Can you get a good laptop for $350 in 2024?

[@minsekfau3218]

I just got a used ThinkPad X201 for $25 yesterday 😎

[@guaiqueritech]

Niiiiiiiice

[@minsekfau3218]

No it's on Carousell(an Asian market platform). It's fully functional except the battery. For if you're curious, the specs are: i5 520M iGPU 8GB DDR3 Kingston 480GB SATA SSD

[@goober606]

​@@minsekfau3218bro battery is pretty important for a.. laptop.

[@Johnscompany]

@@minsekfau3218 so you found and ssd with a laptop freely.

[@CantankerousDave]

I found an Asus Strix laptop with an AMD 6800H, 16gb of ram, 1tb nvme, and mobile 3060 (also a 16Hz 1440p screen with excellent color specs) on clearance for $525 last summer.

[@goober606]

Did ChatGPT write this?

[@patryk31]

i guess

[@CantankerousDave]

It does give off a chatbot vibe, doesn't it?

[@welshe222]

$350 dollar laptops, clicks link the ai wrote for this video, sees laptop is £450 which makes it around $510, dislikes and leaves

[@Zentexel]

8 Threads and a modern igpu seems like a really good deal for $350, thanks for your video! I know you said that it isnt a gaming laptop, but you could include benchmarks for some lightweight games if you plan to make a similar video again. it could be very interesting to see how it handles them! :D

[@TrusteftTech]

Shame you didn't try games. Thanks for the video.

[@domino15pul87]

4:46 OLED uses much less battery than IPS and any other display. It is superior technology, only downside being price. It is thinner, lighter too. I have VivoBook S14X with an 2.8K OLED. If I change the brightness of screen up to 600 nits, it consumes less than my keyboard backlight. Less than 1 watt probably, according to HWInfo64.

[@NerdyThrowbackTech]

Probably it depends of the usage scenarios. OLED can use less power in darker scenes where most pixels are off. But in bright scenes, powering all pixels can increase consumption. Frequent changes in displayed content (videos, games) can lead to higher power usage due to frequent pixel switching.