Best Laptops for Students.. and anyone on a budget
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We wanted to do a back to school round up, but were a bit late so now it's a value laptop round-up.
Buy Surface Go
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Buy LG Gram
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Buy Dell G3
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Buy Acer Predator Helios 300
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Buy Acer Nitro 5
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Buy Dell XPS 15
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I'm looking for a budget car... what should I get? Mercedes S class maybe?
Y’all Rich af. My budget car is a Lamborghini
I suggest Audi A8
If you have a little extra change lying around, a helicopter can really reduce commute times
Can’t go wrong with a rolls Royce
@@sandeepunni1663 as I'm on a tight budget, I might hav to go with the s class... can't have it all
"Back to school laptop"
Lists gaming laptops
SUPREME SHABBY yah, because a pentium qualifies as a gaming processor.
@@ICCUWANSIUT Idiot, does every laptop in this lineup have a Pentium?
@@feel.s1304 Ass, does it look like I intended it to be serious?
I like your pfp
Most likely aimed at engineering students or students that need a lot of heavy duty processor (which I need :/)
this went from "budget" to XPS 15 with i7 really fast
Well I need a laptop for school.
Absolute minimum specs: Core i5 (or amd equivalent), 8GB ram, 256GB hard drive
Recommended: Core i7 (or amd equivalent), 16GB ram, 500GB Hard drive
@@Leon-ks1bf No you dont lol
@@globalko I'm studying aviation engineering. I actually do need that processing power.
@@Leon-ks1bf Fujitsu lifebook A573/G or Lenovo ThinkPad E555 might do. What do you think?
@@globalko if you're studying any kind of aeromech or automated systems 100% you need a lot of processing power. Sims don't come cheap
When the rich try and relate to the lower classes
Lmao
Im kinda in between. im in here cuz no way im paying 2000 for a laptop.
My parents could easily buy me a ZenBook Duo but nothing will beat my 250$ ThinkPad T450s.
@@captaink9226 Yeah kinda the same, my dad always reccomend me to upgrade to Lenovo Yoga because im still rocking 2012 Sony Vaio T with the lowest spec
Im tired of those rich people giving as good advices
"Hi, I'm looking for a laptop that can do some serious damage. I'm talking something that needs two power bricks and a leafblower for a cooling system. something that can push 90 frames per second at 8K while maintaining a top tier internet connection"
Linus: "So you're on a budget, eh"
Numerous Normal acer predator 21x
I mean if it's not RGB then...
any laptop will do, it did some good damage to my foot when i dropped one
@@lawrencebermudez ayy lmao
This comment is epic
Student budget is like $600. Wtf are you looking into????
Btw Asus Vivobook 15 is okay.
Manu Preciados Lenovo L340 is good too
You think some youtuber with a 100,000 $ pc would understand
ZeldaLord youtubers never finish school so even if they have money what are they gonna do with it? Spend it on useless stuff. And the real ones who study well have a small budget...
Manu Preciados just got the 400$ model, it’s insane
“If you must have an apple laptop, i recommend getting the most expensive one” 🥴
Hahaha, and that's a budget.😂
I mean why would you even care about the brand and plus, Apple is the sign you're rich, too rich to that point you have no idea on what to spend your money on, not a description of a student
@@cathacker13 sir , do u have an android :)
MetreX I don’t buy on the brand, I’m fact, I hate the brand. But apples software works better for me.
the most expensive one is unfortunately the one with the least retarded specsheet
Thanks for the list Linus I’ll probably have enough money for one of these in about 4 years
Communism not working out too well?
@@Stanzi18 I thought we lived in a capitalist Society
Oooof
@@Stanzi18 😂
Lmao
How long will it take for you realize that budget and cheap is not over 1000
Omar Nassar you cannot get a reliable, long lasting laptop for under that price.
1st, he never said cheap. 2nd, a budget can be any amount
@@carlamaker2545 riiiiiiiiighhht😂🤣
@@carlamaker2545 my dad's had his since 2015 after its screen got broke at the airport after it got fixed it still works and its hinge is broke and it still works fine so ha! It's a hp
he literally gave an example of 2 laptops under 1000. what video did you watch?
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$2000 for a student? That’s socking
Socking...
Jose
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Yes I quite like socks
What happened to recommending laptop for students
@@laurabrown4369 bot
@@laurabrown4369 This has nothing to do with laptops
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If your budget is under 500, look at pre-owned i5 or ryzen 5 dell or lenovo machines. That xps 15 he was talking about can be got now for €450 online in a shop near me, and it's still plenty powerful.
