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[@shaknblake6560]

Austin; “I bought the worst laptop” School laptops; “hold my beer”

[@cgamer8938]

*hold my processor*

[@HybrydATP64]

My school had pretty good laptops and pcs

[@tamoozbr]

IDK where i live the desktop comiters are like 2012 machines with some newer ones (budgeting) that fore some reason have 1mbps drives that should be able to do a lot more and 2018 laptops that actually work well And provate school isn't really a thing here

[@smashypixel4188]

@@Joe-ix5hj nah as long as its funny its still acceptable

[@thekidvenus6835]

my school has 2007 aluminum imacs they had like 6 of them

[@user-vu3ci7my1y]

Schools: “I will take your entire stock”

[@rudranshsingh3155]

Your school give you laptop

[@Pikaaaachuuuuuuuuuuuuuu]

Lol u must be lucky

[@_Shay_]

@@Pikaaaachuuuuuuuuuuuuuu All digital private school my guy High school was lit, until some kid decided to DDos the school so no one could do any schoolwork at school for 2 weeks

[@monstie2795]

I don’t wanna flex but my school has MacBooks from 2015

[@TJ-wf1rr]

@@_Shay_ Epic gamer moment

[@TheMrawesomest]

I still have the first 7" EeePC. That thing is adorable, but it was terrible to use. It taught me the lesson that the cheapest option can cost more in the long run. Pay more for something that you could use longer.

[@dufferzzzzz]

Guy im still using an MSI Wind U100 (an eee competitor) every day.. As a dumb SSH/Anime box, it has done the only two things i want it to do - for 12 years!

[@kanedaku]

I remember giving those away with mobile broadband contracts in the early to mid 2000s. Lots of students were going for them.

[@richdaley9982]

@@dufferzzzzz I had an MSI Wind U100 and it was probably one of the better netbooks ever released. You could pry it apart and put 2GB of RAM in it and it had decent cooling so it ran sorta ok. These days you can get a pretty capable used laptop for less than $300 but that wasn't really true back then. The difference between a 2004 laptop and a 2009 laptop were very different than the difference between a 2017 laptop and a 2022 laptop.

[@xjyrki]

To be fair, it was never meant to be your only computer. It was also the cheapest thing on the market resembling a laptop. I am still running a HP Mini 5101 from early 2010. It is run headless and it does motion detection and saves video from an old surveillance camera. I think that I have used it for a pretty long while now, especially for the price.

[@xjyrki]

@@kanedaku The first Eee came to market in early 2008.

[@uthmanbaksh3530]

KZbin comments in 2011: "Can it run Crysis?" KZbin comments in 2021: "Can it run Windows 11?"

[@keebship]

more like can it run doom

[@evilemperordude]

From working in retail, I can tell you that a shitload of customers walk in with a ridiculously low budget and are shocked that a decent laptop costs hundreds more than they want to spend.

[@gracefulslumber8441]

@@Ibrahim-vx5kq then are mad when it doesn't work that well 🤦‍♀️

[@CreatorPolar]

Because they think that if they can make a decent phone for cheap than they can do the same with a windows laptop

[@rayhanrizvi334]

@@CreatorPolar honestly under 400 dollars your not going to find ANY good windows laptop. it WILL crash, lag, and not work. Probably your only option are chromebooks, Chromebooks will always be faster than a similar spec windows laptop. Thats because chrome os is a much smaller os than windows. A chromebook with 8gb ram and an i3(like mine) will be faster than a similar spec windows laptop. I can easily beat my other windows laptop, same ram but it has an i5.

[@CreatorPolar]

@@rayhanrizvi334 1. yeah chromebooks are cheaper and run smoother but you can’t shit on them other than web browsing 2. Used laptop market says hi

[@rayhanrizvi334]

@@CreatorPolar used market is very sketchy. You can easily get ripped off on eBay

[@iamfabian9988]

Public schools: “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”

[@bighmm6301]

Our lack of power actually

[@iamfabian9988]

@@bighmm6301 *our**

[@sinner3957]

@@bighmm6301 r/woooosh

[@kidsentertainment-diamondp9250]

Private schools are exactly the same

[@turnernator100]

@@kidsentertainment-diamondp9250 "Look what they need to mimic a fraction of _our lack of power."_

[@CBZED101]

Oh man, I worked at a big box store when these first came out and I died a bit inside every time someone bought one of these.

