I bought the CHEAPEST New LAPTOP.
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- In Microcenter, I found this laptop on sale for $79.99 (USD) So I bought it.
It appears to be the cheapest new Windows laptop you can buy. So let's see how it performs!
I will be doing a bunch of benchmarking, and gaming on this laptop to push it to it's limits!
Is this laptop any good? Or is it not even worth looking at? Let's find out!
Also, I failed to mention what this laptop is, this is what it is. The brand is Evolve III, and the model of this laptop is "Maestro-EBook11" But without the " " .
Where to get the laptop- www.microcenter.com/product/6...
The price is no longer $79.99, and is $99.99.
Thank you so much for watching!
Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:38 Laptop overview
3:28 Bloatware
4:01 Specs
4:30 Windows updates
5:35 Cinebench 23 (Non-Overclocked)
6:25 Tinkering with the BIOS & Benchmarking
8:34 Minecraft Java + Sodium Mod
9:57 Minecraft Bedrock
11:09 Minecraft Bedrock + OBS Recording
12:02 BeamNG Drive
13:37 CSGO
15:08 New World
16:22 Roblox Arsenal
16:57 Muck
18:07 Battery Life
19:24 Can it edit 4k video?
20:16 My thoughts
22:37 Outro 
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What are your thoughts on this laptop? Do you love it? Or do you hate it? I am very curious to here your thoughts!
Thanks so much for watching!
For a second there I thought you were a viewer asking that question and I was going to say, something canny like, 'isn't that the whole point of the video?" lol
As a point of clarification , the 5 hour battery life test was after you changed bios settings, where the wattage was set to 9 watts or whatnot? Also, for CS Go did you also turn off all the other graphic settings like anti-aliasing, smooth shading, etc.? Because I remember back in the day, like in 2012 when I had an even slower, old computer with a CRT monitor playing on 56k dial-up modem, I had to play, what was called back then, Half-life: Counterstrike, on 480 P resolution settings just to get 30 FPS where it looks super pixelated but compared to you running it at 800x600 (presumably) CS Go looks like it still has some DirectX or Smooth Shading going on. I guess not really that important since I wouldn't use it for gaming, but it really helps to know OBS was able to record fine.
The only 2 questions I have remaining that haven't been answered in the 2 videos I watched was whether or not you had added the front camera to OBS while recording or if it was just gameplay since it sounds like Discord calls really demands a lot from the cpu. I'm basically looking for a replacement laptop after mine was stolen and just want something to stream on the go (where I'd bring my logitech usb webcams a USB hub, and probably an external drive).
And secondly, how far back does the screen fold? Can it lay flat?
Thanks for the in-depth testing you conducted and putting this all together. I greatly appreciate that you included a small bit about video editing too as that was a question I kinda hoped to have answered but wouldn't have expected. So kudos, and thanks again!
@@aOnceChillpanda I am sorry for the very, very, VERY late reply. Somehow I did not see this message until now.
So, the screen does not fold back far. It is far from being able to be flat.
OBS does record, I do use it for my capture card, but at any higher than 1080P 30 FPS, it struggles.
And I did not try recording a game, with the camera with OBS. I think it wouldn't be able to handle that.
And I do think the battery life test was at 9 Watts, I don't remember though, as it's been a long time. And with CS:GO, I don't remember, but me being me, I likely put the game to the lowest settings possible.
Mine has been in the Box about a year , I'll open it tonight . I'll let you know .
@@QuaaludeCharlie O! It will be neat to see what you think of it.
Right now I am typing this comment on the laptop.
Bought 2 of them over the weekend. You can remove NVME LTE Cell modem and install and NVME SSD in the slot. It has be a m.2 2242 nvme b+m keyed ssd. They make drives that can fit it up to 2 TB. Crazy deal for a functional little web browser and media screamer machine. The HD graphics can decode and playback 4k video and Output via HDMI.
If I ever run out of storage I might actually put a nvme in mine. But for now I'm just using external hard drives when I use it.
I don't actually use mine that much because it's quite small. I know I can hook it to a external monitor but I only use it at a different house when I am out. I don't have a monitor there. So I just use my old laptop that has a Pentium T4200. It's not as fast but it's working fine. I know I can use a mini HDMI to a HDMI adapter for a monitor but then I have to get a monitor a keyboard and all of that. Even though all I use the laptop for is to play Back RUclips well I edit videos. I guess I could do it with the small laptop too.
How do you like the laptop?
Nice little video. I just picked up one of these to capture time lapses with, as I've been attempting to take some with a PC, but naturally if and when the power fails or skips, the lapse is lost. I think this little guy will be fit for the task.
Yeah, it should! I use a old Lenovo Thinkpad for my Minecraft Java server, so when the power goes out (which it does weekly here) everything is safe. The battery on it lasts about 5 hours with no one online. And it is hooked up to the ethernet, so when the power comes back on, the server will be back online, well, sort of.
Team Viewer will be back online, so I can hop onto the laptop threw Team Viewer and restart the server, or anything if needed.
This Evolve laptop should be able to do video recording, as long as it's 1080P. Not sure about 1440P though. Also, will you be using a external HDD/SSD to hold all of the time lapses? I ask this since time lapses take a lot of storage, and there is only 64 GB of it on the laptop, and around 25 GB with Windows 10 installed and everything.
From some people in the comments, it might be possible to take the cell data card out, and put a M.2 SSD in it, or something. So that would be a good way to get a ton of storage.
When I say "cell data card" I mean the place where you put a sim card in, to use cell data to connect to the internet, not the WIFI Card.
Let me know how you like the laptop Kentageon! I am curious to here! Also- Thanks for the comment!
@@digitaljon1109 I actually like the LTE capabilities of the laptop. I often work remotely and have a USB dongle for that reason. I can take the SIM card out of it and put it in this laptop and have internet on the go.
