@@tylergardner2598 Companies don't sponsor you to shit on them lmao. Unless every "influencer" at the same time all decided they would hate on sponsors.
It does run it, just need to wait forever with everything you do, plus watching videos is a nightmare (got a hp pavilion 2gb model with same like specs as the dell)
It need a proper processor and bus speed then yeah, I have a old laptop with core 2 duo with 3gb ddr2 ram that run chrome and Firefox with less than 8 tabs at optimal speed
@@mbk0mbk Virtual memory (is a memory management capability of an operating system (OS) that uses hardware and software to allow a computer to compensate for physical memory shortages by temporarily transferring data from random access memory (RAM) to disk storage.) btw what os are you running i cant imagine windows 10 not lagging in chrome , i had to use linux on my old laptop with samelike specs
@@cybernaab I know what virtual memory is but it uses a hard disk or ssd for storing unused data from RAM, if it used with browsers like these you will get lag . The actual culprit is not browsers but websites , if you block unnecessary scripts with addon like umatrix or no script the browsers will not use that much RAM and work efficient in just 2-4gig RAM and have less impact on processor . These websites ate running infinite loops and data mining stuff that runs even you closed all the tabs .
There's even a $450 or $520 laptops with a dedicated graphics card, let it be a Maxwell or a Radeon GPU Architecture and some 4GB of RAM. Spending an extra $30 or $45 dollars on an additional 4 GB is a good day to extend the laptop's role. ;)
6:22 easter egg: "how to get blood out of a carpet" This is the kind of editing I enjoy, by the way! Not "over-the-top and childish" with in-your-face text; but the subtleties, like the little emphasized, seemingly random, sounds from the review unit (3:46~4:05), and the little old school "loading" hourglass at 4:22! The out-of-focus Linus at 7:07 trying to use "Hello" on the $400 laptop while emphasizing the practicality of it in the more expensive one. This is, editing wise, to me the best piece of content you have put out in quite some time now. I really enjoyed it and hope you strive to continue on this road with future content!
@@EdPMur My laptop used to have a 1TB 5200RPM hard drive... it took about 5 minutes from hitting the power switch to the desktop. Slapped an SSD in that shit and it was cut to 10 seconds. SSDs really are amazing.
Aymenrh Haha wow i literally read this comment, looked at the clock on the phone and it was 00:00. And yes i should get some sleep, thanks for reminding me! Good night!
You should take a look at the Acer Aspire E-15 E5-575-33BM. ~$350 for 7100 i3, 4 GB DDR4 with an extra ram slot, has an upgradable HDD and an unpopulated M.2, back lit keyboard, 1080p screen with HDR, USB 3.1 type C, and a good webcam. Honestly I doubt there is a better laptop in existence for the price. Plus great battery life.
If you have a budget of $400 then go for a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad. You'll get an older generation Core i3 or i5 (which will still be better than a new Celeron, Pentium or any low end AMD A Series processor) and probably 8GB RAM. Some refurbishing companies usually shove SSDs in them which helps greatly. Those run far better than any low end new computer which in reality are just a mish-mash of leftover low end parts. You're not going to get a screen with a good viewing angle and the laptop might be a tad heavy but they're still great.
You can get such great refurbish deals on Ebay, it's amazing. I bought an Ipad, that was refurbished and it holds without a problem and also saved me more than half of the real cost, where I'm from.
Or just go strait to used! I got a Lenovo z500 for 99 dollars, 3632QM, gt740M, 8 gigs of ram/500GB under the hood! Maxed out the RAM and replaced the drive bay with an SSD, only for an extra 80$. Now that's a deal.
I bought a DELL Inspiron 3537 for my dad five years ago for 420$, I upgraded it with a SSD and 4GB of RAM more (60 bucks total), and five years later, is still doing fine. Not everyone needs 2k, 1.5k or even a 800$ laptop.
i have a 5567 that can edit video for 1000 bucks, i even stufffed an ssd in it! for what i need its a decent little thing, hard drive sucked but that was fixed 3 years in
Anyone actually looking for a budget laptop should get on newegg in the refurbished section. You can get 4 times as much computer for 1/2 the price of the $200 laptop in this video.
Yeah, that's what I did and I got a 8460p HP which has 4 gb of ram and 2 core 4 thread i5 with 2.5 ghz. THe computer is pretty good and allows me to 3D model fairly smoothly for only 150$. also it runs windows 10.
Apparently my dad had one of these $400 laptops laying around, and when i asked my dad why he bought it and never used it, he said it was very slow. I tested it, it took about 10 minutes to get to the desktop. Luckily my old pc that i don't use anymore happened to have a 512 gig Kingston SSD inside that i used to upgrade this laptop, and now it runs super fast with boot times being 30 seconds. I also ordered more ram for it.
Exactly that's the point of the video. If you only had $400 he's saying don't buy the $400 one. You aren't getting a better laptop, so why waste your money. It's like people asking questions about what kind of ethernet cable to buy. It doesn't matter, the $10 cable will do the same thing as a $50 cable. Will literally last forever, and if it doesn't, you can just buy another $10 cable.
Just got refurbished i3-6u laptop off Dell outlet for 212 USD. At the sub-400 price point if you aren't buying used, refurbished or on clearance you are being scammed.
Dell Inspiron 5570 is a pretty solid laptop. It's between $400-$500. The only difference between the lower priced ones is they come with mechanical hard drives and an 8th gen, 4-core i5. This is the one I just got for $400: www.microcenter.com/product/488404/Inspiron_15_5570_156%22_Laptop_Computer_-_Silver;_Intel_Core_i5-8250U_Processor_16GHz;_Microsoft_Windows_10_Home;_8GB_DDR4-2400_RAM;_1TB_5,400RPM_Hard_D
Calle Nilsson I'm guessing you got the Lenovo Ideapad Z50-70? It has the gpu (which would cost 100-200 more on the dell) but it also only comes with a 1366x768 monitor, and 8gb max space of ram. The dell has a 1080p monitor with room for 32gb of ram and 2 extra hard drive slots (cd tray can hold an extra HD plus a slot for an m.2 HD). Unless I'm wrong and it's a different Lenovo, in which case I'd be curious to know what model.
I had the 200 dollar blue laptop but im gonna have a 600 dollar asus cuz i do light gaming and the dell was gonna explode, i got the dell when i knew nothing about pc’s and it was a huge error
who cares about rgb hold up lemme spend another 100 - 300 dollars on my build making it flash special colors instead of putting that into better hardware
I juiced up one of these with an SSD, afterwards it was actually kind of snappy when the CPU wasn't struggling to keep up which was frequently. Thankfully even the cheapest Dell's now have decent processors and SSD's.
I just bought the blue one for $180, i love it. It's my 3rd computer and 2nd laptop, it was too much carting around a 9 pound gaming laptop that has a one hour battery especially at school where no one treats your stuff with respect and teachers get pissed if you are taking up any outlets.
I dont really think point 3 was very helpful. 400 vs 800 is a huge difference for regular people, especially if you like me used to be low on cash and had to settle for 400-500 dollar machines. Better value is a mute point if you cant afford it.
The issue is that it's better to buy a used laptop at that price point than a new one. I got an older IBM ThinkPad X230 last year for 130 bucks that blows away these new Inspirons.
You don't even need to buy used, end of line models from the previous years product line up can have significant discounts. You get a new laptop with manufacturers warranty. Keeping your eyes open in major airports is a good idea as well I have often seen perfectly decent models reduced to clear because they need to make space for new stock.
The trick isnt to buy either brand new or used, used laptops are always a bit of a risk since they wont be cleaned and a lot like a used car you have no idea what life the previous owner had, but buying a store demo laptop is gonna be a much better bet, I have a MSI a6000 i got in 2010 and while its a heaping pile of dog S**t today cause well 8 years old i payed 200 for a 800 laptop and well first things first 200 bucks and its still going after 8 years no upgrades and even runs 10, not great but I've seen worse performance from windows.
zachary carlson True, you dont know what the previous owner had. I bought a laptop with plenty of Trojans and viruses and his Google chrome had deebweb extensions pirate bay and all(can't remove them widows security doesnt spot them and A vast,avira and all want money for removing them) Better safe than sorry. Buy new,on sale or refurbished ones(with warranty is better)
save up more money and buy something like the dell inspiron 5000 13inch. bigger and better screen, better processor, still have touchscreen and 2 in 1 conversion, and it is only 20 bucks more
When you have a budget of $200 just buy an older refurbished flagship, it would have a 3rd gen i5 and 8gb of ddr3 ram. Better than a celeron and 4 gb if u ask me
This is where a lot of people are actually wrong. A newer budget processor like a celeron n4000 or pentium n5000 is a much better processor than older flagship processors. The celeron n4000 is marginally weaker than the i5-3320m (a 3rd gen i5 processor) and the Pentium n5000 matches it in some cases and absolutely destroys it in others. The older graphics in the i5 3320m are mainly what screw it over, but also there's the issue of power efficiency. Older flagship processors are built on an incredibly inefficient architecture so your laptop battery life would be garbage. Meanwhile on laptops with the celeron n4000/pentium n5000, you can push battery life of upwards of 11-12 hours depending on use. And having 8gb of RAM isn't really that important for such a weak laptop anyway because on a laptop that low in price you can't do much that would even be capable of utilizing that much RAM. Any games the processors would be capable of running are able to run just fine on 4gb which is what most Pentium and celeron laptops have nowadays. I've got an Acer Spin 1 with a pentium n4200 and 4gb of RAM and don't have a single problem running any of the applications I have installed such as Clone Hero, Skyrim, and Oxygen Not Included. I used to have a laptop with the exact specs you're recommending and it's not a very comfortable device to use. They're big, loud, and rather hot too. And also the network cards in most of the older laptops are significantly worse than the pentium and celeron laptops which usually come with a pretty good AC wifi card instead of the crappy b/g/n cards that the older laptops usually have as well. I'm speaking from personal experience here as I've had a laptop with an i5 3320m/8gb of RAM as well as a laptop with a pentium n4200/4gb of RAM and I find the Pentium n4200 to be the better processor of the two. The Pentium n5000 is the newer and more powerful brother to the Pentium n4200. I don't have hands on experience with the n5000, but I do know it's basically the same in CPU performance but it does have a better GPU as well, making it work the extra 20-30 dollars you'd spend on getting a laptop with the n5000 instead of the pentium n4200.
