Hey, how's it going Dave 2d here?
And this is the cheapest gaming laptop on the market with a 6 gig
GTX 1060 and it's kind of weird because it's coming from a brand name company acer and the hardware in here is very powerful
but the question that I think a lot of people may be asking is it worth it and
Whether or not you should purchase this laptop versus something that's slightly less powerful, but a little bit cheaper
And that's what this video is here to help you with so right off the bat
We're kind of deep into the product cycle for both the cPU and the gPU
I'm not going to go into too much detail about their performance
It's a Kaby Lake 7700 HQ and a GTX 1060 so it's going to crush most games
And I got to be honest I was expecting the fans to be loud because of the pricing but the fans are quiet
The thermals however aren't great the temperatures are a little warm nothing too bad
It doesn't throttle at all in games, but I would just like to see lower temperatures regardless
We're seeing excellent frame rates on this thing for 1080P gaming
So first the good stuff the build quality is surprisingly good
It's got a metal top panel plastic everywhere else, and you'd think it would have a lot of Flex on the Chassis
But it doesn't it's really solid and even the screen and hinges are built well. I think they made some great material choices here
It's not particularly thin and it's also a little bit heavy, but it is durable the speakers are ok
They're down firing and they get pretty loud you can play game audio over the fans
But they don't sound particularly clear
And they lack bass if you want positional audio for gaming you're going to have to get headphones going
The port selection is pretty standard for the price points
There's three USB-A's and a single USB-C which doesn't support thunderbolt 3 if you're interested in upgrading the internals
There's two doors on the bottom one door lets you add a two and a half inch Sata Drive
And then the other is for the two rams slots they include 16 gigs but opening the rest of the case isn't easy I got
Kind of far, but I chickened out because they don't want to break the casing
I'm sure it's possible, but if you plan on changing the ssd
You got a nut up and go on pretty deep and the ssd
They include isn't super fast so you might want to do it
The keyboard has a number pad the layout feels not bad the shift key is kind of weirdly positioned
But I personally didn't have any issues using it the mechanism for the keys feel a little spongy
But I can still type pretty fast
It's strange because each individual stroke doesn't feel great
But when you type on it, the whole it's a very comfortable keyboard to use now
I think part of that comes from just personal preferences. I think the average person is going to find this keyboard
decent the trackpad uses Windows precision drivers
It's got great tracking clicking is a little stiff you got to press down harder than normal to register a click
But it's good otherwise, and if you're a tapper and not a clicker, it's actually really good now
There are a few things that I don't like the temperatures like I mentioned earlier. It's not that they're super hot or anything
It's just I wish it ran a little bit cooler, but the thing is it's difficult to get into the internals of this device
So if there's any kind of dust buildup in the fans it
Might be hard to clean them out the other thing is that the battery life isn't great
It's a 48 watt hour battery and I'm getting around four hours of battery life with the screen at 250 nitts
It's passable
And I guess expected considering the price of the system now the last thing I don't like and this is a big one for me
It's the screen. It's 1080p not a touchscreen the color gamut is a super bad. I mean looking at the numbers
It doesn't look great, but visually it's not too bad, but the thing that really ruins it for me is the brightness
It's really dim if you're using it in Bright environment
And I found it difficult to play games in the daytime in the evening or if I close all the blinds
It's fine, but yeah, it's not a very bright screen now
The screen is where a lot of companies will kind of cheap out if they have to keep their laptops at a certain price point
And I feel like that's what they've done. So you're still getting an amazingly powerful device for the money. I mean a GTX 1060 is
Almost overkill for 1080p games on laptops because we're capped at the 60 frames per second on the screens
I think the purchase decision
boils down to which games you actually play if you're someone that plays a lot of kind of mid tier triple-a shooters and stuff like
That those aren't super demanding. I would actually opt for a 1050 Ti
Those are going to last you a couple years with great frame rates, and you'll save a little bit of money
And you can spend on faster drives and stuff like that
but if you're someone that plays like Open-World games like Gta 5 witcher 3
then go for the GTX 1060 because you're the type of gamer that this laptop was built for