And yeah, as for the time lapse, I intend to do one spanning an entire year. I have an external SSD with a USB connector attached. It will be where the images are stored.
I like the LTE as well, it's quite neat. At the moment I only have 1 Sim Card though, which is on my phone. So I don't use it much (if ever).
Maybe if I ever get another Sim Card, I might be able to get one of these LTE things for USB or something, and plug it into my main computer, and cancel the internet.
Wait... Now that I think of it, that wouldn't work as I would still need ethernet for the server, and some of the older computers in my collection.
How much have you recorded with the laptop so far? And what is the time lapse for? 1 Year is a LONG time! :O
@@digitaljon1109 I've not done any recordings on the laptop yet since I just got it, but am presently honing my technique. I have a few crystal growing projects as hobbies and are using them to test. But yeah, one full year of time in 10 minutes is my goal. I just need to make sure all the kinks are worked out before i start!
That sounds very exciting! Can I see how it looks when your done setting it all up? That must look pretty interesting. Also after the entire recording can you let me know what the battery life is? The reason why I ask is because if I'm not mistaking having something fully charged and just left plugged in degrades the battery after time. I'm curious to see if that's correct or not. So having it constantly plugged in for a year would be interesting.
theyre 60 bucks now new at microcenter. im using it as a screen to watch my streams and youtube from. pretty useful if you need an extra screen. or something to take on the go to share files
Yup! It is a quite nice laptop for the price!
It can even do some gaming which is neat!
Here is something neat, so I found a CPU nearly the same speed as this. I recently got a motherboard for free, and it supported the CPU, and I had the CPU, so I tossed together the computer.
The CPU is a AMD Phenom 9150E. It is quite slow for a desktop CPU, and as well struggles with Roblox.
If we could get stuff like this in the UK I'd totally be getting a few for my family. They don't need anything too fancy and this seems to be a perfect fit. I'm sure the time will come eventually.
I do wonder if NVMe boot is supported on these, if so that will make for a pretty snappy machine.
For now I think the old Core 2 Duo laptops will do the job just fine.
Yeah, you can take the Sim card slot out, and replace it with a NVME SSD. Someone in the comments actually did do that, and they said:
"I just bought this one. Tried putting an m.2 pcie nvme ssd, did not detect. Then I put a m.2 sata iii and it is working like a charm. I made it my boot drive and the computer is much faster."
I don't know much about NVME SSD's, so I don't know what to take from that. But it seems possible.
Also, you do have some nice computer stores there in the UK, right? Like CEX? Which saying the whole word without spelling out the letters sounds wrong. Lol.
How is your day by the way?
@@digitaljon1109 Honestly at this price point, any upgradability is a nice to have even if it can't quite do NVMe speeds.
And yes, we do have CEX here (as you said, sounds wrong trying to say it without spelling out the letters). Although, the stuff you actually receive is rather questionable at best. They pretty much only sell used stuff and a lot of the time they don't even bother to clean them. At least they honour their 2 year warranty (usually).
My day is going great so far! Thanks for asking!
Also, this video is very well put together. You pretty much covered everything the majority of people would want to know about a laptop like this.
@@whitebeartigtig Yeah! It is nice to be able to upgrade the storage on this! Also, CEX, even if it is questionable, it is quite nice having a warranty!
Also, that's awesome your day has been well!! And also, I am currently working on a video testing out a $1,400 laptop from the year 2008.. I have re-done the video 2 times so far. Lol.
If you put a fan under this what's the maximum wattage you could get while being safe? Trying to get more performance
I have not tried. I was thinking of taking the bottom off of the laptop, and putting it on a cooling pad to make air get down there to cool stuff, never ended up doing that.
is there a way to make the audio louder other than maxing out the volume at the bottom right?
It Is by maxing out the volume on the bottom right. And whatever application you are using you want to have the volume maxed out. Like on RUclips for example.
If I was learning to code would this be ok ? I’m just gonna code maybe occasionally watch RUclips vids
I don't know much about coding, or how hard it is on a computer, but I would think so? It won't play games like Cyberpunk, but doing typing it should be great at.
FYI- I recommend getting a external keyboard if you plan to do a lot of typing on it. But, maybe it is possible to get used to the keyboard? I don't know. Lol. But it should be good! (:
Thanks for the comment!
My microcenter has them on sale for $60. Thinking about picking one up to replace my ancient lenovo yoga 2 windows tablet that has a dying battery and struggles to load and play anything. I just need a basic travel machine that can play videos for trips and use office/email for work.
That tablet looks quite nice and portable! I am not sure if this Celeron is any fast or not though, compared to the Atom in your tablet.
Thanks for the comment by the way Rberg! I enjoy reading them! (:
I should add, that tablet you have might be more portable, but this you can put a sim card in.
Me parece muy interesante esta laptop, le pusiste alguna ssd o disco duro? Ahora veo que puedo jugar en ella, es perfecta estoy pensando en comprarla
Hello! This laptop can NOT take a hard drive, but you Can put a NVME SSD in it, (I am not sure about the new models though).
Also, this laptop comes with soldered on storage, which is like a SSD, but slower. And that is not upgradable.
But the easiest way to upgrade the storage on it is by putting a 256 GB (or larger) SD card in it.
Sorry if this comment is messed up, I am using Google Translate to type this.
¡Hola! Esta computadora portátil NO puede tener un disco duro, pero puede colocarle un SSD NVME (aunque no estoy seguro acerca de los nuevos modelos).
Además, esta computadora portátil viene con almacenamiento soldado, que es como un SSD, pero más lento. Y eso no es actualizable.
Pero la forma más fácil de actualizar el almacenamiento es colocando una tarjeta SD de 256 GB (o más grande).
Lo siento si este comentario está mal, estoy usando Google Translate para escribir esto.