$2000 is a "budget" laptop? I'm poorer than I thought.
Amateur, even 500$ is too much for me and i am a freaking IT TA 🙃
Capitalism really is fucked
get a jumper ezbook 3 for 200 bucks
Thats if you are stupid enough to pay for a mac book
@@jeeBisOkay Nah it doesnt. You just have to work and be smart and you can get a nice job. People from Russia/, USSR, China or NK don't have anything at all besides cheap products. And the thing is, we also get cheap products, but with the nice hint of freedom in it. And I'm not rich neither are my parents, and dont even think I'm the good middle class.
“Budget”
*finds laptop that I want*
*checks on amazon*
$2000
*closes youtube and opens instagram*
I mean it’s pretty cheap
@@luftwaffle6701 2000 for a laptop is NOT cheap ...
@@luftwaffle6701 the fuck is cheap about it? You are smoking crack
@@luftwaffle6701 what kind of rich family did you emerge from, child
@@luftwaffle6701 bruh I think you misread the price
*Uk student literally eating pasta and microwave meals.*
This video : laptops for students on a budget.....so this one is 1k
Uk student:.......wtf fam...
Uhh, what? US and Canada students are the same. Not just UK.
@@alirahman7196 right😂
uh oh no pasta the horror u okay buddy??
@@alirahman7196 Well, we can't be expected to name all the countries of the world in one sentence.
@@alirahman7196 it's even worse in canada lmao
How dare you put “bUdGeT” when these prices are high end.
Well some of these are budget decent rigs....I bought a Asus zephyrus g14
@@choppings54 yeah technically true
The Surface Go 2 is under £500 in th uk including the signature type cover
U could get a gaming pc for this price
@@hadiqaangar3387 But they are not as light and portable like my rucksack is heavy enough but it doesnt get any heavier with the Surface Go 2 as it would if i was to put a gaming laptop in there
my guy must be a millionaire on a budget
Arnie Sad he is
he is, his companys networht is 15 million. obviosuly he doesn thave 15 million dollars alone but he is defintiley a millionaire.
he probably is worth alone about 3 million.
@@greenkidd529 damn bro check your spelling and grammar😂😂😂
@@greenkidd529 grammar left the chat?
Days before school? I've been in school for going on 3 weeks now. Thanks ltt
Jacobee Games, every region has their own vacation days. Some might start earlier but‘ll end earlier
School has been is session since August 10th for me
August 15
Refer to "better late than never"
ya lol
Budget
adjective
1.
inexpensive.
"a budget guitar"
synonyms: cheap, inexpensive, economy, economic, economical, low-cost, low-price, low-budget, reasonable, reasonably priced, cut-price, cut-rate, discount, discounted, bargain, bargain- basement; informal bargainous
wow chill buddy
Linus: Budget = $2,000
budget
/ˈbʌdʒɪt/
noun
1. an estimate of income and expenditure for a set period of time.
"keep within the household budget"
synonyms:financial plan, financial estimate, financial blueprint, prediction of revenue and expenditure, forecast; More
2.ARCHAIC
a quantity of written or printed material.
yeah... I don’t like you
Lollllllllll
I was thinking of 300 - 500 Linus you’re making me looks like a poor peasant
id rather get a gaming pc lmao
@@naniestauber4275 yeah you can carry gaming pc in your bag to school
to him... we are. :(
acer aspire 5 dude
well, it's good spending on a mid tier laptop rather than a low-tier cuz low-tier laptops doesn't even last much. I bought a Lenovo IdeaPad 5 instead of a Acer aspire 5 and its way better.
"budget" = $2k dell xps 15
me: ;-;
bro literally EVERYONE has like multiple thousands lying around.
I think he meant the 9560 version.
A ‘budget’ can be any amount
Same I was like wow looks good then he said 2 grand I was like... whhhy
Yes, a $2000 budget
Budget and I see 1000$ laptops... You know what is on the budget? The Thinkpad X230 with IPS and an SSD. About 230$
Thats just being poor
@@LotionEnjoyer if you are young?
Lol everyones budget is different ..what u need or want is important when buying a laptop people. Buy certain 1000+ dollar laptops for a reason
JG14 Gerhard_Bar Older laptops can get it done for far less than what Linus had shown.