[@trey_a_12]

Austin: "I bought the worst laptop!" Chromebooks: "Hold my KB of RAM"

[@Z_A765]

Everyone gangsta until their parents buy them one

[@dio6318]

rip

[@HarshitDube]

Amad!

[@drxwskii6180]

Faxx

[@Grizzlybear2470]

So true

[@PeerRevue]

LOL

[@epikedits7921]

Colleges: “These are ok but still out of my budget”

[@someoneyouneverknow7529]

Out of our minimal requirements *

[@Quacka]

Just sell a kidney

[@matej-9049]

nah eepc is cheaper

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Laptop is Ok, if you install proper OS for it. Some tiny linux distro, perhaps Win 7 . Search internet for lightweight apps or download something that was released 10 years ago (old Firefox , and disable updates) . You could even game, of course with older games. For school work , definitely enough power.

[@l0ganS59]

Amen

[@LloydLynx]

Definitely a case of the "new product" tax. An old business laptop for the same price will match or exceed the specs of that Gateway and feel so much better to use.

[@kuga6566]

I've only ever owned one new laptop in my life because of this, and it was a gifted Mac. The rest have been pre-owned ThinkPads, Latitudes and EliteBooks, and they have all been absolute tanks and gotten pretty much everything done that I'd need a laptop for. I don't even particularly like laptops anyway, I prefer to be at my desktop any day of the week, but portability is necessary sometimes and I'll be damned if I'm gonna use a smartphone for those tasks.

[@LloydLynx]

@@kuga6566 Those non Thinkpad business laptops are def underrated. I'm actually still daily driving a Latitude D620. It once broke my fall on ice, and years later flew down the stairs in a bag at school and was fine with a little cosmetic damage. It's got plenty of battle scars over the years. It was also the laptop I recorded my first youtube videos on.

[@Thomas-lv9se]

It reminds me of my first netbook - which I bought in 2014 (Asus X205TA). I was studying at a university back then and I didn't want to take my "gaming laptop" to university with me. That's why I chose to buy a cheap, lightweight computer that I could just leave in my backpack and that netbook did what it was supposed to do perfectly (writing/reading papers, watching videos). It's a nice, cheap secondary PC - especially if you HAVE to use Windows.

[@_BlackSpectrum]

Biggest thing to ask is "Does it run Windows 11?" 😅

[@Mentii0]

To be honest I don’t think so.. Edit: austin said it does

[@Beengus]

Crysis

[@TPG128]

The hp stream surprisingly does lmao

[@zUltraXO]

Actually a really good question, not the official one cuz i mean you need a NASA computer to run it (I wrote this before I realized that the limitations can be bypassed, Windows 11 *can* be run on a later Pentium 4, and even on an Intel Atom with 4GB it runs alright, even better if you remove all the bloatware, and I don't mean uninstalling apps but removing windows features by modifying the iso itself, NTDev did a video on that)

[@coolguystudios5829]

I'm here before this comment gets popular

[@InterstateRaziTV]

Mommy at Best Buy: "This is the Gaming Laptop My Son Wants"

[@FS--ew3se]

It's a free pc with geforce now

[@graphicsgod]

Salesman: Are you sure?!? This is a Chromebook ma'am..

[@mkjk2534]

graphicsgod Mom: Well, it looks pretty similar to the one he showed me on the Internet, but this one's way cheaper! Lucky me I guess…

[@sammylee5474]

Bruh same

[@geatsuneee]

Yes. It can play Google Dinosaurs and Snek.

[@connorkenyon]

Not gonna lie I loved my little HP stream when I was super poor and doing my A-Levels, it researched, did google docs and everything I needed at the time lol.

[@Yallsellic71]

YAY

[@AlexParr]

That HP went right where it belongs. That shot of the camera guy (whoever was behind the camera) throwing the HP into the trash actually made a part of me happy.

[@jameswoeste275]

Everybody Else: I couldn't imagine having that laptop! Me: Hey that's my laptop!

[@Nickaman420]

Lmfao

[@kshauryadwivedi]

same

[@imblack011]

sell it and get a used highend for the time pc from 2013. will make your life 1000 times better

[@jameswoeste275]

@@imblack011 no I’m trying to find a 3060 ti but since stock is tight I might have to wait. I can’t sell it either because I used it a ton lol

[@dexskywalker7209]

i feel your pain bro, iv been stuck with that laptop before not sure how i never broke it in half over my knee

[@RedPMD]

or just get a used laptop on ebay for like $200 that will crush all these laptops combined.

