As a low end shopper, I have to agree that its kinda unfair to ask much from a machine at 100$. I also agree with people saying that 500$ isn't a low budget option but more of a mid range one. Reviewers tend to refer to anything under 1000$ as a "budget" choice and that's whats frustrating to a lot of people. There are lots of options starting from 300$ and upwards and not that many people reviewing them (usually great deals at laptops with 4 gigs of ram which you can easily upgrade with a 20-30$).
I find it amazing that you also review "hyper budget" laptops. I always liked your 500-700 dollar laptop reviews but it's great to see beyond/below that price point
I got this laptop as an unexpected Christmas present, and i cannot thank my mother enough for it, both my old laptop and my late grandfather's computer got so old and slow that i needed something to replace them just so i could have a work laptop, as i'm an artist and story writer, she got this from Best Buy and, i couldn't have been happier, i didn't need anything fancy as i'm not a PC gamer or anything, i just needed something that would get me on the internet fast and allow me to do my work much easier than on iphone, and like i already said, couldn't be happier!
Honestly, it's pretty cool you managed to get a Windows laptop for $100 despite expecting mediocre performance, still faster than single core netbooks that existed ages ago. Laptops with the same processor can be priced twice or more than this, which means you can buy two of the same laptops! Also, it can work as a backup laptop or tinkering.
I use it to Remote Desktop into my embedded development machine. Have a LTE modem on it for the road as well. I usually use a MacBook 12 for this but when I am in a high risk area (like by the pool or camping) the $100 unit is just fine.
@@Garrettdx1988 If it's not broken, don't fix it. I'm not editing videos and photos on my laptop, I'm watching youtube and writing word docx plus some social.
Outrageous that in Malaysia/Indonesia, this thing still costs about $400. Too expensive for what it offers. But I own one and honestly doesn't suck except for the soldered 4GB RAM. It is fast enough for browsing, data processing with Excel since I'm a field worker, and even watching Bluray 1080p miniseries. It can also do some light gaming.. I installed Road Rash, NFS2-NFS Carbon, and Test Drive Unlimited and it works just fine.
well, im my case, i live in Venezuela, so any job, including way more complex and qualified ones (way above flippin' burger) can't give us enough amount of money to buy a respectable laptop in a single or payment, even if we divert all the complete month earning to the simple mission of buying a laptop. I've had to work about 5-6 years to earn the cash to afford one of your 5 star reviewed machines on 2021!
Your mother wouldn't be proud of your video telling people to save their hard earned money from working at McDonald's. This video was not informative or entertaining watching you insulting us poor people who work at McDonalds to raise our poor families, instead of saving money to buy an expensive laptop that you would like and review. Shame on you!
I realized that the value proposition for laptops works on a sort of S-curve. If you can imagine two lines on an X-Y graph, at the low end, price constantly decreases while performance tanks. While at the high end, performance levels off while price skyrockets.
Used old good laptop > brand new cheap laptop. I got a used Thinkpad X220 in 2018 for around the same price, upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. Been running great ever since and comparative in performance to newer laptops from 2015-2017. Only things I can't run on it are graphics intensive apps.
Ah the x220 ❤️ Had one that I sold 2 years ago. I regret it sometimes. Never had such a solid, reliable laptop and what a keyboard, best across all models I've owned 😥
Ah the good ol' ThinkPad. I have plenty here. Sure you can buy an X220, ram and SSD but you're gonna bust the 100$ mark. And old ThinkPads means core2duo cpus... My X9000 is a good cpu but my i3-6320 is going circles around it at 4.1Ghz. Someday you need to face that a core2duo is just too old (heat and energy used).
@@delowanfocus x230 i7-3520M still strong here. runs @4GHz aswell. T430 even @4 cores. got an x230 for 60 bucks, with 8GB like the Asus ist 85 bucks. 128GB SSD is just 10 bucks on top and with an IPS screen I am @119$ total. Also a x250/x260/x270 u get that cheap. And is as fast as a 2019 MacBook Air. Also got a T440p 8GB/256GB with FHD-IPS, QuadCore & Nvidia graphics for ~150 bucks + shipping.
@@Veg-Power we are talking about a mom and dad wanting to buy a cheap laptop for their kid or for browsing the internet. They won't open an old laptop for putting ram and SSD inside them... ;). Has I said, I have ThinkPads here, plenty of them. But they are not for the ones aimed by the Asus L210.
Having used this laptop I can vouch that its a nice piece of electronics. Its totally worth the 100 bucks they want for it. Its like he forgot how cheap it was halfway through his review.
Counterpoint, it can do basic web browsing, yea it's a little slow, but the internet of ppl who will use this laptop would be way slower. I live in a 3rd world country and I would consider that Google search, pretty fast.
I've bought 3 of these already. Not for me thought but for my son, sister and nephew. I used the first two for about a month; and for $100, they do all the basics I need them to use it for. I'm actually more than satisfied for a $100 laptop to perform that well. I can't expect anything more than what I get from the laptop and I'm not expecting the people I bought them for to use it for anything for than basics tasks like emailing, basic Microsoft office tasks ( word, excel, powerpoint) file management etc. I'm currently testing the third one the N4020 11" exactly the same on this video. I've opened multiple applications at once while using the internet at the same time; opened multiple internet pages at the same time, download apps, music, videos, streaming amazon prime, RUclips etc; basically the basic things I do on my MacBook Air, hopping that it will crash but it has never crashed. The battery does not last long but I'm okay with that for the price of this laptop.
I also bought this little guy, the only difference here is that I went with the E210KA version with the newer Celeron N4500 for about the same price. It's suprisingly fast and doing basic tasks without any issues or slowdowns. In terms of UI speed, switching between multiple tabs and opening programs feels literally the same as on my Ryzen 5 notebook with 8 GB of RAM and a very fast SSD. I'm impressed by what I've got for my money. Again, it's not the exact same model that's in the video, so it's supposed to be a little faster, but for the same price tag, I'm more than happy. Finally I could manage to get rid of my old 12-year-old Intel Atom netbooks that suffered from life itself, and replace them with something actually useable.
@@fahim.foysal if occasionally use it during the day the battery can last the whole day and have some 20% left at the end of the day. But if use all day long it’s about 9 to 11 hours
Thank you for making a video on this, and thank you for featuring my comment! It shows that you really do read all your comments and I appreciate that so much!
