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picture this you're on a super tight budget and you

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need a laptop right now in a moment of sheer desperation you somehow find your

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way to walmart.com and stumble across

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not one but two laptops that just seem

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well too good to be true that's right my friends not one but both

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of these machines are available to buy we know because we did it for about the

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price of a copy of Windows 10.

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now in the past we might have dismissed these computers as

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probably junk but the last time we checked out a walmart house brand laptop

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we were pleasantly surprised so you know what bring it on walmart roll

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let's start with how these two devices are similar both of them sport plastic

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chassis which is expected given the price point they

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weigh in at just over two pounds each with our blue one being slightly heavier

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than the silver one and both have 11.6

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inch 1080p ips displays they're ips

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which means decent viewing angles but their brightness i would describe as

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not great they both have i o that i would describe

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as good enough though mini HDMI is a bit of a bummer from a compatibility

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standpoint but at this price i'm just happy to see microsd a couple of type a

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usbs even if one of them is usb2 and the

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inclusion of a headphone jack now let's get into the different at 129 this puppy

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costs less than a copy of Windows 10 at full retail price

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and yeah i can kind of see why in some ways like

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that is a lot of flex you know like this is

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basically we are looking at pcb flexibility and

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plastic flexibility with no reinforcement really to speak of the

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hinge i would say is you know strong enough

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actually oh man i just tried to search for notepad and i oh oh there it goes

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notepad's opening now the keyboard

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is really not very good it's not even that

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the the individual keys themselves are

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super terrible it's actually mostly that the large keys

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are so blatantly not stabilized at all that if you press

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for example you know space bar or shift if you kind of press them on the corner

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the opposite corner might not go down at all even though you

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have the button fully pressed on the other corner it's really bad this might be the worst

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i've ever seen there's a lot of flex here so even if

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the key switches are decent that's still going to give you a really spongy feel

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while you're typing and the track pad actually has a similar issue to the last

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walmart machine that we checked out where even though it actually has

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microsoft precision drivers enabled there's kind of like a weird kind of

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dead zone feel to it this really is a cheap

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laptop the good news though

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is that for another forty dollars so this one is 169

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you're actually getting a shocking amount extra for your money so for one

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thing instead of just being a standard notebook clamshell

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this one is a two in one yeah right

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it's a two in one it's got a gigantic

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bezel i don't remember the last time i saw a bezel that big on a brand new

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machine but it has a multi-touch touch

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screen so that's pretty cool it moves the power button to the side so

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that you can easily lock it and unlock it when it's operating in tablet mode

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and believe it or not even though it looks identical the keyboard is markedly

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better you've still got a lot of deck flex so there's nothing

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you can really do about that but the stabilization of the keys is way way

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better on this one somehow credit to

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evo or whoever the oem is for this thing by the way for having a decent layout on

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this keyboard because when you have a reduced size keyboard like this a lot of

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the time you'll see manufacturers do weird things like short and shift keys

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shorten backspace keys move things around this is a very standard layout so

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as long as you have smaller hands like if you were you know a kid or something

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like that at least this is something that you could learn on like a proper layout and then

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grow into a larger full-size keyboard in the future oh this one still has a

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screen peel on it as well

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another thing that's noticeably better is the trackpad again it's still using

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Windows precision drivers but you can actually just tell looking at

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them these are different hardware this is a much larger trackpad and i don't

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get that same kind of leggy or unresponsive feeling

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from this one it's it's quite usable yeah

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not bad another thing that's noticeably different is the performance so here's a

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simple test let's press the Windows key at the same time oh good heavens

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okay escape let's try that again okay now there should be no excuse for

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not having it you know cached or whatever

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okay that was better actually let's uh let's launch a web browser okay

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oh my humanity

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they're both pretty slow but that's a lot faster neither of them is

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especially fast from a web browsing standpoint and part of that's processing

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but part of it is also that they're both limited to 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi only so

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you can see trying to load up youtube.com here we got a lot of

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placeholder gray boxes while we wait for the page to load

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remember this is on 10 gig internet so it's not

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that ain't on us let's fire up jerry rig everything's uh

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off-road electric wheelchair video he actually has like a commercial version

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of this thing now that looks crazy oh my goodness this is quite slow

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i've used hundred and fifty dollar phones that perform better than this

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okay well to its credit at least the blue one is a little better than the

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silver one which comes down to differences under the hood it looks like

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when it comes to extreme budget laptops

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Intel might still be holding on to its advantage the celeron n3350 dual core

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dual thread processor in our blue model has a base clock of 1.1 gigahertz and a

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boost of 2.4 that gave it a higher score in pc mark 10 compared to the silver

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models AMD a4 9120e

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again neither of them are super fast and

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everything feels much slower than a regular laptop but if it's for

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schoolwork you know word excel text-based web pages as long as you

