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uh summertime and the living's easy you've probably been off dangling from

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rope swings enjoying long walks on the beach and playing washer toss when it

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hits you holy crap it's almost time for school i

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spent all my dough on moomoos ice cream and have almost none left for a new

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laptop well don't worry dear viewer there is

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if you're on an extremely tight budget and we're talking about 200 then buying

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new might not get you a laptop that operates to the level that i'd find

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acceptable even for just basic web browsing which is why we've got this

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thinkpad yeah so this right here is the thinkpad

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t540p it only cost us

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225 us dollars and that comes with eight

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gigabytes of ram and a 240 gigabyte ssd

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you can normally find these on like office auctions and they come without

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hard drives which is awesome because then like you're throwing the hard drive

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in the trash anyway and a new ssd only costs like 40 bucks

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eight gigs of ram it's still around like 40 bucks or so so you

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can have a very good little laptop for pretty cheap the only

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problem with it though is that it's got a screen that's a little bit under what

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i would consider good these days yeah if you go like the

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ap if you go much lower than that it's going to come to a point that windows is

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going to actually complain to you that it can't show everything on screen it

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also has no warranty you don't know what the battery health is and even though it

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has an i5 it's an old i5 and it gets absolutely

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whooped by a modern one so all that said this is still a very

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respectable machine and as a bonus i think these old thing pads look pretty

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cool but maybe the used market just isn't for you like there's no warranty

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and there's a number of traps to avoid when you're buying a laptop new

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for under four hundred dollars yeah and

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the first problem is a suspiciously large amount of memory for under four

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hundred dollars you'll be very lucky to find anything above four gigabytes so

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when you find something that's say says 20 gigabytes

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be careful because that is likely just four gigabytes of

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real ram and 16 gigabytes of octane memory now optane will improve the

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performance of your computer compared to not having it at all but just getting

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eight gigabytes of ram will go a lot further and it also is a commonly paired

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with a hard drive which brings us to trap number two do not buy a hard drive

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it might be tempting after all it probably has a terabyte of storage but

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do not be fooled because that storage is molasses slow ssds have become so cheap

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that it's basically the only option which brings us to emmc storage

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it's slow the run

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sugar helps the medicine go down

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speaking of unreliable our umbrella just kind of like yeah it

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blew that way but it was about as reliable as emmc storage

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which is also slow and in many cases you won't be able to upgrade to an ssd if

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you buy a laptop equipped with this so just buy a laptop that has an ssd which

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brings us to the final tip of buying a cheap laptop

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ensure it's upgradable before you buy to do this just google your laptop model

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followed by tear down hopefully i fix it as a guide although if not check out

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whatever maintenance manuals or youtube videos are available to ensure that

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there are sodium memory slots and swappable storage with all of that in

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mind my super budget pick is this 309 dollar

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acer aspire 5. it has a radeon 3 3200u

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dual core which is slightly faster than the i5 and the thinkpad has vega 3

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graphics which might be good for some old games but it does have a 1080p ips

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display that just absolutely blows the one of the thinkpad out of the water now

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it does only have four gigabytes of ram but that's easily upgradable it's 128

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gigabyte ssd is small but an entire two and a half inch bay is open for easy

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upgrading and the keyboard

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actually feels pretty solid for me for the price

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it's nice and springy not uh not a short amount of travel

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seems fine to me yeah it's not as good as the thinkpad

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though so it's true kind of brings us to the surface go when

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you move up to like a 500 budget you

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might be tempted to get something that's prettier and like

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this does have some great things about it this little keyboard it's awesome it's better than what we found on the

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acer and it does have a really great touch display that that you can use when

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coupled with a pen to write out all of the notes that you might need for a

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class but it does have one pretty fatal flaw yeah it's just too freaking slow at

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this price point what you should be looking for is an i5

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processor eight gigabytes of ram and a 240 gigabyte ssd any specs better than

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that or things like a touch display at this price are a bonus with that in mind

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here we have that same acer aspire from earlier but this one comes in at 500

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and has exactly our recommended specs and is also the first laptop here that i

