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Trying a $100 PC from Amazon...

2018-03-13
hey guys this is Austin I set out with a simple goal to find the cheapest brand-new computer that I could find on Amazon and well this is what I've got and big shout out to LastPass respond suring today's video this is the gue leaked GPC when tell mini PC now as you can see it's a pretty mini so the main idea here is that for $100 this is going to be a fully functional computer so it's not going to be a bare-bones you don't need to install windows everything should come all ready to go oh here we go we've got the technical specifications the quad core intel atom z3580 as I was saying this guy is about as small as it gets so what we're getting here is a full fledged desktop computer you're gonna be getting USB ports HDMI really really Radley plastic but it actually does come in this nice aluminum chassis we get a HDMI cable wow that's actually really nice you also get what looks like to be the power adapter so the nice things about this guy is that even though it is included in the box it just runs off of a standard 5 volt micro USB so in theory you could run this off of something like a battery bank or even like a normal phone charger hardware wise there's really not a lot to the gulick mini PC so it does have that aluminum build but if you come around back what you're going to find is a full-size USB 3.0 port a USB 2.0 port the micro USB for power HDMI out as well as a headphone jack and a micro SD card slot and that micro SD card is going to be important because there's only 32 gigs of storage you're definitely gonna want to expand that I will say one thing it immediately recognizes that I'm using a 120 Hertz monitor and it's actually using the full refresh rate that's kind of cool oh god what that crash fit so one quick monitor swap later we have a fully working PC all those weird issues actually had nothing to do with the computer and once we get in here I mean everything seems to be working fine and one of the big issues though is that we're running a full Windows 10 PC with only 2 gigs of RAM so say you want to do something simple like watch some YouTube well if you come over to the channel and try to load up a page you're going to see that things slow down quite a bit most of that is because we only have two gigs of RAM the Atom processor is not helping however once you I should get it to load if you're a little bit patient it does totally work well so our videos on trending that's gonna cool we might not have speakers but you can't see that 1080p video especially on YouTube does playback just fine now what's cool is is that even though this is going to be a lower end PC you're actually getting a GPU that is theoretically capable of pushing a 4k display although that's probably not the greatest idea you know I actually think that there's a lot that we can do with this PC but before we do that I want to give a huge shout out to LastPass for sponsoring this video it's almost like it's a perfect sort of fit when you get a brand-new PC and you want to have all your passwords and all your logins in one place funny how that happened not like we planned it or anything I personally been using LastPass for over five years now at this point and what you're getting here is something that's going to allow you to get all of your passwords all under one secure umbrella so say for example that you use the same password and lots of sites which of course no one would ever do who watches the channel right what LastPass allows you to do is create a completely random generated password for each and every site that you visit so even if say one site gets hacked that doesn't mean that someone can get into all of your other logins now what's cool is is that LastPass keeps all this super secure underneath a master password and what's nice about that is that there are multiple ways of getting in to it you can add two-factor authentication it actually is a really secure way of doing things the best part is that you can get LastPass for free now they do have a $2 month premium plan which is what I've been on for a while but regardless you should be using a password manager and I legitimately use LastPass every single day you guys might check it out the link is in the description and huge shoot shout out to LastPass for sponsoring this video no sure how do you a mini PC is fine and great what's the fun if you don't actually take advantage of how small it is everyone knows that a cheap PC is not going to be the most powerful thing in the world but this is where things get a little bit more exciting this is the G chic on lap 1102 H portable monitor but there are lots of portable monitors out there and most of the time they're pretty decent what makes this a little bit different is it has its own dedicated battery built-in so with pretty much just a single HDMI cable we can get a fully portable set up see where I'm going with this so first of all we have the actual display itself so we're looking at an 11.6 inch working at an 11 point 6 inch 1920 by 1080 panel plenty bright enough and especially plenty sharp enough to be able to handle our Gulick mini-pc so with our g chic monitor up and running this is our questionably useful setup so first of all we have the googly key see now connected to that is our Samsung t3 SSD which is going to have all of our Steam games on it it's being powered by this me power bank we also have the monitor which normally would be running on its own power except that it was not charged so we have it connected to another battery bank and with all of this we have only one spare USB port and I'm trying to get game set up so I'm having to hot-swap Mouse's and keyboards and controllers to try to get something to work because we really plan things out solidly there are definitely some cool things about this setup though the G chic monitor is really nice-looking so you're getting that full 1080 resolution and then these are going to be a matte display but you know in theory when you remember to charge it it is going to be a really nice portable setup even have some things on the backside to be able to hook up something like a compute stick so you can have a fully portable little setup but none of that matters if I can't play csgo in a park because that's the whole premise for this video please please tell me this is actually going to let me load it so we're into the menu I cranked all the settings down and it looks like we're actually loading it actually should work in theory I've done a lot of testing with csgo usually when we have like a really low end system that's sort of the first game I go to actually see if it will work and well I've never done it on an atom ship that should in theory be able to run it's gonna be on low settings and not a great framerate initializing game data I don't think I've ever seen csgo take 5 minutes to load but that's fine who cares how long it takes to load just matters can we actually play the game or not exe is stopped working right before the load finished oh I feel that right here so what do we learn we learned that the goo leak is a pretty decent PC as long as you don't ever try to play a game on it so curious what do you guys think about the $100 gu Lika mini-pc I'm sure you will have lots of very insightful comments about this entire video definitely be sure to let me know in the comments below and of course definitely be sure to go check out LastPass at the link in the description guys thank you so much for watching I'm going to go cry myself to sleep over not being able to play a game right now
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