The CHEAPEST Tablet on the Market
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2017
- Tablets generally aren't good, but just how bad can they be?? We found one for $37, and it's about as bad as they get...
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2017 was a very different Linus Tech Tips. It amazes me how much things have changed.
Yup
no
Didn't expect someone from 2022 to be here lol
Can't take this Linus seriously... :D
the pandemic made it worse imo
iFixit 10/10
"Comes disassembled right out of the box."
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10/10 educational material for the youth. You get a 50/50 chance to either put it together, or breaking it.
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Lron is a hood name
Lron Musk
Lron Hubbard
Lron James?
@@queerantine69 no
@@qwerty883 yes
Well, if you think about it this way, back in the 90s this would be flippin revolutionary and would probably cost like the $1200.
Let's dial it back a decade.
YeeTus
Lots of products have failed because they were too far ahead of their time.
Philip Ross but this isn’t the 90’s so it serves little purpose in 2019.
If we’re in 1970’s then it would be a million dollars and would cause as much hype as a quantum computer nowadays
After spending a crap ton of money on a RED camera Linus has now focused on reviewing cheap products on the market....
The Chum Bucket I mean, he need to balance it, or he will be broke... 😂😂
He gets the expensive review products for free though
1 RED Camera = 1350 Yuntab Tablets
I think YUNTAB is late with their tablet,it should of been released in 2007!
Actually it's 1350 Yuntab Tablets just for the cable to connect to the adapter they don't actually need because the RED OEM adapter sucks and they need to use a more expensive third-party adapter.
I actually ended up getting this tablet to complete a project for my university robotics project which is an Arduino R/C car and my team didn't really pan it out very well since we designed the car to run off of bluetooth in stead of radio and none of us were willing to give the university one of our phones to be used in the display with the car ( its supposed to be displayed at a children's science center), and I can confirm this tablet is better off being used as a hammer than a tablet.
As far as I know it has surprisingly.
Lmfao
Does it still live?
HOW DID IT GO FOR YOU
But does it run Twerk Race?
Hahaha I knew someone would ask 🤣
512 MB's of Ram? Same as my $300 iPad Mini 1.
Overpriced shit!
I still have that
From 6 years ago...
To Apple's credit: that iPad is from 2012 and iOS requires way less ram to run smoothly than Android. For a $300 tablet at the time, the iPad mini was actually a great deal. I still have mine and it works great.
@@parkerwilliams617 the 2012 Galaxy S3 had 2GB ram...
AND IT ISNT EVEN A TABLET!
when its so laggy that you dont even need to benchmark it
I have a tablet similar to that, though mine is only single-core 0.8GHz. You never need an fps counter for benchmarks indeed since you can easily count the frames by hand. Benchmarks probably would't even start though, as over 90% of apps from google play just crash when loading. The only thing I ever used it for was GBC emulation, which it could barely handle at full speed (though the controls were awkward since the resistive touchscreen could only track one touch). Watching movies on it was also possible, though the player could take over 10 minutes to finally load.
So I guess it's pretty obvious that this tablet is now in some drawer somewhere and hasn't been turned on for years.
You can't even benchmark it
IkBenBenG that's like my windows xp pc
It wasn't laggy, just slow
Kyle Netherwood yes, it was laggy
Just stick a 1080ti in there and it will be all good.
Solo Gaming
Nah needs some RGB.
yeah or maybe a 4k 250hz g-sync display
Nah we got 8k now
oh yeah I forgot about that.
just get a goddamn gaming chair
So its just a raspberri pi strapped to a monitor...
The raspberry pi is faster and has more ram and faster processor
Wow, watching this in 2022 it's incredible how LTT has grown in quality/production since then!
My girlfriend just watched the start of this video over my shoulder and said "so, does he own linux?"
I don't know where to go from here.
Either she learns, or you end it.
you got a girlfriend? come on bruh
Fake, no one here has a girlfriend
To be fair the creator of linux is a Linus, so she knows that at least
and honestly they're both awesome so you can't really be all to mad at
her for confusing them.