Can you replace the LTE card for an SSD? Looks like it is using a M.2 slot. If you can add an SSD and remove the power limiter in BIOS, this should be a killer deal for sub 100
People have been talking about it being possible. I don't know much about M.2 SSD's though, to say if it is correct on this. None of my computers are new enough to have a VVME. Just either SATA or IDE. (Yes, I still have some IDE computers, sitting around).
@@digitaljon1109 I just bought this one. Tried putting an m.2 pcie nvme ssd, did not detect. Then I put a m.2 sata iii and it is working like a charm. I made it my boot drive and the computer is much faster.
@@shayanshahriar7882 That's awesome! I still am using the "SD" card as my main storage. (The soldered on storage.)
Can this output 4K to a TV if connected with HDMI cable? I want to use this to play 4K movies with wireless keyboard and mouse.
the processor, is gonna be the problem, it is very, very very sluggish, i have pretty much the same laptop at home, when streaming a 1080p60fps video, it start to have rolls back, if you want a good laptop for cheap which can display 4K you could probably get an old thinkpad laptop from ebay with mini display port on io (first generation display port can do 4K but only at 30 fps, if you want 60 you'll need 1.2 or 1.2a)
@zarash , I don't think it can. It can playback 1080P videos, not sure if it's 30 or 60 FPS though. But I will give it a try and see what happens when I get a chance.
Yeah, that is about what I remember from trying higher resolutions on it. I will try it tonight if I remember.
Thank you both for the comment!!
Can be used to program?? btw good video:)
Thank you! I know 0 about coding, but I think it would work for it. But again, I know nothing about coding, or if it needs a strong CPU, or a lot of RAM or disk space.
@@digitaljon1109 Thanks for your answer!
Does MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint work well? can I type my assignments on it without any challenges ?
Well, there are 2 sides to that.
MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint (should) work perfectly fine. I have not tested it exactly, but I can use Google Documents just fine, Discord works just fine too, and so does web browsing.
For the typing part... You might be able to get used to the keyboard, but it sucks compared to any other keyboard I ever used on a laptop.
If you are going to be doing a lot of typing, I recommend getting a cheap keyboard, like the Inland keyboard from Micro Center (which is the cheapest place to get the laptop). as it is cheap, and a ton better. (It is $8 for the keyboard, and mouse). www.microcenter.com/product/658628/inland-ic-210-premium-mouse-keyboard-combo
But for just typing alone, and you want to use the laptop keyboard, it will get the job done, but isn't pleasant typing on it.
If you have arthritis in your fingers, forget it. 🖐️
I actually bought this too back in February! For the price, it's a very nice little machine. Not the fastest thing in the world, but you get what you pay for, and if you just need to browse the internet, then it's perfect.
It is a very solid web browsing PC! Have you tried to game on it at all?
@@digitaljon1109 No, I haven't yet, but I wonder how it would fair, probably not too well with these specs.
Eh, with the games I tried in the video, it worked, just not well with any somewhat complex game. I am thinking of making a follow up video on this laptop. Since making this video, I improved the cooling on the laptop, which makes it a bit more interesting to mess with.
@@digitaljon1109 I'll be around to watch that!
It will probably be over a month till then, since I have 2 videos ahead of it, at least.
Que tal corre el warcraft 3 o los emuladores de n64?
¡Hola! Usando Google Translate en este momento. Entonces, no he intentado jugar esos juegos. Pero esto realmente no está destinado a los juegos. Puede salirse con la suya con algunos juegos fáciles de ejecutar como Roblox o Minecraft Bedrock, ambos a 720P, la configuración más baja. Para darte una idea.
Lamento la demora en la respuesta, sigo olvidando responder a su mensaje.
so for setting it to 9 watts did you keep the temperature limit off? and if so where do i go in the bios for that? i bought the laptop and want to push it to its limits to see if i can run specific games on it
Hey there Lllog!! So, what you need to do is press "DEL" (a lot) when turning on the computer to get into the BIOS. Next go to the "advanced" tab.
Then go to "CPU Configuration".
Then go to "CPU Power Management".
Then where it says "Power Limit 1 Power", you can adjust how many WATTS to give it there. Stock it should be 6. I adjusted the cooling on mine, so I set it to 25.
To completely remove the limit, you can go to "Power Limit 1 Enable", and turn that to "Disabled".
Then for the thermal limits, hit the "ESC" button 2 times to get back to the main page in the "Advanced" tab.
Then go to the "Thermal" tab.
In the "Thermal" tab, I disabled everything, and then where it showed numbers, I adjusted them to "0". As that turns them off.
The only thing I left on in this tab is "DPTF", and "DPTF Processor".
Once you do all that, then what you need to do is hit "ESC" once, and go to the "Save & Exit" tab, then select "Save Changes and Exit", and press enter.
From there you are going to be booting into Windows.
Here is some other notes. I highly recommend getting HWMonitor if you do not have it already, to monitor the temperatures. As it does get really hot. If you need to adjust the WATTAGE higher or lower, you can tell in there.
Also, extra note, try to keep the CPU temperature from 100C or less. 100C is very hot, but it shouldn't break anything short term. I try to keep it under 95C. (Still very hot) but I want the extra speed. I am going to try to adjust the cooling on my laptop even more though, soon.
Also, how much was your laptop? I saw they went on sale for about $50 (USD) recently at Micro Center.
How is your day by the way?
Also, thanks for the comment mate! I enjoy reading and responding to them!
If you have any questions, please ask them. Thanks!
@@digitaljon1109 something is still missing :( I set it up on my own and was dropping clocks, reset to default and followed along and same issue.
it's only running at 2.1 for ~30 seconds and then dropping to 1.9 for the remainder of CB R15. Temps max out at 86c peak.
Added the high performance power plan to Windows (was missing for some reason) but it didn't make a difference. HWInfo is showing only 11w peak and 9w sustained.
