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  • čas přidán 16. 07. 2021
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  • @user-vu3ci7my1y
    @user-vu3ci7my1y Před 2 lety +3688

    Schools: “I will take your entire stock”

    • @rudranshsingh3155
      @rudranshsingh3155 Před 2 lety +75

      Your school give you laptop

    • @Pikaaaachuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
      @Pikaaaachuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Před 2 lety +34

      Lol u must be lucky

    • @_Shay_
      @_Shay_ Před 2 lety +78

      @@Pikaaaachuuuuuuuuuuuuuu All digital private school my guy
      High school was lit, until some kid decided to DDos the school so no one could do any schoolwork at school for 2 weeks

    • @monstie2795
      @monstie2795 Před 2 lety +18

      I don’t wanna flex but my school has MacBooks from 2015

    • @TJ-wf1rr
      @TJ-wf1rr Před 2 lety +32

      @@_Shay_ Epic gamer moment

  • @shaknblake6560
    @shaknblake6560 Před 2 lety +2120

    Austin; “I bought the worst laptop”
    School laptops; “hold my beer”

    • @cgamer8938
      @cgamer8938 Před 2 lety +84

      *hold my processor*

    • @HybrydATP64
      @HybrydATP64 Před 2 lety +31

      My school had pretty good laptops and pcs

    • @tamoozbr
      @tamoozbr Před 2 lety +11

      IDK where i live the desktop comiters are like 2012 machines with some newer ones (budgeting) that fore some reason have 1mbps drives that should be able to do a lot more and 2018 laptops that actually work well
      And provate school isn't really a thing here

    • @smashypixel4188
      @smashypixel4188 Před 2 lety +12

      @@Joe-ix5hj nah as long as its funny its still acceptable

    • @thekidvenus6835
      @thekidvenus6835 Před 2 lety +9

      my school has 2007 aluminum imacs they had like 6 of them

  • @TheMrawesomest
    @TheMrawesomest Před 2 lety +251

    I still have the first 7" EeePC. That thing is adorable, but it was terrible to use. It taught me the lesson that the cheapest option can cost more in the long run. Pay more for something that you could use longer.

    • @dufferzzzzz
      @dufferzzzzz Před 2 lety +8

      Guy im still using an MSI Wind U100 (an eee competitor) every day.. As a dumb SSH/Anime box, it has done the only two things i want it to do - for 12 years!

    • @kanedaku
      @kanedaku Před 2 lety +4

      I remember giving those away with mobile broadband contracts in the early to mid 2000s. Lots of students were going for them.

    • @richdaley9982
      @richdaley9982 Před 2 lety +4

      @@dufferzzzzz I had an MSI Wind U100 and it was probably one of the better netbooks ever released. You could pry it apart and put 2GB of RAM in it and it had decent cooling so it ran sorta ok. These days you can get a pretty capable used laptop for less than $300 but that wasn't really true back then. The difference between a 2004 laptop and a 2009 laptop were very different than the difference between a 2017 laptop and a 2022 laptop.

    • @xjyrki
      @xjyrki Před 2 lety

      To be fair, it was never meant to be your only computer. It was also the cheapest thing on the market resembling a laptop. I am still running a HP Mini 5101 from early 2010. It is run headless and it does motion detection and saves video from an old surveillance camera. I think that I have used it for a pretty long while now, especially for the price.

    • @xjyrki
      @xjyrki Před 2 lety

      @@kanedaku The first Eee came to market in early 2008.

  • @CBZED101
    @CBZED101 Před 2 lety +37

    Oh man, I worked at a big box store when these first came out and I died a bit inside every time someone bought one of these.

  • @evilemperordude
    @evilemperordude Před 2 lety +976

    From working in retail, I can tell you that a shitload of customers walk in with a ridiculously low budget and are shocked that a decent laptop costs hundreds more than they want to spend.

    • @gracefulslumber8441
      @gracefulslumber8441 Před 2 lety +57

      @@Ibrahim-vx5kq then are mad when it doesn't work that well 🤦‍♀️

    • @CreatorPolar
      @CreatorPolar Před 2 lety +46

      Because they think that if they can make a decent phone for cheap than they can do the same with a windows laptop

    • @rayhanrizvi334
      @rayhanrizvi334 Před 2 lety +53

      @@CreatorPolar honestly under 400 dollars your not going to find ANY good windows laptop. it WILL crash, lag, and not work. Probably your only option are chromebooks, Chromebooks will always be faster than a similar spec windows laptop. Thats because chrome os is a much smaller os than windows. A chromebook with 8gb ram and an i3(like mine) will be faster than a similar spec windows laptop. I can easily beat my other windows laptop, same ram but it has an i5.

    • @CreatorPolar
      @CreatorPolar Před 2 lety +37

      @@rayhanrizvi334 1. yeah chromebooks are cheaper and run smoother but you can’t shit on them other than web browsing
      2. Used laptop market says hi

    • @rayhanrizvi334
      @rayhanrizvi334 Před 2 lety +3

      @@CreatorPolar used market is very sketchy. You can easily get ripped off on eBay

  • @Z_A765
    @Z_A765 Před 2 lety +2839

    Everyone gangsta until their parents buy them one

  • @uthmanbaksh3530
    @uthmanbaksh3530 Před 2 lety +38

    CZcams comments in 2011: "Can it run Crysis?"
    CZcams comments in 2021: "Can it run Windows 11?"

