so i signed up for dell's promotional newsletter a little while back because i
bought something from dell and got signed up by accident thanks dell but
every once in a while i do see something interesting in there
a 200 laptop you say maybe that would be great for a back to
school feature but our rep over there is a regular viewer
so he was understandably hesitant to send us a base model of anything
and said he'd prefer if we checked out the 400 version so
this thing then well there are three compelling reasons
not to buy it
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reason number one not to buy this 400
laptop this 200 one the best part of the
little blue inspiring p24t is the price
the keyboard is pretty cramped the tn screen is kind of poop and it's far from
fast but it does exactly what it needs to do
and honestly exceeded our expectations for the price
like come on this thing is hardly more than the cost
of the included full copy of Windows 10
and after a bit of practice i was able to type quickly and easily write word
documents and forum posts with it thanks to the small but comfortable matte
surface touch pad i mean i'm not sure that i'd want to use it to write up the
script of my next big hollywood blockbuster but let's face it if i was
working on stuff like that on a regular basis i would have more than two hundred
dollars for my laptop usability wise i
can live with the single tasking paradigm enabled by the two core celeron
processor for the most part and i'd say the screen is the biggest bummer colors
are pretty flat viewing angles aren't great and it doesn't get bright enough
for use outside but if you plan on watching youtube videos
or netflix it'll be good enough and i
wouldn't go as far as to say it's actually terrible like other cheap
screens i've seen before the only true disappointment came when
we opened it up i was hoping that it would be possible
to add a hard drive or SSD in the future and upgrade the RAM but they're both
soldered to the motherboard with no expansion slots so i guess in a nutshell
the best thing about this product is that there's nothing
so bad as to make it a total deal breaker and at 200
occasionally on sale for 150 that's all i can really ask for i can
only really recommend it as a secondary
computer if you spent all your money on a desktop this will work great when you
need to go out into the real world god forbid
but it still scrapes by with a recommendation so why doesn't its 400
dollar cousin get the same treatment reason number two
the inspiron p25t is pretty much more of the same
and sits right around the amount of money that lots of people think they
want to spend on a laptop but our problem is that we don't feel
like they're getting twice the experience for something that costs
twice as much upgrades on this guy include a 500 gig hard drive
double the RAM a two in one capable touchscreen and a slightly better
processor the issue though
is that the 5400 RPM hard drive is slow
as molasses and i mean maybe this is
microsoft's fault but Windows 10 chugs
on a mechanical drive
simple stuff like switching modes
hitting the start menu opening files or really anything is just such a slog plus
with almost everything done on the internet now the need for large amounts
of local storage is becoming
very limited except in gaming rigs
workstations or desktop computers with a large amount of
storage because you put all your stuff on them so when you consider that the
biggest problem is that we still need a
primary computer just like the 200 laptop but without the
practically disposable price tag to make it more palatable i mean to be clear
tablet conversion and touch will be important to some folks and the
performance is better but performance is
better in a way that's only really noticeable if you compare them side by
side like you're still buying the type of computer where you type in a web
address and then you take a sip of coffee while it loads
so what do we recommend then for someone who's on a budget but with more than two
hundred dollars to spend reason number three for not buying this
the inspiron p69g i mean sure this isn't the be-all and
end-all of 800 laptops but it represents
the kind of improvements in productivity that you can get by increasing your
budget to the bang for the buck level everything gets an upgrade with a core
i5 processor 8 gigs of RAM decent i o
including HDMI and usb 3 an SSD and a
full hd ips touch display
it checks all the boxes that i would consider for a computer that i would
actually recommend to somebody that i like provided they don't need faster
than one by one Wi-Fi i do realize that eight hundred dollars
is a big jump from four hundred dollars but these can regularly be found for
under 700 and functionally speaking it's not even in the same ballpark as the
other two it's not startlingly fast sure
but i never got annoyed at it you don't have to worry about running out of RAM
just from opening a few tabs and the processor is fast enough for some
programming work some basic image editing matlab or even some light cad if
you want to view small assemblies this kind of stuff is simply not possible on
the cheaper laptops so for this one then the outside is simple but the keyboard
is satisfying enough that this whole review was typed on it without annoyance
the brushed plastic finish looks pretty smart and chassis rigidity is overall
very good though i think the wobble on the two in one convertible touchscreen
could be better and this model isn't available without it at the end of the
day though the choice is yours battery life was decent across the board seems
that problem has pretty much been solved with low-end laptops the webcams on all
three were comparable and surprisingly good although Windows hello on the 800
model is a really nice touch and all of them feature speakers that are
comparable to a decent smartphone so not that great
wrapping this up though honestly i don't really have a special
relationship with any of these exact models from dell and the main goal of
this video was to hopefully help you narrow down your search in terms of
pricing and the features that we think
matter when you're looking for a secondary laptop or a back to school
machine so you don't want to spend too much
but you also don't want to spend too little but then also spending even less
might be even better than that optima is one of those brands that
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