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a little while back walmart tried to get into making gaming computers which was

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basically only good for giving reviewers like us a good laugh

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that died and their second even cheaper foray was even worse i've used hundred

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and fifty dollar phones that perform better than this

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but today that changes this

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is the gateway 15.6 inch performance notebook gwtn 156-3bk

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and sure it might not sound like much and it might not look like much

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but it also doesn't cost much it's currently on sale at walmart for

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700 bucks while packing an rtx 2060.

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that means this could very well be the cheapest gaming laptop that's able to

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deliver a proper aaa high frame rate gaming experience

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but does it also deliver a good laptop experience

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rocking a core i5 10 300h and an NVIDIA rtx 2060 this thing should on paper be

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flipping capable as a gaming machine

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so then let's get right into it can it run cyberpunk 2077

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oh heck yeah it can here we are on

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medium settings running at about 60 frames per second which for a game like

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this is about what you need to have a good time and it still looks really good

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even if the sliders in the game aren't all cranked to the right

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now you might be concerned that the rtx 2060 we have in here is going to be last

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gen very soon but remember guys this is

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a good thing this laptop is compelling because of the

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700 promo price and with new hardware

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just around the corner we can expect this promo price to stick around well

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not for that long probably until they're all sold out back to games then it also

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delivered very reasonable frame rates in shadow of the tomb raider and in rainbow

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six siege we easily got over 120 frames per second on ultra which is good

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because yes pleasant surprise it also has a high

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refresh rate display more on that later though

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now we would have run some more benchmarks but this thing only comes with a 256 gig SSD

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so after installing those three games she was full

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so i think at this point we got to open it up and find out if the storage and

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RAM for that matter are easily upgradeable because if they aren't

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it's going to be pretty hard to recommend it after just 10 phillips

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screws good news everyone two easily accessible sodium slots and

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two m.2 slots each only half full this

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means over the first year or so with a little bit of saving it would be simple

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to turn this thing into an even more capable machine just like you'll be a

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capable machine if you wear the LTT beanie lttstore.com i like it so

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performance wise then the performance notebook 15.6 inch is checking all the

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boxes but i wasn't really concerned

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about that what was more of a concern for me was all of the other things that

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make a laptop good like the keyboard the screen and the trackpad

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to compare then we've brought in the hp omen 15. on paper the specs here are the

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same but when on sale the omen 15 is still 300 more so where did gateway find

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300 of cost cutting well in a few places

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first of all build quality both of these laptops do have plastic chassis but hp

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wrapped the top half in aluminum leading to quite a bit more stiffness and

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generally a more premium feel everywhere your hands make contact with it with

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that said the gateway isn't terrible in this regard either with a solid

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acceptable c plus for i o they're shockingly similar even sharing the

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exact same Intel wi-fi six networking card that's an area that lots of other

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companies have cheaped out on in the past with their budget offerings though

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the hp does gain a couple of points for including Thunderbolt 3. moving on to

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the display previously some cheap high refresh rate panels would have either

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been tn or only support 6-bit color and

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i'm happy to report that the gateway has a proper ips type 120hz panel with 8-bit

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color the high refresh rate display simply means that you will be more

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competitive in multiplayer games than someone with a 60 hertz screen

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and at 1080p resolution the rtx 2060

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will be running just about everything above 120 FPS to really take advantage

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of it in a vacuum then looks really good

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but then side by side with the hp it's just no competition the brightness and

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colors on the omen just blow the gateway machine out of the water

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it's not going to be a huge problem if you only plan on gaming or you sit in

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the dark a lot but if you're doing any photo or video editing i would save up

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for something with a better display another area gateway could have cheaped

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out is the cooling good cooling means a lot of copper and copper is very

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expensive and running furmark for half an hour confirmed that sure the hp does

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have better cooling its GPU leveled out at just 67 degrees while the gateway was

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at 72 but given that both managed basically

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the same clock speeds and ended up being constrained by power not thermals i was

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pretty happy although the hp did end up with a 2-3 FPS lead both of them were

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also similarly loud but the fans in the gateway had a bit more of that

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high-pitched whine that makes them more annoying truthfully though with either

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of them you'll probably want to stay away from open-back headphones while you're gaming this general trend of this

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being good and this being better continues for the

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keyboard trackpad and speakers the hp

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wins but only just and the gateway remains

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good enough such that you won't be complaining while using any of those

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things bringing us then to our first real

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problem battery life in pc mark 10's modern office benchmark

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the omen 15 put up a respectable 6 hours and 14 minutes in the same benchmark

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with the same settings and screen brightness our gateway managed just an

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hour and a half that is a big uff right

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there if you catch my drift an hour and a half isn't just bad like it's way

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worse than what made sense to us so we

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started the test again and realized oh good old norton antivirus was chewing up

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90 of the CPU scanning every part of the test that opened by using the best piece

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of software norton makes we were able to increase the battery life of this thing

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to nearly six hours freaking wow at least it wasn't a

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hardware problem right now it should be mentioned that hp did still deliver more

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performance on battery and has a much bigger battery so if you plan on doing

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anything away from the wall besides watching videos or using word it will be

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a better choice but the gateway wasn't nearly as bad as it seemed out of the

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box i do still have a question though i keep calling this a gateway but

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who the heck actually made this laptop gateway has been basically a dead

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company for the last 10 years with its owner acer letting it slowly rot at

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first i thought maybe it was just like a rebadged nitro 5 packaged up for walmart

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but looking at the nitro 5 and the performance notebook side by side

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they're clearly not the same machine at all my next guest then was clavo but i

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couldn't find any matches and it also wasn't uh born technology who makes

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gateway's other walmart exclusive laptops we actually looked at one of

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those a little while back so go watch that video if you want to see what a slow motion dumpster fire looks like no

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this was made by tongfeng the gk5nr00

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to be exact is that right zero oh wow unbelievable which is good to know if

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you want to find some upgrades for it off of sites like aliexpress for example

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this much juicier 62.3 watt hour battery can be had for just 68

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almost a nice price basically then from this comparison the

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hp omen 15 is a better laptop in every single way and if you find it on sale

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it's the one you should get out of the two but the gateway performance notebook

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15.6 inch also doesn't have any brutal

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flaws at seven hundred dollars the performance

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notebook gives you everything you need and over the next year or two it can

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easily become a fair bit better as you upgrade the RAM storage and maybe even

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the battery so it's certified cheapskate legit

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