    • @keebship
      @keebship Před 4 měsíci

      more like can it run doom

  • @George6_0
    @George6_0 Před 2 lety

    Even my old pc can run minecraft XD

  • @_BlackSpectrum
    @_BlackSpectrum Před 2 lety +1649

    Biggest thing to ask is "Does it run Windows 11?" 😅

    • @Mentii0
      @Mentii0 Před 2 lety +80

      To be honest I don’t think so..
      Edit: austin said it does

    • @Beengus
      @Beengus Před 2 lety +31

      Crysis

    • @TPG128
      @TPG128 Před 2 lety +32

      The hp stream surprisingly does lmao

    • @zUltraXO
      @zUltraXO Před 2 lety +21

      Actually a really good question, not the official one cuz i mean you need a NASA computer to run it
      (I wrote this before I realized that the limitations can be bypassed, Windows 11 *can* be run on a later Pentium 4, and even on an Intel Atom with 4GB it runs alright, even better if you remove all the bloatware, and I don't mean uninstalling apps but removing windows features by modifying the iso itself, NTDev did a video on that)

    • @coolguystudios5829
      @coolguystudios5829 Před 2 lety +10

      I'm here before this comment gets popular

  • @iamfabian9988
    @iamfabian9988 Před 2 lety +679

    Public schools: “look what they need to mimic a fraction of our power”

  • @epikedits7921
    @epikedits7921 Před 2 lety +495

    Colleges: “These are ok but still out of my budget”

    • @someoneyouneverknow7529
      @someoneyouneverknow7529 Před 2 lety +14

      Out of our minimal requirements *

    • @Quacka
      @Quacka Před 2 lety +5

      Just sell a kidney

    • @matej-9049
      @matej-9049 Před 2 lety

      nah eepc is cheaper

    • @aleksazunjic9672
      @aleksazunjic9672 Před 2 lety +1

      Laptop is Ok, if you install proper OS for it. Some tiny linux distro, perhaps Win 7 . Search internet for lightweight apps or download something that was released 10 years ago (old Firefox , and disable updates) . You could even game, of course with older games. For school work , definitely enough power.

    • @l0ganS59
      @l0ganS59 Před 2 lety

      Amen

  • @InterstateRaziTV
    @InterstateRaziTV Před 2 lety +322

    Mommy at Best Buy: "This is the Gaming Laptop My Son Wants"

    • @FS--ew3se
      @FS--ew3se Před 2 lety +21

      It's a free pc with geforce now

    • @graphicsgod
      @graphicsgod Před 2 lety +20

      Salesman: Are you sure?!? This is a Chromebook ma'am..

    • @mkjk2534
      @mkjk2534 Před 2 lety +58

      graphicsgod Mom: Well, it looks pretty similar to the one he showed me on the Internet, but this one's way cheaper! Lucky me I guess…

    • @sammylee5474
      @sammylee5474 Před 2 lety +1

      Bruh same

    • @geatsuneee
      @geatsuneee Před 2 lety +8

      Yes. It can play Google Dinosaurs and Snek.

  • @jameswoeste275
    @jameswoeste275 Před 2 lety +445

    Everybody Else: I couldn't imagine having that laptop!
    Me: Hey that's my laptop!

    • @Nickaman420
      @Nickaman420 Před 2 lety +13

      Lmfao

    • @kshauryadwivedi
      @kshauryadwivedi Před 2 lety +7

      same

    • @imblack011
      @imblack011 Před 2 lety +7

      sell it and get a used highend for the time pc from 2013. will make your life 1000 times better

    • @jameswoeste275
      @jameswoeste275 Před 2 lety +2

      @@imblack011 no I’m trying to find a 3060 ti but since stock is tight I might have to wait. I can’t sell it either because I used it a ton lol

    • @dexskywalker7209
      @dexskywalker7209 Před 2 lety +2

      i feel your pain bro, iv been stuck with that laptop before not sure how i never broke it in half over my knee

  • @MasakoX
    @MasakoX Před 2 lety +1058

    HOLD UP! You like F1 so much that you watch The Race? I'm impressed!

  • @RedPMD
    @RedPMD Před 2 lety +96

    or just get a used laptop on ebay for like $200 that will crush all these laptops combined.

    • @juicewrldextendedunrelease5274
      @juicewrldextendedunrelease5274 Před 2 lety +5

      facts

    • @Rei_725
      @Rei_725 Před 2 lety +9

      Stonks

    • @leafyclass
      @leafyclass Před 2 lety +2

      Any recommendations? Looking for something I can use for programming

    • @GTReaper37
      @GTReaper37 Před 2 lety +10

      @@leafyclass definitely a pre-owned/refurbished Thinkpad from eBay

    • @chrispapaventsis9090
      @chrispapaventsis9090 Před 2 lety +1

      @@leafyclass I also do programming and the truth is that unix based systems don't require a lot of gpu power. Just buy something with a good cpu

  • @integer0verload948
    @integer0verload948 Před 2 lety +84

    These are K-12 online learning laptops cheap for school. They just need to do basic web apps and office.

    • @Busta4Life
      @Busta4Life Před 2 lety +8

      every teachers' favorite laptops

    • @waterbiscuit9222
      @waterbiscuit9222 Před 2 lety +6

      wait you get windows for school?

    • @avgeek1930
      @avgeek1930 Před 2 lety +2

      that is all they are good for, K-12

    • @oksowhat
      @oksowhat Před 2 lety

      @@waterbiscuit9222 wait you get laptops for school?

    • @aquarlexkaneki9372
      @aquarlexkaneki9372 Před 2 lety

      @@waterbiscuit9222 for online classes bro

  • @ahmadwand2079
    @ahmadwand2079 Před 2 lety +375

    Austin: "im getting a few seconds per frame rate"

    • @papayaislife1133
      @papayaislife1133 Před 2 lety +15

      thATS EXACTLY HOW MY VALORANT OPENS IN A NUTTSHELL

    • @kimcho234
      @kimcho234 Před 2 lety +11

      Now that’s next gen

    • @MelodieOctavia
      @MelodieOctavia Před 2 lety +4

      The computer is so slow, it's sucking computing power from his brain.

