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Trick #2: Misleading advertising and marketing claims
The #1 best-selling laptop computer on Amazon is lots suspicious, but it surely isn’t the one approach sellers want to pull one over on consumers. Some are attempting to trick patrons by misrepresenting what a laptop computer can do.
Gaming laptops are a very deep reservoir of horrible listings. A seek for “gaming laptop computer” on Amazon will floor comically horrible laptops just like the ACEMAGIC AX16PRO, NIMO N155, and the… uh… “Gaming Laptop computer, Laptop computer Pc, Pc Laptop computer.”
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The ACEMAGIC, being bought by an organization referred to as SMART DEALS WAREHOUSE, is responsible of the primary trick talked about above with a really excessive listed worth of $1,600 that’s discounted all the way down to $500. But it surely pours salt on the wound with a second trick: it misrepresents itself as a gaming laptop computer. The itemizing claims it’s an “ACEMAGIC 2025 Gaming Laptop computer” and makes use of generic advertising and marketing photos with engaging anime characters and race automobiles, with explicit give attention to the laptop computer’s AMD Radeon Vega 8 graphics.
As you in all probability already know, the Vega 8 is the built-in graphics resolution included with many AMD Ryzen chips. Not solely is it an iGPU, it’s not even the newest iGPU. The Ryzen 5700U on this laptop computer was launched again in 2021, so its geared up Radeon built-in graphics are a pair generations behind the newest {hardware}.
PC World’s evaluate of the HP Envy x360, a laptop computer with the identical Ryzen 5700U and Radeon Vega 8 graphics, discovered it achieved a 3Dmark Time Spy rating of roughly 1,500. Laptops with the newest built-in graphics from Intel and AMD have a tendency to attain at the very least 3,000 in that take a look at.
Can the ACEMAGIC laptop computer load and play a PC recreation? Positive. However the expertise isn’t going to be any higher than what you will get with another finances or mid-range laptop computer with built-in graphics.
