This Chromebook thinks it’s for gamers - Acer Chromebook 516GE

[@ShortCircuit]

Update: GeForce Now supports up to 4K 120Hz at the highest subscription tier

[@Magik_Cloud495]

ill stick to my 4GB ram 32GB storage chromebook with a free Geforce now sub to play fortnite

[@rosaliaolajay3800]

Hi

[@melmixpita543]

Honestly he didn't even try. This was just so bad. Linus can get away with winging stuff because he has a good base knowledge and he's very charismatic. This guy needs to do his homework and should have set this up with a 3080 tier streaming test and compared it to something else in a head to head test and not some price comparison on amazon. People got zero knowledge or laughs out of this video.

[@HintzeDarrin]

ropro is the best extension for Roblox so you can't play Roblox on your Chromebook cuz I don't know how to enable the App Store

[@lucio-ohs8828]

@@Magik_Cloud495 if you're using free tier, xbox cloud gaming has fortnite for free with no queue most of the time. sometimes on busy days you'll have to wait a few minutes. only downside is you cant use keyboard and mouse since its xbox.

[@LetrixAR]

It would be great if Google had a game streaming service to go with these

[@Brnozrkn]

Yeah It would be cool if they name it Stadia or something

[@rowaifasarfraz5095]

@Brnozrkn nah theyll just axe it later 😂😂

[@ironcrafter54]

These would definitely be better with a game streaming service

[@ParadoxalDream]

They actually do, but not for long lol

[@rae4977]

@@ParadoxalDream sorry for you bro....

[@Neoxon619]

Oh yeah, this is the laptop I keep seeing on KZbin ads. Ironic that Google keeps pushing streaming just as they shut down Stadia.

[@Mrminesheeps]

I think it's a fair play (Ignoring how Stadia shut down of course) to promote game streaming capable devices, whilst not running their own. Game streaming is expensive, it's better left to competitors who may have better equipment for game streaming. Not to mention the fact that Stadia was it's own platform mostly, making it harder to sell there too.

[@flamingscar5263]

@@Mrminesheeps google is one of the biggest companies in the world and has some of the most powerful hardware on the planet stadia did suck, but not because google lacked the hardware, because they lacked the knowledge about gaming, I remember seeing stadia ads talking about how the "latancy is low enough for competitive gaming" when thats just dead wrong but google doesn't know any better

[@madness1931]

@@flamingscar5263 I knew Stadia was going to fail, before it even launched. Do you know why? They hired Phil Harrison. That man has the opposite of the Midas touch.

[@pixelking_871]

Smart move !

[@solarnightedge5732]

ture

[@squidapple9662]

“$650 which is actually pretty good for what you’re getting” Hell no

[@traestephen7276]

You could buya. Used laptop for the price that has a 1660

[@cherrypepsi2815]

@@traestephen7276 ThinkPads are the bomb on the used market

[@Ignacio.Romero]

Why not, great performance, great display, great battery life

[@professionalduckquack]

Yeah wtf, idk if money works differently on the west but my laptop is little bit above 500usd and I get way better spec than this shit, you can't even do video editing on that.

[@SyRose901]

@@professionalduckquack I assume it's 650 Canadian dollars, which would be something like 450usd

[@PaulinaStopa]

You can get the original,used Google Pixelbook in perfect condition with an i7-7Y75 CPU, 16GB of RAM and 500GB NVME storage for around $300 now. Worth to consider ;)

[@good-tn9sr]

yea i would buy to collect but not in a good financial place rn as i’m college student, but one day i will amigo 😎

[@Ikxi]

Sounds like a great deal

[@ThroughFallenEyes]

Sounds great until the battery dies. My 2015 Pixel LS just had it's battery die and it will not run without a battery. It also will not run without a minimum amount of charge in the battery so it's e-waste now. Batteries for it are completely unavailable in my country.

[@Cortanakya]

​​@@ThroughFallenEyes you could probably just replace the cells inside the battery with minimal effort and cost. Depending what you're looking at it might be as easy as just comparing specs with other battery laptops and removing the circuits/cables from your broken battery and connecting them to a fresh equivalent battery. I'd avoid soldering directly onto batteries but there's alternatives. Probably a $30-40 fix and, at the very least, you aren't risking breaking a laptop since it's already dead. Best case scenario for experimentation! Be careful, though - do your research and be aware that puncturing or overvolting batteries can get rather flame-y. I'd do the work outside on a dry, cool day and test plugging it in/charging it to full outside too. I don't imagine you'll try but if you do I'd love to hear how it goes! Good luck :)

[@sihamhamda47]

