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What is the absolute best laptop you can get for 500 bucks? We went to Best Buy

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and it turns out it's this. It's from HP, which isn't a bad thing, but as it

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[music] turns out, savvy shoppers these days aren't getting their HPs from Best

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[music] Buy. They're going to AliExpress or to Chewy.com.

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Because on paper, the Chewy Corebook X

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is so impressive that it deserves the

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first dedicated laptop review [music] that we've done in over a year. I'm

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talking more power, more pixels, [snorts] more battery, and more street

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cred. That is if their claims hold up to

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the scrutiny of the lab. Just like this Segway holds up to scrutiny.

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Chewy has been around for probably longer than you realize, primarily

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selling their laptops on AliExpress, but recently they launched their own store

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where we first saw this machine. And we were floored that you could get a Core

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i5 powered laptop with a freaking 1440p

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display for just 500 bucks. Normally for

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that price, you're lucky to get 1080p. And can I just say it doesn't even feel

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like a $500 laptop regardless of spec.

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If you asked me how much I thought this machine was worth, I'd say yeah, it

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probably starts at $9.99 for like kind of a midspec. It's not like you're going

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to get a unibody chassis at this price point, but the fit and finish of this

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multi-piece chassis is so good that it doesn't bother me at all.

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Power adapter. They definitely saved a buck here, standard barrel jack charger.

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With that said, however, it does have,

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count them, one USBC port that does take

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up to 65 ws of power delivery. So, as long as you have a USBC charger around,

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then you can use USB PD. It's also got a USB type A, a headphone, microphone

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combo jack, and a micro SD slot. One of

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the other really unexpected things about this to me is how big the trackpad is.

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It's the little things like, "No way.

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Is this a 16x10 display?"

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Even better. 3x2. They went Microsoft Surface on this biz.

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WOW.

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OOPS, I almost threw this box. That was so close. See, there's no

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shortage of Chinese companies that can make [music] or rebadge a laptop that

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has a decent spec and sometimes even a pretty good price, but they always

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compromise on something critical. Whereas, by contrast, this trackpad

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feels pretty good. This keyboard is way better than it has

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any right to be, and it even uses an

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Intel Wi-Fi chipset. Is this thing just

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knock it out of the park amazing? Or have $500 laptops just gotten a lot

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better? To find out, we explored the $500 options on Best Buy and found a few

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key things you're going to want to keep in mind. If you're shopping in this price point, first and foremost, you

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should never buy a $500 laptop at full price. You want to be a bargain hunter.

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Find something on sale. You should expect something [music] one to two

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generations old in the i5 or R5 range.

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16 gigs of RAM, a real non-EMMC SSD, and

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at least a 1080p display. One thing to really look out for is the Wi-Fi card

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that they're using. We were tempted to buy this ASUS Vivo Book until we saw it

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had a one by one Wi-Fi card, which is going to make internet browsing, [music]

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especially if you're multitasking, significantly slower. So, with all that

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in mind, we chose the HP laptop, not HP

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Envy, Pavilion, [music] or Spectre. It's literally just called HP Laptop. In

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spite of its name, it earned our purchase. It hit all of the marks that

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we expect for a budget conscious machine. But how does it compare to the

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Chewy? I can tell you right now, it feels

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cheaper immediately. Like, holy crap.

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It's also Oh, why does it feel so much thicker?

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It's not even But it feels thicker. Did you notice that it looks thicker,

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right? Oh, you know what? I know why it feels thicker. [music]

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Because it is thicker. Watch this.

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Boom. Thicker. The Chewy has taller feet, so it's

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actually getting more airflow to the bottom vent. With that said, HP

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obviously is going to have some advantages here. more robust IO, two

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type A's along with a type-C, HDMI out,

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full-sized SD card slot, and headphone microphone jack. Does this type-C accept

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power and delivery, though? Because it also ships with a barrel jack. Let's try

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it. I don't have especially high hopes, though, because on the Chewy, you'll

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notice that that USBC port is right next

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to the barrel jack where the power delivery is on the main board. On this

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one, uh they're on the opposite sides. That's a negatory. [sighs]

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Type-C charging is a big deal for me. And for a student or someone who might

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be picking up a machine like this, it's probably a big deal for them, too.

