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hey how's it going Dave QD here and this is a comparison between the one thousand dollar gaming laptops in mid 2017 now choosing one of these things is not super easy you have to make compromises of some sort you're not going to have like an eight hundred dollar laptop that's super thin with the 12 hour battery life and like amazing performance it's just not going to happen you have to figure out what you find most important your decision and also what you don't care about as much and then make a purchase decision based off of that okay in no particular order we have the Asus GL 5 v 3 this is one of very few laptops with the black and orange color scheme it has an RGB keyboard and it has a metal top surface we have the dell inspiron seven five six seven it's been redesigned for 2017 comes in red or gray and it feels very solid this thing is dense next is the 2017 HP omen I haven't done a video on this refreshed version it's so similar to the 2016 model and it's also very similar to the HP Pavillion this year then we have the msi ge62 this is one of the very first Pascal based laptops on the market it also has a metal top lid with that MSI dragon logo next up is the V x-15 from Acer this has a more traditional gaming laptop aesthetic I don't love the color but I do like the design language that they're going for we also have the saber 15 from gigabyte this is their least expensive gaming laptop and there's no red color accents at all it's also based off of a cleveo bare-bones laptop and then lastly we have the lenovo y 5 29 too much red on this one the exterior is all black and it's kind of low-key but the inside has red accents and the way that I do my comparison videos if you haven't seen them before I kind of go through several categories and then choose a winner in that category based on these laptops alright let's do this alright the first thing is build quality and at this price point you're not going to get top two your build quality I'd much rather have a well engineered plastic chassis then a poorly made metal one my top pick is the Dell seven five six seven this thing's built like a tank the chassis is rock-solid it's actually weird to have toughest thing feels for this price point the ACS gl-5 5-3 I'd say comes in second place it's got an aluminum top panel plastic bottom butts well-built the lenovo y 5 20 in the a crv x 15 are also really good choices both of those are built well okay the next thing i want to talk about is screen quality the thing i need to mention though is that this laptop the dell 7 5 6 7 this originally launched with a TN panel it was pretty bad and del realized that they made a huge mistake and they now actually ship with IPS panels so i mean it's still not the best of the bunch but it's significantly better than what they used to have the winner here is the msi ge62 close runner-up would be the GL 5 v 3 they're more expensive so you're paying a bit of a premium to get a better screen but if you're looking for something that's brighter or more color accurate in that thousand dollar price range these are my top two picks the rest of them are actually pretty similar i'd say that the dell with its new IPS panel comes out a bit ahead for color accuracy but they're noticeably not as good as the two leaders the HP omen and the dell 7 5 6 7 both have 4k panel options the 4k omen panel looks pretty good it is a pentile display the 4k Dell panel is better also if you want you can upgrade all of these panels not just the ones on the table but the ones that are off frame right now but you can take all of the panels out if you want and then purchase them on eBay and replace them now it's not an easy process but it can be done so if you're stuck with a laptop that doesn't have the best screen you can pick up some really bright and really color accurate panels on eBay and do it yourself ok so here's a chart of what ports and drives these devices have at this price point none of them have sundar about three supports they're all upgradable like you can open them up and add memory and storage drives but the one that's easiest to upgrade is the Dell 7 5 6 7 there's a single screw to get inside and it just straight up feels like it was built for the user to open it up the saber 15 or the cleveo has the most number of ports but some of those are located on the bottom right so can get a little cluttered also the Asus and the MSI have optical drives if you need them now in general all of these have good contact see and good port selection but I've had to choose a winner it would be the msi ge62 in terms of the keyboard all of them have a decent keyboard none of them are bad per se my favourite keyboard would probably be the msi it's a solid keyboard with zoned RGB backlighting and then second place I'd say would go to the lenovo y 5 xx hands are a different story both of those laptops I just mentioned with good keyboards have not-so-good trackpads my favorite trackpad is the dell 7 5 6 7 plastic surface windows precision drivers good button mechanism I like this one to be honest I don't feel like any of the other ones are as good maybe the tracking on the saber 15 is similar but I much prefer to click on the Dell over the dedicated buttons on the saber ok so performance is dependent on two things first are the components so the faster components you have the better performance and then the second thing is how well those components are cooled so if you don't cool them properly they just won't run as well you need to have a mixture of the two to have like the quote unquote best performance so all of these laptops come in well most of them come in two configurations in i5 and i7 if you're just playing games the i5 is perfectly fine but if you also edit videos I would totally upgrade to an i7 so all of these laptops are running a KB like i7 and the best thermal performance goes to the Dell seven five six seven I have a tough time getting this thing to throttle it's cooled really well I kind of ranked them in order from best to worst in terms of how hot the CPU gets when it's running the 3dmark stress test and then here's some scores from fire strike now keep in mind that these temperatures are from a benchmark regular gaming or video editing won't push the laptop as hard but this gives us a rough idea while we're here I might as well talk about fan noise and these are all running kb lake processors so for the most part they're pretty efficient the fans don't always need to run when the laptops are idling these are the measurements I took and it's it's a pretty close battle for first place ice it's a toss-up between the Dell and HP omen in terms of speakers the two leaders are the lenovo and the dell the dell sounds better it has a sub so if you're watching videos or playing games you can hear the lower frequencies better it's not super heavy bass but it is there the lenovo has a better location for this it's up on top so it projects upward and to the sides so the stereo effect is very pronounced if you want positional audio for games and you don't want headphones or you can't use headphones these are very usable the ACS also has nice speakers as well okay let's talk battery life here's a chart and the leader here is the Dell it's a big battery it's significantly bigger than some of the other models here now all of these are measured on a 1080p screen if you upgrade to a 4k panel the battery life will be lower and in case you're wondering like how I run my battery tests I set my laptops to 215 its if the laptop can even get to that brightness but I set it to 250 and I run the script that does web browsing and text input in this loop okay the last category is value and I think the winner for just sheer value is the Lenovo Y 5 24 850 bucks you're able to get a 1050 Ti which is a really powerful chip for games and you're still getting your 2-year Lenovo warranty and stuff the Dell and the Acer also really good but every laptop here has some strengths and weaknesses so you can't really go wrong choosing any of them if you're wondering what my top choices amongst these it's the Dell seven five six seven and like I mentioned everyone choice is a little bit different my preference is for a bigger battery and really good build quality and they kind of nailed that this only applies though for the new IPS panel if they didn't have that new panel I would have gone for the Acer V x-15 now if you're one of those people that have the TN panel it's not that big of a deal I mean it is not as good as this new IPS panel but you always have the option of going to ebay and doing that whole swap thing that I mentioned earlier it's really not that expensive and it's not too difficult on this particular model and you can get some really good panels for like a hundred bucks now the other thing I want to mention three laptops that I do not recommend purchasing first is the Samsung Odyssey I have a review unit I will not be doing review on it it's $1,500 it's way too expensive for what that product is I think it's overpriced I think it's I mean it's a fine laptop it was $1000 not 1500 the other thing is that this laptop here the msi ge62 it has a younger sibling called the GL 62 and you might be tempted to purchase the GL because it's cheaper than this one but the fans on that thing are super loud the screen is significantly worse save up for the ge62 if you want the nside the other thing is do not purchase a laptop with a gtx 960m right now unless it's like a huge discount because the performance difference between the 1050 to 1050 Ti and a 960 is way too big to ignore you do not want to purchase a 960 m just to save a couple bucks you will get longer like lifespan with this laptop if you pick up 1050 it will last you longer in terms of like gaming years so if you can save up for 10 50 or 10 250 T I hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs if you loved it I'll see you guys next time