WEBVTT 00:00:00.150 --> 00:00:03.980 - In this box right here, we have the Acer Aspire Vero, 00:00:03.980 --> 00:00:08.350 which apparently is made from largely recycled materials. 00:00:08.350 --> 00:00:13.220 Which is great, if it's a good laptop. If it isn't, then it's an e-waste either way, 00:00:13.220 --> 00:00:15.880 so who cares? (laughs) Let's get right into it. 00:00:17.740 --> 00:00:21.860 So, here we have a box. The box is 100% recycled paper, 00:00:21.860 --> 00:00:25.513 and I believe 100% recyclable, which is cool. 00:00:27.380 --> 00:00:30.420 Oh yes. It says it right there. They use soy ink. 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:36.390 They also, instead of using plastic on the charger, use this little, recharge the planet, cardboard thing. 00:00:36.390 --> 00:00:41.280 One thing I just want to note here, is that, depending on how you're thinking of saving the planet, 00:00:41.280 --> 00:00:45.080 cardboard can be good, or bad, because it takes a lot more energy 00:00:45.080 --> 00:00:50.651 to make cardboard than plastic sometimes. But then plastic ends up in the ocean for years and years. 00:00:50.651 --> 00:00:55.120 It's a really difficult problem. I'm not going to do a lifetime analysis 00:00:55.120 --> 00:00:58.767 on all of the parts of this computer. (laughing) I had to do a course on that. 00:00:58.767 --> 00:01:02.510 That's really interesting. Anyway, here's the laptop. 00:01:02.510 --> 00:01:05.183 Let's just give it a little, pull. 00:01:06.040 --> 00:01:09.500 Oh, it's big. And this is a really cool texture. 00:01:10.880 --> 00:01:14.540 Also, whatever they put it in, feels really nice. 00:01:14.540 --> 00:01:16.943 It's very soft. And I am guessing, 00:01:18.650 --> 00:01:23.240 this is a bunch of documentation, to tell you how good of a person you are, yes. 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:26.280 To be clear, I think that, this is an awesome product 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.318 and I'm really glad that they're doing this, but so much of the marketing materials is just, 00:01:30.318 --> 00:01:34.340 it's over the top. It's just like, it's so wanky. 00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:38.020 So here it is, the recycled plastic laptop. 00:01:38.020 --> 00:01:43.270 And I have to say, this finish is really cool. Like this is a $700 laptop. 00:01:43.270 --> 00:01:48.890 Realistically, you're going up against, a bit of stamped aluminum, mostly plastic chassis. 00:01:48.890 --> 00:01:53.890 And this one, I have to say, damn, they did a good job. 00:01:53.910 --> 00:01:58.800 Like, I'm pressing here and you can see the whole thing, is flexing a little bit. 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:03.480 But it's the whole thing flexing. It isn't like squishy, weird areas. 00:02:03.480 --> 00:02:07.220 Their chassis rigid, is really good. This, I think it looks good to Jonah. 00:02:07.220 --> 00:02:10.730 Like what do you think? Yeah. 00:02:10.730 --> 00:02:16.853 It's a cool color. It's got some texture. It's got the little like, yellow, grainy things. 00:02:18.250 --> 00:02:20.573 You want to feel it? Give it a stroke, Jonah. 00:02:22.550 --> 00:02:23.383 Yeah. 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.520 Initial impressions: very positive, I have to say. Before I turn it on, 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:35.230 let's have a look at the I/O here. So USB type C, 2 type A's, 00:02:35.230 --> 00:02:39.500 a full-size HDMI, that's 2.0 spec, and an Ethernet jack. 00:02:39.500 --> 00:02:43.570 Right there's power input, headphone-microphone combo, 00:02:43.570 --> 00:02:47.795 another type A, and a Kensington lock. That's really solid actually. 00:02:47.795 --> 00:02:50.920 (indistinct) several years going by, but like in a good way. 00:02:50.920 --> 00:02:53.923 Actually, should we sticker bomb it? No, don't do it? 00:02:55.500 --> 00:03:01.280 Screen's a bit floppy. The whole thing is, a bit on the heavy side, for sure. 00:03:01.280 --> 00:03:07.480 Let's bring out our scale here. 1.8 kilograms, which is 4 pounds. 00:03:07.480 --> 00:03:10.923 That's a lot of pounds for a laptop that, 00:03:12.290 --> 00:03:17.917 well, it's not very powerful. It's not supposed to be super powerful, but it's like a 4 core I7 I believe. 00:03:17.917 --> 00:03:21.350 25, 30 watts of cooling is all that's needed. 