WEBVTT

00:00:00.179 --> 00:00:06.660
so you like gaming but you don't like it

00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:09.420
which is why ASUS and Acer have

00:00:06.660 --> 00:00:12.719
developed gaming Chromebooks the operating system that you're pretty sure

00:00:11.099 --> 00:00:17.220
was designed to not let you do anything other than browse the web now let's see

00:00:15.059 --> 00:00:21.119
a game apparently and we're not going to cover the ASUS one but just so you know

00:00:18.900 --> 00:00:25.580
there's more there's multiples of these now wait ASUS has one it's called the

00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:31.380
ASUS got one and but the one we're

00:00:29.099 --> 00:00:36.600
interested in looking at today is from Acer the company that everyone confuses

00:00:33.719 --> 00:00:40.500
for ASUS including me inside the Box we got is a charger with every possible

00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:45.180
vert piece of verification and certification you could ever want 65

00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.200
Watts which is plenty for a Chromebook Chromebooks don't usually come with so

00:00:46.739 --> 00:00:53.820
much power in them that means that they get super great battery life this is

00:00:51.600 --> 00:00:59.760
huge this is a big Chromebook it's got a little two-tone Sheen to it brushed

00:00:56.420 --> 00:01:04.080
aluminum the bottom

00:00:59.760 --> 00:01:08.640
is plastic usb-a full size HDMI love it

00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:10.380
a USB-C I believe it's 3.2 Gen 2 of I2

00:01:08.640 --> 00:01:15.000
and Ethernet oh that's really nice we got an Ethernet Jack headphone and a

00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:18.360
microphone combo Jack and a battery charge light that's pretty big

00:01:16.320 --> 00:01:24.060
Chromebooks are usually more focused on portability it's also quite thick which

00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:29.220
is interesting because while it is a gaming Chromebook can't really play all

00:01:26.700 --> 00:01:32.520
that many games on Chromebook so the main thing that this does is it's going

00:01:31.020 --> 00:01:36.180
to be really really good at game streaming why you need a gaming

00:01:34.380 --> 00:01:40.079
Chromebook for game streaming I don't know why can't you why can't you just

00:01:37.560 --> 00:01:43.920
use a like a normal Chromebook and stream games build quality is a feels

00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:48.900
pretty good it feels quite sturdy it's big deck Flex we got

00:01:46.920 --> 00:01:52.439
I mean it's kind of I gotta really push on it so far I'm really impressed it

00:01:50.820 --> 00:01:56.280
does have a plastic frame up here screen Flex that's pretty good for how thin it

00:01:54.720 --> 00:01:59.399
is so when I open it you see they have these little rubber feet back here so

00:01:57.899 --> 00:02:03.600
when I pull this back far enough it props up the laptop a little bit allowing you to get a little bit more

00:02:01.979 --> 00:02:06.600
airflow keeping things a lot cooler we've got nice big speaker grilles but

00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:12.180
that means nothing as to how good the speakers sounds we'll take a look at that wait what four times Force

00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:15.950
canceling speakers what the hell is force canceling what does force can

00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:20.760
what do you know what I do know there's a

00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:26.580
pair of shoes out there that's water canceling and they just sponsored this video vessi thanks to vessi Footwear for

00:02:24.900 --> 00:02:31.800
sponsoring this video Vesti Footwear is known for being lightweight comfortable and most importantly water resistant

00:02:29.580 --> 00:02:34.920
with its dimatex technology and also it's easy to pack because you can just

00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:38.400
smoosh them down flat they're all fabric their everyday move line is designed

00:02:36.660 --> 00:02:41.580
with added support at the midsole and better breathability to keep up with

00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:45.540
your active lifestyle and sweaty feet take them off and put them on with ease

00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:49.440
thanks to the handy pull tab and it's also made creature free so every step

00:02:47.160 --> 00:02:53.640
you take will be free of guilt your feet will thank you for wearing these so say

00:02:51.180 --> 00:02:58.319
goodbye to wet socks and hello to 25 off with our offer code ShortCircuit at

00:02:55.500 --> 00:03:02.220
vesi.com ShortCircuit so the nice part about the gaming Chromebook is that it

00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:05.459
has the wasd keys highlighted for you so you never forget which Keys you need to

00:03:04.319 --> 00:03:08.760
press when you're playing games interesting that they didn't that they

00:03:07.500 --> 00:03:12.180
still make you use the search key instead of the Caps locks key because if

