My Week with a $330 Laptop #Helpful Post

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 the next one