@@electricnick260 ok you seem good enough at this(although you could've just copy pasted this from somewhere else, but anyways). So I still can't find out what processors are better for budget laptops? I hear a lot that AMD is better at this while Intel is more on higher end stuff but Celeron and Pentium seem to be good as well. Could you help me out to figure out which one is better pick? So right now I'm looking at Pentium (N3710) and Celeron on one side and AMD A9 on the other. Which one is better for use by students? My priorities are : Good performance (not slow) Battery life And of course $$$
@@electricnick260 my budget is around $300-400. I'm not in the US or Canada but I'm planning to do some studying in the UK soon. Where I live I see those models for 150$ in US to be 250$ right now. As for prices, in my general knowledge prices in UK should be somewhat similar to those in US/Canada. So if that is the case I'll wait till I get to the UK. As per processor, I think the model you suggested seems decent enough. I'm gonna add m.2 SSD and some RAM too
@@electricnick260 I checked These 3 models that you mentioned and boy we have different prices. I could only find one used one for 320$ with Intel i3 6006u, 8 gb RAM, fhd, discrepe graphics card GeForce 940 MX. I'll see what is the battery life later, but so far does it look good? I mean will it be of good use in office work for like next 2-3 years?
Some universities and colleges used to supply computers to all students. I doubt they still do. They'd be more likely to provide a purchase option for a discounted one supplied by a contracted vendor.
That was something I really wanted to know, because it was mentioned for the cheaper laptop but not for the $400 one. So (a question I would have liked to have seen answered is) if the hard drive is the problem with it, how would it perform under an SSD, and what improvements can be gained by upgrading the RAM?
An SSD is a huge upgrade from a HDD, do that first. Startups, access time, wake up, even web browsing because of caches feels better on an SSD. The RAM you could increase, but definitely SSD first, 4GB of RAM is ok for this processor class. It can be upgraded to 8 if you want to go all the way with upgrades, and would allow more tabs open at once etc.
emmc is replacable. the problem is that it is soldered. like your phone, it IS replacable. so you have to buy the part separately and go to someone who knows how to put off and on the part
A really good option if you're on a budget is a used ThinkPad. I have a T440s, and although the screen isn't great (I have the 900p TN panel instead of the 1080p IPS panel) and the processor isn't the best (i5-4300U instead of an i7-4600U), it's an all-around great laptop. It's dual batteries, especially with the external one being hot-swappable, give this thing an INSANE battery life. The keyboard is hands down the best of any laptop I've ever tried, and dare I say better than almost every single desktop keyboard I''ve ever tried. And even with the lower-end processor, the laptop has absolutely no problem handling web browsing and even more demanding tasks like some lighter games, and that was on Windows 10. After installing Pop!_OS, this thing absolutely flies when it comes to web browsing. One time I had around 90 tabs open (long story, don't ask) and it slowed down a little bit, but not by that much. I have the extended battery which raises the laptop up a bit which can be a bit annoying at times, but it helps cooling so much. I have never seen this laptop get warmer than 65 degrees Celcius, even while gaming. There are better value ThinkPads than the T440s, but my point is that a used ThinkPad is an excellent option for anyone on a budget. And if your laptop isn't the best, there;s usually some way to upgrade them. And if something goes wrong, there's a huge community out there willing to help you at any time.
honestly if your thinking about getting the t440s, just get a t440p instead, yes it's thicker but the cpu is replacable with a quad core i7 which will rival even this $800 dell for like $300(to be clear this is The price of the laptop and a quad core cpu combined, a t440p can be found for as low like $100), plus screens are drop in replacements too, easier then the t440s, because it uses plastic clips instead of glue to hold on the screen bezel
How much was your laptop? Just save and build a computer? Don't waste money being impatient. And doesn't matter who you are 500-1000 is nothing to an average person living ok.
And you expect everyone needs a gaming laptop? They are heavy, often ugly and have an even worse battery life. Most people need a "MacBook Pro" a laptop that can be comfortably used for web browsing and other every day work without a hiccup and have enough power for an occasional more intensive load. You cannot buy a macbook or any of it windows analogues for 800$ so what they recommended seems like a close enough analogue
I bough refurbished HP Elitebook 8460p with 1 year warranty in 2015 for about 200€. It serves me perfectly even today. I just use it for some basic games and college duties.I might install SSD in it and use it for another 5 years lol.Would buy used one again 10/10
I recommended my friend a £200-on-eBay (in 2020), refurbished 2014 HP Probook 430 G2 (13.3") with an i5-4210U CPU (2200+ passmark), 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows 10 and he's very happy with it!
I own the Dell Inspiron 11 shown in the video. It's not fast, but it's cheap, light, and with Intel Quick Sync you can capture the screen with OBS Studio to MP4 without a hitch. If you need to travel and don't need the CPU power or high built-in drive capacity, it's a great travel machine. I sent it with a friend recently, along with a Blue Snowball mic, to do voice-over work in Vegas. He came back and had the audio files on the machine and they were perfectly fine. They're a compromise, but for $180 they're a really great deal. Best part: if it's lost, stolen, or smashed, you're only out $180 instead of $800. If I'm spending $800 on a laptop, I'm avoiding those dinky stupid touchscreen units at all costs; I'd rather have a nice big screen, backlit keyboard, good CPU, and option to upgrade to an SSD and IPS LCD panel.
My grandma bought me a $500 dell laptop for my birthday awhile back when i was 7 (im 11) i kinda messed it up and got it full of junk. For Christmas of 2019 i got a chromebook. But my brother broke it. I had to use my old dell laptop that was already 8 years old (with Windows 7). I messed it up by making it laggy and crap. Acidently turning off sound. It even glitched out on accident and it took me 5 times for a hard reset to work to bring it back to life. I finally got sound back and fixed it without factory resting it. Dell is a really good brand and my mom has had the same dell laptop for 15 years. Some times its worth the price.
You can get a Lenovo T430 for 150$ used. Screen is crap, but you can upgrade it with what you need (RAM, SSD, whatever), change battery on the go, have 2 or even 3 hard drives if you don't need the DVD. It's heavy, rugged, I have mine since 2012 and still use it when I go on vacation for example (I can work on it, watch a shit ton of movies offline, etc.). If you want a tablet, just buy a tablet. If you need a workstation/gaming rig, just buy a desk PC with a decent graphics card. If you need a laptop, it won't do anything great unless you pay 2000$ for it. But for this price tag you can have a nice tablet, a correct workstation AND a disposable laptop. No "one device" is gonna be perfect. You need redundancy, you need to know what your needs are. Every device can fail or be stolen, and they will at the worst of times. That's one reason why 2000$ laptops are overrated.
I couldn't have put it better! For workstations I want desktop peripherals because notebook ergos are inherently shit. Unless I'm forced to use notebook screens my 'Pads get docked too, and used docks are cheap! I also have a $2K laptop (P52 Xeon, 70GB RAM, 1TB M.2) but that was a want, not a need. The rest of the fleet are much older 'Pads because they're great machines.
If you have a small budget, order certified refurbished from reputable sellers, with a decent number of reviews, and at least an average of 4 stars. You can get an i5 with 8 gigs of ram, or even 16 gigs of ram, for less than $300 @ both Amazon and Walmart. Both places usually offer solid warranties, and extended/accidental warranties as well. Most of these computers come with disk drives, or low capacity solid state drives. Solid-state drives are much more affordable now, with 500 gig options at around $80 or $90 dollars. You can read the QnA section of a listing, to see if you can install a solid state drive. If you can, I suggest looking up the instructions online, as you will need the right cable ($10ish) and software, before you install it.
hey um i know its not refurbished but its pretty good i ordered a new chuwi herobook 220 dollars 4 gigs of ram with a quad core processor and 64 gb of storage. im not a huge genius on that but im pretty sure a quad core is pretty good for 30-20 frames on a fps IF its a low end computer.
William T. Williams yeah same. Came here to say I bought something similarly specced to the $800 one at ~450. 4core i5, 8gb ram, 1080ips touch and a 128 gb SSD. Oh and that’s with empty ram and sata upgradability
I got that 200 dollar one. I have no space. I only have chrome installed yet I have only a gb left in the hard drive. It's so slow. I cannot have more than two tabs open or it will crash. I use it for school but it's still not enough for me. Would not recommend it at all.
for anyone in this price range ,consider refurbished laptops 2-4 generations before, high grade machines, from known manufacturers like Lenovo,Dell etc.
Get an Acer Chromebook 14 for $369. I got it for school and I cannot complain. It is wonderful, build quality is wonderful, and it has a sleek design. The screen is also pretty good, 14 inches. Pretty light too. 4 GB of RAM, 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron, 32 GB of storage (You don't need more, as it's a Chromebook, you will store all your information in the cloud). You can also get a 2 GB of RAM version, for $300. Also, it has an *up to* 12 Hours of Battery Life. For general use, I got about 9-10 hours on max brightness, which is also wonderful.
Manó Lakos-Nagy I have the older one (C720P) but I spent $250 on mine, still running well and I even swapped out the UEFI firmware with a custom one to run Windows
The problem with Chromebooks is that the storage is very limited, and the OS is incompatible with a lot of stuff. I use my cheap laptop for a lot of low-demand games and it's perfect for that. Stuff like FTL or similar indie games, or old games. I wouldn't be able to do that on a Chromebook, I think.
Carlos Andrade do you expect to use a 400 dollars to render/game? At this price point, you are looking for a facebook/office/school machine, and chromebooks are perfect for that.
Carlos Andrade, have you seen high end Chromebooks? At the $400 new price point I feel that they dominate, they are the best things for using the internet, heck I would buy one just for that if I could. When I go to college I'd probably build a pc and then get a nice Chromebook, Android apps, Linux apps, the smoothest most stable webrowsing experience I've ever seen, light native gaming, chrome remote desktop for more insensitive but slower paced games like civs. Look at things like the Samsung Chromebook pro or the Asus c302. Though past that you start getting *really* ripped off.