@@ThroughFallenEyes That's a big problem. I wonder why laptop manufacturer do this, when 10 years ago any laptops can run with just plugged in without any batteries

[@AirGunWeb]

I just bought this Chromebook on sale for $450 (it goes on discount a lot). I write for work and do a ton of web-related research. I like running ChromeOS as I'm tied into the google ecosystem and love the battery life and portability it affords. Also, I love the security of CromeOS and the speed. I have several Chromebooks, but I wanted the bells and whistles of my "big" windows laptop, like 120hz, higher rez screen, 16x10 aspect ratio, good specs, and solid build quality. This looked to be the best of the "gaming" Chromebooks on the market, and I look forward to getting it in soon and getting to work. I'm not giving up my M1 MAX Macbook Pro or my Eluktronics Prometheus XVII for serious work and gaming (respectively), but having a decent Chromebook in the toolbox just means I can be more productive with a much lighter footprint. Cheers Rick

[@atlsk847]

How is this considered a competitive price when you can get multiple gaming laptops w/ 256-500g ssd (at least 8g ram) w/ 3050s, 1660 ti's, 1650's (w/ dual channel 16g ram), and ryzen 5600h, 5800, 6800h / intel 11th gen for the same price or less?

[@chunk3875]

exactly this Chromebook is a horrible value lmao

[@beebeejelly3535]

This is considered a competitive price because it offers performance that far outweighs its closest competitors. The hardware alone, coupled with its sleek design and build quality makes it a steal in the gaming laptop world. The specs you're describing, on paper, may look similar, but the hardware is not nearly as good. This price is extremely fair for what this device provides.

[@dm1i]

If they didn't want to go with a discrete GPU, they should've use AMD APU in there.

[@kurtwinter4422]

Imagine Android gaming on a RDNA2

[@chanchan05]

@@kurtwinter4422 You don't have to imagine. It exists. Exynos 2200 on the S22 series has RDNA2. The problem is a lot of Android games aren't optimized for it and doesn't detect it properly. Open CL and Vulkan benchmarks absolutely spank, but some games like CODM and PUBGM don't let you choose higher settings, probably because it doesn't recognize it. It doesn't help that it wasn't placed on a gaming phone, so cooling kinda sucks. For games that are able to utilize the GPU seems those work well though.

[@technologicalelite8076]

I would wait for 7000G for APU's, those are going to be a bliss

[@MrRunItUp]

@@technologicalelite8076 ahh yes!! I can't wait! I've heard valve is already talking about a deck 2, and i believe it'll be using the new 7000 series apu's, with RDNA3 zen3+ Its going to be AWESOME!!!

[@mingyi456]

The 6800u is very expensive, while the 6600u and all the 5000 series and older are comparable to the latest intel iris xe graphics in performance (even slightly weaker if it is the 96eu version of iris xe paired with ddr5 or lpddr5).

[@primary4075]

"They don't get any worse at any kind of spectrum, at least they're consistent" is the most polite roast i've ever heard of.

[@hman6159]

Lol

[@LetrixAR]

I would loved to hear what Dan had to say

[@pirojfmifhghek566]

I recently bought some kinda 15" whatever HP laptop with a 5700u in it for around that price, but it also came with 16gb of ram and a 1TB NVMe. It ain't game worthy and it only has integrated graphics, but like you said it's a Windows full-feature computer and that's what I'd want for that price. I could easily use it for game streaming just like this chromebook, though for my personal purposes it's a solid little laptop for using photoshop and illustrator when I'm too lazy to sit upright at my desk. The trick is to just check out a local retailer like microcenter and buy something last-gen while they're sweeping them out the door. It's crazy how much computer you can get for so little money nowadays.

[@ArthropodSpidey]

This guy's brain and review is more chaotic than his shirt.

[@TheSquady]

"If you are like me, Caps Lock is essential for gaming" As a 8 years League of Legends player, I felt that

[@dyscotopia]

If the programs I use regularly were available on Chrome OS, I'd be down for one of these. I don't game and I always find it such a pleasant experience when I use my mom's compared to the low grade depression that comes from running windows, and that processor should run many Linux and android apps like a beast

[@cherrypepsi2815]

You can install windows (as long as it's x86, which most are), then everything will be a normal plug n play experience Technically any program that's available for Linux will work with this, but it takes a bit of knowledge to know how to install them. Honestly, get the chromebook, but install windows

[@TaylorCrosbyofficial]

“If chrome os was a pretty version of windows 10 I’d use chrome os”

[@ggeilokowski]

@@cherrypepsi2815 he just said he doesn’t like windows, why install it?

