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guys this is Austin recently I did a

video on this guy a six hundred and

fifty dollar gaming laptop entirely

powered by AMD risin that got me

thinking how would it stack up to an

Intel an Nvidia option that's where this

comes in this is the Acer Aspire 5ml

only does it have a Core i5 processor

and MX 150 graphics but impressively it

comes in with an even cheaper $600 price

tag on paper this guy looks very similar

to the HP Envy so we're getting a 15.6

inch display and it's actually

reasonably thin considering it is a

gaming laptop I will say at first glance

the build quality does not match up to

that HP it's all plastic well it doesn't

look bad you sort of lacks that premium

feel of the NV over what it lacks and

feel it makes up for in actual

functionality not only are we getting a

full size Ethernet jack but we also get

USB see HDMI a USB 3.0 port as well as

an SD card reader and on the other side

we're also getting two more USB ports

you're getting a full size keyboard

layout in addition to the number row

even though most of the laptop is

plastic it does have this metal shell on

the inside which does feel pretty nice

as a palm press inside this guy has an

8th gen Core i5 a 250 u so it's going to

be one of the new quad-core chips eating

those Nvidia MX 150 graphics a gigabytes

of dual-channel ddr2 hundred fifty six

gigabyte SSD however all it takes is for

you to fire up the aspire 5 before you

realize that there is one major thing

missing a decent looking screen so on

paper it's not bad we're getting a 15.6

inch panel with a 1080p resolution the

issue is it is a very very unimpressive

looking TN panel color is OK but the

contrast is straight-up terrible

especially with the viewing angles the

screen just doesn't look that great I

get it Acer wanted to cut some costs to

be able to get this much performance in

such a cheap laptop but the screen is

little bit tough to deal with thankfully

though it's not all bad so the keyboard

is classic Acer it's not the most

tactile thing in the world but

especially for gaming you're gonna be

totally fine and thankfully this guy

also is using a Windows precision

touchpad I'd love to see these as

they're pretty much always now a track

more accurately but especially have

those nice multi-touch gestures when you

put the Acer side-by-side with the HP

Envy you're gonna see if this guy has a

much nicer display sure it might not be

quite as bright as I would like but

compared to the TN panel over here it is

night and day plus this guy is going to

be a touchscreen it's convertible and

built quality wise no Lee this guy going

to be thinner but also just feels a lot

more premium one thing the Acer

definitely has going for it is upgrade

ability so underneath a couple of flaps

on the bottom you'll see Nelly do you

have access to your memory if you want

to upgrade that but over here if we pop

up this little cover you're going to see

that we have a full two and a half inch

drive bay that's completely empty so if

you want you can upgrade with a bigger

hard drive or you can even throw a

second SSD in this guy when it comes to

performance the aspire is just in a

different league so sure the envy does

have that nicer screen and better build

quality but in return you're getting not

only an SSD but you're also getting just

a potent combination with the Core i5

and dedicated graphics the i5 8250 you

delivers good quad core performance it's

right up there with a lot of higher-end

gaming laptops and a fair bit above the

horizon inside the envy the graphics are

where things really take off so with an

NVIDIA MX 150 GPU well it might not be

the most powerful graphics card in the

world you're eating enough performance

to play some pretty decent 1080p games

as you guys will soon see and when you

compare it to the Rison chip inside the

HP the Vega graphics are just not going

to be able to compete however the real

test is of course what it's like to play

in real world games first off we have

csgo now as the game didn't even though

it might be a couple years old is still

incredibly popular this is one of my

favorite ways to test pcs and here on

1080p settings that high will get

anywhere between 80 to 100 frames per

second super super playable it's not

playable is my shotgun right now

oh I get it they get it ahahahaha the

game I just got my awesome goal in is

rocket League so just like csgo it's not

really difficult thing to run so we're

getting between 40 to 50 frames per

second on high settings at 1080p good

this is another great example of it oh

that's not a good another good example

of a game that is uh it's kind of

perfect for 600 on a laptop it's nice

that we're getting this kind of

performance out of something that's

relatively affordable next up for

something a little bit newer we have pub

G now obviously we're just in the

opening area but on today's low we're

getting like 35 frames per second man

this game has come a long way now they

don't have 300,000 people spawning in

one area I will say one thing even

though the screen isn't that bad on this

laptop just having to angle it down a

little bit to get a better camera angle

means that it looks a little bit washed

out right now I really wish they've

spent just a little bit more money on a

nicer panel man this thing would be

perfect so yeah 1080p low is definitely

very playable here so we are averaging

around 30 to 35 frames per second if you

want to really optimize those frames you

could probably go down to 720p but with

a game like pub G might be like on a

sixteen dollar laptop I'm not really

complaining about low settings it's

really put this to the test we have

Middle Earth shadow of war now this is

not only a much nicer looking game but

also a more technically demanding one

and here at 1080p on low settings we're

getting right around 30 frames per

second so it's gonna be me

I'm probably going to turn on the

dynamic resolution to get that frame

rate up just a little bit but again a

very playable game so as you guys can

see the game performance is not bad

especially given these $600 price point

something else I really like is the

standard SSD measure it's easy enough to

add another SSD or another hard drive if

you want some extra space but having

windows and everything fully ready on an

SSD out of the box is nice I can't tell

you how many hours of my life I've

wasted waiting for slow old laptops with

normal hard drives to update this makes

everything so much faster the Aspire 5

is a seriously killer little gaming

laptop now this is very rare for me to

say but I don't really have a lot to

complain about they made a lot of smart

decisions on the components there's a

ton of performance for $600 really the

only thing I can complain about is the

screen

no no it's that a deal breaker butwho

have been nice if they would put just a

little bit of a better display in here

however besides that this is a close to

perfect gaming laptop considering the

budgets and you know what else is close

to perfect their wonderful sponsor for

today's video

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place to vote yourself any kind of

website you like you're cloning one all

about budget gaming so the best part is

is that even if you don't know anything

about building websites anything about

code Squarespace makes it simple with

their simple drag-and-drop interface you

can easily load it with tons of content

and the good thing is with their awesome

looking templates it is super simple to

make a very customized and very unique

looking site all in just a few minutes

and because it's Squarespace there's no

need for you to ever deal with updating

your website or dealing with outdated

plugins and the best part is even if you

do have some kind of problem they have

awesome 24/7 customer support if you

already have a domain it's super simple

to get up and running with Squarespace

and if you don't if you sign up for a

year you're going to get a domain for

free so if you're ready to make the move

to Squarespace head over to Squarespace

comm slash Austin and you'll get 10% off

your first order of a domain or site

anyway hopefully you guys enjoyed this

video definitely be sure to check out

Squarespace and if you want more

information on the Aspire 5 don't link

will be in the description hey guys

thank you so much for watching and I

will catch you on the next one

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this video is sponsored by Squarespace

