@@tylergardner2598 Companies don't sponsor you to shit on them lmao. Unless every "influencer" at the same time all decided they would hate on sponsors.
It does run it, just need to wait forever with everything you do, plus watching videos is a nightmare (got a hp pavilion 2gb model with same like specs as the dell)
It need a proper processor and bus speed then yeah, I have a old laptop with core 2 duo with 3gb ddr2 ram that run chrome and Firefox with less than 8 tabs at optimal speed
@@mbk0mbk Virtual memory (is a memory management capability of an operating system (OS) that uses hardware and software to allow a computer to compensate for physical memory shortages by temporarily transferring data from random access memory (RAM) to disk storage.) btw what os are you running i cant imagine windows 10 not lagging in chrome , i had to use linux on my old laptop with samelike specs
@@cybernaab I know what virtual memory is but it uses a hard disk or ssd for storing unused data from RAM, if it used with browsers like these you will get lag . The actual culprit is not browsers but websites , if you block unnecessary scripts with addon like umatrix or no script the browsers will not use that much RAM and work efficient in just 2-4gig RAM and have less impact on processor . These websites ate running infinite loops and data mining stuff that runs even you closed all the tabs .
There's even a $450 or $520 laptops with a dedicated graphics card, let it be a Maxwell or a Radeon GPU Architecture and some 4GB of RAM. Spending an extra $30 or $45 dollars on an additional 4 GB is a good day to extend the laptop's role. ;)
@@EdPMur My laptop used to have a 1TB 5200RPM hard drive... it took about 5 minutes from hitting the power switch to the desktop. Slapped an SSD in that shit and it was cut to 10 seconds. SSDs really are amazing.
Aymenrh Haha wow i literally read this comment, looked at the clock on the phone and it was 00:00. And yes i should get some sleep, thanks for reminding me! Good night!
I had the 200 dollar blue laptop but im gonna have a 600 dollar asus cuz i do light gaming and the dell was gonna explode, i got the dell when i knew nothing about pc’s and it was a huge error
6:22 easter egg: "how to get blood out of a carpet" This is the kind of editing I enjoy, by the way! Not "over-the-top and childish" with in-your-face text; but the subtleties, like the little emphasized, seemingly random, sounds from the review unit (3:46~4:05), and the little old school "loading" hourglass at 4:22! The out-of-focus Linus at 7:07 trying to use "Hello" on the $400 laptop while emphasizing the practicality of it in the more expensive one. This is, editing wise, to me the best piece of content you have put out in quite some time now. I really enjoyed it and hope you strive to continue on this road with future content!
You should take a look at the Acer Aspire E-15 E5-575-33BM. ~$350 for 7100 i3, 4 GB DDR4 with an extra ram slot, has an upgradable HDD and an unpopulated M.2, back lit keyboard, 1080p screen with HDR, USB 3.1 type C, and a good webcam. Honestly I doubt there is a better laptop in existence for the price. Plus great battery life.
I bough refurbished HP Elitebook 8460p with 1 year warranty in 2015 for about 200€. It serves me perfectly even today. I just use it for some basic games and college duties.I might install SSD in it and use it for another 5 years lol.Would buy used one again 10/10
I recommended my friend a £200-on-eBay (in 2020), refurbished 2014 HP Probook 430 G2 (13.3") with an i5-4210U CPU (2200+ passmark), 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, Windows 10 and he's very happy with it!
I bought a DELL Inspiron 3537 for my dad five years ago for 420$, I upgraded it with a SSD and 4GB of RAM more (60 bucks total), and five years later, is still doing fine. Not everyone needs 2k, 1.5k or even a 800$ laptop.
i have a 5567 that can edit video for 1000 bucks, i even stufffed an ssd in it! for what i need its a decent little thing, hard drive sucked but that was fixed 3 years in
who cares about rgb hold up lemme spend another 100 - 300 dollars on my build making it flash special colors instead of putting that into better hardware
Some universities and colleges used to supply computers to all students. I doubt they still do. They'd be more likely to provide a purchase option for a discounted one supplied by a contracted vendor.
