That one is very good value. I paied $550 for something slightly worse 2 years ago. Oh but mine had an open RAM slot and I added another 8GB for $20. Massive game improvements. Deep Rock Galactic went from "barely playable with drops to 13FPS if there is alot going on the screen" to "smoothe with drops to 25 FPS".
Best Buy worker here! It’s supposed to say Best Buy seal but we ran out of the bc of the holidays so we use the geek squad tape we use for open box items we box up 😂
Same here with my previous HP, it was with a pretty snappy and efficient Ryzen 5 5500U APU but its original single channel 8 Gigs teally crippled it. A simple 10 minute and 30USD upgrade with another 8 gigs really did wonders to its Vega 7 iGPU.
The amount of RAM killed it & Manufactures do this on purpose because they always offer over 8GB for more. In 2024 8GB is barely enough for a phone & nowhere near enough for a Laptop.
Not really. This is not designed as a gaming laptop. It is for comfortable basic surfing, watching videos, and perhaps something like Roblox. RAM slots, as opposed to soldered RAM, would increase the price above magic $300.
@@aleksazunjic9672 in 3 years, roblox probably won't be able to run on a $300 laptop because the greedy multi-billion dollar company wants to keep pushing graphics updates
@@haikutoru They would not . PS2 emulation works fine even on older AMD laptops, and Ryzen 5 7520U is pretty powerful. 4 cores, 8 threads, 610M graphics.
I know you guys did a Linux video here recently and it would be really cool to see how much linux could potentially help this laptop to run things better, considering the ram is the real limitation and linux is light on ram
Its a lousy gaming laptop thats knee capped by design Its also poor choice for video editing and many other tasks Win 11 will consume 2 to 3+ GB of RAM at idol leaving you with a scant 5 to 6 GB This is great for light use & nothing more
Linux is another handicapped system forcing you to use open sourced software because most programs won't run on it It's settling for less and telling yourself you won
They'd know it when most or all of their software won't install on Linux because most programs are not compatible with Linux Plus, you have to learn a new and less user friendly operating system & your stuck running open source programs instead of the ones you've invested countless hours learning and getting used to.
I have the lenovo legion slim gen 9 laptop with the 4070 and 7000 cpu. It has the square charger. I actually like that charger. It feels robust and compared to how fragile the barrel jack on the rog zephyrus is, i think its secure. Plus supprised you can game at all on 8gb of soldered ram and the radeon 610m igpu.
The best laptops you can buy for gaming that aren’t meant for gaming are the nivida qaudro laptops. Specifically say a Qaudro m3000m. It’s relative to the gtx 970m and can play games like Fortnite on medium-high settings on dx11 and plenty of e sport games. They’re around 200-300 dollars and are totally worth it. You could also get the quadro m2200m, m2000m, m4000m, and m5000m. All also typically range in the same price as the m3000m.
@@Aesthkat it was $420 brand new when i originally commented, i ended up buying one for $390 open box - excellent. crazy the price went back to $700 already.
Hmm, maybe a clean installed OS, disabling certain services would make it get 60 fps in like Fortnite, also Paladins exists, that game must run smoothly on this system
your review is quite out of loop when you mention you didnt know about soldered 5500 ram, plus the lenovo red bull wallpaper? its been about 2 years at this point. most new laptops, even the lower ends have been using gen4 ssd for a while, despite performing like a gen 3
500$if u want something to last at least 2 yrs. I mean geez even i went for the Lenovo 3. Bought it about 4 yrs back n it still kicks butt. And looks good doing it😁 highly recommend Lenovo PC's
which one ? whats a lenovo 3? care to help :(? going to get one for a relative. she just plays fortnite, marvel rivals, apex etc. mayyyy play the occasional cyberpunk etc.
@@Xepthadid u ever find one that does all that but still a budget I’m looking for one just for sims, and small games like stardew or something like that
Windows S mode is for security for parents who want a laptop for kids to are less likely to get a virus and it’s for lower end devices once unlock it thing get more sluggish S mode is always on lower end devices to save battery and try to get better performance
Yeah, that's straight up garbage. RAM is one thing that a laptop should have upgradable aside from storage. Even laptops as far back as 2008 benefit hugely from upgradable RAM, allowing them to run newer OSs and generally keep up with continuous bloat in modern OSs and websites.
i had the same laptop , but i bought it during covid, and i paid A lot more the exact price was: $681.19 after Tax (its has 12 GB ram tho) crazy on how i got scammed for a 2020 machine, but for my school, i love it. I will buy a LOQ if i get grades in IGCSE, so please pray for me
i have ideapad 1 with 5 7520u but with 16gb of ram and it can run aaa games at the lowest settings.I also optimized windows enough to use only 3.5gb of ram and you can overclock the cpu to 4.50 ghz.