Budgit doesn't mean low prices fucktard
Wtf a budget laptop for 2000$.budget is maximum 500$
If your budget is 500 dollars just use pencil and paper
Farhaan Nawool not true at all. An English major is and should have a different budget than say a film students who edits film. Not saying $2k is budget for even a film students but realistically they will spend more than $500
i say 1000 max. but ok
budget is relative, some students came from middle class or higher families. They maybe able to spent 1k on laptops. It also depends on how important laptop is to you.
Did you even watch the video literally only one laptop was even close to $2k which was only if you want to waste money on a Mac. Your dumb ass will probably pay that though coz it's got an apple logo on it
This must be for rich students! You should have put the price on the title to help broken students spare their time...
The budget video will be uploaded next week then??
lol
5iwot5 lol
RadiatingRedstone the Dell xps 15 was more expensive than the macbook
between 300 there is 350 400 450... when you're on a budget every dollar counts. You dont jump from 300 to 500 to 800.
You're on the wrong channel, this is Linus Shill Tips
Budget Graphics Card?
RTX 2080 TI.
Fork out just a tiny little bit more money, and you can get the Mid-Range Titan RTX.
Try saving for an extra month, you might be able to scrape yourself a high-end QUADRO 8000.
Yeah the performance is also kinda good
This aged well considering everyone that’s selling their 2080 ti’s for $400-$500 to get the the new 3070’s and 3080’s
Graphics don't mean shit, I can run csgo on a lenovo ideapad 1 14
School started like a month ago
Started last week for me
For me it started this week
i think he's talking about University and College
three weeks ago here
@@preston5947 yeah for me too
We need a updated video for the students who won’t be able to return to in person classes. People want a laptop or PC for school that won’t crash out
Kept thinking about this and found this website that actually helped me to find a solution for the hell that is gonna be this semester. Gonna leave it in case it helps sites.google.com/view/best-laptops-under-500/top-10-best-laptops-under-500
This isn't about the 'best laptop for ramen-eating, binge-drinking college students' to buy with their non-existent disposable income....it's about what laptop for them to beg their parents for.
What’s the budget again?
about 4000 dollars
Just pick any laptop 👌
a light 1000 to 2000 dollars. You know, just lunch money.
$300 ......if your expecting a great laptop for $300 you're on cocaine..
Your life savings, bruhh
5:26😂"before you say: But Linus, the only Way to get LAID in college is with an Apple logo"😂😂
pretty sure my sex bot runs android thank you very much
Apple sucks ass
I had an Apple laptop in college..
....and I never got laid.
@@Rabolisk either this isn't true and you haven't finished college yet, or you did something wrong buddy lmao
Had a guy on discord looking for an Apple computer just because he had got in his head that if he didn't have one the others would laugh at him. Told him that anyone to values you as a person based on what brand of electronics you have is an idiot.
That being said, buying Apple electronics today is fucking retarded, stop paying for old hardware and shitty engineering.
I was expecting a budget laptop to be on here 😂😂
Same haha btw afterwards I found this article that actually showed me laptops on my budget, in case you’re looking. sites.google.com/view/best-laptops-under-500/top-10-best-laptops-under-500
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@@laurabrown1456 stfu bot
@@laurabrown1456 shut up
I mean, the surface go he recommended is 600-ish usd, that is the top-of-the-line of what I'd call affordable in my student years. And it's actually a touch screen laptop.
School already started
lul ikr
not for everyone
My school started 5 weeks ago :(
2 weeks until I start back (that's university though, and i'm pretty sure that's what he means, since high schoolers don't really need computers)
The Loli Catcher university started 3 weeks ago for me lmao
Apple:"Introducing the Budget iPhone Xr"
Linus:"Hold my beer"
upvote for more budget stuff
His first laptop was literally sub 300$ though.
me: looks at budget*
also me: *i am never gonna financially recover from this*
Every school I know of (grade school/college fall semester) started a month ago, lol
Bro I am an AI student i need a good small laptop with Nvidia GeForce graphics
With cuda lvl 5 or above
I started school on the 4th of September
Not in nz lol
he does these videos weeks in advance for floatplane users. but i agree that overall timing could have been better, lol.
Pro tip, don't get a Mac. So many freshmen come with MacBook just to run BootCamp for everything. Funniest part is when somebody gives them an a flash drive or ask them to plug into a projector.
It's stupid for me to say this even tho I hate macs, but if you do software development go for a mac. You won't regret it
Yes, can't beat Unix cli
@@thebeatconnect1 You ARE regretting it. Pls use linux for every development else than windows stuff. Waaay better than any apple. And it runs on anything with a x86(_64).
