Value for money, and future ready!
Mayukh De (Aug 1, 2018)
on Flipkart
After months of researching sub-40k options and narrowly missing out on major discounts on the Swift 3 Ryzen 5, this Aspire 3 seemed like the best option left available in the market. I'm no tech person, but benchmark data and reviews place the Ryzen 5 ahead of most consumer grade Intel CPUs out there. Now you will find some configurations with 8th gen Intels in this price bracket, but you'll surely find them missing out on either a FHD screen, adequate RAM, or pre-installed Win 10, if those are your needs. Vega 8 is arguably superior to any of Intel's IG and ranks better than even some low end discreet GPU set ups that some manufacturers squeeze in just to check the dedicated graphics box. So all in all, this config is suited for anyone looking for a package offering a combination of processing and multi tasking needs, light gaming, and semi professional level image editing. My views are based on 3 days of extensive usage: optimizing the configuration for my needs, setting up a robust development platform, running some sim based games on high to ultra settings without lags, and doing some photo editing work simultaneously in rawtherapee and gimp without hassle. So all in all, a good buy!
Other observations: placed the order on a Thursday night before 1025pm, had it delivered the next day by 11am. Packaging was good, and though I hear a lot about seller sending refurbished products, this couldn't have been the case here, with manufacturing date being just the previous month and win 10 build being just a week old. It does come with 1gb Vega 8 of course, FHD (no IPS), and build feels solid. No keyboard backlight etc., sounds alright (not great) with the speakers being at the bottom and certainly not designed for extreme entertainment. The drive gets only one partition, so needs some tweak, depending on needs. On heavy usage, there's a bit of noise, the battery life isn't the best, and though there's some heating, it dissipates along the lid on general usage, almost none! I was exploring the possibility of making additional RAM available for graphics, but it seems to be locked out in the BIOS. Most articles even detail out the pointlessness of attempting to do that, so left it as is, for the satisfactory performance levels.
I got some extra discounts and paid just a wee bit over 37k, and that's a bargain for this beast. You can surely get much worse pretending to be premium and latest, for that kind of price, or more!
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