You can. I got Shovel Knight and FTL to run on it. I also played Luftrausers, The Organ Trail, and Balder's Gate II without a skip. This was with an Acer Chromebook 13, which is older than the OP's chromebook. Just install Crouton (or GaliumOS, or whatever else is relevant now) and install steam onto a flavor of Linux
I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series. It cost $425 when I bought and it came with a 2tb HDD and 8gb RAM. It also came with an Intel Core i5-7200U CPU. It's made of plastic, but it doesn't feel cheap. The model I got also came with a touchscreen. Overall, my experience with this laptop is good because of good performance. I would recommend this laptop to anyone who is looking for a good, low-cost, laptop.
@@dillonbmx16 nah I'm pretty sure its not I got the like sticker still on it it says intel core i3 7th gen so idk n I got like the sims 4 and chrome on there thats it so I dunno
I spent $450 on a used Alienware 14, 4 core w/ 2.5 GHz to 3.5 GHz and 8 GB of RAM... the graphics is "ok" on 1080p. Trick is to look at the pawnshops and maybe craigslist. @Andrew_Chen My heart breaks that Windows 10 mobile didn't take off and that larger RAM isn't available in any phone... because I would have probably went with a Linux build to simulate a PC experience, in a worse case scenario. I desire the "all in one" smart phone, meant to replace basic PC builds.
A Jakab Hey, i’ve used the Yoga for school(mostly online international exams), and it’s a pretty nice computer honestly. But definitely not a great daily driver. The keyboard didnt feel that great especially. I’d go for something in the 500 price range if you could
I am using yoga 730 13" i5, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd and i am in college. It's pretty good for college and i got it on best buy for around 700. Awesome screen, decent selection of ports and its good for day to day works and well-built machine. I do a little bit of gaming and its pretty good. Well, i do recommend it.
I just got a Dell Inspiron 7000 15 inch laptop for 1,035. It’s got a 4K screen and a i7, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, and comes with a pen. It’s also the black edition. And get this, I saved 300 dollars off of it!
I wish I found this video in February this year. I bought a 200$ laptop and could barely do my schoolwork on it, only game I could play was minesweeper (which sparked an ongoing addiction to it somehow)
Honestly, if you want to spend $800 on a laptop, I dont see why you wouldn't get the inspirion 15 gaming instead. It costs the same, has an pci-e ssd, quad core i5, a frikkin gtx 1050, much better battery life and pretty much everything is better except for the fact that it's not a ips panel(for the 800$ model).
I disliked because they called a 4 times faster processor(the core m3 one) "slightly better" than a celeron. Seriously, google the benchmarks for these processors. What they said about these processors is one of the least truthful things I've ever heard. Core m3 processors are incredibly efficient. They are about as core i7-s in terms of efficiency.
+howtoblake not always. Either way, in laptops with hdds - they can be replaced with ssd-s quite easily. And given the decent in speed and super efficiency of the processor, it could become a great inexpensive laptop
DJLongLastin -- RAM upgrades can help a lot on PC's that are using the system drive to cache things that should be handled by RAM. It's one of the cheapest & easiest ways to speed up a PC. Glad it helped.
how are you going to go from 200$ for a budget to 800!!! that's 4x the price!! someone who is trying to buy a 200 dollar laptop bc 200 dollars is their budget, maybe its bc they don't have 800 dollars to spend on a trash laptop. my laptop was 500 dollars and I would recommend this over the 800 dollar one simply bc no one who is ona budget is spending 800 dollars on a laptop
To be honest, it really depends on your budget, if you have a bigger budget but still want a good price-quality ratio, you'd get the 800$ laptop, if you don't have the budget or don't want to spend as much, you can just get the 200$ laptop. It hurts nobody to mention a good laptop at a reasonably higher price since some people will have the money for it, and of course not everybody should go for the most expensive one.
were you watching the video? he's only talking about one line of products from one company. This isn't about buying budget laptops, it's about the differences between different price tiers and maximizing value for cash spent. Stay in school there chowdhury.
well that's easy just stop the psychoapthic banking families, that use the fiat money system to rob the world of resources and power, to focus all of it onto them, while people suffer to pay them direct "taxes" through the irs and other shit, which is not rightful, but also the hidden one inflation, which is part of this sick system.
Agreed for basic task that most people do with a laptop these days Chromebook are great machines, but you do have to rethink your workflow and sometimes find web based alternatives, or alternatives in the Chrome webstore, but some of the ARM based Chromebooks are starting to run Android apps finally, and hopefully all newer Chromebooks will run them.
I actually think they are great if you use them for what they are. Cheap snappy laptops with incredible battery life. mine is even a convertible and I love it. I only use it for web browsing and video watching. Plus I can take it anywhere and if something happens it was cheap.
i got the 400$ laptop as a chrombook for free from my school ,can someone tell me at least 1 secondary pc usage senario where having windows is critical ? the laptop is as snappy as my full gaming rig on chrome ! and the retail price drops to 300 !
@@MordecaiTheAwesomeBluejay as long as you don't ask why a smack fiend has a $1,600 (new) computer, and acknowledging the fact that it's probably hot... If Linus will shop hot items from a crack den I'm sure I'm good with 1 laptop lol
No it's not, he tried to up-sell people into buying the $800 version. You didn't notice that? This is literally a Dell commercial, trying to get ppl to buy the more expensive variant.
nappydrew He also advised you to not buy the 400$, but instead buy the 200$ if that's all you could afford. Did you even watch the video or do you lack critical thinking skills?
I own a Surface Laptop and I don't have one shred of desire for one of these Laptops. I asked if you watched the video, because your comment clearly contradicts the conclusion of the video. So I'm assuming you lack critical thinking skills?
I deleted my previous comment. I have no intention of arguing about petty shit, on UA-cam. You've got your takeaway, I've got mine. Don't take everything at face value. LTT is notorious for stealth-marketing. I simply pointed out that this is another example of that. I get it, you disagree & think I'm unable to think critically. Loud & clear. Good day...
Derek DeVita at walmart they got rid of the older hp models for $99 at my store because we got the "newer" models in even though the specs and even colors seem to be the same lol
Laptops at that kind of price are a trap. When I worked in PC World we deliberately took a loss on certain cheaper laptops to get people in the stores. Sure they could do web surfing, documents and other basic office tasks - but only just. You also would have to pay for the software (MS Office and an AV product which are both high margin) seperately which would boost the price up by £160 on a unit that costs around £360. Often they would run out of RAM memory leading to huge slow-downs when it tried to make up the lack of RAM with VRAM. I would expect this behaviour of any machine with less than 4gb RAM, even then I would stay clear with anything that has less than 8Gb in this day and age. Also, if you wanted to get it set up and ready in store, that was another £30 without an aftersales care package. Thus a £360 loss-making laptop becomes a £550 sale with the margin on software and services demolishing the small loss on the actual hardware and turning it into a profit. Add the aftersales care package (because this is for a kids school work and carrying it around, he is likely to break the thing) adds another £12 - £30 per month or a £200 lump sum for 2 years cover which may or may not end up with the company having to do anything other than rake in the cash.
Tip, a used Thinkpad + SSD is about the most bang for the buck laptop you can get. Hell, a used T420 with an SSD would blow that thing out of the water whilst being even cheaper.
Owned an x230 for close to 5 years now. Bought it on sale, did the nasty NOT RECOMMENDED msata upgrade, and it's now my living room PC. Mid-tier mobile ivy bridge combined with an SSD is way too good. Keyboard was never an issue, and now it's less of an issue because I use a wireless keyboard solution. Really, for student use, any second hand model past x220 with an ssd will probably be good enough to sell a third time to someone else.
"needs of local storage is becoming very limited" says the guy with a petabyte in his server room 😂😂😂 Okay lets get this straight: First I KNOW WHAT HE SAYS NEXT and watched the video till the end. Second I find this funny because Linus may not even notice the biggest problem for most of the people - they don't have a home server or anything else with lots of terabytes of storage on the network. And even if they have what will they do when they go somewhere without an access to their home network??? In my opinion the 200 dollar one is not a laptop! - its just a windows tablet with a keyboard that is very limiting. Why you may ask - because laptop to me is something that you can take and use EVERYWHERE not just around your house. And to any of the haters this time - can you install everything you need for daily use on just that 32 GB onboard? I doubt it!
+DragonSlayer420Blaze - Speedruns It depends on whether you're asking binary or decimal. One petabyte can equal 1000 terabytes when measured in decimal and 1024 terabytes when measured in binary. decimal = 1000^5 bytes binary = 1024^5 bytes
To clarify I just purchased a Windows 10 tablet with an abysmal Atom Z3735 processor, an inexcusable 1gb of ram, and a dog shit user experience. Its because I don't usually use Windows anymore, since my phone does basically 99% of all my internet and computing related needs. BUT every now and then you need a windows or Linux system to help you root your phone via cmd/adb. I figure even a $50 paperweight suckfest should be capable of bare minimum functions with full-windows. Product name is Vulcan Journey 7inch tablet, there's a lister on eBay dumping their supply for $49. It's not worth your time or money unless you have a specific niche where a slow, agonizing experience is just enough to do small/simple tasks
I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 with an Intel core i5, 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD for €700 a couple of months back. It's a no frills laptop that really delivers a lot of value. Solid build quality too. Can recommend, happy customer here.
My laptop- 500$ normally, got on sale for 300 8 gigs ram 1.6gh quad core smallish and light 128gb SSD + a 50$ 128 gb SD card bringing up to 350 could also use a 100$ 256gb SD card for more aditanal storage bringing it up to 400$
oh, ok. My friend lives in perpetual anger, because he hasn't bothered to get an ad blocker (he uses the mobile YT app) and works himself into a lather whenever he sees the same commercial. Like clockwork. I've started playing "You have bugeyes" commercial just to spite him. x3
I got a Lenovo 330S-15IKB for $450. I bought it in July of 2018, specs are i5-8250u, 2x4 ddr4 (one soldered). An upgradeable ssd, you can add an nvme drive too. Intel UHD 620 graphics, Win10 Home
Your dude at Dell sends you a laptop.
Makes video about why you shouldn't buy it.
Clarity is good for lmg and for Dell
*Madlad*
He did recommend two other Dell laptops
At least it's not like what happened with GmanLives and Anthem/EA...
Dell: am I a joke to you
Linus: I don't even know you
I just love how Linus roasts any brand regardless if they are a sponsor.
When the channel grows to this size, the tables turn.