TheBeatConnect Linux is better for development
Just get a (slightly) older generation MacBook without all of the good stuff being taken out to make it 0.1mm thinner. Run Dual-Boot Windows and Mac OS and problem solved.
"Very affordable" *$1500*
So I saw the video, saw the comments, and thought I may help someone if I write a summary from some of the suggestions in the comments. I started this, then realised this will vary greatly in options and prices depending on the area in the world, so general recommendations instead:
Firstly, aiming at getting a decent laptop computing experience for students work, ignoring gaming.
Limit budget to £400 max., second hand, there are plenty of choices from about 150 to 400.
8GB RAM minimum.
SSD upgrade must be possible and can be later but necessary ASAP. You can put an original drive in a USB case for backup or storage so no waste.
min 4 cores
1.3 or more GHz
Then find something that works for you for size, screen size, weight, and ports. With screen size, don't forget resolution, brightness and contrast. Some screens are pretty poor.
Most students are young and should be able to carry most laptops, so for most "light weight" and "compact" should not be the highest priorities. If you can't plug-in in most locations, battery life should be a major priority. The older the machine, the worse the battery normally gets.
Used business machines can be great since they usually have good keyboards, screens, parts availability, and are quite rugged so can take a lot of moving about.
If you have particular needs, such as recording, video processing, etc, then you may need to invest more.
I'm writing this on a hp Elitebook 8440p with 4GB RAM and 118GB SSD, second hand business laptop. My second 4GB would not recognize due to a problem with the memory slot- a risk buying second hand. It is perfectly useable for home work, but the battery life is about 20 mins, so only used plugged in! Not quite matching the specs I recommend hence why I was watching this video in the first place! Similar is available on ebay for about £200 www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HP-EliteBook-8460p-Laptop-14-HD-Screen-Intel-i5-2520M-8GB-RAM-256GB-SSD/333810832842?hash=item4db8ad15ca:g:j4wAAOSwJZBfkFlD
For work I have a Yoga 12 but I find the screen too small and hard to see - the touch screen tech seems to result in less clear screens. I don't think doing a degree on a 12" screen makes sense. You could plug a 12" laptop into a monitor in your room, but then that reduces the budget for the laptop! 14" or 15" minimum for working on. 17" if you want to use it to watch films with friends.
Suggest to avoid the cheaper Acer computers since
Hope this helps.
Anyone who has more advice to add to this please reply!
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Buddy I thought you said a budget these things about the amount of my rent 🥴
Lol
Anything computer related only gets more expensive year by year. I had to drop 2700 on a macbook pro cus one of my professors tailors his lectures toward Mac users
@@brycemorgan6708 what sort of think could you only do on mac?
@@mop0014 they had an education sale on it so I got one plus my school allowed me to add an additional discount on top of the educational sale on apple.com
Plus all my professors do everything on macbooka and they purposely make it hard for pc users cus they're elitists
I love how Linus is basically just calling you stupid for getting a Mac! I love you Linus.
hey
it's true
people are stupid for buying almost any mac because of how limited you are to do anything. my school only has macbook airs that we have to use so it kinda sucks
If you're on a budget buy refurbished great specs at low cost.
Sunit Sharma exactly, I got a Hp pavilion 15 with an i7 and 12gb ram and 1tb hd for 400$plus tax at micro center refurbished. I opted to put an m.2 ssd 250 gb as boot just to speed it up and it flies now 😎
Sunit Sharma open box is better than refurbished. Buy a refurbished laptop is like buy a Frankenstein computer
@@MotorcycleRebuilds yeah, but refurbished is still great for the price.
I've got my Dell Inspiron 7559 "from hands" for about 650$.
It was packed with i7 6700HQ, GTX960M 4GB, 8 GB RAM, 1 TB HDD. I upgraded it to 16GB RAM and 250GB M2 SSD. So now it is powerful and portable workstation.
Oh, I'm studying Information Security, which means dealing with virtual machines, encryption, different vulenerability scanners and so on. In case you thought it was overpowered for student's needs...
Cutter Berk Yeah, some of them you would be lucky enough getting the best refurbished laptop that you can ever get.
Teacher: Linus your late
Linus: Sry, I was picking my laptop
Like if school already started to prove Linus wrong for once
My college fall semester has already started. 3 weeks in and have a crap ton of homework just for 3 classes already!
I think he's talking about Canadian school systems?
lol I live in canada and my school started 2 weeks ago
@@zarifinator1327 lol nvm, he has kids though so maybe he just filmed this a while ago, or his kids school system is behind.
