Walmart is turned on and so am I. That's right. After being laughed out of town
when their overpowered series of gaming desktops received universally negative
reviews, Walmart is now back with a full
slew of gaming peripherals. We got speakers, monitors, webcams,
microphones, keyboards, mice, desk pads,
and even the desk itself.
Some of it's good. Some of it literally
smells like poo. Our journey begins with
the aptly named Home Trends Computer
Desk. They helpfully left out words like trendy or deluxe. And they do admit that
it's made of PVC. Has a soft closed door though. Oh, well, hold on. Sorry. There
you go. Having not seen the listing on their site, I'm guessing
119 Canadian dollars. Oh, wow. Well,
you're not. You said Canadian. I said Canadian. You're $10 over on the
Canadian price. I'm $10 over. Wow. Well, that's pretty good. I'm not saying I'd
pay that for it. Yeah. And especially when you consider that you could just go
to IKEA, do the classic like countertop
plus four legs and a set of Alex drawers for half the price. Yes. Well, if you
get the Alex drawers, it's like $10 more. Certainly, it'll be larger.
This is like a little Linus size desk. Well, we brought you a little Linus size
chair. Ew. What makes this a gaming chair other
than that it's RGB sort of? This isn't the actual gaming chair that we got you.
This is just uh their default office chair. I see. Um this is their default
office chair. Whose office has You know what? To their credit, the butt cushion
on this is actually better than almost any chair I've ever encountered under
like a hundred bucks. Yeah, that might be true for the first half hour. I'm
guessing no, I'm guessing $89.99.
Uh, US or Canadian? Canadian. It's $69.99 Canadian. It's $69.99 Canadian.
Yeah. And if feasibly if it's for like a child who's very lightweight, the phone
was probably going to be plenty of support. And it is kind of child size
along with this desk. Let's get some gaming accessories. I think the first
thing we have to start with is our monitor.
Oh, that's a cute pun. I thought the monitor was just called the game, which
I guess I lost now. Uh, but it's game
on, which I guess is more just their slogan. And the product is the curved
QHD gaming monitor. Oo,
well, that's definitely for gamers. It's very light.
Are you getting the point based on like how easily I can wiggle this around?
You've got what used to be speaker grills down here. Clearly, this is a
repurposed chassis from a different model of display cuz there's no speakers
in there. Uh, you got HDMI 1, HDMI 2, and DisplayPort. There's your power in,
external power brick, and a headphone jack. Basing though, that's always nice
to have. And it's got joystick style controls. Nice, quick, and easy assembly
so far, though. It's completely toolless up until now. Wow, this is surprising.
It comes with both a DisplayPort and an HDMI cable, which isn't a big deal for a
high-end monitor, but for budget monitors where they're trying to save
every couple of dollars, it's it's an unexpected inclusion. It means that
it'll be ready to go for both your gaming PC and your console if you're in
your dorm room or whatever right out of the box. I'm saying this puppy is
$239.99 US. $209 US. 209. Okay. Well, I'm glad I
didn't go higher. And wait, it's even got height adjust. Okay, none of that.
Wow. Suck on that, Apple. Oh,
do these have On branding on them? No, these are just the most generic display
port cables I've ever seen. That's funny because they actually sell on HDMI
cables and on premium HDMI cables for twice the price. Oh. Uh, what makes the
premium ones premium? The price. I mean,
before we get anywhere, we need something to plug it into. Protecton.
Oh, I thought it was a joke. when it was like game on. Yeah, they even they're
still making puns here. Hang on. What?
Hang on. Oh, I get it. Protect on that thing that everyone says. Yeah, protect.
Holy crap. This is dollar store grade. But with 5V
2.4 amp shared charging. Man, I'm sorry. I know this is going to
derail things a little bit. Do you want to guess the price before we go in there? The price better not be more than
like 10 bucks. 25. This boy got mashed. Initially, I
thought there was absolutely nothing clamping down this main AC power cord.
Like, I thought you could just pull on this thing and it would just heave on
the solder joints, but that's not actually the case. The plastic molding
has these little ribs that use this screw and this one to kind of clamp down
on it. It, to be clear, it's not great, but it's something. Well, let's get you
to the accessories. We're back to gaming on. Yes. Oh, this is a mechanical
keyboard. Hey. Oh, that's that's why it's called RGB mechanical keyboard.
Satisfying sharp click. Well, I think satisfying and sharp is a little
optimistic. Also, do they mention what kind of blue
switches? No, they don't. But these are extremely twangy cheap blue switches.
Plastic base, but metal deck. Actually
decent flex. Multiple cable channels.
height adjust. I'd never buy it at this price because I
recognize the legend on the keys and I know that you can get boards from this
manufacturer for like4 to 45, but I'm
going to say this one is 60 $44.94.