Apparently my dad had one of these $400 laptops laying around, and when i asked my dad why he bought it and never used it, he said it was very slow. I tested it, it took about 10 minutes to get to the desktop. Luckily my old pc that i don't use anymore happened to have a 512 gig Kingston SSD inside that i used to upgrade this laptop, and now it runs super fast with boot times being 30 seconds. I also ordered more ram for it.
Exactly that's the point of the video. If you only had $400 he's saying don't buy the $400 one. You aren't getting a better laptop, so why waste your money. It's like people asking questions about what kind of ethernet cable to buy. It doesn't matter, the $10 cable will do the same thing as a $50 cable. Will literally last forever, and if it doesn't, you can just buy another $10 cable.
Anyone actually looking for a budget laptop should get on newegg in the refurbished section. You can get 4 times as much computer for 1/2 the price of the $200 laptop in this video.
Yeah, that's what I did and I got a 8460p HP which has 4 gb of ram and 2 core 4 thread i5 with 2.5 ghz. THe computer is pretty good and allows me to 3D model fairly smoothly for only 150$. also it runs windows 10.
If you have a budget of $400 then go for a refurbished Lenovo Thinkpad. You'll get an older generation Core i3 or i5 (which will still be better than a new Celeron, Pentium or any low end AMD A Series processor) and probably 8GB RAM. Some refurbishing companies usually shove SSDs in them which helps greatly. Those run far better than any low end new computer which in reality are just a mish-mash of leftover low end parts. You're not going to get a screen with a good viewing angle and the laptop might be a tad heavy but they're still great.
You can get such great refurbish deals on Ebay, it's amazing. I bought an Ipad, that was refurbished and it holds without a problem and also saved me more than half of the real cost, where I'm from.
Or just go strait to used! I got a Lenovo z500 for 99 dollars, 3632QM, gt740M, 8 gigs of ram/500GB under the hood! Maxed out the RAM and replaced the drive bay with an SSD, only for an extra 80$. Now that's a deal.
And you expect everyone needs a gaming laptop? They are heavy, often ugly and have an even worse battery life. Most people need a "MacBook Pro" a laptop that can be comfortably used for web browsing and other every day work without a hiccup and have enough power for an occasional more intensive load. You cannot buy a macbook or any of it windows analogues for 800$ so what they recommended seems like a close enough analogue
Just got refurbished i3-6u laptop off Dell outlet for 212 USD. At the sub-400 price point if you aren't buying used, refurbished or on clearance you are being scammed.
Dell Inspiron 5570 is a pretty solid laptop. It's between $400-$500. The only difference between the lower priced ones is they come with mechanical hard drives and an 8th gen, 4-core i5. This is the one I just got for $400: www.microcenter.com/product/488404/Inspiron_15_5570_156%22_Laptop_Computer_-_Silver;_Intel_Core_i5-8250U_Processor_16GHz;_Microsoft_Windows_10_Home;_8GB_DDR4-2400_RAM;_1TB_5,400RPM_Hard_D
Calle Nilsson I'm guessing you got the Lenovo Ideapad Z50-70? It has the gpu (which would cost 100-200 more on the dell) but it also only comes with a 1366x768 monitor, and 8gb max space of ram. The dell has a 1080p monitor with room for 32gb of ram and 2 extra hard drive slots (cd tray can hold an extra HD plus a slot for an m.2 HD). Unless I'm wrong and it's a different Lenovo, in which case I'd be curious to know what model.
