hey guys how's it going so this is a
acer aspire 5 slim series laptop and
this is currently the best-selling
laptop on Amazon so there are two
versions of this laptop which are
selling like hotcakes one is the intel
version which goes for about $500 and
then there is an AMD version which is
selling for about $300 i have already
reviewed this laptop in detail in my
previous videos on this channel and i
will throw a link in the description you
can go and check out those videos if you
want to find out detailed review of this
laptop but the focus of today's video is
actually not reviewing the laptop i want
to focus on these two configurations the
$500 intel versus $300 AMD version so
let's take a closer look at the intel
and AMD version it's not just the
processors which are different there are
whole bunch of you know subtle
differences between these two
configuration so if you look at this
chart here obviously the cpus are
different the intel one is Core i5 a 2 6
5 u whereas the $300 version is using
Rison 3 3 2 0 0 u processor so in
addition to the CPU the GPU is also
different the Intel configuration has
the intel ust graphics 620 this is the
built-in graphics that comes with the
Intel Core i5 processor whereas the AMD
configuration is using the Radeon mega 3
graphics now when it comes to storage
more expensive version has 256 gigabyte
of SSD storage and 8 gigabyte of ddr4
Ram whereas the cheaper version has half
of these so the Intel version comes with
a full Windows 10 Home Edition that as
the AMD version comes with a gimp
version of Windows and Microsoft sells
it under the name Windows 10 S mode and
the S stands for shit so it's basically
Windows 10 shake mode so the price for
Intel is 510 dollars whereas the MB is
selling for about three hundred fourteen
dollars so this is the price of the
laptops when I made this video I will
throw a link in the description you can
check those links to find the current
price okay now let's take a closer look
at the CPU so the biggest difference
between the Intel and the MB CPU is that
the Intel processor has 4 physical cores
and 8 threads whereas the AMD processor
has only 2 cores and 4 threads so right
out of the gate you are basically
getting significant performance gain
the intel version it has twice the
number of cores and twice the number of
threads if you look at the maximum
operating frequency or the turbo
frequency the Intel processor is capable
of going all the way to 3.9 gigahertz
whereas the AMD processor goes to 3.5
gigahertz so what does all this mean
right these are all the technical
mumbo-jumbo so let's try the performance
by looking at some benchmark so this is
the pass mark single thread performance
of both these CPU the Intel Core i5 is
scoring 2001 45 points whereas the MB
Reisen processor is a scoring 1588
points so you see quite a big difference
in performance between the Intel and AMD
processor now note that this is just the
single core single thread performance as
I showed you guys before the Intel CPU
actually has eight threads and four
cores as opposed to four threads and two
cores for the AMD so the overall
performance to get a better idea of that
you have to look at the overall
benchmark this is the CPU mark rating
and here Intel Core i5 is a scoring 8000
26 points whereas the AMD rising trees
is scoring about 4500 84 points so
that's a whopping 75% performance lead
by Intel okay what about the graphics
like I said before the Intel
configuration comes with the Intel
integrated graphics this is the UHD 620
graphics that is the AMD processors they
don't have built-in graphics so you have
a extra chipset which is the Vega 3
graphics and in most of the benchmarks
the graphics performance between these
two is comparable some of the gaming
performances do give AMD an edge but
there is one big caveat and this is with
respect to video encoding so if you plan
to use your laptop for video encoding
then the Intel configuration actually
has an advantage and this is because the
Intel CPUs support what is known as
Intel Quick Sync Intel Quick Sync is
basically a hardware accelerated video
encoding solution which Intel offers and
when you use Adobe suite or the Vinci
resolve or any video editing software
dramatically improves the video encoding
performance so this is one area where
the Intel integrated graphics the USD
620 has an edge over the Vega 3 so let's
briefly talk about the Windows 10 S mode
this is important because the expensive
your laptop the intel version is you are
getting full version of Windows 10 the
Windows 10 Home Edition that is the
cheaper version is coming with Windows
10 S mode and like I said before Windows
10 s mode is a crippled version of
Windows and if you use this version of
Windows you can only install software
which are present in the Microsoft App
Store and if you have ever checked out
the Microsoft App Store it's basically a
desert there are hardly any apps and
whatever apps are present they are all
junk apps so simple things like say for
