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where they seem to be aimed squarely at
that Dell inspiring kind of value gaming
machine that we checked out a while ago on the channel over here this right here
is the Aspire vx15 it's kind of a mid-tier sort of
feeling machine so yeah it doesn't have the greatest hinge I've ever seen but
I'll give them credit for the keyboard it actually has surprisingly little Flex
for a system of this caliber so it's going to be priced somewhere in the
neighborhood of 800 to 1200 US Dollars
and you are going to be getting actually a surprising amount of hardware for your
buck so anywhere from a core i5 7300 HQ
with eight gigs of ddr4 RAM and a GTX 1050 with a 256 gig SSD all the way up
to a core i7 7700 HQ with a GTX 1050 TI
16 gigs of RAM either of them could be upgraded to 32 gigs as we discovered
after the fact and up to a 512 gig SSD
and one terabyte of mechanical storage now of course as with any value notebook
I'm looking for the places where they cheaped out a little bit and initially I
thought that the 1080p display was going
to be one of them but in actuality while
the spec sheets at IPS this one was clearly TN it turns out that that's just
something Acer does on their pre-production sort of mechanical sample
models to save a little bit of a cost makes perfect sense to me it turns out
where they did save a little bit of money was on the i o so instead of
getting Thunderbolt 3 or you know USB 10
gigabit or anything like that you get an SD card reader a headphone microphone
combo Jack normal USB 3 5 gigabit on the
one side then you get a couple more USB 3s HDMI gigabit Ethernet and a type c by
but still USB port so that's not actually a Thunderbolt 3 port or
anything like that ventilation looks pretty solid and in terms of styling you
can tell they're inspired by their Predator line with red accents and all
of that but they're still using the Acer branding on this one trying to go after
someone like the the traveling professional who wants something they
can game on in the hotel room but isn't
embarrassed to pull out in a boardroom
so thanks for checking out this video on the vx15 from Acer don't miss any of our
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