And when Windows is so slow that essentially the same thing that you could do 20yrs ago with sleepy potato now requires 50x more performance and RAM. Thank god for Linux. Works faster on decade old single core celeron.
@Sonic Mobian I didn't say you need super computer to run Windows. But essentially all CPUs since Nehalem are powerful as phuck. Trying to use Win 10 on laptops meant for WinXP and you can't do shit. There are millions and millions of working computers discarded every year that could run all the common tasks on Linux perfectly. The point here is that Windows 10 sucks. I get that people who have just used Windows really don't get why it sucks. If you don't have experience with OS that you have full control over, then Win10 might seem like a decent OS. Though I hate it's look and user interface in general. I have decade old core i7 laptop that had Nvidia GPU that broke. Now I run my Linux just with the iGPU. It works for everything but gaming and GPU acceleration. I would hope more people migrated to Linux, or at least gave it a good long try, as you need some time to get why it's so good, at first it might be really intimidating and many aspects might seem like stupid, when those are the best ways to do things. Linux is build from up to thousands of individual open source packages, and each of those have their developers. As all are open source, things evolve as any great solutions gets copied or forked. So the solutions usually are the best possible ones. But coming from another OS, it might be hard to see why those are the best choices. I hate the fact that proprietary software is not mine. I'm just renting it, not knowing what the code does, not allowing to change, patch or improve it myself. That makes the user the product, and is the reason why spying, data collecting etc. has become so prevalent. But I guess choice is what matters, and that people are happy with their software and hardware.
@@juzujuzu4555: Not to mention, you never have to struggle to figure out which applications are best to use on Linux, because there are only 5 that work correctly without modification!
@@deusexaethera It's funny and sad at the same time how people believe this kind of BS. There are ridiculous amount of full feature software on Linux that are made native to Linux and require nothing. Just use one command, and it will download and install the software and those will update themselves from that point on automatically or when you want them to. Most Windows games work for example. And even lots of Windows software work after installing wine. If I needed to use Windows software, I would just install lightweight Virtual machine, strip all the shite out of Windows and just use snapshots so I don't have to worry about anything. But so far I have not needed any Windows software in the last 5 years. But certainly there are lots of people who do need. It's really problematic that Linux doesn't have marketing budget to tackle the misconceptions. And it takes some time to really learn the OS and get why it's so good, so there are lots of people who have tried it, got disappointed and moved back. It gets better and better the more you use it, which is again disadvantage of getting new people in, but big thing for those who stay.
@@victorpeng5531 is this in response to me? i was just pointing out that most of us dont have to 'imagine' being on a tight budget since a lot of us are^^
@@zeallust8542 to be fair chrome os is great if you only want to do web browsing. legitimately all i do is watch anime and youtube, therefore chrome os is more than adequate for someone like me.
I sold my friend my old ThinkPad. According to eBay they were selling for around $150 but I'm going to assume that those laptops had working fans and my laptop's fan was definitely dead making the most loud buzzing sound ever. So I repaired the laptop and then sold it to him. Also i replaced the thermal paste. His old laptop was going for about 100 on ebay so i traded him. And ended up selling it on craigslist for about 80. Eventually the hard drive controller died and it would not even boot from usb if an HDD was installed. I tried 2 different hdd and did tests to prove the origona HDD still worked. Luckily the m.1 slot (same connector as wifi cards so definitely not m.2) had a 24GB SSD I was able to install windows on
Not sure about these days, but a couple years back I put together a Thinkpad x220 with all working parts, 240GB SSD, 8GB RAM, new battery and some noticable but acceptable surface wear on eBay for about $250, old gen enterprise machines make for very good value options
Reminded me of that scene from "The Dictator" where Sacha Baron Cohen is like "Okay, let's imagine I'm stupid" and the other guy immediately goes "Okay I'm there" haha
Walmart also hides a lot of their super clearance items, but you can still find them online before going to the store. I just picked up a Acer Swift 1 for $67.15, it was on clearance for $79 plus %15 off since it was a floor model.
@@thatoneguy12986 The last one was always 320 or so (which is what it cost last night when I looked for a friend), it was $250 when it was on rollback, and that was before 2 more rounds of US-China Tariffs, China's production capacity being crippled by Covid, and then US demand for cheap laptops skyrocketing when everyone had to start working from home and needing to zoom conference for everything.
@@nollem or just... bent it when the cover was removed, and put the screwdriver more or less everywhere including metal contact points when the laptop was still PLUGGED IN! (what?!)
@@LeDechaine its fine to leave it plugged in and do that as long as the power is off.. The connection to the wall gives you an effective ground. In the video he visibly bent the grey one more than the blue, so it's likely he broke something while showing the stability of the chassis.
Oh man, my school had windows 10 laptops that were like 10 times slower than these and they were probably more expensive too 😭😭 and using them was completely UNBEARABLE!
@@simplybeanjelly I use Linux on a $500NZD HP laptop and I can tell you it works so much faster since I ditched Windows. I'm homeschooled but if I was BYODing my laptop I'd stay on Linux
Look man, at some point in the life of a PC tinkerer youre more scared of what's going to happen if you don't get shocked as opposed to if you do. Eyes don't lie.
To be fair, we don't know if the power cord was still plugged into the outlet. Also possible he might have a killswitch installed in that outlet just to help streamline these kinds of reviews by just being able to toggle the power on and off instead of unplugging and re-plugging everything.
Well I know I didn't hear it but so did most of the people watching on phones, simple UA-cam statistics. They changed the aspect ratio for phones but the audio isn't as good as it could be for phones. Sadly UA-cam doesn't have statistics for people with headphones or without.
Given these are probably being stuffed in E-waste bins everywhere yeah you could probably find a bunch for free and try to hack together a working one out of the leftover parts
I have an odys winbook 13, 13.3inch FHD, usb C, audio jack, usbC charging, full alluminium, m.2 sata slot avaiable. I bought it on amazon user for 110€, but new is under 300$
"The silver laptop completely died after the filming of this video... F" Linus earlier: *Opens laptop with power plugged in and poking in it with screwdriver*
you do get a screen, keyboard, camera and trackpad, which could ramp up the cost of a raspberry, unless you hooked it up to your tv or recycling old stuff?
