I've got something I want to show [music] you. Meet my big pink 10-in baby
netbook [music] from AliExpress. Why, you ask? If you sort all the new Windows
laptops in existence from low to high, the top result will be this. The laptop
10.1 in Windows 10 notebook computer, full HD netbook, mini gaming, mass
memory, 3 gig plus 32 gig cheap PC laptops. But what it lacks in having a
brand name or a name at all, it sure as
heck makes up for with being pink. So what happens when [music] you buy the
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gets cheaper, the computer gets lighter and the screen gets heavier to the point
where the balance is uh not great. Let's
take a look at the manual. Laptops. I feel like this is one of those
inspirational posters. What I do get is a surprisingly thorough quick start
guide, though. Things do fall apart a little when we look closer. Touchpad.
It's convenient for you to operate the computer.
Wow. It says I can charge over either the barrel jack or the type-C interface.
Huh. I wasn't expecting that. I think I figured it out. There's two completely
different laptops in here with two completely different legends for what
everything is on them. Oh, this one's actually right.
Oh, I was looking at the wrong one. So, the touchpad is not convenient to
operate the computer. It's operating laptop easily.
Wow. Okay. Let's see if there's anything else in here. More packing foam. And
wow, they included a mouse.
Imagine looking at Apple's mouse and thinking
right there. That's the ergonomic design I want.
This was a very cheap laptop and it never mentioned once that it came with a
mouse. That is a huge bonus. Okay, look at that trackpad. That's probably
massive.
Yeah, this is probably a pretty big improvement. And to their credit, it
doesn't charge from the bottom. The only other thing in the box is our power
adapter, which totally makes sense, except also doesn't because the
AliExpress listing shows and mentions
micro USB for power. In fairness though,
I think I'd much rather have a barrel plug. Micro USB was not made for this.
Not going to hold that against it. What I will hold against it is its truly
archaic screen to body ratio. I don't
think I've seen bezels this big.
For funsies, we calculated it and it's 59.6%.
Wow. With that said, the build quality of it, I mean, it's no aluminum unibody
or anything, but it's far from the worst I've ever seen. For context, here's an
LG Graham, a machine that costs an order of magnitude more. And it's better, but
and bigger, but you know, things fall
apart a little when we get to I/IO, though. It starts good. USB 3. I mean,
that's not to be taken for granted on a machine like this. A headset jack. Micro
SD slot for expansion. Uh, actually, that's an earphone hole.
Sorry, this is an earphone hole. Yes. I'm sorry. Okay. Did I get anything else
wrong? Actually, that's trans flash, not micro SD.
Okay, that shouldn't matter. Translash is just an outdated term for micro SD.
Really? It's Is it not the same? Okay,
hold on a second. So, we've got a new high-speed, high-capacity micro SD.
There's no way. I think it's just an outdated terminology.
This is going to work. Wow.
Did we have Brandon from the lab check this display? Yes,
it's really slow, right? My micro SD card totally works. Look at this. Look
at these icons popping in. That's nuts. Yeah.
What icon pack is that? Then over on the other side, obviously, we've got our
power input, USB 3 again.
And then it said it had HDMI, but this
is mini HDMI, which is infinitely worse.
It is an awful, awful connector. Now, Alex sent me some notes on the keyboard
saying, and I quote, "It is surprisingly
good.
Okay. I um h it's not the greatest thing
in the world, but the layout is what you would expect. The keys have a
surprisingly long travel, and as long as you don't mind the miniature key caps,
it's not terrible. I'm getting kind of a
designed for kids vibe. Yeah, which
isn't necessarily a bad thing as long as it works okay. That seems like the
perfect target audience for the cheapest laptop in the world. With that said, it
has to work okay. Um, and the trackpad is not as good. The size, honestly, I
don't even mind that much given how small the display is. It's not like I
have trouble moving around on it, but the click,
I think it could best be described as crunchy. Here, listen to this. If you
press too hard on the left click, the right click activates as well. Of
course, who needs a quality trackpad when you've got a bonus included mouse.
And according to my notes, it is better than I expect.
Yeah, I'm a little skeptical here. Oh, mouse is great.
Great. Okay, let's have a look here. 125
Hz polling rate, 25 milliseconds of latency. Okay, that's about expected.
Adjustable DPI all the way from 400
to,600. And oh, is that what this button does?
Yeah, it has a Okay, it has a DPI button.