00:03:21.350 --> 00:03:23.993 It's a lot of weight for that. (laughs) 00:03:25.605 --> 00:03:30.500 A banana for scale. Is that a thing we're doing now Jonah? LTTstore.com. 00:03:30.500 --> 00:03:34.270 Banana. I want to see data sheets on this banana Jonah, 00:03:34.270 --> 00:03:37.670 about 1.8 bananas, in width. (general laughter) 00:03:37.670 --> 00:03:41.163 According to the bananas, they're all 6 inches. Okay. Anyway. 00:03:42.760 --> 00:03:46.610 Now I want to turn it on, but what I want to do even more 00:03:46.610 --> 00:03:50.900 is segue into our sponsors, Vessi. 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It looks pretty cool, although I have heard it described 00:04:23.140 --> 00:04:26.253 as looking kind of like soap, and I understand that. 00:04:27.230 --> 00:04:32.786 Oh, I'm afraid this screen is already at max brightness. Oh, it isn't, perfect. Oh, it's still not very bright. 00:04:32.786 --> 00:04:36.720 (general laughter) So Brandon, I'm going to try my best 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:40.980 to not (beep) on this display, but I am going to have to get lightly mad at Acer, 00:04:40.980 --> 00:04:45.610 because they do this thing all the time, where they have these displays that are not great 00:04:45.610 --> 00:04:49.740 at producing greens, specifically. This greens kind of hard to do. 00:04:49.740 --> 00:04:53.010 Your eyes are very sensitive to it. And then they have these 00:04:53.010 --> 00:04:55.633 very green backgrounds that just look terrible. 00:04:56.560 --> 00:05:01.500 It is because their logo screen- But look at this, (general laughter) it's so much better now. (laughter continues) 00:05:01.500 --> 00:05:04.670 I changed the background, and now this display looks great, 00:05:04.670 --> 00:05:10.320 instead of just looking like, I don't know, someone had, a bunch of wasabi and threw up. 00:05:10.320 --> 00:05:15.490 But it looks good now. At this price range, it's the sort of thing, 00:05:15.490 --> 00:05:19.520 where you don't know if you're getting good core (indistinct) of a laptop. 00:05:19.520 --> 00:05:23.610 This is expensive enough, like $700, it all needs to be good. 00:05:23.610 --> 00:05:29.450 Nothing can get, in the way of you using it. But sometimes companies take shortcuts 00:05:29.450 --> 00:05:33.840 in ways that makes it terrible to use. And it really doesn't seem like Acer has done that here. 00:05:33.840 --> 00:05:38.180 So we have a nice large Trackpad. I'm actually surprised at how nice and large it is. 00:05:38.180 --> 00:05:42.250 It feels great to use. The top of it is... 00:05:42.250 --> 00:05:46.810 is this, glass coated? Yeah, I believe this is a glass top trackpad. 00:05:46.810 --> 00:05:50.180 It's actually a really good one. I'm surprised. 00:05:50.180 --> 00:05:55.410 I don't think this trackpad is made of recycled plastic. Let's go, quickly, to their eco claims. 00:05:55.410 --> 00:05:58.910 So 50% of the key caps are recycled, 00:05:58.910 --> 00:06:02.340 30% of the chassis and bezels. 00:06:02.340 --> 00:06:08.150 And all of it was built in ways that reduce CO2 emissions by 21%. 00:06:08.150 --> 00:06:12.310 All of which is pretty cool, but which does not mention the trackpad, which I'm guessing they just bought from somewhere. 00:06:12.310 --> 00:06:17.480 For something like the trackpad, I'm not going to grade it on being green or not, 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:21.230 if it's made of recycled materials, I'm going to grade it on being green of, 00:06:21.230 --> 00:06:26.130 if I can replace it down the line. I think that matters way more, but, we'll get there later. 00:06:26.130 --> 00:06:29.753 So first of all, (indistinct) you can just go die in a hole. 00:06:29.753 --> 00:06:32.723 Taskbar settings, I need to go over to the left. 00:06:35.300 --> 00:06:39.970 This is, a very good keyboard, I have to say. It's got a nice little snap at the start, 00:06:39.970 --> 00:06:43.210 lots of travel afterwards, and over all, 00:06:43.210 --> 00:06:48.316 the key stability is pretty good. I like it. I would give it a solid A, not quite A+, 00:06:48.316 --> 00:06:51.460 but, you'll be happy. So let's move in and unpack. 00:06:52.380 --> 00:06:56.680 Now as for the display, I'm guessing this is 1080 P, 00:06:56.680 --> 00:07:01.450 this looks like maybe 300 (indistinct). It's not particularly bright, although 00:07:01.450 --> 00:07:05.440 when you're looking at it straight on, it's honestly fine. I'm not getting any weird, 00:07:05.440 --> 00:07:09.250 like reflections or crap from the back there, even though there is a massive light, 00:07:09.250 --> 00:07:13.290 and it has caused problems for other laptops, that have reflective screens. 