Been pulling my hair out trying to figure it out.
@@ashberic Ah! The reason why is the CPU maximum temperature is set to around 85C. The way to get around it is, find the thermal tab in the BIOS, it should be under Advanced. Then set everything related with thermals to 0, if it allows you.
@@digitaljon1109
BIOS 1: i.imgur.com/ozgbYUy.jpg
BIOS 2: i.imgur.com/abtOvVI.jpg
OS: i.imgur.com/2GsqU8O.png
Even with Power Limit 1 Enable set to disabled/unlimited it still drops to 1.9 about midway through R15, and in either case (25w or unlimited) it still just says 11w @ 2100 and it after it drops it's 9w @ 1900.
@@ashberic What you did in the "BIOS 2:" link is correct, also where it says "Power Limit 1 Enabled", try to disable that. *BUT WATCH THE TEMPERATURES* when doing that, as, you don't want to fryify anything, from heat. (:
Greetings, do you know if you can increase the ram?
Hey there Luis! How are you?
So, you can't replace/upgrade the RAM. They are soldered on.
But I have heard you can upgrade the storage, with a M.2 SSD by taking out the thing you can put a SIM card in to get internet on the go.
I am not too sure if it is possible, I have not tried it as I don't have a M.2 SSD.
Thanks for the comment by the way Luis! I enjoy reading them!
@@digitaljon1109 Thanks to you for your answer, the ssd thing sounds interesting, if one day I try it and I'll comment
The moment I saw that Windows Key, I had a gut feeling that this would most likely be better with windows 7
I put Windows 11 on mine, and it is doing just fine. But I also got a newer one for someone, and upgraded it to Windows 11, and the speakers don't work. I am trying to get in contact with the manufacturer for help, as no matter what driver I try, it doesn't work.
very nice video
Thank you Leox! I appreciate it!
Just picked up two at Micro Center for $59.99 each. (4th of July Sale)
Nice! Have you used them at all?
@@digitaljon1109 Yes. I set one up for myself and sold one to a friend. Planning on using mine for tuning ECUs in cars.
@@carlosavila1155 That sounds neat! What is a "ECU"?
Thanks for your review. I bought my Maesto E-Book 15 days ago as an open box (torn flap) product for $63.99 (20% off). It came with activated Win10 Pro Educ ; it did NOT come with 802.11ac WiFi as stated in the scecs (the RTL8723DU chip only does single band 802.11b/g/n WiFi). I added an inexpensive $8 802.11ac dongle for faster networking. Then I made these adjustments:
Screen-adjusted the settings to eliminate the washed out look
Sound-tuned the output using Spatial Sound and the equalizer; no bass but sounds decent
Power-adjusted to performance in advanced power settings
I use it for video under RUclips, Tubi-TV, Pluto and Kodi and it does 1080p no problem. As far as gaming RetroArch works great thru about SNES, Megadrive and PCEngine emulators. The 5500mAh battery lasts me 8-11 hrs under normal use and charges quickly with the fast charge adapter. IMHO the trackpad is about the best I've used. The keyboard is usable if a little small.
Nice tip on BIOS voltage setting. Apparently you can yank the LTE modem and replace it with a NGFF SSD card for added storage. But this notebook computer IS a Dodge Dart NOT a Dodge Charger; keep that in mind & for the price I think its a bargain. daveyb
Thank you for the comment David! Yeah, it is a very nice laptop. But it takes quite a bit of setting up to get it to be nice.
What settings did you adjust for the screen? Are they Intel Graphics settings?
Also, $64 is a very nice price!
Thanks! I do like taking a look into the BIOS of computers to see what I can play with in there.
The downside of me always going into the BIOS is, I know enough to be dangerous. So I nearly fried some computers in the past from that lol.
Have you tried any modern games on the laptop? Like Cyberpunk, Dying Light 2, ECT?
I do plan to make another video on this laptop in the future, testing out 1 game per video or so. I want to test GTA V, and Fortnite. I am not sure what other games quite yet, though. Maybe Dota 2.
Also, there might be a way to get more bass in the speakers. I am not sure though, but there might be a way to get a program and turn the BASS way up in it, any maybe it might sound a bit better? (I have never messed with speakers like that before).
Also, I want to do a "upgrade" to mine. What I want to do is make a custom bottom of the laptop. Meaning I want to take the bottom off, make a wooden bottom, then fill it up with vents. So the CPU can be maxed out, and not power limited to 9 WATTS due to it is running at 100C+ if it goes any higher in the WATTS.
With a vent on the bottom, I would be able to use one of those fans that you set a laptop on, to cool it down easier. Since wind would be blowing on the coper heat sync.
Also, I am making a video on a used laptop I got for a total of $15, it should be out for next Wednesday, I hope. Stay tuned for that! (:
@@waynv1835 Nope, this is not a return, this is a brand new laptop. They do have returns as well, and those sell for about $65-68 USD, from what I see.
About the warranty, I am not sure how long it has left, as I don't remember what it had in the 1st place. I think it might just be 30 days, as I did not pay for a 5 year protection plan or anything.
@@digitaljon1109 Hi, I used the Intel settings app for the video and the Realtek Audio Console for the sound. As far as games I haven't played any new games since about the Heretic/Hexan times. I just retro game now. db
I speak Spanish, I don't understand English very well. So your over lock setting was to go to 6 watts and disable the overheat limit. This is my question...
¡Hola! Estoy usando el traductor de Google para escribir esto.
Lo que hice fue desbloquear el límite de potencia de la CPU, el stock es de 6 vatios y lo configuré para que use tantos vatios como quiera.
Y también deshabilité el límite térmico, por lo que no acelera térmicamente a 70C. (Puede que me equivoque, pero creo que el stock límite de temperatura es de 70C, podría ser de 80).
@@digitaljon1109
Y los GHz?