Dell pays smaller channels to praise them, it pays linus to not roast them too hard
That's the whole point who wants to follow a smuck who sucks up to big companies
Honesty is always the best policy.
The fact theyre sponsers though xD hahahaha... Yeah dont buy it
@@tylergardner2598 Companies don't sponsor you to shit on them lmao. Unless every "influencer" at the same time all decided they would hate on sponsors.
Do you really expect me to believe that a laptop with 2GB of DDR3 will actually run Chrome? Linus, stop.
It does run it, just need to wait forever with everything you do, plus watching videos is a nightmare (got a hp pavilion 2gb model with same like specs as the dell)
It need a proper processor and bus speed then yeah, I have a old laptop with core 2 duo with 3gb ddr2 ram that run chrome and Firefox with less than 8 tabs at optimal speed
dot use 512 MB for chome
@@mbk0mbk Virtual memory (is a memory management capability of an operating system (OS) that uses hardware and software to allow a computer to compensate for physical memory shortages by temporarily transferring data from random access memory (RAM) to disk storage.)
btw what os are you running i cant imagine windows 10 not lagging in chrome , i had to use linux on my old laptop with samelike specs
@@cybernaab I know what virtual memory is but it uses a hard disk or ssd for storing unused data from RAM, if it used with browsers like these you will get lag .
The actual culprit is not browsers but websites , if you block unnecessary scripts with addon like umatrix or no script the browsers will not use that much RAM and work efficient in just 2-4gig RAM and have less impact on processor . These websites ate running infinite loops and data mining stuff that runs even you closed all the tabs .
"Ill buy every single one"
~every school 2020
Except the ones over $200
@@Darenz-cg9zg No. My school district bought about 30,000 Latitude 3180/3190s. Windows 10 edition. My school district sucks.
@@Darenz-cg9zg well we only use websites to learn. And the codeing? We got cheap windows 10 laptops.
@@pittsburgh_.central whats bad about them?
@@Darenz-cg9zg I've never had that problem. Guess I got a better chromebook
But I'm a poor student and my parents think the hand me down laptop that weighs a ton that's like 7 years old is fine.
A: Be glad you have your parents B: laptop batteries don't usually last 7 years, so it's days are numbered
so thats a tough laptop, a miracle it still can even turn on
if you have around 200$ you can buy used x220 thinkpad and just buy a 16gb a ram, and you got yourself a perfect laptop (not for gaming tho)
Any laptop beliw 700 is going to be so bad that it’ll cost you more when it gets outdated/breaks diwn.
@@thebravegallade731 Dell business refurbs can be great deals
Reasons to BUY a $400 laptop:
1. That's all you can afford.
There's even a $450 or $520 laptops with a dedicated graphics card, let it be a Maxwell or a Radeon GPU Architecture and some 4GB of RAM. Spending an extra $30 or $45 dollars on an additional 4 GB is a good day to extend the laptop's role. ;)
If you can afford a $400 laptop you can afford a $200 laptop. Did you even watch the video?
It's just a joke comment.. Chill!
If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball, haven't you seen that movie?
Long Live NC What if you only have a $400 voucher? Can't buy a $200 laptop with that.
Mmm in the market for a $200 laptop? You're going to love this $2,000 projector ;) ;)
@@jasons2008 It was a sponsor not a recommendation
“I only have a $400 dollar budget”
Linus: “Here’s something that’s double your budget”
His point was that it's better to just get the $200 machine, and that there is also an $800 machine if you need something decent.
Get a job
@@Puppy_Puppington irrelevant to the topic
@@Puppy_Puppington kids who use their rich dad's credit card and insult everyone else on youtube don't get to comment, so silence, peasant.
@@donaldbestkorea2248 agree
I've lived with a 2gb ram netbook for 5yrs (it finally died last week). I would not recommend it. You can't do anything!
You need a new GDDR for 2gb of ram to be enough
I'm so sorry
I got i7 2600k laptop for 100$
VAIBHAV M liar, i7-2600k is desktop processor...
@@propane8659 aka someone with no knowledge bout cpus wanted to flex a non existent deal
Reasons not to buy? Your phone is more powerful.
But your phone doesn't run a desktop OS which can run basically any software.
TessellatedGuy Yeah but it doesn't really matter. Apart from web-browsing they can't handle much.
The OS doesn't matter if your laptop can't have a couple of chrome tabs open.
Good luck being as productive on a phone than a laptop
L HK But the OS can help the laptop manage those couple tabs.
6:22 easter egg: "how to get blood out of a carpet"
This is the kind of editing I enjoy, by the way! Not "over-the-top and childish" with in-your-face text; but the subtleties, like the little emphasized, seemingly random, sounds from the review unit (3:46~4:05), and the little old school "loading" hourglass at 4:22! The out-of-focus Linus at 7:07 trying to use "Hello" on the $400 laptop while emphasizing the practicality of it in the more expensive one.
This is, editing wise, to me the best piece of content you have put out in quite some time now. I really enjoyed it and hope you strive to continue on this road with future content!
HowToBeANoob I couldn’t catch the 6:22 Easter egg cuz I don’t have WiFi at home so my videos are loading in 480p.
The fact that Dell is scared of Linus is amazing
We’re poor
-2 subscribers with no video I have the curse of the Slav , I will forever have a shitty pc setup and only play crossout
-2 subscribers with no video yes
My family is asian and I’m getting a $1700 first gaming laptop
I'm sorry, I can't like this comment because it has 420 likes
@@GoreHumanPudding If you pay $1700 dollars to build a gaming desktop you could have a PC that is a lot more powerful for gaming
4:34 excellent typing actor right there.
r/wooosh
@@raccoonator2583 r/ihavereddit + whoooosh
dontstealmyacid r/fuckoff
dontstealmyacid dude just shut up nobody cares about woosh anymore
@@brian5271 beanos is sad
"can it play age of empires?"
"yes howeve..."
" *SOLD* "
Jam Z *NHL 2004… or gmod. If it can play it, i’m buyin’ it
check out shadow tech or liquid sky if you are wanting to game on a low spec computer requires decent internet though
...however, the $200 one can also play it :P
469 likes lmao
"The 5400rmp drive is slooooooow"
*proceeds to show Chrome opening at a reasonable speed*
oh...
Except it didn’t.
My old laptop originally had a 5400 rpm hard drive. It was slow as hellll. I can’t believe how much of a difference a simple ssd made.
@LRN Vital HDD close to pcie ssd? Hmmm
I had that drive speed, slower. It runs fine
@@EdPMur My laptop used to have a 1TB 5200RPM hard drive... it took about 5 minutes from hitting the power switch to the desktop. Slapped an SSD in that shit and it was cut to 10 seconds. SSDs really are amazing.
Reason No.1 - You don't have $400!
Aymenrh You got me there.
ozapenguin What was the point of the question? You just answered yourself.
I don't have $400 because I bought a 1080.
makes sense
Aymenrh Haha wow i literally read this comment, looked at the clock on the phone and it was 00:00. And yes i should get some sleep, thanks for reminding me! Good night!
You should take a look at the Acer Aspire E-15 E5-575-33BM. ~$350 for 7100 i3, 4 GB DDR4 with an extra ram slot, has an upgradable HDD and an unpopulated M.2, back lit keyboard, 1080p screen with HDR, USB 3.1 type C, and a good webcam. Honestly I doubt there is a better laptop in existence for the price. Plus great battery life.
It's pretty big and battery wise: "6-cell 2800 mAh Li-ion".
Ian Paylor At least they don't cook themselves to death like HP(or in the case of more modern hardware thermal throttle to the point of uselessness)
had an acer aspire dual core absolute shit
hey that was my problem! it cooked itself to death!
Jay.K they were rather shit back then, now they're aren't that bad, they're significantly better than Toshiba & HP
If you have a budget of $400 then go for a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad. You'll get an older generation Core i3 or i5 (which will still be better than a new Celeron, Pentium or any low end AMD A Series processor) and probably 8GB RAM. Some refurbishing companies usually shove SSDs in them which helps greatly. Those run far better than any low end new computer which in reality are just a mish-mash of leftover low end parts. You're not going to get a screen with a good viewing angle and the laptop might be a tad heavy but they're still great.
You can get such great refurbish deals on Ebay, it's amazing. I bought an Ipad, that was refurbished and it holds without a problem and also saved me more than half of the real cost, where I'm from.
What I did, got a lenovo, ssd, 8 gb ram, 11.6. Not bad viewing g angles, was 349.99, onsale 199.99
Or just go strait to used! I got a Lenovo z500 for 99 dollars, 3632QM, gt740M, 8 gigs of ram/500GB under the hood! Maxed out the RAM and replaced the drive bay with an SSD, only for an extra 80$. Now that's a deal.
Dashcam Dumbasses i found a lenovo idea pad £500 i5 12 GB RAM Windows 10 . Is it good
ClyDe YT what GPU and CPU does it have?
Dell: Guess what? We'll send you a free laptop!
Linus: Here are 3 reasons not to buy it!
He said to not buy ONE of them... not all of them... he recommended better from the same brand
@@TheDeathmail Very old comment of mine
Reason No. 1 That color...
It’s giving me eye cancer
The color is a bonus for me, only because my external hard drive is that color. (The blue of the $200 I mean)
WHERE IS THE BLACK AND SILVER
noah they’re exclusive to Walmart only
I actuality like the blue color. Not that I'd actually buy a laptop that's that kind of blue though, because it's too loud and feminine for me.
Blue color on the laptop is cancer for my eyes
I bought a DELL Inspiron 3537 for my dad five years ago for 420$, I upgraded it with a SSD and 4GB of RAM more (60 bucks total), and five years later, is still doing fine. Not everyone needs 2k, 1.5k or even a 800$ laptop.
and you can install linux on it and he will still be using it in another 10 year no problemo
Nice price if you ask me
i have a 5567 that can edit video for 1000 bucks, i even stufffed an ssd in it! for what i need its a decent little thing, hard drive sucked but that was fixed 3 years in
HMMM IMMA HAVING INSPIRON 3593 WITH 1 TB HDD :(
Yes
4:34 amazing acting
😂😂😂😂I was thinking the same thing
Hello 👋 is the day
I was scrolling down to comment on that specifically lmao that's the silliest typing
Hahaha "WHAT!"