example you are a fan of Google browser
the Chrome browser or Mozilla browser
you won't be able to install those
browsers on the windows 10's laptop
because those are not supported in fact
you can't install any software which is
not available in the Windows app store
so this is a big negative on the AMD
version but there is a workaround and
the workaround is actually completely
free so Microsoft does let you exit the
Windows 10 s mode and upgrade your you
know operating system to Windows 10 Home
Edition and you can do this for free you
don't have to pay Microsoft even one
cent so the way to do this is that you
go to your Windows Start button and go
to settings from there click on update
and security and then click on
activation so when you do that you will
see your current version of Windows
click on go to store and when you do
that Windows app store will launch and
when the Windows app store launches you
will see an option to switch out of s
mode so you see that blue get button
click on that and when you click on that
it will start upgrading your Windows 10
s mode to the Windows 10 Home Edition ok
so now let's get back to our original
question should you buy the $500 version
or should you get the $300 version so
let's look at both these versions and
see what are the benefits of buying the
more expensive laptop and can we get the
same performance from the cheaper laptop
by making some simple upgrades so here I
have put together a table which I am
calling budget upgrade so this is the
bare minimum upgrade that he can perform
to make your AMD laptop as close to the
Intel laptop as possible now of course
it's not possible to upgrade the CPU so
if you want absolute top CPU performance
between these two configurations then
you have to go
so in this table I'm showing you the
upgrades that you can perform so the
intel version comes with 256 gigabyte of
SSD whereas the MD version comes with
half of that so if you spend another
fifty five dollars you can buy a 250
gigabyte of SSD and you can install it
in the SATA 3 slot so you don't have to
remove the existing SSD which is sitting
in the m2 slot so you will end up with a
total of three hundred seventy eight
gigabyte so now your AMD version will
actually have some more storage than the
Intel version and memory you can do the
same thing your Intel version comes with
eight gigabyte of memory whereas the AMD
version comes with four gigabyte of
memory so there are two dimm slots one
of the ten slots is empty and the other
Dem slot is populated with a 4 gigabyte
ddr4 Ram so you can buy the same 4
gigabyte ddr4 Ram for about 24 dollars
and that will bring your md
configuration at par with Intel
configuration when it comes to memory so
for a total of $79 and 47 cents you will
have an AMD configuration of the laptop
which will have more storage than the
Intel version it will actually have 378
gigabyte as opposed to 256 gigabyte of
SSD storage and it will have the same
amount of memory eight gigabyte of RAM
and your total cost will now be $393 85
cents so that's the cost base cost of
the laptop thinit 14 dollars plus our
upgrades of $79.47 so even after doing
those upgrades you are still saving more
than $100 so for 393 dollars you can
have a laptop which will basically be
very close in performance to the Intel
version obviously the CPU is not going
to be comparable but everything else
will be at par by the way all the
components that I am talking about the
ddr4 a memory module and the SSD I will
throw a link in the description of all
the compatible memory parts so the ddr4
memory which is compatible with this
laptop I have put a link in the
description below and also the
compatible SSD now these were the you
know budget upgrade options but like I
showed you you are still saving more
than hundred dollars so here are my
recommended upgrade option for the Intel
configuration you can upgrade the 128
gigabyte storage by adding another 500
gigabyte storage for a $75 upgrade you
will now have a total of six hundred
twenty eight gigabyte storage which is
more than double of what the Intel
version is intel version is only 256
gigabytes so I think this is a pretty
good you know upgrade and the second
update that I will recommend is bumping
up your memory from four gigabyte to
sixteen gigabyte so the 16 gigabyte ddr4
Ram will cost you $64 so the total
upgrade price will be $139 and if you
add that to the base price of the laptop
which was 314 dollars you end up with
around four hundred fifty four dollars
so with these upgrades you are still
saving money you are still saving more
than $50 but now the laptop that you
have is a total kickass laptop it has 16
gig ram it has 628 gigabyte of SSD
storage and RAM is really important with
16 gig am you can launch multiple
applications you can have a browser with
you no more than a dozen tabs and it's
going to work without any starter
without any slowness and like I said
before the AMD Vega graphics is actually
