Apparently Gaming Chromebooks Exist
Apparently Gaming Chromebooks Exist
I bought a crazy expensive “Cloud Gaming” chromebook.
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0.66 -> now as you can tell from the box, this is
a Chromebook. But according to Asus, it's
6.36 -> more than that. According to Asus this
is a 'Cloud Gaming Laptop'. And because
11.34 -> Asus went to all the trouble of using the
word 'Gaming' several times in the marketing,
16.08 -> I had to pay 700 US Dollars before tax
for this Chromebook so that we can see
22.92 -> what kind of gaming experience it really
offers whoa that's not a great start is it
43.44 -> after a quick bit of research it turns
out Aces isn't the only company doing
47.82 -> this gaming Chromebooks are fairly common and
it's pretty difficult for me to talk about the
52.86 -> pricing of these things without getting
wildly inappropriate the top of the line
56.7 -> version of this Asus gaming Chromebook normally
costs a butthole puckering 1300 Canadian rubles
64.32 -> you can buy one hell of an actual gaming
laptop with that yeah I don't know I feel
69.48 -> like buying a fancy Chromebook is like buying
a luxury tricycle a tricycle isn't the end goal
75.06 -> it's just a thing toddlers use to get used to
the idea of an actual bicycle just buy a real
80.76 -> laptop I don't understand but I'm always open
to new things so let's check out this cloud
84.96 -> gaming laptop now in all fairness to Asus
for a Chromebook this is reasonably beefy
92.34 -> we don't even have a mediatek cell phone
chip in here or emmc storage compared to
98.52 -> a real laptop however it starts to get a lot less
impressive but we'll talk about that a bit later
105.24 -> thank you
108.78 -> standard Asus laptop packaging we've got
raw cardboard I guess is the pretentious
113.58 -> way of referring to that and in this nice fabric
116.46 -> bag that's protecting the very expensive
Chromebook in here yeah it's pretty nice
125.52 -> first off we get these little bookies one of
which is a gaming offer I think this laptop
131.1 -> comes with three months of the RTX 3080 tier of
GeForce now which is a whole nother thing about
137.64 -> this laptop which we do need to get into
a bit later first let's finish unboxing it
142.08 -> and here is one of the advantages of you not
owning the hardware that's actually running
147.6 -> the games you get a nice tiny power brick
can you get it off with one tug let's see
154.62 -> I guess not it is very Hefty for a Chromebook
this is a reasonably well-built Chromebook the top
167.1 -> is metal of some description although the bottom
is very plasticky but look at that peeking out
173.94 -> from under that ventilation there's some actual
Cooling in here which is rare for a Chromebook but
178.8 -> I guess you know it is gaming back here we have
that yoga hinge or whatever it's called so you can
183.42 -> do aerobics with your laptop in terms of IO it's
about as limited as you'd expect for a Chromebook
188.64 -> but I think it's a bit stupid that it doesn't
have an ethernet port on it because you know cloud
193.68 -> gaming but we'll see if that impacts anything
later on when we try game on it now we need to
198.78 -> see if for 700 we get a Chromebook that passes
the one hand open test this is very important
206.04 -> oh it doesn't so it's just trash and after
having to open the Chromebook using both
212.88 -> my hands like some kind of animal I was real
excited by the display oh that looks like a
219.6 -> lovely glossy touchscreen it looks like it'll
be a nightmare to use outside though it does
225.48 -> look very glossy now I think this display may
be the reason why this thing costs what it does
230.94 -> because it is a 144hz display it may be 1080p
I'm not 100 sure that's less awesome though
241.5 -> it's a pretty entry-level laptop keyboard rattly
and a bit too squishy but it's serviceable and
248.04 -> for you recreational Excel users we've got a
numpad on the side I feel like it's a little
254.52 -> redundant on a Chromebook but it's nice to
have I want to turn it on and see what this
260.04 -> display looks like so let's do that now and
once I went through the standard slightly too
264.24 -> invasive Chromebook setup process on first
impression the display was pretty good but
268.62 -> it may very well have been a bit too glossy for
its own good but we'll talk more about that when