[@Ignacio.Romero]

@@cherrypepsi2815 You cant install windows

[@toxicturkeyy]

@@Ignacio.Romero nothing's stopping you. There are literally official instructions on installing linux. Windows installation shouldn't be all that different They're x86 systems (well, most of them as mentioned earlier), of course you can run windows.

[@spookymunky1]

Of course a laptop with a dedicated 1650 / 1660ti or so for the same price or cheaper is better for gaming since you can actually game on them, lol... It is literally a no contest. For the extra $100 on the one that you pointed out you could shove in 32gig ram or 16gig + an extra 1tb ssd for games and have a decent enough budget laptop that also doubles as a decent enough 1080p gaming rig. Edit: heh, just noticed the subtitles pointing out as that particular one being on sale but that is pretty much the going rate for low end dedicated nvidia gpu laptops and has been for years... Literally years hehe, I think my 6 core ryzen hp laptop with 4gb 1650 is a few months over 2 years old now and cost £600 at the time, it is still decent for 1080p 60fps for most games really and I'm sure there must be better options by now at a similar price point given the age of this. LTT even did a video some time after I bought this laptop reviewing a similar ryzen + 1650ti / 1660 etc (forget) saying that they were surprisingly great if you want a 1080p 60fps budget gaming rig for around $650🤣... it is still true really.

[@Ikxi]

Yea, I've bought an hp pavilion with r5 4600h (6 cores) and 1650 mobile for 700€ 2 years ago Has around the same performance as my old r3 3300x + 1050ti desktop

[@spookymunky1]

@@Ikxi same as the one I grabbed 2 years ago I guess, and it has done well imho. My only real complaint is that the usb-c port doesn't support hdmi, sigh hehe.

[@MrRunItUp]

You're correct, I just bought my son his first gaming laptop - Lenovo ideapad gaming 3 2022 model for $600 on sale for black friday Ryzen 5 6600H 6c/12t 3.3ghz up to 4.5ghz RTX 3050 8gb of ddr5 ram 256gb ssd nvme 120hz refresh rate For $600 its a GREAT DEAL!!! But I went ahead and bought another 8gb of ram, for a total of 16gb in dual channel for $40, I also bought a 1tb nvme ssd for $60... So $700 total plus tax, not bad!

[@Tagiau]

My last chromebook couldn't run hearthstone, I have zero faith in anything outside of streaming to be worth it on a chromebook.

[@David_Quinn1995]

gotta get Anthony to do a video on seeing how Linux works on it. I have an older Chromebook and Lubuntu is spotty on it I can run a 4k YT video for hours 1 day the next it won't even boot. for anyone curious support ended mid-last year on it so I stopped getting updates on it and its still a decent laptop for what I used it for so I wanted to see if I could get a few more years out of it.

[@Froren.747]

@@elly3713 Do you guys have a github? would love to check it out as i currently am having problems with crouton

[@PureComedi]

Definitely not worth it as I've gotten my own Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 (Ryzen 5 5600, 8gb ram, RTX3050) for around the same price and it can do far better than that laptop that can't do more than run GeForce Now and edit excel spreadsheets.

[@road2avg]

I have the same laptop (intel variant), it's definitely great for the price. Upgrade the Ram btw, 16gbs in Dual-Channel gave me a 20% boost in FPS

[@PureComedi]

@@road2avg That's coming this christmas, either crucial, kingston or g-skill, but definitely 16 or more

[@road2avg]

@@PureComedi brand doesn't matter too much, don't overthink it, I went with Kingston, most important thing is to make sure the speeds are the same.

[@mikes567]

wow i have that msi gf63 and with a stick of ram and 2tb 2.5in ssd it blows that chromebook away and i still have the upgradeable ram/ssd down the road to stretch out its life ...still cool to see how far chromebooks have come

[@bigbubba0439]

"Gaming Chromebook" sounds like saying "Child-Safe Knife:" it's an oxymoron

[@nixx5490]

For 100$ more you have a legion 5 with a 3060 in sale

[@mrbobgamingmemes9558]

Agree even if you cant spend more for some reason, 15 inch windows laptop that can do the same and offer better versatility .as long you choose the right laptop less resource intensive games can run natively

[@StefandeJong1]

8:30 I'm sorry, but you "confirming" their marketing BS that these are "gamer chromebooks" because of RGB and higher refresh is ridiculous, and that it only comes up 80% into the video that these don't even have a GPU. "You can't really game that much, but you can STREAM your games", oh and why is that? RGB = better streaming performance? I can't believe more people are bringing this up and that you're standing behind this marketing B.S.

[@MrDangerousshark]

He was being sarcastic.