[@juicewrldextendedunrelease5274]

facts

[@Rei_725]

Stonks

[@leafyclass]

Any recommendations? Looking for something I can use for programming

[@GTReaper37]

@@leafyclass definitely a pre-owned/refurbished Thinkpad from eBay

[@chrispapaventsis9090]

@@leafyclass I also do programming and the truth is that unix based systems don't require a lot of gpu power. Just buy something with a good cpu

[@queenmarynovelwriter5397]

I bought a refurbished lap top for about $150 almost 3 years ago and that thing was a work horse. It saved my life during the worst of the pandemic. When it finally kicked off my kid treated me to a brand new lap top but I still kept the old one. I can't seem to recycle it.

[@Mousy677]

I had an HP Stream a while ago, when I was in university for the first time; I didn't really do a lot of particularly arduous stuff with it and it was fairly cheap (doubly so because I got it refurbished). In spite of its very tiny amount of memory (like, it struggled to store my dissertation, and that was not even 12000 words long), it worked fine for about two and a half years... until I tried to download an update, at which point, and I have literally no idea how this happened, but the RAM just disappeared? Like, it just decided that it no longer felt like having any RAM.

[@integer0verload948]

These are K-12 online learning laptops cheap for school. They just need to do basic web apps and office.

[@Busta4Life]

every teachers' favorite laptops

[@waterbiscuit9222]

wait you get windows for school?

[@avgeek1930]

that is all they are good for, K-12

[@oksowhat]

@@waterbiscuit9222 wait you get laptops for school?

[@aquarlexkaneki9372]

@@waterbiscuit9222 for online classes bro

[@darius2640]

there are plenty of countries in the world where $200 is your whole months salary, or even few months salaries. So as long as there are poor people in the world the cheapest version of something will be in high demand, they know there are better products, they want better products, they just can't afford them

[@PatSmashYT]

I remember having an old chonky dell laptop that lagged at everything and you could hear the hard drive crackling when the laptop was in use. At least it was able to run DDLC smoothly

[@MadameSomnambule]

Only reason I know about the EeePC is because of DankPods. He sometimes uses an older one in his vids for old mp3 player software and it's always pure gold seeing him fiddle with those things. :p

[@ahmadwand2079]

Austin: "im getting a few seconds per frame rate"

[@papayaislife1133]

thATS EXACTLY HOW MY VALORANT OPENS IN A NUTTSHELL

[@kimcho234]

Now that’s next gen

[@MelodieOctavia]

The computer is so slow, it's sucking computing power from his brain.

[@Emiichoco]

@@MelodieOctavia you're being dumb Henry

[@CH-vv2hr]

that's negative FPS

[@goldycoaco]

My reaction to this video. “Gateway is still a thing?”

[@StevenWintringham]

It wasn't for a long time, but Walmart bought it and brought the brand back

[@pianoplayer2147]

What’s Gateway?

[@windowsxpnt2347]

@@pianoplayer2147 gateway was a huge computer brand around the windows 98 era that was well known for doing full setup bundles on computers (mouse, keyboard, desktop and monitor) at a low price

[@pianoplayer2147]

Ohh okay

[@matthewjbauer1990]

Gateway is just a subsidiary of Acer. Acer has used the name off and on for the last 13 years. As far as I know, the only way to get a Gateway in the US is from Walmart, where Acer licensed the name to them and their laptop manufacturer.

[@riiyou]

I own an HP Stream and let me tell you, its more of a pain than a help. It was fine at first but after a year, it crashes even at the simpliest tasks. I recently switch to a Dell Inspiron which is way better and the reason why I switched was because my HP stream got a Blue screen after I refreshed it three times with no tabs open

[@ryanwakebradtelle8682]

For an extra computer I think it's ok as long as u know what your getting into. Yeah a used Thinkpad is better but *PC as a smart tv with Bluetooth keyboard/mouse *Security camera hub *Lan game streaming *Stadia on tv I would get the cheapest PC if I needed something that can do any of these with dedicated hardware

[@MasakoX]

HOLD UP! You like F1 so much that you watch The Race? I'm impressed!

[@clxstrophxbic]

Same xD

[@LightningTheRaiden98]

Omg MasakoX watches Austin Evans!? Whaaaaaat???

[@mikodraws8529]

wow masako x never thought i would see you here

[@kazi1]

@@mikodraws8529 same

[@saada5369]

Hello MasakoX loved the hercule story!

