WEBVTT 00:00:00.320 --> 00:00:06.319 picture this you're on a super tight budget and you 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:12.080 need a laptop right now in a moment of sheer desperation you somehow find your 00:00:08.559 --> 00:00:13.360 way to walmart.com and stumble across 00:00:12.080 --> 00:00:17.600 not one but two laptops that just seem 00:00:16.720 --> 00:00:25.199 well too good to be true that's right my friends not one but both 00:00:22.640 --> 00:00:31.039 of these machines are available to buy we know because we did it for about the 00:00:27.359 --> 00:00:33.200 price of a copy of Windows 10. 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:37.440 now in the past we might have dismissed these computers as 00:00:34.800 --> 00:00:42.800 probably junk but the last time we checked out a walmart house brand laptop 00:00:40.079 --> 00:00:48.559 we were pleasantly surprised so you know what bring it on walmart roll 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:53.039 back my expectations wait what does that even mean 00:00:51.120 --> 00:00:56.960 who's our sponsor private internet access is the vpn service that encrypts 00:00:55.360 --> 00:01:00.399 all your internet traffic and uses a safe protected ip it's got a ton of 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:03.600 other useful features as well check it out now at the link below 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:17.040 let's start with how these two devices are similar both of them sport plastic 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:20.960 chassis which is expected given the price point they 00:01:19.119 --> 00:01:26.080 weigh in at just over two pounds each with our blue one being slightly heavier 00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:29.759 than the silver one and both have 11.6 00:01:26.080 --> 00:01:32.479 inch 1080p ips displays they're ips 00:01:29.759 --> 00:01:36.720 which means decent viewing angles but their brightness i would describe as 00:01:35.439 --> 00:01:41.280 not great they both have i o that i would describe 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:45.200 as good enough though mini HDMI is a bit of a bummer from a compatibility 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:51.520 standpoint but at this price i'm just happy to see microsd a couple of type a 00:01:48.399 --> 00:01:54.399 usbs even if one of them is usb2 and the 00:01:51.520 --> 00:02:01.680 inclusion of a headphone jack now let's get into the different at 129 this puppy 00:01:58.719 --> 00:02:04.719 costs less than a copy of Windows 10 at full retail price 00:02:03.520 --> 00:02:10.640 and yeah i can kind of see why in some ways like 00:02:09.679 --> 00:02:15.520 that is a lot of flex you know like this is 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:19.760 basically we are looking at pcb flexibility and 00:02:18.160 --> 00:02:23.360 plastic flexibility with no reinforcement really to speak of the 00:02:22.319 --> 00:02:28.400 hinge i would say is you know strong enough 00:02:26.160 --> 00:02:32.560 actually oh man i just tried to search for notepad and i oh oh there it goes 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:35.360 notepad's opening now the keyboard 00:02:34.480 --> 00:02:40.879 is really not very good it's not even that 00:02:37.840 --> 00:02:43.519 the the individual keys themselves are 00:02:40.879 --> 00:02:47.840 super terrible it's actually mostly that the large keys 00:02:45.519 --> 00:02:53.599 are so blatantly not stabilized at all that if you press 00:02:51.040 --> 00:02:57.680 for example you know space bar or shift if you kind of press them on the corner 00:02:55.599 --> 00:03:01.920 the opposite corner might not go down at all even though you 00:03:00.480 --> 00:03:06.480 have the button fully pressed on the other corner it's really bad this might be the worst 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.879 i've ever seen there's a lot of flex here so even if 00:03:08.959 --> 00:03:15.440 the key switches are decent that's still going to give you a really spongy feel 00:03:12.959 --> 00:03:18.879 while you're typing and the track pad actually has a similar issue to the last 00:03:17.440 --> 00:03:24.560 walmart machine that we checked out where even though it actually has 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:28.080 microsoft precision drivers enabled there's kind of like a weird kind of 00:03:26.480 --> 00:03:33.120 dead zone feel to it this really is a cheap 00:03:31.200 --> 00:03:37.360 laptop the good news though 00:03:34.640 --> 00:03:41.920 is that for another forty dollars so this one is 169 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:47.680 