Hey guys! how's it going? so in this video they will take two popular budget
laptops at five hundred dollar price point on Amazon and we are going to fit
both these laptops against each other so on one hand I have got the Acer Aspire 5
slim series laptop and on the other hand is the HP notebook 15 this is the 20/20
Edition so I have already reviewed the Acer Aspire 5 laptop here on this
channel please find a link in the video description below if you are interested
in watching a detailed review of that laptop but for this video I want to do a
head-on battle between Acer and HP laptops so both these laptops we will
put them in a grueling 5 round match and let's see who comes out on top who
emerges as the winner and who comes out as the loser let's find out
okay round one and this is all about the cpu performance
so both these laptops they are powered by Intel's tenth generation CPU but just
because Intel calls them tenth generation that doesn't mean they come
from the same family so Intel has actually muddled the water
with their tenth generation naming convention and I honestly don't like it
so let's take a look at this chart to sort things out his her laptop is
powered by Intel Core i5 one zero two one zero you processor which belongs to
comet-like family while HP laptop it's part by Core i5 one zero three 5g one
processor and this one is from the ice Lake family ice Lake family CPUs are
built using Intel's latest 10 nanometer process technology while the comment
Lake CPUs are actually using the older 14 nanometer process technology for some
bizarre reason Intel has decided to name both these CPUs as their tenth
generation CPU now both these CPUs they have four cores and eight threads they
also have the same exact cash amount of six megabyte both CPUs operate at the
same thermal envelope of 15 watt TDP but the similarity ends here the main
difference between these two CPUs is the clock frequency so Intel has been
optimizing their 14 nanometer process node for the last 5 years
so while Intel can squeeze out faster clock frequencies on their older 40
nanometer process technology the current 10 nanometer CPUs they are running on
slower clock speed and this is true for both the base clock frequency as well as
the turbo clock frequency so let us take an example the isolate processor its
base clock frequency is 1 gigahertz and if you compare it with the comet-like
processor it's actually clocked at 1.6 gigahertz
similarly the turbo clock frequency on ice lake is 3.6 gigahertz which is much
slower than the 4.2 gigahertz on the comet-like processor so does that mean
Intel's newer 10 nanometer ice Lake chip in the HP laptop is it slower than the
older 14 nanometer comet-like chip in the Acer laptop well to answer this
question we will actually have to take a look at some benchmarks let's start with
a single thread benchmark so I select CPU in the HP laptop it scores 2392
points whereas the comment Lake CPU which is in
the acer laptop that scores 2294 points so that's a 4.3 percent performance win
by ice Lake CPU over the comet Lake CPU this is really interesting because ice
Lake processor is clocked at 1 gigahertz yet it managed to beat comet Lake
processor which was clocked at 1.6 gigahertz so why is the slower clocked
ice Lake processor faster than comet Lake the answer is
Intel's newer microarchitecture in ice Lake CPU so remember guys comet Lake
it's still recycling the older skylake architecture which was launched back in
2016 so these two processors are very different from each other when it comes
to their microarchitecture now let's take a closer look at the overall
performance of these processors by incorporating the multi-threaded
benchmarks ice Lake CPU scores eight thousand eight hundred six points while
comet Lake scores eight thousand five hundred twenty one points so that's a
three point three percent overall performance win by ice Lake CPU honestly
it's not that impressive one would expect and newer microarchitecture CPU
from Intel to be faster than you know three percent
I think Intel needs to bump up the clock speeds on their ice Lake CPUs and the
reason why they are running it at slower clock speed right now is because the ten
nanometer process it's not fully ramped up and they haven't fully optimized the
ten nanometer processor so I expect down the line Intel will release you know
isolate processors running at faster clock speeds anyway the HP laptop it
still wins this round it was a very narrow victory but after first round HP
leads Acer by one zero
okay now we are in second round and this time it's all about the RAM and the SSD
storage so Acer Aspire five it comes with eight gig of ddr4 ram and 512 gig
of PCIe nvme SSD HP on the other hand it doubles the storage and it also doubles
the RAM so that means 16 gig of ddr4 ram and 512
gig of PCIe nvme SSD this gives HP an advantage over Acer
especially when it comes to running productivity software like Microsoft
Office suite and various photo and video editing software more ram also allows
opening multiple tabs in you know your Chrome browser without any slowdown by
the way if you want to increase the RAM on your Acer laptop it's very easy all
you need to do is open the back of the laptop by removing about dozen screws
and prying open the backplate this will give you direct access to memory slots