Oh my god, what are the odds. thats insane
I'm watching this Powerpoint presentation just fine with my Atom n450.
I have the same CPU overclocked to 1.71GHz
valid.x86.fr/k0cyqh
How long did it take you to write this comment?
Puuha Pete That's got a be painful.
he began writing back in 2006,
torille
These tablets are actually really really good for hobbyist/semi-professional electrical engineers since the processor can be de soldered easily by hand and used for embedded linux systems. I actually picked up the exact tablet Linus has in the video and it has the "Allwiner A13" embedded SOC, some ddr2 ram and a 4gb flash module, plus a neeto 802.11g and BT board. there exists forums of people who write linux kernels and drivers for these chipsets making them good linux playthings.
Cool Cat no they are not
Tom Bunyon I heavily criticize that as owning most of ever economy run Android hardware I can tell a huge performance difference from a brand like ZTE and Samsung who are direct sponsor of snapdragon vs obsure Android tablet. An exception to directly sponsored hardware might be Alcatel which is fairly average of what you expect but a major innovation of Alcatel is the thinker bezzle that asorbe a shock and hardware like a tablet in s phone for easy repair. Even so given Alcatel advantage I still consider the sponsored budget hardware the better performance.
COOL CAT LOVES TO BOOOGIE WOOOOGIE
My school is being shot up please save the kids
Too soon man, come on. We should not acknowledge that the movie is a real thing.
Lebron Grey
lmao
TheyTube I agree
LeBron Gay
Lol
My 35 dollar amazon Fire tablet is the cheapest. After you root and install a new launcher and add Google play, then it's not too bad at all.
Remember, Linus lives in Canada. It may be the cheapest for you, but not for him.
Mr Smith The Canadian rupee is not a strong as the American dollar
Android system that comes without google play stock, seems legit.
Elijah Waithe did u just say "canadian rupee"???? nigga wtf we use the canadian dollar over here
FindableFlyer it's a joke on the channel
I bet the License for the boot Sound costs more then the Tablet.
Nah the os cost more then the company that made the tablet.
exactly
Tenyol it runs on an open source ROM with kit kat cyanogen mod ROM availability
The boot sound is on my other knockoff tablet my cousin sold to me for £5 (Around $6)
I got a tablet for free with my tv. You can't beat free
Yes you can, if you get paid!
vizio?
Edwin Adan probably Samsung or LG
You just bought an overpriced tv then
I got one for free in the magazine signature.
It was a zte v9c, i wouldnt take one nowdays not even if someone paid me. That shit destroyed all my earphones, i dont know how, but it had a crapped sound quality (like a toilet acustic) and whenever there was a voice, the sound just faded.
The earphones, after some minutes of use in that shit would be stuck in this shitty sound quality even in other devices.
Not to mention that to be able to install android 2.3.4 i had to overclock it. And to be able to android 2.3.4 *exist* in it, i had to make a 512mb pagefile (virtual memory) in the sd card.
Its screen resolution is so low that any crt tube tv at 5cm of your eyes looks better.
I was able somehow to run in slowmotion a snes emulator, and watch 240p youtube (and 144p when avaiable) with several stutters.
I had to use this piece of shit for months, because my s3 broke and i didnt had the money to buy a new phone.
I really 'hate' zte after that, yeah i know that i shouldnt judge them by that crap.
wow i watched ltt back when these were there newest videos but had no idea how much the quality has changed
oh there goes gravity - LinusEminemTips 2017
ImEpic. Moms spaghetti! 😂
ImEpic. his palms are sweaty.
LinusFlowTips
That Runescape iron ore lol
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
That game was my childhood. Until I got scammed 30mil and don't ask how
Yep, I was a kid back then, couldn't help it. *sigh* that converted to around $100 I think if you wanted to sell RS money for real money
I JUST GOT 99 MAGIC YESTERDAY :d
mil as in million or thousand? 30k wouldn't be that bad.