7:11 amazing dancing
UA-cam: don’t buy dell is 400$ laptop
Me: wishing have this laptop
Sad
Sad Like Sand
@@miserablerabbit omg it you
Get an acer aspire 5 slim, it's fast as all hell. Only $360
@@james1311na I'd like to know the story behind this one
5:01, 'The type of computer where you type in a web address and take a sip of your coffee' is possibly the best description ever.
Anyone actually looking for a budget laptop should get on newegg in the refurbished section. You can get 4 times as much computer for 1/2 the price of the $200 laptop in this video.
confirmed ..if you don't mind or prefer windows 7 ....... and add a SSD
Yeah, that's what I did and I got a 8460p HP which has 4 gb of ram and 2 core 4 thread i5 with 2.5 ghz. THe computer is pretty good and allows me to 3D model fairly smoothly for only 150$. also it runs windows 10.
Yes, this is how I got my Thinkpad. Soooo much cheaper and might be 5 years old but dang is it fast... and sturdy.
outsider344 Especially in refurb Thinkpads... they are dope af
What you are looking for there, are last-generation laptops that are being replaced by the next generation in enterprise deployments.
Yay, this video is bringing the Tips back to Linus Tech Tips
They need to bring back the whole thing..
Seran Antares how is it silly?
Seran Antares doesn't have to be fully serious and is that not how most students would use it?
Apparently my dad had one of these $400 laptops laying around, and when i asked my dad why he bought it and never used it, he said it was very slow. I tested it, it took about 10 minutes to get to the desktop. Luckily my old pc that i don't use anymore happened to have a 512 gig Kingston SSD inside that i used to upgrade this laptop, and now it runs super fast with boot times being 30 seconds. I also ordered more ram for it.
Cool 👍
Had the blue laptop, it was $100 and I had it for 2 in a half years and it finally broke which was my fault but it was a great laptop😂
Exactly that's the point of the video. If you only had $400 he's saying don't buy the $400 one. You aren't getting a better laptop, so why waste your money. It's like people asking questions about what kind of ethernet cable to buy. It doesn't matter, the $10 cable will do the same thing as a $50 cable. Will literally last forever, and if it doesn't, you can just buy another $10 cable.
for $100 you can't complain
2 and a half years? I would expect it to last about a year that is pretty fucking good
@@noritsukenji ikr?
Did it come with windows pre installed, or did you have to install it yourself? Looking to get one
That awkward moment when you watch this video with a $400 laptop
That awkward moment when you see a comment sent from a Growtopia channel...
*$200
750$*
bit under $300, but its an i7m with 930m
Opening GT *1440 $
Problem is...many people barely have $400. HP 14 with i3 6006U and Radeon 520 should be quite decent at $400. Dell doesn't offer good budget laptop.
Just got refurbished i3-6u laptop off Dell outlet for 212 USD. At the sub-400 price point if you aren't buying used, refurbished or on clearance you are being scammed.
Dell Inspiron 5570 is a pretty solid laptop. It's between $400-$500. The only difference between the lower priced ones is they come with mechanical hard drives and an 8th gen, 4-core i5. This is the one I just got for $400: www.microcenter.com/product/488404/Inspiron_15_5570_156%22_Laptop_Computer_-_Silver;_Intel_Core_i5-8250U_Processor_16GHz;_Microsoft_Windows_10_Home;_8GB_DDR4-2400_RAM;_1TB_5,400RPM_Hard_D
Yeah, I got a new Lenovo with a 840m 4gb gpu for the same price. So as you say, Dell isnt really good value.
Calle Nilsson I'm guessing you got the Lenovo Ideapad Z50-70? It has the gpu (which would cost 100-200 more on the dell) but it also only comes with a 1366x768 monitor, and 8gb max space of ram. The dell has a 1080p monitor with room for 32gb of ram and 2 extra hard drive slots (cd tray can hold an extra HD plus a slot for an m.2 HD). Unless I'm wrong and it's a different Lenovo, in which case I'd be curious to know what model.
Ok
“3 Reasons NOT to buy a $400 Laptop”
Me: looking at my $259 computer
i have refurbished DELL pc
I had the 200 dollar blue laptop but im gonna have a 600 dollar asus cuz i do light gaming and the dell was gonna explode, i got the dell when i knew nothing about pc’s and it was a huge error
Me staring at my $35 pc.
Your 259 usd PC is the reason not to buy the laptop.
My dell latitude e7479 was 400$ works great (refurbished) I even game on it no heating issues 😮
7:11 lmao wtf was she doing in the background?!
I think she is dancing, but I am not sure.
She's vibin
😂😂😂💀💀
Shes doing her fucking best, give her a break! xD
i think she’s doing a tiktok
1.No rgb
2.no 1080
3.no rgb
who cares about rgb
hold up lemme spend another 100 - 300 dollars on my build making it flash special colors instead of putting that into better hardware
>not using a $15 pair of chirstmas lights chopped up and rewired throughout the case.
Zizzy Dizzy
>using ">" on UA-cam
Smh
Oh you forgot reason n.4 no rgb
so fucking what? electricity is ancient too...
Reason #0: this is LinusTechTips and we never buy anything for under $1000.
you mean under 7k$
They bought a 7k$ video card...
Astfgl They won't give it a good review unless it costs 5000 and get it for free.
Astfgl *10,000
*1,000,000
Astfgl reason #-1. The exception is if you poor AF like me
I juiced up one of these with an SSD, afterwards it was actually kind of snappy when the CPU wasn't struggling to keep up which was frequently.
Thankfully even the cheapest Dell's now have decent processors and SSD's.
*buys 500 dollar laptop. Watches this*
lol, I just did the same thing
Me too but it was a zen 5 2500U vega 8 8GB DDR4 Ram so i don't know if that is comparable to the $800 one.
Allure The Fox *buys an s9+ and 1.3k digital storm pc. Watches this*
same got an Asus fx553vd for 500 at a thrift store
I just got the dell g7
you could almost feel the "i dont want to do this" radiate of max while she was dancing in front of three laptops
I just bought the blue one for $180, i love it. It's my 3rd computer and 2nd laptop, it was too much carting around a 9 pound gaming laptop that has a one hour battery especially at school where no one treats your stuff with respect and teachers get pissed if you are taking up any outlets.
wow one hour? my gaming razor blade pro laptop last for around 5-8 hrs i think
I was allowed to bring my laptop at school. Every classroom had extension cords.
YTP WEEK! It's custom. It's in a clevo chasis. The only battery you could fit was like 5600 milliamps
Is your gaming razor laptop costs $180 though? @ytp guy
no shit your fucking 3000 dollar laptop runs around 5 hours lol
"Where you type a web adress and take a sip of coffe while it loads"
Bro, in my country the internet is so bad i can eat my launch while it loads
i can sleep for 12 hours, wake up and have breakfast while it boots
eating boats is bad for you
*laughs In African no internet coverage country
3:05 - *Vampire Detected!*
dickbutt detected
The greatest secret of the PCMR
I died😂😂
Then why isn't he glittering?
for many people social life is social media, go out and play is not that necessary
I dont really think point 3 was very helpful. 400 vs 800 is a huge difference for regular people, especially if you like me used to be low on cash and had to settle for 400-500 dollar machines. Better value is a mute point if you cant afford it.
You can get one that’s used and sorta worn out and on Black Friday?
*moot
moooooooot
@Jay Bee
Don't recommend apple products you fucking loser
The issue is that it's better to buy a used laptop at that price point than a new one. I got an older IBM ThinkPad X230 last year for 130 bucks that blows away these new Inspirons.
You don't even need to buy used, end of line models from the previous years product line up can have significant discounts. You get a new laptop with manufacturers warranty. Keeping your eyes open in major airports is a good idea as well I have often seen perfectly decent models reduced to clear because they need to make space for new stock.
what, thats a hell of a laptop for that money, great find
The trick isnt to buy either brand new or used, used laptops are always a bit of a risk since they wont be cleaned and a lot like a used car you have no idea what life the previous owner had, but buying a store demo laptop is gonna be a much better bet, I have a MSI a6000 i got in 2010 and while its a heaping pile of dog S**t today cause well 8 years old i payed 200 for a 800 laptop and well first things first 200 bucks and its still going after 8 years no upgrades and even runs 10, not great but I've seen worse performance from windows.
zachary carlson True, you dont know what the previous owner had. I bought a laptop with plenty of Trojans and viruses and his Google chrome had deebweb extensions pirate bay and all(can't remove them widows security doesnt spot them and A vast,avira and all want money for removing them) Better safe than sorry. Buy new,on sale or refurbished ones(with warranty is better)
i got an e6430 with i5, 8gb ram, and 256gb hard drive for $150
*Me watching this on a $350 laptop:* I like your funny words, magic man
Listening to him speak about projector, hears 2000 dollars
“Ok bye”...
save up more money and buy something like the dell inspiron 5000 13inch. bigger and better screen, better processor, still have touchscreen and 2 in 1 conversion, and it is only 20 bucks more
www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-laptops/inspiron-13-5000-2-in-1/spd/inspiron-13-5378-2-in-1-laptop
CalculatinGenius z
ExpertGamer who are you?
ExpertGamer oh i remember now
I didnt know you watched ltt
When you have a budget of $200 just buy an older refurbished flagship, it would have a 3rd gen i5 and 8gb of ddr3 ram. Better than a celeron and 4 gb if u ask me
This is where a lot of people are actually wrong. A newer budget processor like a celeron n4000 or pentium n5000 is a much better processor than older flagship processors. The celeron n4000 is marginally weaker than the i5-3320m (a 3rd gen i5 processor) and the Pentium n5000 matches it in some cases and absolutely destroys it in others. The older graphics in the i5 3320m are mainly what screw it over, but also there's the issue of power efficiency. Older flagship processors are built on an incredibly inefficient architecture so your laptop battery life would be garbage. Meanwhile on laptops with the celeron n4000/pentium n5000, you can push battery life of upwards of 11-12 hours depending on use. And having 8gb of RAM isn't really that important for such a weak laptop anyway because on a laptop that low in price you can't do much that would even be capable of utilizing that much RAM. Any games the processors would be capable of running are able to run just fine on 4gb which is what most Pentium and celeron laptops have nowadays. I've got an Acer Spin 1 with a pentium n4200 and 4gb of RAM and don't have a single problem running any of the applications I have installed such as Clone Hero, Skyrim, and Oxygen Not Included. I used to have a laptop with the exact specs you're recommending and it's not a very comfortable device to use. They're big, loud, and rather hot too. And also the network cards in most of the older laptops are significantly worse than the pentium and celeron laptops which usually come with a pretty good AC wifi card instead of the crappy b/g/n cards that the older laptops usually have as well. I'm speaking from personal experience here as I've had a laptop with an i5 3320m/8gb of RAM as well as a laptop with a pentium n4200/4gb of RAM and I find the Pentium n4200 to be the better processor of the two. The Pentium n5000 is the newer and more powerful brother to the Pentium n4200. I don't have hands on experience with the n5000, but I do know it's basically the same in CPU performance but it does have a better GPU as well, making it work the extra 20-30 dollars you'd spend on getting a laptop with the n5000 instead of the pentium n4200.
what if you live outside the US?
