Two words that i never thought gonna be on the same sentence, "Gaming" and "Chromebooks"

I mean, Linus wasn't wrong: "a chromebook is still a Chromebook, no matter how much you spend on it."

Gaming and chromebooks: goes together like peanut butter and glass.

you could get an ACTUAL gaming laptop for that even for 500$

I got that exact Asus tuf gaming, but the variant with 1660ti, 16gb of RAM and 1Tb space for the exact same price of the chromebook... And it obviously runs a whole lot better than what you'd expect, making the comparison with the chromebook even worse

the funniest part is that cloud was made specifically to being able to play in any hardware, so you can do it with a $200 one

Since the proper laptop actually has a built in ethernet port surely it would be better for cloud gaming as well as local gaming. What's even the point in this chromebook existing?

My $300 Ideapad 3 beats the shit out of this lmao. Asus guys where very high when they decided the price on that.

I never understood the reason behind Cloud Gaming. Sure the idea really seems amazing if you think about it, but the fact you have to pay monthly, get a decent laptop regardless, still pay for your games, and need to have Google's internet speed, just makes it worse than gaming on 10 fps. At least make the games free for that monthly pay.

The wireless Vs. wired experience you encountered was exactly my experience when experimenting with cloud gaming a few years back. There's something about wireless that cloud gaming just hates, and it's impossible. You HAVE to use a wired setup so it doesn't run like a ball rolling down a honey splattered ramp. And it has no ethernet port... wow.

That Chromebook runs GeForce now games like my Toshiba satellite c660 laptop from 2011 which has an i3 2350 CPU and an Nvidia 350M graphics, both SoCs. I just think mine costs less, though the screen isn't 1080p. And did I mention it has expandable RAM?

I'd buy a steam deck instead

The humor you put in the videos is outstanding 😂 really enjoy those details in every video, they make the video more appealing to watch.

have bought cheap Chromebooks and expensive ones. The experience is pretty much the same on either type. Waste of time spending too much as the eco system hamstrings it all the time.

5:03 Oh man, it _is_ the Asus special! I've seen it, on Asus laptops XD. Can't think of other manufacturers with equally egregious examples (where the cable is always too short to comfortably plug it in and leaves you ackwardly manhandling the laptop). Others at least make the cable longer...

Your intro is so simple, but so good! I love it!!

I was waiting for someone to talk about one of these things I came across an acer gaming chromebook as a Reddit ad. I was completely DUMBOUNDED by it. I posted the ad and the specs on the LTT subreddit and everyone else shared my confusion. Even someone who claimed to work in Acers marketing department claimed that even he had no idea why it existed other than to dissapoint children on Christmas morning. I think the biggest thing here is the lack of an RJ45 port. I know most chromebooks don’t have them but when the functionality of the machine depends on how good the internet works, you should at least have a way to get a consistent internet connection without using an adapter

What's also crazy, is that you can run Cloud gaming on the normal PC Laptop, you are practically paying extra for 3 Months of free premium cloud gaming. This is a product that cannot be justified in any form as always, great video, Dawid!

Man dawid another great video . I love you're enthusiasm keep the videos coming

found this chanel while looking for a gaming pc and now its became a daily thing to chill and watch dawid

I genuinely get excited every time you have a new video posted. Keep up the great work!

Why does these exist And what creatures buy them ??

Hey! Recently found your channel and I've had a blast watching them, very entertaining. I am curious to the software you use to track GPU/CPU/MEM/RAM on your vids? Love the channel and subbed

Genuine question: if it's not cheap, what's the point of a Chromebook?

The thing is if you want to use cloud gaming you can use it on a normal laptop also (and just disable the dedicated GPU to have less to no noise and lower power consumption)

If the Chromebook was $200 or less, this would actually be worth it. Something cheap you can give a kid and not have to worry. It should be the hamster of devices. "What, Timmy? You spilled everything on your Chromebook? It exploded in a ball of death? Ohwell, we'll go get you a new one."

I wonder why there wouldn't be Win drivers for the other stuff, ie, mouse, sound, etc, because I would guess they are the same chips on other laptops.

700 dollars? I paid that much for my Acer Swift X with an 8 core 5800 and a 3050ti! A chromebook at that price range is ridiculous

I actually saw a Chromebook the other day that actually comes with a Nvidia 2060 in it... But then thought to myself, wtf is even the point when there are absolutely no games that run on ChromeOS other than Play Store games.

the one computer i see not having a ethernet port is supposed to be a cloud gaming laptop? What was Asus thinking?