00:03:10.560 --> 00:03:16.440
you're like me caps lock is essential for gaming also the up Keys highlighted

00:03:14.519 --> 00:03:19.560
up and down silent it's weird why they highlighted some keys in another and how

00:03:18.060 --> 00:03:24.480
does it feel to type on it it's fine it feels a little mushy it's not super

00:03:21.959 --> 00:03:27.480
clicky bottoming out feels just kind of unsatisfying it's almost like it's

00:03:26.040 --> 00:03:31.860
settling into like a foam or something they're not advertising it as a mechanical keyboard so it's probably

00:03:29.940 --> 00:03:36.300
just membrane so not so bad I also think that the font's pretty classy I like the

00:03:33.480 --> 00:03:39.540
lowercase font it's 2560 by 1600 which means it's a 16 by 10 display so you get

00:03:38.459 --> 00:03:43.260
a little bit more of a vertical resolution which typically is reserved

00:03:41.580 --> 00:03:49.560
for productivity stuff um that might be a little weird some games don't support 16x10 it's 120 hertz

00:03:47.400 --> 00:03:53.340
which is great High refresh rate it's gaming I don't think you'll be able to

00:03:50.940 --> 00:03:57.480
find that on any Chromebooks outside of the gaming Uber it looks okay just from

00:03:55.920 --> 00:04:03.000
staring at it in the menus but we're gonna watch some videos that I've looked

00:03:59.580 --> 00:04:04.860
at before to uh see how it looks and yes

00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:07.799
I know it's YouTube there's compression that's not the reverse test if it looks

00:04:06.360 --> 00:04:11.519
good enough to watch YouTube then it's a chrome it's a good Chromebook it looks

00:04:10.019 --> 00:04:15.720
pretty good I've seen better looking displays nothing's terribly blown out

00:04:13.860 --> 00:04:19.919
colors seem relatively calibrated this is obviously just a glance it's not the

00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:22.860
darkest black so you'll see but it is an IPS display that so it's a solid white

00:04:21.660 --> 00:04:30.120
backlight um now let's listen to crab rate let's see how the speakers are playing okay

00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:33.479
already it sounds really bad like just

00:04:30.120 --> 00:04:35.580
just hearing that water

00:04:33.479 --> 00:04:41.940
okay it's louder now foreign

00:04:41.940 --> 00:04:47.280
and completely lacks any significant bass response you could when we're

00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:53.120
playing all you could hear is like they do get loud though which is good

00:04:50.400 --> 00:04:59.419
um and they didn't sound too distorted

00:04:59.419 --> 00:05:03.960
they don't get any worse when you're playing them really loud they just kind

00:05:02.639 --> 00:05:07.680
of sound bad across the whole volume Spectrum at least it's consistent and it

00:05:05.940 --> 00:05:11.820
doesn't get super distorted um of course they have DTS certification because you

00:05:10.080 --> 00:05:16.080
can just slap that on anything at some meaningless badge uh looking at the

00:05:14.100 --> 00:05:20.639
Quality it looks about as good as I would expect from a 650 laptop which

00:05:19.080 --> 00:05:26.039
means that the webcam quality is not great the microphone quality though I

00:05:23.280 --> 00:05:30.500
haven't heard it yet so let me know what it sounds like

00:05:27.720 --> 00:05:36.360
so inside this we have a Intel Core i5 1240p which is 12 cores four performance

00:05:34.020 --> 00:05:41.880
cores eight e-cores so a maximum of 16 threads good CPU for a Chromebook that's

00:05:39.660 --> 00:05:46.979
a lot of uh horsepower actually max turbo 4.4 gigahertz that's a beefy CPU

00:05:45.419 --> 00:05:51.479
for what is considered a lightweight platform we also got eight gigs of RAM

00:05:49.500 --> 00:05:54.539
which is uh I don't want to say it's par for the course for the for a Chromebook

00:05:52.979 --> 00:05:59.820
it should but it's the new standard for Chromebooks you'll see Chromebooks On The Low End having around four gigabytes

00:05:57.960 --> 00:06:05.340
a lot of the time we've got 250 gigabytes of NVMe storage which is a lot

00:06:03.720 --> 00:06:10.919
for a Chromebook Chromebooks are famous for having like 64 gigabytes so 256 of

00:06:07.919 --> 00:06:12.120
NVMe PCIe is great for all the programs

00:06:10.919 --> 00:06:17.520
that I guess you're going to have loaded on here which I don't expect to be ton but remember just because we're talking