@@electricnick260 ok you seem good enough at this(although you could've just copy pasted this from somewhere else, but anyways). So I still can't find out what processors are better for budget laptops? I hear a lot that AMD is better at this while Intel is more on higher end stuff but Celeron and Pentium seem to be good as well. Could you help me out to figure out which one is better pick?
So right now I'm looking at Pentium (N3710) and Celeron on one side and AMD A9 on the other. Which one is better for use by students? My priorities are :
Good performance (not slow)
Battery life
And of course $$$
@@electricnick260 my budget is around $300-400. I'm not in the US or Canada but I'm planning to do some studying in the UK soon. Where I live I see those models for 150$ in US to be 250$ right now.
As for prices, in my general knowledge prices in UK should be somewhat similar to those in US/Canada. So if that is the case I'll wait till I get to the UK.
As per processor, I think the model you suggested seems decent enough. I'm gonna add m.2 SSD and some RAM too
@@electricnick260 I checked These 3 models that you mentioned and boy we have different prices. I could only find one used one for 320$ with Intel i3 6006u, 8 gb RAM, fhd, discrepe graphics card GeForce 940 MX.
I'll see what is the battery life later, but so far does it look good? I mean will it be of good use in office work for like next 2-3 years?
This is the computer my high school provides for everyone, it’s ok
It depends on what you do, for my schoolwork it will not work
Do you guys even receive computers from schools?
@@hellomine2849 my school doesn't. They don't provide anything. Except for PE uniforms and textbooks.
The 200$ one or the 400$ one
Some universities and colleges used to supply computers to all students. I doubt they still do. They'd be more likely to provide a purchase option for a discounted one supplied by a contracted vendor.
If you get the version with a hard drive, it has both a regular SATA slot and slotted RAM you can upgrade. The eMMC one is the only one you can't.
That was something I really wanted to know, because it was mentioned for the cheaper laptop but not for the $400 one. So (a question I would have liked to have seen answered is) if the hard drive is the problem with it, how would it perform under an SSD, and what improvements can be gained by upgrading the RAM?
An SSD is a huge upgrade from a HDD, do that first. Startups, access time, wake up, even web browsing because of caches feels better on an SSD. The RAM you could increase, but definitely SSD first, 4GB of RAM is ok for this processor class. It can be upgraded to 8 if you want to go all the way with upgrades, and would allow more tabs open at once etc.
Yes but when you count in the price of additional ssd and 4gb of ram you come near 700dollar mark minus i5 cpu and better screen...
emmc is replacable. the problem is that it is soldered. like your phone, it IS replacable. so you have to buy the part separately and go to someone who knows how to put off and on the part
I think it was because this was seen as a non-technical consumer was buying this. Most elderly individuals won't know how to upgrade the hard drive.
A really good option if you're on a budget is a used ThinkPad. I have a T440s, and although the screen isn't great (I have the 900p TN panel instead of the 1080p IPS panel) and the processor isn't the best (i5-4300U instead of an i7-4600U), it's an all-around great laptop. It's dual batteries, especially with the external one being hot-swappable, give this thing an INSANE battery life. The keyboard is hands down the best of any laptop I've ever tried, and dare I say better than almost every single desktop keyboard I''ve ever tried. And even with the lower-end processor, the laptop has absolutely no problem handling web browsing and even more demanding tasks like some lighter games, and that was on Windows 10. After installing Pop!_OS, this thing absolutely flies when it comes to web browsing. One time I had around 90 tabs open (long story, don't ask) and it slowed down a little bit, but not by that much. I have the extended battery which raises the laptop up a bit which can be a bit annoying at times, but it helps cooling so much. I have never seen this laptop get warmer than 65 degrees Celcius, even while gaming. There are better value ThinkPads than the T440s, but my point is that a used ThinkPad is an excellent option for anyone on a budget. And if your laptop isn't the best, there;s usually some way to upgrade them. And if something goes wrong, there's a huge community out there willing to help you at any time.
honestly if your thinking about getting the t440s, just get a t440p instead, yes it's thicker but the cpu is replacable with a quad core i7 which will rival even this $800 dell for like $300(to be clear this is The price of the laptop and a quad core cpu combined, a t440p can be found for as low like $100), plus screens are drop in replacements too, easier then the t440s, because it uses plastic clips instead of glue to hold on the screen bezel
Wow! You think the $200 laptop screen is bad! My 15.6" laptop has the same resolution and has almost no viewing angles...
Zackeroo HQ yup same
Matthew Thompson Well that's why I'm buying a new laptop probs today
just make your own computer
mahi zen Lol. That’s gonna be expensive...also who do ya think I am?
How much was your laptop? Just save and build a computer? Don't waste money being impatient. And doesn't matter who you are 500-1000 is nothing to an average person living ok.
Me realizing that’s the exact laptop I have sitting in a drawer because it won’t run: BRUH
I mean for 800 bucks you can get an entry level gaming laptop, Linus.
Yeah I tried that lmao this thing gets mad at Stardew Valley
For 800, you could get the Acer Nitro 5. I would rather get that, then the Dell.
And you expect everyone needs a gaming laptop? They are heavy, often ugly and have an even worse battery life. Most people need a "MacBook Pro" a laptop that can be comfortably used for web browsing and other every day work without a hiccup and have enough power for an occasional more intensive load. You cannot buy a macbook or any of it windows analogues for 800$ so what they recommended seems like a close enough analogue
I bought a 8th gen i7 xps 13 for 730
Got mine for only 756 { acer nitro 5 } and its a good value for money.
Reasons to buy a $400 laptop: You don't have to buy new.
I got a 1 year old $900 laptop for $400 on Craigslist haha
I bough refurbished HP Elitebook 8460p with 1 year warranty in 2015 for about 200€. It serves me perfectly even today. I just use it for some basic games and college duties.I might install SSD in it and use it for another 5 years lol.Would buy used one again 10/10
I recommended my friend a £200-on-eBay (in 2020), refurbished 2014 HP Probook 430 G2 (13.3") with an i5-4210U CPU (2200+ passmark), 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows 10 and he's very happy with it!
@@keithfriestad3949
Specs?
Giorno Giovanna core i7 8550u, 8gb ddr4, 256 Gb m.2 ssd, aluminum build, touch screen, 2 in 1. HP envy x360 specifically.
I own the Dell Inspiron 11 shown in the video. It's not fast, but it's cheap, light, and with Intel Quick Sync you can capture the screen with OBS Studio to MP4 without a hitch. If you need to travel and don't need the CPU power or high built-in drive capacity, it's a great travel machine. I sent it with a friend recently, along with a Blue Snowball mic, to do voice-over work in Vegas. He came back and had the audio files on the machine and they were perfectly fine. They're a compromise, but for $180 they're a really great deal. Best part: if it's lost, stolen, or smashed, you're only out $180 instead of $800. If I'm spending $800 on a laptop, I'm avoiding those dinky stupid touchscreen units at all costs; I'd rather have a nice big screen, backlit keyboard, good CPU, and option to upgrade to an SSD and IPS LCD panel.
My grandma bought me a $500 dell laptop for my birthday awhile back when i was 7 (im 11) i kinda messed it up and got it full of junk. For Christmas of 2019 i got a chromebook. But my brother broke it. I had to use my old dell laptop that was already 8 years old (with Windows 7). I messed it up by making it laggy and crap. Acidently turning off sound. It even glitched out on accident and it took me 5 times for a hard reset to work to bring it back to life. I finally got sound back and fixed it without factory resting it. Dell is a really good brand and my mom has had the same dell laptop for 15 years. Some times its worth the price.
The red adds 18gigs or ram and a boost clock at 5.7 ghz
Amir Ghazi and don’t forget 1080 ti sli
It fukin better
Amir Ghazi still more ram hurts battery life I know this
m8 its got titan xp's in quad sli
With the Blue version, you can just download extra RAM though...
You can get a Lenovo T430 for 150$ used. Screen is crap, but you can upgrade it with what you need (RAM, SSD, whatever), change battery on the go, have 2 or even 3 hard drives if you don't need the DVD. It's heavy, rugged, I have mine since 2012 and still use it when I go on vacation for example (I can work on it, watch a shit ton of movies offline, etc.).
If you want a tablet, just buy a tablet.
If you need a workstation/gaming rig, just buy a desk PC with a decent graphics card.
If you need a laptop, it won't do anything great unless you pay 2000$ for it. But for this price tag you can have a nice tablet, a correct workstation AND a disposable laptop.
No "one device" is gonna be perfect. You need redundancy, you need to know what your needs are. Every device can fail or be stolen, and they will at the worst of times. That's one reason why 2000$ laptops are overrated.
I couldn't have put it better! For workstations I want desktop peripherals because notebook ergos are inherently shit. Unless I'm forced to use notebook screens my 'Pads get docked too, and used docks are cheap! I also have a $2K laptop (P52 Xeon, 70GB RAM, 1TB M.2) but that was a want, not a need. The rest of the fleet are much older 'Pads because they're great machines.
If you have a small budget, order certified refurbished from reputable sellers, with a decent number of reviews, and at least an average of 4 stars.
You can get an i5 with 8 gigs of ram, or even 16 gigs of ram, for less than $300 @ both Amazon and Walmart. Both places usually offer solid warranties, and extended/accidental warranties as well.