My local university started class in last week of August, public school started after 9/3, so super late for my area.......
$2000 is budget... RUclipsrs paid way too much to class 2K as BUDGET lol
i was thinking school doesn’t start in a couple days, but rather a couple weeks ago, then i realized they must have written this video for floatplane viewers, where videos are released 1-2 weeks early
In Germany College will start in about 2 weeks
Even on floatplane this would have been late for some schools around here.
Linus: coming in at 800$
Me: I thought it said budget laptops
Your not going to find good laptops under that unless its on sale, its just the truth
@@plagueincandglitch776 no
@@plagueincandglitch776 I could literally buy an older laptop and upgrade it for less than that
@@grape2743 but youll get lower fps 😂🤦♂️
Drent Draws who cares I just need something that works
Someone missed the memo on “broke college student” 😥
Actually sick of the rich youtubers thinking a so called "budget laptop" is 1000 plus dollars
£600 used is pretty steep, £1000 new? Budget? Go back to Eton!
@@demmazda3sportback why do you think that?
@@demmazda3sportback nah it’s good. Idk why I was like that, I’m not normally that angry
50% first of comments-school started
50%- budget?
Edit-holy hell so many likes
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I'm not on a budget I'm on a guys RUclips channel that don't know what budget means
In Australia we don’t go to school in February, the school year is exactly the same as the actual year
will Smith what would you want if you controlled rewind?
nat logan paul and dead bodies
Lol my maximum price for a laptop is £400. I’m on the rich side of youtube clearly 💀
I have a touchscreen on my college laptop and have used it like twice... guess I'm just old fashioned
don't you use it to scroll through pdf's or something? maybe its because my laptop is a 2-in-1 and i can use the screen for homework assignments while still having enough space for paper.
Your not old fashioned, your normal
SnakemadnessGames you're
It's because you haven't taken advantage of the convenience. Once you start using something, you'll start using it more. It's very convenient.
I purposely avoid touch screen computers. Don’t like that feature.
Best laptops for RICH students. In my country all those prices are triple.
Lmao get on my level 4.5 times more lmfao
bra jobba
Brazil?
Linus can't do anything if your country sucks lmao.
6 times here
I personally found this video to be utterly useless 🤦🏻♂️
Agreed tbh, LG Gram isn't even cheap, nor available in Europe, the windows surface isn't a allowed laptop at most colleges, because they mostly want a i5 7th gen and 8 gigs of ram, and the rest is all overpriced for a student :l
Exactly, what is Linus is thinking.
your spelling is also pretty shocking
@@killertruth186 actually, Alex write this, so maybe this is his recommendation..
@@abdulsoleh7131 You do have a point. Since Linus himself is more of an actor than anything else.
Bought one of the laptop's Linus suggested here. Now i can't pay for my university anymore.
This video deserves more dislikes for writing "budget"
Do you even know what budget means? It just means a set amount of money for the laptop it doesn't cheap unless it's used as an adjective.
I think this is the appropriate video title:
*"Best laptops for flexing on your poor classmates"*
@@dirozx in the context of this video and the pragmatics in the sentence, this definitely assumes you can't afford a good amount of above average laptops. These are the high-end laptops you see in sales magazines - no really. That G3 was one of the most expensive in my magazine mailed to me by Dell that year
@@dirozx This is a stupid comment. It's implied (and mentioned multiple times in the video) that he's referring to a cheaper laptop for college students.
@@starmorpheus No he mentions a laptop for students. If you are smart with money most students can afford a decent laptop i'm a student and own an xps 15 and lots of others students i see at school walk around with 2k macbooks.
"Budget"
But school already started...
Started yesterday here.
Videos are up on floatplane. Then, after a week, they are uploaded to youtube.
Not for meeee haha staring at 17th september
same
Searching for a new computer in your computer is like asking it to dig it’s own grave 😂
I think I’ll just stick to my $160 acer chrome book because as a college student I don’t have $300 or $600 for a laptop
He says don't buy a Chromebook but you need to find out what software you actually need. It depends on what you're studying.
Aslong as you don't do Autocads & editing its fine.
@@AndrewMalcolmson Agreed. Has worked fine for me. I just need something to take notes on and write basic papers on. When we do group work we all use google docs anyways
Maria C. Lucky
Maria C. Yeah don’t get me wrong, those are great computers but even if you can’t downlod something because you have a chrome book, there are still other supplementable websites for example chrome books won’t allow you to use Microsoft stuff so you can easily find online free versions of Microsoft office and excel etc
These aren't really budget laptops lmao
Parihs fr he has to go to Walmart
A 300$ laptop seems budget... Do you want them to cover 50$ laptops or something?