00:07:13.290 --> 00:07:16.850 It's not amazing, but also I don't think you'll hate it. 00:07:16.850 --> 00:07:20.090 Oh, one thing about the keyboard that I didn't point out right there, 00:07:20.090 --> 00:07:23.560 they have R and E backwards, and yellow. 00:07:23.560 --> 00:07:27.590 Another cool Windows 11 feature, if you go to set up the fingerprint reader 00:07:27.590 --> 00:07:31.970 and you don't already have a PIN, you need to leave the menu, 00:07:31.970 --> 00:07:35.860 and then go back in for the setup icon, to up here. 00:07:35.860 --> 00:07:39.000 Honestly, it reminds me a lot of Windows 10 when it first came out 00:07:39.000 --> 00:07:43.950 and, broke all my audio drivers and crap. And the real test of this fingerprint reader is 00:07:43.950 --> 00:07:48.140 if it wakes up the laptop. Okay, that's pretty good. 00:07:48.140 --> 00:07:52.380 I feel like it's the kind of thing where, if I just improve the recognition on my finger a bit, 00:07:52.380 --> 00:07:55.570 it might be better. Either way, that was fast enough for me. 00:07:55.570 --> 00:07:58.785 The important bit of that, is that I don't want to come all the way over, 00:07:58.785 --> 00:08:02.850 hit the power button, and then have to hit the fingerprint sensor, cause that's stupid. 00:08:02.850 --> 00:08:07.773 I want to be able to just hit the fingerprint sensor, and get logged in. That's what this does- love it. 00:08:07.773 --> 00:08:12.200 (rave crowd cheering) All right, before we get, too into crowd rave, 00:08:12.200 --> 00:08:15.790 one thing that I would like to see, is 16 by 10. 00:08:15.790 --> 00:08:20.320 I always say it, every single time, if the display came down here, a little bit further, 00:08:20.320 --> 00:08:24.730 I would be happier. (upbeat steel drum music plays) 00:08:24.730 --> 00:08:27.163 Okay. That's actually pretty solid. 00:08:28.230 --> 00:08:34.820 It's not super loud, but I can hear everything from the highs and mids and lows, 00:08:34.820 --> 00:08:38.010 which is kind of all you can ask for in laptop speakers. 00:08:38.010 --> 00:08:42.290 They're not incredible, blow you away level, but I think it's acceptable for sure. 00:08:42.290 --> 00:08:45.950 That said, of course, we have to put it up against the XPS, 00:08:45.950 --> 00:08:50.500 as is tradition, even though the XPS, the MacBook just ended it, 00:08:50.500 --> 00:08:56.558 but whatever, we're still here. (steel drum music playing) 00:08:56.558 --> 00:09:00.053 (computers play steel drum music simultaneously) It sounds broken. 00:09:00.053 --> 00:09:03.650 Did Windows 11 break my drivers and that's why the Mac sounded so much better. 00:09:03.650 --> 00:09:06.810 Dell, uh, it looks way better, 00:09:06.810 --> 00:09:12.500 that's probably the thing that you'll notice even more. I wasn't expecting, them to be close, 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:15.550 but side by side, Jeez, like... 00:09:15.550 --> 00:09:21.360 Although if we don't look at the laptop that has a $400 display on it, 00:09:21.360 --> 00:09:26.750 I would say that this is perfectly usable. I wouldn't want to create content on it. 00:09:26.750 --> 00:09:31.960 Your stuff's not going to turn out right. I would probably just pull out my phone. It probably has a more accurate display. 00:09:31.960 --> 00:09:36.150 But if you're watching stuff on this, like you're going on YouTube or watching Netflix 00:09:36.150 --> 00:09:40.990 or I don't know, Crave TV or whatever, you're going to be perfectly happy with this. 00:09:40.990 --> 00:09:44.690 I guess, that's kind of like this whole laptop, 00:09:44.690 --> 00:09:50.255 just summarized in one thing. None of it's amazing, but none of it's offensively bad. 00:09:50.255 --> 00:09:54.510 (steel drum music continues) So for performance we have a I7, 1195G seven. 00:09:54.510 --> 00:09:57.530 So that's four cores, eight threads, frankly, 00:09:57.530 --> 00:10:01.870 this would be a better laptop if it was AMD: incredibly good, cheap processors 00:10:01.870 --> 00:10:04.990 and you have eight cores. And eight cores is better than four. 00:10:04.990 --> 00:10:09.000 AMD is also more power efficient. And this only has a 48 watt-hour battery. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:12.380 They do say this will be good for like 9 1/2 hours battery life. 00:10:12.380 --> 00:10:16.000 And it probably is, actually good, for like 7. