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this right here is 800 worth of laptop

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which doesn't sound like a lot but acer who sponsored this video by the

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way thank you acer is particularly proud of what they've

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managed to pack in to their eighth generation nitro 5.

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so let's crack this bad boy open and have a look at it shall we

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all right so while i crack these boxes open let's talk the specs of this thing

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it's got a core i5 processor which again

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doesn't sound gaming or anything but if you look a

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little closer at the specs the 8th gen core i5 8300h which is what

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this thing is equipped with is actually nearly identical to the last generation

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core i7 7700 hq which was kind of the de

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facto standard for gaming laptops so

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consider this over one generation we are getting

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slightly better performance actually and at 128 less on the CPU alone so that is

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a big part of why acer was able to hit

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this fairly aggressive price point as for the rest of the specs it's got 8

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gigs of RAM which as we talked about recently for gaming anyway you know i

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can't say anything for chrome users but for gaming anyway is still enough even

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in current year 2018 it's got 256 gigs

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of SSD storage so we have finally gotten to the point where even for like value

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models like this one we don't have to rely on a larger hard drive in order to

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have enough space to install a few games with the fact that it's a pci express

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based SSD being an extra bonus and it's

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got a gtx 1050 ti so the biggest

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difference between a 10 series card like what we've got here and the last

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generation 9 series GeForce cards is that it used to be that the mobile

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version was a cut down version of what was in some cases not even the same GPU

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at all so a 970m for example was actually a desktop

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960 and then a 950m which would have

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been the like similar position in the product stack to this one

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was i don't even know what that thing was so

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the 1050 ti is over a hundred percent

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faster than the 950m that you would have gotten in an 800 laptop in years past so

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the point i'm trying to make here is that at this price with these specs

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you're gonna get a great experience in esports titles like you'll be able to

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crank them and i'd be surprised if you ever dropped a frame and then even in

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aaa titles you should be able to drive this 1080p panel at its native

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resolution at like medium settings

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so all that's left here is for us to uninstall norton

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you may have to download norton consumer product removal tool

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and go ahead and get some games installed in steam so we can take it for

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a test drive so i had to run and grab a copy of doom off an external drive

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because i don't feel like waiting for 60 gigs to download which i guess is a good

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time to talk about io because i like having my mouse over on the left

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so that it doesn't interfere with movement on the mouse pad over on the

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right and we've only got one usb 3 over

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on this side of the type a persuasion so i'm going to

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go ahead and use that second one right in between the HDMI port we've got an sd

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card reader and a regular wired Ethernet

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port yay for my external drive and then over on

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the other side we've got power in two more usb ports though it should be noted

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these are usb 2 and then a headphone microphone combo

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jack one thing that's noticeably better is the display brightness

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so ips displays started showing up on

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value laptops what about two years ago i guess but one of the big issues that

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they had was that while they have ips qualities like better colors and better

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viewing angles they were typically really dim this one's actually not too

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shabby no i don't want the game bar like barely

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gives you enough time to tell it to never come back i'm gonna go with expert bots today all

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right so we're running anywhere from about 80 to 110 or so frames per second

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damn these expert bots oh crap they're all

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yes they're better than me thank you i guess i could have bought a better gun

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or i could just

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okay enough cs csgo okay while fortnite's loading maybe we

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can just uh spend a little bit of time with the keyboard actually actually

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overall impressions of the keyboard are not bad

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it's got a bit of a long keystroke and that does take some getting used to so i

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i found myself missing a couple here and there but if you're a heavier typer

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you probably wouldn't even notice not bad

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really quiet too let's apply the best settings for our system here battle royale of course does

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anyone play the other one okay motion blur off because it's terrible yeah i

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was not expecting all high to uh and oh

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okay it kind of settled in there so i'm kind of a view distance guy i'm not

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i don't really care about any aliasing though so let's go ahead and have a look at how that looks wait the ones with

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arrows are on my team right i don't remember no that's not bad like

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if your goal is you know do some school work and you're

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not expecting crazy battery life because it does have a dedicated graphics card

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and then play fortnite in your off hours

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this is not a bad experience can you harvest a car

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evidently you can yeah you build stuff say i'm harvesting brick right now

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like this is rock solid now it's not doing any of that dipping or anything

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it's actually not that loud either like it's you know it's not silent or

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anything but it's very tolerable so there you have it that's pretty much

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the latest gen nitro 5.

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overall looking pretty good for 800

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bucks if you get it from best buy we have really

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come a long way actually

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