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Having just one charger [music] in your bag for your phone, your laptop, maybe

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you have a Nintendo Switch or something like that.

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It's nice to not have to carry around anything else in your backpack. Oh, and

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speaking of backpacks, ltstore.com.

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Even aside from that, this machine just looks and feels like it's from 8 to 10

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years ago. There's a rough edge here. That's how bright the screen gets. And

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this trackpad, you are going to find yourself wishing you had one more like

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this. Is this one even at max brightness? This one wasn't even at max

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brightness for the comparison. Okay, I need to put the same wallpaper on just

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so you guys can get some idea of what's going on here. This is bad. Oh, wait.

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No, they're reigning me in. I'm supposed to do a weight test now. Okay, hold on. We'll talk about the displays in a

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in fairness to HP, the screen is notably larger.

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And it has a number pad if you're into that sort of thing. But it also has

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these arrow keys that make me want to murder someone. I think those are fine.

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Let's see you play leero on them. I became very high level in Tetris

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battle with keys like that. Before we weigh these, for context, ultrabooks of this size start around 1

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kilo or 2.2 2 lb with anything around 3

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lb being pretty normal. The Chewy is

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2.999 lb. 3 lb exactly. Not bad. And bearing

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in mind, of course, that the HP does have a substantially larger display.

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It comes in at um 3.5.

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Not bad. I think that's pretty reasonable as long

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as it has a good sized battery in it. Before we get into the keyboard and

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trackpad in more detail, I want to do a quick test that Alex calls the Morocco

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test. Because one of the parts of the laptop you will touch more than anything

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else is actually the palm rests. So watch this.

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That amount of vibration pretty acceptable.

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Actually not bad. I'd say similar. But for context, this is what is this? A

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dragonfly. Yeah. Okay. So, [music] it turns out there is

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a reason that people buy more premium laptops or get their work to get them to

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them. [laughter]

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I don't mind the shift position. Alex gave it an A minus, taking off points

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for the mediocre lateral stability and some key [music] to key inconsistencies.

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He also doesn't like the right shift key. I don't mind it. I actually agree

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with his grade though because for me, it's the sound and the feel overall that

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are holding it back a little bit. you do just get a little bit too much moraca

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effect. With that said, this is

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relatively very mushy. Some people will prefer the quieter sound, but while I

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don't blame the key switches themselves, there is so much flex in the deck that

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you're never going to get a clean, solid, tactile touch typing experience

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out of this. Coming back to the Chewy, it definitely has deck flex, too. But to

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its credit, at least it's more consistent. across the entire board.

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Whereas with the HP laptop, there's parts that are more solid and parts that

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feel like there's a sinkhole under them. The size on the HP didn't end up being

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as big of an issue as I expected it to be. And while neither of them are using

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a glass top or anything premium like that, both of them functioned well as

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expected, registering everything from taps to drags to multitaps for right

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click or whatever else the case may be. He's doing a thing. I don't know what it

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is. All that I am doing is opening paint

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and paint bucketing red at 255.

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[groaning] That is the same red.

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[snorts] That is so much worse than I expected.

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This looks so flat and dull and

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lifeless. On the one hand, it is a matte style display, so it does affect your

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perception of color vibrancy, but not that much. Even if it's expected, it's

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still disappointing. And color gamut was not the only way the Chewy ran away with

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this. It reached a peak brightness of 445 nits with HP stuck in the dust at

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280 nits, which isn't as bad as it

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sounds. Because our response to brightness is nonlinear, the HP will

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appear 82% as bright. But I can tell you

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it doesn't feel like 82% as bright. It just like man when you hit this thing,

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that's a big difference. One thing we glossed over, does the Chewy have a

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backlit keyboard? Oh, yes it does. Okay,

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never mind. Um, no advantage HP laptop.

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Also, this is cool. Function spacebar is a shortcut for fan and performance

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profiles. Back to the displays though. Chewy managed 97% coverage of the sRGB

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color space with HP coming in at 63%.

