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it's pretty rare these days that a piece of commodity hardware really blows me away with its pricing the last time it happened with a notebook was the Acer Helios 300 and at $1100 one of its whoa big selling points was a 1080p IPS display well this year fusion five laptop also has a full HD IPS display but for only a hundred and sixty bucks Tunnel bear fur teams makes it easy to secure your Wi-Fi on any network and comes with priority support and easy team management try it for free at the link below unboxing the fusion five my initial impressions I was actually pretty impressed the build quality is not amazing or anything but the i/o is adequate with two USB type a full-size ports though full size SD and HDMI would have been nice but for a hundred and sixty bucks like this thing has a full version of Windows 10 for a hundred and sixty dollars damn anyway yeah so for the price the plastics feel okay the screen is rigid enough and the bottom half of the clamshell is pretty okay too even if it rattles enough that you could offer it to a bandmate who forgot our snare drum that day and that's before we get to the real star of the show here the screen hours did come with a dead pixel but aside from that I'd consider it stunning for the money compared to our $200 Dell laptop the screen on the fusion 5 is in a whole other League the blacks are blacker the whites are whiter the colors are color and the viewing angles are angler however we may have a small problem here can the fusion 5 even playback 1080p content rockin an Intel Atom quad core 2 gigs of ram and 32 gigs of emmc storage this laptop plows through tasks like a plow but not that plow this plow I mean to be clear it can do stuff and even delivers smooth playback with high bitrate HD web content like that found on floatplane club first root core and the screen folds out 180 degrees for easy viewing so if you're looking for a cheap little machine to watch YouTube and Netflix on it's actually pretty compelling if you're looking to do much of anything else you probably want to stay the hell away first of all you will need headphones for watching videos since the speakers are worse than a mid-grade smartphone and video calls no with this webcam you won't have a good side but really Linus a bad webcam that's your deal-breaker oh ho no the real deal breakers come when you start trying to use it for any kind of productivity for starters typing on the fusion five laptop is a slog the keys are spaced so close together the tactile feel is best described as damp and adding insult to injury keystrokes don't always register making typing even this simple paragraph a churn see do you see what I'm talking about and these problems also mean that you'll be regularly reaching for the backspace key conveniently located right underneath the power button I mean don't worry you can turn off tap to sleep but like then why even have a power button now Alex normally writes an entire laptop review on that laptop to get a really good feel for what it's like to work on it but this is the first time that the device is rubbish keyboard and wicked case of narcolepsy forced him to give up and having used it myself for a little while I admire that he even got this far now you could say yeah but Linus that little handheld thing you checked out recently had a bad keyboard too but yeah it had super pocketable portability on its side and it still gets worse I mean moving down from the keyboard there's this really small trackpad which is only part of the problem because the fact that it's finished in the same way as the wrist rest means that there's very little noticeable feel when you move outside of its bounds something that's frustrating it's noticeably laggy but then that's hardly even the worst issue when it regularly registers a single click as to or even three and clicking-and-dragging to highlight words or resize windows is an exercise in futility it cools it and unfortunately or fortunately if you like ranty reviews of terrible products the problems don't stop there while we were charging the device the battery got hotter than the creamy melted center of a delicious hot pocket that you know what kind of hungry I'll be right back sorry that's better oh not hot but here's a positive point the left side of the keyboard gets so toasted during youth there you can actually use it to keep this warm in between bites more bad stuff though the battery life is ok but the power supply that's included is so weak that when using the laptop while plugged in it actually slowly loses charge if you're doing anything too intensive and it takes over five hours of it being plugged in and powered off to fully charge so in a nutshell I'm encouraged by the fusion five I mean sure it's a bad experience and you shouldn't buy it but I like the prospect of in the coming years uh starting to see some really impressive screens trickling down into budget options like it oh hey no way we're doing a spot for 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for starters typing on the fusion five laptop is a slog shut up