The Best $500 Laptop on Amazon #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin it's always fun

to check out the $5,000 laptops of the

world but in reality this is what you

should buy it's $500 this Suze vivo book

F 510 UA which is a wonderful easy to

remember name has a lot going for it

inside there's an Intel 8th generation

Core i5

8250 you and that's kind of a big deal

of this kind of price point these new

series processors are a huge step up in

performance and its really nice to see

them trickle down to even fairly

affordable laptops like this with a full

quad core CPU onboard you're getting so

much better performance than any kind of

older budget option that core i5 can

boost up to 3.4 gigahertz which should

be more than a performance for most

people the only real downside is that

you're not going to have any kind of

dedicated graphics for gaming but if

that's something you're interested in

the Acer Aspire 5 which I've talked

about many many times is going to be a

better option remove a few screws on the

back of the laptop and you're going to

get access to all basically everything

you might want including the memory

which is going to come with eight gigs

by default but it's going to be super

easy to upgrade that to 16 gigs assuming

you didn't have to pay like ninety

dollars to pick up another stick of RAM

but I mean the options there the base

model of the laptop which is what I have

here is going to run you five hundred

and ten dollars on Amazon now that's

going to get you a standard one terabyte

mechanical hard drive but there's also

going to be an empty into slot if you

want to upgrade with an SSD now

interestingly Amazon actually does sell

another SKU of this laptop which just

has that SSD installed it's going to be

128 gigs as well as the one terabyte

hard drive it's going to cost you $600

that doesn't sound crazy except that you

can actually do it yourself for a lot

cheaper which is exactly what I did this

is a 128 gigabyte ADATA SSD that I was

able to pick up for just under $40 and

if you don't mind opening up the laptop

and reinstalling Windows it's going to

be an easy way of saving yourself like

50 bucks if you want the extra speed and

trust me if you're buying this laptop

spend the extra $40 it is going to be so

so much faster with the SSD upgrade

paired with that eight gigs of RAM as

well as quad core CPU you looking at a

very reasonably powerful computer

especially considering the price now I

know especially when it gets into

creative applications such as video

editing that's going to make this a lot

more usable I know especially if it was

me a few years ago when its first

starting out I would have absolutely

killed to have a laptop like this that

was going

so cheap well we've got the laptop open

you'll also be able to see the Wi-Fi

card which is not only easy to upgrade

if you ever want to it's a pretty solid

card in itself so we're going to be

getting a dual band AC Wi-Fi and that

sort of speaks to a lot of my sort of

thoughts on this laptop

the assist engineers did a good job of

picking a pretty solid list of

components and they didn't really cut

any major corners with the laptop design

the only real issue here is actually

going to be with the battery life with

only a 42 watt hours cell it's going to

give you decent battery life as soos

claims about eight hours and while it's

going to be a little bit ambitious it

could be better especially considering

that there's all this space up here

which could totally be used for battery

although I assume that that's probably

for some higher-end version where they

would stick the dedicated GPU at this

price the design is going to be all

plastic and that's not really

necessarily going to be a bad thing so

it's pretty well built there's going to

be a little bit of screenflex but

there's not a whole lot if you actually

go ahead and press down the keyboard it

is a fairly well-built laptop port wise

it's a good selection so we're going to

be getting three USB a ports a USB C as

well as HDMI a headphone jack and an SD

card reader you're not catching the

trend yet it's not going to be

spectacular but there's really no

corners cut it's going to be a good

selection of pretty much everything you

need like most laptops in 2018 you are

going to be getting a Windows precision

touchpad

as you expect it works well there's

solid tracking and you're also going to

be getting support for all the different

windows gestures essentially at this

point most of these windows Precision

touch pads are going to be very

equivalent there's gonna be minor

differences in the actual sort of

surface area and stuff that's going to

be totally fine and so much better than

old school track pads a really nice

touch is the addition of a fingerprint

sensor built into the trackpad now I'm

not a huge fan of the positioning it's

going to get a little bit in your way

here but the good thing is is that it's

going to have full support for Windows

hello

which makes logging in much much simpler

honestly this is something like to see

on any laptop so it's especially nice to

see it on something that's going to be

so affordable the keyboard is going to

be classic a sous so it's going to have

a fairly light touch without a lot of

feel but importantly they completely

nailed not only the layout but also the

spacing between the keys now will be

nice to see some backlighting but again

we're talking about a $500 laptop here

well it might not look impressive on

paper the display on this guy is

actually pretty nice so it is a 15.6

inch panel with a 1920 by 1080 p

resolution now that resolution might not

sound all that impressive but especially

when you put it compared to

other laptops in this price range

especially allows the Acer panels this

is going to look so much better it might

not be the brightest thing in the world

but the color and especially the

contrast are a lot better than what you

would expect at this sort of price point

and that even includes the bezel so even

though it's going to be a 15.6 inch

display the actual overall footprint of

the laptop is actually pretty small well

it's also not the best solution in the

world are going to be the speakers so

they sound okay but they especially get

tinny at higher volumes and a lot of

that is because now I are they not all

that impressive in the first place but

also going to be on the underside of the

laptop which means that you should

probably just get a pair of headphones

at around $500 this really does feel

like a cell it's a sweet spot it's Bend

even $100 less you're going to be

seriously sacrificing on performance

whereas when you start to spend more

you're going to get nicer things like

build quality and stuff

but you're not going to see any kind of

massive performance gains and so you get

into a much more expensive system and

the main thing is though is that you

should definitely upgrade with the SSD

it's going to make a huge difference

over the stock hard drive but beyond

that there's no wonder that so many

people are picking this guy up on Amazon