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Ouch. You know what? I bet that's a big part of why the perceived difference in

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brightness is so much greater. Oh yeah, because color plays a major role there

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and this ain't got it. As for accuracy,

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Chewy managed an average Delta E2000 of just 2.4 with a maximum of 4.8 8 whereas

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HP was 3.9 average maximum 19.7. That's

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what poor color gamut is going to do to you because even if the panel's

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calibrated, it just doesn't have the physical capability to represent those

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colors. With that said, it's not like I'm going to recommend the Chewy for

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professional color work or anything like that. It's not quite at that delta E of

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two that we'd want to see, but if you're just casually editing photos for

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uploading to Facebook or something, it's a great little machine for it. Speaking

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of getting work done on your laptop, let's talk performance. For the CPU, the

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Chewy is equipped with an Intel Core i5 1235U. That is a 10 core processor with

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two performance cores and eight efficiency cores. And while it's only a

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generation newer than the i5 1135G7 in

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the HP, the jump from 11th to 12th gen

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in laptops was huge. We are talking a

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71% increase in Cinebench multi-core scores.

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Now, in more singlethreaded workloads, the gap isn't as large, but the Chewy

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still managed to smoke the HP in every

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test we threw at them, which includes games. While neither of these is

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marketed as a hardcore gaming machine or anything like that, we do expect people

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to play casual games like Dota 2 or Rocket League on them. And especially

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with the turbo mode enabled, which gives it about 11% more performance, the Chewy

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stomped all over the HP. Like obliterated it. Also, I just can't get

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over how bad that HP looks. It's like a Gears of War filter.

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Yeah, I'm not over it either. This looks like a completely different map or like

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they did a pallet swap or something on it. Look at that.

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It looks brown. The grass looks dead. Oh, wow. Did we do a sound test on

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these? Listen to how much louder the HP is.

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I'm not even running the game anymore. And the Chewy.

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I think the HP is louder in my microphone.

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Yeah, it's dead quiet. Wait, is that in the

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script? No. Oh, yeah. Well, I don't think we even

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need a sound chamber to tell which one won that test. Another thing you need to

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look out for in budget laptops are cashless SSDs. But to explain why that's

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terrible, let's take a look at this one terabyte drive from XPG. Right here, we

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can see the NAND flash memory chips, which are what store your data. And you

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can think of them kind of like the shelves in a library. Over here, we have

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the SSD controller, which is kind of like the librarian. And now between

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them, we have the DRAM cache, [music] which contains a map of where all of the

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data on these flash chips is stored. Kind of like the computer that a

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librarian would use. Without [music] the DRAM cache, that map of the library gets

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stored onto the nan flash, which is way

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slower. Kind of think of it like making that poor librarian switch back to using

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[music] index cards. As a bonus, since the map of the SSD is stored on the NAND

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flash [music] itself, the reads and rights are way increased, which means a

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lot of cashless SSDs have a shorter warranty period than one with a proper

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cache. Uh, I was supposed to do a demo here showing how sometimes Crystal Disc

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Mark can be deceiving. The Chewy actually outperformed the HP in our

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initial runs, but I guess that [music]

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it's um garbaged up enough at this point

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that it's showing its true colors. And yeah, this is this is what we're looking

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at here. It's noticeable in day-to-day use, but there is a silver lining. Under

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these two screws right here is an open M.2. a two slot that I would recommend

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you start saving up to fill pretty much as soon as you buy this thing. [music]

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Cool little thing I noticed. By the way, there's a little thermal pad, a little

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spacer that allows that SSD to dissipate heat using the [music] chassis. Hey, we

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did another run of this to get a a B-roll shot of the results. And it the

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Chewy is winning again. I wonder if it's thermal related as well or something.

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This is very eccentric behavior from it.

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No, it's just the cash and if it's filled up or not. Got it. Got it. Now, let's find out if

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you should be saving up for some speakers and a webcam. Hey. Oh, hi,

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Alex. Hey. We got both set to 720p. Yep,

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that's the max. They'll both do. [music] And wow, the Chewy is bad.

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If I had to guess, I'd say they didn't calibrate it for white skin.

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Wow, that's not fair at all.

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Look, I'm I'm completely blown out. I

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love this. the CPU pillow behind there. ltstore.com looks like just a solid

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brown thing on the bottom.

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Not what it looks like at all. Let's see. Where did we completely lose that

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detail? Right around here.

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Tiny. [music]

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Boommy and unfocused. I'd take the chewy.

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Oh, I don't know. The HP is so much louder and has so much more low end.

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So much more distortion though. Distortion. Yeah.

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I'd take my phone over both. Your phone also costs more than both.