@@digitaljon1109
You recommend 9 watts or ilimited??
With the stock cooling I recommend having a 9 Watt limit, as that keeps the CPU right under the temperature where it thermal throttles.
But if you adjusted/upgraded the cooling like I did in this video- ruclips.net/video/W8zmFdLLr5U/видео.html
You should be able to have it set to unlimited.
How did you manage to write in english? Google translate?
Where is the Sim card Slot and Micfo SD Slot?
The sim card slot is on the left side of the laptop, and the SD card slot is on the right side. If I am not mistaking.
Hello, I am a "Ham Radio" operator in the NY area. Many members (10 or so) have purchaced this Evolve III for $80 and since Micro Center sells Micro sd chips very resonably I suggested an additional 64 or 128 backup chip in the port.
It has been about 2 months and everyone of our club members who bought it are more than happy with it.
We use the laptop to do digital communications both in the home and out in the field. Outside of being a little small for some as per the smaller charactors, the laptop performs quite well. And might I add at $80 should an unfortunate accident happen in the great outdoors resulting in a scratch or ding I have'nt risked my thousand dollar laptop still nice and swcure at home.
So.....A dozen thumbs up fron the K2VN guys out of Eisenhower Park in Nassau county New York. 73 de K2GK
Yeah, the laptop is quite nice! It is also good getting a external HDD (or SSD) which costs a bit. And hooking it up threw USB 3.0. Since it has 3.0. It's a quite handy laptop, not good for gaming, but it wasn't intended for gaming anyway.
Thanks for the comment by the way K2gk! I like reading everyone's comment!
I too am a ham, and was considering this laptop for the exact same thing. Good to know it's passable... might need to pick it up. 73 de K8CRB
thanks for this review...it is on sale at MicroCenter now for 59.99 and i am looking at it for my ham shack as well...@K2GK, did you need to go into the Bios to add specific ham software for the modes you wanted to use? 73 de KO4UMY...
@@ChrisBeiting It is a decent laptop, I just am not a fan of the keyboard for the most part.
@@ahendrix9787 What is all of this stuff about "Ham"?
6:10 in this video is exactly how I feel about my N5000 laptop. Some older processors from a decade ago are still better than my laptop
My other laptop that has a AMD Athlon M300, at 800x600 it gets ~15-30 FPS.
@@digitaljon1109 same for my laptop
Can l install Shop Assist Software? For a tuckshop / little shop
I would think so? What is it called?
Sorry for the late response- yes, this laptop can run the program with no problem.
Thanks for the comment by the way Thuso!
@@digitaljon1109 terrific !!!!!! 👌
@@munyaradzithusodhliwayo4915 Your welcome!
Microcenter is selling this laptop for $59.99 now! In-store pick-up only, but you can reserve online before pick`up.
Bought one 3 days ago. So far it's working fine.
Mine is working good so far too! I am using it as a server for Minecraft Bedrock, it seems to handle ~6 players okay. No lag, but with 6 players the CPU is around 90% usage, and the RAM is at 97%, and using pagefile. So I am not sure how much more it can handle. Time will tell as more people join it.
Hi what kind of processor is? 32 or 64 bits?
It is a 64 Bit CPU.
8 bit cpu
A shame, i got two and both started power looping the same day of purchase
What do you mean by "Power looping"? As, maybe you might be doing something wrong.
Here is a note- if the battery was low, and you plugged the charger into the AUX jack, that would be the problem, the battery is dead, and you need to plug the charger into the other port.
Both laptops got jealous over each other, so they decided to see who was faster.
I bought it an run linux on it with a wifi dongle. It’s perfect for that.
That sounds neat! I don't think I will be putting linux on mine since I suck at Linux. I might try to put Windows 11 on it though.
Also did you know you can put a SIM card in it? If you have any phone plan you can use your sim card in this laptop actually it seems. Thanks for watching by the way Mundo!
@@digitaljon1109 yes I know I can use the sin, but i heard I can actually replace it with an actual ssd which is what I’ll do
That sounds quite nice. I might actually do that with mine as well. Thanks for saying that!
i just ordered one for my ham radio portable operations.
Nice! Someone else who did radio work ordered one too!
That's exactly why we at the k2vn Radio club bought at least 20 by now. No complaints.
It actually sounds like a deal. Thinking whether I should go for it or not.
I just got another one today, it is a newer version. And I am having very bad problems with the speakers, when I reinstalled Windows on it, the speakers don't show up anywhere, and it is like the whole soundcard stopped working after the install. I am still looking into why.
If anything, don't reinstall Windows on it. Also, the new ones don't have a SIM card slot, just as a FYI.
@@digitaljon1109 Thinking of buying one and trying to see if I like it, if not I might return it. Thanks for heads-up!
Could this run windows 11? Even if you have to bypass the system requirements
Good question! I think so? In Windows 10 updates, it does say it can't upgrade due to the CPU isn't supported. But, I think it can run Windows 11. I have not tried installing that OS though.
But, if you bypass the requirements, it should run. I am not sure how well, probably quite decent still for web browsing and what not. Might be a bit slower in games though.
But all in all, it should run it.
I will look again and see if it can upgrade.
Thanks for the comment by the way WFP! I enjoy reading them! (:
@@digitaljon1109 yup! I enjoyed this video and seeing that performance can be boosted, this looks great for the price! Considering getting one. Do you think vscode will run decent for basic Java coding? Nothing crazy
@Walking Faith Podcast I never heard of VS-Code until I made this video, and 2 people mentioned it.
I am not sure to be honest, it should work? But I am not exactly sure what it is. If it is easy to run, I can try to run it. But I don't know how to code (at all). Or, if you know of a game that is about as hard to run as VS-Code, I can try to run the game.
Also, since you liked this video, you might also like this video where I got one of the cheapest computers that will work for what I do. (Well, I mean, I could have made it cheaper in a few ways, like, getting slower, and smaller capacity RAM).
