on today's episode of wow it's a laptop I might actually buy we've got the D
Inspiron 14 and I think it's good I guess we're going to find out soon first
thing up is the charger it is 65 ws and it's type- C I really like to see type c
on these just because I don't know it's type- C you can plug lots of things into
this you can charge your phone with it if you want to I did that over the weekend cuz I forgot my phone charger
it's awesome also it's 65 WTS isn't a particularly powerful laptop but it's
fine all right I can go off the side
wow okay oh we have these instructions here plug it in and turn it on excellent
and here we have the laptop so this guy
right here I think comes in at $1,050 but the option that you probably
want is $850 which is much more
reasonable yeah this is another one of those the most expensive budget laptop
you can buy on it's kind of heavy like it's it's uh it's not a large
machine but it's not as small as I was expecting there's no GPU in here or
anything what do I even say about how this looks jonno like it's a laptop yeah
yeah it's the kind of thing where it's the laptop where no one's going to know
what it is it's just like oh that's a nice laptop it's a non nonsense laptop
yeah no nonsense is a good word for this let's have a look at the io micro SD
slot type a headphone jack go over to
the other side there's our USBC power
input type A P again and fullsize HDMI
don't know if it's 2.1 I'm guessing no but if it is editor put a big yes on
check mark or something here we
go there we go okay that's a bit that's
a bit squishy little bit
of especially right here the rigidity is good on this of the device and then over
here it's not quite the same now we need
to be fair the biggest competition for this is the HP Pavilion this the arow
13 so this one right here has an all magnesium chassis and it's HP is a lot
lighter and yeah the HP is way stiffer
like I'm pressing with the same amount of force and it's not giving at all Dell
on the other hand you can see that difference right there I'm pushing with
about the same amount of force Dell isn't quite as well
built oh these are essentially the same price you can configure them slightly
differently but like same processor same
RAM but with the HP can't do go that far
on the Dell you can go all the way around and also it is a
touchcreen which I really like to see this one right here you can touch it all
you want and it's not going to do a whole lot I do of course wish we had the
16x 10 I always say that just a little
bit more on the bottom and the top I would like to see it but oh well this is
a pretty nice panel given what the price point is I guess it did just start right
up there jonno uh okay let's test out this keyboard this is the kind of thing
where when you have chassis rigidity that's resembling a floppy noodle it's
not a good sign for your keyboard
but it's quite
good yeah I really like this keyboard it's just it's Snappy I don't know how
else to describe it they have like a
really nice tactile bump and then it sort of just turns to Mush but it
doesn't really matter because like yeah parts of the chassis aren't all that
stiff and parts of them are but because you're getting that nice tactile bump
right at the start the rest of the travel doesn't really matter so good job
Dell your keyboard switches here are decent also they have a keyboard
backlight standard that's one thing that this Inspiron 2 in one gets right that
the HP Pavilion Arrow 13 does not you
can't really screw up the config in this
by trying to be cheap so there's a bunch of dumb stuff with the HP where like you
don't get a keyboard backlight or you get one by one Wi-Fi and just crap like
that the things that you want to have are just in the D also there's only two
configs of the AMD one so you have $850
for the ryzen 5 it's fine 8 GB RAM isn't
great but I guess we'll find out later if you can upgrade it what do we call this people said in the last one that it
was a mid-range laptop but like mid-range is weird what is midrange yeah
what even is mid-range is mid-range like a $600 Flex 14 cuz this is way nicer
than that as for the trackpad though it's okay this might be one of the
ones sometimes
yeah sometimes you just need a little bit of finger Lube it it was a little
bit sticky there it felt kind of oh there we go nice get some thumb grease
in there ah it is better perfect yeah so
sometimes these trackpads come in and they're they feel kind of sticky this
one right here my finger was kind of skipping across it but you get just a
little bit of your finger grease on there and it feels good now I like it
you don't want to Doritos it jono we want just a light finger lubing
we don't want to greas her up hey you can hear that
it's that's a really gross feeling click yeah so
like right here just a little bit of a click and you can hear
it that feels pretty good but if you press a little bit further
it's feels like I'm breaking it I'm I
don't think I'm supposed to be able to do that but it just just completely caves
in they need something to support it underneath there or maybe your unit's
just broken oh that the HP is way nicer
like you just hear the difference like
versus I can't tell if the HP looks better because the colors are more
saturated or because it's better at displaying and the top down it's no
contest so there we go that's a bit more
fair to what I'm seeing but it is is the kind of thing where the HP is without a
doubt brighter and just more colorful