If gaming is what you want for that price you are better off buying a used ROG ally Z1 Extreme, I did it and it runs black ops 6 at medium settings 1080p around 87fps and its runs and looks amazing
@@Amad_527yes but 1650 is weaker than 570 amd the whole rx500 series wont get new game ready driver and the i5 9600k is more than enough for 3050 lp i paired a rx 6600 with i5 7500 for my living room htpc to play some good old games and split screen games on it and i did run some new games fine even with 4c4t cpu
I hate my country I could afford the 500$ victus from walmart but my country the used ones are like 800$ so like wtf and the average salary is like a 100$ so like wtf? I just have to rant
My dad bought an Asus Zenbook with soldered storage and 8 gb of RAM. It was a bad decision. You shouldn't buy systems that can't be upgraded at least on those parts. Also no ethernet is stupid.
Ngl you’d be suprised abt those shitty school chromebooks back in hs I used gforce and used to play Fortnite at school with my controller not as good as my pc obviously but for at school shit I felt rich😂
3rd time commenting this what’s yall opinion on my rtx 4060 with a ryzen 5 5700 with 32g of ddr5 ram it’s my first pc I’ve been learning I think it’s okay but you build them so im curious what you think
play fortnite on dx12 not 11. Epic said 11 is bugged and will stutter more. Also no onoe who plays fortnite uses the dx11 mod anyway so ur wasting ut time with that one, no offense.
So i was in the livestream earlier and yall kinda answered my question but not completely i have a dell optiplex 9020 4th gen i7 idk what pairs with it Idk but i assume the cpu is gonna bottleneck the gpu but i would Like to know
They do have the 16gb ram,I just bought it from best buy. And you were absolutely correct, they were flying off the shelf for $279 black Friday sale. Only thing is,im not sure if the 16gb ram is soldered
Man i wish i had a 1k pc i would be so grateful for my current device is so bad i can only play Roblox 💀 and i still only average 20 fps on the lowest setting on there. Ive asked my parents for one but there just too damn expensive And i just want to experience other games
Would you guys ever consider testing WoW as one of your benchmarks when it comes to laptops especially? Just wondering. Love the PC ideas you guys come up with.
Gaming on hardware that isn't explicitly for gaming is one of my favorite TH-cam genres, and I have no idea why.....
same !
Are you being sarcastic?
@@zequinox0097 Absolutely not, I love this stuff.
I hate it, but I watch it evertyime lol. I'm screaming the screen the entire time lol. jk
Haha yeh me too, 'Dawid Does Tech Stuff' is a great channel for that
It's wild to see a laptop at that price that's not super bad.
That one is very good value. I paied $550 for something slightly worse 2 years ago.
Oh but mine had an open RAM slot and I added another 8GB for $20. Massive game improvements.
Deep Rock Galactic went from "barely playable with drops to 13FPS if there is alot going on the screen" to "smoothe with drops to 25 FPS".
Its on sale , its $579 normally so its not wild, its 1/2 off and the performance is knee capped by design
Best Buy worker here! It’s supposed to say Best Buy seal but we ran out of the bc of the holidays so we use the geek squad tape we use for open box items we box up 😂
Cool
I play games on a Ryzen 5625U CPU iGPU. It had one 8GB RAM stick. Upgrading it for dual channel improved things massively.
P.S. : my laptop has the same case and it's so comfortable for the hands I love it.
its soldered down
Same here with my previous HP, it was with a pretty snappy and efficient Ryzen 5 5500U APU but its original single channel 8 Gigs teally crippled it. A simple 10 minute and 30USD upgrade with another 8 gigs really did wonders to its Vega 7 iGPU.
15+ fps
@@GMM-j92 15 fps is a big improvement. from 45 to 60 fps would be amazing on that sort of thing
Thank you Jackson for cracking open the laptop to show whats under the hood. This should be done with all laptops you have on Toasty Bros.
People should stop buying soldered ram laptop, these companies should learn so they make everything upgradable
The amount of RAM killed it & Manufactures do this on purpose because they always offer over 8GB for more. In 2024 8GB is barely enough for a phone & nowhere near enough for a Laptop.