The irony of this laptop is that it's a beast with ChromeOS flex combined with NVME m.2 SSD. Over 10 hours of battery life and scrolling speed in chrome equivalent to my M1 Macbook air
Bought this and put Linux lite 6 on it. Requires a little tinkering, which can be fun if you’re into that. I’ve used it more than my actual gaming laptop cause it’s so light and easy to do simple tasks on the couch and in bed. Performance has been way better too, chrome and whatnot run very smoothly.
@@mattyh4554 its good i use it mostly for cramped spaces gaming on it is also not insoluble shrink the window a little slow but not as bad as he says it works good for what i need it to used it for about a year now and i would say YES buy it but you have to buy a nvme ssd also would recommend having a desk top to pare it with as it works good for a laptop on the go but would not use it as my primary system (sorry for the late response) but yeah its good for a laptop that's durable yet also vary small witch was my selling point and still is would say buy it but only if its on sail at best buy for 150 below (i got mine at 142$) and i pared it with a nvme ssd 256gb the only thing that gets in the way is ram (tabs unload and need to reload when i go back to them) other than that this video is just a guy used to using a i9 and not having to wait for RUclips to load in
This actually doesn't sound that bad to me. For $100. I certainly wouldn't be buying it, but e.g. 6.5 hours was much more than I expected for the battery.
Holy s*it, a friend of mine bought the same laptop in Greece for 329 euros. It's painfully slow, and he thinks it's because he upgraded to windows 11. Not even Linux can save it 😬
@@russ254 he's not a fan of Linux (too much to learn, afraid of using the terminal). I wouldn't install Ubuntu on a machine like that. If I was in his place I'd use a lightweight distro like these you recommend
I think you would have had better luck with Lubuntu or another light weight distro installed. Additionally, at this price point, I think you’re better off getting a used thinkpad off ebay and installing linux. I would even argue that you can get one of the older macbook pros for that price. Let’s face it, most people who are buying a $100 laptop don’t have the money to pay for MS Office or any paid SW, so why bother? And chromebooks are more full featured these days than you would think.
2nd hand > cheep. Instead of sending good 2nd hands stuff to a landfill we should be reusing to reduce waste. Would be nice to avoid global warming ya know
I bought one of these well over a year ago and I've actually really enjoyed it. Instead of Windows I run Fedora and it runs fairly well, although it's definitely on the slower side. It's a good laptop for traveling or if you need something compact to use outside or in bed.
I just bought one of these for £99, and I'm happy with it. Let me explain why. I mostly use an M1 Apple Mac, but I sometimes need to run some apps that are for Windows only, (mostly in connection with programming eeproms). These apps don't require much in the way of system resources, so this laptop runs them just fine. I'm not running anything else on it, or use it as a desktop PC and mostly it will not even be connected to the 'net. So, good enough for my needs, and easy on my wallet.
My wife bought a laptop like that from lenovo with only 32gb hard drive and I think an even slower cpu. I dropped in a spare M.2 drive I had and installed windows on it no software from lenovo. I just got the drivers from there website. It was good enough for minecraft. Way faster then before. Still gave it away though. Why not try that, the improvement is quite a lot. Thank you for the video.
for school, a chromebook works for me. Although I don’t get any updates anymore, finding a chromebook for 20 bucks seems to be the best decision i’ve made.
Ha! I have this machine and it's GREAT! It's not pretending to be anything other than what it is. It does everything it's supposed to do, and it's light as a feather. A perfect little backpack laptop.
Nice video. I think a used good laptop might be a good deal sometimes. I bought a used Travelmate from a colleague at Uni (who was upgrading to a macbook) for just 150€, with an i5-5300u which draws very little power when idling, but manages to run xampp, Datagrip and VS code at the same time on three monitors
What is incredibly frustrating to me is that in 2022 there are no good options for fanless windows laptops... Am I the only person who wants something that is really thin and just fast enough for office, browsing and Netflix?
Hey Josh, love the videos. Would you consider making a video on peripherals for laptops? There are so many options for Mice, keyboards and monitors, a guide on how to choose a good one would be helpful. Thanks in advance.
Josh, great video, as usual. I'm going to share it with some folks who might be otherwise inclined to purchase inexpensive underpowered laptops. However, your choice of Linux distributions for the Linux test might not have been the best selection: Fedora 36 uses the GNOME desktop, which is resource-intensive. Would have been better to select one of the XFCE desktop variants, since XFCE is much more sparing of system resources.
I'm surprised you can still buy something this painfully slow today. Back in 2013 I bought an HP ProBook that's about as fast as this laptop is and I'm still using it with upgraded storage and RAM. I haven't been kind to it and has served me well all those years but I can't wait to finally buy a new laptop this year. Ryzen 6000U waiting room.
I've ordered and received a laptop from China called Redmibook Pro 15 (2022) by Xiaomi with a Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and that thing is a beast. You don't need to buy laptops with U series processors anymore - laptop manufacturers found a way to put full featured H series processors inside thin&light laptops now that have 2 fans and beefy heatsinks. I think it's due to the increased space to fit the larger cooling system due to going from 16:9 to 16:10 screens, which is obviously the superior aspect ratio. That Redmibook Pro 15 cost me $1044 including shipping from China and it has a 3.2K 90Hz screen, an exceptionally great keyboard, great build quality and good battery life. Josh should review it some time, I think he'll love it, especially since he's already reviewed a couple Redmibook laptops on the channel before and thought they were amazing.
I bought the Asus E210 laptop a while back and I guess it's fair for the price, but after a month the charger would no longer charge the laptop. Just my experience.
Wow! I have two for about 8 months now and they charge just fine. The Asus Utility you can set them to charge 60%, 80%, or 100%. Mine I set for 60%. Shorter battery use, but much longer battery lifetime.
Thanks for trying this under Linux. I vaguely recall that the same Celeron is used in entry Chromebooks, so I wonder if it would be usable if it was a Chromebook. For my kids, I managed to acquire a pair of refurbished Acer Spin 513. For $169, they are very usable, so much so that I find myself borrowing it for net related stuff due to the 10 hour battery life. Thanks for this review. I know a lot of people want to go as cheap as possible and still be usable.
I have the 410 version of this to use for Dropshipping. I needed all day battery life. It runs FANTASTIC on chrome flex. But you don’t have the play store (I don’t need it I just need chrome)
You get many great PCs on Aliexpress for around 180 USD. Slim laptops, often 14', of course weak CPU and integrated graphics but more than enough for work, video and (very) light/retro gaming.