[@Thatonegirl989]

One of my favorite series on the channel, “Austin tries terrible tech for our entertainment”

[@tipoomaster]

I wish Walmart updated the Motile 14 with 4000 or 5000 series chips. That thing was pretty solid, but I eventually sold it and got a Corebook X with an 8259U which is far faster.

[@ItsMrLee]

I got 2 HP streams from 2 people I know who were sick of them, I put in more RAM, A cheap SSD, and cleaned out the heatsinks and fans, then put vinyl black wood on the cover and trackpad to cover scratches and sold them for $ 250-300 bucks each on eBay. Love them! Oh and also if you turn off all the Windows Defender crap running in the background (or just load in a light Linux distro) they become quite useable for the average person and can run emulators and 2d steam games.

[@seawolf8760]

all my friends don't understand why I like these tech videos so much. they never will.

[@agamerwithzeroveiws4385]

Same as well with custom keyboards

[@jono8390]

theyr'e uncultured, i have friend as such too

[@hiperson9813]

I love how in Best Buy the chromebook says “it’s powerful, fast, secure, and easy to use computer.”

[@killertigergaming6762]

Also laptop comes preinstalled with windows

[@bandeez_23]

"fast" Funniest joke I have ever heard

[@axeljefyua9387]

Yeah, although some chromebooks are actually very powerful, and if you load windows 10 on then you’d be fine

[@rayhanrizvi334]

@Project X any chromebook under 200 is trash. 200-300 and you can get a really decent one. in 300-500 its like crazy. i bought an 8gb intel i3 hp chromebook for 400. done.

[@anthonynorton666]

I don't about powerful, but the rest is correct with one exception: privacy settings under ease of use.

[@bennyjgills4448]

I have a HP Stream that I installed Linux Mint on, I just use it for daily tasks like web browsing and downloading and listening to podcasts. It's handy as it's passive cooled and pretty portable.

[@fischkopp1234]

I've collected a lot of laptops over the years and I also have an Eee PC from Asus. I bought it in 2010 for university and I'm still using it. It's the oldest laptop I have that still has a working battery that actually charges up. It's actually faster than a lot of younger laptops I have.

[@fridtjofriibe5961]

That first webcam and mic is the essential “digital interview starter pack”

[@captainchris2]

The stream sells because grandma doesn't need a more then a web browser

[@And1slash]

A few years ago I owned a blue stream 11 not sure how I managed but got skyrim to run at reasonable FPS ( must have been on low ) so these are capable at more tasks than some say

[@moonie1825]

@@And1slash they are honestly if they would put some more space in thede things I would buy one again but I remembered after like 2 months of minimal downloads and updates I couldn't even use google due to the lack of memory.

[@molivil]

Having a small laptop was a big thing back in 2005. I remember lots of people were looking for cheap small laptops at the time. OLPC initiative was a promising concept that turned into a real product called XO-1 in 2006. As a response, ASUS responded with their Eee PC line of affordable netbooks in 2007.

[@M1szS]

i recently got a thinkpad e470 for around 110$ and it was definitely worth the price, it only has a few small scratches on the outside, and is in near perfect condition. The most surprised part was that the battery still lasts around 5 hours of normal use, even tho the laptop is 6 years old and hadn't had it replaced. It was a bit slow with windows , but on linux it works like brand new, which i was going to use anyway.

[@climatectrl3350]

I'm in shock gateway still exsists. I haven't heard of them since early 2000s

[@CaveyMoth]

And now they're making some pretty cool laptops; Especially their Creator series of laptops.

[@kolikiscool]

its not the actual gateway tho its acer selling gateway branded clevo pcs

[@BrooklynBalla]

Gateway used to make some solid desktops around the 2000’s.

[@stkelly52]

It's not that they "still" exist. They exist again. Acer revived the brand relatively recently as a Walmart exclusive.

[@W1ldTangent]

Acer bought the company years ago and within a couple years had killed off the brand. Gateway 2000 in its early days was an innovative company with an interesting business model soon emulated by everybody else, and their rise in revenue/profit was almost vertical until it plateaued. Their tech support back in the day was US-based and actually pretty competent.

[@Allendude51]

1:33 “EEEE PEEEE CEEEE” - DankPods

[@oh_no_no_no]

"EEEE PEEEE CEEEE, SPEAK TO MEEE!"

