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walmart made a big splash last year when they launched their overpowered brand of

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gaming desktops and not in a good way you're gonna get a

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crap power supply a crap SSD i'm just not comfortable telling anyone to buy

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this thing this is objectively worse so you'll have to excuse my skepticism when

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i saw this 250

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notebook from motile also a walmart house brand now on

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paper this looks great we're talking ryzen

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processor aluminum chassis Windows hello

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10 for 250 dollars and

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look at this come here

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tips i got david too you bamboozled me

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right out of the box things are going surprisingly well actually now at 250

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dollars i make assumptions like that it's gonna have a plastic shell

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but i was floored to find out that the

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sleek metallic design advertised on the

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website doesn't mean a cheap metallic finish on a plastic laptop but rather

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that all of the major panels are made of

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metal now we saw some speculation that it's a magnesium alloy but given that

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this unit has been as cheap as 200 on promo in the past we suspect that it's

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aluminum not that the difference is big on a 14-inch model like this one now the

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thing is though metal can still be flimsy and this is not the most rigid

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laptop shell that i've ever encountered but what i will say is that this is

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among the best or maybe even the best feeling 200 machine that i have ever

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held and what the metal construction should give it is a bit of extra

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durability if you pack your laptop in a bag for school or for work every day on

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the topic of daily use the 45.6 watt hour battery is far from the largest

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we've seen in this form factor but the ryzen 3200u isn't power hungry and the

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motile m141 ended up chewing pretty well

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away from wall power and the good news keeps on coming

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doesn't it on the left hand for io we've got a kensington lock gigabit Ethernet

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with that handy dandy little folding hinge thing that lets you put a full

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size jack into a thin and light laptop usb 2 usb 3 and a combo headphone

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microphone audio jack what the hell is this thing it's nothing oh okay weird

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over on the other side we've got usb type-c another usb 3 full-size HDMI

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and a barrel plug for charging actually

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if you look at the front lip too there it is there's a little bitty tiny micro

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sd reader this is really impressive for a modern thin and light basically unless

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you want dual external monitors you're good to go

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dongle free and i can understand why you might want an

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external monitor or two let's fire up a movie trailer

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no time to die trailer wait is this still daniel craig

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wow is he the longest lasting james bond at this point i mean he is amazing david

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you got any thoughts on this monitor yes it is turned up to the maximum

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brightness uh are you sure about that

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yes just eyeballing it i would give this

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maybe a 400 or 500 to one contrast ratio

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and it's really warm looking there's no way

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they're grading the movie like that now off camera we ran some numbers and it's

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almost as bad as it seemed i was way off on the contrast ratio turns out it's

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actually a thousand to one but that doesn't mean that the experience is any

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better than i felt like it was the maximum luminance here is only about 150

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nits and that perceived warmth may not

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have even been to do with poor out-of-the-box calibration this thing

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can only handle about 65 coverage of the

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srgb color space that is the worst result i have ever seen from an ips

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panel onto the keyboard it's got two levels of backlighting with the simple

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function f7 or function f6 which is nice

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to have especially at this price point but if i turn that on it's got a

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significant amount of light bleed which combined with how dim the lights are and

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the poor quality of the keycaps means that in a bright room it can actually be

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surprisingly difficult to read the legends on the keys

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in terms of actually using it though

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this is not actually bad i have seen worse keycap stabilization

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on laptops that cost literally five times this much like i

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can press right on the corner there and if there's anything that causes a

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keyboard to feel like junk it's bad keycap stabilization because that means

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that if you accidentally don't hit it perfectly right in the middle it might

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not actuate or it might have a very different amount of force required and

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unnecessary deck flex not the best i've ever seen but at

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reasonable amounts of pressure it's not half bad i mean it's not going to win

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any blind keyboard taste test challenges or anything but

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for 250 bucks this might be the best keyboard i've encountered

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as for the trackpad it is mostly really good it's a great size

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like they didn't skimp there it uses the Windows precision drivers the

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multi-touch gestures work as intended and the shortcut to disable the trackpad

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by double tapping this little dot in the corner really nice touch even the clicks feel

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reasonably good a little bit of kind of hollow feeling

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this but pretty good the only issue we ran into is that there's this odd kind

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of dead zone when you move your finger only slightly where the cursor doesn't

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track with your finger and there's no combination of speed adjustments pointer

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precision settings or palm rejection that we were able to get rid of it with

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so that was a little bit annoying but it was something that i think i can

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overlook given the price now let's look

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under the hood once we get past the six cruise we are greeted with hey

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who put that sticker in there we don't even have stickers on lttstore.com yet

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just fantastic merchandise and water bottles also in here we've got a single

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heat pipe that runs from our 3200 u processor over to this small heatsink

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and blower fan it ended up keeping our CPU at around 80 degrees under full load

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so that's running a blender render while being audible but

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not particularly annoying and this this is something i'm really happy to

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see user upgradeable components

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now the single RAM slot means that you will lose some performance because

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you're running in single channel mode but it also means that you can save a

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buck today with the basic 4 gig stick that's in here now and then upgrade down

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the line when second hand 8 or 16 gig sticks are cheap

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and also while the os is loaded up on an

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inexpensive 128 gig SATA m.2 drive

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leaving only about a hundred gigs free once Windows has taken up its chunk this

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extra slot here is NVMe ready meaning that you could actually add a ton of

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fast storage to this thing in a matter of minutes

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on top of that this thing even uses an Intel card for its Wi-Fi and bluetooth

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this is exactly the kind of stuff that

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normally these cheap machines cheap out on to save a buck and get this

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when you go to put your bottom panel back on look at that they've even got a thermal

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pad between the SSD and the chassis and

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in some cases SSD cooling is not configured in such a way that it's

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actually going to affect the longevity of the components but because this

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heatsink is so large i would actually

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expect that to make a difference that's freaking awesome

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i'm gonna just put this back together real quick this is all great so far but

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because our ryzen 3200u is such a power

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sipper and such a low end processor it's just two cores four threads you need to

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keep your gaming expectations realistic

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we used rocket league as our benchmark with our quality set to high and we got

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a reasonable 40-ish frames per second now with a

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little bit of quality sacrifice we were able to get to 60 FPS so this is the

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great thing about AMD's apus some light gaming is on the table

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but that's about it light gaming and the same can be said

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for any manner of creative work if you just need to do like some basic

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image cropping or something along those lines you're going to be in pretty good

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shape but you should leave the 4k video editing to your desktop

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bottom line then this thing is freaking awesome sub 500 laptops always have some

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kind of horrendous deal breaker like an

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unusable keyboard for example but the closest that this one gets is a screen

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that's just not bright enough for use outdoors and a little bit of weird

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trackpad behavior i mean even the speakers and webcam are passable

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and on top of that i mean i already said this but it is worth mentioning again

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it's got a metal chassis and freaking

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Windows hello facial recognition signing

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i mean if i was on a tight budget the immediate competition to this is mostly

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running chrome os or last generation hardware i mean that's not terrible but

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having a full-fledged Windows experience on a modern AMD processor is better and

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the bang for the buck here is impossible to ignore the ryzen 3200 ube that's

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packed inside this thing it's not a powerhouse but it does give ample

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processing power at a price you can't scoff at so for this particular market

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segment i'd say this is a great choice

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if you're looking for something with a bit more horsepower however maybe take a

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look at our stop buying the macbook air video where we look at some great

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options in the five to eight hundred dollar range

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