I have the ViaBook 410m, but most don't notice even though the emmc drive is non-removable it actually has a slot for an nvme drive which then you can reinstall windows onto that and just ignore the emmc drive. Just did it to mine with a 1TB Crucial nvme Drive. At $100 I am not expecting this to complete with much else then a chrome book. Though unlike a chromebook I can even play Skyrim on low settings. I will also say, it usually on the desktop stays around 15% usages with some tweaks.
Hi, Josh Watching your video from my 4 years old Asus 2-in-1 N4200 laptop! I thought it's my time to shine. It's completely usable for very casual task. I replaced the spinning drive with a WD Blue SSD, and haven't replaced the aging battery. Since N4200 is slightly better than N4020, i could multitask a little bit. I have torrent client running in the background while streaming youtube. It seems absolutely insane that the laptop you review has Windows 11 installed. I heard it's much more resource heavy than Windows 10 and i could barely run the laptop when it's updating the windows in the background. Anyway just sharing my thought on this little workhorse of mine. It's amazing it's still working after all this time.
That "$750 is cheap??" comment is historical. I love that comment to this day. Every time the Zenbook 14 goes on sale at best buy it becomes the best budget laptop (despite Zenbook being Asus' flagship). 5600U with MX450 was great, but now it's just okay lol.
Defo go used, I saw a Thinkpad yoga x380 for less than 200 pounds - quad core, nvme, IPS touchscreen and pen, excellent keyboard and build. It's right about the time businesses are selling them off.
I've owned this laptop (and the last generation of it that had the microSD card). Each cost me something like $90.00 Both work great with Linux Mint. Or, if you want to use Windows, make it Win 10 and remember to turn off all background processes. And of course, put in an SSD and boot/work off of that. Also, it can charge via USB-C with a simple adapter that goes from USB-C to the barrel charging port on the Asus. I bought a set of such adapters years ago and they have come in incredibly handy for making almost any laptop charge-able via USB-C. While the processor isn't the fastest and 4GB RAM is unfortunate, it's perfectly adequate for what most people do daily with their laptop. As I type this (on a much more powerful laptop), I'm looking over at my E210 and it's using 88% memory with the following going on: Task Manager open, Firefox open with 6 tabs, MediaMonkey playing mp3s, Steam downloading game updates, and XODO open to read a 409-page PDF. You can even game on this, as long as your expectation are realistic. Unreal tournament 2004 gives me my cheap fix of FPS with great bots, for example, and Toca 3 and the racing sims by SimBin work fine, etc. Lots of classic old games work perfectly well on this. Lon.tv also reviewed this laptop and came away more favorably impressed than Josh did. If you need something cheap, say to travel with and not care much about, I'd recommend it for $100. But do NOT let this be your only laptop. :)
I have been running this laptop for a total of 20 minutes and can tell you I’m returning it ASAP. No way in hell I’m spending any amount of time trying to make this thing run at an acceptable speed.
@@crietzsche I bought two and both of mine are running at acceptable speeds right out of the box. Been using them for 8 months now. Sure I could fire up one of my gaming laptops that will burn up 100 watts or more to browse the Web and to stream videos (not very green). But nothing wrong with firing up an E210 and doing the same at only 8 watts.
$25 buys a 256mb NVME SSD memory that fits right into the available slot and makes this a completely different computer. This will play 1080p videos with very little chopping.
Great review, thank you. I will agree with you that this is not a very developed computer to use. I have it fro about 1 year now, and it has worked well for me. If you use it for only Office tools, Internet, Mail and such simple tasks, it has been very useful. It is NOT for designers. NOT for gamers, NOT for video editing, NOT for audio perfoirmances, but works great for daily home and office use, students and light administrative tasks. WAAAAAY BETTER tah any Chromebook.
Every key stroke takes 5 seconds to register. Most of the time clicking on things with the track pad requires multiple clicks before it does anything. Never thought something could suck so bad.
Unpopular opinion: the reason $500-600 is the definition of a budget laptop is because that really is the minimum price you should be spending on a new laptop. Can't afford that? You really should be looking at used since anything less than $500-600 is manufactured e-waste. Tablets have the same problem. Anything cheaper than a base iPad is e-waste from the factory. IMO if you can't afford a base iPad, you can't afford a new tablet - Samsung or Apple.
Put maybe a little bit harshly, but also very accurate. Anything new under the $500 mark is going to be excruciatingly frustrating to use. I agree with Josh, flip some burgers to get the rest of the money and then buy something decent. Even at $500 you'll likely still be making significant sacrifices. If you need something now, get yourself a decent smartphone on installment.
I just got the same laptop for the same price. I'm sure it'll be fine for school. But you end up with like 25GB of storage after updates, if you get the 64GB one. Gonna have to get an NVMe.
I think for most people, your $500-$700 price range is perfect for the general "budget" laptop. I like the idea of this video a lot though. Maybe you could increase the price to $250 to find the ultimate "budget" laptop at that price range? I feel like $300-$450 ends up being a dead zone for computers because, like you said, you might as well just save an extra few bucks to get a significant jump in quality.
Hay Josh what would you Recommend to me from these? Lenovo YOGA Slim 7i or HP Pavillion Aero 13 or something else if you can recommend under 800 Bucks Pweez reply Josh. You are the only one who I trust for Laptop Advices!!
There's a point where cheap gets too cheap. I bought a chromebook a while ago on a steep discount just to leave on the coffee table for whatever-Returned it. Used for about 10 seconds before realizing that it was just not worth even as an occasional use device. Life is too short.
These are the best low cost laptops I ever found. I paid much more than this for far less speed. These rival some laptops in the $500 range. I thought I would never like a Windows x64 4GB machine. But dang, Asus did a fine job. I don't use my two as my main machine, but I rather use these than using the web on my iPhone.
Came here for the review on the L210, good little machine it looks like. But you use a lot of big words like "incredibly fast celeron [...]" and "insane speed of 1.1ghz". We know that celeron isn't incredibly fast, and 1.1ghz isn't "insane". I would like a more realistic speech so it doesn't sound like a sales pitch. Otherwise good info.
Hi Pach, thanks for dropping by. Perhaps my accent caused the message to be lost in transalation. I was being sarcastic with that verbage. I wanted to be funny. It (this laptop and Celeron) is absolutely not fast.