Antoine measured this. Yes. 03 and 38 for sensor accuracy and
precision respectively. That's actually a really strong result. Yeah, that's
quite good. This thing absolutely annihilates the
Tommy Hilfiger gaming mouse we looked at a little while ago and some Glorious mice before they
updated the firmware. Sorry, spin. I actually don't know what spin out is.
You know when you like are in CSGO or whatever and you flick the mouse and
instead of it tracking it just like
poops itself and your character just goes like, "Oh, sure." To be clear, we're not
saying you should replace your gaming mouse with this thing. Sensor acceleration and spin out are both
problems at high speeds like you might encounter in gaming. In fact, you can
even see that instead of it moving straight across in a line, sometimes
there are outliers way above or below. We're just saying it's a lot better than
we expected. The click feel is also awful here. Can you even hear it?
Ironically, the DPI select button has by
far the best tactile feel. Still opening. Still opening. How are they
going to spy on me if the camera app can't even open?
Wow, that's beautiful. I can't tell how much of that is the bad
camera and how much of that is the bad pixel response time of the display.
Wow, I have aged terribly.
Not the best webcam I've ever seen. You know, people are always talking
about how like all the bearded white dudes here look similar and I never saw
it until I looked at an image in this webcam. Y
can't tell the difference. Why don't we talk performance now?
For CPU, there might be two options.
What do you mean two options? Well, the specs have two different ones.
Either a Celeron or an Atom. Both from
about 2016. Which one do you want? What do you mean which one do I want? It's
going to be whatever it is in here. Okay, I'm checking Task Manager. And it
looks like we got the Celeron N3350.
That is a dual core processor with a base speed of 1.1 GHz. Wow. That
explains why it's been kind of slow. Hold on a second though. Things are
about to get worse. What the heck is 2.8
gigs of memory? How do you put 2.8 gigs
of memory in a computer? Alex, do you have an explanation for this? Also, how
high is this chip supposed to turbo? Because I don't think it does at all.
Oh, wait. Oh, no, it does. There you go. Okay, she'll turbo to 2
GHz. That's one of the things that I have in my notes. It's like Heisenberg's
uncertainty cuz you can never really measure the laptop because things like
task manager and hardware info use so much CPU. I don't know what's worse, the
fact that dragging a task manager window spikes the CPU usage to 60%. Or the fact
that it isn't even trying to render that window preview.
Okay. Okay. I did that intentionally cuz it does speed it up a lot. Oh, okay.
Yeah. Oh, okay. What the hell? I think I figured out the
memory thing. It's a one gig stick and a
2 gig stick. Two of three slots are
populated. Also, this is DDR3 memory.
And here's another thing. Why is disc 0, the C drive, listed as an SD card?
I don't know that, but it is eMMC, so it is pretty bad. Although not SD card bad.
Okay. Oh man, this thing sucks. Given the
cost, can we really expect that much? I mean, this is a $24 CPU.
I don't know. You can at least expect updates. This thing will be getting them
until September 30th of this year. After that, it's EOL.
Oh, but does a CPU need service updates? Well, like security updates are nice.
Oh, yeah. Especially with all the stuff that's been happen. Okay.
We have other ideas for stress tests, though. You suggested opening a YouTube
video. Yes. This is one of the strongest arguments
for ad block that I think I've ever seen. Like you got to be careful about
the kinds of pages you load because anything images or autoplay video, they
are going to grind your entire computer to a halt. Are forums light enough? How
about ltttore.com? Oh my goodness. Look at this delay. Look, I I have I have
pressed enter already. What? Oh, okay. I didn't do anything.
I'm afraid shoppers using the laptop,
netbook, whatever, are going to have a hard time. Hey, look at that. You could
sign up for a notification for when the Noct Toy Edition LT screwdriver is
coming. Anyh who, I got distracted. What I'm
supposed to be doing is opening up a YouTube video. How about Crab Rave 10
hours? Perfect.
What could be better? We should have task manager. Task
manager is probably sucking back 30% of the CPU, Alex. Why you got to massacre
my boy like that? How are the speakers? I bet they're functional.
That's as loud as they get, huh? I feel like I've had smart [music] watches with
better speakers than that. I want to hear the drop first.
There's no bass. There's barely mids.
Okay. Can we do 720p?
Yes, we can. Barely.
That CPU is turboing like it's life depends on it. But will we reach 1080p
Nirvana? I think it's dropping frames.
Wow, that took a long time to full screen. What's the HL button? Windows
apparently. speakers are pretty awful.