    • @Emiichoco
      @Emiichoco Před 2 lety

      @@MelodieOctavia you're being dumb Henry

    • @CH-vv2hr
      @CH-vv2hr Před 2 lety +6

      that's negative FPS

  • @darius2640
    @darius2640 Před 2 lety +32

    there are plenty of countries in the world where $200 is your whole months salary, or even few months salaries. So as long as there are poor people in the world the cheapest version of something will be in high demand, they know there are better products, they want better products, they just can't afford them

  • @goldycoaco
    @goldycoaco Před 2 lety +126

    My reaction to this video.
    “Gateway is still a thing?”

    • @StevenWintringham
      @StevenWintringham Před 2 lety +15

      It wasn't for a long time, but Walmart bought it and brought the brand back

    • @pianoplayer2147
      @pianoplayer2147 Před 2 lety

      What’s Gateway?

    • @windowsxpnt2347
      @windowsxpnt2347 Před 2 lety +17

      @@pianoplayer2147 gateway was a huge computer brand around the windows 98 era that was well known for doing full setup bundles on computers (mouse, keyboard, desktop and monitor) at a low price

    • @pianoplayer2147
      @pianoplayer2147 Před 2 lety

      Ohh okay

    • @matthewjbauer1990
      @matthewjbauer1990 Před 2 lety +5

      Gateway is just a subsidiary of Acer. Acer has used the name off and on for the last 13 years. As far as I know, the only way to get a Gateway in the US is from Walmart, where Acer licensed the name to them and their laptop manufacturer.

  • @Allendude51
    @Allendude51 Před 2 lety +57

    1:33 “EEEE PEEEE CEEEE” - DankPods

    • @oh_no_no_no
      @oh_no_no_no Před 2 lety +3

      "EEEE PEEEE CEEEE, SPEAK TO MEEE!"

    • @darksould0471
      @darksould0471 Před 2 lety +4

      Shit you were first

    • @WillOnSomething
      @WillOnSomething Před 2 lety +5

      thats right folks, we're gonna bring out the EEEEPEEEECEEEE

    • @adershvarshnei5198
      @adershvarshnei5198 Před 2 lety +2

      Was looking for this. Dank you

    • @insert_username_here
      @insert_username_here Před 2 lety +3

      The exact first thing I thought of when the words “Eee PC” hit my ears was DankPods. It makes me so glad there are this many DankPods fans.

  • @Thatonegirl989
    @Thatonegirl989 Před 2 lety +160

    One of my favorite series on the channel, “Austin tries terrible tech for our entertainment”

  • @hiperson9813
    @hiperson9813 Před 2 lety +205

    I love how in Best Buy the chromebook says “it’s powerful, fast, secure, and easy to use computer.”

    • @killertigergaming6762
      @killertigergaming6762 Před 2 lety +5

      Also laptop comes preinstalled with windows

    • @bandeez_23
      @bandeez_23 Před 2 lety +26

      "fast"
      Funniest joke I have ever heard

    • @axeljefyua9387
      @axeljefyua9387 Před 2 lety +1

      Yeah, although some chromebooks are actually very powerful, and if you load windows 10 on then you’d be fine

    • @rayhanrizvi334
      @rayhanrizvi334 Před 2 lety +6

      @Project X any chromebook under 200 is trash. 200-300 and you can get a really decent one. in 300-500 its like crazy. i bought an 8gb intel i3 hp chromebook for 400. done.

    • @anthonynorton666
      @anthonynorton666 Před 2 lety

      I don't about powerful, but the rest is correct with one exception: privacy settings under ease of use.

  • @seawolf8760
    @seawolf8760 Před 2 lety +60

    all my friends don't understand why I like these tech videos so much. they never will.

  • @fridtjofriibe5961
    @fridtjofriibe5961 Před 2 lety +44

    That first webcam and mic is the essential “digital interview starter pack”

  • @captainchris2
    @captainchris2 Před 2 lety +39

    The stream sells because grandma doesn't need a more then a web browser

    • @And1slash
      @And1slash Před 2 lety +2

      A few years ago I owned a blue stream 11
      not sure how I managed but got skyrim to run at reasonable FPS ( must have been on low ) so these are capable at more tasks than some say

    • @moonie1825
      @moonie1825 Před 2 lety

      @@And1slash they are honestly if they would put some more space in thede things I would buy one again but I remembered after like 2 months of minimal downloads and updates I couldn't even use google due to the lack of memory.

  • @skengblazerentertainment1358

    If you buy a cheap laptop you should not expect much honestly.

    • @beamerzonyt
      @beamerzonyt Před 2 lety +5

      I bought a EVOO Laptop from walmart and it was 300 dollars on sale and was normally 400 but I didn't have really high expectations for it but it actually is really good! It has an i7-6660u which I know is an older processer but your still getting an i7 in a laptop. It can run games in 1080p and get around 30fps or you can go to 720p and get around 60. I also used it to edit on of my CZcams videos on this channel and it hanndeled it no problem. It has 256gb of ssd storage which is not the most but its fine for a laptop. Its an nVME drive but its still really fast. It also has 8gb of dual channel memory so it can handle apps no problem. It also has 2 spare slots for ram if you wanted to upgrade it. It has a 15.6 inch 1080p display that is really clear and has really good colors but not when it comes to the blacks. There is a lot of backlight but other than that is really good. Its also really light and thin for the power you get. The battery is also pretty good on max performance mode. It comes with windows 10 home but right now I'm using the dev windows 11 and it runs that just fine.

    • @beamerzonyt
      @beamerzonyt Před 2 lety

      @TomTomTwig what do u mean?