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can wholeheartedly recommend it's got a quad core processor it completed the

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blender bmw test in 11 minutes and 40 seconds

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that's massively faster than the 19 minutes and 34 seconds recorded by the

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ryzen 3 model this laptop right here is pretty great

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but don't get married to one specific model or brand just try and find

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something that's worth like 800 and it's on sale for 500. make sure that you get

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an 8th gen processor those are typically quad core whereas 7th gen or older are

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only dual core this logic basically holds as your budget increases until

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around 800 which up until that point the best gpu you can

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find is an mx250 which it's better than nothing but

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you're not going to be playing games on it so

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yeah yeah

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when we move up to an 800 budget and this is where things get interesting

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again here we have the acer nitro 5. it's got an i5

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with a gtx 1650 it's the first laptop

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that can really gain out of the all the laptops we have here it's got an

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overclockable display to 90 hertz uh at least for our model and it's built

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body i mean it does leave something to be desired but for 800

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you're getting your money's worth i think yeah although

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on occasion at eight hundred dollars you can get one of these guys right here the

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surface laptop any qualms about build quality like yeah

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you just don't have them it has probably the best keyboard on the market the

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aspect ratio of the screen is higher which makes it great for doing things

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like word projects essays really just general school stuff and it has windows

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hello facial recognition we're just like oh the best way to unlock something

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although at this price point you normally can only find the

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gigabyte model and there's no upgrading it so that's a bit of a downer which

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brings us to a thousand dollar budget where

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you're just spoiled for choice for thin and light laptops you've got the surface

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laptop two here you've got the dell xps 13 which is just

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freaking awesome and the thinkpad x390

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also looks really promising although we don't actually know yet

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it's coming in a future video i haven't really tested it

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now for gaming what you're going to want to look for is the asus zephyrus ga502d

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this thing has a third gen ryzen 7 3750h

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a gtx 1660 ti 16 gigs of ram 512

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gigabyte ssd 120 hertz ips panel

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although it is a 6 bit panel and it's

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just an extremely solid performer for the price

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like it's all that you need for gaming really

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like that's what i'd get yeah but if you're

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really looking for no compromises well this does compromise a bit in gaming

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compared to this but if you're looking for video editing

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really just doing anything school related the

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deliax ps15 it's just been the winner for years it

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came out in like 2015 and although they haven't changed a lot it still just

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kicks butt it's got a gtx 1650 i7

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up to six cores and it costs like sixteen hundred dollars or more

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like at least two grand if you're looking for a 4k display so

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yeah i mean that's that's basically the level where you start to get to the no

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compromises zone but

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if you want absolutely no compromises in

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any way shape or form you want the razer

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blade 15. it's got an i96 core up to an

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rtx 2080 for graphics and it's got a relatively large 81 hour battery and

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not only that its display can burn that battery pretty quickly at 240 hertz

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now it still works pretty well as a daily carry laptop with most gaming

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laptops not really falling under that category

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but it just happens to be really really

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expensive you should expect to pay at least 2 000 although over 3 000 for top

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specs so yeah maybe instead of getting a

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razor blade it's better to just get the nitro 5 and put 2 grand onto your

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student loans and maybe have some left over for some ltt

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merch like what anthony has on right here this is what i always wear to the

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beach which speaking of expensive brings us to apple

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i personally have a lot of trouble recommending them

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right now because of their poor keyboard quality

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especially if you use them on the beach like we have it's probably gonna die

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their gpus they're underpowered for what you're paying for

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and there's no touch screens available like what the hell mac come

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on well

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that's not entirely fair i mean the macbook pro 13-inch is still a

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relatively good pc it's got a massive touch pad it's got

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a lot of programs that people especially for school just straight up need to use

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like logic pro final cut it all that kind of stuff you just cannot

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run on a pc without going through a hackintosh which i mean

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if you if you're at school you just don't have time for that kind of thing

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and the build quality it is great like

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there's no complaints there yeah so hopefully this has given you a better

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idea of what to expect given your budget if you're still super confused then go

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