Not really. This is not designed as a gaming laptop. It is for comfortable basic surfing, watching videos, and perhaps something like Roblox. RAM slots, as opposed to soldered RAM, would increase the price above magic $300.
my phone with 4G of ram works just fine. no issue.
My phone is fine with 4gb.
@@aleksazunjic9672 in 3 years, roblox probably won't be able to run on a $300 laptop because the greedy multi-billion dollar company wants to keep pushing graphics updates
my phone with 2gb ram works just fine.
it's not single channel, look again task manager says 2/2 slots used. must be 2 x 4 gb sticks
It's actually 2x2gb chips per channel. You can see the shape below the thermal tape that covers it.
I just bought an Acer Aspire 3 for 149 on ebay refurbished has the 7320u 8gb of ram. Hard to beat at that price lol
gr8 deal mate
Such a laptop would be good for working on office, watch videos or play flash player games. Maybe install some BlueStacks and play games like that.
Any emulator up to PS2 would work fine on this.
@@aleksazunjic9672 nah, PS2 and PSP would struggle.
@@haikutoru They would not . PS2 emulation works fine even on older AMD laptops, and Ryzen 5 7520U is pretty powerful. 4 cores, 8 threads, 610M graphics.
I know you guys did a Linux video here recently and it would be really cool to see how much linux could potentially help this laptop to run things better, considering the ram is the real limitation and linux is light on ram
Check out a similar handheld pc with similar apu and bazzite.
Its a lousy gaming laptop thats knee capped by design Its also poor choice for video editing and many other tasks Win 11 will consume 2 to 3+ GB of RAM at idol leaving you with a scant 5 to 6 GB This is great for light use & nothing more
Only fools install Win 11 😋. With laptop like this, install Linux, some emulators and there you have it, perfect small gaming machine.
Linux is another handicapped system forcing you to use open sourced software because most programs won't run on it It's settling for less and telling yourself you won
72% of PC and Laptop users run Windows vs 3% running Linux I'll leave it at that
@@Conumdrum Most PC users don't even know what operating system is. They use what they have been served .
They'd know it when most or all of their software won't install on Linux because most programs are not compatible with Linux Plus, you have to learn a new and less user friendly operating system & your stuck running open source programs instead of the ones you've invested countless hours learning and getting used to.
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Idk if I'm buying a laptop this year. But this channel is pretty cool
Of all the laptops under $350, this is certainly one of them. 👍🏼
This laptop is on sale locally for $329.99 with the 7520U 16gb of ram and a 256GB SSD. Fortunately the storage isnt soldered.
Got this for my 70 year old Aunt, and one thing to note, it doesn't get very bright at all. It's pretty dim at max brightness, and that sucks
Not being able to upgrade the ram is a deal breaker.
I have the lenovo legion slim gen 9 laptop with the 4070 and 7000 cpu. It has the square charger. I actually like that charger. It feels robust and compared to how fragile the barrel jack on the rog zephyrus is, i think its secure. Plus supprised you can game at all on 8gb of soldered ram and the radeon 610m igpu.
At 6:50 the email is not blurred. 😅
The best laptops you can buy for gaming that aren’t meant for gaming are the nivida qaudro laptops. Specifically say a Qaudro m3000m. It’s relative to the gtx 970m and can play games like Fortnite on medium-high settings on dx11 and plenty of e sport games. They’re around 200-300 dollars and are totally worth it. You could also get the quadro m2200m, m2000m, m4000m, and m5000m. All also typically range in the same price as the m3000m.
Can you send a link or something? I can't even find what you're talking about :(
It's "Quadro" @@plsrember
Of course you could go used and find decent gaming or workstation laptops. But some people want new stuff and warranty.
For about $100 more you can get the HP Victus 15 with Ryzen 5 7535HS & 6550m
No the ryzen one is 700 + now if you taking about the other one that’s around 300 to 400 that one isn’t a Ryzen tho.
@@Aesthkat it was $420 brand new when i originally commented, i ended up buying one for $390 open box - excellent. crazy the price went back to $700 already.
the worst part is, with that much space left they could not include a ram slot? also they soldered a DDR5 ram instead of a LPDDR ram?
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A wide viarity of spaces was said twice, anyone notice it?
