Hey guys! how's it going? So today we are looking at a two-in-one convertible
laptop this is one of the best-selling laptops on Amazon in the two-in-one
category and it is the acer spin 3 so Acer has packed some high-end specs in
this thin and light 2 in 1 laptop and they have done it while keeping the
price at around $700 so I think this is a very aggressive pricing in the
high-end premium 2 in 1 laptop category now the price on Amazon tends to vary so
check out the links that I have put in the description to find the latest price
as of now now Acer spin 3 it's $700 but the question is is it worth $700 let's
find out now I love 2 in 1 laptops they are so convenient and versatile in 2020
if you are thinking of buying a laptop my recommendation is to go with a 2 in 1
laptop form factor a sell spin 3 weighs about 3 point 7 5 pounds and it is only
0.78 inches thick now in order to get to $700 price point Acer made some
compromises so in this laptop you will not find the fancy unibody metal design
it's actually made of polycarbonate or plastic now in my opinion this is not
necessarily a bad thing because this keeps the weight of the
laptop down the laptop is fairly well built and it feels solid in hands when
you open the lid you see a black texturized upper bezel and a glossy
silver bottom the silver finishing does a good job at repelling smudges and
scratches so whether you are a student or whether you are planning to use this
laptop you know in your home it should be able to handle your daily hustle
quite well he sells pin 3 it's a hybrid form factor
device it comes with a 360 degree hinge mechanism so there are two hinges that
hold the screen in various arrangements so from a traditional clamshell laptop
to laying flat on a table to tank mode and finally to tablet mode typically the
hinges on a convertible laptops they tend to be not all that sturdy and they
usually have some play in them but Asus pin 3 the hinge holds the screen in
place quite rigidly I did not notice any screen wobbles when using it in either
laptop or in tablet mode I especially prefer the mode where you tilt the
screen back 180 degrees this is great when you are chilling in your bed or you
know in your car when you are like watching videos on
your laptop and your laptop is comfortably sitting on your lap the
tablet mode is great for using with included stylus I often use sketching
apps to doodle and to make stupid you know cartoons
it helps me channel my inner artist now I am not really an artist but I still
like doing it so I really appreciate you know that stylus Acer spin 3 it has a 14
inch full HD 1920 by 1080 widescreen display it is an LED backlight IPS panel
which supports multi-touch the screen has very thin bezels measuring only 0.38
inches this gives it a 78.9% screen to body ratio which is pretty impressive
for a 2 in 1 laptop screen the screen is plenty bright talking about 240 minutes
of brightness you will have no problem using this laptop in bright light
environments so whether you are in a classroom or say you are in a conference
room you should be good and the screen is plenty bright the contrast level is
also quite good and the screen produces really deep inky blacks this screen has
a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees so that means you know the text and images
they are going to look sharp even at skewed angles the screen
supports full Windows 10 multi-touch features
spin 3 comes with a rechargeable active stylus that talks right into the laptop
the stylus is perfect for taking notes for drawing for sketching I think
students and working professionals they will find it very useful as I mentioned
before a sense pen 3 has a built-in storage dock for the stylus and the dock
also acts as a charging station so it will charge your stylus when you're on
your docket and its really fast charging so just 5 seconds in the dock will juice
up the stylus for about an hour's use this rechargeable active stylus is
certified by Microsoft and it integrates the Microsoft pen protocol this means
you can use it with various apps including my favorite you know the
Microsoft OneNote this is really handy and I appreciate the fact that Acer is
including a stylus with their laptop you know companies like Apple they charge
$130 for their Apple pencil so thanks Acer thank you for not
fleecing your customers ok let's talk about the hardware specs Acer spin 3
comes with Core i7 processor specifically this is 8 the generation
Core i7 8 565 you from the Intel whiskey Lake
family this is a pleasant surprise because most of the two-in-one Hybrid
laptops in this price point they use a slower processor so again I will give
kudos to Acer for picking a high-end core i7 processor this is a four core
eight thread processor and it has a base clock speed of 1.8 gigahertz and the max
turbo frequency is 4.6 gigahertz this CPU has a TDP threshold of 15 watts so
it is able to automatically overclock itself from 1.8 to 4.6 Kika hertz while
still maintaining the 15 watt thermal envelope so as a result spin 3 can
deliver snappy performance while still remaining cool in Pathmark cpu benchmark
the cpu scores around 8832 points and if you compare this performance with the
top 10 common laptop CPUs you will see that this processor is sitting in the
second spot so for a thin and light to in 1 laptop category I think this is a
kickass CPU you will not have any trouble running any application or game
on this laptop I was able to open more than 50 Chrome browser tabs and
seamlessly switch between them without any stuttering or without any kind of
slowness so I am very happy with the CPU performance on this laptop so this
laptop is using the Intel integrated USD 620 graphics this is a pretty capable
GPU and it produces 37 frames per second on the dirt3 benchmark this is above the
playability threshold which is usually around 30 frames per second so you will
be able to you know do casual gaming on this laptop without any issues it also
supports hardware acceleration for all popular codecs like h.264/avc and vp9
this means smooth 4k video playback on YouTube and Netflix with no dropped
frames but remember this is an integrated GPU so don't expect Nvidia or
AMD level you know discrete GPU class performance and if you are planning to
do hardcore gaming then I guess you are better off buying a gaming laptop I have
reviewed plenty of awesome gaming laptops on this channel and I'm going to
throw a link in the description of you know some of the gaming laptops which I
recommend so you know you can go out and check those reviews so this laptop it
comes with 16 Giga ddr4 system memory I am really happy to see Acer not skimp on
