Are Walmart's $150 Laptops Shockingly Good... or Shockingly Bad?

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[@M.r..R.i.c.e.]

When you laptop is so slow that you use the Windows key as a benchmark

[@juzujuzu4555]

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.

[@eDoc2020]

My 2008 netbook gets probably less than 5fps in the Windows 10 Start Menu when I last tried it.

[@juzujuzu4555]

@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.

[@deusexaethera]

@@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!

[@juzujuzu4555]

@@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.

[@jackbarman7063]

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

[@ranchitas]

I literally destroyed my high school laptop because I tried to game on that

[@replynotificationsdisabled]

Kstat anyone?

[@aakarsh1280]

I have a worse computer. Running Fortnite bricked my device and I had to restart it after re-connecting the battery.

[@duelgundam]

3DU _Laughs in somehow running Warcraft III on that kind of laptop_

[@user-ck9zg5rh4p]

So basically a macbook 😂😂

[@fotoschopro1230]

"The silver laptop completely died after the filming of this video." *_Linus scratching the motherboard with a screwdriver intensifies_*

[@Darthmufin]

lol yeah

[@anandsuralkar2947]

Yup

[@Aventad96]

While the laptop is charging

[@firstnamelastname2328]

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

[@Sam-vf5uc]

"I refuse to believe the cheapest new laptop in existence would just die like that"

[@marshallr.8121]

"picture this: you're on a super tight budget" oh.. yea, wild.. could you imagine?

[@user-us8fx3nu3x]

Lmfao

[@Luckysquirrel1256]

@@user-us8fx3nu3x your name tho

[@cryptocred5754]

Looks like you care more about being different than the culture rather than assimilating and pursuing a job in a field which pays high, and gives raises. That being said, hopefully you are an artist! To which I say, you should know you will most likely live a poor life. Good luck and cool artist hair!

[@victorpeng5531]

$150 on a laptop is actually a super tight budget.

[@marshallr.8121]

@@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^^

[@bibasik7]

Ah, so this is what the Chromebook's competitor looks like.

[@zeallust8542]

Simply not using the Chrome OS instantly makes any laptop better than a Chromebook

[@bruhder5854]

Tbh might as well buy used laptops instead

[@anthonyi220]

@@zeallust8542 yeah Chrome OS is complete dogshit lol

[@dr2d2]

Chromebook more like crapbooks

[@1234legomaker]

@@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.

[@avila5486]

Performance Test: Let's press the Windows key 😂

[@MartianV2GG]

@@adamquery7048 me

[@KiteAndKeyProductions]

@@adamquery7048 basically.

[@Imkishore_12]

@@adamquery7048 me who tries to check whether my laptop is on full speed

[@ashiksaleem360]

This comment is gonna blow up

[@chainsburg]

I actually do this myself.

[@kyleanderson8640]

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.

[@Ishan_Singla]

Bro gimme that sht

[@ItsMrLee]

The floors models at my Walmart are all broken af lol

[@eric_d]

You couldn't pay me enough to use an Acer!

[@djarcher9658]

"let's press the windows key at the sa- OH GOOD HEAVENS!" it hurt me as well, dear God that was slow

[@kingyachan]

"picture this, your on a super tight budget" Way ahead of ya buddy

[@hielke309]

Then you buy a second hand thinkpad

[@kingyachan]

@@hielke309 again, way ahead of ya buddy ;)

[@bland9876]

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

[@AgniWatchLugun]

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

[@ppcasm9837]

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

[@spencerlinkous7714]

Wow, finally. A computer that's slower than mine.

[@archerjr1106]

😂 wow bro

[@tahsintanveer1808]

Amateurs!!! *has a 512mb ddr cl3 ram laptop*

[@Dillinger86]

lol

[@emiktra7929]

Sorry, mine is still the winner

[@emiktra7929]

1GB ram

[@carel0069]

Kid: "I need a laptop!" Mom: "We have a laptop at home"

[@carel0069]

@@Alex-yj9xl WHAT?

