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so I signed up for Dells promotional newsletter a little while back because I bought something from Dell and got signed up by accident thanks Dell but every once in a while I do see something interesting in there a two hundred dollar laptop you say maybe that would be great for a back-to-school feature but our rep over there is a regular viewer so he was understandably hesitant to send us a base model of anything and said he'd prefer if we checked out the $400 version so this thing then well there are three compelling reasons not to buy it CyberPower pcs lineup of gaming desktops feature intel seventh generation core i7 processors check them out at the link below reason number one not to buy this $400 laptop this $200 one the best part of the little blue Inspiron p 2040 is the price the keyboard is pretty cramped the TN screen is kinda poop and it's far from fast but it does exactly what it needs to do and honestly exceeded our expectations for the price like come on this thing is hardly more than the cost of the included full copy of Windows 10 and after a bit of practice I was able to type quickly and easily write Word documents and forum posts with it thanks to the small but comfortable matte surface touchpad I mean I'm not sure that I'd want to use it to have write up the script of my next big Hollywood blockbuster but let's face it if I was working on stuff like that on a regular basis I would have more than $200 for my laptop usability wise I can live with the single tasking paradigm enabled by the two core Celeron processor for the most part and I'd say the screen is the biggest bummer colors are pretty flat viewing angles aren't great and it doesn't get bright enough for use outside but if you plan on watching YouTube videos or Netflix it'll be good enough and I wouldn't go as far as to say it's actually terrible like other cheap screens I've seen before the only true disappointment came when we opened it up I was hoping that it would be possible to add a hard drive or SSD in the future and upgrade the RAM but they're both soldered to the motherboard with no expansion slots so I guess in a nutshell the best thing about this product is that there's nothing so bad as to make it a total deal-breaker and at $200 occasionally on sale for 150 that's all I can really ask for I really recommended as a secondary computer if you spent all your money on a desktop this will work great when you need to go out into the real world god forbid but it still scrapes by with a recommendation so why doesn't it's $400 cousin get the same treatment reason number two the Inspiron p25 T is pretty much more of the same and sits right around the amount of money that lots of people think they want to spend on a laptop but our problem is that we don't feel like they're getting twice the experience for something that costs twice as much upgrades on this guy include a 500 gig hard drive double the RAM a two-in-one capable touchscreen and a slightly better processor the issue though is that the 5400 rpm hard drive is slow as molasses and I mean maybe this is Microsoft's fault but Windows 10 chugs on a mechanical drive simple stuff like switching modes hitting the Start menu opening files are really anything is just such a slog plus with almost everything done on the internet now the need for large amounts of local storage is becoming very limited except in gaming rigs workstations or desktop computers with a large amount of storage because you put all your stuff on them so when you consider that the biggest problem is that we still need a primary computer just like the $200 laptop but without the practically disposable price tag to make it more palatable I mean to be clear tablet conversion and touch will be important to some folks and the performance is better but performance is better in a way that's only really noticeable if you compare them side-by-side like you're still buying the type of computer where you type in a web address and then you take a sip of coffee while it loads so what do we then for someone who's on a budget but with more than 200 dollars to spend reason number three for not buying this the Inspiron p69 G I mean sure this isn't the be-all and end-all of $800 laptops but it represents the kind of improvements in productivity that you can get by increasing your budget to the bang for the buck level everything gets an upgrade with a core i5 processor eight gigs of ram decent i/o including HDMI and USB 3 and SSD and a full HD IPS touch display it checks all the boxes that I would consider for a computer that I would actually recommend to somebody that I like provided they don't need faster than one by one Wi-Fi I do realize that $800 is a big jump from $400 but these can regularly be found for under 700 and functionally speaking it's not even in the same ballpark as the other two it's not startlingly fast sure but I never got annoyed at it you don't have to worry about running out of RAM just from opening a few tabs and the processor is fast enough for some programming work some basic image editing MATLAB or even some light cat if you want to view small assemblies this kind of stuff is simply not possible on the cheaper laptops so for this one then the outside is simple but the keyboard is satisfying enough that this whole review was typed on it without annoyance the brushed plastic finish looks pretty smart and chassis rigidity is overall very good though I think the wobble on the two-in-one convertible touchscreen could be better and this model isn't available without it at the end of the day though the choice is yours battery life was decent across the board seems that problem has pretty much been solved with low-end laptops the webcams on all three were comparable and surprisingly good although Windows hello on the $800 model is a really nice touch and all of them feature speakers that are comparable to a decent smartphone so not that great wrapping this up though honestly I don't really have a special relationship with any of these exact models from Dell and the main goal of this video was to hopefully help you narrow down your search in terms of pricing and the features that we think matter when you're looking for a secondary laptop or a back-to-school machine so you don't want to spend too much but you also don't want to spend too little but then also spending even less might be even better than that Optima is one of those brands that unless you've been seriously shopping for a high-end projector you might not have ever encountered but they're worth encountering now if you're looking for a high quality projector at $2,000 the Optima UHD 60 is not especially cheap but what it is is an incredible value up until now 4k projectors have been much more expensive and the UHD 60 features an abundance of image quality technologies including high dynamic range compatibility for enhanced color and black-and-whites dynamic black for amazing contrast and ultra detail for 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