@@freddyb4987 I mean aside from LInux, Memesoft W10 is about $10-15 on CDKoffers, and about $50 for W10 plus Office. So saying the laptop is free is a hell of a stretch. But just buy a refurbished Thinkpad from Amazon, it's always a better deal than this soykaf.
damn, the amount of patience you have when you only have an old laptop left... when you opened the browser on the white laptop, it was actually significantly faster than my $1000 laptop.
So I could buy one of these for less than the price of Win10, turn off S mode and CloneZilla the HDD to a better PC - meaning I could have a Win10 activation, 1 year of Office 365 AND a supercheap hacktop I could install some lowend Linux distro on?
I have a 1.3ghz Atom CPU, I cut a hole in the back of the tablet, glued on a proper heatsink with thermal adhesive, now it maintains 1.7ghz all day... Until it shuts off at 70% battery because the battery is toast.
If you want to use the blue laptop solely for video calls, you should flip the screen around into stand mode, which is probably why they didn't angle the camera upward.
@@enderman776 Lmao, Ubuntu sucks ass, slow as hell. Better install Debian or Arch with XFCE, or better, compile your own stuff to make it even way faster.
@@8w73 Ubuntu sucks, but I think it's one of the best for people who don't know anything about linux and terminal or people who just want to use it as homework machine.
It seems a lot of the limitations of these laptops are due to Windows 10. Two gigs of memory is Windows 7 territory, and with only 32 gigs of storage Windows is gonna eat most of that too. It would be really interesting to see a lightweight Linux distro like Manjaro LXQt or Openbox on the blue laptop. It would probably be a pretty sweet machine like that.
Yeah, I agree. For the silver one Fedora or Mint will make run like a charm. About the specs , I'm not sure. I used have a chinese tablet (Chuwi Hi10) windows 10 (Atom 2 core hyper , with 4 gig ram and 64gb flash). It run great. I used to use it in uni(2013-2015) and it did everyhing. Watching videos , some old games (Heroes 3 run great) and helped quite a lot with the uni stuff. I used it to correct/mod presantations , course works ext. The best part - only 150 USD.
Kinda late, but I concur. I recently repurposed a $150 shitbox for a writer friend of mine that had 32 gigs of flash storage. EndavourOS works like a charm for his Google-docs-only use 🤣
honestly i reckon it would struggle with linux as well lol, at least with kde or gnome. its probably not gonna run well on anything other than a really basic tiling window manager where everything is terminal based
I think that with linux installed (imo debian or arch for these) they would run a lot smoother. I install debian on most laptops in my house, such as a late 2011 imac and a gen 2 thinkpad X1 carbon and they all perform way better than when they were running windows
Never put anything other than the OS on the eMMC storage, put a 128gb C10 (U3) A2 micro SD card for everything you want to want to put on the computer. Slowdown will be minimal.
Emmc really is slow. I tried copying files from a 2008 5400rpm hard drive and it only had a transfer speed of 10 MBps when the hard drive can reach 40 MBps.
@Sam S You're not supposed to save stuff on the Chromebook, man. You're supposed to save it in Google Drive and Google Photos. It's not meant to be offline. If you want to save stuff offline, get a real laptop... or a USB drive/SD card.
@Sam S Google Drive isn't for videos. That's what Google Photos is for. For music you have Google Play Music (which is currently transitioning to UA-cam Music) and you get 50,000 songs from your personal music collection stored there for free. You need better file management if you can't fit your documents in Google Drive (which has unlimited storage for Google doc filetypes). You also might want to clean up your Gmail because that takes part of your 15GB of free storage, too.
@Sam S "It's constant renewel of services that prevent u from using your current services by charging u $ to keep using your stuff." lolwut? I used Windows for decades and never fell into a subscription trap like that. Then again, I switched to Linux Mint a year or two after Windows 10 came out, but still. There are tons of free alternatives to subscription services. The only subscriptions I pay for are Amazon Prime (which is a great deal) and Xbox Live. I know some people are ransomed by Apple to keep using Icloud's extended storage, but I'm not one of those Apple twits. It sounds like you just click on the wrong things and don't know how to use adblockers or browse the web safely.
The best glitch yet: right click on the desktop and hover over NEW, as in where you can open a new document or whatever. The menu takes at least 6 seconds to load. Mind-blowing.
I bought one of these, but they made them even cheaper--trying to also rip off the microsoft surface. It, "worked," but for $180, what was I going to get? Got it to dual boot since it had an America MegaTrends bios. According to Linux, there is no hard drive; or ssd. Just an SD card used to store the operating system and user files. It came in S mode, and I accidentaly ran it over. The screen was cracked--but it worked just fine! Surprisingly it still works!
Thanks a lot ! I use an old laptop with a Core m7 which doesn't have hardware VP9 decoding and I have been looking for a solution to use the GPU for months... h264ify seems great !
h264ify doesn't seem to work at all for me personally AKA vids are still coming across as the newer codecs and thus weaker/older hardware has issues even with it installed.
That was very nice displays of those machines and awesome laptops and very good job to you Linus, on making this video. I hope that you will continue to make good videos about any laptops or gaming stuff around this time.
A lightweight Linux install on those machines would make way more sense than Windows, given that a fresh Windows 10 install takes about 12 GB to 25 GB of storage there will not be much left of the 32GB that those machines ships with
@@4450krank the Linux kernel it self is very ram efficient, however some desktop environment and other user-land applications that are necessary for a working laptop might not be.
Bro I don't know why, but it just dawned on me how monumentally successful of a brand Linus has made for himself. His team pushes out an insane amount of videos per week, spread across multiple successful channels, and a solid majority of them are sponsored. Like goddamn man. Like purely subscriber wise, an equivalent comparison would be MKBHD, but I just cannot see him being nearly as successful as a brand comparing the factors I mentioned. Go Linus. (Sorry if this already commonly known)
That Celeron with a proper ssd is usable in Ubuntu. I run one last year as a student in electrical engineering. I did all my programming exercise on it. I couldn't stand it though because even compiling small c files (100 lines max) took over a second.... However it could handle up to 10 tabs in chrome plus sublime. But only one UA-cam tab and only messenger and not FB tab.
