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Is a $400 Laptop Worth It?

2016-07-14
hey guys this is Austin is a $400 laptop worth it so usually when it comes to a budget laptop you're not getting a lot sure you're gonna get a usual screen and enough specs to handle basic tasks but this is a slightly different take on a budget laptop so immediately you can feel that that is actual metal I hope it's metal so this is also fanless which means that well there are no fans no vents nothing like that it's also fairly lightweight the bottom of the laptop is plastic but I've got to say this does not feel like a 400 laptop there's a lot of accessories there's literally a single power brick as far as ports go it has the standard variety but what's interesting is the USB type-c port so the first thing is trying to charge a Nexus 6p which also uses images boom charging whoo charging rapidly all right next is some laptop inception so if I connect these to the USBC cable up this charging one nice thing about the vivo book is that it has Windows 10 signature edition so what that means is if you go through you'll find it it's a pretty clean install of Windows now you will find a couple base ESU's apps that already been put installed but for the most part your guys see any bloatware browser performance really isn't bad I mean sure you can tell a slight difference with a higher powered desktop but honestly for like most tasks it doesn't you trip up at all the viga book also has AC Wi-Fi and so you can see here it's pretty quick so that's one of the nice things about lower in laptops especially in the last year to the Wi-Fi has cut so much better as far as space go we have an Intel Pentium in 3700 now this might not be the most powerful CPU in the world it's closer to an atom than a core however it is reasonably powerful its quad core and it can clock up to 2.4 gigahertz it also has 4 gigabytes of memory now that might not be spectacular but again this is a 400 laptop for storage we have a 128 gigabyte SSD you know what technically is an SSD in real world use it's much more similar to what you would find inside your phone it's decent it's about the same as what you would get with a normal hard drive but there are still advantages it's much smaller than a hard drive it's going to be more reliable especially if you happen to drop your laptop not that fast though this is definitely not a gaming PC or for lighter titles especially browser-based games like agario it seems to run just fine what the what is that next up I'm going to try csgo I mean it's not the greatest gaming experience I've ever tried but this is totally playable mind you I am playing at 720p on low settings for 400 hours I wasn't exactly expecting a really great gaming laptop but this is fine so as long as you can't keep your expectations low I don't expect to be able to play crysis at max settings or anything as far as the screen goes we have a 14 inch 1080p display it's actually pretty solid now the colors especially the contrast isn't quite as nice as what you would get on a higher-end laptop but most laptops this size and especially this price have a much lower resolution screen so having a full 1080p is a big bonus there is one area where you can notice a budget price and that is with the VGA webcam now honestly this is sort of castable for a quick video chat but honestly you could do a lot better if you flip the laptop over you'll see there two downward firing speakers they're actually not bad they're a little bit on the quiet side but I've heard a lot worse out of a laptop this is definitely not a perfect laptop when you get to this kind of price range a lot of times you're dealing with a lot of compromises this actually checks a lot of the boxes it's built pretty well there's still some plastic in there it's a lot better than what you would usually expect the specs are decent again nothing spectacular the screen is good there's a lot of things that are solid right did I get anything amazing it's not the best laptop that you've ever seen or $400 you could do a lot worse than the vive bull as always I'll have a link to check this guy on the description and you guys should definitely go check out some of the other is it worth of episodes that you've missed maybe guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one
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