When you have a budget of $200 just buy an older refurbished flagship, it would have a 3rd gen i5 and 8gb of ddr3 ram. Better than a celeron and 4 gb if u ask me
This is where a lot of people are actually wrong. A newer budget processor like a celeron n4000 or pentium n5000 is a much better processor than older flagship processors. The celeron n4000 is marginally weaker than the i5-3320m (a 3rd gen i5 processor) and the Pentium n5000 matches it in some cases and absolutely destroys it in others. The older graphics in the i5 3320m are mainly what screw it over, but also there's the issue of power efficiency. Older flagship processors are built on an incredibly inefficient architecture so your laptop battery life would be garbage. Meanwhile on laptops with the celeron n4000/pentium n5000, you can push battery life of upwards of 11-12 hours depending on use. And having 8gb of RAM isn't really that important for such a weak laptop anyway because on a laptop that low in price you can't do much that would even be capable of utilizing that much RAM. Any games the processors would be capable of running are able to run just fine on 4gb which is what most Pentium and celeron laptops have nowadays. I've got an Acer Spin 1 with a pentium n4200 and 4gb of RAM and don't have a single problem running any of the applications I have installed such as Clone Hero, Skyrim, and Oxygen Not Included. I used to have a laptop with the exact specs you're recommending and it's not a very comfortable device to use. They're big, loud, and rather hot too. And also the network cards in most of the older laptops are significantly worse than the pentium and celeron laptops which usually come with a pretty good AC wifi card instead of the crappy b/g/n cards that the older laptops usually have as well. I'm speaking from personal experience here as I've had a laptop with an i5 3320m/8gb of RAM as well as a laptop with a pentium n4200/4gb of RAM and I find the Pentium n4200 to be the better processor of the two. The Pentium n5000 is the newer and more powerful brother to the Pentium n4200. I don't have hands on experience with the n5000, but I do know it's basically the same in CPU performance but it does have a better GPU as well, making it work the extra 20-30 dollars you'd spend on getting a laptop with the n5000 instead of the pentium n4200.
@@electricnick260 ok you seem good enough at this(although you could've just copy pasted this from somewhere else, but anyways). So I still can't find out what processors are better for budget laptops? I hear a lot that AMD is better at this while Intel is more on higher end stuff but Celeron and Pentium seem to be good as well. Could you help me out to figure out which one is better pick? So right now I'm looking at Pentium (N3710) and Celeron on one side and AMD A9 on the other. Which one is better for use by students? My priorities are : Good performance (not slow) Battery life And of course $$$
@@electricnick260 my budget is around $300-400. I'm not in the US or Canada but I'm planning to do some studying in the UK soon. Where I live I see those models for 150$ in US to be 250$ right now. As for prices, in my general knowledge prices in UK should be somewhat similar to those in US/Canada. So if that is the case I'll wait till I get to the UK. As per processor, I think the model you suggested seems decent enough. I'm gonna add m.2 SSD and some RAM too
@@electricnick260 I checked These 3 models that you mentioned and boy we have different prices. I could only find one used one for 320$ with Intel i3 6006u, 8 gb RAM, fhd, discrepe graphics card GeForce 940 MX. I'll see what is the battery life later, but so far does it look good? I mean will it be of good use in office work for like next 2-3 years?
How much was your laptop? Just save and build a computer? Don't waste money being impatient. And doesn't matter who you are 500-1000 is nothing to an average person living ok.
save up more money and buy something like the dell inspiron 5000 13inch. bigger and better screen, better processor, still have touchscreen and 2 in 1 conversion, and it is only 20 bucks more
William T. Williams yeah same. Came here to say I bought something similarly specced to the $800 one at ~450. 4core i5, 8gb ram, 1080ips touch and a 128 gb SSD. Oh and that’s with empty ram and sata upgradability
Tip, a used Thinkpad + SSD is about the most bang for the buck laptop you can get. Hell, a used T420 with an SSD would blow that thing out of the water whilst being even cheaper.
I just bought the blue one for $180, i love it. It's my 3rd computer and 2nd laptop, it was too much carting around a 9 pound gaming laptop that has a one hour battery especially at school where no one treats your stuff with respect and teachers get pissed if you are taking up any outlets.
