so i signed up for dell's promotional
newsletter a little while back because i
bought something from dell and got
signed up by accident thanks dell but
every once in a while i do see something
interesting in there
a 200 laptop you say
maybe that would be great for a back to
school feature
but
our rep over there is a regular viewer
so he was understandably hesitant to
send us a base model of anything
and said he'd prefer if we checked out
the 400 version so
this thing then
well there are three compelling reasons
not to buy it
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reason number one not to buy this 400
laptop this 200 one the best part of the
little blue inspiring p24t is the price
the keyboard is pretty cramped the tn
screen is kind of poop and it's far from
fast
but it does exactly what it needs to do
and honestly exceeded our expectations
for the price
like come on
this thing is hardly more than the cost
of the included full copy of windows 10
and after a bit of practice i was able
to type quickly and easily write word
documents and forum posts with it thanks
to the small but comfortable matte
surface touch pad i mean i'm not sure
that i'd want to use it to write up the
script of my next big hollywood
blockbuster but let's face it if i was
working on stuff like that on a regular
basis i would have more than two hundred
dollars for my laptop usability wise i
can live with the single tasking
paradigm enabled by the two core celeron
processor for the most part and i'd say
the screen is the biggest bummer colors
are pretty flat viewing angles aren't
great and it doesn't get bright enough
for use outside but
if you plan on watching youtube videos
or netflix it'll be good enough and i
wouldn't go as far as to say it's
actually terrible like other cheap
screens i've seen before
the only true disappointment came when
we opened it up
i was hoping that it would be possible
to add a hard drive or ssd in the future
and upgrade the ram but they're both
soldered to the motherboard with no
expansion slots so i guess in a nutshell
the best thing about this product is
that there's nothing
so bad as to make it a total deal
breaker and at 200
occasionally on sale for 150
that's all i can really ask for i can
only really recommend it as a secondary
computer if you spent all your money on
a desktop this will work great when you
need to go out into the real world god
forbid
but it still scrapes by with a
recommendation so why doesn't its 400
dollar cousin get the same treatment
reason number two
the inspiron p25t
is pretty much more of the same
and sits right around the amount of
money that lots of people think they
want to spend on a laptop
but our problem is that we don't feel
like they're getting twice the
experience for something that costs
twice as much upgrades on this guy
include a 500 gig hard drive
double the ram a two in one capable
touchscreen and a slightly better
processor the issue though
is that the 5400 rpm hard drive is slow
as molasses and i mean maybe this is
microsoft's fault but windows 10 chugs
on a mechanical drive
simple stuff like switching modes
hitting the start menu opening files or
really anything is just such a slog plus
with almost everything done on the
internet now the need for large amounts
of local storage
is becoming
very limited except in gaming rigs
workstations or
desktop computers with a large amount of
storage because you put all your stuff
on them so when you consider that the
biggest problem is that we still need a
primary computer
just like the 200 laptop but without the
practically disposable price tag to make
it more palatable i mean to be clear
tablet conversion and touch
will be important to some folks and the
performance is better but performance is
better in a way that's only really
noticeable if you compare them side by
side like you're still buying the type
of computer where you type in a web
address and then you take a sip of
coffee while it loads
so what do we recommend then for someone
who's on a budget but with more than two
hundred dollars to spend reason number
three for not buying this
the inspiron p69g
i mean sure this isn't the be-all and
end-all of 800 laptops but it represents
the kind of improvements in productivity
that you can get by increasing your
budget to the bang for the buck level
everything gets an upgrade with a core
i5 processor 8 gigs of ram decent i o
including hdmi and usb 3 an ssd and a
full hd ips touch display
it checks all the boxes that i would
consider for a computer that i would
actually recommend to somebody that i
like provided they don't need faster
than one by one wifi
i do realize that eight hundred dollars
is a big jump from four hundred dollars
but these can regularly be found for
under 700 and functionally speaking it's
not even in the same ballpark as the
other two it's not startlingly fast sure
but i never got annoyed at it you don't
have to worry about running out of ram
just from opening a few tabs and the
processor is fast enough for some
programming work some basic image
editing matlab or even some light cad if
you want to view small assemblies this
kind of stuff is simply not possible on
the cheaper laptops so for this one then
the outside is simple but the keyboard
is satisfying enough that this whole
review was typed on it without annoyance
the brushed plastic finish looks pretty
smart and chassis rigidity is overall
very good though i think the wobble on
the two in one convertible touchscreen
could be better and this model isn't
available without it at the end of the
day though the choice is yours battery
life was decent across the board seems
that problem has pretty much been solved
with low-end laptops the webcams on all
three were comparable and surprisingly
good although windows hello on the 800
model is a really nice touch and all of
them feature speakers that are
comparable to a decent smartphone
so not that great
wrapping this up though honestly
i don't really have a special
relationship with any of these exact
models from dell and the main goal of
this video was to hopefully help you
narrow down your search in terms of
pricing and the features that we think
matter when you're looking for a
secondary laptop or a back to school
machine
so you don't want to spend too much
but you also don't want to spend too
little but then also spending even less
might be even better than that
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unless you've been seriously shopping
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have ever encountered but
they're worth encountering now
if you're looking for a high quality
projector at two thousand dollars the
optima uhd60 is not especially cheap but
what it is is an incredible value up
until now 4k projectors have been much
more expensive and the uhd60 features an
abundance of image quality technologies
including high dynamic range
compatibility for enhanced color and
black and white
dynamic black for amazing contrast and
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basically in a nutshell it's got
stunning picture quality for movies
sports and gaming with great color black
levels clarity and detail
pretty much no matter how big your
screen is as to risk it actually does
matter how big your screen is so bottom
line
it's a great bang for the buck with one
of the best pictures available today
lots of features including lens shift
which makes installation super a lot
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