The Worst Buy at Best Buy

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Chapter Titles:
0:00 Intro
1:03 Desktop PC
6:00 Laptop
8:10 Smartphone
11:16 Headphones

[gearheadgaming]

Austin, you got me into tech and pc building in 2014. What a great hobby and glad you’re going strong

[OMGgmr]

As someone who does IT support at schools, vga and hdmi is the standard. Its very rare for any of the towers they buy to have display ports or dvi connectors. Some of the pcs they have only have vga and so you need to use a basic graphics card to add hdmi and dvi functionality.

[salvation]

It makes sense since a large percentage of people who didn't lose their jobs during the pandemic were working from home (if they had jobs where you could) so they wanted the cheapest computer possible. You also had millions of kids doing learning from home and if you needed a computer for them, the cheapest would do for homework and such.

[GFourGadget]

The real question is what's the best buy at worst buy?

[bugthesdaguy]

I guess this is a new series cuz he seems to be roasting best buy every other week

[LordMaxed]

People won’t go out of their way to spend a lot of money on a pc or phone, for whatever reason products like these aren’t viewed as necessary by average consumers on a budget so they simply don’t prioritize spending extra money on them. The beats headphones are popular in contrast and most people buy them for style points, their phone, and simply their music. Everyone listens to music.. it isn’t too hard to believe no one seems to care about buying a product everyone is going to see

[TomBoi]

Yeah, old people that come into Best Buy usually go for that HP Envy desktop. They don't care that its $800, they just want something that has a lot of storage and "futureproofing" so they don't have to buy another one. They end up not even using a quarter of the storage and the only thing they use it for is banking.

I usually do not recommend that ASUS laptop though, I try as hard as I can to not get people to buy it because I see it returned so often. They end up buying it anyways thinking they can try to run their car tuning software on it, or use it for college, and it ends up not working for them.

Source: I'm one of the leading sales advisors at a Best Buy store

[plumokin]

If this is a new series, I'm so happy! I've been watching you since the beginning of your channel and I still enjoy all your videos!

[BossInvader]

I had an HP Desktop in 2008. In 2010 I added an Nvidia GT220 to it, was my first ever GPU and it was amazing compared to the onboard graphics. It was the first time in 5 years I had ever been able to enable shadows in WoW, LOL. I also bought it from BestBuy as it was recommended by the employee and I bought a RocketFish brand PSU for it... I still have the GT220!

[papashane]

As someone who works for Best Buy these computers get roasted and returned all the time, especially that asus laptop lmao

[abelito]

I like how the headphones are more expensive then the laptop and phone put together 🤣

[kylesimonsen]

Lmao, I work in the warehouse at bestbuy, and I was able to guess the exact item every time before he revealed it.

[Switzclips]

I love watching off brand logic talking about nerd stuff, legitimately one of my favorite time wasters.

[synthetnic]

first desktop i ever owned, my grandma took me to bestbuy and i got an HP Pavilion. I loved that thing for years. rip grandma ily

[IcyIceCube]

the funny thing is him saying “call HP support”

my brother in christ they go straight back to the store and harass the sales people

[Chedgar]

I mean I work at best buy and the reason these are best sellers is because they're cheap. A lot of people just want the basics of being able to check emails and watch YouTube, but still want a laptop or desktop

[puig]

Those old people come into the store and raise hell at geek squad when they throw away or forget the USB receiver for the mouse and keyboard. Really fun!

[deformed]

I think the reason that people buy pcs for work over laptops is beacause a pc is more customisable and more powerful.

[Izzystarlight_]

0:40, hey Austin, you clearly haven't heard of sharex

[JoshColletta]

The Asus laptop is probably *halfway* decent for basic productivity and entertainment use, but I would upgrade it to 8 gigs of RAM. Win11 may be lightweight compared to previous versions, but you're not going to get much to run in terms of multitasking with only 4 gigs.