[@MTN1601]

I’m the 100th like When mom’s laptop is 10 years old and it’s unusable

[@just_some_bigfoot_hacking_you]

Kid: Oh come on. Mom: What? It got nice color and the screen looks good.

[@wisenotwise2676]

Technically

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

"It runs the most basic games." I'm sorry, I'm going to need proof that it is capable of running MS-BASIC.

[@aleclesemann1616]

lolllll

[@ankmlord]

After the release of this video: Walmart: *$300 for each*

[@mdasadasad2665]

600 each

[@user-uu9ru3de1y]

@@mdasadasad2665 800

[@thatoneguy12986]

The first one is still $139. Give it a couple weeks when more channels review it then it'll double like the last one.

[@DarthBoolean]

@@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.

[@thatoneguy12986]

Last time I checked the $250 laptop everyone reviewed was $450.

[@astanfartin1647]

when you peeled the screen protector the laptop lost half its rigidity XD

[@pranitmunjal9719]

under rated comment

[@trustyperson126]

@@pranitmunjal9719 underrated comment

[@Simulation101YT]

lol

[@jlco]

Galaxy Fold.

[@Simulation101YT]

@@laurabrown4285 shut up

[@2Vilapupu]

Linus: "for about the price of a copy of win10" Me: ah so it's free poggers

[@XanthosAcanthus]

Well, I paid like $30 bucks for pro from kinguine, so even if you pay, it's still cheap.

[@XanthosAcanthus]

@Qimodis yeah, ethically it's not good... yeah, I guess it's not good.

[@aimohsin1380]

It's a free laptop if you have a gun

[@1jackpenner]

win 10 home 189cad

[@justruby6596]

@@aimohsin1380 why would I wanna pay hundreds of dollors for guns.... a random brick should do the trick

[@paweadamczyk4096]

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

[@BurningDrake39]

"the grey laptop died after filming" sure, Linus didn't do anything to that poor thing

[@LeDechaine]

@@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?!)

[@dodge2451]

@@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.

[@rayceeya8659]

They both look like "Oh shit I forgot my Laptop" machines that should be sold in airports.

[@kiyoponnn]

Burner laptops

[@rayceeya8659]

@@kiyoponnn Cheers better phrasing than I had. Can you get them with a SIM card slot?

[@kiyoponnn]

@@rayceeya8659 Probably not, but it's possible in the next few years

[@radekwlsk]

Yay, all that extra electronic waste.

[@rayceeya8659]

@@radekwlsk I'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm saying it's an inevitable thing.

[@chowjoshua6577]

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.

[@alethacates2497]

This is one of the most entertaining video and laptop comparison, I have ever seen! Thanks for the upload and info!

[@vodozhaba]

Everyone: “disconnect the battery as early as possible when disassembling a laptop” Linus: keeps them plugged in

[@MichaelAcosta]

Yes- a little shocked at that. Well, not really with Linus 😂

[@nickgorayeb612]

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

[@ferna182]

Linus: Disassembles computer and pokes it with a screwdriver, shorting out pins, while the computer is still plugged in. Computer: Dies. Linus: 😮

[@Growler57]

You know why he’s a bad ass

[@Mystikus2]

I mean, they probably don't have enough power delivery to even hurt you and he clearly doesn't care if they die

[@TraceTheory]

"the laptop completely died after the video" >Proceeds to disassemble the laptop while still plugged into AC 😳😳

[@deusexaethera]

Oh who cares at that point. While he was at it, he should've put it back together with a staple gun.

[@wolonpanda]

As long as its turned off at the wall wouldn't in it help with static by grounding?

[@deusexaethera]

@@wolonpanda: Hypothetically yes, but switched outlets are rare in North America.

[@Spider-Man-mv6zn]

@@deusexaethera isn’t Linus tech tips based in Canada :?

[@NoStereo]

@@Spider-Man-mv6zn Canada is in North America.... lol

[@daco111]

Linus: "This laptop costs as much as a copy of Windows" Me a pirate: Wait, it's free?

[@theramendutchman]

Me, a pirate: "Wait Windows isn't free?"

[@johnjordan3552]

do you have an eye-patch?