Most of these computers come with disk drives, or low capacity solid state drives. Solid-state drives are much more affordable now, with 500 gig options at around $80 or $90 dollars. You can read the QnA section of a listing, to see if you can install a solid state drive. If you can, I suggest looking up the instructions online, as you will need the right cable ($10ish) and software, before you install it.
hey um i know its not refurbished but its pretty good i ordered a new chuwi herobook 220 dollars 4 gigs of ram with a quad core processor and 64 gb of storage. im not a huge genius on that but im pretty sure a quad core is pretty good for 30-20 frames on a fps IF its a low end computer.
signic you’re only going to play Doom on that pc. You need more than 64gb storage for most stuff. Doesn’t sound like it could run WoW.
I remember when I switched from a crappy chromebook to a gaming pc, I got scared that I cannot type faster than the response time of each keypress
Hey Linus, can you do a 2019 refresh of this video? Specs have changed a good bit since 2017.
William T. Williams yeah same. Came here to say I bought something similarly specced to the $800 one at ~450. 4core i5, 8gb ram, 1080ips touch and a 128 gb SSD. Oh and that’s with empty ram and sata upgradability
@LRN Vital Yes that's a common thing with rich youtubers
I got that 200 dollar one. I have no space. I only have chrome installed yet I have only a gb left in the hard drive. It's so slow. I cannot have more than two tabs open or it will crash. I use it for school but it's still not enough for me. Would not recommend it at all.
Install a Linux distro, possibly Lubuntu. It might help
des just get a 1 terabyte SD card. That’s what I did, it runs fortnite good because of the sd card I put
put an SSD in it...your experience will improve drastically
Looks down at Thinkpad I got for free
@@jg14gerhard_bar 2:27
for anyone in this price range ,consider refurbished laptops 2-4 generations before, high grade machines, from known manufacturers like Lenovo,Dell etc.
me watching this on a 1500 dollar dell laptop: it was worth spending my life savings on this..
Get an Acer Chromebook 14 for $369.
I got it for school and I cannot complain. It is wonderful, build quality is wonderful, and it has a sleek design. The screen is also pretty good, 14 inches. Pretty light too.
4 GB of RAM, 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron, 32 GB of storage (You don't need more, as it's a Chromebook, you will store all your information in the cloud).
You can also get a 2 GB of RAM version, for $300.
Also, it has an *up to* 12 Hours of Battery Life. For general use, I got about 9-10 hours on max brightness, which is also wonderful.
Manó Lakos-Nagy I have the older one (C720P) but I spent $250 on mine, still running well and I even swapped out the UEFI firmware with a custom one to run Windows
The problem with Chromebooks is that the storage is very limited, and the OS is incompatible with a lot of stuff. I use my cheap laptop for a lot of low-demand games and it's perfect for that. Stuff like FTL or similar indie games, or old games. I wouldn't be able to do that on a Chromebook, I think.
Carlos Andrade do you expect to use a 400 dollars to render/game? At this price point, you are looking for a facebook/office/school machine, and chromebooks are perfect for that.
Carlos Andrade, have you seen high end Chromebooks? At the $400 new price point I feel that they dominate, they are the best things for using the internet, heck I would buy one just for that if I could. When I go to college I'd probably build a pc and then get a nice Chromebook, Android apps, Linux apps, the smoothest most stable webrowsing experience I've ever seen, light native gaming, chrome remote desktop for more insensitive but slower paced games like civs. Look at things like the Samsung Chromebook pro or the Asus c302. Though past that you start getting *really* ripped off.
You can. I got Shovel Knight and FTL to run on it. I also played Luftrausers, The Organ Trail, and Balder's Gate II without a skip. This was with an Acer Chromebook 13, which is older than the OP's chromebook. Just install Crouton (or GaliumOS, or whatever else is relevant now) and install steam onto a flavor of Linux
I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 Series. It cost $425 when I bought and it came with a 2tb HDD and 8gb RAM. It also came with an Intel Core i5-7200U CPU. It's made of plastic, but it doesn't feel cheap. The model I got also came with a touchscreen. Overall, my experience with this laptop is good because of good performance. I would recommend this laptop to anyone who is looking for a good, low-cost, laptop.
Yup, the only that will puts yours apart with the 800 $ laptop is that he is running it with an SSD. You got a whole lot more bang for your buck!
i have the 15 3567 and its great actually.
@@dillonbmx16 I got that laptop for school and its shit bruh if you close the screen it takes like a minute just to get back in its so slow
@@Nick_nm which processor, sounds like the pentium. or lots of bloat. mine does not do that. its super quick, even cold boots are mad fast
@@dillonbmx16 nah I'm pretty sure its not I got the like sticker still on it it says intel core i3 7th gen so idk n I got like the sims 4 and chrome on there thats it so I dunno
Who else's phones are worth more than these laptops
Me
5 laptops = 1 iphone
Not mine, until the local museum pays me 800+ dollars for my good old Nokia 3310.
Mine WAS but that was like 3 years ago...
Mk 42 I still use a Moto G2 :(
I had one of those $200 dells. That was the best I could do back in those days. Man, I can't believe how far I've come.
How far did u came?
@@vaastafraja5685 I lost a $425 drone (it flew away) and I simply went home and ordered another one.
Urm 400 dollars don't even get hot anything these days...
400 dollar phone sector is pretty lit
Andrew Chen 😂😂
Andrew Chen tbh
I spent $450 on a used Alienware 14, 4 core w/ 2.5 GHz to 3.5 GHz and 8 GB of RAM... the graphics is "ok" on 1080p.
Trick is to look at the pawnshops and maybe craigslist.
@Andrew_Chen
My heart breaks that Windows 10 mobile didn't take off and that larger RAM isn't available in any phone... because I would have probably went with a Linux build to simulate a PC experience, in a worse case scenario.
I desire the "all in one" smart phone, meant to replace basic PC builds.
I'm pretty sure you could get a couple GTX 480's for that price and they are pretty hot lmao
why is everything good so expensive now
You pay for what you get, stupid question
Actually no. These thigns are made in chine and the branding an os cost alot plus alot of profit. @@GogitoGTHD
Gogito no, told cheap things are more durable than new things. Heck even an original lightbulb is still working
cause its good lol
Back when laptops were new, one would have to pay around a thousand bucks for one that wasn't even remotely comparable to a new $200 laptop.
I have a $200 Acer Netbook from WalMart.
It's alright. I like it.
But definitely looking forward to my $1,200 Lenovo Yoga c930. :P
A Jakab Hey, i’ve used the Yoga for school(mostly online international exams), and it’s a pretty nice computer honestly. But definitely not a great daily driver. The keyboard didnt feel that great especially. I’d go for something in the 500 price range if you could
I am using yoga 730 13" i5, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd and i am in college. It's pretty good for college and i got it on best buy for around 700. Awesome screen, decent selection of ports and its good for day to day works and well-built machine. I do a little bit of gaming and its pretty good. Well, i do recommend it.
Wth is a netbook??
I just got a Dell Inspiron 7000 15 inch laptop for 1,035. It’s got a 4K screen and a i7, 16gb ram, 512gb ssd, and comes with a pen. It’s also the black edition. And get this, I saved 300 dollars off of it!
@@bru-ri5es A laptop but s m o l l
I wish I found this video in February this year. I bought a 200$ laptop and could barely do my schoolwork on it, only game I could play was minesweeper (which sparked an ongoing addiction to it somehow)
Honestly, if you want to spend $800 on a laptop, I dont see why you wouldn't get the inspirion 15 gaming instead. It costs the same, has an pci-e ssd, quad core i5, a frikkin gtx 1050, much better battery life and pretty much everything is better except for the fact that it's not a ips panel(for the 800$ model).
Mahad gul i spent 834 dollars and got the one with the 1060 maxq
Mahad gul You can get an Inspiron 15 7000 for about $850 and it has an i7 core, 16GB RAM, and 1TB storage
in my country dell sells them at like 1900 usd lol
You can get a regular 1060 for 900
Mahad gul Sager Laptops are cheaper and better
WOW. Linus you're savage. Dell tells you to make Video about the 400$ Model and you take it apart XD
well, if it's shit it's shit. gotta appreciate the honesty.
They took apart the $200 laptop, not the $400 one.
no, he said the 200$ has the super low price going for it. the 400$ one, not so much.
At least he didn't drenched it in the rain this time😂
200$ laptop is only worth 50$ and 800$ laptop is only worth 200$. Too costly for a shit laptop!
Editor: Linus how much color correction we need to this video ?
Linus: Yes
I have a P25T from a couple years ago. Maxxed-out the RAM, put in an SSD, and installed Linux lite. It's a great little machine for travel.
The 1k people who disliked are the people who own that laptop
I disliked because they called a 4 times faster processor(the core m3 one) "slightly better" than a celeron.
Seriously, google the benchmarks for these processors. What they said about these processors is one of the least truthful things I've ever heard. Core m3 processors are incredibly efficient. They are about as core i7-s in terms of efficiency.
+howtoblake not always. Either way, in laptops with hdds - they can be replaced with ssd-s quite easily. And given the decent in speed and super efficiency of the processor, it could become a great inexpensive laptop
generatedmax I own it and it is absolutely shite
but....didnt they say the hard drive was soldered in?
+Timothy Harris no they didn't. they said so for the 200 dollar version
I've been using a $290 laptop for 18 months so far. AMD A8 7410 APU w/ r5 graphics for school and web browsing
Aaron18Cvx I'm using a $180 refurbished Toshiba for almost 2 years. I can play gta San Andreas and vice city
I pretty much use my phone for emails
Loreaver mate I'd be worried if you couldn't play vice city.
bumped my A6 APU laptop to 8gb of RAM and the performance boost was astounding.
DJLongLastin -- RAM upgrades can help a lot on PC's that are using the system drive to cache things that should be handled by RAM. It's one of the cheapest & easiest ways to speed up a PC. Glad it helped.
how are you going to go from 200$ for a budget to 800!!! that's 4x the price!! someone who is trying to buy a 200 dollar laptop bc 200 dollars is their budget, maybe its bc they don't have 800 dollars to spend on a trash laptop. my laptop was 500 dollars and I would recommend this over the 800 dollar one simply bc no one who is ona budget is spending 800 dollars on a laptop
To be honest, it really depends on your budget, if you have a bigger budget but still want a good price-quality ratio, you'd get the 800$ laptop, if you don't have the budget or don't want to spend as much, you can just get the 200$ laptop. It hurts nobody to mention a good laptop at a reasonably higher price since some people will have the money for it, and of course not everybody should go for the most expensive one.
