Let's Talk About New vs Used Laptops #Helpful Post

hey guys za Sten odds are you're

watching this video on a laptop very

similar to this a nearly five year old

HP Pavillion so for this one I've teamed

up with Intel who are not only

sponsoring this video but an entire

series on the channel taking a look at

how technology is changing over the next

couple years so one of the first things

I'm not curious about is where we are

today and of course what better way of

doing that than to compare two very

similar laptops spread out over nearly

five years this is the HP Pavilion x360

two-in-one as it's powered by an eighth

gen Core i7 processor it's going to be

powerful although by no means some giant

workstation but importantly it is going

to be good for the price and even more

importantly than that it is going to be

a very close match to our older HP

Pavillion set up put these two

side-by-side and the family resemblance

is clear so the pavilion TouchSmart was

one of the very first Windows 8 laptops

that did come standard with a

touchscreen and actually does a lot of

things right although if you take a look

at the brand new Pavilion x360 there

have been a lot of upgrades and changes

over the last few years the real

question is whether you actually need to

upgrade so when you take a look at this

older system it doesn't seem that old

and to be fair it still can do some

basic stuff like web browsing it's not

like it's going to be completely

unusable but when you step over to a

newer system with the core i7 with the

optin memory you're going to be getting

a much much better experience you're

getting pretty much everything you'd

expect on a modern laptop so stuff like

USB 3.0 is here you're going to be

getting a fourth gen core i5 which is

going to give you decent battery life

and ok performance and you're even going

to be getting some extras like a DVD

drive if you're still living in 1999

actually now that's not fair right like

2005 was really that the peak of DVD

this guy is rocking a 15.6 inch 1366 by

768 panel now it wasn't a terrible

screen when it first came out but put it

side-by-side with a 20-18 pavilion and

there is a huge difference not only is

this screen quality itself going to be

much nicer on this guy but having a full

1080p resolution makes a big difference

with this guy being limited to stuff

like 720p video and sort of very little

screen real estate it feels kind of

claustrophobic in 2018 realistically the

screen is actually one of the most

noticeable differences having a nice

quality 1080p

does make a big difference and while the

other one is going to be a touchscreen

this is going to be a much more accurate

touchscreen you also have the HP Pen if

you want to use stylus input one of my

favorite party tricks that you actually

can flip the entire thing around and

treat it like a giant tablet now of

course this is going to be a 15.6 inch

tablet so you should temper your

expectations for how portable it's going

to be but this especially when you pair

it with the stylus does make a nice

difference when you can you know

actually use it with one hand as opposed

to something like that which doesn't

roll I think it's kind of

self-explanatory how close that comes to

being tablets of course your mileage is

going to vary on something like this but

actually do you find that the pen can be

useful in some situations for example if

you want to work on some graphic stuff

if you want to make some notes or

especially for people who want to have

something that's going to be a little

bit more ergonomic the touchscreen

paired with the pen can feel a lot

better than sitting with a mouse and

keyboard all day when it comes time to

upgrade your computer one of the biggest

questions is always going to be to do

with performance so you're looking at

such a wide range of years between these

two laptops obviously they're going to

be some major differences but some

things are also going to be very similar

both are currently rocking twelve

gigabytes of RAM as well as I want

terabyte hard drive but look a little

bit closer and they're going to be some

major major changes in the last few

years Intel Core processors have seen

some major leaps in performance

consider that we're going from a

dual-core 2.7 gigahertz boost clock all

the way up to a quad-core chip they can

go all the way up to 4 gigahertz on

boost now that is really impressive

especially when you consider that that's

all going to be in the same 15 watt TDP

essentially for the same amount of power

we're going to be doing a lot more work

much much faster you're also getting a

smaller thinner and lighter PC and

pretty much every aspect that not only

does have that more powerful processor

but you're also going to be getting

dedicated graphics as an option when you

put it together what essentially you're

getting here is something that's going

to be smaller thinner lighter and more

powerful and pretty much any way that

you measure it a lot of it has to do

with the processor now don't get me

wrong it's not like a 4th gen core is

suddenly some archaic piece of old

technology but things advanced a lot and

it is very noticeable when you put them

side-by-side now yes it is very very

noticeable when it comes to stuff like

gaming and video editing as you would

expect beams from normal tasks there is

a big difference I mean something as

simple as opening up a webpage can take

all a lot longer in the older system and

that's something that stuff like

benchmarks don't really quite get across

always what

comes to stuff like editing 4k video

more performance is always going to be

helpful no no this is not going to be

some giant fake workstation class

massive editing laptop but what you were

getting here is a solid amount of power

especially when you compare it to the

five-year-old system that 8th gen Core

processor is also going to be of course

capable of playing back 4k video whether

on the internal laptop screen if you've

got a 4k display or on an external

monitor but something else that sort of

backs up this pavilion is going to be

the dedicate AMD Radeon 530 graphics now

this opens you up for some light virtual

reality and mixed reality use but almost

more importantly than that you can do

some light gaming on this guy as well

now of course this is not going to be a

great dedicated gaming PC for that

you're going to want some better

graphics than the Radeon 530 and this

particular system but the important

thing is the core i7 can definitely

handle it so even when you pair it with

something like an NVIDIA MX 150 as I've

done in previous videos you're going to

be getting some much better performance

and something that could definitely hold

up and with the idea that you can go

with stuff like thunderbolt solutions to

get you even better external graphics

options having a powerful processor is

very important Intel octane memory is an

interesting piece of tech that I'm

actually going to go much more in-depth

on in a future video but the basic idea

is that it functions similarly to an SSD

cache but it allows you to get the full

responsiveness of an SSD while still not

losing the full size capacity of a hard

drive so this is going to speed up

things such as opening up windows some

of your major programs it's also going

to be useful for more creative

applications such as when your photo and

video editing you're going to have that

super fast SSD cache which is all going

to be working in the background this is

one of the queerest differences between

a newer and older system there's so many

more possibilities with this whereas

with the older computer you basically

get what you get in just a few years

we've gone from thin and light laptops

being able to do basic tasks recently

well to having a lot more power to the

point where you can do gaming on these

you can do photo editing and you can do

proper video editing on something that

is going to be this small this thin and

dis light I know this video is sponsored

by Intel but these new H gen core

processors are a legit game changer

having this level of performance and

such a thin and light laptop just wasn't

possible all that long ago it's hard for

me to imagine much of a better time to

upgrade than now