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where they seem to be aimed squarely at

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that Dell inspiring kind of value gaming

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machine that we checked out a while ago on the channel over here this right here

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is the Aspire vx15 it's kind of a mid-tier sort of

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feeling machine so yeah it doesn't have the greatest hinge I've ever seen but

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I'll give them credit for the keyboard it actually has surprisingly little Flex

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for a system of this caliber so it's going to be priced somewhere in the

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neighborhood of 800 to 1200 US Dollars

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and you are going to be getting actually a surprising amount of hardware for your

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buck so anywhere from a core i5 7300 HQ

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with eight gigs of ddr4 RAM and a GTX 1050 with a 256 gig SSD all the way up

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to a core i7 7700 HQ with a GTX 1050 TI

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16 gigs of RAM either of them could be upgraded to 32 gigs as we discovered

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after the fact and up to a 512 gig SSD

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and one terabyte of mechanical storage now of course as with any value notebook

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I'm looking for the places where they cheaped out a little bit and initially I

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thought that the 1080p display was going

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to be one of them but in actuality while

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the spec sheets at IPS this one was clearly TN it turns out that that's just

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something Acer does on their pre-production sort of mechanical sample

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models to save a little bit of a cost makes perfect sense to me it turns out

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where they did save a little bit of money was on the i o so instead of

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getting Thunderbolt 3 or you know USB 10

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gigabit or anything like that you get an SD card reader a headphone microphone

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combo Jack normal USB 3 5 gigabit on the

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one side then you get a couple more USB 3s HDMI gigabit Ethernet and a type c by

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but still USB port so that's not actually a Thunderbolt 3 port or

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anything like that ventilation looks pretty solid and in terms of styling you

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can tell they're inspired by their Predator line with red accents and all

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of that but they're still using the Acer branding on this one trying to go after

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someone like the the traveling professional who wants something they

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can game on in the hotel room but isn't

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embarrassed to pull out in a boardroom

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so thanks for checking out this video on the vx15 from Acer don't miss any of our

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