A really good option if you're on a budget is a used ThinkPad. I have a T440s, and although the screen isn't great (I have the 900p TN panel instead of the 1080p IPS panel) and the processor isn't the best (i5-4300U instead of an i7-4600U), it's an all-around great laptop. It's dual batteries, especially with the external one being hot-swappable, give this thing an INSANE battery life. The keyboard is hands down the best of any laptop I've ever tried, and dare I say better than almost every single desktop keyboard I''ve ever tried. And even with the lower-end processor, the laptop has absolutely no problem handling web browsing and even more demanding tasks like some lighter games, and that was on Windows 10. After installing Pop!_OS, this thing absolutely flies when it comes to web browsing. One time I had around 90 tabs open (long story, don't ask) and it slowed down a little bit, but not by that much. I have the extended battery which raises the laptop up a bit which can be a bit annoying at times, but it helps cooling so much. I have never seen this laptop get warmer than 65 degrees Celcius, even while gaming. There are better value ThinkPads than the T440s, but my point is that a used ThinkPad is an excellent option for anyone on a budget. And if your laptop isn't the best, there;s usually some way to upgrade them. And if something goes wrong, there's a huge community out there willing to help you at any time.
honestly if your thinking about getting the t440s, just get a t440p instead, yes it's thicker but the cpu is replacable with a quad core i7 which will rival even this $800 dell for like $300(to be clear this is The price of the laptop and a quad core cpu combined, a t440p can be found for as low like $100), plus screens are drop in replacements too, easier then the t440s, because it uses plastic clips instead of glue to hold on the screen bezel
I spent $450 on a used Alienware 14, 4 core w/ 2.5 GHz to 3.5 GHz and 8 GB of RAM... the graphics is "ok" on 1080p. Trick is to look at the pawnshops and maybe craigslist. @Andrew_Chen My heart breaks that Windows 10 mobile didn't take off and that larger RAM isn't available in any phone... because I would have probably went with a Linux build to simulate a PC experience, in a worse case scenario. I desire the "all in one" smart phone, meant to replace basic PC builds.
I juiced up one of these with an SSD, afterwards it was actually kind of snappy when the CPU wasn't struggling to keep up which was frequently. Thankfully even the cheapest Dell's now have decent processors and SSD's.
I dont really think point 3 was very helpful. 400 vs 800 is a huge difference for regular people, especially if you like me used to be low on cash and had to settle for 400-500 dollar machines. Better value is a mute point if you cant afford it.
I got that 200 dollar one. I have no space. I only have chrome installed yet I have only a gb left in the hard drive. It's so slow. I cannot have more than two tabs open or it will crash. I use it for school but it's still not enough for me. Would not recommend it at all.
I own the Dell Inspiron 11 shown in the video. It's not fast, but it's cheap, light, and with Intel Quick Sync you can capture the screen with OBS Studio to MP4 without a hitch. If you need to travel and don't need the CPU power or high built-in drive capacity, it's a great travel machine. I sent it with a friend recently, along with a Blue Snowball mic, to do voice-over work in Vegas. He came back and had the audio files on the machine and they were perfectly fine. They're a compromise, but for $180 they're a really great deal. Best part: if it's lost, stolen, or smashed, you're only out $180 instead of $800. If I'm spending $800 on a laptop, I'm avoiding those dinky stupid touchscreen units at all costs; I'd rather have a nice big screen, backlit keyboard, good CPU, and option to upgrade to an SSD and IPS LCD panel.
When I was in hs my mom ended up getting me this so that I could do school work but not play games. The GeForce Now beta is the only way I got to play csgo until I got a job and finally built my first computer in 2019 :) The year is now 2021 and I can’t even buy a gpu
The issue is that it's better to buy a used laptop at that price point than a new one. I got an older IBM ThinkPad X230 last year for 130 bucks that blows away these new Inspirons.
You don't even need to buy used, end of line models from the previous years product line up can have significant discounts. You get a new laptop with manufacturers warranty. Keeping your eyes open in major airports is a good idea as well I have often seen perfectly decent models reduced to clear because they need to make space for new stock.