273.3 -> we try and game on it first let's open this
Chromebook and have a closer look at its guts
283.74 -> the only place you can kind
of stick anything in is this
287.82 -> loop around the front of the laptop
this kind of thing just makes damage
294.66 -> almost unavoidable but eventually with enough
struggle and plastic crack sounds I got the
300.42 -> bottom off there we go oh but don't forget the
aces special a hidden little ribbon cable for you
306.78 -> to accidentally destroy when taking the bottom off
so that rear is about 78 more annoying to get off
314.16 -> than it possibly has the right to be it's actually
made by foxconnor oh okay so this is basically a
320.46 -> Macbook that's pretty cool which I guess explains
the solder down 8 gigs of RAM always nice to see
325.92 -> but we actually have an upgradable SSD in here
let's have a look there it is all 128 gigs of
333.78 -> it which we can easily access just by destroying
the laptop cooling wise this looks pretty good for
339.12 -> a Chromebook we've got a thick heat pipe with a
fan and a little bit of heatsink which should be
344.52 -> enough for the I3 but I guess we'll find that out
soon enough so yeah let's close it up and try and
349.2 -> do some gaming on it well not on it but gaming
using it is like a conduit for gaming foreign
357.6 -> I started off by trying a game that I could run
physically on the Chromebook considering that it
365.04 -> uses Chrome OS something like asphalt 17 losers
is pretty representative of the kind of games you
370.5 -> can play physically on it I'm assuming this is
gonna run very well because it is a phone game
376.56 -> and we have actual laptop Hardware in here but
it really didn't how is it so stuttery what in
383.16 -> the world I don't think I mined this game running
badly it's just it's really stupid it feels like
387.96 -> watching a cinematic that every now and then
prompts you to press a button so you feel like
392.16 -> you're contributing at this point I'm sure a
bunch of you are thinking but all of it this
396.36 -> thing would likely be great for emulating old
games yeah but you know what else is great for
401.28 -> emulating old games a real laptop besides these
days the hardware that powers my catheter tube
407.88 -> can emulate the crap out of old games you don't
need to spend 700 on a Chromebook for that uh but
414.42 -> but anyway let's try and use it for its intended
use case cloud gaming as I mentioned before the
422.52 -> little Chromebook comes with three months of the
RTX 3080 tier of the cloud gaming service GeForce
428.4 -> now which is nice but once those three months
are up you have to spend 20 dollars a month
433.38 -> to maintain that tier of cloud gaming so if you
want to spend two years for example gaming at the
439.14 -> GeForce now tier they bait you in with that's
480 US Dollars which doesn't even include the
445.68 -> cost of the games these laptops like the cloud
gaming service equivalent of a heroin dealer at
451.38 -> least there is a free tier if you're okay with
one hour gaming sessions and worse performance
456.06 -> but on the note of performance let's see how this
runs cloud gaming oh that is not a very good start
465.72 -> something's just adjusted and now it's running
better but no it isn't it's still shockingly
472.2 -> bad as far as I understand I'm in a prime GeForce
Now location and my internet handles it well I've
478.98 -> used it before not with this kind of performance
so I'm not sure what's happening now it could be
485.64 -> a network issue but that's the problem with this
kind of thing if the Network's in a bit of a mood
490.26 -> this happens and I'm gonna try wired internet
uh we don't have an ethernet port but I have an
495.36 -> adapter we can use via USBC let's plug it in
and see if that helps a few moments later oh
501.6 -> wow that is so much better it still looks a bit
compression artifacty but it feels infinitely
508.26 -> better it's not stuttering and this reasonable
input lag so with that let's try another game
516.42 -> now fortnite is running pretty well you can see
in the very tiny letters up there that we are
522.84 -> getting well over 120 frames per second and this
is with 1080p competitive settings now one of the
529.44 -> reasons I always use fortnite is because it's
the game I found that runs the best on GeForce