whether you need a domain online store

or website make it with Squarespace hey

guys this is Austin recently I did a

video on this guy a six hundred and

fifty dollar gaming laptop entirely

powered by AMD risin that got me

thinking how would it stack up to an

Intel an Nvidia option that's where this

comes in this is the Acer Aspire 5ml

only does it have a Core i5 processor

and MX 150 graphics but impressively it

comes in with an even cheaper $600 price

tag on paper this guy looks very similar

to the HP Envy so we're getting a 15.6

inch display and it's actually

reasonably thin considering it is a

gaming laptop I will say at first glance

the build quality does not match up to

that HP it's all plastic well it doesn't

look bad you sort of lacks that premium

feel of the NV over what it lacks and

feel it makes up for in actual

functionality not only are we getting a

full size Ethernet jack but we also get

USB see HDMI a USB 3.0 port as well as

an SD card reader and on the other side

we're also getting two more USB ports

you're getting a full size keyboard

layout in addition to the number row

even though most of the laptop is

plastic it does have this metal shell on

the inside which does feel pretty nice

as a palm press inside this guy has an

8th gen Core i5 a 250 u so it's going to

be one of the new quad-core chips eating

those Nvidia MX 150 graphics a gigabytes

of dual-channel ddr2 hundred fifty six

gigabyte SSD however all it takes is for

you to fire up the aspire 5 before you

realize that there is one major thing

missing a decent looking screen so on

paper it's not bad we're getting a 15.6

inch panel with a 1080p resolution the

issue is it is a very very unimpressive

looking TN panel color is OK but the

contrast is straight-up terrible

especially with the viewing angles the

screen just doesn't look that great I

get it Acer wanted to cut some costs to

be able to get this much performance in

such a cheap laptop but the screen is

little bit tough to deal with thankfully

though it's not all bad so the keyboard

is classic Acer it's not the most

tactile thing in the world but

especially for gaming you're gonna be

totally fine and thankfully this guy

also is using a Windows precision

touchpad I'd love to see these as

they're pretty much always now a track

more accurately but especially have

those nice multi-touch gestures when you

put the Acer side-by-side with the HP

Envy you're gonna see if this guy has a

much nicer display sure it might not be

quite as bright as I would like but

compared to the TN panel over here it is

night and day plus this guy is going to

be a touchscreen it's convertible and

built quality wise no Lee this guy going

to be thinner but also just feels a lot

more premium one thing the Acer

definitely has going for it is upgrade

ability so underneath a couple of flaps

on the bottom you'll see Nelly do you

have access to your memory if you want

to upgrade that but over here if we pop

up this little cover you're going to see

that we have a full two and a half inch

drive bay that's completely empty so if

you want you can upgrade with a bigger

hard drive or you can even throw a

second SSD in this guy when it comes to

performance the aspire is just in a

different league so sure the envy does

have that nicer screen and better build

quality but in return you're getting not

only an SSD but you're also getting just

a potent combination with the Core i5

and dedicated graphics the i5 8250 you

delivers good quad core performance it's

right up there with a lot of higher-end

gaming laptops and a fair bit above the

horizon inside the envy the graphics are

where things really take off so with an

NVIDIA MX 150 GPU well it might not be

the most powerful graphics card in the

world you're eating enough performance

to play some pretty decent 1080p games

as you guys will soon see and when you

compare it to the Rison chip inside the

HP the Vega graphics are just not going

to be able to compete however the real

test is of course what it's like to play

in real world games first off we have

csgo now as the game didn't even though

it might be a couple years old is still

incredibly popular this is one of my

favorite ways to test pcs and here on

1080p settings that high will get