[@UNSCPILOT]

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

[@jamiehayn]

@@UNSCPILOT hack together lmao

[@cablewaffel7957]

Linus: I dont remember the last time I saw that big a besel on a new machine. Imac: Here I am.

[@BotBrendan]

Linus: I don’t think you can get much worse My school’s laptops: “Amateurs”

[@nab138_]

Brandon Cei so true lol

[@oknice5992]

*Waits ten minutes for the power button to turn on*

[@nouns7504]

all the bloat ware on those things kill em

[@aldrinw706]

my school has actual desent laptops but there is so much blout ware that they are so fucken slow

[@BotBrendan]

Aldrin W yeah that’s true the IT staff will always find a way to slow them down

[@NoOnesMemes]

Schools: “GIVE ME ALL OF THEM”

[@samuelforgie2771]

Nah, schools will find a way to spend double the price for half the power

[@hellodan2166]

@@samuelforgie2771 lmao yes

[@baconboifrombaconarmy4383]

Well... my school uses a thinkcentere pc tower with an i3 to run the school server, so I don’t see why they don’t use the $129 laptop to power the entire school server!

[@1cecreampize197]

Well actually my school's laptop is better than my laptop

[@zachf9187]

"They're too slow. Let's order more of the cheapest SKU next year."

[@asm_nop]

Looking at the blue motherboard, there's an m.2 port that isn't populated. It may be SATA-only, but the Celeron N3350 has 6 PCIe 2.0 lanes that can be split into multiple separate x4/x2/x1 links. Since the only other thing in there that would use PCIe lanes is the WiFi card, it very well may have that port wired up as PCIe 2.0 x2 or perhaps even x4. Might not be able to NVMe boot off of it, but it certainly could be fast storage that could hold everything that isn't windows.

[@ReSilverKiento]

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!

[@juliustan9647]

LinusTechTipsDont: leaves power plugged in and opening the insides of the laptop

[@adamwright2396]

it may be plugged in but not switched on just to ground it

[@jackblack5393]

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.

[@mina47879]

and poking it with a metal screwdriver. hmm i wonder why it died...

[@kamilo743]

@@Shishou_Shi or to say it in the famous words of him: "Do as I say, not as I do"

[@Ph33rTheDens]

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.

[@notSALTY.]

9:13 "I wonder how the silver laptop just randomly died?" 9:52 "Oh."

[@Annatar.]

He murdered it with the screwdriver, why is the battery/psu connected, 11:57?

[@peterpan408]

He dropped it..

[@ryanlai3654]

Why didn't the blue one die? It seems the reviews say that the silver one dies for no reason anyways.

[@TechnologistAtWork]

he fucked with them while they were both hooked up to the power.

[@enderman776]

Mom, can we get gaming laptop No, we have gaming laptop at home The gaming laptop at home:

[@satanlover134]

5:50 the one on the right if it was a bit bulkier and had about 4 tb of tlc storage and an evo 970 m.2 could be a good option for a canon laptop, like the sensor from an eos m as a laptop camera and add to that so firm buttons and a rode mic on the side, it could be pretty sweet

[@Red-cq6hl]

Schools: *_I'll take your entire stock_*

[@simplybeanjelly]

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!

[@erutanevoli]

@@simplybeanjelly Atleast your school provides you with one. In my school we have to bring our own.

[@matrixace_8903]

@@simplybeanjelly Report them for corruption, in some places you can get money for it.

[@LoganT547]

@@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

[@GRLDT]

"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

[@AwesomeSheep48]

Gerald Stephanus and he scratched the motherboard

[@BanditLeader]

@@AwesomeSheep48 and he flexed it like a ruler

[@christophermorin9036]

No fan spin.

[@africanroots_kingjoseph]

Great review! Thank you! 💯👊🏾

[@mitcoes]

PLEASE install GNOME and KDE in the hybrid one to benchmark it with MS WOS that usually is much slower and noticeable in low budget devices.

[@subscribetoanegg4035]

Performance test: Let's press the Windows key 😂

[@floppyD]

Well, there's so much you can do with a laptop that performs worse than other 10 year old laptops. These chips are a joke.