you're actually getting a shocking amount extra for your money so for one 00:03:45.200 --> 00:03:52.080 thing instead of just being a standard notebook clamshell 00:03:49.440 --> 00:03:57.439 this one is a two in one yeah right 00:03:54.159 --> 00:03:59.040 it's a two in one it's got a gigantic 00:03:57.439 --> 00:04:03.680 bezel i don't remember the last time i saw a bezel that big on a brand new 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.319 machine but it has a multi-touch touch 00:04:03.680 --> 00:04:10.560 screen so that's pretty cool it moves the power button to the side so 00:04:08.159 --> 00:04:14.560 that you can easily lock it and unlock it when it's operating in tablet mode 00:04:12.480 --> 00:04:20.639 and believe it or not even though it looks identical the keyboard is markedly 00:04:18.639 --> 00:04:24.840 better you've still got a lot of deck flex so there's nothing 00:04:22.720 --> 00:04:31.199 you can really do about that but the stabilization of the keys is way way 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:34.720 better on this one somehow credit to 00:04:32.639 --> 00:04:38.639 evo or whoever the oem is for this thing by the way for having a decent layout on 00:04:37.280 --> 00:04:42.960 this keyboard because when you have a reduced size keyboard like this a lot of 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:46.880 the time you'll see manufacturers do weird things like short and shift keys 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:51.520 shorten backspace keys move things around this is a very standard layout so 00:04:48.800 --> 00:04:55.759 as long as you have smaller hands like if you were you know a kid or something 00:04:54.000 --> 00:05:02.080 like that at least this is something that you could learn on like a proper layout and then 00:04:59.759 --> 00:05:07.639 grow into a larger full-size keyboard in the future oh this one still has a 00:05:03.840 --> 00:05:07.639 screen peel on it as well 00:05:10.479 --> 00:05:16.320 another thing that's noticeably better is the trackpad again it's still using 00:05:14.320 --> 00:05:19.440 Windows precision drivers but you can actually just tell looking at 00:05:18.160 --> 00:05:23.360 them these are different hardware this is a much larger trackpad and i don't 00:05:21.759 --> 00:05:28.639 get that same kind of leggy or unresponsive feeling 00:05:25.840 --> 00:05:32.400 from this one it's it's quite usable yeah 00:05:30.320 --> 00:05:37.919 not bad another thing that's noticeably different is the performance so here's a 00:05:35.360 --> 00:05:43.919 simple test let's press the Windows key at the same time oh good heavens 00:05:41.759 --> 00:05:47.039 okay escape let's try that again okay now there should be no excuse for 00:05:45.520 --> 00:05:51.280 not having it you know cached or whatever 00:05:48.960 --> 00:05:55.120 okay that was better actually let's uh let's launch a web browser okay 00:05:55.440 --> 00:05:58.560 oh my humanity 00:05:59.919 --> 00:06:06.160 they're both pretty slow but that's a lot faster neither of them is 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:10.160 especially fast from a web browsing standpoint and part of that's processing 00:06:08.400 --> 00:06:14.319 but part of it is also that they're both limited to 2.4 gigahertz wi-fi only so 00:06:12.880 --> 00:06:18.720 you can see trying to load up youtube.com here we got a lot of 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:22.880 placeholder gray boxes while we wait for the page to load 00:06:20.639 --> 00:06:26.400 remember this is on 10 gig internet so it's not 00:06:25.120 --> 00:06:30.880 that ain't on us let's fire up jerry rig everything's uh 00:06:29.039 --> 00:06:36.160 off-road electric wheelchair video he actually has like a commercial version 00:06:33.440 --> 00:06:40.800 of this thing now that looks crazy oh my goodness this is quite slow 00:06:38.880 --> 00:06:44.319 i've used hundred and fifty dollar phones that perform better than this 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:53.440 okay well to its credit at least the blue one is a little better than the 00:06:51.600 --> 00:06:59.360 silver one which comes down to differences under the hood it looks like 00:06:55.680 --> 00:07:01.919 when it comes to extreme budget laptops 00:06:59.360 --> 00:07:07.280 Intel might still be holding on to its advantage the celeron n3350 dual core 00:07:05.280 --> 00:07:11.919 dual thread processor in our blue model has a base clock of 1.1 gigahertz and a 00:07:09.599 --> 00:07:18.639 boost of 2.4 that gave it a higher score in pc mark 10 compared to the silver 00:07:14.479 --> 00:07:22.160 models AMD a4 9120e 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:24.479 