It didn't exactly go well, as I never built a computer from "scratch" before, but it did start working.
ruclips.net/video/pons8o747p0/видео.html
I bought a bunch of these laptops a while back for $70 each. First thing I did was run a CPU-Z benchmark and I think it got about 250, after disabling the power limit I got a bench score of 500, Monitoring the temps while doing a stress test for about 15 minutes it settled at about 70 degrees. The CPU power draw went from 6 watts to 10.5. I couldn't get it any hotter and was pleasantly surprised. I didn't try any other benchmark, maybe that was my issue. OR now that I think about it.. Maybe it was throttling at that temp, I'm going to raise it and try again.
Anyways, I bought the other ones to give to kids and kept one of them to stream my gaming desktop to it. That way I use it for near full frame rate gaming while traveling when I have a good internet connection, I just spent a week in a hotel with it that had great internet and played a lot of BeamNG with no issues, or when I want to sit in my living room or bed to play games that require full desktop power on a $70 laptop. Totally worth it!
Edit: Upped the thermal limits to 95 and I hit a max of 85 during a bench test, also hit a score of 600, so it's a bit faster now. I'm still not seeing any crazy hot temps but I'll mess with it a bit more.
Hey Fc3sbob! Thanks for the comment! Always enjoy reading them.
Try to disable the temperature limit and see what happens, if you can. But 85C is quite nice! Mine gets really hot.
I do have 2 of these, so I will try Cinebench R23 on the other one and see what happens.
Also, I might as well re-do the thermal paste on mine, since it is a few years old it seems, from looking at when the parts where made. It should be really easy, I dug in before and it is a quite simple laptop on the inside. Just a few screws to take the bottom off.
How did you turn your desktop into that kind of server to stream games? That sounds quite nice!
That's quite nice by the way! Hopefully the kids have fun with them! If it is there 1st laptop, it wouldn't be bad at all. It can play lighter games like Minecraft Bedrock & Roblox, decently well. Definitely not meant for Cyberpunk, but for $70, you can't ask for more lol.
This is a lot better than the old laptop I used to use. It had a 2 core Celeron in it. I used to play Minecraft Java (on default settings, due to I didn't know how to change them at that time), and the game was getting between 0 to 20 FPS. Not great. This would have been a dream laptop for me, 5 years ago.
Granted, this is my fastest laptop now, that isn't being used as a Minecraft server.
@@digitaljon1109 hey, so there's a few ways to stream games, you can just install steam on it and login with your account and with your desktop running steam you can just start the game from the list and it will stream over. You may have to enable remote play in the steam settings.
But the best way I have found is to run remote desktop sharing with Parsec, install it on both computers and you'll be able to connect and play games or watch youtube ect as if you were at your computer with a very nice frame rate as long as you are on a decent connection and have a good ISP with a decent upload speed at home. I have 30mbps upload and it works great!
yeah check the thermal paste, I did open up mine to see what's inside and upgradeable which isn't much but I might see if I can replace the cellular card with a SSD of some kind.
I will play around with it and run more tests later! I am very surprised with these laptops, I might even get more next time I pass by a microcenter.
I will definitely try that! Because being able to be on my desktop is really good. The reason why is because I actually run a Minecraft server but I also need to do technical stuff when I'm away and the server is sitting there down. So being able to actually access to the computer would be awesome. Thanks for the comet again! That would be neat if you could put a SSD inside the laptop. Let me know how that goes.
Good enough to run VSCode?
It depends, what is that? I never heard of it.
Microsoft Visual Studio Code.
Thanks for letting me know!
It seems it is about the minimum requirements. Storage may not be too good, so you would want it on a external HDD likely.
The CPU just barely meets the minimum requirements.
And the RAM does too. The CPU needs to be 1.8 GHz 4 core, and this laptop has a 1.8 GHz 4 core.
It also requires 4GB ram, which this has just 4GB. So it should work, but not the best.
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I want to know if he is a good computer to study for college??
I am not too sure what you need on a laptop for college.
If it is just Google docs or something, sure. But if it is more than that, I recommend getting a external HDD to go along with it, as you will likely need more storage.
Also I recommend getting a external keyboard as well, due to having one is very nice with this laptop, as the keyboard sucks.
@@digitaljon1109 In your opinion, what do you recommend a computer for college and education?
@@fatmaaalbhabsa910 I am not too sure to be fair. I never been to collage, nor do I have any experience of doing education on a computer.
I think this will work, unless you are taking graphic design classes, or video editing classes. This has good battery life, for my use, on battery saving mode, it will probably last 7-8 hours.
You can also put a M.2 SSD in this, if you take out the SIM card slot. You can also put SD cards in it, and you can also just put a external HDD on as well. You can get a 1 TB external HDD for about $40 on Amazon.
But then there is the whole, the keyboard sucks, so if you are typing a lot, like this message or more, you really should get a cheap keyboard, as that will make typing so much better. And with that, a cheap mouse, like a $7 Lenovo mouse off of Amazon. They are good mice.
But, if you want to do any gaming, you would want something a bit better, at least with Iris XE graphics, GTX 1650 or better.
I am not sure what your budget is. But at least if you want something that can play some games, you would be looking in the $450 range.
And if you wanted a laptop that has a RTX GPU, with DLSS support, so it is able to play future games, or even current games better, you would be looking in the $600 (USD) range, on Amazon. For a RTX 3050 laptop.
If your maximum budget is ~$120, then I would say, get this laptop (the Evolve) I showed in this video for $60 from Micro Center.
Then get the Toshiba Canvio Ready 1 TB external HDD from Micro Center for $40.
Then for a decent cheap keyboard, I would get the Inland IK-210 Premium Keyboard, which is $5 at Micro Center, it is nice.