[@RegaDude]

Thats what i did a couple years ago when looking for a laptop lol

[@hwgeek86]

''Can it run Start Menu?" ;-)

[@chootastic]

@@floppyD Well, I'm wathcing this on a Lenovo X230, so, can confirm

[@arencorparencorp2189]

2nd hand laptops ftw, 110 i5 2nd gen 8gb ram and ssd is perfectly doable, and it will crush these

[@HenriqueGuerraOficial]

"Picture this: you're on a SUPER tight budget..." Well.. that's easy

[@ghostdog662]

Picture it, Sicily 1912....

[@CircuitDen]

I would love one of these laptops to use for testing Linux distros like Mint, Ubuntu or Raspbian. Even the cheaper one with 2gb of ram could probably work quite well on raspbian

[@dirkbsilver9260]

I was offered the silver one for a special of 100, but I bought an Hp 15 bs212wm for 50 bucks more. I am much happier. It is not a speed demon but it works and was worth it. They might have raised the price now but for a cheap laptop it is rather nice for someone needing a low cost computer. Celeron N4000 4gbRam UHD600 500gb HDD tips those two apart.

[@bennomachine]

"The silver laptop completely died after the filming of this video" Me: Oh, why? *Linus opens up the laptop* Me: Say no more

[@liangzx]

with power cable plugged

[@samimarishien3682]

I'm more suspicious of the flexing. That did not look healthy.

[@JadarDev]

and runs his screwdriver over the PCB. yeahhh

[@edisirio506]

meh...not that big of a loss...the most expensive thing in that "laptop" is probably that big piece of copper...

[@JourneysADRIFT]

*Bends Laptop like crazy* "It Died" Ya don't say XD

[@ryanlai3654]

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.

[@cgscott]

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

[@JourneysADRIFT]

Yes, it's a joke. Flexation can cause damage, so can shitty manufacturing

[@jeyendeoso]

@@cgscott not to mention he was poking and scraping the inner guts of the poor thing... while the charger was still connected lol

[@RandomUser2401]

@@JourneysADRIFT electronics as shitty as these should really be forbidden. I mean they more or less directly go to a landfill and waste resources.

[@cyberoverkill5844]

Yo that new opening animation is FIRE!!!

[@Dragon_rls]

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!

[@remty516]

5:02 Linus: "Oh, this one still has a screen peel on it as well. Ooh." English subtitles: (upbeat electronic music)

[@hypersonic6649]

No shit! There was electronic upbeat music playing in the background if you hear closely!

[@parththakkar9748]

Ohh now they have included sub

[@bricolmane]

bruh you deaf

[@remty516]

Well I know I didn't hear it but so did most of the people watching on phones, simple KZbin statistics. They changed the aspect ratio for phones but the audio isn't as good as it could be for phones. Sadly KZbin doesn't have statistics for people with headphones or without.

[@lance4331]

Remty are you dumb or deaf?

[@mayorplayz]

Linus: This Laptop is fine for KIDS Our Parents: I am taking away your gaming pc

[@frowning4580]

*sells gaming pc for 20$*

[@mayhair]

@@frowning4580 I'd buy that

[@thatcfopcuber3810]

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

[@jasonmenningen6086]

How do you make a show suggestion??? I went to the site and checked the forums but couldn’t find anywhere to make a post. Anyways would love to see an all out emulation build. Something to play from all the way back to Atari 2600 to PS3 and maybe 4. Be able to play most computer games as well and hook up to a standard 4K TV to play with any and all friends. No more than $1500 not including peripherals. Would love to see it!!!! You guys are great!!!!

[@BREZINA542]

Linus : The gray one completely died after shooting :( Also Linus : Jamming a screwdriver onto the PCB while shooting an likely killing it.

[@MyNameIsBucket]

LET'S BEND THE LAPTOP FOR A WHOLE MINUTE

[@xander882]

Exactly what I thought!!

[@JB39362]

WHILE PLUGGED IN!

