A Full HD IPS Laptop for $160?? YES! - (NOT CLICKBAIT)
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2018-05-06
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1,164 words · ~5 min read
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it's pretty rare these days that a piece of commodity hardware really blows me
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away with its pricing the last time it happened with a notebook was the acer
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helios 300 and at 1100
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one of its
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big selling points was a 1080p ips
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display well this here fusion 5 laptop also has a
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full hd ips display but for only
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160 bucks
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link below unboxing the fusion 5 my initial
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impressions i was actually pretty impressed the build quality is not
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amazing or anything but the i o is adequate with two usb type-a full-size
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ports though full-size sd and HDMI would
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have been nice but for 160 bucks like
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this thing has a full version of Windows 10
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for 160 dollars damn anyway yeah so for the price the
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plastics feel okay the screen is rigid
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enough and the bottom half of the clam shell is pretty okay too even if it
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rattles enough that you could offer it to a bandmate
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who forgot her snare drum that day and that's before we get to the real
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star of the show here the screen ours
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did come with a dead pixel but aside from that i'd consider it stunning
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for the money compared to our 200 dell laptop the
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screen on the fusion 5 is in a whole other league the blacks are blacker the
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whites are whiter the colors are color
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and the viewing angles are anglier however
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we may have a small problem here can the fusion 5 even play back 1080p
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content rocking an Intel atom quad core 2 gigs
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of RAM and 32 gigs of emmc storage this
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laptop plows through tasks like
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a plow but not that plow
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this plow i mean to be clear it can do
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stuff and even delivers smooth playback with high bitrate hd web content like
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that found on Floatplane club hashtag plug and the screen folds out 180
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degrees for easy viewing so if you're looking for a cheap little machine to
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watch youtube and netflix on it's actually pretty
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compelling if you're looking to do much of anything else
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you probably want to stay the hell away first of all you will need headphones
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for watching videos since the speakers are worse than a mid-grade
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smartphone and video calls no with this webcam you won't have a
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good side but really Linus a bad webcam
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that's your deal breaker no
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the real deal breakers come when you start trying to use it for any kind of
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productivity for starters typing on the fusion 5
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laptop is a slog the keys are spaced so close together
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the tactile feel is best described as damp and adding insult to injury
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keystrokes don't always register making
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typing even this simple paragraph a church
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see do you see what i'm talking about and these problems also mean that you'll
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be regularly reaching for the backspace key conveniently located right
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underneath the power button i mean don't worry you can turn off tap
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to sleep but like then why even have a power button now
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alex normally writes an entire laptop review on that laptop to get a really
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good feel for what it's like to work on it but this is the first time that the
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device's rubbish keyboard and wicked case of narcolepsy forced him to give up
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and having used it myself for a little while i admire that he even got this far
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now you could say yeah but Linus that little handheld thing you checked out recently
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had a bad keyboard too but yeah it had
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super pocketable portability on its side and it still gets worse i mean moving
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down from the keyboard there's this really small track pad which is only
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part of the problem because the fact that it's finished in the same way as
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the wrist rest means that there's very little noticeable feel when you move
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outside of its bounds something that's frustrating it's noticeably laggy but
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then that's hardly even the worst issue when it regularly registers a single
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click as two
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or even three and clicking and dragging to highlight
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words or resize Windows is an exercise in futility
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i closed it and unfortunately or fortunately if you like ranty reviews of
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terrible products the problems don't stop there
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while we were charging the device the battery got hotter than the creamy
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melted center of a delicious
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hot pocket that you know what i'm kind of hungry i'll be
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right back sorry that's better
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oh hot but here's a positive point the left
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side of the keyboard gets so toasty during youth
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that you can actually use it to keep this warm in between bites more bad
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stuff though the battery life is okay
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but the power supply that's included is so weak that when using the laptop
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while plugged in it actually slowly loses charge if you're doing anything
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too intensive and it takes over five
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hours of it being plugged in and powered
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off to fully charge so in a nutshell i'm
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encouraged by the fusion 5. i mean sure it's a bad experience and you shouldn't
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buy it but i like the prospect of in the coming
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years us starting to see some really
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impressive screens trickling down into budget options
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like it oh hey no way we're doing a spot for the
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Corsair one it's the fast quiet and
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compact gaming pc from Corsair it's
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built with premium bead blasted aluminum and highlighted by subtle ambient
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lighting effects it's powered by an Intel core i7 7700 processor and runs
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GeForce gtx graphics from MSI the base
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model is air cooled while the rest are actually liquid cooled and it uses
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standard size components to enable the user to upgrade it in the future it's
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quiet producing just 20 decibels at idle and you can learn more and buy one for
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yourself at the link in the video description
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that
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button i haven't had any of these in years
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but if you liked it you can hit that like button get subscribed maybe check
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out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description
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also linked in the description is our merch store which has cool shirts like this one and our community forum which
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you should totally join well they're hot though when you uh come
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well microwave for starters typing on the fusion 5
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laptop is a slog
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shut up