy the graphics are where things really take off so with an NVIDIA MX 150 GPU well it might not be the most powerful graphics card in the world you're eating enough performance to play some pretty decent 1080p games as you guys will soon see and when you compare it to the Rison chip inside the HP the Vega graphics are just not going to be able to compete however the real test is of course what it's like to play in real world games first off we have csgo now as the game didn't even though it might be a couple years old is still incredibly popular this is one of my favorite ways to test pcs and here on 1080p settings that high will get anywhere between 80 to 100 frames per second super super playable it's not playable is my shotgun right now oh I get it they get it ahahahaha the game I just got my awesome goal in is rocket League so just like csgo it's not really difficult thing to run so we're getting between 40 to 50 frames per second on high settings at 1080p good this is another great example of it oh that's not a good another good example of a game that is uh it's kind of perfect for 600 on a laptop it's nice that we're getting this kind of performance out of something that's relatively affordable next up for something a little bit newer we have pub G now obviously we're just in the opening area but on today's low we're getting like 35 frames per second man this game has come a long way now they don't have 300,000 people spawning in one area I will say one thing even though the screen isn't that bad on this laptop just having to angle it down a little bit to get a better camera angle means that it looks a little bit washed out right now I really wish they've spent just a little bit more money on a nicer panel man this thing would be perfect so yeah 1080p low is definitely very playable here so we are averaging around 30 to 35 frames per second if you want to really optimize those frames you could probably go down to 720p but with a game like pub G might be like on a sixteen dollar laptop I'm not really complaining about low settings it's really put this to the test we have Middle Earth shadow of war now this is not only a much nicer looking game but also a more technically demanding one and here at 1080p on low settings we're getting right around 30 frames per second so it's gonna be me I'm probably going to turn on the dynamic resolution to get that frame rate up just a little bit but again a very playable game so as you guys can see the game performance is not bad especially given these $600 price point something else I really like is the standard SSD measure it's easy enough to add another SSD or another hard drive if you want some extra space but having windows and everything fully ready on an SSD out of the box is nice I can't tell you how many hours of my life I've wasted waiting for slow old laptops with normal hard drives to update this makes everything so much faster the Aspire 5 is a seriously killer little gaming laptop now this is very rare for me to say but I don't really have a lot to complain about they made a lot of smart decisions on the components there's a ton of performance for $600 really the only thing I can complain about is the screen no no it's that a deal breaker butwho have been nice if they would put just a little bit of a better display in here however besides that 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