pretty good so if you're watching 4k
stream from Netflix or YouTube it's
going to play that without any problem
so I think this configuration for most
of the people this is a better
configuration than the Intel version the
people who would prefer Intel version
are the people who actually want a
kickass CPU performance so like I said
before if you do software development or
if you are planning to run an
application which relies heavily on you
know CPU performance then it makes sense
to go with the Intel version because it
is 75% faster than AMD but the amount of
money that you will save by going with
the Rison 3 version you can take part of
that money upgrade your RAM upgrade your
SSD and you can have a laptop
configuration which will kick ass so I
have the AMD version of this laptop and
I have upgraded the RAM on this I added
16 gig of ram and I also upgraded the
you know the storage obviously the CPU
is still the same Rison processor but I
am very happy with this configuration so
mostly I use this laptop for watching
videos a Netflix YouTube I also do some
casual gaming but I have used some more
serious work on this I do some software
development you know web page
development HTML I have also done some
app development using Android studio and
because I added 16 gig of ram it's
actually working quite nicely so don't
underestimate the rise in processor it's
actually not bad
and I would say for most of the people
if you are willing to open the back of
the laptop and do the upgrades it's it's
not very difficult so let me show you
how you do the upgrade it's not
difficult at all there are about a dozen
screws that you have to remove and then
once you pry open the back of the laptop
as you can see the DIMM slots are
available so the way you upgrade memory
is you take the memory stick and there
is a notch on the memory stick you have
to match it with a slot on your computer
and then you have to slide it at an
angle and then press it down and it will
latch it will make a satisfying click
sound and that's it that's all you need
to do to upgrade your RAM now for the
SSD storage time to slot is already
occupied because there is already a 128
or at 156 gigabyte of SSD on your laptop
based on whether you buy Intel or AMD so
my recommendation is to not replace that
because why would you want to waste that
the instead use the saddest part the
SATA 3 slot which is empty and when you
buy the laptop it will come with some
screws and so they usually come in a
polythene pouch don't throw that because
you need those screws to install the
SATA Drive I have thrown a link in the
description for the compatible SSD and I
have also thrown a link for the 4
gigabyte memory upgrade if you want to
double from 4 to 8 or if you want to go
to 16 gigabyte and by the way you can
also go to 12 gigabyte if you don't want
to spend $64 to for the 16 gigabyte
upgrade you can just get one 8 gigabyte
stick and you can put that in the second
slot and you can keep the 4 gigabyte
stick in the first slot so you can have
a total of 12 gigabyte of RAM and that
configuration is also going to work ok
guys so I think that's all for today's
so like I said before you can make your
choice whether you want to go with Intel
or AMD based on whether you you know you
want a laptop with kickass CPU
performance then we go with Intel for
everybody else go with AMD but
definitely make two changes first change
is going to cost you nothing which is to
get rid of the Windows 10s mode and
upgrade to full fledged version of
Windows that's free so everybody should
do that and the second is open the back
of the laptop and upgrade the RAM if you
stick with 4 gigabyte of RAM then
it's not going to be fun because Windows
doesn't really work properly with four
gig ram it you know you are going to
struggle and RAM is cheap
so definitely upgrade the RAM and SST
also I will recommend that you upgrade
to simple upgrades so with the budget
upgrade your total price of the laptop
would be 393 dollar 85 cents and the
recommended upgrade will cost you $453
38 cents both are cheaper than the Intel
version so let me know guys which laptop
would you like to have do you think
Intel is the better way to go or do you
think you should go get AMD and you know
do these upgrades by the way you can
also upgrade the Intel laptop nobody is
stopping you from doing that so you know
you can get the Intel laptop and you can
pump up the memory from 8 to 16 gigabyte
and you can also you know add SSD and
increase the storage on the Intel laptop
so that's all way thats also possible
and everything else about these laptops
is the same the chassis is the same the
keyboard the screen both have 1080p full
HD display so everything else is the
same and I have already talked about all
that in my previous video so I will
throw a link in the description if you
guys want to check it out and I think
it's a pretty good laptop so yeah guys
if you have any question or concern ask
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