[@writerpatrick]

Opening the case voided the warranty so he couldn't even return the silver one.

[@BlueSlice]

Only OG's remember when the title was "$300 for TWO laptops?"

[@NeytAkyide]

🤝

[@krzysztofdomaradzki2067]

I remember

[@biblicallyaccuratewizard]

They be keep changing their tiles... Every single time. LMAO.

[@Jackofafewtrades]

Or people who have notifications turned on...

[@Whackfear]

The thumbnail has a "300$" in it and I was wondering what that was about.

[@arashikumo7593]

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!

[@bryernlow9342]

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.

[@v3ELITEZz]

Yeah I was going to make that same point, it was clearly made for being in tablet mode when used for video calls

[@TomO-nx1bd]

I have a 32GB eMMC Dell laptop with a Celeron N3060 and it's actually not too bad if all you need to do with it is Remote Desktop into work or do simple web browsing. The main problem comes when you need to do a Windows 10 version update. I end up having to use the Windows Media Creation Tool from my desktop PC to create a USB drive with the latest Windows 10 setup files on it and plug that into my laptop and do the upgrade directly from the USB because the 32GB EMMC isn't big enough to store the download of a new Windows version.

[@antonisautos8704]

I've been using a dell inspiron 3541 that I bought back in 2015 for around $200. It came with a 500GB HDD that spun at a whopping 5400 RPM, 4GB or DDR3 RAM at 1333MHz, an AMD A6-6310 with integrated graphics... Let's say it wasn't doing much quickly at all. Battery life was okay and the touch pad was well.. trash. But it got me through in a pinch. I still have the device today. Though with a few updates. Swapped out the ram for 8GB at 1600MHz and the hard drive to a 2TB SSD and swapped out the wifi card to a wifi 6 dual band card that is faster than the 10/100 ethernet port on the machine. Hooked it up to a USB dock and run a few monitors off it and use a keyboard and mouse now rather than the integrated keyboard and track pad. Anything to he bought for less than 200 dollars running windows 10 or 11... good luck. Especially with 4GB of ram and a HDD. You'll get a chrome tab and wait 5 minutes to open a PDF document.

[@cjuice9039]

Finally Linus understands what Budget actually means

[@willtaylor9]

Thank you. I'm not the only one who thinks that

[@psynapse261]

A whole laptop costing less than a licence of the OS it runs on. BuDGeT

[@muxs10k]

lmao

[@mbg47971]

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.

[@psynapse261]

@@thor.mukbang okay I didn't know that, thanks 👍🏻

[@definitely_not_anonymous8010]

People: "we don't want nose cams!" The blue laptop: say no more

[@wisico640]

Introducing the new ChinCam

[@marildogjolena1012]

it wasn't even centered 😤

[@anandsuralkar2947]

Lol

[@piperwren7732]

i have that laptop i-

[@lunchmeat7495]

@@piperwren7732 😬 I’d rather just get a used decent laptop for the same price

[@DTPIIXART]

LOL "Roll back my expectations". I needed that laugh…

[@WhatThebRuhD0inStudios]

i actually got my desktop pc from walmart, an hp prodesk 600 g1 to be exact. everything was perfect, but i had to upgrade the ram from 4 gigs to 32 gigs and now it is a full on gaming pc, new lights, keyboard, mouse and everything else. sometimes, walmart can be good for some things!

[@korbi8263]

The moment when a raspberry Pi is faster than a laptop😂

[@othmaneaouioued8768]

this has a year of office 365 and windows 10, it's like he said you get the laptop basically for free

[@freddyb4987]

@@othmaneaouioued8768 Imagine having to pay for your OS

[@jetoge]

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?

[@johnsmithers284]

Because you're running linux on it

[@SlainByTheWire]

@@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.

[@forrestdior2470]

Linus says 300 dollars for a laptop My mom comes in and says I’m listening

[@chrisparussin5359]

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$

[@Gubukh]

I have a laptops which cost some moneys.

[@hbfjkxjnfnf9032]

Buy a second hand laptop then

[@chrisparussin5359]

With a dongle you can actually use a 4K display and its 13mm thick

[@advayapurushottam4520]

@@chrisparussin5359 but, can it run crysis???