[@Bwangster12]

I've used a Chromebook for about a week now and can confidently say I love it. I really have been able to do anything I want on it.

[@afskiIIs]

Still working fine for games?

[@___DRIP___]

Horst absolutely can not stop himself from just wandering into other people’s videos. I swear I’ve seen him do it 3 times now.

[@chloedevereaux1801]

because he's an annoying ginger apple prick.....

[@xoxoDonkey]

@@chloedevereaux1801 settle down you tween.

[@justjoshp8581]

i been seeing these laptops alot recently and for some reason they just make me SO MAD idk why they just do lol, they have 0 reason to exist. cloud gaming can be a easy budget option for some people but when you are using a 500 to 800 dollar Chromebook all the budget goes out the window. just buy a normal gaming laptop at that point, you can get windows support and download and play way more games

[@traestephen7276]

Ikr💀 like I'd reccomend buying a Mac over this for gaming

[@assimo9841]

I may be in a very niche group here, but this chromebook is perfect for me. The way I see it, is that it's a fantastic chromebook that also happens to do some gaming. Chromebooks last forever (unless dropped or something), and this acer (516 GE, btw) has official Steam beta, so you can run Steam natively (local) now, and play with a buletooth controller. It's strong enough to mostly play all 2D games, but also runs a good amount of older 3d games. It reliably plays Skyrim, Assassin's Creed IV, Dragon's Dogma, Arkham games, etc. So even though it's not necessarily a beast at local gaming, it's still impressive for a chromebook, and I'm very excited to see where this goes. I got it on sale for ~$550, so I decided to take the plunge. Really glad I did. I would wager that the manufacturers are holding off on announcing chromebooks with actual respectable gaming specs, until steam/google officially announce that borealis is out of beta. There's still a degree of tinkering to do, so it would be a bas idea to start selling these as devices with native steam. At least for another year or so. Thrilled to be on the ride, all the same. I left windows years ago for chrome, so I'm thrilled it's just onward and upwards.

[@richardbently7236]

I have an acer spin713 chromebook 2022 and can stream wireless with wifi6 and it feels native for someone who isn't a competitive gamer. Over 400 games with xbox gamepass and noticed no lag playing co-op with a friend on multiple games(we were both hardwired to our routers for co-op streaming) With a hub i can hook up an extra 3 monitors. I've used discord app and plenty of android apps full screen no problem. Google Docs and plenty other quality of life apps are free or next to nothing, unlike windows and Microsoft office. Only complaint I really have is it's google so they own your soul.

[@Akash77133]

that wobble tho. I thought my laptop was wobbling XD

[@Qwerty-uiop]

You can install windows on it (doing some technical stuff of course) and it would make a good everyday laptop

[@bmo3778]

tip for Chromebook newcomers: try using a cheap chromebook, or try a usb-trial chrome os flex for a month, before you can be sure you are comfortable leaving windows/mac

[@zimbu_]

I wouldn't say $500 is a hard limit. Even at under $400 you can get something with a Ryzen 3 5300U that will have surprisingly good performance. The chromebooks at the same price point will have nicer screens, better build quality, and you won't need to do things like disable Windows S-Mode or uninstall crapware like McAfee when you start using them though.

[@Ikxi]

But it will be a chromebook

[@AndrewAHayes]

Chromebooks are great right up to the point you want to do something it cant, my friend comes around to slice his CAD drawings to 3D print as he has a Chromebook, to be fair though he had the CB before the 3D printer.

[@jbritain]

Is there no Linux port of the slicing software?

[@Firecul]

@@jbritain There are even android slicers out now iirc, I don't think OS is the limit in this particular scenario

[@aboveaveragebayleaf9216]

Honestly chrombooks work surprisingly well, and the integration between Google devices is top notch. The only area they fall behind is the lack of compatibility with standard programs, or a lack of alternatives.

[@me77111]

@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 between Android, Linux, and webapps, what are you trying to do that has no online version or alternatives available? Not trying to start anything, genuinely curious. Actual gaming is even possible with Steam through Linux on ChromeOS (and soon officially on ChromeOS proper), the biggest problem was weak hardware. Iris XE is pretty capable, believe it or not, so that about solves it.

[@AndrewAHayes]

@@jbritain His Chromebook is very old!

[@WednesdayMan]

I think these manufacturers are really late to gaming chromebooks, as Flash player and Unity web haven't been supported by Chrome for a long time.