I got this in 14” for Dropshipping. I needed crazy battery life. Mine has a backlit keyboard but same specs. I believe it’s the 410. It’s really sluggish surprisingly but it does what I need it to do. It runs GREAT on chrome flex. If they had the play store it would make a fantastic Chromebook
Any problems with the wifi driver or anything else on Flex? I got mine dual booting on Windows 11 and Linux Mint with the 2nd SSD drive I got for it. This is really a great computer for what it does.
I got the same exact laptop just for traveling, but I was thinking to update the storage. Disappointed that I can not update the memory. so Looks like I will have to shill out extra money for bettere laptop. You are right, it is slow, even a little lagging for streaming. I only used it on traveling for browsing and checking my work via a Vm machine. It was not bad.
I had an asus laptop similar to this one, like a predecessor to it, called the L200HA. You wouldn't believe me, but it was powered by an essentially a tablet's processor, the Intel Atom x5-Z8350. It has similar specs to the E210 with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB eMMC storage. I have a better laptop that i use daily but i still kept my L200HA when I'm going outside because my main laptop is so heavy lol
That laptop runs great with linux. You just need to run the right software. What desktop were you running? I bet it was using half the ram just to display the interface. Switch to a lightweight desktop environment and you will be much happier. Say, xfce, or if you are brave just use FVWM to really save on memory.
A used ThinkPad around 250 USD is the cheapest laptop I would consider these days. And it will likely have Win Pro => Remote Desktop. For a new laptop my lower limit is around 700 USD, plus $100 Win Pro upgrade.
I'd stay away from an eMMC storage drive in any laptop. I used to own a Chromebook with eMMC storage and it was passable at the time back in 2018 since ChromeOS is pretty light, but it's 2022 now. We don't need any eMMC drive in laptops today.
It truly is unusable. I bought it as a spare to have around in case of an 'emergency'. I tried to have a RUclips video running at the same time as having MS Word open. It froze up every 45 seconds or so. I will be returning and waiting until I can afford something a little better.
I use my two E210 almost daily and they work just fine right out of the box. 14 browser tabs opened right now and it isn't even slowing down and the CPU is at 10%.
I bought this one for typing on a go, and find it durable, reliable and small enough to take instead of a notebook. For though tasks I have victus with max specs though
You think it would run this slow in windows with a nvme ssd? I have a old dell inspirion 1545 & putting a samsung ssd in it turned it into a totally different laptop 💀💀
these are on sale for 110 again and I will pick one up tomorrow. my Chromebook kicked the bucket last night and I need something cheap now. this will only be used for watching youtube and netflix as I have a higher end gaming pc.
I have a 2008 HP Compaq lying around & it has an old Pentium. It performs better than this laptop in cinebench r23. It got 924 points multi core. It has a dedicated GPU so it won't take up as much ram. For basic browsing this laptop works well. 256gb SSD. 4gb ram. The display is a full HD with 16:10 aspect ratio. Colours are better than a new budget laptop but it is a tad dull. Very bulky. Paid only $1NZD + $5 shipping (about $0.63USD + $3.15USD shipping.)
Do not buy cheap laptops. Save your money and wait until you can afford a 500+ dollar laptop. 500 being "too expensive" is a bad statement to make when trying to get a laptop. RAM running in single channel and 4GB of RAM and CPUs with only two cores is NOT a computer you want to be running. Windows is going to be stupid slow to load. It's nice that you can upgrade your storage with a NVME drive, but disappointing that you can't upgrade the RAM.
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As a low end shopper, I have to agree that its kinda unfair to ask much from a machine at 100$. I also agree with people saying that 500$ isn't a low budget option but more of a mid range one. Reviewers tend to refer to anything under 1000$ as a "budget" choice and that's whats frustrating to a lot of people. There are lots of options starting from 300$ and upwards and not that many people reviewing them (usually great deals at laptops with 4 gigs of ram which you can easily upgrade with a 20-30$).
POV you are a laptop that is a budget made in 2020-2023 what removable ram i never heard of that only ram that's soterd to the Bord
@@Liminal_Studios_TM lenovo ideapad 3 series, ive seen a line from HP as well but dont remember what its called
I find it amazing that you also review "hyper budget" laptops. I always liked your 500-700 dollar laptop reviews but it's great to see beyond/below that price point
I got this laptop as an unexpected Christmas present, and i cannot thank my mother enough for it, both my old laptop and my late grandfather's computer got so old and slow that i needed something to replace them just so i could have a work laptop, as i'm an artist and story writer, she got this from Best Buy and, i couldn't have been happier, i didn't need anything fancy as i'm not a PC gamer or anything, i just needed something that would get me on the internet fast and allow me to do my work much easier than on iphone, and like i already said, couldn't be happier!
that’s awesome 😊
Would you recommend this laptop for artists? Looking to buy it as a gift but want to make sure it’s worth it.
@@DWP0 I’m a traditional artist so i can’t really give you confirmation its a good digital art laptop
Honestly, it's pretty cool you managed to get a Windows laptop for $100 despite expecting mediocre performance, still faster than single core netbooks that existed ages ago. Laptops with the same processor can be priced twice or more than this, which means you can buy two of the same laptops! Also, it can work as a backup laptop or tinkering.
I would not web browse on this laptop. Josh's test proved this. It's slower than a cheap android tab.
@@russ254 💀
Use it as a Plex server for the home.
I use it to Remote Desktop into my embedded development machine. Have a LTE modem on it for the road as well. I usually use a MacBook 12 for this but when I am in a high risk area (like by the pool or camping) the $100 unit is just fine.
@@rohithmekala2608 I can browse the web on this machine. It's just not as fast as on other machines.
Rule of thumb: never buy a laptop equipped with eMMC drive.
Why? I have one and I'm not complaining.
I’m surprised the haven’t at least moved to UFS. Most cell phones doesn’t even eMMC anymore.
@@Garrettdx1988 If it's not broken, don't fix it. I'm not editing videos and photos on my laptop, I'm watching youtube and writing word docx plus some social.
$25 gives you a 256gb nvme SD drive that has a slot waiting for it on this computer, and that changes everything.
@@nakedeye44 To be fair, if you have 64gbs it can quite decent for very basic use.
Outrageous that in Malaysia/Indonesia, this thing still costs about $400. Too expensive for what it offers. But I own one and honestly doesn't suck except for the soldered 4GB RAM. It is fast enough for browsing, data processing with Excel since I'm a field worker, and even watching Bluray 1080p miniseries. It can also do some light gaming.. I installed Road Rash, NFS2-NFS Carbon, and Test Drive Unlimited and it works just fine.