    • @StorybooksInn
      @StorybooksInn Před 2 lety

      i think most people don’t look into it and don’t realize how different laptops can be from each other

    • @riponrip4574
      @riponrip4574 Před 2 lety

      @@beamerzonyt Used Mac beats it

    • @dylanlac765n6
      @dylanlac765n6 Před 2 lety +1

      @@beamerzonyt wait how are you running windows 11 on a 6th gen mobile?

  • @simo19piki89
    @simo19piki89 Před 2 lety +110

    My doctor: “Austin joker laugh doesn’t exist, it can’t hurt you”
    Austin in this video:

  • @climatectrl3350
    @climatectrl3350 Před 2 lety +51

    I'm in shock gateway still exsists. I haven't heard of them since early 2000s

    • @CaveyMoth
      @CaveyMoth Před 2 lety +7

      And now they're making some pretty cool laptops; Especially their Creator series of laptops.

    • @kolikiscool
      @kolikiscool Před 2 lety +10

      its not the actual gateway tho its acer selling gateway branded clevo pcs

    • @BrooklynBalla
      @BrooklynBalla Před 2 lety +1

      Gateway used to make some solid desktops around the 2000’s.

    • @stkelly52
      @stkelly52 Před 2 lety +11

      It's not that they "still" exist. They exist again. Acer revived the brand relatively recently as a Walmart exclusive.

    • @W1ldTangent
      @W1ldTangent Před 2 lety

      Acer bought the company years ago and within a couple years had killed off the brand. Gateway 2000 in its early days was an innovative company with an interesting business model soon emulated by everybody else, and their rise in revenue/profit was almost vertical until it plateaued. Their tech support back in the day was US-based and actually pretty competent.

  • @MikeMajeski
    @MikeMajeski Před 2 lety +322

    These cheap laptops always make me realize how amazing the basic iPad is for $330.

    • @icynewtron
      @icynewtron Před 2 lety +14

      Exactly like the 8th gen (witch I’m currently using) has an A12, literally way way way faster then a celaron like I did a speed test on a celaron and the score was about like 300 but my 8th gen scored like 5000+. (Edit: if your confused why I’m saying a celaron instead of a specific laptop/desktop, it’s because it’s just a run of the mill budget laptop witch I got for 150 bucks at Walmart.)

    • @tylerkuite
      @tylerkuite Před 2 lety +7

      The 11inch iPad Pro M1 is nearly perfect w/ 8 gb of ram

    • @bl00dkillz
      @bl00dkillz Před 2 lety +17

      @@tylerkuite but thats 3 - 4 x the price of the laptops shown in this video

    • @arandomdudewithhobbies3318
      @arandomdudewithhobbies3318 Před 2 lety

      @@icynewtron What is the benchmark? There is no way its 15% the power of a a12.

    • @maxmara9864
      @maxmara9864 Před 2 lety +5

      @@icynewtron that Celeron is barely better than a stick of celery

  • @rayzor285
    @rayzor285 Před 2 lety +124

    I took an hp steam and replaced the factory HDD with a SSD and installed Linux on it. It Actually made the laptop quite useable and fast. As long as the goal is not gaming or intense graphic design

    • @AcceptGamingDKD
      @AcceptGamingDKD Před 2 lety +11

      You can game on it. If it can run on a computer from 2005 you can run it on the HP Stream

    • @IDontKnow-ry7do
      @IDontKnow-ry7do Před 2 lety +3

      What Linux distro did you install on it?

    • @rayzor285
      @rayzor285 Před 2 lety +1

      @@IDontKnow-ry7do Ubuntu 20.04

    • @rayzor285
      @rayzor285 Před 2 lety

      @Paul Moorehead unless it uses Broadcom. You're having a bad time if that's the case. Linux kernels generally play well with HP. But you might have to play around with different outdated Kernels if your WiFi isn't functioning.

    • @grifdenton5224
      @grifdenton5224 Před 2 lety +3

      I thought all Streams used soldered EMMC drives.

  • @darksould0471
    @darksould0471 Před 2 lety +5

    "This mp3 player doesnt work on my mac! It's time for the ee-pee-cee"

  • @hritikaggarwal270
    @hritikaggarwal270 Před 2 lety +47

    3:20 "I am getting a few seconds per frame rate"

  • @nickkaram3996
    @nickkaram3996 Před 2 lety +209

    Austin: calls the 4 gb ram hp stream awful
    Me with my 2 gb ram hp stream: pathetic

    • @DabblelyDiddly
      @DabblelyDiddly Před 2 lety +23

      How the fuck do you even live on 2gb of ram anymore? It can't be running windows

    • @mokshpatel4392
      @mokshpatel4392 Před 2 lety +14

      @@DabblelyDiddly windows 7

    • @DabblelyDiddly
      @DabblelyDiddly Před 2 lety +8

      @@mokshpatel4392 Yes and enjoy all the malware that exists online lol

    • @mokshpatel4392
      @mokshpatel4392 Před 2 lety +24

      @@DabblelyDiddly nah because never download anything online, just zoom and play nfs underground offline 😂

    • @DabblelyDiddly
      @DabblelyDiddly Před 2 lety +5

      @@mokshpatel4392 You people need to move to linux. It's nice being on a modern OS that shit runs on XD

  • @justinthematrix
    @justinthematrix Před 2 lety +144

    My guy definitely getting his money’s worth out of that dreamville shirt

    • @matttheking1655
      @matttheking1655 Před 2 lety

      Good Observation 😂....Been thinking the same thing,... Almost 2 years now he has been wearing it ... 👌

    • @cheez8313
      @cheez8313 Před 2 lety

      hello

  • @dungeonbrownies
    @dungeonbrownies Před 2 lety +5

    Regarding those netbooks, they were honestly perfect for those tiny university lecture hall desks. A lot of people I knew had them just to take notes during class. Also, considering the university I attended had great wifi saturation, you were essentially never running them "off grid" while on campus. A very narrow niche, yes, but one in which it fared exceedingly well.