[@jimmymac2292]

Chromebook gaming is bright with Vulkan support in Crostini, although it would be easier and you would get better performance if it was enabled in Crouton. That being said Proton can be enabled in the steam beta, you can get steam deck like performance on this. You can also subsidize with Geforce now, run emulators, and play some great mobile games. Id in the near future Chromebooks will be decent gaming laptops

[@ccelik97]

For playing mobile games on a laptop-like device it'd make more sense to slap an Arm SoC with a beefy GPU config on it than to emulate Arm games on x86 though (even on the top of the line x86 PC HW it sucks if there isn't an x86 build of a mobile game you're looking for). For example the MS Surface laptops with Arm based SoC have crazy high GPU rendering performances for Arm games when compared to the top of the line gayming phones of the same generations.

[@CliffordChang-v8c]

@@ccelik97 The problem with ARM is that it cant run anything x86 or x64 unless you have a translation layer or emulation. With most things being written for x86 and x64, you won't really be able to run much of anything other that what was created with ARM in mind. Windows 11's android emulator already runs pretty good and the performance is better than most other Android emulators on the market. If you only want to emulate android on your laptop why don't you get an android phone or tablet instead?

[@jimmymac2292]

@@ccelik97 sure, you will get better support for playstore on an arm based SOC. But the benefits of running Linux apps on top of the majority on the playstore far out weigh the benefits of arm64 android app support. Google has done a great job with ChromeOS. Which is essentially just an adaptation of Gentoo. Gentoo is an incredible distro, in that it allows you to build a working Linux installation for nearly any 32-bit/64-bit/... platform from first principles, i.e. everything is built from source code, even the compiler.

[@ccelik97]

@@CliffordChang-v8c "If you only want to -emulate- *run* android on your *laptop* (why don't you get an android phone or tablet instead?)": Yeah, because as you too said, I want to "run" Android too; on my "laptop". A laptop is a different form factor than a phone or a tablet so that's why. It's about having OPTIONS. But if you dislike having options then feel free to keep doing what you've been doing up until now; it's none of my business anyway. Btw WSA's x86(-64) version and/or the other Android x86 virtual machines don't "emulate" Android, but often do have an emulation layer for Arm & Arm64 Android user apps. And no, as I said before the 3D rendering performance is horrible if you're trying to let's say run a game that has only a an Arm build but not x86. And as most Android devices and in turn the Android apps are Arm based then for this purpose it only makes sense to have the hardware architecture itself that you're trying to run anyway; if running mobile apps is your objective. I hate to put it this way but it's apparent to me that my understanding of this topic is better established than yours so it's probably why you're having a hard time to understand the meaning of it. Plus I said "if you want to do ... then do ..."; it's a conditional statement so I don't get what's your deal there. Plus, the Chromebooks in their original sense are to browse the web on a budget (in the sense of both money & power) anyway so going Arm based is the more appropriate way for a Chromebook as a result (Arm based SoCs are often a lot more power efficient for low power uses than whatever the heck Intel & AMD are putting out, even in the sense of RISC vs CISC computing). Btw please don't reply to me again if after all this explanation you still fail to understand my point and the fact that I'm not implying that "you/everyone should do this" etc: I don't make money off of educating you unlike the channel here so go ask your questions to them if it's still unclear for you.

[@ccelik97]

@@jimmymac2292 Sure, that's not my argument to begin with. If you need to primarily run x64 then buy x64; if you need to run Arm64 then buy Arm64.

[@Epaw]

If you use Geforce Now with the RTX 3080 membership option. You are able to get up to 4K instead of 1080p and it isn't limited to 60fps.

[@MoChuang343]

Yeah you need pay $20/mo and go into settings and set it to 1600p 120Hz. In just one year that’s $650+$240=$890. There are a lot of good laptops you can get with a 3050 or even 3060 for $890.

[@MyronZhao]

@@MoChuang343 yep, this is such a stupid device to buy LOL

[@jdkgcp]

He asked about why you couldn't just use a regular Chromebook for cloud gaming. You definitely can, but the entire point of a handful of these "gaming" Chromebooks is they (out of the box) support the Steam beta cloud gaming and the entire point of that is unlike normal cloud gaming that's run 99% on the company's servers the Steam beta is trying to use as much of your onboard hardware as possible to lighten the load on the server sides of things. It's an interesting concept. It's not like there was ever a rule that said it has to be entirely processed on "their" end. Will it catch on? I don't know but it sure doesn't help that literally every review I've seen didn't do any research and don't understand "the point" of what they are trying to do and only think about GeForce Now. You can go into Google Flags and use any Chromebook to try out the Steam Cloud beta...but that defeats the point of the beta. That's why there's only a handful of "gaming" Chromebooks that are supported out of the box. But like most things with Chome OS people are always super confused.

