Is a $130 Laptop Worth It? #Helpful Post

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

vhey guys is Austin and today mystery

tech is featuring a watchband for air

pods the perfect friend keep your air

pods and the allow go wrist fit easily

and securely so the idea here is that

this is an Apple watch band that you can

also use your air pots with okay well

yep that's about as straightforward as

it gets

can you take this part oh wait I don't

need to use this what I just put this on

the Apple watch band yeah I don't know

why they include this but whatever we're

gonna ignore that I'm gonna put this

back on my watch

so if you really want to show off how

big of an Apple fan you are that's a

look so you can you know be listening to

music on your watch running sort of like

in a super cool hip Apple ad you know oh

wait a minute I want to take a call

alternatively if you don't have an Apple

watch you can use this as a standalone

accessory to make sure that your air

pods are nice and secure on your wrist

what is this is it why is this on

Japanese oh it's 2680 yen

oh yes you got this in Japan so it's a

speaker for the switch okay

really so it's got a USB C port on the

bottom which I assume you just dock a

switch in but it's also got a headphone

jack and it's also got a USB C for power

and so if the speaker plugged in I can

drop the switch on and it will charge

the switch so that's nice and then if I

plug the headphone jack in I guess we're

going to have audio you jump into a game

and see oh that's actually pretty loud

alright so I guess if you're in Japan or

you can pick this up for like 25 bucks

it works I mean it does exactly what it

promises it's just a little bit of a

weird concept

ohhh-kay the surface suddenly appeared

and I have this mysterious white package

not good probably tap wearable keyboard

and mouse

this looks really dumb oh wow it's just

straight up like a bunch of little like

ring looking things so you're supposed

to put this on your hands and then it

looks like these are all actually

connected so it's more like a glove I

would generally do not understand at all

how this is going to be a keyboard and

mouse but okay so I am paired now let's

see if I can actually type something so

okay vibrated but not typing we're going

to abandon the surface and try to use

this on my phone whoa okay that actually

does go to work so wait hang on so my

first finger is s wait su shoe who you

oh oh oh I T whoa hang on wait so two

fingers oh whoa Wow you've got to

relearn the entire alphabet and where

everything is the way this works is it

has accelerometers in each of your

little finger ring things so as I type a

letter and theory it picks it up it

actually doesn't seem to be too far off

but you've got to completely relearn

where every single letter is I will say

I kind of get it but for $180 you'd

better be seriously committed to

relearning everything that you've ever

learned about typing and you know

looking cool okay the wired controller

light for PlayStation 4 this is actually

something we saw when we were doing

mystery Tech in Taiwan last time and I

really wanted to pick it up but uh Ken

didn't let me now I see why the idea

with this guy is that it is a much

smaller PlayStation 4 controller so as

opposed to having this sort of standard

controls and especially the standard

grip instead you're gonna get something

that's going to be a lot smaller all

right well that's a cable but what we're

getting here is a very very unique

looking controller I mean look at that

for way less than half the price of a

normal ps4 controller as long as you

don't mind it being wired and at least

really long wire so what you're getting

here is definitely a little bit of a

different button layouts so we have our

touchpad button which functions as a

single button but we've also got our top

triggers and pretty much everything

where you would roughly expect it except

it's just much much tighter I will say

for my hands this feels a little tight

like I definitely sort of them kind of

got that claw grip going but okay I was

like pretty good I was pretty good yeah

I've got to say me it's actually an

interesting little controller especially

if you're able to find it and I'll do my

best to find an amazon link for the US

here in the description actually not a

bad little pickup I think it's all just

about as good as I hoped it would be

okay so this is a package from dangerous

things no for real I mean actually the

box says dangerous things on it this is

a viewer submission oh sweet

wait no that's right a bad thing right X

nti injection kit what hi is this a joke

box because this looks a little

suspicious like the printing is like

super low quality Oh next level human

augmentation oh oh I know what this is

is it one of the things that you implant

and yourself to like it's like a little

NFC tag oh no no I'm not doing this I'm

not doing this oh no oh yeah before

opening the seal polar bag visit our

instructions on how to inject yourself

dude no absolutely not no way oh look at

this

whoa it's like a giant medical pad for

when you bleed all over the place

Wow so I've seen a little bit about

these the way this stuff works is

there's going to be a tiny little NFC

radio and that if you're really serious

about this kind of body hacking stuff

you could inject it into yourself and so

say it's like underneath your skin on

your hand or something you could use it

to say unlock your phone or I guess I'm

like your but actually what are they all

they say yeah like house key computer

whatever the case is but essentially

it's like having an NFC tag inside your

hand nope nope nope nope nope nope nope