Wow, watching this 5 year old video, their production values have come a long way since then.
I enjoy seeing the high end items that may eventually filter down to consumers who don't wish to spend wads of cash on the newest items but your reviews of random items such as this thing are by far the most enjoyable to watch. These and when you break something
*2500mAh battery in the tablet?!!?*
*I'm rocking a 8400mAh here :)*
ZepaniZeppos - Computer Channel holy shut what are you using
+Bass Wolf *Surface 2, bad thing it has Windows RT 8.1*
+Edward Mattiko I still have something else that's bigger :D
My ecig has a larger battery than that LMAO
512mb of ram! It's like a budget phone from six years ago
Or an IPad 2
or my uncle's 1st gen iPad Mini.
In its defense that iPad running iOS 8 is very descent.
Having double the amount of memory makes things way smoother and multitasking much better, even on budget hardware.
ios devices don't really count, it's like comparing console ram to pc ram, if the software is built for less ram, it will be fine. Android has to support a lot of devices and is updated more often, generally needs more ram.
TheyTube o that's my phone
The specs are not all *that* bad. I mean, bad, yes. But not angry-birds-lagging bad.
Seems like they didn't compile the mali graphics driver? Looks *very* much like its just straight framebuffer without acceleration.
If they actually provide sources, this would be an interesting thing to hack the shit out of :'). Cheaper than a raspberry pi, comes with a screen...
Or you could get an amazon tablet for 40 dollars...
Well, good luck finding an open source drivers for whatever cheapo graphics it has and recompiling the kernel with it...
@@user-xr3rb6pn9m CZcams recommendations being weird, huh? ;)
The irony though being that these days, yes, there are specifically drivers made for these that are performant. So. Uh. Your comment would have been true two years ago, maybe ;).
Also, nah, I have compiled android for these sorts of things before, and it's surprisingly automated. 90%+ of porting android for these devices is getting the proper hardware *data* for partitioning and what hardware is mapped where and creating a new, for a lack of better words, profile for it.
@@TuxieBSOD oh wow. Respect to you! :)
I was just judging from the general experience with ARM chips. Even Raspberry Pi graphics chip needed proprietary drivers for a long time, and a proper open-source driver for RPi4 was upstreamed only in the latest version of the kernel, 5.10.
Who else really wanted to see the tablet break apart in his hands?
Buy 5 books instead
Dad - you can't tell me what to do!
Ohh, are you talking about college books? That would need a mortgage.
no wonder he's reviewing this. he's almost broke after buying the camera he's filming this with.
i think youre right
Floris Lans it happens when you have to pay $1500 for a freaking base plate lol. camera....meh
Where did he talk about buying a new camera?
I still watch in 240p
How do you know he bought a new camera?
But... can it run Crysis?
Francisco Villalobos 16K 120 Fps
It looked like it could barely run a Lets Play of Crysis.
69k 30000fps in vr
Probably 1 frame per week
Well we don't have crysis of comments
Linus grew up so much since this video
That moment you're actually mining Iron in OSRS and Linus drops Iron Ore on the screen >.
But that wasn't the old school iron ore :(
Shaun Dewey lmao just happened for me too, im going for the advanced mining gloves things lol
"Nobody calls it transflash"
Except for all of China... then again, Wi-Fi is called WLAN over there too.
Well in Germany Wi-Fi is also called WLAN. WLAN means Wireless-LAN, what does Wi-Fi even mean?
breathLP it actually doesn't mean anything.
breathLP Deutschland.... Yay Wie geht's?
breathLP it means Wireless Fidelity
Nope, Wi-Fi doesn't actually mean anything.
superuser.com/questions/1086226/what-does-the-fi-in-wi-fi-mean
This channel is the only one where he manages to takes apart something more often when most people just review it
This thing is NOT quadcore let alone have anymore than 512MB...
FastLikeUNO The A33 is quad-core, but has very little cache memory (512K). While every other ARM proccesor, at least the decent ones, have at least 4 times as much.
