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hey guys Austin we take a look at a lot of budget computers but this this is something a little bit different at $130 is this dell inspiron worth it's at $130 Nili this one of the cheapest brand new Windows laptops you can find but impressively it's made by a real company not some random thing I've never heard of that's straight off of Amazon no it makes this kind of interesting is that not only is it going to be powered by an AMD processor something a little bit different for these ultra sort of budget systems but on top of that it does come with a full year of office 365 which by itself is like $100 now when it comes to spending one hundred and thirty dollars for a brand-new laptop you should expect a lot of accessories so of course we do have the laptop itself here as well as the power adapter which is really nice and tiny at $130 this is incredibly cheap but what we're looking at at least at first glance is something that doesn't look all that different from a lot of the 170 to $200 Windows laptops out there and one of the big reasons behind that at least one of the main differences is that this is going to be running an AMD processor which is interesting because Intel basically gives away the processors at this price point actually doesn't feel that bad to be totally honest I mean sure it's going to be made out of plastic and port wise there's well two USB ports and a micro SD card slot with an HDMI so not exactly full-featured but I mean it doesn't feel like they cut a lot of corners here look at that there's also going to be dual front firing speakers now that they're going to be particularly large but it beats having them on the bottom I feel there's gonna be a catch though there's gonna be a reason why this was a hundred and thirty dollars brand new one of the main competitors for something like the Inspiron 11 is going to be this the HP stream now this overall design has been around for quite a few years it's been slightly tweaked here and there but this is going to be different in a few major ways but the most obvious is going to be the processor as opposed to being powered by an Intel Celeron processor this guy instead is rocking an AMD a 692 20e unlike the seller on this guy is going to be based on Andy's last generation APU cores so that means is that you're going to be getting two Steamroller cores that start at 1.6 gigahertz I think can boost up to 2.4 gigahertz sometimes and a little bit more emphasis on the sometimes in a second but what that means is that you are going to be getting fairly low performance as opposed to a much more expensive computer but in this sort of sub 200 category it's actually going to be up pretty decent step up it does feel like there's slightly too much performance for the famous design to handle sometimes so we're doing intensive tasks such as Windows Update a lot of times the bottom and especially the keyboard will get very warm to the touch that's not going to be scalding hot or anything but it does mean that you're going to be losing some performance thanks to throttling put it side-by-side with other similarly priced laptops with Celeron solutions and you'll see this actually is going to perform pretty well now the only real knock against it is that it only does use single channel memory but again that's very similar this sort of price point and thankfully we do have a full 4 gigabytes of ddr4 onboard one of the biggest issues when you pick up a super cheap laptop like this is going to be with the storage both of these options are all I'm going to give you 32 gigabytes of emmc flash that's going to be fine as far as speed but storage wise it gives you almost nothing left out of the box but anytime you actually have to do a major windows update like I had to do when I first set this laptop you actually have to use external storage to get it to work I had to plug in a USB Drive to even get this thing fully up to date on Windows if you pick up a laptop like this it is basically a necessity to pick up at least a 64 or 128 gig microSD card and let it live inside your SD card slots trust me when I say even though it's going to add a little bit to the price is going to make this so much more usable with radiant graphics onboard this actually isn't going to be too bad at least in theory so of course we have to try everyone's favorite game fortnight Oh actually you know we don't just trust me you don't want to play for a night in this of course when it comes to spending $130 on a laptop you're going to have to find some compromises and one of the biggest ones with the Inspiron has to do with Wi-Fi now 2018 pretty much everything has an AC solution typically those are going to be good for between 100 to 300 megabits per second down and up this guy is using the nearly 10 year old in standard which is going to give you about 40 megabits up and down and almost worse than that it's going to be prone to a lot more interference because it's going to be 2.4 gigahertz only for a cheap laptop it's acceptable it's something that I can live with but it's not exactly going to be the best solution in the world something that doesn't suck surprisingly is the display now a paper is just a basic 11.6 inch 1366 by 768 panel however in practice doesn't look bad at all sure it's going to be a TN display so you're not going to be getting great color or contrast or especially viewing angles but it is going to be a lot better than pretty much anything in this price point and oppressively it's actually going to look better than some laptops that cost double the price it's not great but it's definitely usable and a lot better than I was expecting okay so these speakers aren't exactly great even though they are facing towards you they're definitely on the quieter side but I mean there's a headphone jack the only real issue I have with the way that the keyboard is laid out is going to be the size of course this is going to be an 11 inch laptop and you expect things to be a little bit cramped but what I didn't expect is that the actual keyboard itself is going to be smaller than a standard layout mind you it's not going to be a huge difference but it's enough to slightly trip me up it's something you can get used to but it feels like they had plenty of space on the side to expand the keyboard all the way out as opposed to using it on these bezels thankfully it does have a Windows precision touchpad mind you it's going to be a little bit on the small side but it really is not bad at all so you're going to be getting all of the windows 10 gestures it's got a nice surface accurate tracking honestly so much Pro expensive laptops could learn a thing or two from this it is nice to see at least decent and Platonist system that's going to be so cheap I thing really feels super plasti or cheap it's all going to be very very usable there's also some interesting touches with the design so even small things like having a little bit of a curve here below the trackpad to make it easy to just get your finger in here and open it up and you're also going to be getting something that's going to be a little bit smaller than the competition all right so this is a test of the Inspiron Elevens webcam surprisingly it actually runs at a full 720p and at least based on first glance it doesn't look bad what's really going to make it break this laptop is the price so at $130 which is what I was able to pick it up for it is an incredibly good deal now unfortunately of course with all the sales and stuff you might actually end up finding it for a little bit more right now taking a look around other retailers has given me something like 170 to 190 dollars but even at a substituent at all price it is hard to argue with this Inspiron the Wi-Fi might not be amazing but the rest of the computer actually is really really not bad