[@darksould0471]

Shit you were first

[@uuhhhidk]

Yes

[@WillOnSomething]

thats right folks, we're gonna bring out the EEEEPEEEECEEEE

[@adershvarshnei5198]

Was looking for this. Dank you

[@caseys_cozy_garage]

Ahh you know it's been a while since I've thought about "seconds per frame" 😂

[@Revon-Feuer]

13:40 The reason of the fps being so low is because of the single stick of ram. With another stick, it should run Minecraft at 50fps with defualt settings

[@skengblazerentertainment1358]

If you buy a cheap laptop you should not expect much honestly.

[@beamerzonyt]

I bought a EVOO Laptop from walmart and it was 300 dollars on sale and was normally 400 but I didn't have really high expectations for it but it actually is really good! It has an i7-6660u which I know is an older processer but your still getting an i7 in a laptop. It can run games in 1080p and get around 30fps or you can go to 720p and get around 60. I also used it to edit on of my KZbin videos on this channel and it hanndeled it no problem. It has 256gb of ssd storage which is not the most but its fine for a laptop. Its an nVME drive but its still really fast. It also has 8gb of dual channel memory so it can handle apps no problem. It also has 2 spare slots for ram if you wanted to upgrade it. It has a 15.6 inch 1080p display that is really clear and has really good colors but not when it comes to the blacks. There is a lot of backlight but other than that is really good. Its also really light and thin for the power you get. The battery is also pretty good on max performance mode. It comes with windows 10 home but right now I'm using the dev windows 11 and it runs that just fine.

[@beamerzonyt]

@TomTomTwig what do u mean?

[@StorybooksInn]

i think most people don’t look into it and don’t realize how different laptops can be from each other

[@riponrip4574]

@@beamerzonyt Used Mac beats it

[@dylanlac765n6]

@@beamerzonyt wait how are you running windows 11 on a 6th gen mobile?

[@simo19piki89]

My doctor: “Austin joker laugh doesn’t exist, it can’t hurt you” Austin in this video:

[@Arkid77777]

9:09

[@addie-eileenpaige6460]

I legit had an ASUS Eee PC back in 2009. I had it for four years. Eventually, it wouldn't work unless it was plugged in which defeats the purpose of a laptop.

[@2moist2meaty]

Inside the chrome book is an operating system write protect screw. Advanced users will want to open the machine to remove the screen in order to install a new operating system, most popular for obvious reasons are lightweight Linux distros

[@abeerbarman9038]

3:30 The recording is looking like your life is in grave danger and you're leaving a secret message for your son to find out a decade later.

[@joe-eg3mk]

I died when I saw your comment

[@rayzor285]

I took an hp steam and replaced the factory HDD with a SSD and installed Linux on it. It Actually made the laptop quite useable and fast. As long as the goal is not gaming or intense graphic design

[@AcceptGamingDKD]

You can game on it. If it can run on a computer from 2005 you can run it on the HP Stream

[@IDontKnow-ry7do]

What Linux distro did you install on it?

[@rayzor285]

@@IDontKnow-ry7do Ubuntu 20.04

[@rayzor285]

@Paul Moorehead unless it uses Broadcom. You're having a bad time if that's the case. Linux kernels generally play well with HP. But you might have to play around with different outdated Kernels if your WiFi isn't functioning.

[@grifdenton5224]

I thought all Streams used soldered EMMC drives.

[@oKokimaru]

For the Gateway laptop, If you install optimization mods like Optifine or Sodium on Minecraft, you can see a significant fps increase! My 2020 i3 Macbook went from getting 20-30 fps to getting 100+ with Sodium.

[@roblox-scripted2037]

i got a chromebook ad right at 9:09😭🤚

[@MikeMajeski]

These cheap laptops always make me realize how amazing the basic iPad is for $330.

[@icynewtron]

Exactly like the 8th gen (witch I’m currently using) has an A12, literally way way way faster then a celaron like I did a speed test on a celaron and the score was about like 300 but my 8th gen scored like 5000+. (Edit: if your confused why I’m saying a celaron instead of a specific laptop/desktop, it’s because it’s just a run of the mill budget laptop witch I got for 150 bucks at Walmart.)

[@tylerkuite]

The 11inch iPad Pro M1 is nearly perfect w/ 8 gb of ram

[@bl00dkillz]

@@tylerkuite but thats 3 - 4 x the price of the laptops shown in this video

[@arandomdudewithhobbies3318]

@@icynewtron What is the benchmark? There is no way its 15% the power of a a12.