00:06:15.900 --> 00:06:21.060
about game streaming doesn't mean that you can't install Linux using the Linux

00:06:19.320 --> 00:06:24.300
subsystem I actually just did it while we were talking earlier I don't know

00:06:22.380 --> 00:06:27.360
what the status of it is steam will be running natively on Chromebook soon it

00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.759
just runs all of the games through the Linux and implementation of the system but soon you'll be really thankful that

00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:35.699
you have 256 gigs of storage so that you can actually keep some games on here and

00:06:34.259 --> 00:06:39.960
have them running but let's talk about game streaming that's the main claim to

00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:44.460
fame that's why you have the 2.5 gigabit Ethernet or the 120 hits display it's

00:06:42.300 --> 00:06:48.960
all about the game streaming I also appreciate that they have the full size

00:06:45.479 --> 00:06:51.000
HDMI a lot of laptops will forgo the

00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:53.819
full-size HDMI make you use a dongle but if you're going to use this as like

00:06:52.020 --> 00:06:57.660
maybe this is your gaming laptop maybe this is your only computer being able to

00:06:55.380 --> 00:07:01.440
plug it into a display that you have is awesome I don't know if you can hear it

00:06:59.220 --> 00:07:05.780
you can't really but this thing is like just not even sweating

00:07:02.940 --> 00:07:10.500
um and it is doing a screen capture we are we are full up on memory and I

00:07:08.280 --> 00:07:14.759
only got I mean I can close this YouTube app even with game streaming eight gigs

00:07:12.780 --> 00:07:19.080
is not a lot and especially if you're you know if you do decide to play games

00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:21.720
locally you might be uh hurting oh that's kind of an interesting caveat I

00:07:20.520 --> 00:07:25.500
never thought about if you're using like a gaming peripheral say you have like

00:07:23.639 --> 00:07:29.699
your settings stored and it's in the cloud because that's how

00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:32.460
so many stupid gaming peripherals work you don't have local storage on your

00:07:31.259 --> 00:07:36.240
mouse you're not going to be able to configure it because they're not going to have a Chrome OS app that's kind of

00:07:35.520 --> 00:07:41.759
something that you don't really think about until you start using it so you go oh wait if my mouse requires software to

00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:46.020
be configured then I'm not going to be able to do that on here I'm going to be stuck with the default settings and the

00:07:44.400 --> 00:07:50.759
default DPI settings see here's the thing I don't know I don't know if I have to change this in like the GeForce

00:07:49.080 --> 00:07:54.599
Now settings GeForce now is only outputting at 16x9 yeah this is not

00:07:53.039 --> 00:07:58.919
using the full refresher to the display I don't think this is just streaming it

00:07:56.099 --> 00:08:03.060
however it is whisper quiet projecting two hours of battery life which is a

00:08:00.599 --> 00:08:06.539
this is it's a lot more than you will get but playing this game playing

00:08:04.620 --> 00:08:11.099
cyberpunk on your actual laptop oh my God excuse me I'm doing illegal stuff

00:08:08.520 --> 00:08:15.060
the cool kind of illegal stuff does the gaming chromework have a graphics card

00:08:12.539 --> 00:08:18.120
no it doesn't it just uses Intel Ze Graphics which is or XE Graphics which

00:08:16.740 --> 00:08:23.099
is actually a good question that we should have not just brushed over earlier despite the fact that this is a

00:08:20.819 --> 00:08:27.060
gaming Chromebook it has no graphics card it is just integrated Graphics

00:08:25.500 --> 00:08:32.339
which guess that's the Chromebook part of it huh but again we're not doing this

00:08:29.460 --> 00:08:36.719
isn't really being pitched or sold as a local gaming Beast it's being pitched as

00:08:34.500 --> 00:08:40.260
a Chromebook that also games because it has RGB and because it has a fast

00:08:38.820 --> 00:08:44.700
refresh rate that you can't take advantage of because I don't think there's any service that streams in 120

00:08:42.899 --> 00:08:49.740
frames per second I just played a little bit of a cyberpunk and most of all it

00:08:47.760 --> 00:08:55.680
felt like I was playing a game on a game streaming surface which

00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:57.360
you can do on like an Apple TV you can

00:08:55.680 --> 00:09:01.860
do it on your smart TV and your smart TV definitely has a worse processor however

00:08:59.820 --> 00:09:08.100
your smart TV isn't a laptop this you get a whole laptop and here's the thing