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.870 So like, that's not bad. I don't know how many people that buy these 00:10:19.870 --> 00:10:24.110 will need eight cores ever, but it does just make multitasking, nicer. 00:10:24.110 --> 00:10:28.490 You also have 16GB of RAM, 500GB SSD. 00:10:28.490 --> 00:10:33.060 Oh, beautiful, Intel Wi-Fi 6, AX201. 00:10:33.060 --> 00:10:36.970 In these sort of mid-range laptops, they sometimes cheap out on the wi-fi card. 00:10:36.970 --> 00:10:41.470 I don't know, save that money somewhere else. And Iris XE integrated graphics. 00:10:41.470 --> 00:10:45.760 And we'd might as well test them right now. This seems pretty not bad, actually. 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:51.380 It seems pretty close to 60, at 1080 P on low. I might even be able to take it to medium. 00:10:51.380 --> 00:10:54.920 Yeah, we got medium grass. Okay, this feels like more like 40 now, 00:10:54.920 --> 00:10:59.771 but like, hello, yeah. (general laughter) 00:10:59.771 --> 00:11:05.030 Is that better? You can sort of see it. I can't screen tap on this laptop, Brandon. 00:11:05.030 --> 00:11:10.610 You're not going to play Battlefield 2042 or anything, but like, this is totally acceptable. 00:11:10.610 --> 00:11:16.620 We've already done videos on Intel XE graphics. Expect like 1080 P, medium-low settings games, 00:11:16.620 --> 00:11:22.110 which is pretty good for a lot of people. The most important thing about this laptop though, 00:11:22.110 --> 00:11:26.460 is it repairable? Take a look. It's all Phillips head screws. 00:11:26.460 --> 00:11:31.375 They're all the same length, super easy to get into. The Loctite they used on the screws, 00:11:31.375 --> 00:11:34.273 is color matched, with the little feet. 00:11:37.300 --> 00:11:40.420 Couple of screws and a guitar pick, and you are in, wow. 00:11:40.420 --> 00:11:44.160 This looks like everything was designed for a 13 or 14 inch laptop 00:11:44.160 --> 00:11:48.520 and they just put it in a 15. I'm surprised by the amount of cooling in it. 00:11:48.520 --> 00:11:51.830 We've got 2 fans, 2 rather pinner heat pipes, 00:11:51.830 --> 00:11:57.690 but like there's quite a bit of exhaust for 4 core mobile chips, like that's pretty darn good. 00:11:57.690 --> 00:12:01.510 For how much CPU there is, that's a lot of fans. 00:12:01.510 --> 00:12:05.270 So basics first, you have a single sewed-in slot, 00:12:05.270 --> 00:12:09.460 so you can upgrade the RAM, but unfortunately the other 8 gigabytes 00:12:09.460 --> 00:12:16.780 are soldered to the back of the motherboard. So unless you're like into SMD repair... 00:12:16.780 --> 00:12:22.267 We also have, our SSD right here. It looks like that's the only one you need to have, 00:12:22.267 --> 00:12:26.780 but it is upgradable. So points there. Battery is super easy. 00:12:26.780 --> 00:12:29.930 Look at that, It just comes right out. 00:12:29.930 --> 00:12:34.340 Trackpad, damn. Yeah. There's the trackpad, whole thing. 00:12:34.340 --> 00:12:38.770 You can just replace it. What I'm trying to see, right now, is if the keyboard's replaceable. 00:12:38.770 --> 00:12:42.493 Cause if it is, that would be awesome. There's the whole motherboard. 00:12:42.493 --> 00:12:50.046 That's, (laughs) that's the whole thing, right there. Keyboard's plastic-welded in, so that's not repairable. 00:12:50.630 --> 00:12:54.860 But everything else seems like it is. Not quite full marks, but good job, Acer. 00:12:54.860 --> 00:12:59.810 You can replace motherboard pretty easily, battery super easily, I guess the cooling, 00:12:59.810 --> 00:13:05.580 if you want it to it, it doesn't normally go bad. Storage RAM, I guess your I/O if you so happened 00:13:05.580 --> 00:13:09.450 to spill some water on that, or something. And the trackpad. 00:13:09.450 --> 00:13:12.810 So overall, the Acer Vero, is a laptop 00:13:12.810 --> 00:13:16.470 that is quite upgradable. I think it looks good. 00:13:16.470 --> 00:13:19.500 And if you're into your computer being recycled, 00:13:19.500 --> 00:13:23.630 go for it, really. At $700, I would strongly recommend it. 00:13:23.630 --> 00:13:28.600 There's no super big downsides. And if you're into the environment, bonus. 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:34.160 Yeah now I have to put it back together, great. You guys like this video, hit like, get subscribed, 00:13:34.160 --> 00:13:38.743 and tell your trackpad that you like it. And if you have a track point, um.