First few are, you could go out to buy a used one if you really want them dirt cheap.
Forza Derp Guy They only covered one laptop under $600
284 is a budget, that’s cheap. If you want lower I’ll say get a used one because those cheap ones from Walmart are going to drive you crazy. If you have a job save 30% of your monthly income, cut food and coffee and drinks and you save up to buy a decadent 300 one.
I've been using the surface Go. I definitely recommend it if you have some maths,physic or chemistry classes because the note taking with the pen is amazing in One Note.
Linus: So you're on a budget
2000 dollar laptop for back to school
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I totally regret getting a chrome book. It suuucks
Alana Walker
Aww. I’m so glad that I didn’t get a chrome book but a surface go
@@dionnaly7186 really? im so confused rn
everything is blue
Confused about what? Buying a new laptop for school? I got a surface go as my gift just weeks ago and I would say it’s worth it. The only bad part is the accessories. The surface go is $400 (without tax) but with the keyboard and pen, it’s $128 & $169 = $297. So in total it would be $697 *not included tax*
Yeah, really expensive. But u can also buy cheaper alternatives from amazon or Best Buy
@@dionnaly7186 thank you so much
Ain't that just a fancy way to open google chrome?
If you have less than $300, buy a refurbished or used ThinkPad.
I have one and the battery really isn't helping me survive through college. especially since most $300 thinkpads have a battery lifespan of a firefly
lol i was happy AF i bought 4 think pads at $25 pp yes 25 $, a local company was outfitting all their buildings with much much newer equipment so i managed to pick up bunch for $100 total, upgrade and sold =$$$
My $167 ThinkPad T430 came with a brand new battery, about 6 hour lifespan with my dGPU model. I went old because Ivy Bridge is still useful today.
I'd buy an 11 in. laptop with 32gb SSD and an additional MicroSD card
@@matthewl5434 well for the cost a manufacturer would charge u could prob buy one urself and put an 128GB one in there of it accepts that kind
Still expensive as hell for someone without a job
Then get one lul
Over 1000$ are budget ?
(In germany you get about 800€ per month if you cannot get a job)
I know that no one cares but there is a bee in my room so i opend the windows to let her/he out and then even more bees came in my room so I am now about to sleep in my Kitchen
Maybe they thaught Linus was in my room and they wanted him instead of me
Good Night
Lamoo dude hope u had a nice night in the kitchen 😂
Fühl ich
Good luck with the bees that would be my worst nightmare (I’m terrified of bees wasps and needles)
rip felix
School has already started.
truck guys my school year started 5 weeks ago
@@fueledbythefireofficial Wow. Mine only started 2 weeks ago.
None of these laptops belong on a budget list.
ltt has too much money they forgot what budget means
@@LameCorvette exactly these are budget
And most students just need work processing Internet and email.
you dont have to be so mean
just saying...that can be done on your phones these days...so if you are a student looking for a laptop then checking emails or word processing or internet is most likely not your primary concern since (as I said in the first sentence) it can be done from your hands
Precessor: AMD dual core E2-9000
Ram: 4 GB DDR4
Storage: 1TB
*Can this laptop run MS office and internet without any problem?
Please do one of these again 2019! and not in the last minute. What about this week?
Plus that isn't going to cost an arm and a leg.
Well laptops havw soared in price... you could build a more powerful desktop for cheaper. You're paying for them finding new ways to pack more power in the laptop while having in not go up in flames
Sad to see absolutely zero mention of the ThinkPads. I was working on my own “back to school laptop guide” but was thinking it was too late, Linus proved me wrong. That being said I think I will wait until next year to make a back to school buyers guide.
It's bloody insane why people don't grab a 200 dollar ThinkPad which has a great keyboard for writing and lasts for decades, as well as being expandable.
VIGNX4GQ
Maybe it's the weight or battery life?
Cos aren't old T series heavy as fuck and the new ones expensive as fuck?
Idk, i just bought an E580
@@illiiilli24601 yeah but your on a budget and IMO that's the best bang for buck your gonna get, even an e580 is cheaper than what Linus is talking about
The T440 and T450 are starting to go for less than $200 and they’re not much thicker than modern ultrabooks. Even though I have no problem with the thicker and heavier T430, I guess some people are just too weak to carry something that weighs an extra pound.