  • @Photon88
    @Photon88 Před 2 lety +267

    Bad schools: “I will take your entire stock” (litterally every school be like)

    • @theholypickle4861
      @theholypickle4861 Před 2 lety +10

      Every School*

    • @alguienrrr
      @alguienrrr Před 2 lety +2

      Mine actually has these, they suck a lot

    • @_Shay_
      @_Shay_ Před 2 lety +1

      I remember when I was in high school, it was this all digital school but since it was like a private school it was funded by themselves and donations. They didn’t get grants or anything. We had some VERY crappy laptops, to this day I still don’t know who made them or what brand they were. Not a single part in that thing was branded. Then they switched to some ThinkPad tablets that were still kinda crappy but way better for school than those giant crappy laptops. Good times, no actual work got done since everyone just had mini LAN parties in class playing Minecraft.

    • @TheArtofKAS
      @TheArtofKAS Před 2 lety

      You all schools 😂😂👌

    • @Thatonegirl989
      @Thatonegirl989 Před 2 lety +1

      I’ve been to so many different schools throughout my life and only one middle school I went to had iMacs and MacBooks. That school was my favorite obviously

  • @Hallzie72
    @Hallzie72 Před 2 lety +8

    Good work with the vid Austin. I sell a lot of HP & Lenovo Laptops under $400 AUD for that very reason. They're under $400. The sad part is most customers coming through our store expect $1000-$2000 performance out of these, and yet they can't understand why we refuse refunds when they demand one as a result of their overexpectation.

  • @MyReviews_karkan
    @MyReviews_karkan Před 2 lety +74

    That hp stream can run arch linux with lxqt, lxde, xfce or any window manager like a freaking champ.

    • @angelrivera8013
      @angelrivera8013 Před 2 lety +8

      Or even any light weight linux distro as long as it's either Arch or Debian based!

    • @janavmehta2467
      @janavmehta2467 Před 2 lety +4

      I have Hp stream and it works like butter

    • @Cheeseburgermafia
      @Cheeseburgermafia Před 2 lety +1

      I have Mint on one. All hardware works. I mostly use it for email and admin.

    • @chaicego
      @chaicego Před 2 lety +1

      That's what I use lol

    • @notanetcher
      @notanetcher Před 2 lety

      linux fucking sucks

  • @abeerbarman9038
    @abeerbarman9038 Před 2 lety +21

    3:30 The recording is looking like your life is in grave danger and you're leaving a secret message for your son to find out a decade later.

    • @joe-eg3mk
      @joe-eg3mk Před 2 lety +3

      I died when I saw your comment

  • @playd43
    @playd43 Před 2 lety +48

    "That's a pancake battery"
    I SWEAR I ate pancakes right before watching this!

    • @lordxeno8270
      @lordxeno8270 Před 2 lety +4

      Um…ok?😂

    • @silent.shaman
      @silent.shaman Před 2 lety +12

      I ate batteries right before commenting this!

    • @yazan7365
      @yazan7365 Před 2 lety +5

      @@silent.shaman I promise I can send help.

    • @silent.shaman
      @silent.shaman Před 2 lety +1

      @@yazan7365 thank you I need it 🥵

  • @spartanesports5693
    @spartanesports5693 Před 2 lety +72

    Austin evans can pass as your Microsoft tech support guy

  • @platypus_pratty
    @platypus_pratty Před 2 lety +14

    The editing on this video made me think I was having screen tearing issues lol

  • @trey_a_12
    @trey_a_12 Před 2 lety +13

    Austin: "I bought the worst laptop!"
    Chromebooks: "Hold my KB of RAM"

  • @atari2600b
    @atari2600b Před 2 lety +14

    In 2007 an eeepc could give you 2GB of RAM (just buy the stick when you buy the machine) & a perfectly useable Linux machine especially with Dvorak. Now, you get a piece of plastic with 4GB of RAM

  • @TechKingdom35
    @TechKingdom35 Před 2 lety +4

    2:21 Damn the Sony Vaio x505 and 11" MacBook Air still look good to this day.

  • @winjaywin
    @winjaywin Před 2 lety +5

    I remember running NFS Most wanted on a netbook in my college first year (2010). Low spec gaming was fun indeed. Counter strike source, half life 2 also ran at playable frames.

  • @monstie2795
    @monstie2795 Před 2 lety +15

    Just buy an iPad from a few years ago for 200 bucks 💀

    • @damianxavier7343
      @damianxavier7343 Před 2 lety +2

      Or a tab s6 lite if you want android.

    • @MikeMajeski
      @MikeMajeski Před 2 lety +6

      Heck, you can often find the current gen basic iPad on sale for $250 around holidays. Get yourself a nice logi keyboard case with the trackpad and you are good to go!

    • @lucutes2936
      @lucutes2936 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Its not a PC dun dun

  • @antonious6191
    @antonious6191 Před 2 lety +17

    Schools: I’ll take your entire stock!

  • @LloydLynx
    @LloydLynx Před 2 lety +69

    Definitely a case of the "new product" tax. An old business laptop for the same price will match or exceed the specs of that Gateway and feel so much better to use.

    • @kuga6566
      @kuga6566 Před 2 lety +1

      I've only ever owned one new laptop in my life because of this, and it was a gifted Mac. The rest have been pre-owned ThinkPads, Latitudes and EliteBooks, and they have all been absolute tanks and gotten pretty much everything done that I'd need a laptop for. I don't even particularly like laptops anyway, I prefer to be at my desktop any day of the week, but portability is necessary sometimes and I'll be damned if I'm gonna use a smartphone for those tasks.