534.96 -> now the input latency and stuff is very low
it just feels good and it's always impressive
541.08 -> how well this runs on cloud gaming but you know
what also runs it well an actual gaming laptop
548.82 -> wow cyberpunk feels pretty sticky it looks
pretty good and I think the frame rate's
554.88 -> reasonable but you can clearly feel the input
lag here and that's one of the problems with
559.26 -> GeForce now not only does it not have
a particularly big library of games but
563.88 -> there's a big variation in how the games that
it does support runs for every Fortnight level
569.76 -> experience there's a game that runs like this
now considering that this Chromebook has Intel
575.28 -> Hardware on it I think it should be pretty
easy to install Windows on it to see how it
579.66 -> runs games by its own self but before we
do that let's quickly compare this cloud
584.04 -> gaming experience to the gaming experience of
a real gaming laptop at roughly the same price
592.32 -> the real boy gaming laptop was from a recent video
and it's also by Aces as you can see by the specs
598.44 -> it is a reasonable bit beefier than the Chromebook
and I only paid the equivalent of about 500 US
604.44 -> dollars for it it was on sale but it is quite a
bit cheaper than the Chromebook and has an actual
609.42 -> graphics card in it so let's see how the gaming
experience Compares now with fortnite running at
614.1 -> the same settings we are not getting as high a
frame rate but it actually feels better because
619.74 -> the system is running it here so there isn't that
input latency feel of cloud gaming fortnite may
626.52 -> work well with GeForce now but even with this kind
of laptop you can still feel the difference and
631.92 -> the thing is this is with the laptop running in
a single Channel Ram configuration which really
636.24 -> kicks its performance in the balls if you upgrade
the RAM to a proper configuration it makes a huge
641.28 -> difference check out the dedicated video on
this laptop for more information now I will
646.02 -> say that the Chromebook was much quieter while
gaming because you know it doesn't have Hardware
652.26 -> running the game in it and the display isn't
quite as nice although it's a decent display
658.74 -> it's still 144 Hertz and it is an IPS panel so
it's not as good but it's still a pretty good
666.36 -> display so if anything I would say that this is
running the game better than the Chromebook was
672.36 -> just because of that lack of latency now when it
comes to cyberpunk at 1080p low settings it's a
677.94 -> bit of a mixed bag in terms of visuals it doesn't
look as good as the cloud gaming experience and
683.64 -> the frame rate is lower but it doesn't have that
input lag so I don't really know who to give it
689.34 -> to here the laptop may not have the input latency
but its visuals and frame rate is much worse but
695.94 -> at least you don't have to pay twenty dollars
a month for it to run like this anyway with
700.32 -> that pretty unscientific comparison out the
way the last thing I want to do is install
704.82 -> Windows on the little Chromebook so it can
run games with its own steam horsepower power
715.08 -> oh okay oh the ribbon cable
725.58 -> foreign
729.12 -> so after quite a lot of struggle we're finally
at the point where we've got windows installed
733.8 -> on here and we can run some games physically
on this very expensive Chromebook now I did
739.86 -> run into a couple of problems the first one is
that the only i o on the laptop that works is
745.5 -> the one square USB port so back here it's a bit
of a dongle nightmare the trackpad also doesn't
752.82 -> work and the audio doesn't work none of the
Jacks nor does the speakers so at this point
758.34 -> it's like a third of a laptop but at least we
can see how it runs games right sure it's gonna
764.46 -> be very impressive so at the end of the day all
I had to do to run some Steam games natively on
769.56 -> the device was physically break it and then
spend two hours hacking Windows onto it just
775.98 -> to have half of the laptop not working anymore
and all that for 40 frames per second at normal
782.1 -> settings up a hill yeah I don't know I guess it's
convinced me I don't think it's stupid anymore
794.28 -> thank you
800.52 -> foreign
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTkzHjcdCVQ