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The Super Eco-Friendly Acer Aspire Vero 16 Windows Laptop
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May 29, 2025
You don't have to sacrifice the environment to get an affordable, AI-ready Windows 11 laptop with a big, beautiful 16-inch screen! Tech expert Dave Taylor takes a close look at the 2024 Acer Aspire Vero 16 [AV16-51P-5641] and finds that there's quite a lot to appreciate. From its easy disassembly for upgrades and repairs to the full-size keyboard, built-in HDMI and Thunderbolt 4 connections, it even supports Bluetooth 5.3 and Wi-Fi 6E. Check it out at: https://store.acer.com/en-us/aspire-vero-16-laptop-av16-51p-5641 Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ 0:00 Introduction 2:12 Port Tour 4:32 Recyclable Packaging 5:39 Keyboard Closeup 6:25 Hands-On Demo 9:16 PCMARK 10 Benchmark 10:25 Closing Thoughts #acer #windows11 #laptop #notebook #ecofriendly #ecolaptop #ecocomputer #aspire #vero16 #askdavetaylor
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a Windows laptop with a big screen and
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it's eco-friendly let's check it
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[Music]
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out Dave Taylor here and I'm checking
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out this this is the aser Aspire Vero 16
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Windows laptop and it's pretty nice
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right off the bat I'm going to tell you
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it has a big beautiful 16in screen runs
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Windows 11 home and if you can see the
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material they are using a ton of postc
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consumer recycled materials for all of
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the assembly it's a very Eco focused
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product which I really like but let me
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tell you some of the specs so Windows 11
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home it's an Intel Core Ultra 5
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125u with AI boost and 16 gig of onboard
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memory that's a nice size there 512 gig
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SSD storage so plenty of oomph plenty of
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space and the screen itself is a 16in
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wuxga display 1920 * 1200 at 400 nits
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with 170° wideangle view so you can open
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it up and people sitting next to you you
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can all share this screen and looks
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great so the camera this is definitely
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another thing to check out I'll give you
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a closeup here it actually has a tiny
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built-in shutter cover so the camera on
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the top you can open it when you want to
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use it and you can close it when you
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don't and it is a QHD 2560 *
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1440p and there's AI noise reduction for
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the microphones built in so this is a
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very modern laptop with all the features
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that you really need to have something
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that's going to work great for the next
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few years uh DTS audio Bluetooth 5.3
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Wi-Fi 6E so it's almost the very latest
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generation of Wi-Fi and six Wi-Fi 6 is
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considerably faster and then 6E
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obviously is even better than that so
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has ports let me give you some closeups
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so on the left side you can see that it
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has two USBC ports those are both
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Thunderbolt 4 so they're super fast and
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there's HDMI 2.1 and
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usba and then on the other side
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there is a Kensington lock usba and
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audio out and that's pretty much all the
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ports you have on here so I find that
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works perfectly fine for me it doesn't
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have a micro SD card reader but quite
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honestly I haven't read a Micro SD card
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with a computer for years so not
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something I feel like is a huge missing
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piece in terms of its AI features it
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obviously Windows 11 now has Microsoft
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C- pilot integrated into it but Acer
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also has some of its own software
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including Acer live art which actually
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does give you some AI capabilities I
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will admit you will get this and then
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you will want to delete a couple of
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things you know some of these companies
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are a little too enthusiastic with what
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they put on their computers cuz I think
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they're just paid by vendors but there's
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a little bit of bloatware so you'll
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probably over the first couple of days
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say h no I don't need that that doesn't
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need to be in the start menu I don't
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need that on my toolbar so pretty easy
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to do let me tell you a little bit about
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the Eco side of it and then I'm going to
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spin it around and we're going to run a
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couple of apps I'm going to run a
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benchmark on it and we're going to see
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how it looks so it's Eco focused as I
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said earlier so it's a carbon neutral
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manufacturing process and the chassis is
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60% postc consumer recycled materials
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the company is EP gold certified and one
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of the things I really like is that it
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has regular screws and it is actually
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easy for consumers to disassemble and
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repair now there are some laws that have
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come into place especially in the EU in
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terming in terms of like the right to
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repair but I like that I'm starting to
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see computers that meet that spec
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because there's no reason in the world
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we can't do something like replace a
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battery ourselves it should not be that
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difficult so the chassis itself has no
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volatile organic compounds it's 60%
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postc consumer plastic the packaging I
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really like the packaging it's kind of a
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big box but it is 100% recyclable so
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unlike so many packages that you get
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this is really all recyclable materials
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and it even says so they're very proud
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of the fact they put a lot of effort
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into making this true and still having
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packaging that's going to protect your
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computer now comes with
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documents and it comes with a kind of
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clumsy looking charger this is kind of
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an old school charger with this design
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but it is USBC and I think the input
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wattage is like 65 or 67 Watts so you
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can buy a third-party charger that would
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be much smaller and doesn't require a
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three-prong plug that's worth noting
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there are places where you can't get to
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that third prong for the ground so this
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does give you some limitations if you're
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using it at home or in the office you're
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probably going to get the three-prong
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plug let me also show you the keyboard's
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a little unusual because it has a lot of
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keys and what I found really
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disconcerting in the beginning is that