Hmm, maybe a clean installed OS, disabling certain services would make it get 60 fps in like Fortnite, also Paladins exists, that game must run smoothly on this system
your review is quite out of loop when you mention you didnt know about soldered 5500 ram, plus the lenovo red bull wallpaper? its been about 2 years at this point. most new laptops, even the lower ends have been using gen4 ssd for a while, despite performing like a gen 3
Would this be able to handle encoding for streaming from a console/elgato capture card? This will only be a dedicated streaming build laptop
500$if u want something to last at least 2 yrs. I mean geez even i went for the Lenovo 3. Bought it about 4 yrs back n it still kicks butt. And looks good doing it😁 highly recommend Lenovo PC's
which one ? whats a lenovo 3? care to help :(? going to get one for a relative. she just plays fortnite, marvel rivals, apex etc. mayyyy play the occasional cyberpunk etc.
@@Xepthadid u ever find one that does all that but still a budget I’m looking for one just for sims, and small games like stardew or something like that
There is the msi modern 15 on amazon black friday deal for like 300 with a similar cpu but 16gigs of ram
Windows S mode is for security for parents who want a laptop for kids to are less likely to get a virus and it’s for lower end devices once unlock it thing get more sluggish S mode is always on lower end devices to save battery and try to get better performance
What about for older games like 360 or even xbox one games?
I thought this man was wearing a Kentucky Ballistics shirt 😂
Think it would look great with Windows 10 enterprise edition completely debloated
yeah!
Alexander valdemir kowaliuk here, great good price option , maybe a kids Christmas present idea.
in my country you can get ryzen 7 5700u with 16gb and 512 ssd in acer
Price ?
Soldered RAM? No thanks
Yeah, that's straight up garbage. RAM is one thing that a laptop should have upgradable aside from storage. Even laptops as far back as 2008 benefit hugely from upgradable RAM, allowing them to run newer OSs and generally keep up with continuous bloat in modern OSs and websites.
At least soldered RAM laptops used to come with an extra empty slot before. This is nonsense.
i had the same laptop , but i bought it during covid, and i paid A lot more
the exact price was: $681.19 after Tax (its has 12 GB ram tho)
crazy on how i got scammed for a 2020 machine, but for my school, i love it. I will buy a LOQ if i get grades in IGCSE, so please pray for me
i have ideapad 1 with 5 7520u but with 16gb of ram and it can run aaa games at the lowest settings.I also optimized windows enough to use only 3.5gb of ram and you can overclock the cpu to 4.50 ghz.
If gaming is what you want for that price you are better off buying a used ROG ally Z1 Extreme, I did it and it runs black ops 6 at medium settings 1080p around 87fps and its runs and looks amazing
They said we use their desks for s wide variety of uses twice
Hey guys. What would be a significant but affordable upgrade to a RTX2060 for a desktop gaming setup? My son asking if possible for Xmas 🙃
RX 6700XT or RX 7600 .
yea , rx 6700 xt is a good choice for the price.
What is the program you use to show fps and stats in the top left?
MSI Afterburner
S mode is for lower power laptops so they can run windows
Can you guys test the Acer Nitro V15
Please use Final Fantast XIV benchmark, it's a MMO. You use the same benchmarks over and over...
Why is 8gb ram still the standard? Atleast 12 would be better but damn. 8 gigs ain't nothing
decent performance for the price if i must say so myself
Mine has all the specs except is not touchscreen 😢
I think an old school workstation laptop would be far better for gaming and general use, for the same price
that would be my bathroom laptop if I was taking a 3 hour dump
Question. Should i get a gtx 1650 or an amd radeon 580 or a rtx 3050 lp to pair with i5 9600k
Def 3050
@aminbagheri9044 just because it's a 3050lp doesn't mean it's the best, and it's for a budget 500 pound pc build .
Also if I don't get the 3050lp I could get more ram or a better cpu
@@Amad_527 rtx 3050 lp is better than gtx 1650 and rx 580 have the most performace , i recommand you an gtx 1660 ti if you can get that.
@@Amad_527yes but 1650 is weaker than 570 amd the whole rx500 series wont get new game ready driver and the i5 9600k is more than enough for 3050 lp i paired a rx 6600 with i5 7500 for my living room htpc to play some good old games and split screen games on it and i did run some new games fine even with 4c4t cpu
Really? Why call it Okay for gaming when it clearly stuttered and stammered and looked poor overall, Why no Time Spy score, numbers in the toilet?
It's trash
What the hell did you expect? It's 299
You clearly don’t understand the entire point of the video
@@Anoskagama For 299 I expect 16 GB of Ram & slightly better CPU & it would have made a huge difference.
@@AnoskagamaNever go for these new cheap laptops, if you want cheap, go second hand market.
what program do you use so you see your fps?
its msi afterburner
@@Moxchien thx
50% of 1080p is not 720p. Its 540p.
