Trying a $100 PC
from Amazon... #Helpful Post
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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