picture this you're on a super tight budget and you
need a laptop right now in a moment of sheer desperation you somehow find your
way to walmart.com and stumble across
not one but two laptops that just seem
well too good to be true that's right my friends not one but both
of these machines are available to buy we know because we did it for about the
price of a copy of Windows 10.
now in the past we might have dismissed these computers as
probably junk but the last time we checked out a walmart house brand laptop
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
chassis which is expected given the price point they
weigh in at just over two pounds each with our blue one being slightly heavier
than the silver one and both have 11.6
inch 1080p ips displays they're ips
which means decent viewing angles but their brightness i would describe as
not great they both have i o that i would describe
as good enough though mini HDMI is a bit of a bummer from a compatibility
standpoint but at this price i'm just happy to see microsd a couple of type a
usbs even if one of them is usb2 and the
inclusion of a headphone jack now let's get into the different at 129 this puppy
costs less than a copy of Windows 10 at full retail price
and yeah i can kind of see why in some ways like
that is a lot of flex you know like this is
basically we are looking at pcb flexibility and
plastic flexibility with no reinforcement really to speak of the
hinge i would say is you know strong enough
actually oh man i just tried to search for notepad and i oh oh there it goes
notepad's opening now the keyboard
is really not very good it's not even that
the the individual keys themselves are
super terrible it's actually mostly that the large keys
are so blatantly not stabilized at all that if you press
for example you know space bar or shift if you kind of press them on the corner
the opposite corner might not go down at all even though you
have the button fully pressed on the other corner it's really bad this might be the worst
i've ever seen there's a lot of flex here so even if
the key switches are decent that's still going to give you a really spongy feel
while you're typing and the track pad actually has a similar issue to the last
walmart machine that we checked out where even though it actually has
microsoft precision drivers enabled there's kind of like a weird kind of
dead zone feel to it this really is a cheap
laptop the good news though
is that for another forty dollars so this one is 169
you're actually getting a shocking amount extra for your money so for one
thing instead of just being a standard notebook clamshell
this one is a two in one yeah right
it's a two in one it's got a gigantic
bezel i don't remember the last time i saw a bezel that big on a brand new
machine but it has a multi-touch touch
screen so that's pretty cool it moves the power button to the side so
that you can easily lock it and unlock it when it's operating in tablet mode
and believe it or not even though it looks identical the keyboard is markedly
better you've still got a lot of deck flex so there's nothing
you can really do about that but the stabilization of the keys is way way
better on this one somehow credit to
evo or whoever the oem is for this thing by the way for having a decent layout on
this keyboard because when you have a reduced size keyboard like this a lot of
the time you'll see manufacturers do weird things like short and shift keys
shorten backspace keys move things around this is a very standard layout so
as long as you have smaller hands like if you were you know a kid or something
like that at least this is something that you could learn on like a proper layout and then
grow into a larger full-size keyboard in the future oh this one still has a
screen peel on it as well
another thing that's noticeably better is the trackpad again it's still using
Windows precision drivers but you can actually just tell looking at
them these are different hardware this is a much larger trackpad and i don't
get that same kind of leggy or unresponsive feeling
from this one it's it's quite usable yeah
not bad another thing that's noticeably different is the performance so here's a
simple test let's press the Windows key at the same time oh good heavens
okay escape let's try that again okay now there should be no excuse for
not having it you know cached or whatever
okay that was better actually let's uh let's launch a web browser okay
oh my humanity
they're both pretty slow but that's a lot faster neither of them is
especially fast from a web browsing standpoint and part of that's processing
but part of it is also that they're both limited to 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi only so
you can see trying to load up youtube.com here we got a lot of
placeholder gray boxes while we wait for the page to load
remember this is on 10 gig internet so it's not
that ain't on us let's fire up jerry rig everything's uh
off-road electric wheelchair video he actually has like a commercial version
of this thing now that looks crazy oh my goodness this is quite slow
i've used hundred and fifty dollar phones that perform better than this
okay well to its credit at least the blue one is a little better than the
silver one which comes down to differences under the hood it looks like
when it comes to extreme budget laptops
Intel might still be holding on to its advantage the celeron n3350 dual core
