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hey guys this is Austin and today on the cheapest stuff on Amazon I bought the four cheapest laptops that are currently available on Amazon that are brand new with prime shipping of course first of all we have the Dell Inspiron 11 which is not only the cheapest laptop here at $170 but we've actually done an entire video on this earlier this year put simply it actually gets a lot of basic stuff right unlike a lot of budget laptops this is powered by an AMD processor and I'll get into that a little bit more in a second but generally speaking it is a little bit cheap but for the most part you actually get something that is surprisingly usable next we have these Samsung Chromebook 3 at 180 dollars now this is similar in a lot of ways but the key difference of course is that it is running Chrome OS it has the same tiny 11.6 inch display what's different about this is of course the idea that instead of having to run Windows we have a much more lightweight operating system which makes a big difference to the general performance then there's the Evo EVC which is less than $200 is a little bit of a weird choice and it does come with a larger 12.5 inch display and there are some cool features like a fingerprint sensor but they're also some major major drawbacks three gigs of ram is definitely unusual but with a quad core processor it seems pretty solid I mean they're pretty obvious about it on the box not only does it say on the sticker but also several times here that is a quad core chip except when you open up task manager and see that it's actually a dual core Celeron which yeah that's great this isn't a total deal-breaker as several of the other laptops here also dual core but I think it's more than just a little bit sketchy they advertise it as a quad core processor and give you 50% of what you're paying you know what does have a quad core processor the assist vivo book which has a very obvious amount of stickers and badges saying that it does in fact have four cores exactly as you would expect the issue here is that this is a much older AMD processor while it does have decent performance as you guys will see soon it's not all that impressive and even worse you hear that that's a fan my friends unlike the other laptops this is not fanless and it's significantly thicker because of that is the only laptop here with a 14 inch screen that is an advantage for some people and there are a ton of ports so if you take a look on the side we have not only USB see but also a couple of USB AAA Ethernet SD even HDMI flip the laptop over and we have a very convenient little door which gives us access to the two and a half inch drive bay and that is unique among these laptops all of them with the exception of the Chromebook have only 32 gigs of storage which as you might imagine is difficult to run windows on so for the most part you're going to need to install something like a micro SD for extra space with this guy you can very easily upgrade it with a hard drive or an SSD when you click on a video talking about the cheapest laptops on Amazon you probably don't expect a lot of performance and you would be right with the Chromebook and EVOO you get a dual-core Intel Celeron processor with four gigs of RAM on the Samsung and three on the Evo whereas with the dell inspiron we actually have an AMD dual core processor if we move over to the asou it of course does have that awesome quad core power as you will see it's not all that it's cracked up to be run everything from Geekbench and the Dell does take the wind slightly over the Celeron processors what's especially disappointing is the performance of that is soos because it's such an older processor even though it's got the fan even though it's got the thicker build it is still significantly slower and that's not just in benchmarks use the ax soos and it does feel a lot slower for normal use speaking of the real world I do think the Chromebook does feel fastest now fastest is a little bit of a relative term it's certainly not as quick as any kind of more expensive laptop but because Chrome OS is so much lighter weight the windows it feels reasonably snappy I will give it to the dell for being the fastest of the Windows systems having the 4 gigs of ram as well as a decent CPU and actually kind of ok graphics does make a big difference but again all four of these systems they're a little on the slow side then by little I mean a lot on the slow side at this price all of these laptops are absolutely made out of plastic but there are fairly big differences in build quality not all plastic is the same it's built but I always forget it what is it what's the phrase not all plastic is is built the same create equal create equal not all created equal guys the evo is definitely at the bottom of the pack here I mean just look at how much I can flex the chassis just hear that yeah I mean it'll probably last you a little while but durability doesn't really strike me as the strong suit of no-no-no in comparison the Dell is an absolute tank and I mean it's still not super super sturdy but there's no real flex on the bottom the actual keyboard itself is pretty sturdy there's a little bit on the screen but generally speaking this does feel like you can take a little bit more abuse when it comes to screens all four of these laptops have the same standard 1366 by 768 resolution now there is a slight advantage to the isuzu as far as having a bigger 14 inch screen but let's be real these are all kind of okay they're decent but none of them look remotely as good as something that costs even another $100 speakers on the other hand are a little different so the Dell is the only one with front firing speakers but the only issue here is that they are incredibly small they sound okay but they just don't get all that loud the Chromebook and vivo books sound fine but what doesn't is our good friend the Evo yeah so I mean they're tinny they're quiet just not really good experience which I guess you shouldn't expect that much for $200 but all the other laptops sound a lot better when it comes to keyboards the Chromebook is my clear favorite now that does it have a nice clean layout and full-size keys but it also does have a small but pretty solid touchpad these students is right up there thanks to its full size layout whereas the Dell feels pretty decent to type on but the main issue here is that it is just a physically smaller keyboard look the evil eye will be blunt with this might be the worst laptop keyboard I've used in quite a while not only does it have a weirdly small layout but the keys themselves feel like little maybe it is just not a nice place to type I will give the EVOO this it is unique in this group and that it does have a fingerprint sensor built into the touchpad and really there's not a lot bad to say about it it works just as well as these sensors and much more expensive laptops Wi-Fi is a bit of a sore point for the Windows laptops they're all limited to 2.4 gigahertz Wireless which really does slow things down quite a bit except when it comes to the Chromebook which has dual band AC Wi-Fi now sure these are slower systems but even if you ignore the speed difference which is fairly significant you get a much more reliable connection and that's something that's important for any laptop so should you buy any of the cheapest laptops on Amazon well the Chromebook is probably the best bet here not only is it a well-built package but importantly pretty much anything you'd want to do on a sub 200 or a laptop you probably can do on Chrome OS on the windows side I like the dell inspiron not only is it the cheapest laptop here but as far as a budget system goes this checks almost all the boxes for what I'm looking for so that my friends is a roundup of all the cheapest laptops on Amazon as always links to all of these guys will be in the description if you want to feel free to you know check them out although maybe avoid the Evo