Mine was like $850 and I have a lot of regrets
Mine was 999€ -> 1160 $
Abid Chowdhury build a gaming pc for like 400 to 800$
were you watching the video? he's only talking about one line of products from one company. This isn't about buying budget laptops, it's about the differences between different price tiers and maximizing value for cash spent. Stay in school there chowdhury.
I do like the blue and red colored laptops you have. Does a green Dell model exist?
Was $300
Now $400
Inflation go away
Mr Fluffy lol
Inflation no
fluffy!!!
well that's easy just stop the psychoapthic banking families, that use the fiat money system to rob the world of resources and power, to focus all of it onto them, while people suffer to pay them direct "taxes" through the irs and other shit, which is not rightful, but also the hidden one inflation, which is part of this sick system.
hahah you call that inflation? come to Argentina please :)
The Chromebook version of the 400$ laptop is extremely more stable ! It pretty much solves most of the issues even the price.
Agreed for basic task that most people do with a laptop these days Chromebook are great machines, but you do have to rethink your workflow and sometimes find web based alternatives, or alternatives in the Chrome webstore, but some of the ARM based Chromebooks are starting to run Android apps finally, and hopefully all newer Chromebooks will run them.
I actually think they are great if you use them for what they are. Cheap snappy laptops with incredible battery life. mine is even a convertible and I love it. I only use it for web browsing and video watching. Plus I can take it anywhere and if something happens it was cheap.
i got the 400$ laptop as a chrombook for free from my school ,can someone tell me at least 1 secondary pc usage senario where having windows is critical ? the laptop is as snappy as my full gaming rig on chrome ! and the retail price drops to 300 !
I cant even afford a $400 dollar laptop
Than by the 200$ laptop as recommended.
F
I can't afford food
@@iamcleaver6854 *then
Tejah Girish don’t get one yet. Wait until you have more money to buy a decent one. I strongly suggest not wasting $200 or $300 buying a crap one
I've been using a 5400 rpm mechanical hard drive for years, and honestly its pretty fine.
@FinnKitten123 I rarely turn my laptop off so I don't have to experience it very often
Or you can buy a used/refurbished ThinkPad X or T series Laptop under $300 or $200. And the best part? It doesn't look like a Macbook Pro clone!
Or $40 to a smack fiend for a t550 i7-5600u that needed an $80 keyboard replacement (or a $30 wireless board/mouse setup). Know the market haha...
That's not bad at all dude
@@MordecaiTheAwesomeBluejay as long as you don't ask why a smack fiend has a $1,600 (new) computer, and acknowledging the fact that it's probably hot...
If Linus will shop hot items from a crack den I'm sure I'm good with 1 laptop lol
T S E R I E S
Why wouldn't you want it to look like a macbook? The look is the only reason people buy them lmao
Orrrr...
Acer Aspire E 15 E5-575G-57D4...
> Core i5 7200U.
> 256GB SSD.
> 8GB DDR4 RAM.
> Nvidia GeForce 940MX (2gb).
> Backlit keyboard .
> Expandable RAM.
> Expandable storage.
Oh...
> Under $600 ($579 on amazon rn)
That's the last time that your Dell rep is going to send you anything...
Stavros Afentoulis they might improve their laptops after Linus's review
No it's not, he tried to up-sell people into buying the $800 version. You didn't notice that? This is literally a Dell commercial, trying to get ppl to buy the more expensive variant.
nappydrew He also advised you to not buy the 400$, but instead buy the 200$ if that's all you could afford. Did you even watch the video or do you lack critical thinking skills?
I own a Surface Laptop and I don't have one shred of desire for one of these Laptops. I asked if you watched the video, because your comment clearly contradicts the conclusion of the video. So I'm assuming you lack critical thinking skills?
I deleted my previous comment. I have no intention of arguing about petty shit, on UA-cam. You've got your takeaway, I've got mine. Don't take everything at face value. LTT is notorious for stealth-marketing. I simply pointed out that this is another example of that. I get it, you disagree & think I'm unable to think critically. Loud & clear. Good day...
Would love to see an update to this video, and a comparo of the usability of a $400 Windows laptop vs. a $400 chromebook...
Linux would work perfectly lmao, so yeah- chromebook would work smoothly
The $400 one is basically the Dell version of my hp one.
Derek DeVita at walmart they got rid of the older hp models for $99 at my store because we got the "newer" models in even though the specs and even colors seem to be the same lol
my hp laptop is stream 11 with 2gb ram 32gb emc windows 10
The $400 one is worse than my $300 HP one in every way, except for the processor (i5 vs i3, at the same clockspeed)
3:07 bro come back inside, oh god he has airpods in he can't hear us
Laptops at that kind of price are a trap. When I worked in PC World we deliberately took a loss on certain cheaper laptops to get people in the stores. Sure they could do web surfing, documents and other basic office tasks - but only just. You also would have to pay for the software (MS Office and an AV product which are both high margin) seperately which would boost the price up by £160 on a unit that costs around £360. Often they would run out of RAM memory leading to huge slow-downs when it tried to make up the lack of RAM with VRAM. I would expect this behaviour of any machine with less than 4gb RAM, even then I would stay clear with anything that has less than 8Gb in this day and age.
Also, if you wanted to get it set up and ready in store, that was another £30 without an aftersales care package. Thus a £360 loss-making laptop becomes a £550 sale with the margin on software and services demolishing the small loss on the actual hardware and turning it into a profit. Add the aftersales care package (because this is for a kids school work and carrying it around, he is likely to break the thing) adds another £12 - £30 per month or a £200 lump sum for 2 years cover which may or may not end up with the company having to do anything other than rake in the cash.
free AV is exist and there are FOSS alternative for Office
@Jay Bee macs are terrible value lmao
i actually have this laptop
(got it for $170)
i use it for art and work, almost unusable but it's all i could afford :/
So, how is it after almost a year of use?
@@diogenes26 trust me it coudnt be slower
Tooth, i would reccomend you to get a 256 gb ssd and upgrade the ram to 8 gigs if possible. Trust me your gonna be happy
Tip, a used Thinkpad + SSD is about the most bang for the buck laptop you can get. Hell, a used T420 with an SSD would blow that thing out of the water whilst being even cheaper.
Buy a used thinkpad on ebay. i7, 20gb ram, quadro 1000m gpu, 1080p screen, best keyboard ever made, and it's indestructable, all for just $250.
“and it’s indestructible” that made me chuckle
Comes with 30 minutes of battery life.
zachary taylor nasa pc
20gb ram? ThinkPad? Im interested!
Owned an x230 for close to 5 years now. Bought it on sale, did the nasty NOT RECOMMENDED msata upgrade, and it's now my living room PC. Mid-tier mobile ivy bridge combined with an SSD is way too good. Keyboard was never an issue, and now it's less of an issue because I use a wireless keyboard solution. Really, for student use, any second hand model past x220 with an ssd will probably be good enough to sell a third time to someone else.
"needs of local storage is becoming very limited" says the guy with a petabyte in his server room 😂😂😂
Okay lets get this straight: First I KNOW WHAT HE SAYS NEXT and watched the video till the end. Second I find this funny because Linus may not even notice the biggest problem for most of the people - they don't have a home server or anything else with lots of terabytes of storage on the network. And even if they have what will they do when they go somewhere without an access to their home network??? In my opinion the 200 dollar one is not a laptop! - its just a windows tablet with a keyboard that is very limiting. Why you may ask - because laptop to me is something that you can take and use EVERYWHERE not just around your house. And to any of the haters this time - can you install everything you need for daily use on just that 32 GB onboard? I doubt it!
1000 terabyte. 1 terabyte is 1000 gb :)
1000 Terabytes
I mean clearly you didn't listen to the rest of the sentence xd...
+DragonSlayer420Blaze - Speedruns
It depends on whether you're asking binary or decimal. One petabyte can equal 1000 terabytes when measured in decimal and 1024 terabytes when measured in binary.
decimal = 1000^5 bytes
binary = 1024^5 bytes
1024 times the prior is actually a mEbi/gibi/tebi/peti(?)-byte, the programmers revenge on the metric system.
That's okay because I'm about to buy a $50 one
To clarify I just purchased a Windows 10 tablet with an abysmal Atom Z3735 processor, an inexcusable 1gb of ram, and a dog shit user experience.
Its because I don't usually use Windows anymore, since my phone does basically 99% of all my internet and computing related needs. BUT every now and then you need a windows or Linux system to help you root your phone via cmd/adb.
I figure even a $50 paperweight suckfest should be capable of bare minimum functions with full-windows. Product name is Vulcan Journey 7inch tablet, there's a lister on eBay dumping their supply for $49. It's not worth your time or money unless you have a specific niche where a slow, agonizing experience is just enough to do small/simple tasks
Miku Ivalice F
Ooooof
I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 with an Intel core i5, 16 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD for €700 a couple of months back. It's a no frills laptop that really delivers a lot of value. Solid build quality too. Can recommend, happy customer here.
My laptop- 500$ normally, got on sale for 300
8 gigs ram
1.6gh quad core
smallish and light
128gb SSD
+ a 50$ 128 gb SD card bringing up to 350
could also use a 100$ 256gb SD card for more aditanal storage bringing it up to 400$
Still stupid, Buy used!
I hate when UA-cam gives me a long ad I can’t skip🙄
Use Ublock Origin. It's even available on phones.
Wahots lol I was talking about this video😂
oh, ok. My friend lives in perpetual anger, because he hasn't bothered to get an ad blocker (he uses the mobile YT app) and works himself into a lather whenever he sees the same commercial. Like clockwork. I've started playing "You have bugeyes" commercial just to spite him. x3
chiggins As long you dont get the unskippable you have gay eyes HP ad, not as bad
For me it was an ad I actually wanted to watch. So it's a win-win. I learn about Baby Driver and Linus gets paid, then Linus make better videos.
7:28 its the French flag
acersmileful surrender
hahahahaha took me a minute
I got a Lenovo 330S-15IKB for $450. I bought it in July of 2018, specs are i5-8250u, 2x4 ddr4 (one soldered). An upgradeable ssd, you can add an nvme drive too. Intel UHD 620 graphics, Win10 Home