    • @LloydLynx
      @LloydLynx Před 2 lety +2

      @@kuga6566 Those non Thinkpad business laptops are def underrated. I'm actually still daily driving a Latitude D620. It once broke my fall on ice, and years later flew down the stairs in a bag at school and was fine with a little cosmetic damage. It's got plenty of battle scars over the years. It was also the laptop I recorded my first youtube videos on.

  • @PACKERMAN2077
    @PACKERMAN2077 Před 2 lety +27

    And I'm sitting here amazed at how he's able to hold three laptops up in the air... Like I still got an IBM Thinkpad that's 2 in thick and made of steel

  • @joshuasteele3520
    @joshuasteele3520 Před 2 lety +18

    They still make the HP Stream? It's not even on HP's website.

  • @WickedTimeFox
    @WickedTimeFox Před 2 lety +4

    Hey Austin one thing about minecraft is that no matter how much ram your system has, it has a default limit which is between 1-2GB if I recall correctly. It looks like your game was set to ~1344MB. You can edit the JVM arguments in the launcher to increase available ram to get way better results!

  • @Patrick2480
    @Patrick2480 Před 2 lety +3

    I bought a 2016/7 Dell Inspiron 11 around Jan 2017, up until last yr i was able to upgrade the ram from 4 to 8GB/HD to SSD. 2019 bought the modern HP Stream and the model i bought i was able to to upgrade the ram to 8. One thing i like about the stream is the 8 hr of battery life if you arent doing heavy tasks, but doing simple ones like type word doc or windows store app games.

  • @unmakeyourself
    @unmakeyourself Před 2 lety +99

    "EeePeeCee" lives rent free in my head thanks to dankpods

    • @jinxed9592
      @jinxed9592 Před 2 lety +3

      i was thinking the same thing lmao

    • @eemeli7093
      @eemeli7093 Před 2 lety +5

      Its the eeepeeeeceee

    • @crys329
      @crys329 Před 2 lety +4

      Craig disk exists
      Time for the Eeeeepeeeeceeee
      Cue mandatory 'Oh no my pkcell'

    • @jakeofiach5044
      @jakeofiach5044 Před 2 lety +2

      I love this thread 1grit ftw

    • @oxymoron02
      @oxymoron02 Před 2 lety +1

      This comment thread is sounding a little crunchy. Time to go get my Senny boy Six Hungeos.

  • @jessthebenjamin758
    @jessthebenjamin758 Před 2 lety +22

    Fun fact about the HP Stream: my entire school system buys hundreds of them. I absolutely hate them

    • @shocknaw
      @shocknaw Před 2 lety +3

      I wish my school district would do that instead of chromebooks from 2016, at least you get windows

    • @Yallsellic71
      @Yallsellic71 Před 4 měsíci

      How dare you hate hp stream it was my first laptop

  • @MichaelBlock
    @MichaelBlock Před 2 lety +12

    3:22 when the laptop is so bad that you reverse the measurement

  • @schneeball2384
    @schneeball2384 Před 2 lety +12

    The green one looks like something that I would find in my grandma's attic because she got it and never uses it

  • @connorkenyon
    @connorkenyon Před 2 lety +8

    Not gonna lie I loved my little HP stream when I was super poor and doing my A-Levels, it researched, did google docs and everything I needed at the time lol.

  • @Thomas-lv9se
    @Thomas-lv9se Před 2 lety +5

    It reminds me of my first netbook - which I bought in 2014 (Asus X205TA). I was studying at a university back then and I didn't want to take my "gaming laptop" to university with me. That's why I chose to buy a cheap, lightweight computer that I could just leave in my backpack and that netbook did what it was supposed to do perfectly (writing/reading papers, watching videos). It's a nice, cheap secondary PC - especially if you HAVE to use Windows.

  • @GTReaper37
    @GTReaper37 Před 2 lety +29

    A preowned $350 Thinkpad would outdo all of these

    • @jimmy999S
      @jimmy999S Před 2 lety +10

      A pre-owned 100$ Thinkpad would outdo all of these. With Linux.

    • @eemeli7093
      @eemeli7093 Před 2 lety +4

      Thinkpads are beasts. They can do everything (almost)

  • @WhyteLis21
    @WhyteLis21 Před 2 lety +8

    It's like the old saying, "you get what you pay for." Up to a point, that is. 😄

  • @PatSmashYT
    @PatSmashYT Před 2 lety +2

    I remember having an old chonky dell laptop that lagged at everything and you could hear the hard drive crackling when the laptop was in use. At least it was able to run DDLC smoothly

  • @Mousy677
    @Mousy677 Před rokem +4

    I had an HP Stream a while ago, when I was in university for the first time; I didn't really do a lot of particularly arduous stuff with it and it was fairly cheap (doubly so because I got it refurbished). In spite of its very tiny amount of memory (like, it struggled to store my dissertation, and that was not even 12000 words long), it worked fine for about two and a half years... until I tried to download an update, at which point, and I have literally no idea how this happened, but the RAM just disappeared? Like, it just decided that it no longer felt like having any RAM.

  • @spidey1323
    @spidey1323 Před 2 lety +25

    Actually Austin, there is a cheaper chromebook , a Lenovo Ideapad 3 11’ which is 180$

    • @kbhasi
      @kbhasi Před 2 lety +3

      It probably wasn't sold at his local Best Buy location and he probably didn't think to check their website.

    • @SFSAtlas
      @SFSAtlas Před 2 lety +2

      And the cheapest laptop ever is one that runs a Linux Distribution called KDE Neon called the Pinebook and it's only $100

    • @killertigergaming6762
      @killertigergaming6762 Před 2 lety

      @@SFSAtlas cheapest ever i would say no good laptop for 100 i would say yeah

  • @AlexParr
    @AlexParr Před 2 lety +21

    That HP went right where it belongs. That shot of the camera guy (whoever was behind the camera) throwing the HP into the trash actually made a part of me happy.