+Alan Chen Linus also mentions several laptops here that are over $1000 or even $2000, so in that price range it is absolutely possible to get a decent ThinkPad brand new.
Seriously, if a college requires you to have a mac, I'm done! I will paint my hair green and live on the middle of the forest so no satellite sees me.
Enzo Pedreira It’s not required but strongly encouraged to use Mac for Computer Science
@@matthewtompkins5540 it is not strongly encouraged to use a mac for cs, tf?
Graduating college with a grand total of $0 contributions from my family. It isn't impossible but it's going to be a big challenge sometimes.
Congrats!!
Where do you live that your family needs to pay you to go to school?
*EDIT* like, congrats on making it, by the sound of it, but where is education a survival game?
it's not your parents responsibility to pay for your education lol
I got an off-lease Thinkpad X240 for $200, Haswell i5 and the 70-something Wh battery make for excellent battery life and perfectly acceptable performance. The only upgrades it needed were the X250 touchpad and the FHD IPS panel, bringing the price to around $300. Awesome laptop for the money, would recommend if you're on a budget and need something compact with excellent keyboard and battery life.
I got an off-lease X230 Tabled because wacom awesomeness
Uh Linus, you're not uploading "days before school starts". I've been in college for 3 weeks now, plus with the early move in, I've been here Since the beginning of August.
In Munich Germany university starts in 5 weeks
USA is not whole world ;) just like thegoldenman said, in germany it is in 5 weeks, in poland in 3 weeks
@@_Leouch Even in the U.S there are universities that start in 3 weeks
@@battousai480 ummm no
@@jfresh2054 umm yes. Not exactly 3 weeks but 2 weeks and some change.
00:12 linus.exe has stoped working...
I would recommend the Surface Go 2. it is light, portable, has 10 hours of battery life and is just what a student needs
When Microsoft wants to charge almost $600 dollars for a computer with a 2 core CPU in it
When my dumbass bought a laptop with 2 cores and no video card for like $800.
@@calvin3448 it hurt me reading that.
Ouch
My laptop that I bought in 2012 has a 2 core and a shit gpu and I bought it for 600
@@calvin3448 ooof did you return it. I myself bought a acer nitro 5 gaming laptop on blackfriday for 777. It has i5 9th gen quadcore. 8 gb ram gtx16500 Grafics and 512 gb ssd
The best laptop for a student is a calculator
and a notebook XD
useless tho
Ti nspire CX masterrace, you can even play Doom and Quake
Nah fuck that, Casio classpad master race.
The best laptop for a student is his girlfriend's butt.
Every laptop manufacturer: *moves on to the next gen processor*
Apple: "Years Ahead" *Still has the last gen processor*
What do you think is a good budget laptop Linus?
Linus: Yes
I can buy a budget car for $700, bruh
That would break on u two days later 🤦
@@xoxo-pp7ru no only your vw or ford
@@xoxo-pp7ru One of my friends is still with his car he got for 600 euro 4 years ago, and only spent another 800 euro on repairs over those years, not that much, and it's a decent car too... Forgot what model, but it's a BMW
god i wish those laptops were that price in europe, i could nearly get a flight to canada with the differences....(except the macs )
Must be nice to be on a budget at $1,000 laptops 😭😭😭
if you're going to program software at an advance level youll probably need to start at $1000. game development at $1600, of course if you are going to school for both those paths most colleges will probably have computers for students.
if some college student on a budget needs to just take down notes, run office, and edit you can get away with most $300 laptops.
anythign below that price range is specifically for basic notetalking or webbrowing in class.
Alright everyone *actually* on a budget, just a buy a ThinkPad. the older gen X1 carbons are literally dirt cheap w 8gb ram, i7 cores and are easily upgradeable.
Hell if you can use Linux you can go as far back as the T420 or T400.
@@mandeadd why thank you for replying after 1 year :) made my day
@@shahtayyib hi
Any one with disc drives that are cheap? thanks
I cannot stress how true the chrome book statement is. You hit the nail right on the head
exactly. chromebooks are over-rated
Completely disagree. My Chromebook has done every I've needed without issue since 2014. Only cost me $200.
I use a chromebook with a chroot on it, and a gaming laptop for CAD and gaming. Works well
Yep. I'm using one as a CS major... It sucks haha.
Muhammad SohailTM chromebooks are most definitely not overrated. They are PERFECT for the things they can do, just terrible for the things they cant
I love his version of “cheap” $800 dollars later... “budget”
Better go to school and learn what budget means.