[@allenellisdewitt]

US$650 is NOT a compelling price for this LOL.

[@flemtone]

Would help if the screen wouldnt wobble everytime you touch the laptop, that's gonna make for some sucky gameplay.

[@duckyatsea]

"If my mouse requires software to be configured, then I'm not going to be able to do that on here" That's why you buy a mouse with on-board memory and set it up once how you like it. Having to run a piece of software to have your mouse configurations active means that mouse is trash and should be avoided at all cost.

[@tachometer-flac]

He says 256GB is plenty of storage? RDR2, GTAV, Forza 5 = not enough space.

[@archlinuxrussian]

One use case for this: You can locally stream Steam games from your more-powerful desktop to this Chromebook running Steam on it! It could be quite nice for that :) Though I'd have really liked to see a Ryzen 5 6000 series with a RDNA2 iGPU on it at that price point...now THAT would be quite competitive, ESPECIALLY if you load *real* Linux on it!

[@madness1931]

You can do that already. Some TVs natively support it, without even needing a new device. Hell, my phone/tablet can do it.

[@krazymeanie]

@@madness1931 Smart Tvs aren't portable and both phones and tablet would require a controller. Pretty sure it has a valid use case

[@traestephen7276]

@@krazymeanie by this logic wouldn't u need a mouse

[@traestephen7276]

@@krazymeanie paying this much just to use it as a streaming device is a stupid idea IMO.

[@madness1931]

@@krazymeanie Nope. Depending on how you do it, you can use a virtual controller (touch controls).

[@ilovefunnyamv2nd]

the end of flash games really impacted the feasibility of playing games on chrome OS (i assume)

[@michaelkenny6950]

I like this LukeLite™ guy. He should host more

[@TheWebstaff]

I'd never noticed that before but yeah it true! 🤣 Imagine the works do if they both arrive in the same dress?!

[@antoniousai1989]

Geforce Now streams at 120 FPS. Not on 4k, but it does with 1080p and 1440p

[@MeakerSE]

Is a 1650 mobile better than intel Xe graphics.... Yes, by quite a bit.

[@delonejuanderer]

Lol right, the way he came across was saying this Game streaming laptop is comparable to a laptop with a 1650. I'm seriously dumbfounded at this point.

[@anthony7564]

the main function of Chromebooks and other low-end student laptops is probably to videoconference and watch lectures or educational videos, so maybe in addition to Crab Rave you guys can use a WAN Show clip, zoom call or podcast within your suite of audio testing. Seems like this laptop's audio hardware was geared towards emphasizing midranges and speech

[@deltadom33]

Is this an oxymoron

[@Matoro2002]

the main problem I continue seeing with chromebooks like this, is they rarely justify themselves over buying a 2 year old windows laptop and putting a common linux distro on it. you'll get the same benefits of having a lightweight OS (better battery life, more optimized cpu and memory usage), but can actually run most programs. chromeos is just not there yet for anything other than a "school computer"

[@oldkingspook]

Agreed. The Chromebooks I've owned were great for a bit, then began to show some interesting quirks like reduced battery life between updates and the screen randomly going black. It'd be better just to go for an older laptop with more power.

[@RobertF]

I already have a windows desktop for gaming. A Chromebook is a great 2nd computer. These game streaming Chromebooks aren't for me. I got a Framework Chromebook and I love it. Android games run great for ones that support keyboard and mouse or controller. I did unlock the flag for Steam and it runs old games on linux wonderfully. But I don't use it for gaming, just had to test things out.

[@THE-CRT]

Wait until people fully unlock the true potential of these using linux…

[@MayaPosch]

What's better than ChromeOS? Maybe straight Linux :) Can still run Chromium on it, but also plenty of other applications, including Steam.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

Linux is for nerds

[@aeriumfour6096]

Cookie Clicker has never run so smooth

[@delonejuanderer]

Did man's really say a chromebook with integrated graphics, isn't that different from a laptop with a 1650 on windows? lol wut my first laptop was a 1080p laptop with a 1660 and it was insanely good - and not at all comparable to.... Game streaming? Lol wut.

[@ralvolvi7668]

I still don't understand the point of "High performance" Chromebooks. Like, the speakers and display upgrade make sense, since its a machine that you would use for media consumpstion, but why the overkill specs.

[@traestephen7276]

I could just use Samsung dex on my phone and it'd literally be the same thing

[@annihilatorg]

Right now this device is $550 at best buy. With a 16" QHD screen, that's pretty awesome.