The trick isnt to buy either brand new or used, used laptops are always a bit of a risk since they wont be cleaned and a lot like a used car you have no idea what life the previous owner had, but buying a store demo laptop is gonna be a much better bet, I have a MSI a6000 i got in 2010 and while its a heaping pile of dog S**t today cause well 8 years old i payed 200 for a 800 laptop and well first things first 200 bucks and its still going after 8 years no upgrades and even runs 10, not great but I've seen worse performance from windows.
zachary carlson True, you dont know what the previous owner had. I bought a laptop with plenty of Trojans and viruses and his Google chrome had deebweb extensions pirate bay and all(can't remove them widows security doesnt spot them and A vast,avira and all want money for removing them) Better safe than sorry. Buy new,on sale or refurbished ones(with warranty is better)
You can get a Lenovo T430 for 150$ used. Screen is crap, but you can upgrade it with what you need (RAM, SSD, whatever), change battery on the go, have 2 or even 3 hard drives if you don't need the DVD. It's heavy, rugged, I have mine since 2012 and still use it when I go on vacation for example (I can work on it, watch a shit ton of movies offline, etc.). If you want a tablet, just buy a tablet. If you need a workstation/gaming rig, just buy a desk PC with a decent graphics card. If you need a laptop, it won't do anything great unless you pay 2000$ for it. But for this price tag you can have a nice tablet, a correct workstation AND a disposable laptop. No "one device" is gonna be perfect. You need redundancy, you need to know what your needs are. Every device can fail or be stolen, and they will at the worst of times. That's one reason why 2000$ laptops are overrated.
I couldn't have put it better! For workstations I want desktop peripherals because notebook ergos are inherently shit. Unless I'm forced to use notebook screens my 'Pads get docked too, and used docks are cheap! I also have a $2K laptop (P52 Xeon, 70GB RAM, 1TB M.2) but that was a want, not a need. The rest of the fleet are much older 'Pads because they're great machines.
"needs of local storage is becoming very limited" says the guy with a petabyte in his server room 😂😂😂 Okay lets get this straight: First I KNOW WHAT HE SAYS NEXT and watched the video till the end. Second I find this funny because Linus may not even notice the biggest problem for most of the people - they don't have a home server or anything else with lots of terabytes of storage on the network. And even if they have what will they do when they go somewhere without an access to their home network??? In my opinion the 200 dollar one is not a laptop! - its just a windows tablet with a keyboard that is very limiting. Why you may ask - because laptop to me is something that you can take and use EVERYWHERE not just around your house. And to any of the haters this time - can you install everything you need for daily use on just that 32 GB onboard? I doubt it!
+DragonSlayer420Blaze - Speedruns It depends on whether you're asking binary or decimal. One petabyte can equal 1000 terabytes when measured in decimal and 1024 terabytes when measured in binary. decimal = 1000^5 bytes binary = 1024^5 bytes
No it's not, he tried to up-sell people into buying the $800 version. You didn't notice that? This is literally a Dell commercial, trying to get ppl to buy the more expensive variant.
nappydrew He also advised you to not buy the 400$, but instead buy the 200$ if that's all you could afford. Did you even watch the video or do you lack critical thinking skills?
I own a Surface Laptop and I don't have one shred of desire for one of these Laptops. I asked if you watched the video, because your comment clearly contradicts the conclusion of the video. So I'm assuming you lack critical thinking skills?
I deleted my previous comment. I have no intention of arguing about petty shit, on RU-vid. You've got your takeaway, I've got mine. Don't take everything at face value. LTT is notorious for stealth-marketing. I simply pointed out that this is another example of that. I get it, you disagree & think I'm unable to think critically. Loud & clear. Good day...
That was something I really wanted to know, because it was mentioned for the cheaper laptop but not for the $400 one. So (a question I would have liked to have seen answered is) if the hard drive is the problem with it, how would it perform under an SSD, and what improvements can be gained by upgrading the RAM?