memory to get the best performance on modern laptop in my opinion you need at
least 16 gig of ram and I really hate it when companies sell expensive laptops
and yet they give you only eight gig of ram now if you think sixteen gig is not
good enough for you you can always upgrade the RAM the existing 16 gig ram
it's split into two parts 8 gig ram is soldered to the motherboard and this
cannot be expanded but luckily the remaining 8 gig it's installed on a
standard dim slot and that is user upgradeable so you can replace this 8
gig ram stick with a compatible 16 gig ram stick for about 50 bucks so this is
going to bump up your total system ram to 24 gig which i think is going to be
you know totally awesome so I will throw a link in the description of the
compatible memory module that is going to work with this laptop and you know
you can get it from Amazon for about 50 bucks when it comes to storage this
laptop has a generous 512 the kick off fast PCIe nvme SSD storage during my
file transfer test I was able to copy over a 5 gig of video file in under 9
seconds so I think that's pretty impressive and it is faster than
competing ultra books like Asus Zenbook 13 and HP x360 512 gig of storage should
be sufficient for most folks but if you want increased storage you know you can
always swap this SSD and you know you can get a bigger SSD so to do that you
will have to open the back of the laptop and once you remove the back you have
direct access to the MDOT 2 slot and you can remove the existing SSD with a
bigger assisting in this M door to slot I'm going to throw a link in the
description of compatible SSDs if you are interested in upgrading your SSD but
remember one thing guys if you are planning to upgrade the SSD you will
have to clone the windows operating system from the older SSD to the newer
SSD the SSD that I have linked below in the description it will come with a free
cloning software so you can use that software to backup you know your Windows
operating system but if you don't want to you know mess with upgrading the
hardware and cloning windows operating system you can always buy an external
USB Drive so that's what I do actually for backing up all the pictures videos
and my personal documents so I will throw a link in the description of you
know affordable and a compatible USB external drive that you can use to
backup your data so Acer claims 12 hours of battery life
on a single charge but in my testing which involved web surfing over Wi-Fi at
about 150 nights of brightness I only got about seven to seven and a half
hours of battery life so definitely you are not going to get a 12 hour battery
life as claimed by a sir I think for an ultrabook this is a decent battery life
performance but I wish it was little better I wouldn't call it an all-day
battery life if you are able to charge your laptop for about 30 minutes you
know during the day then I think you can stretch it out for the whole day so I
think for students who are planning to use this laptop in classroom I think you
guys should be fine the thermal heat dissipation on this laptop is pretty
good after watching videos on Netflix and YouTube for about 30 minutes I check
the laptop body and it still felt cool there was no heating and definitely
there was no you know loud fan cranking at high prata this is primarily due to
well-designed heatsink and a fan which is doing a great job at keeping the
laptop cool okay so moving onto the keyboard Acer spend 3 it has an island
style keyboard which is backlit enabled the keyboard has a regular layout and
all the keys are in the right place so you will not have like your ctrl shift
or Alt key in stupid places I think the keys are well placed and they do feel
comfortable when typing the keys are also quite responsive and the key travel
is around one millimeter they offer an actuation force of about 80 grams which
gives a nice tactile feedback the keyboard deck is made of smoothly
textured plastic and it feels very comfortable when your palm is resting on
it I would say that for a thin and light laptop design this is an excellent
keyboard asa has also included a fingerprint sensor on the top left
corner of the trackpad this extra level of biometric security is a nice welcome
addition now I am personally really bad when it comes to like you know coming up
with a secure password so I really appreciate a built-in fingerprint sensor
in my laptop just like our phones I think this should be in all the laptops
so this laptop it has a large 4.1 by 2 point 6 inches trackpad the trackpad is
made of plastic but it is very clicky and responsive it comes with Windows
precision drivers and handles swipes gestures taps and palm rejection really
well whether you are zooming in or scrolling through webpages Windows 10
gestures work like a charm on this trackpad okay so now let's move on to
the speakers so spin 3 it comes with a dual front-facing speakers and they
provide loud audio with decent bass the speakers are hidden
behind the grill at the top of the keyboard I really like this placement of
speakers because they are facing you in both laptop and in tablet mode the
maximum volume is around 74 decibel and even at the top volume I could not hear
any Distortion so I was pretty impressed with these you know little speakers they
are actually better than most of the other ultrabooks which usually tend to
have very tinny speakers so in this laptop you also get a decent selection
of ports there are full-sized USB ports there is an HDMI port for connecting to
an external monitor and you also get an SD card reader but unfortunately there
is no USB type-c port which kind of sucks
I mean 2020 is almost upon us and I think every laptop should now shift with
at least one USB type-c port ok so here are my final thoughts on this laptop I
think for $700 this laptop I think it's a steal there are no thin and light
laptop currently in the market at this price point which are offering
comparable performance so I will have to give kudos to Acer for creating an
affordable two-in-one premium ultra book that is equipped with a kickass Core i7
processor it has 16 gig of ram you're also getting a nice touchscreen you are
getting a free stylus with the laptop you're getting great stereo speakers so
overall I think this laptop it's great for both students and also for
professionals and they are going to find it a solid purchase so check out the
links in the description I have put links to both the laptop I have put
links to compatible RAM and SSD that I talked about so guys I hope you found
this video useful if you have any other questions feel free to leave them in the
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