I have a Celeorn N3450 based laptop with 4gb of ram and a 14" 1080p screen with 32gb of emmc storage and it runs Linux and even ChromeOS fine. Got ChromeOS by doing this ua-cam.com/video/ROBpXNonVxc/v-deo.html
@@Montisaquadeis You could run CloudReady instead, it's a lot easier to install and is meant for random PCs, unlike ChromeOS - which could fail anytime a new update comes out and blocks non licensed devices.
I got one of those EVOO gaming laptops over the summer just as a cheap gaming laptop to play older games with and it's mostly fine. Major gripes are the touchpad, a graphics driver causing windows to crash when not playing games (not sure who to blame for that) and some annoying audio software which I am afraid to remove, lol. Edit: Also the camera being at the bottom of the screen is so unbelievably stupid!
Hey Linus and LTT team! I just wanted to say thank you for all those amazing videos you and the guys are putting out. All my 3 computers died one after another this month and am now computerless as my budget wont allow me anything above 200$! Anyways I just wanted to say thank you guys for all the great and funny, silly, somewhat dangerous and generaly very entertaining content you guys are putting out because it is what is getting me through most days in recent times. Thank you and good luck !
@@mataskart9894 Not really when you look at Lenovo's Eduseries offerings from even several years ago, they are built like tanks, and when you upgrade them with an SSD, and 8GB of DDR3L RAM along with a lightweight Linux distro they put these to shame, unless you really must have that folding hing, touchscreen, with piss poor viewing angles, along with a bottom mounted webcam that points at your chin, or crotch.
@@mataskart9894 exactly. I went to a pretty well funded grammar school for my secondary education. No laptops but the computers we had to use were old celerons with 2gb of DDR3. I dread to think what worse schools get (I'm in the UK btw)
@@CommodoreFan64 does your granny ordering 50 laptops for 50$ each know this though?... Most of us use our phones when there is a project to do during class and they give us laptops for powerpoint...
Buy Thinkpad X220/X230 for 80$ (if in a western country) :P Even at 10 years... would be MUCH better than any of this, albeit twice as heavy. (ok ok, battery life might also not be great, and an authentic big replacement battery will probably cost at least as much as the silver laptop)
Yeah, I was thinking that. At this price point and with the performance improvement Linux would bring, the blue one actually could be a really good value.
@@Churchgrimm And, if you are stubborn enough, you might actually pay less than that by declining Windows ToS and asking for the Windows fee back to the store.
Have u used the new edge?? I gave it a try on friend's recommendation and I just stuck with it. It doesn't drain my ram as much now. Its chromium based so its like using a lighter and faster chrome
Linus! The blue one would be a perfect unit for logging into a virtual environment! They are soo cheap! With a big server room, you don't need to worry about the specs of the laptop just the features, battery, and just the price.
@@colemin2 Actually English is not my first language I'm Indian I knew it before but I wasn't very fluent so I dedicated my quarantine time on getting fluent in it so I got help from someone I thought I'd give it back
When you laptop is so slow that you use the Windows key as a benchmark
And when Windows is so slow that essentially the same thing that you could do 20yrs ago with sleepy potato now requires 50x more performance and RAM.
Thank god for Linux. Works faster on decade old single core celeron.
My 2008 netbook gets probably less than 5fps in the Windows 10 Start Menu when I last tried it.
@Sonic Mobian I didn't say you need super computer to run Windows. But essentially all CPUs since Nehalem are powerful as phuck.
Trying to use Win 10 on laptops meant for WinXP and you can't do shit. There are millions and millions of working computers discarded every year that could run all the common tasks on Linux perfectly.
The point here is that Windows 10 sucks. I get that people who have just used Windows really don't get why it sucks. If you don't have experience with OS that you have full control over, then Win10 might seem like a decent OS. Though I hate it's look and user interface in general.
I have decade old core i7 laptop that had Nvidia GPU that broke. Now I run my Linux just with the iGPU. It works for everything but gaming and GPU acceleration.
I would hope more people migrated to Linux, or at least gave it a good long try, as you need some time to get why it's so good, at first it might be really intimidating and many aspects might seem like stupid, when those are the best ways to do things.
Linux is build from up to thousands of individual open source packages, and each of those have their developers. As all are open source, things evolve as any great solutions gets copied or forked. So the solutions usually are the best possible ones. But coming from another OS, it might be hard to see why those are the best choices.
I hate the fact that proprietary software is not mine. I'm just renting it, not knowing what the code does, not allowing to change, patch or improve it myself. That makes the user the product, and is the reason why spying, data collecting etc. has become so prevalent.
But I guess choice is what matters, and that people are happy with their software and hardware.
@@juzujuzu4555: Not to mention, you never have to struggle to figure out which applications are best to use on Linux, because there are only 5 that work correctly without modification!
@@deusexaethera It's funny and sad at the same time how people believe this kind of BS. There are ridiculous amount of full feature software on Linux that are made native to Linux and require nothing. Just use one command, and it will download and install the software and those will update themselves from that point on automatically or when you want them to. Most Windows games work for example. And even lots of Windows software work after installing wine.
If I needed to use Windows software, I would just install lightweight Virtual machine, strip all the shite out of Windows and just use snapshots so I don't have to worry about anything. But so far I have not needed any Windows software in the last 5 years. But certainly there are lots of people who do need.
It's really problematic that Linux doesn't have marketing budget to tackle the misconceptions. And it takes some time to really learn the OS and get why it's so good, so there are lots of people who have tried it, got disappointed and moved back. It gets better and better the more you use it, which is again disadvantage of getting new people in, but big thing for those who stay.
How to ensure that your kids don’t play any games you don’t want them to... get them a computer physically incapable of running them
I literally destroyed my high school laptop because I tried to game on that
I have a worse computer. Running Fortnite bricked my device and I had to restart it after re-connecting the battery.
3DU
_Laughs in somehow running Warcraft III on that kind of laptop_
So basically a macbook 😂😂
I played skyrim on intel hd graphics
was it 2000 or 3000? I forgot
"The silver laptop completely died after the filming of this video."
