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  • - Hey guys!

  • This is Austin, and today on The Cheapest Stuff on Amazon,

  • I bought the four cheapest laptops

  • that are currently available on Amazon

  • that are brand new with Prime shipping, of course.

  • First of all, we have the Dell Inspiron 11

  • which is not only the cheapest laptop here

  • at $170, but we've actually done an entire video

  • on this earlier this year.

  • Put simply, it actually gets a lot of basic stuff right.

  • Unlike a lot of budget laptops,

  • this is powered by an AMD processor

  • and I'll get into that a little bit more in a second.

  • But generally speaking, it is a little bit cheap,

  • but for the most part, you actually get something

  • that is surprisingly usable.

  • Next, we have the Samsung Chromebook 3 at $180.

  • Now, this is similar in a lot of ways,

  • but the key difference, of course,

  • is that it is running Chrome OS.

  • It has the same tiny 11.6 inch display.

  • What's different about this is, of course,

  • the idea that instead of having to run Windows,

  • we have a much more lightweight operating system

  • which makes a big difference to the general performance.

  • Then, there's the EVOO EV-C, which at less than $200,

  • is a little bit of a weird choice.

  • It does come with a larger 12.5 inch display

  • and there are some cool features like a fingerprint sensor.

  • But there are also some major, major drawbacks.

  • Three Gigs of RAM is definitely unusual,

  • but with a quad-core processor,

  • it seems pretty solid.

  • I mean, they're pretty obvious about it on the box.

  • Not only does it say on the sticker,

  • but also several times here that it is a quad-core chip.

  • Except, when you open up Task Manager

  • and see that it is actually a dual-core Celeron.

  • Which, yeah. That's great.

  • This isn't a total deal-breaker,

  • as several of the other laptops here are also dual-core,

  • but I think it's more than just a little bit sketchy.

  • They advertise it as a quad-core processor

  • and give you 50% of what you're paying.

  • You know what does have a quad-core processor?

  • The Asus VivoBook, which has a very obvious amount

  • of stickers and badges saying that it does,

  • in fact, have four cores.

  • Exactly as you would expect.

  • The issue here is that this is a much older AMD processor.

  • While it does have decent performance,

  • as you guys will see soon, it's not all that impressive.

  • And even worse,

  • Do you hear that?

  • That's a fan, my friends.

  • Unlike the other laptops, this is not fanless

  • and it's significantly thicker because of that.

  • As the only laptop here with a 14 inch screen.

  • That is an advantage for some people,

  • and there are a ton of ports.

  • So if you take a look on the side,

  • we have not only USB-C, but also a couple of USB-A's.

  • We have Ethernet, SD, even HDMI.

  • Flip the laptop over and we have

  • a very convenient little door which gives us access

  • to the two and a half inch drive bay.

  • That is unique among these laptops.

  • All of them, with the exception of the Chromebook,

  • have only 32 gigs of storage, which as you might imagine,

  • is difficult to run Windows on.

  • So, for the most part, you're gonna need

  • to install something like a Micro SD for extra space.

  • But with this guy, you can very easily upgrade it

  • with a hard drive or an SSD.

  • When you click on a video talking about

  • the cheapest laptops on Amazon,

  • you probably don't expect a lot of performance.

  • And you would be right.

  • With the Chromebook and EVOO, you get a

  • dual-core Intel Celeron processor with four gigs

  • of RAM on the Samsung and three on the EVOO.

  • Whereas with the Dell Inspiron, we actually

  • have an AMD dual-core processor.

  • If we move over to the Asus,

  • it of course does have that awesome quad-core power.

  • But as you will see,

  • it's not all that it's cracked up to be.

  • Run everything through Geekbench,

  • and the Dell does take the win slightly over

  • the Celeron processors.

  • What's especially disappointing is

  • the performance of that Asus.

  • Because it's such an older processor,

  • even though it's got the fan,

  • even though it's got the thicker build,

  • it is still significantly slower.

  • And that's not just in benchmarks.

  • Use the Asus, and it does feel a lot slower for normal use.

  • Speaking of the real world, I do think

  • the Chromebook does feel fastest.

  • Now fastest is a little bit of a relative term.

  • It's certainly not as quick as any kind

  • of more expensive laptop.

  • But because Chrome OS is so much lighter weight

  • than Windows, it feels reasonably snappy.

  • I will give it to the Dell for being

  • the fastest of the Windows systems.

  • Having that four gigs of RAM as well as a decent CPU,

  • actually kind of okay graphics,

  • does make a big difference.

  • But again, all four of these systems,

  • they're a little on the slow side.

  • And by a little, I mean a lot on the slow side.

  • At this price, all of these laptops

  • are absolutely made out of plastic,

  • but there are fairly big differences in build quality.

  • Not all plastic is the same?

  • I always forget it, what's the phrase?

  • Not all plastic is built the same?

  • Created equal! Created equal!

  • It's not all created equal, guys.

  • The EVOO is definitely at the bottom of the pack here.

  • I mean, just look at how much I can flex the chassis.

  • Oh, you hear that?

  • (laptop crinkling)

  • Ew, yeah.

  • I mean, it'll probably last you a little while,

  • but durability doesn't really strike me

  • as the strong suit of

  • (laptop crinkling)

  • No.

  • In comparison, the Dell is an absolute tank.

  • And, I mean, it's still not super super sturdy,

  • but there's no real flex on the bottom.

  • The actual keyboard itself is pretty sturdy.

  • There's a little bit on the screen,

  • but generally speaking, this does feel like

  • it could take a little bit more abuse.

  • When it comes to screens, all four of these laptops

  • have the same standard 1366x768 resolution.

  • Now there is a slight advantage

  • to the Asus as far as having a bigger 14 inch screen,

  • but let's be real, these are all kind of okay.

  • They're decent, but none of them look remotely as good

  • as something that costs even another hundred dollars.

  • Speakers on the other hand, are a little different.

  • So the Dell is the only one with front firing speakers,

  • but the only issue here is that they are incredibly small.

  • They sound okay, but they just don't get all that loud.

  • The Chrombeook and VivoBook sound fine,

  • but what doesn't is our good friend the EVOO.

  • (video playing on computer)

  • Yeah, so I mean, they're tinny, they're quiet.

  • Just not a really good experience,

  • which I guess you shouldn't expect that much for $200.

  • But all of the other laptops sound a lot better.

  • When it comes to keyboards,

  • the Chromebook is my clear favorite.

  • Not only does it have a nice clean layout

  • and full-sized keys, but it also does have

  • a small but pretty solid touchpad.

  • The Asus is right up there thanks to its full-sized layout,

  • whereas the Dell feels pretty decent to type on.

  • But the main issue here is that

  • it is a physically smaller keyboard.

  • Look, the EVOO I will be blunt with.

  • This might be the worst laptop keyboard I've used

  • in quite a while.

  • Not only does it have a weirdly small layout,

  • but the keys themselves feel like brittle, maybe?

  • It is just not a nice place to type.

  • I will give the EVOO this:

  • it is unique in this group in that it does