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
big selling points was a 1080p ips
display well this here fusion 5 laptop also has a
full hd ips display but for only
160 bucks
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link below unboxing the fusion 5 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 160 bucks like
this thing has a full version of Windows 10
for 160 dollars damn anyway yeah so for the price the
plastics feel okay the screen is rigid
enough and the bottom half of the clam shell is pretty okay too even if it
rattles enough that you could offer it to a bandmate
who forgot her snare drum that day and that's before we get to the real
star of the show here the screen ours
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 anglier however
we may have a small problem here can the fusion 5 even play back 1080p
content rocking 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 hashtag plug 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 no
the real deal breakers come when you start trying to use it for any kind of
productivity for starters typing on the fusion 5
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 church
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's 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 track pad 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 two
or even three and clicking and dragging to highlight
words or resize Windows is an exercise in futility
i closed 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 i'm kind of hungry i'll be
right back sorry that's better
oh hot but here's a positive point the left
side of the keyboard gets so toasty during youth
that you can actually use it to keep this warm in between bites more bad
stuff though the battery life is okay
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 5. i mean sure it's a bad experience and you shouldn't
buy it but i like the prospect of in the coming
years us starting to see some really
impressive screens trickling down into budget options
like it oh hey no way we're doing a spot for the
Corsair one it's the fast quiet and
compact gaming pc from Corsair it's
built with premium bead blasted aluminum and highlighted by subtle ambient
lighting effects it's powered by an Intel core i7 7700 processor and runs
GeForce gtx graphics from MSI the base
model is air cooled while the rest are actually liquid cooled and it uses
standard size components to enable the user to upgrade it in the future it's
quiet producing just 20 decibels at idle and you can learn more and buy one for
yourself at the link in the video description
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