anywhere between 80 to 100 frames per

second super super playable it's not

playable is my shotgun right now

oh I get it they get it ahahahaha the

game I just got my awesome goal in is

rocket League so just like csgo it's not

really difficult thing to run so we're

getting between 40 to 50 frames per

second on high settings at 1080p good

this is another great example of it oh

that's not a good another good example

of a game that is uh it's kind of

perfect for 600 on a laptop it's nice

that we're getting this kind of

performance out of something that's

relatively affordable next up for

something a little bit newer we have pub

G now obviously we're just in the

opening area but on today's low we're

getting like 35 frames per second man

this game has come a long way now they

don't have 300,000 people spawning in

one area I will say one thing even

though the screen isn't that bad on this

laptop just having to angle it down a

little bit to get a better camera angle

means that it looks a little bit washed

out right now I really wish they've

spent just a little bit more money on a

nicer panel man this thing would be

perfect so yeah 1080p low is definitely

very playable here so we are averaging

around 30 to 35 frames per second if you

want to really optimize those frames you

could probably go down to 720p but with

a game like pub G might be like on a

sixteen dollar laptop I'm not really

complaining about low settings it's

really put this to the test we have

Middle Earth shadow of war now this is

not only a much nicer looking game but

also a more technically demanding one

and here at 1080p on low settings we're

getting right around 30 frames per

second so it's gonna be me

I'm probably going to turn on the

dynamic resolution to get that frame

rate up just a little bit but again a

very playable game so as you guys can

see the game performance is not bad

especially given these $600 price point

something else I really like is the

standard SSD measure it's easy enough to

add another SSD or another hard drive if

you want some extra space but having

windows and everything fully ready on an

SSD out of the box is nice I can't tell

you how many hours of my life I've

wasted waiting for slow old laptops with

normal hard drives to update this makes

everything so much faster the Aspire 5

is a seriously killer little gaming

laptop now this is very rare for me to

say but I don't really have a lot to

complain about they made a lot of smart

decisions on the components there's a

ton of performance for $600 really the

only thing I can complain about is the

screen

no no it's that a deal breaker butwho

have been nice if they would put just a

little bit of a better display in here

however besides that this is a close to

perfect gaming laptop considering the

budgets and you know what else is close

to perfect their wonderful sponsor for

today's video

Squarespace well it's funny you asked

that Ken Squarespace is the ultimate

place to vote yourself any kind of

website you like you're cloning one all

about budget gaming so the best part is

is that even if you don't know anything

about building websites anything about

code Squarespace makes it simple with

their simple drag-and-drop interface you

can easily load it with tons of content

and the good thing is with their awesome

looking templates it is super simple to

make a very customized and very unique

looking site all in just a few minutes

and because it's Squarespace there's no

need for you to ever deal with updating

your website or dealing with outdated

plugins and the best part is even if you

do have some kind of problem they have

awesome 24/7 customer support if you

already have a domain it's super simple

to get up and running with Squarespace

and if you don't if you sign up for a

year you're going to get a domain for

free so if you're ready to make the move

to Squarespace head over to Squarespace

comm slash Austin and you'll get 10% off

your first order of a domain or site

anyway hopefully you guys enjoyed this

video definitely be sure to check out

Squarespace and if you want more

information on the Aspire 5 don't link

will be in the description hey guys

thank you so much for watching and I

will catch you on the next one