*_Linus scratching the motherboard with a screwdriver intensifies_*
lol yeah
Yup
While the laptop is charging
lol it's gonna die in a month or two if you're lucky anyway. I am insulting trash by saying this but EVOO is trash
"I refuse to believe the cheapest new laptop in existence would just die like that"
"picture this: you're on a super tight budget"
oh.. yea, wild.. could you imagine?
Lmfao
@@user-us8fx3nu3x your name tho
$150 on a laptop is actually a super tight budget.
@@victorpeng5531
is this in response to me?
i was just pointing out that most of us
dont have to 'imagine' being on a tight budget
since a lot of us are^^
@@victorpeng5531 what in the heathen gods are you talking about. If you are on a tight budget you are on a tight budget. Like.. What?
Ah, so this is what the Chromebook's competitor looks like.
Simply not using the Chrome OS instantly makes any laptop better than a Chromebook
Tbh might as well buy used laptops instead
@@zeallust8542 yeah
Chrome OS is complete dogshit lol
Chromebook more like crapbooks
@@zeallust8542 to be fair chrome os is great if you only want to do web browsing. legitimately all i do is watch anime and youtube, therefore chrome os is more than adequate for someone like me.
"picture this, your on a super tight budget"
Way ahead of ya buddy
Then you buy a second hand thinkpad
@@hielke309 again, way ahead of ya buddy ;)
I sold my friend my old ThinkPad. According to eBay they were selling for around $150 but I'm going to assume that those laptops had working fans and my laptop's fan was definitely dead making the most loud buzzing sound ever.
So I repaired the laptop and then sold it to him. Also i replaced the thermal paste. His old laptop was going for about 100 on ebay so i traded him. And ended up selling it on craigslist for about 80.
Eventually the hard drive controller died and it would not even boot from usb if an HDD was installed. I tried 2 different hdd and did tests to prove the origona HDD still worked. Luckily the m.1 slot (same connector as wifi cards so definitely not m.2) had a 24GB SSD I was able to install windows on
Not sure about these days, but a couple years back I put together a Thinkpad x220 with all working parts, 240GB SSD, 8GB RAM, new battery and some noticable but acceptable surface wear on eBay for about $250, old gen enterprise machines make for very good value options
Reminded me of that scene from "The Dictator" where Sacha Baron Cohen is like "Okay, let's imagine I'm stupid" and the other guy immediately goes "Okay I'm there" haha
Performance Test: Let's press the Windows key 😂
@@adamquery7048 me
@@adamquery7048 basically.
@@adamquery7048 me who tries to check whether my laptop is on full speed
This comment is gonna blow up
I actually do this myself.
Walmart also hides a lot of their super clearance items, but you can still find them online before going to the store. I just picked up a Acer Swift 1 for $67.15, it was on clearance for $79 plus %15 off since it was a floor model.
Bro gimme that sht
The floors models at my Walmart are all broken af lol
You couldn't pay me enough to use an Acer!
After the release of this video:
Walmart: *$300 for each*
600 each
@@mdasadasad2665 800
The first one is still $139. Give it a couple weeks when more channels review it then it'll double like the last one.
@@thatoneguy12986 The last one was always 320 or so (which is what it cost last night when I looked for a friend), it was $250 when it was on rollback, and that was before 2 more rounds of US-China Tariffs, China's production capacity being crippled by Covid, and then US demand for cheap laptops skyrocketing when everyone had to start working from home and needing to zoom conference for everything.
Last time I checked the $250 laptop everyone reviewed was $450.
Wow, finally. A computer that's slower than mine.
😂 wow bro
Amateurs!!!
*has a 512mb ddr cl3 ram laptop*
lol
Sorry, mine is still the winner
1GB ram
when you peeled the screen protector the laptop lost half its rigidity XD
under rated comment
@@pranitmunjal9719 underrated comment
lol
Galaxy Fold.
@@laurabrown4285 shut up
"the grey laptop died after filming" sure, Linus didn't do anything to that poor thing
@@nollem or just... bent it when the cover was removed, and put the screwdriver more or less everywhere including metal contact points when the laptop was still PLUGGED IN! (what?!)
@@LeDechaine its fine to leave it plugged in and do that as long as the power is off.. The connection to the wall gives you an effective ground. In the video he visibly bent the grey one more than the blue, so it's likely he broke something while showing the stability of the chassis.
Everyone: “disconnect the battery as early as possible when disassembling a laptop”
Linus: keeps them plugged in
Yes- a little shocked at that. Well, not really with Linus 😂
Came to the comments to say the same thing. "let's just touch an PBC with it plugged in and touch it with a metal screwdriver" lol
Linus: Disassembles computer and pokes it with a screwdriver, shorting out pins, while the computer is still plugged in. Computer: Dies. Linus: 😮
You know why he’s a bad ass
I mean, they probably don't have enough power delivery to even hurt you and he clearly doesn't care if they die
Linus: I don’t think you can get much worse
My school’s laptops: “Amateurs”
Brandon Cei so true lol
*Waits ten minutes for the power button to turn on*
all the bloat ware on those things kill em
my school has actual desent laptops but there is so much blout ware that they are so fucken slow
Aldrin W yeah that’s true the IT staff will always find a way to slow them down
I like how they aren't even trying to use the weird names and instead just go with "the silver one" and "the blue one
They both look like "Oh shit I forgot my Laptop" machines that should be sold in airports.
Burner laptops
@@kiyoponnn Cheers better phrasing than I had. Can you get them with a SIM card slot?
@@rayceeya8659 Probably not, but it's possible in the next few years
Yay, all that extra electronic waste.
@@radekwlsk I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm saying it's an inevitable thing.
9:13 "I wonder how the silver laptop just randomly died?"
9:52 "Oh."
He murdered it with the screwdriver, why is the battery/psu connected, 11:57?
He dropped it..
Why didn't the blue one die? It seems the reviews say that the silver one dies for no reason anyways.
he fucked with them while they were both hooked up to the power.
Schools: *_I'll take your entire stock_*
Oh man, my school had windows 10 laptops that were like 10 times slower than these and they were probably more expensive too 😭😭 and using them was completely UNBEARABLE!
@@simplybeanjelly Atleast your school provides you with one. In my school we have to bring our own.
@@simplybeanjelly Report them for corruption, in some places you can get money for it.