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Yeah. Are we taking apart both or just the Chewy? Might as well take apart both.

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Oh, this is just two screws. A HP. What?

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You But that's good. No, it's definitely underneath these

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feet. Oh, I'm not opening it then. That's dumb.

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You heard it here first. HP certified

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Yeah, it's great. It's so unnecessary. Just put the screws

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here and here. It doesn't matter. It's a $500 laptop. Who are you trying to

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impress? Or like there and there. Yeah, like you did on this much more

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premium model, you

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you [laughter] I do still like your laptops, though.

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This one's great. Oh, wow. This is really not as easy to take apart as I was hoping. Oh,

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I think they did it, too. Chewy, you

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Okay, well, it comes off a lot more easily now. Oh, I'm sorry. Are you guys

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just noticing that the top of the screwdriver is still

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spinning?

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Coming soon. ltstore.com. One of the things I wanted to see in

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here was the battery. Chew's equipped this thing with a 46Wh battery, which is

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a little over 10% more than the capacity of the HP. [music] And that combined

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with a 12th versus 11th gen CPU should add up to significantly better battery

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life. Unfortunately, in the real world, things don't always work out the way

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they do on [music] paper. As a baseline, our HP laptop was able to last an

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impressive 6 hours and 52 minutes in our

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battery life endurance test. [music] Now, Chewy claims 8 hours of battery

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life on their website, but in our testing, we only managed 3 hours and 17

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minutes. Yikes. [snorts] Now, normally we do our endurance tests

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in the balanced profile with battery saver on. The logic being that we've

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heard from multiple laptop makers that less than 10% of users ever touch a

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laptop's power profiles. But for the Chewy, we were so disappointed that we

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wanted to see what happens if we run a battery test in their eco mode with the

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screen at minimum brightness and it still only lasted for 3 hours 41

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minutes. Double ouch. We reached out to Chewy to see if maybe we got a model

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with a bad battery, and their response is one of the most incredible takes

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we've ever seen, with them saying 3 and 1/2 hours is expected for continuous

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usage, while the claimed 8 hours is for on and off usage when you're using your

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laptop intermittently. I mean, by that logic, I get 80 hours of battery life

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out of my laptop when I leave it in my backpack over a long weekend. How?

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Seriously.

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Oh, do you have the email?

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It's possible that some of this is due to power management of the CPU, so maybe

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it could be improved with a BIOS update. I saw that um Framework actually had a

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blog post recently talking about [music] the challenge of dealing with things

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like USB power management, CPU power management for one of their upcoming

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laptops, investment disclosure. But Alex's theory is that most of this is

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coming down to that 1440p display. I mean, that is a big part of why we liked

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this thing so much in the first place, but having a higher resolution, higher

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brightness panel has a big effect on your battery life. For general

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usability, I'm sure that some people would sacrifice some battery life for a

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better screen, but I'm sure that a lot of people would actually feel the

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opposite way about it. Oh jeez, don't take it out. Don't take it out. Remember, it's on and we still

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need to get the webcam stuff off of that.

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Oh, okay. Here, here, I'll show that. Originally, we did think that it had no

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DRAM cache, but a system info tool told

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us it did. I don't see one. I don't either. You know what? If I had to guess, I'd

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say it's probably using system memory [music] for our cache, but it's just

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like a slow crappy controller. Yeah, maybe. So, it's probably just doing a really

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poor job of managing it or something like that. And maybe that fooled that

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utility that you guys were using. There's This does not have DRAM on it,

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Bill. It's physically not there for that matter. Does the uh does the HP

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have a DRAM cache? Oh, yeah. It has an actual Samsung SSD.

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One thing that we did notice though is that it does get slower under really

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really long workloads cuz this is a plastic, which isn't a great heat sink,

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and it does overheat. With that said, in talking to people about what's important

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to them in a laptop, you'd be surprised how many don't need to run long Blender

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renders and don't care if it eventually overheats. And I was also surprised to

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find out how many people didn't care about decent battery life. I mean, I get

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it. If it's just going to sit on your desk at home or on your desk at work and

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only be a couple of hours away from the wall a day, that might be liveable for

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you. So, if you're in that boat, the Chewy is fantastic in every other way

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for the price. Otherwise, you might have

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to make some compromises on spec for a

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