Dont lie, 400$ you got Core i5 11 gen instead of this crap lol😂. Maybe your laptop price stuck at 2017.
well, im my case, i live in Venezuela, so any job, including way more complex and qualified ones (way above flippin' burger) can't give us enough amount of money to buy a respectable laptop in a single or payment, even if we divert all the complete month earning to the simple mission of buying a laptop. I've had to work about 5-6 years to earn the cash to afford one of your 5 star reviewed machines on 2021!
Dude that’s crazyyy
Your mother wouldn't be proud of your video telling people to save their hard earned money from working at McDonald's. This video was not informative or entertaining watching you insulting us poor people who work at McDonalds to raise our poor families, instead of saving money to buy an expensive laptop that you would like and review. Shame on you!
I realized that the value proposition for laptops works on a sort of S-curve. If you can imagine two lines on an X-Y graph, at the low end, price constantly decreases while performance tanks. While at the high end, performance levels off while price skyrockets.
Yes, there are sweet spots, depending on your needs and wants. "Cheaper" doesn't always mean better. More expensive doesn't always mean better.
Used old good laptop > brand new cheap laptop. I got a used Thinkpad X220 in 2018 for around the same price, upgraded the RAM to 16GB and added an SSD. Been running great ever since and comparative in performance to newer laptops from 2015-2017. Only things I can't run on it are graphics intensive apps.
Ah the x220 ❤️
Had one that I sold 2 years ago. I regret it sometimes. Never had such a solid, reliable laptop and what a keyboard, best across all models I've owned 😥
Ah the good ol' ThinkPad. I have plenty here. Sure you can buy an X220, ram and SSD but you're gonna bust the 100$ mark. And old ThinkPads means core2duo cpus... My X9000 is a good cpu but my i3-6320 is going circles around it at 4.1Ghz. Someday you need to face that a core2duo is just too old (heat and energy used).
same for x230
@@delowanfocus x230 i7-3520M still strong here. runs @4GHz aswell. T430 even @4 cores. got an x230 for 60 bucks, with 8GB like the Asus ist 85 bucks. 128GB SSD is just 10 bucks on top and with an IPS screen I am @119$ total. Also a x250/x260/x270 u get that cheap. And is as fast as a 2019 MacBook Air.
Also got a T440p 8GB/256GB with FHD-IPS, QuadCore & Nvidia graphics for ~150 bucks + shipping.
@@Veg-Power we are talking about a mom and dad wanting to buy a cheap laptop for their kid or for browsing the internet. They won't open an old laptop for putting ram and SSD inside them... ;). Has I said, I have ThinkPads here, plenty of them. But they are not for the ones aimed by the Asus L210.
Having used this laptop I can vouch that its a nice piece of electronics. Its totally worth the 100 bucks they want for it. Its like he forgot how cheap it was halfway through his review.
Counterpoint, it can do basic web browsing, yea it's a little slow, but the internet of ppl who will use this laptop would be way slower.
I live in a 3rd world country and I would consider that Google search, pretty fast.
I've bought 3 of these already. Not for me thought but for my son, sister and nephew. I used the first two for about a month; and for $100, they do all the basics I need them to use it for. I'm actually more than satisfied for a $100 laptop to perform that well. I can't expect anything more than what I get from the laptop and I'm not expecting the people I bought them for to use it for anything for than basics tasks like emailing, basic Microsoft office tasks ( word, excel, powerpoint) file management etc. I'm currently testing the third one the N4020 11" exactly the same on this video. I've opened multiple applications at once while using the internet at the same time; opened multiple internet pages at the same time, download apps, music, videos, streaming amazon prime, RUclips etc; basically the basic things I do on my MacBook Air, hopping that it will crash but it has never crashed. The battery does not last long but I'm okay with that for the price of this laptop.
I also bought this little guy, the only difference here is that I went with the E210KA version with the newer Celeron N4500 for about the same price. It's suprisingly fast and doing basic tasks without any issues or slowdowns. In terms of UI speed, switching between multiple tabs and opening programs feels literally the same as on my Ryzen 5 notebook with 8 GB of RAM and a very fast SSD. I'm impressed by what I've got for my money. Again, it's not the exact same model that's in the video, so it's supposed to be a little faster, but for the same price tag, I'm more than happy. Finally I could manage to get rid of my old 12-year-old Intel Atom netbooks that suffered from life itself, and replace them with something actually useable.
How is the battery life on these celeron machines?
@@fahim.foysal if occasionally use it during the day the battery can last the whole day and have some 20% left at the end of the day. But if use all day long it’s about 9 to 11 hours
@@baltasareyang6570 Arent you happy with this sort of battery backup?
@@fahim.foysal very happy for such a cheap laptop
I bought this for $99 and put ChromeOS Flex on it. So perfect.
Thank you for making a video on this, and thank you for featuring my comment! It shows that you really do read all your comments and I appreciate that so much!
I do indeed
The irony of this laptop is that it's a beast with ChromeOS flex combined with NVME m.2 SSD. Over 10 hours of battery life and scrolling speed in chrome equivalent to my M1 Macbook air
Bought this and put Linux lite 6 on it. Requires a little tinkering, which can be fun if you’re into that. I’ve used it more than my actual gaming laptop cause it’s so light and easy to do simple tasks on the couch and in bed. Performance has been way better too, chrome and whatnot run very smoothly.
me watching this literally on that laptop
Verdict? I'm getting mixed reviews.
@@mattyh4554 its good i use it mostly for cramped spaces gaming on it is also not insoluble shrink the window a little slow but not as bad as he says it works good for what i need it to used it for about a year now and i would say YES buy it but you have to buy a nvme ssd also would recommend having a desk top to pare it with as it works good for a laptop on the go but would not use it as my primary system (sorry for the late response) but yeah its good for a laptop that's durable yet also vary small witch was my selling point and still is would say buy it but only if its on sail at best buy for 150 below (i got mine at 142$) and i pared it with a nvme ssd 256gb the only thing that gets in the way is ram (tabs unload and need to reload when i go back to them) other than that this video is just a guy used to using a i9 and not having to wait for RUclips to load in
This actually doesn't sound that bad to me. For $100. I certainly wouldn't be buying it, but e.g. 6.5 hours was much more than I expected for the battery.
