$500 "Gaming" Laptop with GPU - Acer Aspire E 15 Review - E5-575G-55KK

Find it at Newegg : http://lon.tv/45ioc (affiliate link) - Acer's E5 / E15 has a $500 option that comes with a discrete Nvidia GPU. Makes for a usable no-frills gaming laptop. See more laptops: http://lon.tv/laptops and subscribe! http://lon.tv/s

VIDEO INDEX:
00:57 - Hardware overview
01:12 - Display overview
01:38 - Build Quality
01:51 - Processor / RAM / Configuration etc.
02:24 - Upgradeability
03:05 - Battery life
03:28 - Ports - USB-C is data only
04:59 - Keyboard and trackpad
05:42 - Performance: YouTube , Streaming Video, Web Browsing
06:45 - Performance: Microsoft Word and Office
07:13 - Midroll
07:14 - Gaming: GTA V (Grand Theft Auto V)
08:11 - Gaming : Doom (2016)
08:57 - Gaming: Rocket League
09:50 - 3DMark Benchmark test
10:54 - Kodi and high bit rate video playback
11:45 - Conclusion and final thoughts

The $500 version I am looking at (it can be found between $500 and $550) has an i5-7200U Kaby Lake CPU, 8 GB of RAM, a 1 TB hard drive and a Nvidia 940MX GPU. The RAM and storage can be upgraded and there's a slot for an M2 SATA drive.

The GPU is one we've seen on a few other computers, namely the awesome Mi Air 13 I looked at late last year:

https://youtu.be/scRrpYCo-WQ

The Acer delivers similar performance here with the E 15. It's enough to run most current games at low settings although you might have to drop into 720P on a few of them to get a playable framerate. Still it's better than having no GPU at all.

The display leaves much to be desired unfortunately. It's a low quality TN display that's pretty washed out.

But for $500 this is so far the lowest cost gaming capable laptop we've seen this year.

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