  • @MadameSomnambule
    @MadameSomnambule Před 2 lety +1

    Only reason I know about the EeePC is because of DankPods. He sometimes uses an older one in his vids for old mp3 player software and it's always pure gold seeing him fiddle with those things. :p

  • @caseys_cozy_garage
    @caseys_cozy_garage Před 2 lety +2

    Ahh you know it's been a while since I've thought about "seconds per frame" 😂

  • @known1443
    @known1443 Před 2 lety +3

    I remember going to uni and programming on an asus 1000he with its single core atom. It was able to run eclipse and run Java code, it could even do basic 2d modelling.
    Gaming was never an option, but it was great for note taking and light work.

  • @jordanhannah3912
    @jordanhannah3912 Před 2 lety +8

    This makes me appreciate my already slow pc by miles.

  • @tredI9100
    @tredI9100 Před 2 lety

    That second M2 slot reminds me of the Ultrabay on my Thinkpad.

  • @Nope6177
    @Nope6177 Před 2 lety

    Love the work

  • @whyme4742
    @whyme4742 Před 2 lety +33

    I wish I had even that cheap laptop one's man garbage is another's treasure

    • @benonyangore1536
      @benonyangore1536 Před 2 lety +5

      True

    • @Roshan_420
      @Roshan_420 Před 2 lety +6

      You’re better off buying an old thinkpad with an i5 or i7

    • @Roshan_420
      @Roshan_420 Před 2 lety +5

      A T420 is like $100 with an i5

    • @prajwalladkat
      @prajwalladkat Před 2 lety +1

      Ye man I installed OSX Mavericks ok n my 12 year old dell laptop runs fine old is gold

    • @My_Old_YT_Account
      @My_Old_YT_Account Před 2 lety +1

      @@prajwalladkat a decent 12 year old laptop is probably faster than that shit though

  • @spectacularboiyt1133
    @spectacularboiyt1133 Před 2 lety +7

    quality video as always 😂😂❤

  • @tipoomaster
    @tipoomaster Před 2 lety +1

    I wish Walmart updated the Motile 14 with 4000 or 5000 series chips. That thing was pretty solid, but I eventually sold it and got a Corebook X with an 8259U which is far faster.

  • @roblox-scripted2037
    @roblox-scripted2037 Před 2 lety +2

    i got a chromebook ad right at 9:09😭🤚

  • @zacharyhydar4330
    @zacharyhydar4330 Před 2 lety +31

    me having the hp stream and can't even play valorant

    • @junix7621
      @junix7621 Před 2 lety +4

      i have it too minecraft java runs fine as long as you turn down the graphics

    • @insert_username_here
      @insert_username_here Před 2 lety +3

      @@junix7621 I recommend you install either Optifine or Sodium. And avoid shaders like the plague on that laptop.

    • @junix7621
      @junix7621 Před 2 lety +1

      @@insert_username_here yeah ik i use badlion for hypixel and it runs at 100-250 fps badlion is a m a z i n g for 1.8

    • @waterbiscuit9222
      @waterbiscuit9222 Před 2 lety

      @@junix7621 lunar is better

    • @junix7621
      @junix7621 Před 2 lety

      @@waterbiscuit9222 i used lunar until now i downloaded badlion and i get double the fps i did on lunar

  • @bryanmiller476
    @bryanmiller476 Před 2 lety +5

    I remember my hp stream couldn’t even finish its windows updates due to not enough storage lol
    Returned it immediately

    • @kbhasi
      @kbhasi Před 2 lety

      2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of storage, right?
      I had a Chinese off-brand TV stick with similar specs and it too had the same issue.

    • @bryanmiller476
      @bryanmiller476 Před 2 lety

      Mine was 4gb ram and 64gb emmc and still couldn’t do all its windows updates

    • @MortCodesWeb
      @MortCodesWeb Před 2 lety

      @@bryanmiller476 i have 4GB ram and 512GB on a 150$ pc. Laptops are cheap on my country. Its a used laptop btw

    • @bryanmiller476
      @bryanmiller476 Před 2 lety

      @@MortCodesWeb yeah this topic is just about the crappie low storage emmc storage laptops made to be cheap but are total crap
      Doesn’t mean I still a craptop like that lol
      I now use Asus G14 gaming laptop with RTX 2060 I got last year on sale for $1050 and also have a M1 MacBook Air, a M1 Mac Mini and recently got my gpd win3 handheld for gaming on the go

  • @2moist2meaty
    @2moist2meaty Před 2 lety

    Inside the chrome book is an operating system write protect screw. Advanced users will want to open the machine to remove the screen in order to install a new operating system, most popular for obvious reasons are lightweight Linux distros

  • @christopherwilliams9418

    I really like the green ngl, cool to see laptops coming in fun colors even though it's low-end stuff

  • @Extra_Mental
    @Extra_Mental Před 2 lety +97

    So moral of the story: dont buy this globally accessable laptop and be an american to buy this other one on wallmart?

    • @alphaedrum
      @alphaedrum Před 2 lety +7

      I found the walmart one being sold here in mexico by walmart themselves but that shit is U$200 more expensive... but with the price of same spec laptops, its not a crazy price, but if it were at least 100 lower it would sell like hotcakes.

    • @alanalb1449
      @alanalb1449 Před 2 lety +5

      @@alphaedrum In Mexico they really like to sell us overpriced trash, maybe Walmart need to do that in order to obtain profit due to taxes and other cost like transportation.

    • @asmc1492
      @asmc1492 Před 2 lety +2

      Yea they think they are the whole world.

