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hey how's it going Dave QD here so this is the Acer V x-15 and this is one of the more interesting laptops that I thought CES is here it's because it's a new entry level gaming laptop so this is a really good performer for not that much money it starts at $800 but the thousand-dollar configuration gives you in my opinion the best bang for your buck the cheaper Lotus will have less RAM smaller storage and a weaker CPU but the big difference is the weaker video card so the performance improvement of the 1050 Ti over the regular 1050 is quite noticeable it's about 20-25 percent so if you can afford it go for the Ti with the 1050 Ti you can easily break 100 frames per second on light games like overwatch at Tandy P on high ultra graphics will still average around 60 frames per second something heavier like Dishonored 2 you're looking at around 45 frames per second at 1080p on high you can still break 60 frames per second if you drop the graphics to medium so it's only really heavy stuff like witcher 3 that will bog this card down it's still playable but you'll need to drop your graphics quality or lower the resolution now all of these are done on the 1050 Ti if you can only take up to 1050 those numbers will be about 20% less so if you want to see like the more comprehensive video that shows all these cards and what they can do I made a benchmark video link that below now with good performance like this you need to have a good cooling system and to get inside to take a look there's a bunch of screws and yet to pop off the bottom panel with a little force nothing too bad inside we're looking at two heat pipes and two fans they're quiet on idle and are relatively quiet on load as well but to do a good job cooling the components there's no real thermal throttling going on even when running benchmarks and the temperatures in the keyboard area are comfortable when playing games ok back to the inside we get to memory slot so you can go up to 32 gigs of DDR 4 and you have your m2 SSD the stock one is a SATA Drive you also have space for a two and a half inch drive there's no cabling or mounting hardware included but Acer will supply these to you if you want the battery down here is 52 watt hours with average use I'm getting around 4 hours of battery life that's what screen at 2 fifteen it's watching videos it'll break five hours so the battery life isn't long us to bring this device out for the day without a charger and it takes around two hours to charge it up as for the external aesthetic it has a similar design language to the predator laptops that they make with that read angular exhaust personally I don't love the design it's definitely more game more oriented but I don't think it's too gaudy the build quality is decent I mean Acer isn't really known for building laptops with a ton of aluminum or premium materials but they did a respectable job with plastics the bottom panel is plastic the keyboard area is plastic but very rigid they have a bunch of these reinforcement signs down below the hinge design is okay it looks cool it helps give the laptop a cleaner aesthetic but from my experience laptops that use this kind of central hinge design tend to wear it quicker and hinges can start to get sloppy after a couple of years I don't know about this one I mean it seems really solid but I don't know about the long term the top panel has these red accents I don't think they light up at least I can never get them to light up but it has this brushed texture like this faux brushed metal thing that Acer does I've always liked this the screenflex isn't too bad you have to torque it pretty hard to do this alright so the display when you're not twisting it around is decent for the price I mean keep in mind this is a budget oriented laptop it's a 1080p non-touchscreen my unit has an IPS panel I believe at the retail unit but there are some units out there with TN panels you should try to get the IPS panel if you can it gets reasonably bright and has good contrast color gamut though isn't great and the viewing angles could be better for an IPS panel but for a gaming laptop this does the trick if you're curious this is what the web can look and sound like the keyboard is pretty average for this price point yeah that's not bad once you get used to the number pad on the right keystrokes have a good amount of travel and there's red backlighting the keys feel a little mushy though I wish those a bit more resistance or just responsiveness to each key the trackpad is better I'd say it's above-average it feels a little cheap I mean it's got this really smooth plastic that I don't love and button mechanics aren't the best it's just not a lot of travel when you click down but it's a solid trackpad because it uses windows precision drivers very accurate tracking and gesture detection ok the speakers in terms of their actual audio quality they're not amazing their laptop speakers they don't have much space but they face the user and they're loud enough or at least louder than the fans that I could rely on them for positional audio and games without using headphones one last thing the port selection is average hdmi 3 use bas 1 use bc that doesn't support sunwell 3 and SD card slot and an audio jack my only knock and this is a minor one is that the majority of the USB ports are on the right side so if you have a bunch of stuff connected it can get in the way of your mouse movements all right so the VIX 15 is a sirs first entry into that whole $800 gaming laptop market and with this one you're getting a full plastic build with decent build quality the screen is an IPS panel not great for an IPS panel but I'm content you're not going to get a much better screen at this price the keyboard is not bad but it was a bit more responsive the trackpad is accurate and doesn't skip around that's pretty important inside the cable you like CPUs and the gtx 1050 or 1050 Ti to have a really solid performance at this price point but try to spring for the Ti if you can the RAM and the storage are all pretty easy to access and are readily upgradeable and the battery down here is 52 watt hours and it comes up a little short we're looking at around 4 hours of realistic use so I think this is a good laptop for the money you're getting incredibly good performance for current titles at 1080p I mean I don't know how far they'll carry into the future but I expect at least a couple years of solid gaming performance at 1080p 60 frames per second I mean you have to play with the graphics slider now there's one issue that kind of pops up to me and it's the battery life and at this kind of aggressive pricing you can't have everything right they're going to make some compromises and for this particular laptop it's the battery life so that's really important to you then you might have to look at other options but I know some of you are interested in like a more direct comparison between this one and the dell inspiron 7 5 6 7 I will be doing more kind of nitty-gritty compared to video between those two and I'll likely try to introduce a third hop into that mix because there's a third device out there that's similarly priced that should be coming in very soon that's the end of this video hope you guys enjoyed it some that we did something we loved it I'll see you guys next time