Truly impressive how far cheap, entry level gaming laptops have come. Makes sense though, its a pretty big market out there. I myself and several people I knew in college had cheap 500 dollar gaming laptops like the one you showed here.

I like the idea of streaming video games as it has the potential to bring games to people who otherwise would not be able to afford it. That said, if you want to stream games, an older laptop from ebay that has an ethernet jack on it will do the job just fine. you should not spend more than 1-200 on a thin-client unless your running a large business running business level hardware.

0:47 "Chroimebooks"

Finally! I was wondering when this video would drop

I love starting my Saturdays with a pop tart and a Dawid video

That's pretty much what I expected, although I will say that my chromebook struggles to run a pdf so this is a bit of an improvement, albeit a very expensive one at that.

Hey Dawid, I think this might going to be interesting! What if you swap out the SSD to another one with a Windows installed in it. Will it boot up, and how will the games perform compares with the Chromebook OS? Or maybe using an eGPU through that thunderbolt port?

That was a quick conclusion bro

I liked the quick "metal sample".

wonder how a version of linux would do for trackpad and audio...hmm I'll still keep wondering cos there is no way I'd spend the money for that to find out! :D

Just got a Chromebook for my mother in law ...they are GREAT for old people who just want casino games and Facebook 🤣🤣🤣

Dawid, please stop making your videos so good as I haven't seen my family in weeks.

i love the information and metaphors on this one :))

Love how you always roast "gaming" stuffs the nicest way

Dawid, almost no 2--in-1 allows for one handed opening. Gotta have stiff hinge so it doesnt wobble a ton and also so that when it wears out it will not flop flat

Could you make a playllist of your music? Its one of the things I enjoy about your videos :)

5:02 in Bender's voice "OOOOOHHHH YEAAAHH! Show me them circuits baby!"

bro 700 buck for a chromebook? i got a 300dullar PC but it runs better.

i bet asphalt runs better on the windows version on this laptop lol

love having Dawid's hands waving in my face while watching this

I like your Sims Background music in all your videos !haha :D

I laughed at the tricycle analogy much harder than I thought I would

I got the Acer gaming chromebook for $450 when it was on sale. For general use, with the qhd display, it's really good. I've swapped to the beta chrome branch, installed steam, and can play simple games pretty well. $700 for the Asus? No way. There's a lot wrong with the Acer, but there's real potential in chromeos for gaming.

6:25 asphalt is available for x86 too, iirc it is available on windows pcs and macs

12:12 I had the same problems installing windows on a MacBook. Its because you need drivers for every single little thing.

Someone please make a compilation of dawid saying "very plasticky " lol

whats the computer performance monitor thing that you're using? I have an even worst chromebook (cpu has 2 threads) and I was wondering if I could do some fps testing with my limited chrome os.

Every video I watch I get an ad for gaming on a Chromebook now 😂

These laptops exist because they're very very easy to make. The design and blueprints come directly from Google, all the marketing material comes from Google as well. Google will also give you contacts of manufacturers who've made their designs earlier. Cherry on top, they'll also pay you a percentage of manufacturing costs. All you really have to do slap your logos everywhere, publish them and wait for grand mothers to buy these as Christmas gifts.

You can buy a laptop with actual dedicated graphics for 6-700$ CAD. Acer and MSI come to mind. Won't be nice, but it will run most things low mids at 60

Hey Dawid you should do a video on the Hp Victus pre-built. The Toasty bros really like it so i'd like to see your take on it. Thanks!!

A person by the name coolstar has made drivers for the chrome book. I would recommend you try them because it makes the experience much better

The yeah "I dunno it's convinced me, I don't think it's stupid anymore" had me howling at the end. I love your humour! Great content as always

700 for a Chromebook... I would always go with an actual laptop in this price range :D That it doesn't come with an ethernet connector directly is also a shame.

this is one of my new favorite channels

7:40 it's possible that some fancy software thought it would be awesome to fallback to 2,4 GHz WiFi without MIMO and just 20 MHz wide channels (aka 75 Mbps).

700& to run games from the cloud. Is there a market for idiots, besides Apple, or what? For that money, buy an actual gaming laptop or if for some reason you want to game from the cloud, buy a 200-300 laptop lmao. (disclaimer: I'm obviously not talking about Dawid..)

