- In this box right here, we have the Acer Aspire Vero,
which apparently is made from largely recycled materials.
Which is great, if it's a good laptop. If it isn't, then it's an e-waste either way,
so who cares? (laughs) Let's get right into it.
So, here we have a box. The box is 100% recycled paper,
and I believe 100% recyclable, which is cool.
Oh yes. It says it right there. They use soy ink.
They also, instead of using plastic on the charger, use this little, recharge the planet, cardboard thing.
One thing I just want to note here, is that, depending on how you're thinking of saving the planet,
cardboard can be good, or bad, because it takes a lot more energy
to make cardboard than plastic sometimes. But then plastic ends up in the ocean for years and years.
It's a really difficult problem. I'm not going to do a lifetime analysis
on all of the parts of this computer. (laughing) I had to do a course on that.
That's really interesting. Anyway, here's the laptop.
Let's just give it a little, pull.
Oh, it's big. And this is a really cool texture.
Also, whatever they put it in, feels really nice.
It's very soft. And I am guessing,
this is a bunch of documentation, to tell you how good of a person you are, yes.
To be clear, I think that, this is an awesome product
and I'm really glad that they're doing this, but so much of the marketing materials is just,
it's over the top. It's just like, it's so wanky.
So here it is, the recycled plastic laptop.
And I have to say, this finish is really cool. Like this is a $700 laptop.
Realistically, you're going up against, a bit of stamped aluminum, mostly plastic chassis.
And this one, I have to say, damn, they did a good job.
Like, I'm pressing here and you can see the whole thing, is flexing a little bit.
But it's the whole thing flexing. It isn't like squishy, weird areas.
Their chassis rigid, is really good. This, I think it looks good to Jonah.
Like what do you think? Yeah.
It's a cool color. It's got some texture. It's got the little like, yellow, grainy things.
You want to feel it? Give it a stroke, Jonah.
Yeah.
Initial impressions: very positive, I have to say. Before I turn it on,
let's have a look at the I/O here. So USB type C, 2 type A's,
a full-size HDMI, that's 2.0 spec, and an Ethernet jack.
Right there's power input, headphone-microphone combo,
another type A, and a Kensington lock. That's really solid actually.
(indistinct) several years going by, but like in a good way.
Actually, should we sticker bomb it? No, don't do it?
Screen's a bit floppy. The whole thing is, a bit on the heavy side, for sure.
Let's bring out our scale here. 1.8 kilograms, which is 4 pounds.
That's a lot of pounds for a laptop that,
well, it's not very powerful. It's not supposed to be super powerful, but it's like a 4 core I7 I believe.
25, 30 watts of cooling is all that's needed.
It's a lot of weight for that. (laughs)
A banana for scale. Is that a thing we're doing now Jonah? LTTstore.com.
Banana. I want to see data sheets on this banana Jonah,
about 1.8 bananas, in width. (general laughter)
According to the bananas, they're all 6 inches. Okay. Anyway.
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Before we get into it, instead of having the text,
like, however you normally text on a laptop,
it's actually like pressed into this. It looks pretty cool, although I have heard it described
as looking kind of like soap, and I understand that.
Oh, I'm afraid this screen is already at max brightness. Oh, it isn't, perfect. Oh, it's still not very bright.
(general laughter) So Brandon, I'm going to try my best
to not (beep) on this display, but I am going to have to get lightly mad at Acer,
because they do this thing all the time, where they have these displays that are not great
at producing greens, specifically. This greens kind of hard to do.
Your eyes are very sensitive to it. And then they have these
very green backgrounds that just look terrible.
It is because their logo screen- But look at this, (general laughter) it's so much better now. (laughter continues)
I changed the background, and now this display looks great,
instead of just looking like, I don't know, someone had, a bunch of wasabi and threw up.
But it looks good now. At this price range, it's the sort of thing,
where you don't know if you're getting good core (indistinct) of a laptop.
This is expensive enough, like $700, it all needs to be good.
Nothing can get, in the way of you using it. But sometimes companies take shortcuts
in ways that makes it terrible to use. And it really doesn't seem like Acer has done that here.
So we have a nice large Trackpad. I'm actually surprised at how nice and large it is.
It feels great to use. The top of it is...
is this, glass coated? Yeah, I believe this is a glass top trackpad.
It's actually a really good one. I'm surprised.
I don't think this trackpad is made of recycled plastic. Let's go, quickly, to their eco claims.
So 50% of the key caps are recycled,
30% of the chassis and bezels.
And all of it was built in ways that reduce CO2 emissions by 21%.
All of which is pretty cool, but which does not mention the trackpad, which I'm guessing they just bought from somewhere.
For something like the trackpad, I'm not going to grade it on being green or not,
if it's made of recycled materials, I'm going to grade it on being green of,
if I can replace it down the line. I think that matters way more, but, we'll get there later.
So first of all, (indistinct) you can just go die in a hole.
Taskbar settings, I need to go over to the left.
This is, a very good keyboard, I have to say. It's got a nice little snap at the start,
lots of travel afterwards, and over all,
the key stability is pretty good. I like it. I would give it a solid A, not quite A+,
but, you'll be happy. So let's move in and unpack.
Now as for the display, I'm guessing this is 1080 P,
this looks like maybe 300 (indistinct). It's not particularly bright, although
when you're looking at it straight on, it's honestly fine. I'm not getting any weird,
like reflections or crap from the back there, even though there is a massive light,
and it has caused problems for other laptops, that have reflective screens.