Holy s*it, a friend of mine bought the same laptop in Greece for 329 euros. It's painfully slow, and he thinks it's because he upgraded to windows 11. Not even Linux can save it 😬
@@russ254 he's not a fan of Linux (too much to learn, afraid of using the terminal). I wouldn't install Ubuntu on a machine like that. If I was in his place I'd use a lightweight distro like these you recommend
Probably can handle roblox 10fps
I have a friend with this one... Works as much as one would expect. Keep up the great work.
I think you would have had better luck with Lubuntu or another light weight distro installed. Additionally, at this price point, I think you’re better off getting a used thinkpad off ebay and installing linux. I would even argue that you can get one of the older macbook pros for that price.
Let’s face it, most people who are buying a $100 laptop don’t have the money to pay for MS Office or any paid SW, so why bother? And chromebooks are more full featured these days than you would think.
Wow, 2 cores? That's as many as in my MacBook air 2019 for just $900. I didn't wanted to use my laptop anyway. Couldn't be happier.
2nd hand > cheep. Instead of sending good 2nd hands stuff to a landfill we should be reusing to reduce waste. Would be nice to avoid global warming ya know
Agreed
I use my E210 machines a lot. They only consume 8 watts. No sense in firing up my gaming PCs and destroy the planet.
I bought one of these well over a year ago and I've actually really enjoyed it. Instead of Windows I run Fedora and it runs fairly well, although it's definitely on the slower side. It's a good laptop for traveling or if you need something compact to use outside or in bed.
I just bought one of these for £99, and I'm happy with it. Let me explain why. I mostly use an M1 Apple Mac, but I sometimes need to run some apps that are for Windows only, (mostly in connection with programming eeproms). These apps don't require much in the way of system resources, so this laptop runs them just fine. I'm not running anything else on it, or use it as a desktop PC and mostly it will not even be connected to the 'net. So, good enough for my needs, and easy on my wallet.
My wife bought a laptop like that from lenovo with only 32gb hard drive and
I think an even slower cpu. I dropped in a spare M.2 drive I had and installed
windows on it no software from lenovo. I just got the drivers from there website.
It was good enough for minecraft. Way faster then before. Still gave it away though.
Why not try that, the improvement is quite a lot. Thank you for the video.
for school, a chromebook works for me. Although I don’t get any updates anymore, finding a chromebook for 20 bucks seems to be the best decision i’ve made.
Ha! I have this machine and it's GREAT! It's not pretending to be anything other than what it is. It does everything it's supposed to do, and it's light as a feather. A perfect little backpack laptop.
Have you tried the microsoft office?? How is it?
watching this video on an intel atom and 2 gigs ram windows 10 laptop and every thing is fine.
P.S: my laptop costed me $75 and I enjoy it very much.
Nice video. I think a used good laptop might be a good deal sometimes. I bought a used Travelmate from a colleague at Uni (who was upgrading to a macbook) for just 150€, with an i5-5300u which draws very little power when idling, but manages to run xampp, Datagrip and VS code at the same time on three monitors
What is incredibly frustrating to me is that in 2022 there are no good options for fanless windows laptops... Am I the only person who wants something that is really thin and just fast enough for office, browsing and Netflix?
Sounds like you want a Mac
You should check out the Acer Swift 1 with the Pentium Silver N6000 :)
Hey Josh, love the videos. Would you consider making a video on peripherals for laptops? There are so many options for Mice, keyboards and monitors, a guide on how to choose a good one would be helpful.
Thanks in advance.
Josh that webcam looks better than the Dell XPS 9300 one...
that was really a detail-oriented video.
i appreciate your effort on making this one.
i am really impressed.
W video.
the way you overrated the spec into ur seemingly happy narration just keeps me going till the very end of this video 😂
Josh, great video, as usual. I'm going to share it with some folks who might be otherwise inclined to purchase inexpensive underpowered laptops. However, your choice of Linux distributions for the Linux test might not have been the best selection: Fedora 36 uses the GNOME desktop, which is resource-intensive. Would have been better to select one of the XFCE desktop variants, since XFCE is much more sparing of system resources.
I'm surprised you can still buy something this painfully slow today.
Back in 2013 I bought an HP ProBook that's about as fast as this laptop is and I'm still using it with upgraded storage and RAM. I haven't been kind to it and has served me well all those years but I can't wait to finally buy a new laptop this year.
Ryzen 6000U waiting room.
I've ordered and received a laptop from China called Redmibook Pro 15 (2022) by Xiaomi with a Ryzen 7 6800H CPU and that thing is a beast. You don't need to buy laptops with U series processors anymore - laptop manufacturers found a way to put full featured H series processors inside thin&light laptops now that have 2 fans and beefy heatsinks. I think it's due to the increased space to fit the larger cooling system due to going from 16:9 to 16:10 screens, which is obviously the superior aspect ratio. That Redmibook Pro 15 cost me $1044 including shipping from China and it has a 3.2K 90Hz screen, an exceptionally great keyboard, great build quality and good battery life. Josh should review it some time, I think he'll love it, especially since he's already reviewed a couple Redmibook laptops on the channel before and thought they were amazing.
ASUS gotta be the best all range laptops by now, productivity, gaming or budget they're the Kings of all
You better off flipping burgers at mc donalds until you can afford something better.
Lol he called us poor.
I would have considered using something lighter like Linux Mint or a distribution using XFCE
I bought the Asus E210 laptop a while back and I guess it's fair for the price, but after a month the charger would no longer charge the laptop. Just my experience.
Wow! I have two for about 8 months now and they charge just fine. The Asus Utility you can set them to charge 60%, 80%, or 100%. Mine I set for 60%. Shorter battery use, but much longer battery lifetime.
Hi, i just bought it yesterday. Is it possible to replace the hard drive?@@BillW50
Thanks for trying this under Linux. I vaguely recall that the same Celeron is used in entry Chromebooks, so I wonder if it would be usable if it was a Chromebook. For my kids, I managed to acquire a pair of refurbished Acer Spin 513. For $169, they are very usable, so much so that I find myself borrowing it for net related stuff due to the 10 hour battery life.
Thanks for this review. I know a lot of people want to go as cheap as possible and still be usable.
I have the 410 version of this to use for Dropshipping. I needed all day battery life. It runs FANTASTIC on chrome flex. But you don’t have the play store (I don’t need it I just need chrome)
This is a great device. I finally have upgraded after a year, but it did everything I asked of it.
