Slim Gaming Notebook for $800
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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572 words · ~2 min read
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thanks to dbrand for sponsoring our CES coverage this year check out their
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awesome skins at the link below so we find ourselves in the Acer Suite
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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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show coverage by making sure that you are subscribed to Linus Tech tips and
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also a huge shout out to dbrand the sponsor of today's content dbrand is the
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place to go if you want to get a slick skin for your laptop your phone your
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game controller your game console whatever the case may be they are
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Precision fitted they're affordable and they ship worldwide not to mention that
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they make your devices look a little bit cooler and make them a little bit more
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incidental scratch and scuff resistant not that I would have any problems with
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dropping my devices or anything like that