dual thread processor in our blue model has a base clock of 1.1 gigahertz and a
boost of 2.4 that gave it a higher score in pc mark 10 compared to the silver
models AMD a4 9120e
again neither of them are super fast and
everything feels much slower than a regular laptop but if it's for
schoolwork you know word excel text-based web pages as long as you
don't leave too many chrome tabs open in the background oh this one's only got
four gigs of RAM and this one has just two
you might be okay or should i say as
long as you don't have too many microsoft edge tabs open in the
background both of these machines come pre-configured in
s mode that's streamlined mode for
security and performance it only allows apps from the microsoft
store and requires you to use microsoft edge for
safe browsing like how you can safely browse our merge store lttstore.com
the good news is you can turn s mode off and use it as though it's got a full fat
copy of Windows 10 and install whatever you want on it
sort of both machines ship with only 32 gigs of
solid-state storage and it's one of the contributors to how
noticeably slow they both are at least they both come with a free year of
office 365 though which is a great value add so basically you buy the software
you buy Windows 10 and a year of office 365 and you get
a free laptop one that you can use to
i don't know make video calls actually yeah let's try
out the webcam that's the kind of thing i could see someone using a machine like
this for just like a cheap you know video call machine because you've never
heard of a tablet this one is taking so long to launch the
camera app like for real
like are you even for real right now there it goes all right
let's launch it
that's definitely .3 megapixels worth of
fine canadian goodness right there
let's see if this one fares any better
uh the blue one's definitely better but if you want to look at the screen head
on um your uh whoever you're conversing with
is going to be looking at just the bottom half of your face because unfortunately the webcam is positioned
right here and it doesn't even seem to be angled up it's just pointing straight
forward so if i wanted to actually show my face
while i was using it i would have to have my screen bent that
flat now it's time for some poking and prying
at the internals 11 screws is all it takes to get access
to the inner guts of both of them and
they are sorta somewhat similar so let's have a
look here the blue one actually has
slightly less battery capacity even though it is a
larger battery that takes up more of the space inside the unit
in terms of real world battery life though it actually comes out ahead
although it's hard to say exactly what the amd1 would have been because it was
too unstable and ended up crashing a bunch of times while we were trying to
run the battery life test so it seems like some of the bad reviews for this
particular unit are warranted because the battery can kind of be both charged
and not charged kind of schrodinger's battery schrodinger's
schroedinger at the same time could be a product of bad qa testing in terms of
cooling i've got to give the nod to the AMD unit here you can see that it's
actually got a large copper heat spreader i'm i hesitate to call it a
heat sink but it's definitely a heat spreader compared to just this teeny
tiny one here for the Intel unit i guess it kind of makes sense though given that
this is only a 6 watt CPU so it doesn't need a ton of cooling actually
i couldn't help noticing there's no fan huh interesting they're both passive
now this doesn't surprise me even if it does disappoint me a little bit but
every component of both of these systems is
soldered on CPU RAM that's a real shame because being able
to upgrade the storage on this would go a long way dang it same dang thing on
this other one so it's a really similar motherboard
layout actually that's quite surprising to see going from like
an AMD to an oh wait nope not as similar as i thought oh interesting
why are there four RAM chips in order to have two gigs of memory same unfortunate
situation with the msata over here so
say to SSD hard drives just not connected so there's no way to hook
something like that up this is curious both of them use a thermal pad rather
than thermal paste although i guess with how much flex there is in the chassis
that kind of makes sense because you're better off having a thermal pad that's
definitely making contact than a thermal paste that might not be bottom line for
the silver AMD unit even at 129
i just can't recommend it it's super slow and that lack of expandability for
the storage is kind of the nail in the coffin as for the blue one
at the very least well it's usable now i think marketing
this thing to uh professionals on the go is a bit of a
stretch but i also don't think that
evo believes it either in fact they included this kidomi offer uh along with
some like video learning and games and stuff that seem to suggest that they're
as aware as we are that this is kind of a give to the kids laptop and you know
what for that i agree for Windows and the office 365
subscription alone it's an inexpensive homework and
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the uh higher priced but still very reasonable walmart laptop that we
checked out last time it was
very very impressive given the price these are more along the lines of what i
expected but at least the uh the blue one was like decent didn't crash you
know that's a plus