Really? Yeah.
With the wrist rest and everything. All right. I just want to highlight I was
taking a look through the quick start guide cuz I think quick start guides for things like keyboards are funny. Here's
a way that they cut some costs. You can download the software at their website,
but do you think that they paid money to get onn.com?
Oh, no. It's www.n2.te.
Oh, braided cable storage for the dongle and
the base. Okay, you got my attention. ONN, no, you're supposed to say you're
turning me on. Color indicated DPI cycling. probably
forward and back buttons on both sides is ambidextrous. I
kind of into this. If this is less than like 45 bucks, then I like it a lot.
Type-C charging. Oh, what? Got Logitech
beat 36.88. What? Okay, man. We've now
done Monorice, Amazon Basics, and I
think AliExpress for gaming setups. I think Walmart might be coming out ahead
right now. What are the flipping odds? Especially given their inospicious start
in the category. They haven't gone the Amazon route of trying to do everything.
They have a lot of different stuff under the on brand, but they're not like
trying to make 20 different versions of any everything, which seems good. This
could be for now though. It could get much worse. They could end up sprawling
and making a bunch of Well, we haven't tried any of it yet. Still plenty of
time for it to be terrible. How much is the wired one? I would guess around the
same price given that it has very similar specs. Uh oh, it does have a
different body type. Well, with all the savings they can make on shipping those
lightweight mice, they come in at $24.88. Do you have the scale? Is the
scale here? I don't think the lightweight mouse is light. 100 g. And
I'm even supporting the cable here. How much is the wireless one? 110. And it
has a battery in it. And for context, the Superite is 63 g.
Yeah. All right, see you later.
We have much better boxes for our mouse pads. Just want to say ltstore.com.
Much higher quality packaging. Oh god, it's RGB. Here's your microb power
input. All right, the top fabric is nothing special. This is a freebie grade
mouse pad, but with RGB strapped to it.
I would never pay this, but I'm assuming it's like 20 bucks. 1688. Okay, if you
want to stream, surf on ring light
webcam with autofocus 1440p resolution.
Oh, that's a mistake. And a built-in microphone.
I think the built-in ring light is probably worth an extra five bucks, so
I'm saying it's $20. The webcam with ring light comes to $29.94.
Juice on wireless charging lamp.
charging pad. Wirelessly charges your chi enabled device. LED charging
indicator. Oh, okay. You can kind of position it
wherever you want. I mean, I'm sure it's not high CRI or whatever, but like if
you just want a little LED lamp to Wow, it really stays exactly where you put
it. Very adjustable. What's CRI? Uh CRI.
I actually don't know what it stands for, but I know that Sorry.
index. Color rendering index. Basically, what it means is that the light outputs
within a very narrow band of the visible spectrum. So, you don't just have uh
messy wavelengths that are not supposed to be there. Might not be super accurate
cuz we have we do have filming light here, but like if we get really close,
that's 82. That's that's actually not terrible actually. But the red channel
is really bad, right? Okay. So, if you're filming, don't buy this light.
Does the wireless charging work? Only one way to find out.
Yep. Immediately. And for only 19.88.
Not bad. Yeah, of course. We need some
way to listen to audio. Yeah, cuz it sure isn't going to be through the empty
speaker holes on our monitor. Break the silence. The days of lip reading on your
PC are over. What? These better not be
more than $25 bucks. The speakers with
volume and bass control are $19. Nice.
But I mean, that's that's been a good trend is that you've been overestimating
most. Well, it's that I just thought like with
inflation, you know, cheap crappy computer speakers were 20 bucks when I
was a kid. So, I kind of thought, well, surely they've gone up a little. Like I
I haven't shopped for them since then, right? And now for the PA still
resistance. The Walmart computer. What?
It doesn't exist. They've been shamed out of existence. They don't make any
computers anymore. Really? Yeah. There's no pre-builts. They don't even have
laptops for sale anymore. Just their tablets. So, is this based on parts that
are available on Walmart's website or is this just a test bench? This is just my
test bench. Oh, okay. There we go. It's on.
It was funny when I did it. What is this wallpaper? I'm sorry. I'm going to Hey,
no. This is This is my test bench. I have I chose my wallpaper. Oh my god.