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don't leave too many chrome tabs open in the background oh this one's only got

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four gigs of RAM and this one has just two

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you might be okay or should i say as

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long as you don't have too many microsoft edge tabs open in the

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background both of these machines come pre-configured in

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s mode that's streamlined mode for

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security and performance it only allows apps from the microsoft

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store and requires you to use microsoft edge for

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safe browsing like how you can safely browse our merge store lttstore.com

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the good news is you can turn s mode off and use it as though it's got a full fat

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copy of Windows 10 and install whatever you want on it

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sort of both machines ship with only 32 gigs of

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solid-state storage and it's one of the contributors to how

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noticeably slow they both are at least they both come with a free year of

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office 365 though which is a great value add so basically you buy the software

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you buy Windows 10 and a year of office 365 and you get

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a free laptop one that you can use to

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i don't know make video calls actually yeah let's try

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out the webcam that's the kind of thing i could see someone using a machine like

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this for just like a cheap you know video call machine because you've never

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heard of a tablet this one is taking so long to launch the

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camera app like for real

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like are you even for real right now there it goes all right

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let's launch it

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that's definitely .3 megapixels worth of

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fine canadian goodness right there

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let's see if this one fares any better

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uh the blue one's definitely better but if you want to look at the screen head

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on um your uh whoever you're conversing with

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is going to be looking at just the bottom half of your face because unfortunately the webcam is positioned

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right here and it doesn't even seem to be angled up it's just pointing straight

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forward so if i wanted to actually show my face

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while i was using it i would have to have my screen bent that

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flat now it's time for some poking and prying

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at the internals 11 screws is all it takes to get access

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to the inner guts of both of them and

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they are sorta somewhat similar so let's have a

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look here the blue one actually has

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slightly less battery capacity even though it is a

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larger battery that takes up more of the space inside the unit

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in terms of real world battery life though it actually comes out ahead

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although it's hard to say exactly what the amd1 would have been because it was

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too unstable and ended up crashing a bunch of times while we were trying to

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run the battery life test so it seems like some of the bad reviews for this

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particular unit are warranted because the battery can kind of be both charged

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and not charged kind of schrodinger's battery schrodinger's

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schroedinger at the same time could be a product of bad qa testing in terms of

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cooling i've got to give the nod to the AMD unit here you can see that it's

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actually got a large copper heat spreader i'm i hesitate to call it a

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heat sink but it's definitely a heat spreader compared to just this teeny

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tiny one here for the Intel unit i guess it kind of makes sense though given that

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this is only a 6 watt CPU so it doesn't need a ton of cooling actually

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i couldn't help noticing there's no fan huh interesting they're both passive

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now this doesn't surprise me even if it does disappoint me a little bit but

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every component of both of these systems is

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soldered on CPU RAM that's a real shame because being able

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to upgrade the storage on this would go a long way dang it same dang thing on

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this other one so it's a really similar motherboard

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layout actually that's quite surprising to see going from like

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an AMD to an oh wait nope not as similar as i thought oh interesting

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why are there four RAM chips in order to have two gigs of memory same unfortunate

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situation with the msata over here so

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say to SSD hard drives just not connected so there's no way to hook

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something like that up this is curious both of them use a thermal pad rather

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than thermal paste although i guess with how much flex there is in the chassis

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that kind of makes sense because you're better off having a thermal pad that's

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definitely making contact than a thermal paste that might not be bottom line for

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the silver AMD unit even at 129

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i just can't recommend it it's super slow and that lack of expandability for

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the storage is kind of the nail in the coffin as for the blue one

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at the very least well it's usable now i think marketing

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this thing to uh professionals on the go is a bit of a

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stretch but i also don't think that

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evo believes it either in fact they included this kidomi offer uh along with

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some like video learning and games and stuff that seem to suggest that they're

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as aware as we are that this is kind of a give to the kids laptop and you know

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what for that i agree for Windows and the office 365

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subscription alone it's an inexpensive homework and

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maybe youtube machine with the extra peace of mind of knowing that it's

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incapable of running anything but the most basic games speaking of basic it's

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a really basic segue the MSI mpg b550

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gaming carbon wi-fi motherboard has a long name but also a long list of

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features supporting am4 socket processors including third gen ryzen

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cpus and future AMD processors with a BIOS update it supports ddr4 memory up

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to 4 800 megahertz because why lock that stuff down right it's got their m.2

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shield frozer technology it's got dual m.2 slots Intel wi-fi six two and a half

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gig networking and advanced RGB lighting control and a front led strip that

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provides in-game and real-time notifications check it out today at the

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link in the video description if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out

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the uh higher priced but still very reasonable walmart laptop that we

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checked out last time it was

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very very impressive given the price these are more along the lines of what i

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expected but at least the uh the blue one was like decent didn't crash you

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know that's a plus