[@lichichi]

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.

[@JamSparing]

what did you do to the laptop...

[@akirafan28]

Do you usually use it or is it collecting dust?

[@krypton7900]

for the same price you'd could get used thinkpads with socketed CPUs with upgrades those can have 1080p+ ips screens, 16GB of ram, 4/8 thread i7 2nd, 3rd, or 4th gen(5th gen and newer aren't available socketed) and of course an SSD

[@Inesophet]

Scratch and Poke the Interior of a Laptop while it is Powered. Laptop Dies. Linus: Suprise Pikachu

[@anch95]

Imagine this ,but instead of power , it's anaesthesia ,and a human instead of a laptop.

[@AomiChron]

@@anch95 Woah, calm down there, Satan

[@AgniWatchLugun]

They seem to enjoy it when these items break

[@subodhverma2288]

and also touching the metal screw driver everywhere on the motherboard, haha

[@_nishantj_]

People flex with their macbooks, wait till i bring my Walmart laptop and show you the ultimate deck flex.

[@Chris_P_Bacon]

lmao

[@minedad]

Good video, was unaware of these devices. But, of course you're going to find phones at $150 that are faster than these two devices are. These are very budget devices for a laptop whereas on arm platforms (and highly competitive market segments) like budget smartphones they more frequently include more ram and also often reap the benefits of focusing on one or two foreground applications (with varying degrees of aggression in memory management). For a snappier media-focused use case, the phone is the smarter buy but a PC has to be a bit more of a multitasking jack-of-all-trades to meet the user's needs in multiple kinds of work and entertainment. These two laptops obviously aren't fast enough to handle many tasks but there is still a place in education and some office work for a portable PC that simply has the physical keyboard directly attached and not much else to its feature set.

[@niamhturner1451]

yeah like if a laptop is needed for just web browsing for whatever, i recommend doing like 5 or 10 mins of research as to what's a good price second hand and you'd easilly find one that'll last for like $60

[@lonely_ghost9857]

Im honestly just lookin' for a computer to get myself started for music production and other stuff and ofc im on a budget like many others so...yeah

[@JLarky]

12:00 let me poke with metal without detaching charger and battery Fs in the chat

[@GrandMasterJarf]

No wonder the silver one died, he’s playing around with the internals while it’s still plugged into power. Damnit Linus!

[@UltimatePwnageNL]

And flexing it so hard it's amazing it still worked at all. I expected some bga's to detach from that tbh

[@Chris_P_Bacon]

At least he didn´t drop it

[@GrandMasterJarf]

@@Chris_P_Bacon you have a point.

[@GrandMasterJarf]

@@UltimatePwnageNL ain't that the truth! I mean I get he was trying to prove a point, but hot damn, man.

[@coltonmandell4829]

I'm LOLing out loud at that blue front facing camera placement. Too funny!

[@azntactical4884]

I am sure it is meant to be located on top once you flip the screen over and balance it on the edges.

[@christopherlinfors2607]

What was more satisfying than the screen peel? Linus’ reaction to the peel.

[@rabbytca]

Linus removed the UV protection film. Screen will develop milky white surface if exposed to sunlight. Heheh

[@sphbecker]

9:39 really looked like Linus was caught watching something he shouldn't have been watching :-)

[@TrippySensei25]

I caught that immediately and came to the comments to see if anyone else saw it lol 🤣

[@nickli2854]

My thought exactly😂

[@WyvernApalis]

Linus I think you're supposed to use the webcam in tablet mode where the camera is up top

[@Tebogajardo]

I thought the same here

[@xxziad_playzxx5917]

The silver laptop is called evoo Ultra Thin Laptop 15.6" (which im currently using right now) Is a good laptop which is the best for business and good for low-end pc gaming

[@bitset3741]

If you have microsd and USB 3 you have ...some... storage expandability. And honestly those are potentially as fast as the emmc anyway. Keep only the OS itself on the internal and it won't suck as bad. :)

[@mohamedkadhemmansour7058]

Linus : " ... like, .. if you were a kid or something.." Me: " I were a kid linus, now i am an adult with gigantic hands"

[@marcobonera838]

The "or something" part worriers me

[@SHAdow98V]

". . .like. . .if you were a kid" me in my head "or a Linus" =)))))))))

[@karai5082]

1.1 GHz, that’s DANGEROUSLY close to MHz, reminds me of those old 333 MHz Pentium things

[@Trainboy1EJR]

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.