Next video: GTX 1080 in a tablet?!
in 10 years it will be the goddamn standard
in 12 it will be in consoles
haha i see what you did there
bashed consoles
10 years?? 5!
does external gpu count, asus has a tablet with thunderbolt
陳泓瑋 and water cooled
Someone just slapped a raspberry pi on that shit and hooked up a battery, this thing is legit xD
raspberry pi is stronger XD
it's not a raspberry pi, raspberry pi doesn't come in Lron grey
How about Lron Hubbard pink?
I'm sure a Raspberry Pi would perform better
I had one of these as a child, brings back memories of me completing everything on hill climb racer
This vid has a simplistic kind of humor to it that I actually like
cheapest tablet shud be LSD - try it kids
LUCY IN THE SKYYYYYY WITH DIIIIIAAASMOOONDDS
that's trippy
Malach Anon have tried it and it was really fun
Malach Anon discord.gg/2Q2APkQ EP3 OF SCRAPYARD WARS
coo coo cachoo
you buy that for kid and teach him patience :P
THAT RUNESCAPE REFERENCE MADE MY DAY THANKS LINUS MEDIA GROUP
this is the first ltt video i ever watched. Even after all these years it still holds up
why isn't this video listed?
Released early on their forum. Though usually that's only for an hour or so.. this one took a day apparently.
Well, that's first hand experience for us with the repercussions of using this 'tablet' :)
I'm disabled and have a five year old computer I built myself, but i'm concerned about my computer failing as i don't have another way to connect to the internet or to order another computer. Would this be okay for that, just as a temporary fix to get me through to the next one?
So i run a laptop (don't use it anymore), home built computer and a £150 10' tablet. The half decent mid range tablet has basically replaced my laptop and i'd fairly happily order stuff through it if my computer died.
Not sure i'd trust something quite that cheap though. And tbh while the tablet is great, for multiple tabs stuff (like comparing components) you really need a decent amount of ram behind you or a lot of patience with waiting for stuff to reload.
Basically on my tablet i spend too much time reloading tabs/pages that dropped out of cache/memory and the mediocre processor kinda sucks but that's what you get with ARM and "desktop" webpages
Blair Schirmerx most isues are related to software and if you have a hardware isue your motherboard would beep at you each beep is different that you search up on a mobile phone but since most are software related meaning windows wont work anymore the fixes are very easy get a copy of windows if you dont have it then download one of piratebay then use rufus to make the iso you got of windows from piratebay into a bootable usb
but if you got hardware failure just use a phone any current phones wil outperform that crappy tablet even with same spec as phones run android instead of windows which is way more optimized for low performing hardware
Do the cheapest power supply if you aren't afraid to test it.
Linus ought to have plenty of outdated power-hungry parts stored somewhere. I don't think he has anything to worry about.
That would probably be a boring video. Mostly everything would work. Sometimes something could have trouble booting, devices showing up, maybe a BSOD. But not that often. Probably would need to leave the gear for hours on max load to see something interesting even happen at all. If at all. Fresh out of the box I'd expect them to have shorter life span but would probably work.
I think it'd be an interesting test. PSUs are one of those things you really don't want to go cheap on if you care about the rest of your system or have an interest in overclocking. Testing a cheap unit by reaching maybe 80% its advertised rate while running Unigine Heaven and Prime95 for several hours would be a good way to show people what happens when you push cheap units too hard.
If they have a way to simulate something like a brownout while doing multimeter testing, that could be pretty interesting too. Keep in mind a lot of cheap units don't offer good protection for your parts.
Peter Schmidt i'd imagine it would still work, the issue with cheep power supplies is that well, you lose consistancy, and having low consistancy mixed with so much electricity is a bad idea
Linux the speaker IS A MAGNET! Enjoying the videos though, keep up the good work
I Love the Peter Gade shirt hanging on your wall! Big fan!! ^^
Linus please, I've seen $3 tablets in my country.
I'm not joking
Ben Dover you are..