00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:09.720
the price is 650 US Dollars which is

00:09:08.100 --> 00:09:13.459
actually pretty good for what you're getting but if I'm going against other

00:09:11.279 --> 00:09:19.380
gaming computers let's look at the MSI gf63 that's got an Intel i5 10300h a

00:09:17.399 --> 00:09:23.220
worse processor than this it's got the same amount of storage the same amount

00:09:20.940 --> 00:09:28.320
of RAM it's smaller but it does have a 1650 a GTX 1650 mobile GPU is that

00:09:26.580 --> 00:09:33.480
really that much better what about this Lenovo IdeaPad it's in line with PCS

00:09:31.500 --> 00:09:37.920
that are in the same price range so here's the thing at the price point of

00:09:35.120 --> 00:09:41.220
650. is that a fair price for the specs that you're getting things will go on

00:09:39.360 --> 00:09:45.180
sale like currently it's Cyber Monday when we're recording this and there's a

00:09:43.380 --> 00:09:49.860
lot of higher spec laptops that are available at a very similar price that

00:09:46.920 --> 00:09:53.640
are Windows laptop my word of advice for a long time was that if you are planning

00:09:51.600 --> 00:09:57.300
to spend a more than than 500 on the laptop go Windows don't worry about

00:09:55.740 --> 00:10:00.540
Chromebooks if you're spending less than that that's what that's the category

00:09:58.800 --> 00:10:04.920
where the Chromebook becomes really really compelling is under 500 if you're

00:10:03.420 --> 00:10:09.959
looking for a machine that's under 500 what are you really doing on it you're

00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:13.680
browsing the web you're like voice chatting with people you're not doing

00:10:11.580 --> 00:10:16.740
heavy stuff Chrome OS has is really great in that budget segment when you

00:10:15.300 --> 00:10:20.040
push beyond that that's when you start competing with actually competent

00:10:18.360 --> 00:10:23.220
laptops it's gonna be better than the in than the integrated graphics on the pros

00:10:22.019 --> 00:10:28.680
despite the fact that this comes with a great CPU and Iris XE Graphics are

00:10:26.339 --> 00:10:31.800
pretty good for built-in Graphics I am interested to see what Chromebooks are

00:10:30.480 --> 00:10:36.300
looking like with similar specs around this price point core I3 8 gigabytes and

00:10:34.019 --> 00:10:42.060
128 gigabytes of storage for set for 800 bucks bad yes this is the ASUS one it's

00:10:39.420 --> 00:10:46.079
got a ryzen 5 in it eight gigabytes of RAM 64 gigabytes of storage that's it

00:10:44.279 --> 00:10:50.279
that's it that's all you got it do have a little number panel 650 50 is actually

00:10:48.660 --> 00:10:53.880
a pretty competitive price if you ask me you have to be really certain that you

00:10:52.079 --> 00:10:58.740
want to deal with a lot of the issues of Chrome OS like low game availability you

00:10:56.339 --> 00:11:03.180
might be missing some of your very uh useful apps like think about this do you

00:11:01.019 --> 00:11:06.060
use Discord you'll only be able to use the web app in this right now I think

00:11:04.680 --> 00:11:11.459
you might be able to get it do use the Android version on here but then you're dealing with emulation it gets a little

00:11:08.940 --> 00:11:16.560
bit wonky until Chrome OS can develop and add more of those native apps to the

00:11:14.940 --> 00:11:19.200
operating system like steam that's coming up having steamed directly on the

00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:23.100
hardware is going to make your life so much better it's hard to recommend this

00:11:21.120 --> 00:11:26.820
at 650. do I think it's cool and I think it's kind of a step in the right

00:11:24.420 --> 00:11:31.500
direction for Chrome OS becoming a more versatile operating system is that what

00:11:29.640 --> 00:11:34.440
Chrome OS should be if for some reason you're like yes

00:11:32.640 --> 00:11:38.339
I would love to game but I need to be on Chrome West this is actually it's a

00:11:36.779 --> 00:11:43.800
great price it's a great product the big question as are with all Chromebooks is

00:11:40.620 --> 00:11:45.600
Chrome OS right for you but do you know

00:11:43.800 --> 00:11:49.200
what would be right for you subscribing to ShortCircuit thanks for watching if

00:11:47.640 --> 00:11:53.399
you liked this video maybe you should Mosey on over to our Channel LTT and

00:11:52.140 --> 00:11:56.480
take a look at some of the videos I've done on Chromebooks over there