I3 1215u + 16gb ram has better gaming performance than this, try it out
It also has "better" price 😁
@@aleksazunjic9672 it is my primary gaming device
That poor cpu getting slammed at 720p should of done 1080p to decrease that load
16gb of ram is a minimum must for APU’s.
I hate my country I could afford the 500$ victus from walmart but my country the used ones are like 800$ so like wtf and the average salary is like a 100$ so like wtf? I just have to rant
What country
@DriftingEra Pakistan
I need a budget gaming laptop XD
How do u get the fps thing to show on the top left?
It is a software called MSI Afterburner
@ thanks so much
My dad bought an Asus Zenbook with soldered storage and 8 gb of RAM. It was a bad decision. You shouldn't buy systems that can't be upgraded at least on those parts. Also no ethernet is stupid.
definitely will be getting the laptop mostly for school but also cus it runs minecraft
You better review 780m laptop deals
yes very bad idea.
on my local laptop you can get 300$ laptop and you get r5 6600h can play gta v 100fps normal set,advan workplus laptop
Ngl you’d be suprised abt those shitty school chromebooks back in hs I used gforce and used to play Fortnite at school with my controller not as good as my pc obviously but for at school shit I felt rich😂
YOU CAN OPEN POWER limt TO 30 WAT
3rd time commenting this what’s yall opinion on my rtx 4060 with a ryzen 5 5700 with 32g of ddr5 ram it’s my first pc I’ve been learning I think it’s okay but you build them so im curious what you think
Go for all AMD build , 7600XT should be at the same price as 4060, but gives more FPS .
I have the ryzen 3 version of the lenove ideapad.
It went down to $300
not a gaming laptop, but still good for the price
Kentucky basketball 🔥🔥🔥
*Kentucky Fried Basketball
still better than my laptop lol
Me watching this with a 10 year old laptop
Hm.. interesting
I got a lenovo ideapad gaming laptop for 350€ and it runs fortnite on medium settings in 100fps
Which one specifically
@CauliFlower-s5trtx 2050 and ryzen 5-5500h
"why not save a extra 200 bucks and buy something much better"
-me who is watching this on a acer spin 114 - 31
no joke i just found a laptop like that in garbage 2 weeks ago.
try buying axio from indonesia, and leave a review
play fortnite on dx12 not 11. Epic said 11 is bugged and will stutter more. Also no onoe who plays fortnite uses the dx11 mod anyway so ur wasting ut time with that one, no offense.
8GB Non upgradable RAM? Well no...
Requesting Gaming PC day 15
So i was in the livestream earlier and yall kinda answered my question but not completely i have a dell optiplex 9020 4th gen i7 idk what pairs with it
Idk but i assume the cpu is gonna bottleneck the gpu but i would Like to know
I would never even log into that garbage OS install. I would have immediately formatted it and did a clean install.
If this thing had 16 GB of RAM it would be flying off the shelves.
They do have the 16gb ram,I just bought it from best buy. And you were absolutely correct, they were flying off the shelf for $279 black Friday sale. Only thing is,im not sure if the 16gb ram is soldered
is it really that good?
Man i wish i had a 1k pc i would be so grateful for my current device is so bad i can only play Roblox 💀 and i still only average 20 fps on the lowest setting on there. Ive asked my parents for one but there just too damn expensive And i just want to experience other games
Bro i realy need a job to buy this stuff but i cant cause im 13😢😢😢😢
Do you guys offer shipping to Africa if someone wanted to purchase a PC from you?
Oh it's a Lenovo laptop okay
half video for sponsor? LOL
Yeah it’s poop but for that price what do you expect.
thank you so so much toasty bros ive been trying to find a new laptop that can run Minecraft so thank you for showing what it can pull!!!
Would you guys ever consider testing WoW as one of your benchmarks when it comes to laptops especially? Just wondering. Love the PC ideas you guys come up with.
Day 15, asking for a gaming pc 🧧🧧
Im lucky i only play warcraft 3 lol.
I'm waiting for the day they invent external RAM 💀💀💀
Fr like there's laptops that have ram you can remove but for solder ram there should be an external adapter like external hardrives
Just download more RAM, EZ
@AzureRT456 real
You can download more RAM.
macafee or mcCafee
Nice enough little laptop, sadly ruined by a lack of RAM.
it would be nuts for that price if at least it had one RAM expansion slot, wouldn't mind the soldered RAM that way.
Wish they would have tried Roblox but...
try playing Valorant on these weak laptops, I bet 90% of the time people with weak hardware cater towards Valorant because of it's easy to run.