India?
with 1 button and a 10p monochrome lcd
Yeah, same here but those pesky paracetamol tablets are a rip off.
Can it run Crysis?
I am not joking
0:15 Runescape LOL? :D
that just jumped on my eyes :D
Daniel Lomholt The editor needs to train his mining level.
Runescape ftw
Damn scorpions
OSRS > RS3
Holy fuck this video is rough compared to newer LTT videos
The good old days
Legitly used RuneScape Iron Ore as image
Fire 7 Tablet with Alexa, 7" Display, 16 GB, Black - for 69.99 sounds like a nicer option.
My 8GB was on sale for $33 too.
I have a RCA Voyager 7" tablet for that same price...and it has more memory while being slightly better built. Kinda would have been overjoyed if they had reviewed my little tablet that every person in my area under poverty gets lol.
nexus 7
Yup, RCA tablets are nice. Google Play certified, no bloatware, and cheap!
Le Déchaîné RCA tabs are not consistently good. I had one; it died, as did many others of the same model.
lol my friends gave me one of those for birthday, once i disabled barely every software except for the launcher and completely uninstalled everything related to google (good source of bloat) it became a good bluetooth source with spotify, that's it, i come home turn on the speakers and use this one instead of my phone to decide music.
also had to change the kernel CPU rules to "performance". it overheats after 30 seconds of real usage but it is quite more responsive to change tracks
superwolf95 That's because it's fake snapdragon. Real snapdragon run smooth and produce little zero heat.
Damn, miss this flat version of the intro track 😱
More of these videos pl0x!
This was genuine entertainment to me AND my gf! (and she don't do tech videos! xD)
Can you do a comparison between this tablet and the mac book pro?
Rush380 this tablet has more ports Than it.
would be unfair, tablets much better that ishit
Vinnie Sifter Uh oh ive spotted a Apple fan boy
X Luzibel X someone is salty
Damn, that MacBook would be trash compared to this tablet.
Lol a secret video with less than a thousand views. When you know you are a true Linus fan you search everywhere to find one of his vids
This video has been uploaded for about 4 days...
HA, I found a tablet for 32 dollars!
i spent that much on my gaming mouse lol
And now one of the eBay 6$ eGPU docks
samw
Yes please Linus$hillTips, not everyone can afford a $500 gpu docking station.
theres an under 25$ tablet in my local store , so 37$ is not really the cheapest tablet
ThE MusKTeeR That's probably just a picture frame. :)
Supremax67 an EXPENSIVE picture frame
- XPL0S1V3 - stick an Apple logo on it it'll be £250
ThE MusKTeeR Is this table legit or potato?
i got a windows 8.1 tablet for 75$
Could it be used for cheap parts and wired to a different board maybe a raspberry 3, or is it the screen its self and it's touch capability? What I'm thinking the screen and speaker can be used in a prop build and attach a programable board to it.
I love that Peter gade t-shirt in the baggrund in the start and yes i AM from denmark
That tablet would work well as an interface for a home automation setup utilizing ActionTiles as the GUI.
The Peter Gade jersey!!! shout out to all the badminton fans out there
Christopher Samson hi samson
"I often have that effect~" Lmao
I read this while he said it lol
The ting took so long to load that it goes skrrrrra pa ka ka ka ka scooby-doh hahah and went to sleep
People in Africa could have used that tablet.
ZenewDST3P eated*
I'm from Africa and I can assure you, even Africans don't want that POS!
mo101epic alahu akaaar!
.....no.
Wow, such a condescendent comment :P
Didn't realise you liked Badminton! Love the Peter Gade shirt 🏸🏸
Linus, you got ripped off... I bought one labeled “winnertech” for only 20 usd including shipping from eBay.
dope af mod loll......
slogan yuntab
" it get turned on when you click a button"
0:24 "Shut up meg!"
%username% was literally looking for this comment.
Just buy a Amazon fire tablet and put stock android on it.
Need to flash it to get all the Amazon crap out of it. Not to mention upgrade OS. Better yet get custom os like Cyanogen.