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your hands don't Orient to the center of
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the keyboard and so it took me a little
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while to get used to that notice also
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the integrated fingerprint sensor on
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that touchpad um and that touchpad is
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actually made out of um ocean recycled
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Plastics so you know again there's so
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much green going on here now let me spin
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it around and I'm going to show you a
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couple of things on the screen and then
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we're going to run the pretty aggressive
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PC Mark 10 Benchmark just to see how
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this Compares and then I'll jump back on
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camera so let's get this thing turned
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around one of the things people have
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said about this is that it's not very
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loud but let me give you a quick demo
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Linux however you go through your so
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that's about full volume and I think
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it's fair to say that it is not the
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loudest laptop out
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there it is loud enough that you can
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hear it but between Bluetooth and that
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3.5mm audio out there are plenty of
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options for you to hook up another
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speaker if you want to get better
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results and in terms of
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performance as you can see I have a fast
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internet connection and
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so let's see I seem to have a lot of ads
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here which is sort of indicative of how
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this works but let's just jump onto the
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Walmart homepage and it moves pretty
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quick let's buy a fireplace right who
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doesn't need a fireplace in their
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lives pretty Speedy so let's go ahead
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and I'm going to close that and then
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we're going to launch the Acer app so
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Acer has its own something called Acer
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sense and I'll go back back to home and
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this is just gives you access to a lot
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of the smart software that Acer includes
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and you can see that it gives you some
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performance measurements and battery
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status and not sure I mentioned it but
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it gives you about 10 hours of battery
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life which is entirely helpful it's
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worth noting that it's not a touchscreen
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so I'm using my trackpad for all cursor
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control and here on the start
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menu we can go to Acer live
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art and this is an AI powered software
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program and I can pull up I generated a
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piece of art
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in chat
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GPT and here it is and you can see
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everything's nice and snappy I mean in
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terms of performance there's no sense
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that I'm running on a slower computer
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and then we can do fun things like let's
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remove background and you can see this
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is with the AI accelerated CPU it's
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still a difficult task and by the bu
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this is a really hard background you'll
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see it doesn't do fantastic with it but
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it is fun this is something where I'd
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probably get rid of that wheel but I
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think you could take this and you can
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put that on to another graphic or
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superimpose it so let's close this up
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and what else can I show you um we can
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go into Microsoft
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co-pilot and you can see here where I
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was was actually chatting with it about
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PC benchmarks so it said here's where
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you can grab PC Benchmark 10 or PC Mark
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10 and I said cool now I did download it
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so let's give it a run and that's easily
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done now we're ready to run the
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Benchmark and it's it's a very business
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oriented Benchmark so it takes a good
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long while I'm actually going to speed
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up this video quite a bit so we can jump
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to the end cuz you really don't want to
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watch 8 18 minutes of it running
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benchmarks but once it gets started it
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is pretty darn interesting so let's Zoom
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forward
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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benchmarks aren't very exciting to watch
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after the first minute or two so here we
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are at the end and you can see it gets
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an entirely acceptable score so let me
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close this window out and jump back on
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camera that's about everything I can
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show you I'll tell you Dimensions Wise
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It's 14.1 in by 10.1 in by just barely
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under an inch thick and it's 4 lb so
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it's not the lightest Windows laptop in
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the market even for a 16-in screen and
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it's a nice big screen I just want to
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say I really like the screen so there is
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a lot to like here it is eminently
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Affordable and it does give you enough
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juice that you can certainly go through
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most schoolwork most office work if
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you're doing hardcore video rendering or
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if you're playing very demanding PC
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games then this might not have quite
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enough power for that but for the vast
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majority of tasks that we do and
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certainly the vast majority of things
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that I do this is plenty powerful enough
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and I personally really appreciate that
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Acer is putting so much effort into
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being an eco-friendly company because
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generally speaking technology is not
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eco-friendly so Props to them there's
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really a lot to like here now I'm going
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this let me close it and show you
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although it's kind of a slab but this is
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the Acer Aspire Vero 16 Windows laptop
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and it is
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$749.99
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currently discounted down to $649.99
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at store. acer.com for under
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$650 this is a really solid option and
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you know once you open it up and get to
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that 16-in screen you're going to be
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very happy there's a lot of screen real
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estate there to work with and that's
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really nice it's all I got hope to catch
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you in my next video
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