An SSD is a huge upgrade from a HDD, do that first. Startups, access time, wake up, even web browsing because of caches feels better on an SSD. The RAM you could increase, but definitely SSD first, 4GB of RAM is ok for this processor class. It can be upgraded to 8 if you want to go all the way with upgrades, and would allow more tabs open at once etc.
emmc is replacable. the problem is that it is soldered. like your phone, it IS replacable. so you have to buy the part separately and go to someone who knows how to put off and on the part
Derek DeVita at walmart they got rid of the older hp models for $99 at my store because we got the "newer" models in even though the specs and even colors seem to be the same lol
I wish I found this video in February this year. I bought a 200$ laptop and could barely do my schoolwork on it, only game I could play was minesweeper (which sparked an ongoing addiction to it somehow)
Youlasty hahaha. i am not a fan- anything so i wouldn't even know. i avoid toxic people. even online. or completely ignore them. unless i want a laugh. 😈
He meant that that 400 dollar laptop is really terrible in terms of value, and that you're better off sacrificing a tiny bit and saving 200 or pushing yourself into the next price tier for better value. I think he should have recommended a laptop in the 600 dollar range though, instead of the 800 dollar one.
well that's easy just stop the psychoapthic banking families, that use the fiat money system to rob the world of resources and power, to focus all of it onto them, while people suffer to pay them direct "taxes" through the irs and other shit, which is not rightful, but also the hidden one inflation, which is part of this sick system.
My grandma bought me a $500 dell laptop for my birthday awhile back when i was 7 (im 11) i kinda messed it up and got it full of junk. For Christmas of 2019 i got a chromebook. But my brother broke it. I had to use my old dell laptop that was already 8 years old (with Windows 7). I messed it up by making it laggy and crap. Acidently turning off sound. It even glitched out on accident and it took me 5 times for a hard reset to work to bring it back to life. I finally got sound back and fixed it without factory resting it. Dell is a really good brand and my mom has had the same dell laptop for 15 years. Some times its worth the price.
Agreed for basic task that most people do with a laptop these days Chromebook are great machines, but you do have to rethink your workflow and sometimes find web based alternatives, or alternatives in the Chrome webstore, but some of the ARM based Chromebooks are starting to run Android apps finally, and hopefully all newer Chromebooks will run them.
I actually think they are great if you use them for what they are. Cheap snappy laptops with incredible battery life. mine is even a convertible and I love it. I only use it for web browsing and video watching. Plus I can take it anywhere and if something happens it was cheap.
i got the 400$ laptop as a chrombook for free from my school ,can someone tell me at least 1 secondary pc usage senario where having windows is critical ? the laptop is as snappy as my full gaming rig on chrome ! and the retail price drops to 300 !
I disliked because they called a 4 times faster processor(the core m3 one) "slightly better" than a celeron. Seriously, google the benchmarks for these processors. What they said about these processors is one of the least truthful things I've ever heard. Core m3 processors are incredibly efficient. They are about as core i7-s in terms of efficiency.
+howtoblake not always. Either way, in laptops with hdds - they can be replaced with ssd-s quite easily. And given the decent in speed and super efficiency of the processor, it could become a great inexpensive laptop
DJLongLastin -- RAM upgrades can help a lot on PC's that are using the system drive to cache things that should be handled by RAM. It's one of the cheapest & easiest ways to speed up a PC. Glad it helped.
To clarify I just purchased a Windows 10 tablet with an abysmal Atom Z3735 processor, an inexcusable 1gb of ram, and a dog shit user experience. Its because I don't usually use Windows anymore, since my phone does basically 99% of all my internet and computing related needs. BUT every now and then you need a windows or Linux system to help you root your phone via cmd/adb. I figure even a $50 paperweight suckfest should be capable of bare minimum functions with full-windows. Product name is Vulcan Journey 7inch tablet, there's a lister on eBay dumping their supply for $49. It's not worth your time or money unless you have a specific niche where a slow, agonizing experience is just enough to do small/simple tasks
for anyone in this price range ,consider refurbished laptops 2-4 generations before, high grade machines, from known manufacturers like Lenovo,Dell etc.
Comparing a $400 dollar laptop with an $800 one is complete bullshit. People don't want to and should not increase their budget to DOUBLE to get on the "bang for the buck level". This laptop is NOT bang for the buck, for $800 you can get laptops WITH gtx 1050s nowadays. For $500 or so one can have a pretty decent laptop with SSD that'll blow the $400 one out of the water.
