- Hey guys, this is Austin.
Is this all the laptop that you need?
Now that might sound like a weird question
but as someone who takes a look
at a lot of weird and extreme tech,
this is a lot more reasonable for most people.
And of course, big shout out to Acer
for not only hooking us up with a laptop,
but sponsoring this video
and let's take a look.
So this is the Acer Aspire R15.
Now inside, we get the power cable
and some lovely cardboard packaging.
"Having trouble? Contact Acer first."
Seems like perfectly reasonable advice I can't make fun of.
So this is the Aspire R15.
I'm actually curious to see,
I have actually not seen this in person, yet.
I like the sort of cross-brushed finish here.
It looks pretty nice.
But of course, this is a pretty beefy laptop.
So inside, we have a full 15.6 inch display.
So what's cool is that this is a convertible,
so you can use it in standard laptop mode,
you have a solid trackpad,
and you also have a touch screen so you can scroll like that
but when you're ready, you can actually
just flip the entire screen around
and say, watch a video like this
or you can even flip it upside down
and get tent mode.
It's a pretty cool setup, I've got to say.
Like yeah, this is a little bit big
to be used as a standard tablet,
but if you flip the screen all the way closed,
what you get here is what is essentially a 15 inch tablet.
This gives you a lot of flexibility.
So say you want to use the laptop at a normal situation.
You sit down, open it up,
and you can use it just like any other laptop.
You've got the touch screen,
you have your keyboard, as well as your trackpad.
When it comes to watching video, though,
it's really helpful to be able to flip the screen around.
I think that's the big advantage of the laptop.
Sure, if you want to use it as a standard laptop,
by all means, go ahead.
But having the flexibility to just flip the screen around
and use it in pretty much any orientation you want
is a huge advantage.
This guy also has a pretty good screen.
So this is a 15.6 inch display with a full 1080p resolution
and not only is it IPS, but it also has zero air gap,
which especially helps with the viewing angles.
Having a good screen is important,
as this is a very media-focused laptop.
So you're going to be watching video, playing games,
and while yes, it would be nice if it had a 4K screen,
but that would add a lot to the price.
I think this is a good compromise.
So the last time Jay and I may or may not have, uh,
made a little bit of a mistake.
Speakers are also not bad, so that's important.
Well sure, you're probably going to want
to plug in headphones for video editing or gaming,
but it's nice to be able to know that you have speakers
that are going to work in pretty much any orientation.
Of course, this guy's running Windows 10,
but what's cool is that it's the signature edition.
What that means is that there's no extra bloatware
or junk that you have on the computer
when you first get it.
And if you're anything like me,
you know that you usually have to spend 30 minutes
getting rid of all the crap when you first get
a brand new computer.
But here it's pretty much good to go out of the box.
And since it is Windows 10,
it means we have things like Cortana.
So for example, I can ask it,
"Tell me an interesting fact."
- Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.
- You know what's cool about Cortana?
I feel like Cortana actually has probably like
the best voice of any of these sort of assistants.
There's also support for Windows Hello
as well as a built-in fingerprint reader and the trackpad.
So something as simple as just trying
to drop my finger on it,
and we're immediately logged in.
Now I feel like the more laptops I use
that have fingerprint readers,
the more I find that it's actually a really useful feature.
Inside the Aspire R15,
we have a Core i7-7500U, 12 gigabytes of memory,
a 256 gigabyte SSD, as well as dedicated
Nvidia 940MX graphics.
So with that KBA processor,
not only are you getting the latest and greatest
but it also should be easy on battery.
There's also support for Windows Hello
as well as a built-in fingerprint reader and the trackpad.
So that is 4K ProRes footage playing back
inside DaVinci Resolve.
Now this is not going to be an amazing editing PC,
for that I would really want a quad-core processor,
but thanks to those Nvidia graphics
you actually can do some fairly light editing.
You can also do some gaming.
So right now, I'm playing Overwatch at 1080p
on low settings
and I'm getting a really respectable
60 to 70 frames per second.
So I think that's one of the big advantages
of the Aspire R15.
Not only can you do stuff like gaming,
but you can do video editing.
It kind of will let you do a little bit of everything,
especially because it has that SSD and plenty of memory.
And while the graphics aren't amazing
or going to blow you away,
they're totally not bad.
You can definitely do a fair bit of gaming on this guy.
So, is this all the computer you need?
For a lot of people, the answer is yeah.
But what do you guys think?
Let me know in the comments below
and I will catch you in the next one.