It's not amazing, but also I don't think you'll hate it.
Oh, one thing about the keyboard that I didn't point out right there,
they have R and E backwards, and yellow.
Another cool Windows 11 feature, if you go to set up the fingerprint reader
and you don't already have a PIN, you need to leave the menu,
and then go back in for the setup icon, to up here.
Honestly, it reminds me a lot of Windows 10 when it first came out
and, broke all my audio drivers and crap. And the real test of this fingerprint reader is
if it wakes up the laptop. Okay, that's pretty good.
I feel like it's the kind of thing where, if I just improve the recognition on my finger a bit,
it might be better. Either way, that was fast enough for me.
The important bit of that, is that I don't want to come all the way over,
hit the power button, and then have to hit the fingerprint sensor, cause that's stupid.
I want to be able to just hit the fingerprint sensor, and get logged in. That's what this does- love it.
(rave crowd cheering) All right, before we get, too into crowd rave,
one thing that I would like to see, is 16 by 10.
I always say it, every single time, if the display came down here, a little bit further,
I would be happier. (upbeat steel drum music plays)
Okay. That's actually pretty solid.
It's not super loud, but I can hear everything from the highs and mids and lows,
which is kind of all you can ask for in laptop speakers.
They're not incredible, blow you away level, but I think it's acceptable for sure.
That said, of course, we have to put it up against the XPS,
as is tradition, even though the XPS, the MacBook just ended it,
but whatever, we're still here. (steel drum music playing)
(computers play steel drum music simultaneously) It sounds broken.
Did Windows 11 break my drivers and that's why the Mac sounded so much better.
Dell, uh, it looks way better,
that's probably the thing that you'll notice even more. I wasn't expecting, them to be close,
but side by side, Jeez, like...
Although if we don't look at the laptop that has a $400 display on it,
I would say that this is perfectly usable. I wouldn't want to create content on it.
Your stuff's not going to turn out right. I would probably just pull out my phone. It probably has a more accurate display.
But if you're watching stuff on this, like you're going on YouTube or watching Netflix
or I don't know, Crave TV or whatever, you're going to be perfectly happy with this.
I guess, that's kind of like this whole laptop,
just summarized in one thing. None of it's amazing, but none of it's offensively bad.
(steel drum music continues) So for performance we have a I7, 1195G seven.
So that's four cores, eight threads, frankly,
this would be a better laptop if it was AMD: incredibly good, cheap processors
and you have eight cores. And eight cores is better than four.
AMD is also more power efficient. And this only has a 48 watt-hour battery.
They do say this will be good for like 9 1/2 hours battery life.
And it probably is, actually good, for like 7.
So like, that's not bad. I don't know how many people that buy these
will need eight cores ever, but it does just make multitasking, nicer.
You also have 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD.
Oh, beautiful, Intel Wi-Fi 6, AX201.
In these sort of mid-range laptops, they sometimes cheap out on the wi-fi card.
I don't know, save that money somewhere else. And Iris XE integrated graphics.
And we'd might as well test them right now. This seems pretty not bad, actually.
It seems pretty close to 60, at 1080 P on low. I might even be able to take it to medium.
Yeah, we got medium grass. Okay, this feels like more like 40 now,
but like, hello, yeah. (general laughter)
Is that better? You can sort of see it. I can't screen tap on this laptop, Brandon.
You're not going to play Battlefield 2042 or anything, but like, this is totally acceptable.
We've already done videos on Intel XE graphics. Expect like 1080 P, medium-low settings games,
which is pretty good for a lot of people. The most important thing about this laptop though,
is it repairable? Take a look. It's all Phillips head screws.
They're all the same length, super easy to get into. The Loctite they used on the screws,
is color matched, with the little feet.
Couple of screws and a guitar pick, and you are in, wow.
This looks like everything was designed for a 13 or 14 inch laptop
and they just put it in a 15. I'm surprised by the amount of cooling in it.
We've got 2 fans, 2 rather pinner heat pipes,
but like there's quite a bit of exhaust for 4 core mobile chips, like that's pretty darn good.
For how much CPU there is, that's a lot of fans.
So basics first, you have a single sewed-in slot,
so you can upgrade the RAM, but unfortunately the other 8 gigabytes
are soldered to the back of the motherboard. So unless you're like into SMD repair...
We also have, our SSD right here. It looks like that's the only one you need to have,
but it is upgradable. So points there. Battery is super easy.
Look at that, It just comes right out.
Trackpad, damn. Yeah. There's the trackpad, whole thing.
You can just replace it. What I'm trying to see, right now, is if the keyboard's replaceable.
Cause if it is, that would be awesome. There's the whole motherboard.
That's, (laughs) that's the whole thing, right there. Keyboard's plastic-welded in, so that's not repairable.
But everything else seems like it is. Not quite full marks, but good job, Acer.
You can replace motherboard pretty easily, battery super easily, I guess the cooling,
if you want it to it, it doesn't normally go bad. Storage RAM, I guess your I/O if you so happened
to spill some water on that, or something. And the trackpad.
So overall, the Acer Vero, is a laptop
that is quite upgradable. I think it looks good.
And if you're into your computer being recycled,
go for it, really. At $700, I would strongly recommend it.
There's no super big downsides. And if you're into the environment, bonus.
Yeah now I have to put it back together, great. You guys like this video, hit like, get subscribed,
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