[@chunk3875]

thats a ripoff

[@annihilatorg]

On the outside chance someone else reads this. I did buy one of these for $450 in Feb 2023. All concerns brought up in the video are valid. Such as: speakers aren't great and the keyboard kinda rattles. But for what I typically use a laptop for, it's working out quite well. I'm using parsec (android) for streaming games and desktop apps from my main PC. I'm pretty happy and enjoy using this device over my 17" LG Gram 2020 which the Acer replaced. With Steam in the works and Microsoft committing to better O365 support on ChromeOS, I'm hopeful it will age well.

[@tramcrazy]

“You can’t really play that many games on chromebook” - you forgot about Dino lol

[@randomhobbiest5562]

Actually for the price you can turn this into a really good ultrabook considering all 12th gen alder lake laptops are more than a thousand dollars just flash some mr Chromebox UFEI and boot into windows (coolstar isn't finished making ALL drivers for alder lake chromebooks yet but they will be finished soon)

[@greenprotag]

I really feel like you could get a used Chromebook with a 1080p screen and 5Ghz wifi and gamestream on that for probably $99-150. I have seen REALLY cheap Chromebook that could probably do 720p cloud gaming for under $75

[@CaptainGunSkill]

Yes but you are getting this one for 120hz screen and for the fastest wifi chip for cloud gaming

[@greenprotag]

@@CaptainGunSkill It's unlikely you will be streaming 120FPS content unless you are streaming your own PC with custom or experimental 120hz stream via moonlight or other app. Most cloud based streaming services are 720p-1080p@60fps.

[@CaptainGunSkill]

@@greenprotag GeForce now is 120hz and Shadow pc is 120z

[@greenprotag]

@@CaptainGunSkill Really? They must have added that more recently. I haven't seen their newer "premium" tier service.

[@Xxx_EvilSmurf_xxX]

Perfect for Stadia

[@joesterling4299]

Oh, wait . . .

[@italianbasegard]

Confusing Acer with ASUS is like confusing Mitsubishi with Maserati 😂

[@erzascralet48]

Love Chromebooks, and appreciate them not dunking on it. One thing of note, while you did play Cyberpunk on Geforce Experience, you definitely didn't play on the RTX 3080 Tier which allows for 2K 120Hz game streaming, and comes FREE for 3 months with this exact Chromebook. Maybe a general update to the status of cloud gaming as a whole, while using this device and that RTX 3080 Tier would be a good blind test for random LTT employees around the office.

[@zebedeesummers4413]

considering that LTT was just sponsored by shadow I was disappointed they didn't try it.

[@beebeejelly3535]

I agree, this device is an entry for some amazing cloud gaming if used correctly. The problem is it is a Chromebook, meaning that its primary use case is not gaming, or productivity. It cannot run many games due to being a browser first device, but using cloud gaming, it can easily get around this constraint. It can run the most popular PC games in the world with ease!

[@DramaticT]

If you are going to stream games you don't need to buy a needlessly expensive chromebook. The whole issue with this thing is that it has such powerful specs and absolutely NOTHING that can take advantage of that power. Completely useless waste of money paper weight.

[@ryanhamstra49]

I use my MacBook Air to play games via steam link if I don’t feel like sitting at my desk. It’s great because it gets 8 hours of streaming and I can just sit in bed

[@deidyomega]

your macbook costed more than 650 bucks though. Not a fair comparison.

[@ryanhamstra49]

@@deidyomega obviously. I’m just saying if you had a nice gaming tower, steamlink is great, not saying the Chromebook needs to do better

[@LiLFOX_Flakisimo]

Why did they not make this a touchscreen? That really bugs me, they need to release a touchscreen version ASAP!

[@firefly2472]

Chromebook for gamers ? A thief would not even steal that thing even if it was Free.

[@juggdekaprio5890]

Can you play Mobile league on it 🤔

[@jameslamb7197]

We've gotten to the point in these rushed videos that you guys seem to know more about the sponsored product ad than the actual product you're presenting.

[@Nebnub]

They probably do, they purposely know almost nothing about the product before the video. This is a showcase not a review.

[@prawnis]

When a chromebook has a ethernet but my gaming laptop doesnt

[@SOLIDESsnake1]

This guy seriously said 650$ is worth it for a Chromebook.......wtf you guys smoking over there Linus 🤣🤣🤣

[@MightyMattTM]

Thank God Stadia is still alive! Can't wait to try it on one of these awesome gaming powerhouses!

[@milo8425]

I feel like this guy generally has a ton of very strong and smug opinions about things he's completely wrong about in his day to day life.