[@maxmara9864]

@@icynewtron that Celeron is barely better than a stick of celery

[@hritikaggarwal270]

3:20 "I am getting a few seconds per frame rate"

[@fracturedfuture370]

He said, "frame right now". I did have to check twice though.

[@randomguyonyoutube3478]

s p f

[@yazan7365]

@@randomguyonyoutube3478 LMAOOOOOOOO

[@photoniccannon2117]

3:19 "I'm getting a few seconds per frame right now" 😂😂

[@yohanlintaomacalinga9628]

use a ssd for the more spaces and Open Screen Resolution by clicking the Start button. , clicking Control Panel, and then, under Appearance and Personalization, clicking Adjust screen resolution. Click the drop-down list next to Resolution. Check for the resolution marked (recommended). So your playing feel better

[@darksould0471]

"This mp3 player doesnt work on my mac! It's time for the ee-pee-cee"

[@justinthematrix]

My guy definitely getting his money’s worth out of that dreamville shirt

[@matttheking1655]

Good Observation 😂....Been thinking the same thing,... Almost 2 years now he has been wearing it ... 👌

[@cheez8313]

hello

[@samthecar]

He has good taste in music 😂

[@christopherwilliams9418]

I really like the green ngl, cool to see laptops coming in fun colors even though it's low-end stuff

[@jackmaglon984]

Austin: This cost me $220 Schools: Hold my beer

[@Photon88]

Bad schools: “I will take your entire stock” (litterally every school be like)

[@theholypickle4861]

Every School*

[@alguienrrr]

Mine actually has these, they suck a lot

[@_Shay_]

I remember when I was in high school, it was this all digital school but since it was like a private school it was funded by themselves and donations. They didn’t get grants or anything. We had some VERY crappy laptops, to this day I still don’t know who made them or what brand they were. Not a single part in that thing was branded. Then they switched to some ThinkPad tablets that were still kinda crappy but way better for school than those giant crappy laptops. Good times, no actual work got done since everyone just had mini LAN parties in class playing Minecraft.

[@TheArtofKAS]

You all schools 😂😂👌

[@Thatonegirl989]

I’ve been to so many different schools throughout my life and only one middle school I went to had iMacs and MacBooks. That school was my favorite obviously

[@nickkaram3996]

Austin: calls the 4 gb ram hp stream awful Me with my 2 gb ram hp stream: pathetic

[@DabblelyDiddly]

How the fuck do you even live on 2gb of ram anymore? It can't be running windows

[@mokshpatel4392]

@@DabblelyDiddly windows 7

[@DabblelyDiddly]

@@mokshpatel4392 Yes and enjoy all the malware that exists online lol

[@mokshpatel4392]

@@DabblelyDiddly nah because never download anything online, just zoom and play nfs underground offline 😂

[@DabblelyDiddly]

@@mokshpatel4392 You people need to move to linux. It's nice being on a modern OS that shit runs on XD

[@estiennetaylor1260]

Austin: I bought a new worse laptop Students: I'll take 2!

[@rolandijananashvili4123]

3:41 he looks like average zoom class teacher 💀

[@playd43]

"That's a pancake battery" I SWEAR I ate pancakes right before watching this!

[@lordxeno8270]

Um…ok?😂

[@silent.shaman]

I ate batteries right before commenting this!

[@yazan7365]

@@silent.shaman I promise I can send help.

[@silent.shaman]

@@yazan7365 thank you I need it 🥵

[@MyReviews_karkan]

That hp stream can run arch linux with lxqt, lxde, xfce or any window manager like a freaking champ.

[@angelrivera8013]

Or even any light weight linux distro as long as it's either Arch or Debian based!

[@janavmehta2467]

I have Hp stream and it works like butter

[@Cheeseburgermafia]

I have Mint on one. All hardware works. I mostly use it for email and admin.

[@chaicego]

That's what I use lol

[@notanetcher]

linux fucking sucks

[@rs07scapeNews]

9:00 the only reason to open a chromebook is to disable the os protection screw if for some reason you wanted to install a different operating system on it.

[@tredI9100]

That second M2 slot reminds me of the Ultrabay on my Thinkpad.