which is going to be particularly annoying given that the HP also has a
matte finish so I feel like with this Dell there's going to be a lot of
situations where if you're in a bright area it's just not going to be bright
enough HP also has 16x 10 like to see
that okay let's try out the fingerprint reader here
lock okay not the snappy ever but that
worked pretty well actually let's see let's completely sleep it I'm guessing
there's no caching but we can see if I touch
it oh that worked really well yeah if
your computer's asleep and you just press the power button by the time that
your finger coming off of it it signed you in that was really good actually so
good job on the fingerprint reader Dell it's much better than having it down
here so then you have to like press it and then come over here it's make it one
button yeah one button so much better play some games I'm kind of curious if I
can well what do you think I'm going to download
jonno No I'm going to download valheim it's the perfect test of every
laptop I haven't used an APU to game for
a little bit like two generations if you're able to game on this that's
really great news for all the kids who parents get a laptop like this for work
let's try 1080p uh low this right
here uh it looks pretty runin scapy and
I definitely need to turn down the resolution okay
720 okay this this works it feels like it's close to 60 FPS but like this is
the sort of thing where you can play this game you can hop on a server with
your friends and as long as you don't make a mansion you're going to be able
to play valheim just fine it won't be an amazing experience but if you're Dad or
Mom gets this laptop for work you can happily start gaming on it and it'll do
it like games don't get better with what Hardware you have well they do but it's
the same game at the end of the day okay I can dig it I said the HP here will do
the same basic thing I'm guessing the Dell is going to have a tiny bit more
fpss because there is more intakes here
and you have these nice exhaust vents at the back and also the screen does lift
it up a bit to give you a bit more air underneath but I don't want to say that
for sure because I haven't actually tested them
now cyell Inspiron 14 take on the HP
Pavilion Aro 13 in Crab
Rave sounds pretty good that sounds
really good one second it's down firing
I need to get rid of the mous pad
okay so we have the Dell here oh yep not even
close yeah well Dell good job on the speakers
on your Inspiron 14 here uh they completely blow HPS out of the
water now of course we do need to you know as is
tradition bring out the big
Dingus so
Inspiron
H the ins Bron sounds better which I think means something's wrong with my
XPS okay yeah
hey lonus you know how the surface laptop uh Studio had much better
speakers than this the other day yeah it's because the stupid audio drivers
were broken it's amazing how much audio is like in software now yeah cuz this
sounded way better and I was like that's wrong but
now this is just it blows it out of the water oops Yeah so yes in a shocker to
nobody Dell's more expensive flag
laptop is better sounding than
their laptop that's oneir of the price
although if your drivers aren't installed the Inspiron 14's better now I
really want to take this thing apart because you only have two configs of
this so there's the ryzen 7 that has the 16 G of RAM and the ryzen 5 that has
eight now what I would want to do is get
the cheaper ryzen 5 version 850 bucks
you're good like you you use it for a year or two and then when you have a
little bit more money saved up you can upgrade it 16 GB of RAM and throw in
like a 1 TB SSD or something and then it's wicked for a long
time or if I can't do that
then I don't know buy a laptop that you can upgrade the RAM on this is the kind
of laptop that I would actually buy
because I own a desktop I don't need something very powerful I would buy
something like this and it's going to be good enough
and having the ability to upgrade it down the road would be awesome because
then you know I can hopefully use it for like 6 years or something and if the
trackpad breaks who cares you just buy a new one and check it
in that plastic yeah this this is
plastic I think the chassis also is plastic let's see oh this looks good
awesome one RAM two RAM you can upgrade
them Bippity bity uh your sodm slot
to there you go there's a sticker RAM is this our SSD right
here sorry that hat uh LTG star.com um
I'm going to take it out cuz I actually don't know if it's the SSD because it's
so freaking small it is that's so cute
little 512 GB right there it's adorable
and the nice thing is that although they put this although they put this super small
SSD in there there is enough room that you can put a full blones one if you
want hate it when they only have room for the small SSD Microsoft yeah so I
guess if you're looking for a laptop that's
$850 and has a touchcreen this is an
excellent option I would say it's a tossup for me if I would choose the Dell
or the HP I really like the fact that I can easily get into the dell and repair
it down the road this is a sort of laptop where if you just want and laptop
it's a very solid option like No Frills
but like good enough quality that you're
never going to be mad at it and pretty good power like eight cores it played
valheim I dig it anyway that's all we
have time for today and that's all you have time for too because the video's
over have a good night is it on is it on
yeah I saw it is
on
ha yeah you might want to turn off there