Or you could get the Inland iK100 keyboard, which is $4, it is nice, but the print screen button on a normal keyboard is instead the sleep button on this keyboard, so when I go to take a screenshot, I put the computer to sleep. (I took the sleep keys off to "fix" the problem.) Lol.
The $5 keyboard doesn't have a sleep button though, if you wanted one.
Then I would get a mouse, and this one is interesting.
So Inland has a mouse for $5, it is nothing special, it works. But it is not that good for gaming.
What I would recommend doing is going onto Amazon and picking up a Lenovo mouse, it doesn't have a bunch of extra fancy buttons, just left, right, and middle click. And this mouse is $8. I been using it as my main mouse for about 3 years now. It has not broken yet.
The total for all that is about $113, and it would be somewhat similar to a desktop, with a mouse, keyboard, 1 TB of storage, and a laptop.
But wait, I forgot something. We have 2 USB ports, and 3 USB items. Let me find a USB adaptor.
So, a cheap USB HUB that should work is from Micro Center, it is a Inland 4 port USB 3.1 HUB for $9.60.
This will add 4 USB ports to the laptop.
(Also, the HDD might not work right in the USB hub, so just plug the HDD right into the USB 3.0 port on the laptop, which is the blue port) then plug the USB hub into the USB 2.0 port, and plug your mouse and keyboard into it. (And also plug the USB WIFI in, if you need it).
The total now is around $123.
I do find it is a bit odd on WIFI, but it does work for the most part. Sometimes it disconnects, then reconnects right away.
You can get a USB WIFI dongle that would likely fix that.
Sorry for the wall of text, I spent way too long typing this.
I hope this helps! If you have any questions, please do ask!
How is your day by the way?
@@digitaljon1109 My day was good. Thank you for the question🥰. Also, thank you for your help. I was very confused about what to choose, and you made things easier for me. Now I can choose and know the right computer for me. Thank you very much.
If I have a question, I will ask you right away☺️
If you are going to drop out of college, this makes a perfect laptop., 😁🎓
RUclips has recommended me this video not so long time ago, and then here we are, YT has recommended me this video again, and the laptop is actually not that bad at that price point, Celerons on laptop can be bad(just dont even use a Celeron on desktop, dont), but atleast, Celerons had a better battery life than most of the gaming laptops out there, but I'm grateful with my Pentium Silver laptop I had, some games I run may stutter and even when im not gaming, it is stuttering sometimes for some reason, and yeah, thats about it, see ya.
Yeah, the Celeron desktop CPU's, like the G6900 aren't that good, as they only have 2 threads. But they still are okay for web browsing, or very light gaming. The Pentium's are quite a bit better though, I been using a Pentium G7400 as my main CPU for about 2 months now, and it is doing very good!
What kind of games do you play on your laptop? Also how is your day?
@@digitaljon1109 I'm mostly playing Minecraft, Osu, or sometimes CS:GO , and thanks for asking, my day is completely fine, I hope you have a good day
@@dynakarpet I am doing well too! I never heard of "Osu", till I made this channel, and someone told me about it. It is a interesting looking game, and it runs on nearly anything made in the last 20 years which is nice.
Interesting to see how even the lowest of the low CPUs have 4 cores nowadays
The weird thing is, the desktop Celeron has 2 cores, 2 threads. And the Pentium desktop CPU's have 2 cores, 4 threads. But this Celeron in the laptop has 4 cores, 4 threads. Lol.
@@digitaljon1109 that *is* pretty weird. After looking at ark it seems like desktop Celeron are always 2c2t while mobile Celeron chips can either be 2c2t or 4c4t (or, in case of some new alder lake one 5c5t - 4 ecores + 1 pcore)
@@mattBLACKpunk Wow! Which CPU is the 5 core one??
@@digitaljon1109 Celeron 7300
@@mattBLACKpunk Thanks! That seems like a really weird CPU! I like it!
Have you by any chance tried using Zoom on this? I'm looking for something small and cheap to travel with me for teaching online lessons. TIA!
Yup! I have not tried Zoom, but I used Zoom on much slower computers and it worked fine. So this would do well for Zoom! (:
@@digitaljon1109 Awesome - thanks!!
Noo it ran out. Is there possible way to get it on Amazon?
I recommend waiting a few days or a week, as they will likely come back in stock.
But you can get them on Amazon, for about $100.
(That is a lot for this laptop, it isn't really worth that much). But if you wanted the Amazon link, here is a affiliate one- amzn.to/3PgqFWT
@@digitaljon1109 Thanks bro
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Upgrade ram to make it smooth
That wouldn't help much, like, for example I have a Intel Celeron T5900T with 4 GB of RAM, and it's nice and smooth. It's really just the CPU that is not helping it. Thanks for the suggestion though!
did you try beamng drive in 32 bit mode, you will get better performance
I didn't- but I can search up how to when I get a chance. It might get better performance.
Thanks for the comment Christian!
I have a problem with the sim card on this laptop
I am not too sure how to help. Sorry.
Using LTE card??
@@user-fb2nw9tr5t The LTE card goes in the Sim Card slot, on the left side of the laptop. You need a little pin to stick in a hole, and that will pop it out. If you want I can make a video on this to show you.
Thank you very much.
How do l get into the bios screen?
i paid 99 in Denver
where do you live i talked to micro center and they said they weren’t selling it for less than $99 anywhere
@@jfeltes Thanks for the comment John! I live in southern California and got it from the Tustin store.
They where $79.99 on sale, but now they are $99.99. The making of this video took about 2 weeks, so the price changed by the time I got the video done.
I don't know if they will go back on sale or not, though.
Also, how do you like it there in Colorado? I want to go there one day, and check out a town called Leadville, and Alma, due to there elevation. Those towns always interest me.
They were $80 at microcenter like 2 weeks ago an f are $100 now at the same store.
Who knows, maybe they will go back on sale again, hopefully.