again neither of them are super fast and 00:07:22.160 --> 00:07:30.080 everything feels much slower than a regular laptop but if it's for 00:07:27.280 --> 00:07:33.840 schoolwork you know word excel text-based web pages as long as you 00:07:32.319 --> 00:07:38.240 don't leave too many chrome tabs open in the background oh this one's only got 00:07:36.000 --> 00:07:43.360 four gigs of RAM and this one has just two 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:44.479 you might be okay or should i say as 00:07:43.360 --> 00:07:47.759 long as you don't have too many microsoft edge tabs open in the 00:07:46.720 --> 00:07:53.759 background both of these machines come pre-configured in 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:56.240 s mode that's streamlined mode for 00:07:53.759 --> 00:08:00.960 security and performance it only allows apps from the microsoft 00:07:58.240 --> 00:08:04.400 store and requires you to use microsoft edge for 00:08:02.080 --> 00:08:09.759 safe browsing like how you can safely browse our merge store lttstore.com 00:08:06.960 --> 00:08:14.080 the good news is you can turn s mode off and use it as though it's got a full fat 00:08:11.680 --> 00:08:16.800 copy of Windows 10 and install whatever you want on it 00:08:15.840 --> 00:08:22.000 sort of both machines ship with only 32 gigs of 00:08:19.520 --> 00:08:26.800 solid-state storage and it's one of the contributors to how 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:30.479 noticeably slow they both are at least they both come with a free year of 00:08:28.000 --> 00:08:35.200 office 365 though which is a great value add so basically you buy the software 00:08:33.120 --> 00:08:39.120 you buy Windows 10 and a year of office 365 and you get 00:08:37.680 --> 00:08:42.399 a free laptop one that you can use to 00:08:41.039 --> 00:08:46.000 i don't know make video calls actually yeah let's try 00:08:44.240 --> 00:08:49.120 out the webcam that's the kind of thing i could see someone using a machine like 00:08:47.440 --> 00:08:52.640 this for just like a cheap you know video call machine because you've never 00:08:51.279 --> 00:08:55.680 heard of a tablet this one is taking so long to launch the 00:08:54.480 --> 00:08:59.920 camera app like for real 00:08:58.160 --> 00:09:04.480 like are you even for real right now there it goes all right 00:09:01.760 --> 00:09:04.480 let's launch it 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:13.440 that's definitely .3 megapixels worth of 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.440 fine canadian goodness right there 00:09:20.959 --> 00:09:26.800 let's see if this one fares any better 00:09:24.480 --> 00:09:29.040 uh the blue one's definitely better but if you want to look at the screen head 00:09:28.320 --> 00:09:34.080 on um your uh whoever you're conversing with 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:40.640 is going to be looking at just the bottom half of your face because unfortunately the webcam is positioned 00:09:38.080 --> 00:09:44.959 right here and it doesn't even seem to be angled up it's just pointing straight 00:09:42.880 --> 00:09:49.040 forward so if i wanted to actually show my face 00:09:46.880 --> 00:09:53.200 while i was using it i would have to have my screen bent that 00:09:50.880 --> 00:09:58.000 flat now it's time for some poking and prying 00:09:55.839 --> 00:10:04.480 at the internals 11 screws is all it takes to get access 00:10:00.640 --> 00:10:05.839 to the inner guts of both of them and 00:10:04.480 --> 00:10:12.080 they are sorta somewhat similar so let's have a 00:10:08.800 --> 00:10:14.560 look here the blue one actually has 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:18.320 slightly less battery capacity even though it is a 00:10:16.320 --> 00:10:22.560 larger battery that takes up more of the space inside the unit 00:10:20.640 --> 00:10:26.720 in terms of real world battery life though it actually comes out ahead 00:10:24.560 --> 00:10:30.959 although it's hard to say exactly what the amd1 would have been because it was 00:10:28.480 --> 00:10:34.880 too unstable and ended up crashing a bunch of times while we were trying to 00:10:33.120 --> 00:10:39.839 run the battery life test so it seems like some of the bad reviews for this 00:10:37.120 --> 00:10:43.839 particular unit are warranted because the battery can kind of be both charged 00:10:41.760 --> 00:10:48.079 and not charged kind of schrodinger's battery schrodinger's 00:10:46.079 --> 00:10:53.040 schroedinger at the same time could be a product of bad qa testing in terms of 00:10:51.040 --> 00:10:58.079 cooling i've got to give the nod to the AMD unit here you can see that it's 00:10:55.279 --> 00:11:03.200 