[@kidamnesiak1]

What sort of things do you mean, if you can think of any examples off the top of your head? But I was gonna say, that goes for a lot of tech-geek types. Lol

[@BillyBobDingledorf]

Spent $250 on my Chromebook several years ago and it's still a daily driver. My workstation is another story.

[@whyyn0tt.]

This will end up around that $500 on sale, I imagine. Parents of elementary aged kids who need Chrome OS for school, and want to play Roblox, etc. might be able to justify the price. Linus or Yvonne should give some input from that perspective.

[@aidenismid]

"a chromebook is a chromebook no matter the price" - linux i think

[@smittyvanjagermanjenson182]

I like how it was a "gaming chromebook" with integrated graphics, yet all that was done was run a quick game streaming session.. then they're like, "but you stream games on almost anything else". My take: just buy an actual gaming laptop

[@sameermohideen4913]

Now if only there was some kind of game streaming service offered by Google

[@chasesmay7237]

Google has a long track record of supporting excellent products…said no one, ever:)

[@Naosei-lp9yi]

What do you mean no streaming uses 120hz NVIDIA now literally was, its just more expensive but i was

[@thebeatles9]

this is a fantastic machine. picked up at christmas for $275. I use it more often than my OLED Windows ultrabook 360

[@JosephHurtsellers]

To me the very definition of a great review video, is that people from different backgrounds and operating systems completely understand it. Frankly, hit it out of the park with this one! I learned a lot and appreciate it❤

[@baronvonsatchel]

This is a machine you beg your parents to buy when you're 13 because you want to game, but your school demands you own a chromebook, and you know your family isn't buying you two computers.

[@inscrutablemungus4143]

10:00 Okay, so I don't run ChromeOS, but I do have a ~$150 chromebook from 2015. I use it for pretty much everything from prototyping code, productivity stuff and yes, even gaming. I play CK2/Civ5 on this machine pretty regularly, Pathfinder: Kingmaker and other cRPGs run really well on it and, until I recently got a Steam Deck, I even got Dark Souls 2 and Oldrim running at 30 FPS. So, yes, this thing's not going to run the latest and greatest games, but really, at the price that you've got to pay for a laptop to do those things, you may as well build a PC and then get a cheap laptop for everything else. Don't get a $600 chromebook. Just get a $150 one. It can do way more than you think if you're willing to replace chromeOS with a linux distro.

[@foxyccc1316]

GFN does support 120hz on Chromebook you just have to have the 3080 one.

[@noble_lime]

You can run steam games on it

[@abdullamasud4278]

0:42 I don't see that double insulated Class II electrical equipment label there >.>

[@UranTCG]

7:35 yeah yet another reason to never buy any mouse/keyboard without onboard storage or on-device configuration

[@Charted]

This laptop seems perfect to install fully fledged Windows onto it and not through a VM.

[@ThomasPrettyman01]

I got an ad for this exact Chromebook before this video

[@Tenchigumi]

"Of course it has DTS certification; they can just slap that on anything, it's a meaningless badge." This makes me sad. I always preferred DTS over Dolby Digital back in the day, but they seemed to have been playing catch up ever since Dolby released TrueHD.

[@coachkappa]

i didnt even know this was uploaded 15mins ago and im just now finishing the video 💀

[@Klarseolt]

1:15 since when ShortCurcuit decided to write dimensions of a product in inches? The screen diagonal I get, but this? It's weird. At least idk, write metric numbers underneath?

[@notjudd]

I am surprised this even exists

[@Rottypops]

* *Acer charger* * : "Ya I got the Triforce, so what?! 🤷‍♀️"

[@amazonrocks7349]

I got this when it was on sale at best buy for $300

[@ajlm05yt74]

If I bought that I would just use it for like older games and stuff and maybe some emulators on it

[@AgentSmith911]

It's impressive how much laptop CPUs have improved, but the integrated graphics is still kinda disappointing 😕

[@edmundtan8506]

BUT why are the keys is in lowercase font?

[@Lazy_Mammal]

is the webcam always recording??

[@hillefoozy]

"Gaming" and "Chromebook" have always been two words of completely separate worlds to me, except for flash games

[@MrLoipurz]

“It’s pretty big” “It’s also quite thick” Yeas Adam

[@zoopa9988]

Or pay $900 and get a GTX 1650, 16GB of ram, and 512GB of SSD storage.

[@bodhi1271]

Chromebooks can run apps from the Google Play store, so they do have access to a lot of games that require more power than the the average Chromebook. A $300 Chromebook with an i3 and 4 GB of RAM might be good for browsing the internet and watching Netflix, but it's going to struggle to run games from the Google Play store like Genshin Impact, Tower of Fantasy, Fortnite, Apex, and Call of Duty.