If you've never owned a Fire, you don't understand why it needs to be reimaged.
Just install play store and call it the day... I have no problem with my tablets
Chen Aaron that's what i did with a $50 tablet i got from them. Too bad it has almost no storage.
You don't need that. Just put the google playstore if it doesn't have it.
Years ago I went to Micro Center to look at a similar cheap tablet and after a bit the salesman asked what I thought. I responded that I came in with extremely low expectations yet I’m leaving disappointed. Instead I bought some Verizon-branded tablet and hated it; I wound up giving it to a friend for his three year old daughter, and purchased a used iPad mini instead, a device that I’m still using years later.
3:09 THAT WALLPAPER IS AWESOME
Amazon Fire tablet when it's on sale is the way to go. Just root it and install Google's Android and you're sorted :)
Love this series,
Linus, what sort of power consumption is that board at? I have no use for a garbage tablet, but using it as a dirt-cheap dev environment for ARM could be fun.
Nostalgia for the beardless Linus era
Goodbye Nicky V. You were always my favourite employee. ;-;7
hold on
what?
Pierre LF He's leaving LMG, where have you been??
Not on the WAN show it seems.
You haven't watched the latest WAN show have you?
Christmas gift to enemies
sfxvalley ;)
No one except that pickachu guy below me when in recent misses these videos 😂
Did you use the sonic ring sfx?
Why does he have a Denmark shirt in the background?
It's actually a shirt from a retired badminton player from Denmark called Peter Gade :) (I was also surprised to find it here lol)
surprisingly my mobile phone is worse "laughing emoji" (my keyboard doesn't have emojis)
You're giving Apple ideas.. STOP
Next phone from Apple won't have a back cover because... It cost too much money and to save cost... Yet will charge their customers the same price LOL
Consumers: How come it doesn't have a back cover?
Apple: Well.. It protects you from Viruses
Apple Customers: TAKE MY MONEY!
Candi Soda: uii
I love how Linus made that "world's best boss" glass for himself.
Once you got the video working, the speakers work great.
Note: *Once you got the video WORKING*
I think the shipping is worth more than the tablet.
lol, we use these tablets for data acquisition on a high school robotics team I mentor. They have survived amazingly well and the battery life isn't half bad (we have everything non-essential turned off). there are more prem-o tablets out there that have given me a far worse experience.
This tablet is running Android 4.2.2 (or similar) right?
Linus could you do more tablet reviews?
But, can it run crisis, fuck, I mean minecraft @60 fps
Oh you mean a poptoastado? a useless piece of hardware?
I think you mean Dig Dug.
Pong at 60fps ftw
Wait. This video is unlisted. How did I find myself here??? This is confusing. Can I get a reply from Linus?
It was before there were comments bro. Chill
i wonder if a ken brown 7 inch model is pretty much the same as this, since the specs are similar
Geese sort of reminds me of my iPad mini 4. After the IOS 11 update. Safari now runs slower and it seems that 20% of the websites on the net no longer can be accessed by my iPad. The iPad is really well built, just the OS seems a bit glitchy. Before IOS 10 the iPad worked well. Sort of reminded me of my iPad mini 2 after IOS 8 everything went south.....
I just love the very subtle eminem reference at 1:57
Farnømat I want a mix of Linus breaking things to that tune
Farnømat yay... all i've got to say...
"Subtle"
Runs about as well as an HP from BestBuy. Seems legit.
bpwnes are hps that bad
Older HP laptops could be pretty bad, and commonly suffered from cooling issues. I have an earlier DV7t-3000 that suffered from overheating, the solution was the carve a chunk out of the bottom of the case over the primary CPU fan with a dremel, smooth out the edges, then use an adhesive with some mesh to act as a vent, 90 minutes of work to solve a simple overheating issue.
I got the fire 7 on black Friday for only $30 and it often goes on sale for $30
i dont know why i noticed it but the start up sound on the tablet at 2:22 sounds a bit like a dial up tone