@@simplybeanjelly I use Linux on a $500NZD HP laptop and I can tell you it works so much faster since I ditched Windows. I'm homeschooled but if I was BYODing my laptop I'd stay on Linux
Kid: "I need a laptop!"
Mom: "We have a laptop at home"
@@Alex-yj9xl WHAT?
I’m the 100th like
When mom’s laptop is 10 years old and it’s unusable
Kid: Oh come on.
Mom: What? It got nice color and the screen looks good.
Technically
LinusTechTipsDont: leaves power plugged in and opening the insides of the laptop
it may be plugged in but not switched on just to ground it
Look man, at some point in the life of a PC tinkerer youre more scared of what's going to happen if you don't get shocked as opposed to if you do. Eyes don't lie.
and poking it with a metal screwdriver. hmm i wonder why it died...
@@Shishou_Shi or to say it in the famous words of him: "Do as I say, not as I do"
To be fair, we don't know if the power cord was still plugged into the outlet. Also possible he might have a killswitch installed in that outlet just to help streamline these kinds of reviews by just being able to toggle the power on and off instead of unplugging and re-plugging everything.
"The silver laptop died after filming"
Well yes, Linus took it apart *while it was plugged in*
Idk, I'm no Louis Rossmann, but *maybe* though
Gerald Stephanus and he scratched the motherboard
@@AwesomeSheep48 and he flexed it like a ruler
No fan spin.
5:02
Linus: "Oh, this one still has a screen peel on it as well. Ooh."
English subtitles: (upbeat electronic music)
No shit! There was electronic upbeat music playing in the background if you hear closely!
Ohh now they have included sub
bruh you deaf
Well I know I didn't hear it but so did most of the people watching on phones, simple UA-cam statistics. They changed the aspect ratio for phones but the audio isn't as good as it could be for phones. Sadly UA-cam doesn't have statistics for people with headphones or without.
Remty are you dumb or deaf?
"It runs the most basic games."
I'm sorry, I'm going to need proof that it is capable of running MS-BASIC.
lolllll
"The silver laptop completely died after the filming of this video"
Me: Oh, why?
*Linus opens up the laptop*
Me: Say no more
with power cable plugged
I'm more suspicious of the flexing. That did not look healthy.
and runs his screwdriver over the PCB. yeahhh
meh...not that big of a loss...the most expensive thing in that "laptop" is probably that big piece of copper...
"the laptop completely died after the video"
>Proceeds to disassemble the laptop while still plugged into AC 😳😳
Oh who cares at that point. While he was at it, he should've put it back together with a staple gun.
As long as its turned off at the wall wouldn't in it help with static by grounding?
@@wolonpanda: Hypothetically yes, but switched outlets are rare in North America.
@@deusexaethera isn’t Linus tech tips based in Canada :?
@@Spider-Man-mv6zn Canada is in North America.... lol
*Bends Laptop like crazy*
"It Died"
Ya don't say XD
tbf he tests laptops the same way every time. So technically it wasn't his fault for the pos to break. Should've been a little more structural.
He also poked and scraped at the inside with the screwdriver. "Why are there 4 ram chips?" POKE POKE POKE "MSATA over here,,," SCRAPE SCRAPE SCRAPE
Yes, it's a joke. Flexation can cause damage, so can shitty manufacturing
@@cgscott not to mention he was poking and scraping the inner guts of the poor thing... while the charger was still connected lol
90suffix Um no great first kids' laptop
Linus: "for about the price of a copy of win10"
Me: ah so it's free poggers
Well, I paid like $30 bucks for pro from kinguine, so even if you pay, it's still cheap.
@Qimodis yeah, ethically it's not good... yeah, I guess it's not good.
It's a free laptop if you have a gun
win 10 home 189cad
@@aimohsin1380 why would I wanna pay hundreds of dollors for guns.... a random brick should do the trick
"Picture this: you're on a SUPER tight budget..."
Well.. that's easy
Picture it, Sicily 1912....
Linus : The gray one completely died after shooting :(
Also Linus : Jamming a screwdriver onto the PCB while shooting an likely killing it.
LET'S BEND THE LAPTOP FOR A WHOLE MINUTE
Exactly what I thought!!
WHILE PLUGGED IN!
Opening the case voided the warranty so he couldn't even return the silver one.
People: "we don't want nose cams!"
The blue laptop: say no more
Introducing the new ChinCam
it wasn't even centered 😤
Lol
i have that laptop i-
@@piperwren7732 😬
I’d rather just get a used decent laptop for the same price
Linus: I dont remember the last time I saw that big a besel on a new machine.
Imac: Here I am.
Scratch and Poke the Interior of a Laptop while it is Powered.
Laptop Dies.
Linus: Suprise Pikachu
Imagine this ,but instead of power , it's anaesthesia ,and a human instead of a laptop.
@@anch95 Woah, calm down there, Satan
They seem to enjoy it when these items break
and also touching the metal screw driver everywhere on the motherboard, haha
Only OG's remember when the title was
"$300 for TWO laptops?"
🤝
I remember
They be keep changing their tiles... Every single time. LMAO.
Or people who have notifications turned on...
The thumbnail has a "300$" in it and I was wondering what that was about.
Finally Linus understands what Budget actually means
Thank you. I'm not the only one who thinks that
A whole laptop costing less than a licence of the OS it runs on. BuDGeT
lmao
Ye, he keeps talking about flex on budget laptops, that's teh last thing i would care about, it could be liquid for all i care.
@@thor.mukbang okay I didn't know that, thanks 👍🏻
Linus: "This laptop costs as much as a copy of Windows"
Me a pirate: Wait, it's free?
Me, a pirate: "Wait Windows isn't free?"
do you have an eye-patch?
Given these are probably being stuffed in E-waste bins everywhere yeah you could probably find a bunch for free and try to hack together a working one out of the leftover parts
@@UNSCPILOT hack together lmao
Linus says 300 dollars for a laptop
My mom comes in and says I’m listening
I have an odys winbook 13, 13.3inch FHD, usb C, audio jack, usbC charging, full alluminium, m.2 sata slot avaiable. I bought it on amazon user for 110€, but new is under 300$
I have a laptops which cost some moneys.