inside the laptop so Acer laptop it has one Dem slot available for a memory
upgrade interestingly Acer has soldered the existing four gig ram to the
motherboard so this solder DRAM cannot be removed but you can add an additional
eight gig or sixteen gig ram in the available time slot so if you choose to
do that you will end up with either 8 + 4 so that's 12 gig of ram or 16 plus 4
so that's 20 gig of system ram upgrading the RAM will dramatically improve the
performance of your Acer Aspire 5 laptop by the way you can also increase the
storage by adding another SATA 3 SSD in Acer laptop so I will throw a link in
the description below of compatible memory modules as well as the SSD that
will work with Acer Aspire 5 laptop also check out my video where I show how you
can upgrade Ram and SSD on your Acer laptop it's linked below in the
description but since HP laptop comes with double
the RAM and double the SSD storage it wins the second round
and now HP has taken a solid lead off to 0 over Acer
okay now we are in round three and this round is all about the display quality
of the screen so both laptops they have a large 15.6
inch screen but the similarity ends here Acer has a full HD screen with 1920 by
1080 resolution HP on the other hand it comes with only 1280 by 720
resolution screen so that's 720p I honestly cannot believe HP wants to sell
a 15.6 inch laptop running at 720p resolution screen so in the year 2020
that should be criminal I mean seriously even mid-range Android phones they come
with 1080p screen at least the screens on both these laptops they use IPS panel
so even though HP screen is lower resolution it is touch enabled so that's
one bonus and Acer on the other hand it does not have a touchscreen display so
their displays on both these laptops I think there are plenty bright and the
output about 200 minutes of brightness the colors also look quite vibrant and
both laptop screens they support wide viewing angles but I will have to give
this round to Acer simply because 720p resolution screen on a 15.6 inch laptop
it just doesn't cut it I don't know what HP was smoking when they made this
decision so Acer wins this round and now the
scores are to 1 in favor of HP
okay now moving on to round four and the round four is all about the keyboard and
trackpad so both these laptops they come with a
full-size keyboard the keys don't feel mushy and provide good tactile feedback
Acer keyboard supports backlighting which is unfortunately missing in HP
laptop I am a huge fan of backlit keyboards because they allow you to type
in any lighting situation and I think that's really great for students because
you know if you are taking notes in your classroom or conference room where it
may be dark you know likes a PowerPoint presentation or you know some kind of a
slideshow then backlit keyboard is really very helpful
now the trackpad on both these laptops they are large and they support
multi-finger gestures so I am happy with both trackpads
so overall I think this round it's a very close one but I will have to
declare Acer the winner of this round and it's largely because of the backlit
keyboard so after round 4 the scores are now tied at 2 all
okay guys so we are now in the fifth and the final round and it's all about the
price so which one of these two laptops gives you the best bang for bucks so at
the time of making this video Acer Aspire 5 laptop it was selling for 580
dollars while the HP laptop was going for 518
dollars so that means HP laptop is about 60 dollars cheaper than Acer but is it a
better value that's the more important question right for an extra $60 Acer is
giving you a full HD IPS panel but it's skimping on RAM and SSD storage HP on
the other hand it doubles the RAM and SSD but then it cuts corners you know
when it comes to the display and you get an inferior 720p display so this is
going to be a tough round on one hand we have got better display and we have got
a better backlit keyboard but on the other hand we have more system RAM and
we have more storage I think I will have to go with Acer Aspire 5 laptop and
awarded the winner of round 5 now my reasoning is very simple you can easily
upgrade the RAM and SSD on Acer laptop but you are stuck with 720p screen on HP
you know that can't be upgraded so if you buy an HP laptop there is no way you
can improve the you know the screen quality now in my opinion the screen
quality it's really important when you are picking a laptop after all that is
what you will be looking most of the time when you are using the laptop so
that means Acer Aspire 5 comes out from behind and Vince the contest by 3 2 HP I
am NOT taking a dump on HP I think HP has made a good laptop I especially like
the configuration 16 gig ram and 512 gig of SSD storage I also like the fact that
it has a slightly faster and newer Intel processor the isolate processor but HP
really dropped the ball on screen quality if the screen size was 12 or 13
inches then 720p resolution might have worked but for a 15.6 inch screen laptop
that sells for around $500 720p screen it's a very tough sell so what do you
guys think would you prefer Acer Aspire 5 or would
you prefer their HP laptop please let me know in the comment section below I hope
you guys found this video useful if you have any questions regarding both these
laptops please leave them in the comments
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