[@platypus_pratty]

The editing on this video made me think I was having screen tearing issues lol

[@Hallzie72]

Good work with the vid Austin. I sell a lot of HP & Lenovo Laptops under $400 AUD for that very reason. They're under $400. The sad part is most customers coming through our store expect $1000-$2000 performance out of these, and yet they can't understand why we refuse refunds when they demand one as a result of their overexpectation.

[@anthonynorton666]

I think the Gateway makes more sense since you can dock it and have a better screen (your flat screen TV), a better keyboard, and a cooling pad. The last two you can go as cheap you want. This is what I would have my kid start off with if he was getting into gaming. That's a cheap way for her/him to learn what he/she wants before they start spending the big money (your's or their's).

[@stormveradea]

I have an Acer Aspire 5 and I actually really love it for what I use it for (web browsing, watching videos, Microsoft office, and playing sims 4)

[@spartanesports5693]

Austin evans can pass as your Microsoft tech support guy

[@avgeek1930]

He is good, but no expert

[@dungeonbrownies]

Regarding those netbooks, they were honestly perfect for those tiny university lecture hall desks. A lot of people I knew had them just to take notes during class. Also, considering the university I attended had great wifi saturation, you were essentially never running them "off grid" while on campus. A very narrow niche, yes, but one in which it fared exceedingly well.

[@Nope6177]

Love the work

[@gabrielcruz4539]

You guys shoukd make a video buffing up that gateway with extra ram and and changing the color of the whole device to make it look good lol

[@jessthebenjamin758]

Fun fact about the HP Stream: my entire school system buys hundreds of them. I absolutely hate them

[@shocknaw]

I wish my school district would do that instead of chromebooks from 2016, at least you get windows

[@Yallsellic71]

How dare you hate hp stream it was my first laptop

[@monstie2795]

Just buy an iPad from a few years ago for 200 bucks 💀

[@damianxavier7343]

Or a tab s6 lite if you want android.

[@MikeMajeski]

Heck, you can often find the current gen basic iPad on sale for $250 around holidays. Get yourself a nice logi keyboard case with the trackpad and you are good to go!

[@lucutes2936]

Its not a PC dun dun

[@Dorff_Meister]

I had a relatively early eee pc netbook (it's still in my closet) and, in it's day I loved it. Was was commuting every day from Westchester into Manhattan and it had a decent media player which I could do a few things on, if I needed. I should revive it with an SSD and see how it runs (I imagine I've already maxed out the RAM).

[@dragunovbushcraft152]

I bought an HP Stream 14. It had a memory slot with a 4gb mem. I replaced with 8 gb mem. It worked just fine. Add a larger capacity flash drive, and/or an SD card for storage, and it's a pretty good machine. I paid $80 for mine in 2021. It really shines with Linux Mint!

[@antonious6191]

Schools: I’ll take your entire stock!

[@joshuasteele3520]

They still make the HP Stream? It's not even on HP's website.

[@LuealEythernddare]

I'll say. Don't be afraid to go refurbished. For example. A lot of businesses seem to sell off HP Elitebooks that are a couple years old and they get sold renewed for about $300. These are in pretty good shape and are way better than an equivalently priced brand new machine (a few generation old i5 does beat a celeron). Plus they have features you won't find on most $300 machines like windows hello, pretty good io, and expandability (an open sata slot, a free ram slot, etc)

[@steinbauge4591]

Could probably run acceptably with a light Linux version (avoid all versions of ubuntu for this), I had the first 7' screen Eee Pc. It was a very good machine with the Debian Linux based OS, professionally set up, even Skype worked perfectly which was NOT trivial back then with analog sound. Would have been unusable with any Windows version. Had a Lenovo B45-50, unusable with Win8/HD, acceptable with Linux/SSD. Dirt cheap on sale.

[@schneeball2384]

The green one looks like something that I would find in my grandma's attic because she got it and never uses it

[@GTReaper37]

A preowned $350 Thinkpad would outdo all of these

[@jimmy999S]

A pre-owned 100$ Thinkpad would outdo all of these. With Linux.

[@eemeli7093]

Thinkpads are beasts. They can do everything (almost)

[@tommyhallows]

Today I got the N4120 version stream 11. It can play a far few games. Far cry 2 being a good example. Low settings of course. I removed everything I could leaving just barebone windows 11 (no S mode). Boots up in seconds. Fully patched. I do think there is some thermal throttling once it hits over 62c. Going to try a Cooling stand.

