this right here is $800 worth of laptop
which doesn't sound like a lot but Acer
who sponsored this video by the way
thank you Acer is particularly proud of
what they've managed to pack in to their
eighth generation nitro 5 so let's crack
this bad boy open and have a look at it
shall we
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all right so while I pack these boxes
open let's talk the specs of this thing
it's got a Core i5 processor which again
doesn't sound gaming or anything but if
you look a little closer at the specs
the 8th gen Core i5 8300 H which is what
this thing is equipped with is actually
nearly identical to the last generation
Core i7 7700 HQ which was kind of the de
facto standard for gaming laptops so
consider this over one generation we are
getting slightly better performance
actually and at a hundred and twenty
eight dollars less on the CPU alone so
that is a big part of why Acer was able
to hit this fairly aggressive price
point as for the rest of the specs it's
got eight gigs of RAM which as we talked
about recently for gaming anyway you
know I can't say anything for Chrome
users but for gaming anyway it's still
enough even in current year 2018 it's
got 256 gigs of SSD storage so we have
finally gotten to the point where even
for like value models like this one we
don't have to rely on a larger hard
drive in order to have enough space to
install a few games with the fact that
it's a PCI Express based SSD being an
extra bonus and it's got a gtx 1050 Ti
so the biggest difference between a 10
Series card like what we've got here and
the last generation 9 series geforce
cards is that it used to be that the
mobile version was a cut-down version of
what was in some cases not even the same
GPU at all
so a 970 m for example was actually a
desktop 960 and then a 950 M which would
have been the like similar position in
the product stack to this one was I
don't even know what that thing was
so the 1050 Ti is over a hundred percent
faster than the 950 M that you would
have gotten in an $800 laptop in years
past so the point I'm trying to make
here is that at this price with these
specs you're going to get a great
experience in eSports titles like you'll
be able to crank them and I'd be
surprised if you ever dropped a frame
and then even in triple-a titles you
should be able to drive this 1080p panel
at its native resolution at like medium
settings so all that's left here is for
us to uninstall norton you may have to
download norton consumer product removal
tool and go ahead and get some games
installed in steam so we can take it for
a test drive so I had to run and grab a
copy of doom off an external drive
because I don't feel like waiting for 60
gigs to download which I guess is a good
time to talk about i/o because I like
having my mouse over on the left so that
it doesn't interfere with movement on
the mousepad over on the right and we've
only got one USB three over on this side
of the type-a persuasion so I'm gonna go
ahead and use that second one right in
between the HDMI port we've got an SD
card reader and a regular wired Ethernet
port yay
for my external drive and then over on
the other side we've got power in two
more USB ports though it should be noted
these are USB 2 and then a headphone
microphone combo jack one thing that's
noticeably better is the display
brightness so IPS displays started
showing up on value laptops what about
two years ago I guess but one of the big
issues that they had was that while they
have IPS qualities like better colors
and better viewing angles they were
typically really dim this one's actually
not too shabby
no I don't want the game bar like barely
gives you enough time to tell it to
never come back I'm gonna go with expert
BOTS today all right
so we're running anywhere from about 80
to 110 or so frames per second damn
these expert BOTS oh crap they're all
yes they're better than me thank you
I guess I could have bought a better gun
or I could just
okay now csgo okay well for tonight's
loading maybe we can just spend a little
bit of time with the keyboard actually
actually overall impressions of the
keyboard are not bad it's got a bit of a
long keystroke and that does take some
getting used to so I I found myself
missing a couple here and there but if
you're a heavier type err you probably
wouldn't even notice not bad really
quiet - let's apply the best settings
for our system here Battle Royale of
course does anyone play the other one
okay motion blur off because terrible
the I was not expecting all hi - oh okay
it kind of settled in there so I'm kind
of a view distance guy I'm not I don't
really care about any alias signal so
let's go ahead and have a look at how
that looks
wait the ones with arrows are on my team
right I don't remember no that's not bad
like if your goal is you know do some
schoolwork and you're not expecting
crazy battery life because it does have
a dedicated graphics card and then play
for tonight in your off hours this is
not a bad experience can you harvest a
car evidently you can yeah you build
stuff let's say I'm harvesting brick
right now this is rock solid now it's
not doing any of that dipping or
anything it's actually not that loud
either I think it's you know it's not
silent or anything but it's very
tolerable so there you have it that's
pretty much the latest gen nitro 5
overall looking pretty good for 800
bucks if you get it from Best Buy we
have really come a long way actually so
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