    • @Extra_Mental
      @Extra_Mental Před 2 lety

      i can tell you that i live very far away from mexico

    • @PercyPanleo
      @PercyPanleo Před 2 lety

      @@alanalb1449 Transportation is likely a big factor. From what I know theft occurs a lot with shipping in Mexico, especially with electronics.

  • @drewf713
    @drewf713 Před 2 lety +4

    Damn Austin peepin the Dreamville shirt. He's Valid!

  • @joshuaperes7115
    @joshuaperes7115 Před 2 lety

    2:23 I could almost bet Austin was trying to bite the laptop there

  • @molivil
    @molivil Před 2 lety +6

    Having a small laptop was a big thing back in 2005. I remember lots of people were looking for cheap small laptops at the time. OLPC initiative was a promising concept that turned into a real product called XO-1 in 2006. As a response, ASUS responded with their Eee PC line of affordable netbooks in 2007.

  • @stevenmartell2289
    @stevenmartell2289 Před 2 lety +32

    I used lower end laptops like these for a lot of my time as a pc user and it’s always a bit disappointing when Austin doesn’t optimize the games like Minecraft properly. With some simple setting changes that ryzen machine can easily get above 60 fps and probably the lower end laptops too.

    • @ZFISHY
      @ZFISHY Před 2 lety

      austin could've used optifine

    • @shadowfox3442
      @shadowfox3442 Před rokem

      I use the laptop, and my highest is 700fps, with around 60-200 fps on servers

  • @SFSAtlas
    @SFSAtlas Před 2 lety +16

    "There's zero reason to ever do this"
    *Chromium OS Devs have entered the chat*
    *Custom Firmware users have entered the chat*

  • @bennyjgills4448
    @bennyjgills4448 Před 2 lety

    I have a HP Stream that I installed Linux Mint on, I just use it for daily tasks like web browsing and downloading and listening to podcasts. It's handy as it's passive cooled and pretty portable.

  • @funnigunnar
    @funnigunnar Před rokem

    my school Chromebook goes all the way back and my friend laughing so hard when we first found out

  • @CapCrunch45
    @CapCrunch45 Před 2 lety +21

    Most important question: What’s the cheapest laptop that can run Notepad?

    • @marsrover001
      @marsrover001 Před 2 lety +1

      Nah, flex on the losers and run WordPad.

    • @RFLCPTR
      @RFLCPTR Před 2 lety +2

      Literally the cheapest used Laptop on Ebay/Craigslist etc.
      Any Laptop made in the last 25+ years would be capable of this.

    • @alydrem2190
      @alydrem2190 Před 2 lety +1

      @@RFLCPTR duhh buzzkillington

    • @SFSAtlas
      @SFSAtlas Před 2 lety +3

      It's not Windows Notepad but the old 8 bit Atari computers (yes Atari made computers) would boot up into a program called memo pad (basically notepad) if you didn't have a cartridge in

    • @groszak1
      @groszak1 Před 2 lety +1

      The unusable Notepad in Windows 10 or the usable Notepad in Windows 7?

  • @darkz1796
    @darkz1796 Před 2 lety +22

    I would’ve thought it would be a chrome book lol

    • @Diegopie007
      @Diegopie007 Před 2 lety +1

      Chromebooks are hella expensive

    • @KatoJac
      @KatoJac Před 2 lety +1

      @@Diegopie007 Not really much anymore. They sell an almost identical version of this laptop in a chrome book version for like $200.

    • @SweatySockGaming
      @SweatySockGaming Před 2 lety +1

      @@Diegopie007 chromebooks are always cheaper lols

    • @SnrubSource
      @SnrubSource Před 2 lety +1

      @@Diegopie007 there are incredibly cheap chromebooks

    • @Diegopie007
      @Diegopie007 Před 2 lety

      @@SweatySockGaming then maybe they're expensive in Europe

  • @ryanwakebradtelle8682
    @ryanwakebradtelle8682 Před 2 lety +1

    For an extra computer I think it's ok as long as u know what your getting into.
    Yeah a used Thinkpad is better but
    *PC as a smart tv with Bluetooth keyboard/mouse
    *Security camera hub
    *Lan game streaming
    *Stadia on tv
    I would get the cheapest PC if I needed something that can do any of these with dedicated hardware

  • @laxative_goofy
    @laxative_goofy Před 2 lety

    when i started this a ad with austin in it showed up

  • @Danyrodriguez115
    @Danyrodriguez115 Před 2 lety +6

    7:52 guys I think he means BMW Z4🤣
    Jk I love the design of the Supra. Just wish it was offered a manual Transmission.

  • @willg955
    @willg955 Před 2 lety +6

    Those edits made me think my monitor was screwing up.

  • @Matte2599
    @Matte2599 Před 2 lety

    7:49 is tha, is tha, yo is that a Supra?

  • @Timbhu
    @Timbhu Před 2 lety

    8:00 I love how English went from Synchronised to Sync to Sync'd and then just sunc 🤫

  • @beast5232
    @beast5232 Před 2 lety +22

    I’m pretty sure the next year instead of asking “Can it run CyberPunk?” People will say “Can it run Windows 11?”

  • @unknowntherapist
    @unknowntherapist Před 2 lety +22

    austin: I brought the worst laptop!
    me: *thinking its gonna be my school laptop*

  • @jakegaming898
    @jakegaming898 Před rokem

    0:05 as he said that , an ad for a 50 dollar "gaming" pc appeared on my screen , ah , good ol' youtube

  • @badmonster8105
    @badmonster8105 Před 2 lety

    that HP stream cost 400+ usd here in PH. dang i wish we have microcenter

  • @Kylo_Ren_2033
    @Kylo_Ren_2033 Před 2 lety +4

    You may have a better experience on HP stream if it is running Chrome OS