PLEASE Don’t Waste Your Money! These “New” Laptops Are E-waste! Do This Instead!

The lenovo laptop in this video was from a previous video, where I bought 10 laptops for $100. I do have a video capture card, however I could not get the HDMI to work on that computer, so sorry for the poor screen recording. The Pentium silver or N100 paired with 8 GB of RAM is much better, but still not great.

If you are looking to buy a new cheap Windows laptop, you will most likely regret buying the cheapest Windows laptop they have. Not everyone knows about the different laptop processors, and that's ok, but you should know that the cheapest new laptops often have very cheap and slow Celeron or Arm-based processors. Although a Celeron processor can be ok, with a Chrome book, it will really struggle for Windows. if you absolutely don't want to buy a used laptop and want to buy a new one, the new Intel I3 or AMD Ryzen 3 should be good enough for basic work and school tasks. These are much much better than the Celeron, although you will pay more for these laptops. If you absolutely must have a laptop for under $150, then it's much better to buy a used midrange laptop.
Good used midrange laptop’s specs
i5-8250u
i5-8350u
i5-8365u
i5-10210u
i5-10310u
Ryzen 5 2500u
Ryzen 5 3500u

Laptops in this video.

Lenovo Ideapad 120s
CPU: Celeron N3350
Ram: 2gb DDR4
Storage: 32gb eMMC storage
OS: windows 10 home

Lenovo Thinkpad X201
CPU: I5-560M
Ram: 8gb DDR3
Stoarge: 120gb SSD
OS: windows 10 pro

Dell Chromebook 11
CPU: Celeron N4020
Ram: 4gb DDR4
Storage: 32gb eMMC storage
OS: Chrome (not sure what version sorry)

I didn’t want the video to be super long, so I didn’t go into as much detail as I could have, although I packed as much as I can in a short time as I can.

[SalemTechsperts]

Great video. I remember when the early HP Streams were popular. Right out of the box it would try to do a Windows Update and then bootloop because the storage would get full. It was quite literally unusable. The amount of e-waste these budget laptops are generating is criminal.

[MrTomas]

I expected it to be bad, but... 2 GB RAM? 32 GB eMMC? This looks like a low end laptop from the same year as the Thinkpad you've shown, not newer.

[fxnn]

These crap laptops are a trap for poor people.

[Userffch]

I remember when I started first year in college. Everyone has their shiny new expensive laptops. And there I was with my post apocalyptic x230 among them. I kid you not these guys were willing to spend 400 bucks minimum on celeron laptops just simply because they're in an unopened box. There were also a few Chromebook (*gagging*) and Macs as well. I don't know how these people got through college with those sloth incarnated machines. And they even had the gut to tell me "hey, man, you should invest in new laptops like us instead of using a 70 bucks laptop" bruh.

In 2024 Celeron can't even play youtube video without lagging.

[maikeru]

Honestly the other problem is that the modern web and windows is just too bloated. And it’s getting worse

[JuanGarcia-lhgv]

I hate it when laptop makers use really old, weak chips in new laptops and charge hundreds of dollars for them. You can get a new laptop with an Intel N100 that should perform much better than that old Thinkpad for around 200 dollars. It's important to read reviews before buying and do some research. It's the same for everything in life, wether it's a computer, a car a house etc... Companies shouldn't scam people, but people still need to do their research if they don't want to be scammed.

[Carnyzzle]

2GB ram and 32GB emmc makes these laptops practically a scam

[superpie]

2gb of ram in a brand new laptop in 2024 is CRIMINAL

[one_step_sideways]

You forgot to mention that the old used ThinkPads are basically indestructible. You could have used the broken screen on the new laptop to talk about the rigidity of old ThinkPads, and showed some crash tests like that one T410 torture test. Couple that with the proper keyboard that they have and the TrackPoint with hot-swappable big batteries to get lots of battery life.

t. T480 owner

[SrNerd]

A friend of mine bought this exact same lenovo, and asked me (IT technician) to fix it's stutters.

I saw Celeron and told him raw: buy a new one. This is literally trash.

Btw, he could asked me about the model before buying.

[trandinhvietdung]

Damn I swear to god, for half of that can get an ThinkPad T480 or similar business laptop with 8GB RAM, 256GB and that laptop will smoke even that new celeron laptop.

[pkcell]

If you swap out a hard drive for an SSD on an old computer, keep the drive and buy an enclosure for it! They’re only $10 and after formatting, will let you use it as an external drive. Got 1.5TB of legit file space for only $20 that way, even if the transfer speed is slow.

[nikolaidisharalambos]

The same issue had my mother since she was partial to used ones she bought one New celeron Lenovo with windows 10 preinstalled in 500 euros! It was unacceptably slow, and when I just gave her my old desktop computer from 2009 hp compaq 500B MT 4 gb ram intel Dual Core, with SSD and linux mint! Once she realized this she was amazed at the huge difference in performance, and how much he put up with it!

[ahah]

Theres an old saying in my country ( which shall not be named, as it might be considered a swearword) "Poor man always pay twice"

[tylern]

its even worse when it comes to school computers

and if they arent lagging hardcore at basic activities then they're having graphical glitches and electronic schizophrenia since either half the battery gets burnt in 20 minutes or only 5% get used up over an hour

and if they also arent having that then they're having crappy software and asinine restrictions, and if they dont have that then they have external programs for those restrictions (even though you can pretty much control all allowed actions in windows)

[notsoseagatey]

these garbage laptops shouldn't be even marketed "laptops", rather "portable thin clients" because it does a far better job being a thin client than being a laptop

[_GhostMiner]

How does windows 10 even work with 2GB of ram⁉️

[williamnessanbaum]

I pulled a Lenovo SL510 out of a NYC e-waste bin. I gave it 8Gb of DDR3 RAM, a 256Gb SSD and then installed 64Bit Linux Mint: MATE Edition. It runs like a champ and does everything I need it to do. This SL510 should be good for the next 25 years. God bless Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds.

[RoyaltyInTraining.]

My dad is still using an old Core 2 Duo machine. Holds up perfectly fine for word processing with the SSD we put in there 7 years ago

[michelep]

1:03 problem is even a commodore 64 could play a vid smoothly at 144p