[@resneptacle]

It's the base clock though

[@aakarsh1280]

Hey! I have a "Pentium thing"

[@skycubix8943]

Actually the i3-1035G1 has a 1.00GHz base. It's the horrible IPC and TDP that makes Celeron unusable, not the clocks.

[@jbritain]

My Toshiba laptop from 2006 is faster than that shit

[@madmod]

I have been managing to game on some vintage computers. My 1.9ghz i3 dual core, 4gb ram, 1tb ssd is tearing it up on Fallout New Vegas, automation/beam ng, and even manages some skyrim on 720p.

[@oligeryou9913]

So I bought a Onn 13.3 2-1 full hd touch laptop last week at Wally for $30 brand new on a super clearance sale. It has I3 8 Gen, 4 gb of ram upgrading to 8 tho, 128 SSD. I also bought 4 sammy tab s6 128 gb with 6 gb ram for $40 each. I also bought 2 tab A 10.1 2019 with 128 gb & 3 gb ram for $19 each. I used a website called brickseek to find these great deals along with slickdeals. They had two other laptops on clearance one was the Lenovo flex 14 2-1 for $40 and the other was a HP pavilion 13.3 for $11 but I couldn't find either of these two yet? I did learn though that once Walmart wants to move their products they really clearance them out and I have to say they have to be losing money off this stuff but I guess for Walmart it must not matter?

[@monsieurchiennes3082]

13:31 the msi sponsor clip spells “supports” wrong

[@Prophet1]

"Supprots 3rd gen" *Ill take ur entire stock*

[@Rosi1_]

supprots

[@nameirrelevant1114]

That's the leas wrong thing. They also installed their Ryzen CPU the wrong way!

[@Ethan-ee2sr]

lol why are you even watching the sponsor

[@TinchoX]

Yeah I noticed that too xD

[@mgdshorts175]

linus: the space key isn't good me: CLICKS IT TO CHECK*

[@Foggyfighter]

feels like you would like to go straight for linux mint, or even lubuntu on a computer like that. Maybe with the falcon web browser for faster loading time on youtube as well? What does Anthony have to say about that? :) At least on the 2gb amd laptop.

[@ashalansari]

For this price point, I highly recommend just buying used, especially if you're tech savvy enough to open it up, clean up any dust and re-apply thermal paste. A brand new machine this cheap obviously has too many drawbacks and corner cutting to be usable long-term. This thing looks like it's going to break within a few months max a year or two of light use.

[@sphrcl.]

This is the exact CPU in my school chromebook 😔

[@mutant69]

Linus: Let us fire up JerryRigEverything's off-road wheelchair video. Jerry: *S T O N K S* 💹

[@CJonestheSteam72]

Copyright claim incoming

[@l3gacyb3ta21]

Hah I took away the 69 likes

[@yourtubernoob]

@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😂

[@JacksMacintosh]

Re: the camera on the blue one. Maybe it’s meant for video calls when it’s in tent/tablet mode?

[@Seeds-Of-The-Wayside]

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.

[@GamerKiwi]

at that price point i would start looking at my local ecyclers for deals on old thinkpads which are at least enough to run linux well

[@kav12ab]

That moment when you open the start menu as a benchmark

[@davidlindholm3889]

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.

[@mowtow90]

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.

[@akhilathawale725]

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 🤣

[@BackSlashJvb125]

itsfunny cause the whole selling point of these is that they come with a free windows 10 license lol

[@atti5370]

True or windows 8.1

[@fantasypvp]

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

[@MadameSomnambule]

Seeing those laptops' innards exposed, they give off a vibe that reminds me of the Sinclair ZX-80 computer. It was the cheapest computer in the UK in the 80s and just as flimsy looking.

