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hey guys softn this is a 330 dollar laptop and I'm going to be using it for the next week so big shout out to HR finale sponsoring this video but also hooking us up with their brand new spin one so there's a little bit more of a budget laptop what's nice about it is it's actually reasonably portable you know what I actually kind of like the look of this so it's all blackness got this kind of textured material it's still plastic but actually doesn't feel bad open this guy up and you'll see it's running a full copy of Windows 10 home continue this is about the same price as a lot of tablets it's nice to get the full windows experience and of course you still do have that touch screen like a lot of HR laptops these days you get some flexibility in how you use the spend one so of course you can use it in standard laptop mode but if you want you can actually flip it upside down to get display mode if you want to be able to watch videos like this or one of my favorites it's tent mode where you flip it upside down nice if you want to get a little bit more of a compact form factor or if you want to use it as a tablet you can just close it up and you like that and then just one really is not that so what is rocking a cool 1920 by 1080 resolution and it's also an IPS panel now that's important as a lot of other budget laptop definitely skimp in this screen Department so we have good color good contrast and especially good viewing angles hey guys this is Austin it's all the laptop position so this bin one is a solid laptop for video consumption it's of course powerful enough to stream stuff like 1080p video we're that nice screen and some presently saw the speakers it works well however spec wise it's not the most powerful laptop in the world inside this bin one has a dual core Intel Celeron processor four gigabytes of memory and 32 gigs of storage so for what I'm going to be doing with it mostly lighter stuff like web browsing video watching and things like email it's fine but don't expect it to handle demanding tasks very well now about 32 gigs of storage doesn't sound like a lot but thankfully the spin-1 does have a micro SD card slot so for about forty dollars you can expand it with 128 gig card would she give you a lot more usability what's cool is the spend one also comes with a free year of office 365 which is cool because it's like $100 on its own so first glance the spend ones not bad but the real test is going to be how does it stack up when I take it on a very very long trip so I am now on the other side of the world in Shanghai China and for the last week or so the spend one has held up so mostly use this as a a laptop and one of the first things that really jumped out to me was how nice it is to do the 11 inch laptop again so I've been using a 15 inch laptop for the last few years I want nice to have that extra power having something that's this small and portable with a huge help so while I do usually use this in laptop mode be able to flip the screen around and said on airline table was helpful this is a nice hinge so I think something that I really have to kind of give them props for even though this is obviously a more budget oriented laptop it doesn't really feel like it so the plastic is nice I like the sort of texture and that hinge just feels really good to kind of flip back and forth so having that 1080p IPS display really does make a big difference it really does put a lot of laptops to cops but were double the price to Shane having a free year of office 365 included is also a nice bonus so I lit up all the notes for this video inside of word it's a nice experience so the keyboard is surprisingly good on the spin one so it has a nice keyboard travel the layout is solid with the exception of the page up and down keys which kind of stretch me out a little bit but there's really not a lot to complain about and that same thing goes for the trackpad it wasn't that long ago but if you're buying a budget computer you can pretty much guarantee that it's going to have a terrible trackpad so at this point I took pretty much any Windows 10 laptop I use should have a touchscreen it does make it a nicer experience to use I think that kind of goes double for the spin one for something that's so small and so portable having the option now be able to flip around the screen but obviously be able to touch it use the keyboard use the trackpad there are a lot of options on how you actually want to use the laptop so I've watched a lot of video on the spin one over the last few days and for the most part it's been a solid experience so ads like Netflix work really well especially with the offline mode while you're flying however there were a few hiccups so that Celeron processor is decent for more basic uses but for unoptimized apps such as iTunes it does struggle just a little bit considering the price the main competitor to something like the spend one is going to be a Chromebook don't get me wrong I do like Chrome OS however personally for me I do like having a full version of Windows 10 but you are going to have to deal with some compromises one area where the lower in specs are helpful is with battery life so even when you're doing fairly demanding tasks I never saw the battery life estimate drop below around 7 hours and we're doing lighter stuff like web browsing and email you should expect over 10 hours want to story short the spend one should easily be able to make it through a full day without needing to hit the charger so is they spin one my new daily driver no I have to do stuff like 4k video editing on a regular basis and puts them this just is not up to it go over if you're going to class all day taking notes web browsing and that kind of stuff this is pretty solid sure it would be nice to be a little bit more powerful there's really not a lot to complain about besides that anyway what do you guys think about we spend one let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in 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