@@digitaljon1109 the $99 price is with a big sale sticker. Marked down from $120
Is it new or used laptop?😊🤔
Brand new! (:
It's like a car, you buy it new. But soon as you drive it out the showroom its used
ROBLOX ARSENAL ON 720 AND 30-40 FPS?! MY LAPTOP IS THE WORSE I GET UNPLAYABLE FRAMRATES ON THAT RESOLUTION
Rip!
You should have tried some 2d games. They are far less demanding than any 3d game like 99.99% of the time.
Do you mean like Tetris? Or Solitaire?
Or do you mean a game like Dota?
Also thanks for the comment!
To be fair, I just threw all the games I have downloaded at it. I might make a small video in the future trying some 2d games, or I might just put it in the comments how it does. As that isn't worth making a full video on.
But I do want to mod this laptop's cooling, so maybe I might check those games out when I do that.
@@digitaljon1109 Dead Cells, Rogue Legacy, 20XX are some lesser demanding 2d games that are super popular and in my opinion are really great games. I suppose you could also try some emulators for like SNES, N64, and PSX to see how they work.
I just looked and those 2 are not free sadly. Is the SNES & N64 & PSX on Steam? I am not seeing them.
I did download 2, 2D games though. Dota 2 & Brawlhalla.
@@digitaljon1109 you should know that Dota 2 is 100% a 3D game, which would run poorly on any integrated GPU
I remember installing CS GO on a laptop with a dual core 5th i5 CPU it ran around 50 to 65 fps at the same resolution. this laptop is e-waste.
There are uses for these laptops though. Like, recording with OBS, or for example web browsing. This works quite well for those tasks. And the battery life is great too, lasting about 8 hours.
The i5 laptop is better, so is almost any i3, but they also use more power than this.
Put the Linux and it will fly.
Linux is nice, but it also requires learning a new OS, and still having to use a virtual machine on it anyway as a lot of things at least I use are only on Windows 10. But for someone who doesn't use Windows only apps, Linux would work.
Now they are on sale for $59
Yup! I am suppressed how much they are putting these on sale for!
I just purchased 2 of these for $45 each yesterday at Micro Center.
@@spankbuda7466 Woah! That's REALLY cheap!
I ordered a bunch of thermal pads for the laptop and I am going to try to fix the cooling problem in a upcoming video.
Heard you can replace the Sim? Card slot in the laptop with a ssd???
@@digitaljon1109 Cool! I will be looking out for your video on that so that I can do a few changes myself. I've already added a 512GB M.2 drive that I've had laying around in place of the internal LTE adapter.
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cheapest laptop i can buy to play roblox LOL
Not necessarily. It is the cheapest new one but it's not the cheapest used one. You can get some pretty good deals at garage sales when it comes to trying to get old laptops. Most of the time laptops can run Roblox that are about 10 years old. If it has the Windows Vista sticker on it that is when it gets a bit too old. When it's that old, drivers get a bit questionable.
@@digitaljon1109 I prefer new ones and am lazy to find a garage sale, but what is the graphics quality for roblox arsenal as shown in the video testing?
But at a garage sale, you can find one, likely about the same speed for like $5-10.
That is a good question about the graphics quality, I am not sure right now. I will check later/tomorrow for you. (:
@Raetron, would you like me to test using the default power limit of 6 WATTS, or use the unlimited WATTS setting, which makes the CPU max out at around 12 WATTS?
Thanks!
@@digitaljon1109 default power limit of 6 watts please xd
Seriously dude! you are putting this device through the ropes but read the box it's an education notebook for kids. Most likely an over stock the CPU and 4G LTE module is probably worth over $90 and the Microsoft PRO software is another $30 plus all other components. Celeron chipset isn't a gaming CPU so why would you game on a 11.6" notebook. This looks to be a basic surf the web, zoom type device. Review doing homework on it....lol.
The reason why is it wouldn't be as interesting just going into a text document or watching some RUclips videos.
I did do web browsing too on it. Also I actually didn't read the box 🤣.
But I figure we already know it can do the easy stuff. But what about gaming? And to be fair I am actually very impressed in this laptop. It is actually the fastest laptop I own. The second-fastest is a AMD m300 CPU which is quite a bit slower. About half the speed.
But doing homework type stuff I don't normally do online anywhere but it would do it just fine.
If I do get more games in the future like Dying Light 2 I will try them on this laptop to just because why not.
Even though it has a Celeron it actually in some games isn't the problem instead it runs out of ram. But the Celeron probably couldn't do much more anyway.
But I hope you know what I mean. It wouldn't be nearly as interesting making a video just using it for writing stuff in a text document or something. Even my old Pentium M laptop can do that. (It is from 2006).
But throwing all of the games I have at the laptop is definitely a bit more interesting. Sorry for the super long comment I have a tendency of doing that.
Sorry for a third reply. I just realized the old Pentium M laptop can't do Zoom. But my more recent CPU from 2009 which only has 1 core and 1 thread [AMD Athlon LE-1640] can do it with relative ease. The CPU is maxed out and it does lag, but it gets the job done.
i just need to know if i can play the sims 4 with all its expansions smoothly on this laptop, if that's possible shut up and take my money now hahaha please someone reply 🥲
I don't know. If The Sims 4 is free I can give it a go and see how it runs! (:
Thanks for the comment Alexa!
@@digitaljon1109 There is a program called origin with many games, sims 4 is one of them, if you create an account it allows you to download the game for free in trial for 48 hours but I'm not sure if you can also download the expansions... I would really appreciate it if you try it, thank you very much!
I will give it a try now!
@@digitaljon1109 ohh you are amazing!! thank you really 🥰
I recorded a 47 minute video trying to play the game on the laptop. I'm uploading it has a unlisted video. It probably won't be done until the morning though because of the size. Bear with me! :-)