Buy a second hand laptop then
With a dongle you can actually use a 4K display and its 13mm thick
@@chrisparussin5359 but, can it run crysis???
"The silver laptop completely died after the filming of this video... F"
Linus earlier: *Opens laptop with power plugged in and poking in it with screwdriver*
I always leave my electronics plugged in while I disassemble them. I usually do it while I'm sitting in the bathtub.
@@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside but dont forget to wash them with soap after opening to kill all those pesky bacteria
@@bad_rebbel_8841 of course. You don’t want your computer to get a virus, do you?
The King Ain’t no corona getting into my laptop! *washes laptop with hand sanitizer*
@@AmperahGaming that only kills 99% of corona tho
The moment when a raspberry Pi is faster than a laptop😂
this has a year of office 365 and windows 10, it's like he said you get the laptop basically for free
@@othmaneaouioued8768 Imagine having to pay for your OS
you do get a screen, keyboard, camera and trackpad, which could ramp up the cost of a raspberry, unless you hooked it up to your tv or recycling old stuff?
Because you're running linux on it
@@freddyb4987 I mean aside from LInux, Memesoft W10 is about $10-15 on CDKoffers, and about $50 for W10 plus Office.
So saying the laptop is free is a hell of a stretch.
But just buy a refurbished Thinkpad from Amazon, it's always a better deal than this soykaf.
damn, the amount of patience you have when you only have an old laptop left... when you opened the browser on the white laptop, it was actually significantly faster than my $1000 laptop.
what did you do to the laptop...
Do you usually use it or is it collecting dust?
try a SSD
People flex with their macbooks, wait till i bring my Walmart laptop and show you the ultimate deck flex.
lmao
9:39 really looked like Linus was caught watching something he shouldn't have been watching :-)
I caught that immediately and came to the comments to see if anyone else saw it lol 🤣
My thought exactly😂
Linus : " ... like, .. if you were a kid or something.."
Me: " I were a kid linus, now i am an adult with gigantic hands"
The "or something" part worriers me
". . .like. . .if you were a kid" me in my head "or a Linus" =)))))))))
Mom, can we get gaming laptop
No, we have gaming laptop at home
The gaming laptop at home:
12:00 let me poke with metal without detaching charger and battery
Fs in the chat
No wonder the silver one died, he’s playing around with the internals while it’s still plugged into power. Damnit Linus!
And flexing it so hard it's amazing it still worked at all. I expected some bga's to detach from that tbh
At least he didn´t drop it
@@Chris_P_Bacon you have a point.
@@UltimatePwnageNL ain't that the truth! I mean I get he was trying to prove a point, but hot damn, man.
linus: the space key isn't good
me: CLICKS IT TO CHECK*
So I could buy one of these for less than the price of Win10, turn off S mode and CloneZilla the HDD to a better PC - meaning I could have a Win10 activation, 1 year of Office 365 AND a supercheap hacktop I could install some lowend Linux distro on?
That moment when you open the start menu as a benchmark
Linus I think you're supposed to use the webcam in tablet mode where the camera is up top
I thought the same here
1.1 GHz, that’s DANGEROUSLY close to MHz, reminds me of those old 333 MHz Pentium things
I have a 1.3ghz Atom CPU, I cut a hole in the back of the tablet, glued on a proper heatsink with thermal adhesive, now it maintains 1.7ghz all day... Until it shuts off at 70% battery because the battery is toast.
It's the base clock though
Hey! I have a "Pentium thing"
Actually the i3-1035G1 has a 1.00GHz base. It's the horrible IPC and TDP that makes Celeron unusable, not the clocks.
My Toshiba laptop from 2006 is faster than that shit
If you want to use the blue laptop solely for video calls, you should flip the screen around into stand mode, which is probably why they didn't angle the camera upward.
Yeah I was going to make that same point, it was clearly made for being in tablet mode when used for video calls
13:31 the msi sponsor clip spells “supports” wrong
"Supprots 3rd gen"
*Ill take ur entire stock*
supprots
That's the leas wrong thing. They also installed their Ryzen CPU the wrong way!
lol why are you even watching the sponsor
Yeah I noticed that too xD
Linus: Let us fire up JerryRigEverything's off-road wheelchair video.
Jerry: *S T O N K S* 💹
Copyright claim incoming
Hah I took away the 69 likes
@Luthfi Azhari Lmfao! I was hoping to not be the only one who caught that! TBH tho, I feel as if that name is more well suited for him anyways😂
Re: the camera on the blue one. Maybe it’s meant for video calls when it’s in tent/tablet mode?
0:53 “copy a main brand logo and don’t make it too obvious”
7:38 the way he said "only two" broke my heart
watching from my "2GB of ram laptop"
The good news is you can probably upgrade to 8gb of ram for only $20-30. On your machine at least.
@@flameshana9 I can't on mine, its only one slot baked in. (2Gigs)
PineappleGamersHD
Can’t you change the stick for a better one tho?
@@DINGDING_9000 soldered in
Do you guys not have phones?
This would be interesting to see how they perform with Linux, that might be a good option for these laptops.
I mean, even win 7 would perform much better
Peppermint OS would be a good distro for this
Ubuntu would be good
@@enderman776 Lmao, Ubuntu sucks ass, slow as hell. Better install Debian or Arch with XFCE, or better, compile your own stuff to make it even way faster.
@@8w73 Ubuntu sucks, but I think it's one of the best for people who don't know anything about linux and terminal or people who just want to use it as homework machine.
It seems a lot of the limitations of these laptops are due to Windows 10. Two gigs of memory is Windows 7 territory, and with only 32 gigs of storage Windows is gonna eat most of that too. It would be really interesting to see a lightweight Linux distro like Manjaro LXQt or Openbox on the blue laptop. It would probably be a pretty sweet machine like that.
Yeah, I agree. For the silver one Fedora or Mint will make run like a charm. About the specs , I'm not sure. I used have a chinese tablet (Chuwi Hi10) windows 10 (Atom 2 core hyper , with 4 gig ram and 64gb flash). It run great. I used to use it in uni(2013-2015) and it did everyhing. Watching videos , some old games (Heroes 3 run great) and helped quite a lot with the uni stuff. I used it to correct/mod presantations , course works ext. The best part - only 150 USD.