You get many great PCs on Aliexpress for around 180 USD. Slim laptops, often 14', of course weak CPU and integrated graphics but more than enough for work, video and (very) light/retro gaming.
I have the ViaBook 410m, but most don't notice even though the emmc drive is non-removable it actually has a slot for an nvme drive which then you can reinstall windows onto that and just ignore the emmc drive. Just did it to mine with a 1TB Crucial nvme Drive. At $100 I am not expecting this to complete with much else then a chrome book. Though unlike a chromebook I can even play Skyrim on low settings. I will also say, it usually on the desktop stays around 15% usages with some tweaks.
Hi, Josh
Watching your video from my 4 years old Asus 2-in-1 N4200 laptop! I thought it's my time to shine. It's completely usable for very casual task. I replaced the spinning drive with a WD Blue SSD, and haven't replaced the aging battery. Since N4200 is slightly better than N4020, i could multitask a little bit. I have torrent client running in the background while streaming youtube.
It seems absolutely insane that the laptop you review has Windows 11 installed. I heard it's much more resource heavy than Windows 10 and i could barely run the laptop when it's updating the windows in the background.
Anyway just sharing my thought on this little workhorse of mine. It's amazing it's still working after all this time.
Why can't we just press the like button? Why do we have to "smash" it?
That "$750 is cheap??" comment is historical. I love that comment to this day. Every time the Zenbook 14 goes on sale at best buy it becomes the best budget laptop (despite Zenbook being Asus' flagship). 5600U with MX450 was great, but now it's just okay lol.
awesome review! I'm buying this laptop for travelling purposes since I want it to be portable. The next portable options are Intel atoms which.... :)
Defo go used, I saw a Thinkpad yoga x380 for less than 200 pounds - quad core, nvme, IPS touchscreen and pen, excellent keyboard and build. It's right about the time businesses are selling them off.
I've owned this laptop (and the last generation of it that had the microSD card). Each cost me something like $90.00 Both work great with Linux Mint. Or, if you want to use Windows, make it Win 10 and remember to turn off all background processes. And of course, put in an SSD and boot/work off of that. Also, it can charge via USB-C with a simple adapter that goes from USB-C to the barrel charging port on the Asus. I bought a set of such adapters years ago and they have come in incredibly handy for making almost any laptop charge-able via USB-C. While the processor isn't the fastest and 4GB RAM is unfortunate, it's perfectly adequate for what most people do daily with their laptop. As I type this (on a much more powerful laptop), I'm looking over at my E210 and it's using 88% memory with the following going on: Task Manager open, Firefox open with 6 tabs, MediaMonkey playing mp3s, Steam downloading game updates, and XODO open to read a 409-page PDF. You can even game on this, as long as your expectation are realistic. Unreal tournament 2004 gives me my cheap fix of FPS with great bots, for example, and Toca 3 and the racing sims by SimBin work fine, etc. Lots of classic old games work perfectly well on this.
Lon.tv also reviewed this laptop and came away more favorably impressed than Josh did. If you need something cheap, say to travel with and not care much about, I'd recommend it for $100. But do NOT let this be your only laptop. :)
I have been running this laptop for a total of 20 minutes and can tell you I’m returning it ASAP. No way in hell I’m spending any amount of time trying to make this thing run at an acceptable speed.
@@crietzsche I bought two and both of mine are running at acceptable speeds right out of the box. Been using them for 8 months now. Sure I could fire up one of my gaming laptops that will burn up 100 watts or more to browse the Web and to stream videos (not very green). But nothing wrong with firing up an E210 and doing the same at only 8 watts.
$25 buys a 256mb NVME SSD memory that fits right into the available slot and makes this a completely different computer. This will play 1080p videos with very little chopping.
I will not drink beer today and buy this laptop...
Great review, thank you. I will agree with you that this is not a very developed computer to use. I have it fro about 1 year now, and it has worked well for me. If you use it for only Office tools, Internet, Mail and such simple tasks, it has been very useful. It is NOT for designers. NOT for gamers, NOT for video editing, NOT for audio perfoirmances, but works great for daily home and office use, students and light administrative tasks. WAAAAAY BETTER tah any Chromebook.
Every key stroke takes 5 seconds to register. Most of the time clicking on things with the track pad requires multiple clicks before it does anything. Never thought something could suck so bad.
@@crietzsche My two are registering just fine. Still prefer a BT mouse though.
check "the latest "eta prime" video $98 Chromebook sold in walmart. that has a 2.4ghz amd chip. you may get better mileage out of Linux from that one.
Unpopular opinion: the reason $500-600 is the definition of a budget laptop is because that really is the minimum price you should be spending on a new laptop. Can't afford that? You really should be looking at used since anything less than $500-600 is manufactured e-waste.
Tablets have the same problem. Anything cheaper than a base iPad is e-waste from the factory. IMO if you can't afford a base iPad, you can't afford a new tablet - Samsung or Apple.
Put maybe a little bit harshly, but also very accurate. Anything new under the $500 mark is going to be excruciatingly frustrating to use. I agree with Josh, flip some burgers to get the rest of the money and then buy something decent. Even at $500 you'll likely still be making significant sacrifices. If you need something now, get yourself a decent smartphone on installment.
The time I will spend flipping burgers, I won't have time to surf the internet.
@@kevinm8715 I have high end machines and I still use my E210 machines. Use the right tool for the job.
I just got the same laptop for the same price. I'm sure it'll be fine for school. But you end up with like 25GB of storage after updates, if you get the 64GB one. Gonna have to get an NVMe.
Next: the best under 400$ laptop
nice but toi cheap - $250 is optimum I think. Can be used, inportant is long battery live, 13', good screen (for web&movies)
thanks for making this video!
My pleasure!
I think for most people, your $500-$700 price range is perfect for the general "budget" laptop.
I like the idea of this video a lot though. Maybe you could increase the price to $250 to find the ultimate "budget" laptop at that price range? I feel like $300-$450 ends up being a dead zone for computers because, like you said, you might as well just save an extra few bucks to get a significant jump in quality.
Hey! Your videos are great!
Hay Josh what would you Recommend to me from these?
Lenovo YOGA Slim 7i or HP Pavillion Aero 13 or something else if you can recommend under 800 Bucks
Pweez reply Josh. You are the only one who I trust for Laptop Advices!!
There's a point where cheap gets too cheap. I bought a chromebook a while ago on a steep discount just to leave on the coffee table for whatever-Returned it. Used for about 10 seconds before realizing that it was just not worth even as an occasional use device. Life is too short.