For a small touch screen laptop with great battery life and decent performance, 800 is a good price. Unless you're planning on getting something that is cheap for the sake of being cheap, you're not going to get something good.
Fool's Requiem yeah I get what you mean but if your on a budget, like I’m watching this with 150 to my name and when I saw this I thought their would be actual budget computers not $800 computers I mean that’s a little excessive for a budget computer, now if I had 800 or even 400 it could work but 150 is not much and I looked to this video to help
Fool's Requiem also touch screens useless to me, I need a decent battery and a decent running device, I know they make those and I thought Linus would be the one person I could go to in order to get the information, and that was completely failed
Alpha namens lol good one, I think Linus was just trying to show he cared about other viewers who are going through school and have $800 Layin around
I managed to get a brand new Dell G3 with a GTX 1060 for $750. That's an unbelievable value.
From where bro?
Share your wisdom with us?
Microcenter. They only had 5 left though when I bought it a couple of weeks ago. Just keep searching for deals like that, they come up every once in a while.
Did it come with an SSHD or an SSD?
@@FlyingKiwi963 it came with an SSHD but it also had an NVME M.2 slot so I picked up a 500GB 860 EVO to use alongside the 1TB SSHD.
That chromebook comment was the most honest and the best laaptop buying advice from a youtuber...
Do yourself a favor and buy a refurbished laptop. I got one for ~$150 with 8 GB of RAM and an i5 that handles all the programming I throw at it (I'm a computer science major). It isn't pretty but if you care most about performance and cost it's great.
This is a really good suggestion if you need a laptop on the cheap and you don't want to waste your money. Old ThinkPads, HP probooks or Dells are going to perform really well despite their age and the only thing that might need a replacement will be the battery.
Refurbs like Thinkpads are godlike
[Insert ThinkPad X220 meme here]
Yup. I bought a refurb Thinkpad T430 for my wife at ca.refurb.io . It came with an Ivy Bridge i5, 8GB RAM, SSD, and Win10 pro. All for less than $300 delivered. You can't buy anything new that is that good for even double the money.
I can barely find any decent refurbished ones in Canada
Am i really that poor, or he doesn't know what "budget" adjective means?!!
I'm in Japan and school starts next week. Linus is not wrong here.
Shapeshifted into Scarecrow in Spain we have another 4 days
Shapeshifted into Scarecrow I would say it’s the other way around, the school system is horrible, life’s pretty good tho, except for somethings
@Shapeshifted into Scarecrow weeb
@Shapeshifted into Scarecrow lol nice
my kids' college and 3rd grade started 2 weeks ago in america
You can probably use any low-budget laptop with a minimal linux installation with i3 or bspwm and it will work just fine and even be faster than a mid-range laptop
BE WARNED, some colleges say that Apple laptops are "required" when in reality, there's one course that requires garageband and you can do the project in the university mac lab. I know a lot of people who just bought a macbook because Penn State told them to. Just fight it and they'll back down and let you not buy one.
Otto Kuehrmann technically tho you can do everything in the library, that used to be me until I said fuck it, im doing this shit in the privacy of my home
Better buy Mac Mini for that purpose
I used VirtualBox lol
Aren't they paid by Apple to do that? Basically before everyone and their mom and their mom's mom had a computer, people going to Uni would be getting their hands on a computer for the first time, so Apple would make loyal costumers by making their first computer be a Mac.
I would absolutely not be surprised if this was the case, though I have no proof.
Linus: Here's a budget laptop list!
Everyone with a higher iq than room temperature: Soo THAT was a lie
Room tempature, but you live outside in antartica.
Don't insult room temperature.
Don't mind me im just going to go around campus with a 17" Omen 17 rx580 edition that weighs atleast like 20 pounds
I am getting a budget car next week, just on my way to get a teslaas money is tight!!! Very cheap laptops mentioned here ! 🤣
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no thinkpad? tbey make great laptops and they have heavy student discounts
A horrible build quality? IDK, a magnesium alloy frame and carbon fiber reinforced plastic seems more durable than thin aluminum to me.
idk, "horrible build quality" and "thinkpad" in the same sentence -- doesn't click in my brain. I've dropped a x270 at least a handful of times now.
we have think pads in our school. everybody hates them. we actually prefer chrome books
@Anon Commenter if you're talking about Latitude, or XPS, then yes, DELL notebooks are nice (but surely not cheap). If you're talking about Inspiron/Vostro, then I think you don't know what you are talking about...
Is there a model that you video edit on well for a cheap price?