Kinda late, but I concur. I recently repurposed a $150 shitbox for a writer friend of mine that had 32 gigs of flash storage. EndavourOS works like a charm for his Google-docs-only use 🤣
itsfunny cause the whole selling point of these is that they come with a free windows 10 license lol
True or windows 8.1
honestly i reckon it would struggle with linux as well lol, at least with kde or gnome. its probably not gonna run well on anything other than a really basic tiling window manager where everything is terminal based
I think that with linux installed (imo debian or arch for these) they would run a lot smoother. I install debian on most laptops in my house, such as a late 2011 imac and a gen 2 thinkpad X1 carbon and they all perform way better than when they were running windows
Remember, these speeds will slow down 2x to 10x over time. And those "ssd" drives are emmc style which are often as slow or slower than a hdd.
Never put anything other than the OS on the eMMC storage, put a 128gb C10 (U3) A2 micro SD card for everything you want to want to put on the computer. Slowdown will be minimal.
Emmc really is slow. I tried copying files from a 2008 5400rpm hard drive and it only had a transfer speed of 10 MBps when the hard drive can reach 40 MBps.
@Sam S You're not supposed to save stuff on the Chromebook, man. You're supposed to save it in Google Drive and Google Photos. It's not meant to be offline.
If you want to save stuff offline, get a real laptop... or a USB drive/SD card.
@Sam S Google Drive isn't for videos. That's what Google Photos is for. For music you have Google Play Music (which is currently transitioning to UA-cam Music) and you get 50,000 songs from your personal music collection stored there for free.
You need better file management if you can't fit your documents in Google Drive (which has unlimited storage for Google doc filetypes). You also might want to clean up your Gmail because that takes part of your 15GB of free storage, too.
@Sam S "It's constant renewel of services that prevent u from using your current services by charging u $ to keep using your stuff."
lolwut? I used Windows for decades and never fell into a subscription trap like that. Then again, I switched to Linux Mint a year or two after Windows 10 came out, but still. There are tons of free alternatives to subscription services. The only subscriptions I pay for are Amazon Prime (which is a great deal) and Xbox Live. I know some people are ransomed by Apple to keep using Icloud's extended storage, but I'm not one of those Apple twits.
It sounds like you just click on the wrong things and don't know how to use adblockers or browse the web safely.
9:39 thought that was something other than a finger for a second there
Thought someone facetimed their ass cheeks
@@barreliusnois5533 _FaceTime? Check out THESE cute cheeks!_
You were not the only one. I was about to say something so I scrolled through the comments. Glad to see it wasnt just me.
Same 😂😂😂
"DDR4 Memory upto 4800mhz because why lock that stuff down, right?"
Not mentioning any names begining with i
Only came to check the comments if someone already pointed this out :D
@@andrasbiro6604 lol. Yeah i reckon Linus gonna segue into an Intel rip in every video going forward until they release a 7nm Chip lol
The best glitch yet: right click on the desktop and hover over NEW, as in where you can open a new document or whatever. The menu takes at least 6 seconds to load. Mind-blowing.
They correct him on his pronunciation on “Schrodinger” but not on “reputable.”
My school chromebook:
A worthy opponent, our battle shall be legendary
Forza Horizon 4 Gamer Mine has brand new iMacs for designers students! I’m a designer student, so I can use them LoL
"let's press the windows key at the sa- OH GOOD HEAVENS!" it hurt me as well, dear God that was slow
9:39 took me WAY too long to figure out that was your hand on the screen and not someone's ass
I bought one of these, but they made them even cheaper--trying to also rip off the microsoft surface. It, "worked," but for $180, what was I going to get? Got it to dual boot since it had an America MegaTrends bios.
According to Linux, there is no hard drive; or ssd. Just an SD card used to store the operating system and user files. It came in S mode, and I accidentaly ran it over. The screen was cracked--but it worked just fine!
Surprisingly it still works!
SCHOOLS WANT TO KNOW YOUR LOCATION
Kas Gikes bro ur cappin
@all chromebooks😬
But they would only buy this used
Just install Ubuntu MATE on them
For UA-cam: Install (enhanced )h264ify and Good Old UA-cam
Thanks a lot ! I use an old laptop with a Core m7 which doesn't have hardware VP9 decoding and I have been looking for a solution to use the GPU for months... h264ify seems great !
h264ify doesn't seem to work at all for me personally AKA vids are still coming across as the newer codecs and thus weaker/older hardware has issues even with it installed.
Gave you 69 likes
H264ify doesn't work always. Use enchanted-h264ify
"Silver Laptop Died Immediately after filming"
Next Scene: Linus holding a screwdriver with the laptop in the middle of disassembly.
That was very nice displays of those machines and awesome laptops and very good job to you Linus, on making this video. I hope that you will continue to make good videos about any laptops or gaming stuff around this time.
This is one of those laptops that you would want to load a light distribution of linux on.
Without a doubt
A lightweight Linux install on those machines would make way more sense than Windows, given that a fresh Windows 10 install takes about 12 GB to 25 GB of storage there will not be much left of the 32GB that those machines ships with
Idk how linux is with ram, but it cant be worse that windows so it might help with that too.
@@4450krank the Linux kernel it self is very ram efficient, however some desktop environment and other user-land applications that are necessary for a working laptop might not be.
@@tordjarv3802 good to know! Thanks for the reply🙂
7:22 "... and everything feels much slower than a regular laptop"
and yet many seller in my country call that kind of laptop as "Gaming Laptop"
What is your country? Can your laptop run the Dinosaur Game smoothly?
Merk apa, bro?
Bro I don't know why, but it just dawned on me how monumentally successful of a brand Linus has made for himself. His team pushes out an insane amount of videos per week, spread across multiple successful channels, and a solid majority of them are sponsored. Like goddamn man. Like purely subscriber wise, an equivalent comparison would be MKBHD, but I just cannot see him being nearly as successful as a brand comparing the factors I mentioned. Go Linus. (Sorry if this already commonly known)
Low end gamer: "some may call them junk, me I call them treasures" been there done that
Not even though, you'd always be better off in the used market. Probably just old people buying these
I'd rather not play games than play games on a shitty computer. There are any number of other things I could do instead.