Alabastine Well, the 800 dollar laptop will last four times as long and will render a far better user experience the whole time. So it's not so much "pay $200 vs $400 vs $800" as it's "pay $200 four times vs "pay $400 three times vs $800 just once"
Håkan Rohdin bullshit, get a decent spec $500 dollar laptop and treat it decently and there is no reason it wont last as long as this $800 Dell. I don't know about THIS $400 laptop but I am bot defending that, this thing is overpriced piece of shit anyway, I am just saying that suggesting a $800 alternative (which is a bad value as well) is retarded.
Alabastine You completely missed the point of the video. His point was that both the $200 and $800 laptops have a better VALUE. More performance does not always mean better value.
But Adele can't sing, at least not in the opinion of people who actually listen to that lounge-singer style of music on a regular basis. It's similar to how that Amy Lee person from Evanescence doesn't sound very good to people who actually listen to symphonic metal or opera
InfernosReaper Someone's singing ability/technique is not a matter of "opinion". No one cares what kind of music you listen to, there are objective standards to assess if someone can sing or not.
oh, ok. My friend lives in perpetual anger, because he hasn't bothered to get an ad blocker (he uses the mobile YT app) and works himself into a lather whenever he sees the same commercial. Like clockwork. I've started playing "You have bugeyes" commercial just to spite him. x3
Get an Acer Chromebook 14 for $369. I got it for school and I cannot complain. It is wonderful, build quality is wonderful, and it has a sleek design. The screen is also pretty good, 14 inches. Pretty light too. 4 GB of RAM, 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron, 32 GB of storage (You don't need more, as it's a Chromebook, you will store all your information in the cloud). You can also get a 2 GB of RAM version, for $300. Also, it has an *up to* 12 Hours of Battery Life. For general use, I got about 9-10 hours on max brightness, which is also wonderful.
Manó Lakos-Nagy I have the older one (C720P) but I spent $250 on mine, still running well and I even swapped out the UEFI firmware with a custom one to run Windows
The problem with Chromebooks is that the storage is very limited, and the OS is incompatible with a lot of stuff. I use my cheap laptop for a lot of low-demand games and it's perfect for that. Stuff like FTL or similar indie games, or old games. I wouldn't be able to do that on a Chromebook, I think.
Carlos Andrade do you expect to use a 400 dollars to render/game? At this price point, you are looking for a facebook/office/school machine, and chromebooks are perfect for that.
Carlos Andrade, have you seen high end Chromebooks? At the $400 new price point I feel that they dominate, they are the best things for using the internet, heck I would buy one just for that if I could. When I go to college I'd probably build a pc and then get a nice Chromebook, Android apps, Linux apps, the smoothest most stable webrowsing experience I've ever seen, light native gaming, chrome remote desktop for more insensitive but slower paced games like civs. Look at things like the Samsung Chromebook pro or the Asus c302. Though past that you start getting *really* ripped off.
You can. I got Shovel Knight and FTL to run on it. I also played Luftrausers, The Organ Trail, and Balder's Gate II without a skip. This was with an Acer Chromebook 13, which is older than the OP's chromebook. Just install Crouton (or GaliumOS, or whatever else is relevant now) and install steam onto a flavor of Linux
If you have a small budget, order certified refurbished from reputable sellers, with a decent number of reviews, and at least an average of 4 stars. You can get an i5 with 8 gigs of ram, or even 16 gigs of ram, for less than $300 @ both Amazon and Walmart. Both places usually offer solid warranties, and extended/accidental warranties as well. Most of these computers come with disk drives, or low capacity solid state drives. Solid-state drives are much more affordable now, with 500 gig options at around $80 or $90 dollars. You can read the QnA section of a listing, to see if you can install a solid state drive. If you can, I suggest looking up the instructions online, as you will need the right cable ($10ish) and software, before you install it.
hey um i know its not refurbished but its pretty good i ordered a new chuwi herobook 220 dollars 4 gigs of ram with a quad core processor and 64 gb of storage. im not a huge genius on that but im pretty sure a quad core is pretty good for 30-20 frames on a fps IF its a low end computer.