actually got a large copper heat spreader i'm i hesitate to call it a 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:08.560 heat sink but it's definitely a heat spreader compared to just this teeny 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:13.360 tiny one here for the Intel unit i guess it kind of makes sense though given that 00:11:10.399 --> 00:11:17.839 this is only a 6 watt CPU so it doesn't need a ton of cooling actually 00:11:15.519 --> 00:11:21.519 i couldn't help noticing there's no fan huh interesting they're both passive 00:11:22.079 --> 00:11:27.360 now this doesn't surprise me even if it does disappoint me a little bit but 00:11:26.320 --> 00:11:32.959 every component of both of these systems is 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:35.920 soldered on CPU RAM that's a real shame because being able 00:11:34.399 --> 00:11:40.160 to upgrade the storage on this would go a long way dang it same dang thing on 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:44.079 this other one so it's a really similar motherboard 00:11:42.160 --> 00:11:49.200 layout actually that's quite surprising to see going from like 00:11:46.240 --> 00:11:53.920 an AMD to an oh wait nope not as similar as i thought oh interesting 00:11:51.680 --> 00:12:00.800 why are there four RAM chips in order to have two gigs of memory same unfortunate 00:11:57.600 --> 00:12:03.120 situation with the msata over here so 00:12:00.800 --> 00:12:07.040 say to SSD hard drives just not connected so there's no way to hook 00:12:04.880 --> 00:12:11.200 something like that up this is curious both of them use a thermal pad rather 00:12:09.200 --> 00:12:15.440 than thermal paste although i guess with how much flex there is in the chassis 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:19.279 that kind of makes sense because you're better off having a thermal pad that's 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:25.040 definitely making contact than a thermal paste that might not be bottom line for 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:27.519 the silver AMD unit even at 129 00:12:25.040 --> 00:12:32.560 i just can't recommend it it's super slow and that lack of expandability for 00:12:30.480 --> 00:12:37.279 the storage is kind of the nail in the coffin as for the blue one 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:42.399 at the very least well it's usable now i think marketing 00:12:40.560 --> 00:12:47.519 this thing to uh professionals on the go is a bit of a 00:12:44.480 --> 00:12:50.240 stretch but i also don't think that 00:12:47.519 --> 00:12:56.320 evo believes it either in fact they included this kidomi offer uh along with 00:12:54.240 --> 00:13:00.160 some like video learning and games and stuff that seem to suggest that they're 00:12:58.399 --> 00:13:03.440 as aware as we are that this is kind of a give to the kids laptop and you know 00:13:02.639 --> 00:13:09.279 what for that i agree for Windows and the office 365 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:12.480 subscription alone it's an inexpensive homework and 00:13:10.560 --> 00:13:16.000 maybe youtube machine with the extra peace of mind of knowing that it's 00:13:13.760 --> 00:13:22.880 incapable of running anything but the most basic games speaking of basic it's 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:25.200 a really basic segue the MSI mpg b550 00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:28.720 gaming carbon wi-fi motherboard has a long name but also a long list of 00:13:26.880 --> 00:13:33.279 features supporting am4 socket processors including third gen ryzen 00:13:30.720 --> 00:13:38.560 cpus and future AMD processors with a BIOS update it supports ddr4 memory up 00:13:35.680 --> 00:13:43.120 to 4 800 megahertz because why lock that stuff down right it's got their m.2 00:13:40.959 --> 00:13:48.399 shield frozer technology it's got dual m.2 slots Intel wi-fi six two and a half 00:13:45.839 --> 00:13:51.760 gig networking and advanced RGB lighting control and a front led strip that 00:13:50.480 --> 00:13:55.839 provides in-game and real-time notifications check it out today at the 00:13:53.680 --> 00:14:00.480 link in the video description if you guys enjoyed this video maybe check out 00:13:57.680 --> 00:14:05.360 the uh higher priced but still very reasonable walmart laptop that we 00:14:02.079 --> 00:14:07.279 checked out last time it was 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:12.320 very very impressive given the price these are more along the lines of what i 00:14:09.600 --> 00:14:15.360 expected but at least the uh the blue one was like decent didn't crash you 00:14:14.560 --> 00:14:18.320 know that's a plus