[@RyanMartinez]

I have last year's HP Stream and I currently have Ubuntu booted on a 512GB flash drive. And I upgraded the 4GB up to the undocumented max of 8GB. It's a great Linux PC, not so much Windows 11 because the updates kill the 32GB SSD space.

[@atari2600b]

In 2007 an eeepc could give you 2GB of RAM (just buy the stick when you buy the machine) & a perfectly useable Linux machine especially with Dvorak. Now, you get a piece of plastic with 4GB of RAM

[@spidey1323]

Actually Austin, there is a cheaper chromebook , a Lenovo Ideapad 3 11’ which is 180$

[@kbhasi]

It probably wasn't sold at his local Best Buy location and he probably didn't think to check their website.

[@SFSAtlas]

And the cheapest laptop ever is one that runs a Linux Distribution called KDE Neon called the Pinebook and it's only $100

[@killertigergaming6762]

@@SFSAtlas cheapest ever i would say no good laptop for 100 i would say yeah

[@PromethilausLegacy]

Turn the HP stream into a Chromebook with either chrome is flex, fyde os or brunch if it works

[@markwolfe947]

For the longest, I thought you had a spot on Supernatural as Cyrus Frankenstein but I just found out it wasn't you, but Connor Price and you look-alike is erie. Good review of the laptop, I will stick with my Chrome Book, like the Windows Mobile OS best to use ARM or the preferred method of Chromebooks as full programs are too heavy for ARM specified laptops to operate at peak performance. A lot of phone carriers are offering laptops with the built-in Simcard and a data plan to have an always-on connection to boost the ARM performance. I also own that Gateway laptop, that trackpad is annoying and the worse part of the laptop.

[@bryanmiller476]

I remember my hp stream couldn’t even finish its windows updates due to not enough storage lol Returned it immediately

[@kbhasi]

2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, right? I had a Chinese off-brand TV stick with similar specs and it too had the same issue.

[@bryanmiller476]

Mine was 4gb ram and 64gb emmc and still couldn’t do all its windows updates

[@MortCodesWeb]

@@bryanmiller476 i have 4GB ram and 512GB on a 150$ pc. Laptops are cheap on my country. Its a used laptop btw

[@bryanmiller476]

@@MortCodesWeb yeah this topic is just about the crappie low storage emmc storage laptops made to be cheap but are total crap Doesn’t mean I still a craptop like that lol I now use Asus G14 gaming laptop with RTX 2060 I got last year on sale for $1050 and also have a M1 MacBook Air, a M1 Mac Mini and recently got my gpd win3 handheld for gaming on the go

[@MichaelBlock]

3:22 when the laptop is so bad that you reverse the measurement

[@And1slash]

So Austin Legit question since you've reviewed the " worst " ( subjective depending on the actual usage purposes ) laptop and desktop ( the HP all in one ) which was actually the better unit ? also I own a 2016 stream and the newer model and honestly I think you've been too harsh on them solid laptops for how much I paid and does the tasks good and they outperform chrome books easily ( exception of the screen ) in tasks and usage purposes

[@card_craft]

I bet that the HP beats school macs. The amount of crap they fill those up with makes them borderline unusable. My school uses the M1 Macbook Airs. They lag moving the cursor around. It really does make me wonder what all they put on there.

[@whyme4742]

I wish I had even that cheap laptop one's man garbage is another's treasure

[@benonyangore1536]

True

[@Roshan_420]

You’re better off buying an old thinkpad with an i5 or i7

[@Roshan_420]

A T420 is like $100 with an i5

[@prajwalladkat]

Ye man I installed OSX Mavericks ok n my 12 year old dell laptop runs fine old is gold

[@My_Old_YT_Account]

@@prajwalladkat a decent 12 year old laptop is probably faster than that shit though

[@stevenmartell2289]

I used lower end laptops like these for a lot of my time as a pc user and it’s always a bit disappointing when Austin doesn’t optimize the games like Minecraft properly. With some simple setting changes that ryzen machine can easily get above 60 fps and probably the lower end laptops too.

[@ZFISHY]

austin could've used optifine

[@shadowfox3442]

I use the laptop, and my highest is 700fps, with around 60-200 fps on servers

[@QueenStewds]

I got REALLY lucky about a month ago and got ahold of a laptop with a 980m for my wife last month from a pawn shop for 300 bucks. It blasts everything she wants to play and i'm pretty happy with the buy (mostly because she's really happy with it)

[@Wimmle]

I loved my lil Acer netbook served as a great media player and download machine back in the day it was great 🎉