You can hear them shaking it, too. Yeah,
that's Morocco sound.
I don't think you can listen to these at higher than about 60% without
distortion. And at 60%, I can barely
hear it. I really don't think it's dropping frames though, Alex. It looks like it's figured it out.
It's doing 1080p playback. Damn.
And in fairness to it, this display is a
lot better than the TN piece of crap that you would have found on a machine
like this even 3 to 5 years ago.
Yeah, it is IPS. It's not bright, but the viewing angles
are actually usable. Wait, where do you adjust the
brightness? I haven't actually tried that. On the website, it claims that it is full HD,
aka 1080p, 100 hertz, and 16 by9.
How many of those do you think are true? This doesn't seem to be 16 by9.
Nope. Looks like it might be 1080p.
Nope. Oh, well, it's definitely not 100 hertz.
What is the resolution? Is it like 1600 by 900 or something? 1280 by 800.
Really? Oh, it looks all right. Yeah, it's not that bad. I guess
it's not that big. Yeah, 10 in. That makes a really big difference. And
I figured out the brightness. You just have to do it in Windows with the
slider. Something that I noticed, well
actually our camera operator noticed is that there's a lot of flicker though in
the display and it changes depending on the brightness, which means that they're
using PWM control for brightness rather than [music] DC control. That is archaic
and causes flicker and can lead to more eye fatigue. The actual lab's results
for the display are not great. The peak brightness is 244 nits, which they
describe as piss poor. [music] It's very
blue, 10,000K white balance, and 79%
sRGB, which means particularly your reds
are going to be very washed out. But with that said, could my kids use
this to watch Daniel Tiger? Yes. Yeah, it's fine.
Absolutely. In fact, it's probably better than whatever was on a premium
laptop 10 years ago, or at least like a $1,000 laptop. This
is much better. We haven't gotten away from the pixel response time issue, though. And in
fact, I think that that's probably why you thought it was dropping frames
because anything in motion has so much blur, it looks like there's motion blur
added to it. Yeah, it's not great.
I love this. In the notes, Alex writes, "If the webcam isn't an absolute potato,
I'll eat my shoe." We already looked at it. It's more potato than I think either
of us could have possibly imagined. Now, with all of that said, a slow computer
is still a flipping computer. It runs at 2 GHz, and we had the idea of Well, hey,
maybe playing some basic games on it, like Hollow Knight. I'm just waiting for
that to launch. One moment, please. It won't.
It's not. Oh, Steam's just not going to Oh, wow. Read the notes.
Oh, Hollow Knight wanted 3 hours to
download [music] because of the CPU being too slow to unpack the files.
Oh, I see. It's actually just incapable.
This is remarkable. [laughter] It's at 100% CPU usage. Steam is sucking
back 40% of the CPU just to not download
anything. Realistically then, classic flash games are probably the most you
can expect from this thing. Sadly, those are no longer on the internet, but with
the power of Flashoint Infinity, you can still access them if you have an
internet connection. I did not know about this, but I am pretty excited to
try this. Let's go. Start Flashoint.
Uh-oh. Oh, Visual Studio runtime not found.
Install now. This may take a few minutes. Oh, that might take a while.
I'm doing it. I'm going to left then right click then left click again.
Has not even indicated it's [music] doing anything yet. This has been a
legitimate problem while testing. Just simply downloading things takes so long
that it's difficult. It's not because it has a really, you
know, awful Wi-Fi chipset driver or something like that that sucks back all
the CPU. Is it? No. I plugged it in like
hardwired [music] it and didn't make a difference. It has uh AC Wi-Fi though.
Wi-Fi 4 modern. No, AC. Isn't that Wi-Fi 5?
Is it? I think so. That's better than advertised, actually.
Really? Yeah. Yeah, that's what I thought. Okay, so it has a decent Wi-Fi thing.
Maybe. I mean, for all the good it does us. Yeah. All right. Flashoint Infinity has
launched. Here we go. [gasps] This is it.
I love this game. No. No. It got pulled down off Newgrounds at some point or
addicting.com. That's one. That's the one. And then I never found it again.
IT'S BACK. OH, I'M SO EXCITED TO PLAY.
OH, I was like really addicted to this game. Tim was talking about how much he
loves Flash Poison Infinity cuz all the games are just here. They've been saved.
That is so cool. I'm going to play Pearl Harbor. Man, I haven't seen this loading
screen in forever. Wow. The last time I
played this game was probably on an Athlon XP.