Antony should do a Linux install in these cheap laptops and show how usable them are when
That Celeron with a proper ssd is usable in Ubuntu. I run one last year as a student in electrical engineering. I did all my programming exercise on it. I couldn't stand it though because even compiling small c files (100 lines max) took over a second.... However it could handle up to 10 tabs in chrome plus sublime. But only one UA-cam tab and only messenger and not FB tab.
they will work great. I've similar things in the past. He doesn't need Anthony, as just about anyone could install Ubuntu or Mint...dirt simple.
A usb hard drive is the only viable storage solution for long term use with emmc laptops
I have a Celeorn N3450 based laptop with 4gb of ram and a 14" 1080p screen with 32gb of emmc storage and it runs Linux and even ChromeOS fine. Got ChromeOS by doing this ua-cam.com/video/ROBpXNonVxc/v-deo.html
@@Montisaquadeis You could run CloudReady instead, it's a lot easier to install and is meant for random PCs, unlike ChromeOS - which could fail anytime a new update comes out and blocks non licensed devices.
9:37 I'd guess the webcam is placed like that for ideal use in the tablet mode
Optimal nostril hair display
Thanks Linus. I'm busy trying to find a laptop for a cheapskate friend, and I can rule this one (or 2) out. You rock dude!
Linus: who's our sponsor
Me: don't know.. Don't care... Just gonna double tap right
When they say "safe browsing", they mean safe for the Microsoft share holders.
Next video: Water cooling a Walmart Laptop
GoldenMemes I'd watch that. my upgraded Motile can get pretty hot even with a cooling pad cranked to the max.
I got one of those EVOO gaming laptops over the summer just as a cheap gaming laptop to play older games with and it's mostly fine. Major gripes are the touchpad, a graphics driver causing windows to crash when not playing games (not sure who to blame for that) and some annoying audio software which I am afraid to remove, lol.
Edit: Also the camera being at the bottom of the screen is so unbelievably stupid!
Hey Linus and LTT team! I just wanted to say thank you for all those amazing videos you and the guys are putting out. All my 3 computers died one after another this month and am now computerless as my budget wont allow me anything above 200$! Anyways I just wanted to say thank you guys for all the great and funny, silly, somewhat dangerous and generaly very entertaining content you guys are putting out because it is what is getting me through most days in recent times. Thank you and good luck !
6:57 It looks like Linus is holding back his tick of saying “EXTREME”
It's crazy how they can sell laptops and pc's that run so slow they are almost inoperative right out of the box.
Well the average consumer doesn’t understand technology. Its easy money for them and easy to shell out some cheap parts for easy cash.
Have you ever used a school laptop?.... These are high end in comparison...
@@mataskart9894 Not really when you look at Lenovo's Eduseries offerings from even several years ago, they are built like tanks, and when you upgrade them with an SSD, and 8GB of DDR3L RAM along with a lightweight Linux distro they put these to shame, unless you really must have that folding hing, touchscreen, with piss poor viewing angles, along with a bottom mounted webcam that points at your chin, or crotch.
@@mataskart9894 exactly. I went to a pretty well funded grammar school for my secondary education. No laptops but the computers we had to use were old celerons with 2gb of DDR3. I dread to think what worse schools get (I'm in the UK btw)
@@CommodoreFan64 does your granny ordering 50 laptops for 50$ each know this though?... Most of us use our phones when there is a project to do during class and they give us laptops for powerpoint...
So... Its just one of those chromebooks you get for homework and stuff in middle school
I can’t believe linus forgot today’s sponsor, so unprofessionalz
I’m guessing the blue one was meant to be used in tablet mode with the camera?
Probably
That moment when you realise that your laptop is even slower than the silver laptop
N3150 vs Linus 3350! :(
What are you running?
A core 2 solo?
I mean, it's pretty hard to beat a mobile Celeron.
Buy Thinkpad X220/X230 for 80$ (if in a western country) :P Even at 10 years... would be MUCH better than any of this, albeit twice as heavy. (ok ok, battery life might also not be great, and an authentic big replacement battery will probably cost at least as much as the silver laptop)
@@rkan2 Dera rkan2
I'm in Europe and can afford a 350€ laptop but won't buy any
Proper mindset of using a $150 laptop: Good things come to those who wait!
2019 - used Edge to download and install chrome
2020 - Used windows to download and install linux .
Yeah, I was thinking that. At this price point and with the performance improvement Linux would bring, the blue one actually could be a really good value.
@@Churchgrimm And, if you are stubborn enough, you might actually pay less than that by declining Windows ToS and asking for the Windows fee back to the store.
Yes, I have a N3060 craptop and Linux was basically necessary to use it.
@@bracco23 whaaaaaaat. This is a thing human beings can do? Like, I'm pretty confident that I'm too lazy to do that, but whaaaaat
Have u used the new edge?? I gave it a try on friend's recommendation and I just stuck with it. It doesn't drain my ram as much now. Its chromium based so its like using a lighter and faster chrome
I refuse to give an F for that silver laptop, it was just a waste of precious earth metals.
Totally agree
rip
i love how in the intro, the little blob thing becomes rgb when the camera swiches to the pc
it's the little things that make me love ltt
Great review! Thank you! 💯👊🏾
Me:Mom,I want a gaming laptop!
Mom:We have a gaming laptop at home.
Gaming laptop at home:
but u can play minesweeper..hahaa
I’m totally gonna do this to my kid
@@mayb3jul I honestly think that might be an overstatement at this point. Sorry.
Linus! The blue one would be a perfect unit for logging into a virtual environment! They are soo cheap! With a big server room, you don't need to worry about the specs of the laptop just the features, battery, and just the price.
Basically we should expect unexpected Segues to basic Segues...#marketingchamp
Bro it's spelled segue
*THE MORE YOU KNOW*
@@rusty_uzi Thanks dude. I've never had the need to use that word ever but you saved me from potential embarrassment.
Colmin it’s a nonintuitive spelling
@@colemin2 no worries dude
@@colemin2 Actually English is not my first language I'm Indian I knew it before but I wasn't very fluent so I dedicated my quarantine time on getting fluent in it so I got help from someone I thought I'd give it back
9:39 For almost a full second, I thought he had a naughty video pulled up! 🤣