These are the best low cost laptops I ever found. I paid much more than this for far less speed. These rival some laptops in the $500 range. I thought I would never like a Windows x64 4GB machine. But dang, Asus did a fine job. I don't use my two as my main machine, but I rather use these than using the web on my iPhone.
I love this video!😂 I was just wondering what is absolute barebone that windows can get away with, now I know Good one ! 👍 Thank you.
Ha! Yes I was interested in that question myself!
Came here for the review on the L210, good little machine it looks like. But you use a lot of big words like "incredibly fast celeron [...]" and "insane speed of 1.1ghz". We know that celeron isn't incredibly fast, and 1.1ghz isn't "insane". I would like a more realistic speech so it doesn't sound like a sales pitch.
Otherwise good info.
Hi Pach, thanks for dropping by. Perhaps my accent caused the message to be lost in transalation. I was being sarcastic with that verbage. I wanted to be funny. It (this laptop and Celeron) is absolutely not fast.
Bohdi Linux is an Ubuntu fork that is really good for low end hardware.
I got this in 14” for Dropshipping. I needed crazy battery life. Mine has a backlit keyboard but same specs. I believe it’s the 410. It’s really sluggish surprisingly but it does what I need it to do. It runs GREAT on chrome flex. If they had the play store it would make a fantastic Chromebook
Any problems with the wifi driver or anything else on Flex? I got mine dual booting on Windows 11 and Linux Mint with the 2nd SSD drive I got for it. This is really a great computer for what it does.
Thanks for the information 👍
This is a great system admin machine for Linux CLI. Using this with any gui is a stretch.
I got the same exact laptop just for traveling, but I was thinking to update the storage. Disappointed that I can not update the memory. so Looks like I will have to shill out extra money for bettere laptop. You are right, it is slow, even a little lagging for streaming. I only used it on traveling for browsing and checking my work via a Vm machine. It was not bad.
I really only used this laptop of typing and checking college emails lol not too shabby for the price
This is an ok laptop! Use it as a display for my media server.
HDMI 1.4 can do 4k 60 though usually at 8 bit, 4:2:0 subsampling.
I had an asus laptop similar to this one, like a predecessor to it, called the L200HA. You wouldn't believe me, but it was powered by an essentially a tablet's processor, the Intel Atom x5-Z8350. It has similar specs to the E210 with 4 GB RAM and 64 GB eMMC storage. I have a better laptop that i use daily but i still kept my L200HA when I'm going outside because my main laptop is so heavy lol
Rule of thumb .. $100 laptop ain't gonna run like a $1500 laptop.. who would have thunk!!
That laptop runs great with linux. You just need to run the right software. What desktop were you running? I bet it was using half the ram just to display the interface. Switch to a lightweight desktop environment and you will be much happier. Say, xfce, or if you are brave just use FVWM to really save on memory.
9:25 oh god that's hurt 🤕 damn reality & facts is just so good but also it does hurt 😂⚡
A used ThinkPad around 250 USD is the cheapest laptop I would consider these days. And it will likely have Win Pro => Remote Desktop. For a new laptop my lower limit is around 700 USD, plus $100 Win Pro upgrade.
You can get a windows pro license for 1-2 dollars online. lol
I'd stay away from an eMMC storage drive in any laptop. I used to own a Chromebook with eMMC storage and it was passable at the time back in 2018 since ChromeOS is pretty light, but it's 2022 now. We don't need any eMMC drive in laptops today.
It truly is unusable. I bought it as a spare to have around in case of an 'emergency'. I tried to have a RUclips video running at the same time as having MS Word open. It froze up every 45 seconds or so. I will be returning and waiting until I can afford something a little better.
I use my two E210 almost daily and they work just fine right out of the box. 14 browser tabs opened right now and it isn't even slowing down and the CPU is at 10%.
Best review so far
I bet Chrome OS Flex would work very well on the laptop you reviewed. What do you say? Give it a try...
Thank you for including Linux in review ...please more testing and details. Thank you !
I bought this one for typing on a go, and find it durable, reliable and small enough to take instead of a notebook. For though tasks I have victus with max specs though
Good God my HP that ran on an 8th-gen i3 Processor, 8GB RAM and 128GB NVME ran way faster than this. And I sold i for $150. So... Just get an old one!
I've got an Asus E410. It's a nice laptop.
You think it would run this slow in windows with a nvme ssd? I have a old dell inspirion 1545 & putting a samsung ssd in it turned it into a totally different laptop 💀💀
Respectfully roasted 😃
Finally a laptop that I can afford.
these are on sale for 110 again and I will pick one up tomorrow. my Chromebook kicked the bucket last night and I need something cheap now. this will only be used for watching youtube and netflix as I have a higher end gaming pc.
Sadly I don't live in the US so I couldn't buy
8:15 > _"i decided to try linux"_
i was thinking that too, but didn't expect u'd go this far on it. let's see which liteweight distro have u picked.
What did you think of my choice?
You must me doing something wrong. I have a N2140 4GB 11.6". Performance is quick. I removed many crapware I did not want.
Hello Josh, can you recommend some budget gaming laptops please?
I have a 2008 HP Compaq lying around & it has an old Pentium. It performs better than this laptop in cinebench r23. It got 924 points multi core. It has a dedicated GPU so it won't take up as much ram. For basic browsing this laptop works well. 256gb SSD. 4gb ram. The display is a full HD with 16:10 aspect ratio. Colours are better than a new budget laptop but it is a tad dull. Very bulky. Paid only $1NZD + $5 shipping (about $0.63USD + $3.15USD shipping.)
Do not buy cheap laptops. Save your money and wait until you can afford a 500+ dollar laptop. 500 being "too expensive" is a bad statement to make when trying to get a laptop. RAM running in single channel and 4GB of RAM and CPUs with only two cores is NOT a computer you want to be running. Windows is going to be stupid slow to load.
It's nice that you can upgrade your storage with a NVME drive, but disappointing that you can't upgrade the RAM.
For some people, the E210 is just fine. I am a hoarder of laptops and tablets and I still use my 8 month old E210 machines for some tasks.
My laptop ( Ideapad Y510p ) with a gt 755M SLI I bought for $135 will smoke the performsce of this laptop
Best buy has these on sale again so I just bought one. I'm just not expecting much just a backup so I can pay bills and stuff if my desktop dies.