I don't remember it taking this long to load. I don't know. Standards were different
back then. Like you'd boot up something and then just like go and get a water.
Don't mind if I do. ltstore.com.
Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. You did it. Whoa. It's running really fast. Okay.
The speed that it's running at is super inconsistent, which is making this
really hard to play. Uh, my fuel is low.
I don't remember anything about fuel. It turns out you control the speed of the
plane. I don't remember the plane going that fast, though. I'm pretty sure
that's not a thing. Oh my god. I can't even tell which ships are Japanese and
which ones are American because the display blur is so bad. I can barely
[snorts] tell what flag I'm looking at. Wait. Yes. Okay. I'm apparently
Japanese. Okay. All right. All right, I sank a ship.
[laughter] But hey, at least it has really good battery life, right?
Actually, that's not bad. Almost 5 hours of video playback and over 2 hours of
stress test. Yeah, especially from a 19watth battery. This thing's efficient.
That's a very small battery. Which means I guess it actually doesn't take that
long to charge then. Even though it only has a 24 watt charger.
Yeah, not bad.
Oh my god, these screws are all different. I wasn't really paying close
attention. I don't I don't know where they go. I think it's [music] like this.
Yeah, we've got three different kinds of screws out of the first four I've taken
out. You know for sure, too, if you put the
long one in the wrong hole, it's going straight through that keyboard.
Wait, did I say three different screws out of
the first four? Because I meant four different screws. That's the first four
screws. They are all different.
I'm starting to wonder if this is even intentional. It could just be super
loose manufacturing tolerances in the screws. Does this battery even have all
the necessary warnings and like safety certification information on it?
No. Also, I think it's larger than expected.
3,000 mAh. What's that in watt hours? Uh 7.6 volts.
That's 22.8. That's higher than we thought. Yeah. By about 10%.
Not bad. Not bad considering how little is under it. The keyboard flex was less
than I expected. Yeah, there's literally not. No way. That's an
M.2 slot. [snorts] What? You could put an M.2 SSD in here.
That's not an M.2. That is an M.2. It's labeled SSD, smart guy.
What? There's nowhere to mount it to. It's more upgradeable than MacBooks.
Okay, that's a low blow. It's hilarious. This is about the same cooling you'll
find in a MacBook Air as well. The MacBook will perform a lot better, just
to be very clear. I'm not uh not saying these are equivalent products. I'm just
saying. Okay. Thermal pad rather than
thermal paste. And they actually left what appears to be captain tape or a
manufacturing peel on the bottom side of the Don't take that off. That's definitely
so they don't short it. Yes. So, they just didn't bother to
manufacture a cooler that doesn't short out the components below. In fact, you
can see there are a couple sharp ones that look like they're going to poke
through it. Also, they have this cooler that covers a bunch of other components,
but it's not transferring any heat. It's just capped on taped.
Yeah, there's our third RAM slot, though.
Whatever Windows was reporting, I don't think that's what that Wi-Fi chip is. I
thought it said MediaTek something. I don't know what FN Link is.
I don't know. They exist. Looks like they have actual good products. Not
good, but modern products.
Fair enough. Like we talked about the 3 gig RAM
thing, and I said, I thought I figured it out, but this is mounted right
against the keyboard. There's nothing on the other side of this PCB.
So, is this That's the RAM. 3 gigs. Just like that.
Thanks. All that's left then is recommend or not
recommend. It comes with an activated Windows license of some sort. So given
that it basically comes for free with a copy of Windows. I guess if all you need
is a functioning computer at all, it's
kind of hard to beat it for the price. But we would strongly recommend
something a little bit more functional for a little bit more. This managed a
Cinebench R15 score of just 89, which is
not an acceptable amount of performance today. For context, an Acer Aspire 5 for
under $300 can be had with a Ryzen 3
quad core CPU, an actual 1080p display,
8 gigs of RAM, and a 256 gig SSD. And
that's a real SSD, not eMMC flash. It's
not an amazing machine, but we've looked at it before on the channel, and it
doesn't have any major weaknesses either. And with a Cinebench R15 score
of 92, it could be argued that even though it's
double the price, it is more than 10 times the computer. It'll also keep
getting security updates for its CPU past um [clears throat]
3 months from now. We're going to have a link to that down below. In conclusion,
it's awful, but also kind of endearing. [music] Kind of like the way that I
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