You set this wallpaper and then the activation window closed and now it
cannot be changed. What can I say? I'm a hacker, man. I They came. This has been
a while. Oh. Oh, yeah. They like literally just got delivered. This is
great. We've got our headset. I think we should uh maybe consider these for W
show cuz I don't know if we have podcast mics. Oh, rechargeable and wireless. And
based on the pricing I've seen so far, I'm going to guess I don't know 65
bucks. The wireless gaming headset is 52. 52 bucks. And I still managed to
come in over. Comes with both a USB-C
charging cable and a 3 12 mm uh it's a
four- pole jack. Four pole. Yeah. So
well for Oh, no. It's not for I was thinking like like audio file for pole.
This is just because it has the mic on the same plug. Yes. Yeah. It's been a
while since I've been this impressed by a budget product lineup. Every single
one of these I have overestimated the price. Walmart, you heard it here first.
Put that on your box. Cheaper than Lionus expected.
And you know what? Holy crap. This is not a TN panel. What?
It's not a good non-TN panel,
but it's not TN. I'd say it's IPS cuz you can really see that blue glow when
it's offaxis. To be clear, that's not a
bad thing at all. Wait, onto tech wond.
Holy crap. It doesn't even load up a site. It just immediately starts
downloading the setup software.
Uh, not sketchy. That is absolutely
terrifying. As an end user, I would not, if I wasn't making this video, I would
not want to open any file that just automatically downloads when I visit a
URL. It didn't even like look at this. I didn't even realize it was downloading
something. Like, watch this.
It doesn't even change the page I'm on. Professional sound quality with cardioid
recording pattern. Ideal for podcast, vlogs, and voiceovers. Say it again.
Testing, testing. Is this thing on? Damn it. They took the joke from us. This is
one of those products where I have seen impressive
cheap cardioid desktop mics. So, it's
entirely possible this thing doesn't suck. That's not bad. Even with this
light right behind me though, that is
very usable for 30 bucks. Have you
turned the ring light on? Huh? I have no idea how to turn the ring light on. Oh,
what just happened? Is it touch? It's touch. It's up here. It's right. There's
a label right there. Now, let's try the ring light.
Um, it's underwhelming. It's like no
brighter than your display. Oh, wow.
Yeah, check this out, David. How can you have below zero? For context, let's go
ahead and measure one of our studio lights. We're at 96. And you can see the
biggest difference is this red channel here. That's really, really important
for natural skin tones because of all the, you know, blood coursing behind our
skin. So, if you have a streaming light with absolutely no red channel output,
it shouldn't be surprising that you look like a ghost. Or at least I do. We
forgot to record the audio. So, let's do this again. We're going to start with
the microphone right on the webcam and I
was supposed to play games like I'm a streamer right now or something like
that. It's not working very well. We just applied a driver update from AMD
and the the game is just it's not working. So, let's switch over to the
headset mic and I'll give you guys a audio sample from that. And yeah, this
is crazy. Like I'm firing. I can't I can't see anything. So, let's just go
back to the Windows desktop and let's give the podcaster microphone a couple
of different chances here. First, from its position right now under the
monitor. And then second, there we go. If you want to try and get it a little
closer to your mouth in front of the keyboard, it's not the most ergonomic
thing ever, but Walmart doesn't have an ARM. So, as a Walmart gamer, I guess I
don't get an ARM. Give it a chance to kind of sound a little richer and more
podcasty. I can't hear any of this. You guys are going to have to be the judges.
So, it turns out these microphones are really spicy and you need to turn them
way down in Windows to get them not to clip like insanely. Uh, so here's one
with them not clipping. This is the podcast microphone. It's placed right in front of me. Uh, and then here's some
keystrokes in the background. You know, if I'm typing a message and then here's
the audio for the webcam. Same deal. Keystrokes in the background. Let us
know what you think. Uh, hopefully they sound a little bit better than when Lionus did it.
13, 14year-old me would have been happier than a pig in to have a setup
like this.
Like would 13 or 14year-old you want one of
these? Wait, what is this? This is what happens when you search gaming chair on
Walmart. It's the Xrocker Play 2.0 floor rocker gaming chair. It's got two
speakers in it. Folds for storage. It can't be worse than what I'm sitting on right now.
Okay, I kind of want this. Ew, it smells like a fart. Oh my god.
Smell it. Oh my god. It smells like
actual horit. Like it can't be that bad.
Oh my god. No, David. It smells. It's It
actually smells like poo.
What the Why? What do they do? I don't know, but
it smells really bad. I don't want to sit on the poo chair.
Here's your audio input. It runs on 5V 1
amp power. I give you my personal Linus Tech Tips guarantee that these speakers
sound as bad as they smell.
I've heard enough. This thing sucks. Can we please return this one? Yes. Yeah, it
smells like we're I really do not want to have this in the building. And I'm
going to say $75. Uh 99.
No, they their 2.1 version comes on a
pedestal so he can sit at couch height and that's 278.
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