[@kdog24x]

I can imagine Linux would be pretty good on one of these

[@clintonleonard5187]

Yeah, putting Windows on a machine like this is hilarious.

[@kaneingham24]

Linux and an SSD most people would be fine

[@chickeninabox]

I would write this reply in Linux but Internet Drivers don't work.

[@LBSiUK]

@@chickeninabox OK, try ReviOS.

[@d9zirable]

Just install Ubuntu MATE on them For KZbin: Install (enhanced )h264ify and Good Old KZbin

[@Spitfire17139]

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 !

[@Montisaquadeis]

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.

[@femboy_wettuce4391]

Gave you 69 likes

[@idk-sy3iu]

H264ify doesn't work always. Use enchanted-h264ify

[@C.Wiseman]

This would be interesting to see how they perform with Linux, that might be a good option for these laptops.

[@jpxyUA]

I mean, even win 7 would perform much better

[@danarose2677]

Peppermint OS would be a good distro for this

[@enderman776]

Ubuntu would be good

[@8w73]

@@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.

[@eulehund99]

@@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.

[@patricktrakzel9657]

Can you overclock these processors? If yes, the phone watercooling set would be the cooling solution. You can also just put a small Linux distro on it, like Puppy Linux ( 300 MB but needs at least 1 GB ram ), Tiny Core Linux ( 16 MB with GUI ), SliTaz Linux ( image is about 51MB ), Porteus ( from 270 MB ) or Bohdi Linux ( ISO is 740 MB ) and it will be real functional. Be sure to save your windows installation and key on a micro SD card or USB stick. I think just copy the partition onto it. And with Linux your ready to rock. No performance problems anymore.

[@juzujuzu4555]

Format these Windows' and install lightweight Linux. It will actually have security and performance, and you can live with 2gb of RAM. Some full feature desktops only take little over 200mb of RAM. And most noticeably that boosts loading and caching, which contributes to much better usage.

[@bigdaz7272]

"DDR4 Memory upto 4800mhz because why lock that stuff down, right?" Not mentioning any names begining with i

[@andrasbiro6604]

Only came to check the comments if someone already pointed this out :D

[@bigdaz7272]

@@andrasbiro6604 lol. Yeah i reckon Linus gonna segue into an Intel rip in every video going forward until they release a 7nm Chip lol

[@ferna182]

9:39 took me WAY too long to figure out that was your hand on the screen and not someone's ass

[@isaiahbenitez8978]

I wonder if it that blue one worked well with chrome os on it. That would be a cool video.

[@JdRDMS]

The shade of blue on the blue computer is actually my favorite color. If only someone would implement that color on a higher end device. Please let me know if someone has, preferably on a device from 2018 or later, I’ll definitely add it to my next computer list.

[@samuelitooooo]

Rumor has it that the next MacBook Airs will adopt the same colors as the M1 iMacs

[@JdRDMS]

@@samuelitooooo Yeah I saw the next MacBook, but those are more pastel or “baby” colors (baby as in baby blue, not childish or anything), I’m more after medium blue. I am actually considering getting the next MacBook Air when it comes out, especially the purple one (purple is my second favorite color after blue), but I’m still deciding between macOS and Windows. If I choose Windows, then I’m either getting the XPS 13 or Surface Laptop 4. I like black and dark gray on tech too, but I was just wondering, as again, medium blue is my favorite color. Thanks for responding anyway.

[@_Kisaragi]

9:39 thought that was something other than a finger for a second there

[@barreliusnois5533]

Thought someone facetimed their ass cheeks

[@flameshana9]

@@barreliusnois5533 _FaceTime? Check out THESE cute cheeks!_

[@kennethmc2601]

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.

[@marcelbrard2708]

Same 😂😂😂

[@Mike504]

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.

[@Trainboy1EJR]

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.

[@denzmerin2568]

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.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@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.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@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 KZbin 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.

[@encycl07pedia-]

@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.