Do people actually buy Chromebooks?

My 550$ laptop had the same specs as this thing but with a 256 gigs SSD + 1 TB HDD, anti glare display and upgradeable ram But doesn't have any usb C ,metal body, RGB , tablet mode flip hinge thingys or a touchscreen

thanx again for the fun content !

6:33 Nah Dawid straight up killed that chromebook.

I can’t wait to run Google Stadia on this, especially since it’s probably the only game this laptop wants you to run

I got a laptop with a 10300h, 1660ti, , that has very good speakers, plenty of ports, a good 144hz panel, full size keyboard and 512gb of storage (though admittedly 8gb of ram in single channel) for less than he paid for that chromebook. This thing exists exclusively to prey on parents buying a chromebook for their kids for school but will let them "game" on it as well thinking it will keep the kid happy without buying another dedicated computer. Disgusting product destined for landfill.

I was able to run a New world on a Yoga7 from Lenovo. At 720p. The loading times were super high when teleporting and it was a bit shoppy but I was able to farm MATs easily enough.

You Dawid are O.B.A.M.F. Love you stuff.

This is a solution looking for a problem to solve. I wouldn't think this fad would last very long. These chromebooks will probably start popping up on eBay in the near future. Thanks for another very informative video.

LMAO!

0:04 nothing gets passed you david

I missed it, but I remember them making Steam available for select Chromebooks a few months back. You weren't able to run the Chrome-native Steam with Proton enabled?

"gaming" chromebooks may exist but so does computer virus... just because it exists doesnt mean its a good ideer 😂

When your new "gaming laptop" comes with free GeForce Now, run back to the store for a refund. Also exciting to hear that Asus was able to break a hole in the space time Continuum to create a 3 sided laptop screen. I love useless marketing jargon.

"Can you get it off with one tug"!!! so funny.

2:23 got real excited to see Dawid “get it off with one tug” 🥵

First of all, cloud gaming is, and will remain, a joke. As you saw the inferior WiFi hardware in the Crapbook does it no justice either. I do not know what Asus or any of these Chromebook manufacturers want to proof, what that you can get extorted to play games? For your paid service to stop working one day because the cost of maintaining the hardware in the datacenter is too expensive? One could indeed purchase a good base gaming laptop, but let us ask the question: WHY? Why have we still not discovered that it is all bandaids and throttle with the small chassis and the super expensive hardware if you want any performance? The noisy, hot mess that is a gaming laptop is just a joke in 2023. But that was PC gaming in the late 90's, and early beginning of the century as well. Second observation is that Asus and all these idiots in that build a larger than 13" laptop squeeze the heck out of the keyboard usability by adding the stupid numpad. Instead of centring the trackpad and give a bit more room to the keys and maybe some GOOD up-firing speakers? Putting Windows on it is also stupid because now you have to buy a Windows license. Why not Linux and Steam. Hardware that is not upgradable and the slow PCI3 SSD makes it just a hot, laughing, mess.

A gaming Chromebook, it's just a big joke. Chromebooks can't even run like a standard cheap PC, i.e., not for full function business suite, not for other browsers, of course. It's disturbing big tech companies are selling these for over $800, and some over $1,000's. I think new M2 Mac mini or M2 Macbook Air will even be better than gaming on a Chromebook, but you will get money back and get some real work done with Macs. Dawid, congrats installing Windows on it, I thought they didn't allow that with a Chromebook.

The glossy display lets you experience RTX feature without spending money on the RTX card, it's amazing design!

The title had me in stitches.

I hate android and the same applies to google's desktop OS.

lol typical asus bullshit.

I love it when content creaters approach a review with an unbiased opinion....

“Can you get it off with one tug?”

What luck! A new Dawid video!

For another comparisson you should have done game streaming on the real gaming laptop, because despite it not having the same prowess as the "gaming chromebook", it still might have done a better job.

I used to like geforce now when it was in beta. Once it changed to not including your entire library to select titles it became kinda useless.

So it can't even run a phone game, It has soldered down 8gb ram, it has no ethernet port, 128gig SSD, all the parts are low spec and more stuff i probably forgot. $700..

I'm just glad you found more work after being on the hit show "The IT Crowd"

"Can you get it off with one tug" - Dawid

The metal riff had me dying!

3:14 , hum , why did the metal song sounded a bit like a part of waking the demon from bullet for my valentine ?

1:04 I had no idea they used rubles in Canada