Best Budget Laptop for $100 - Asus E210MA!

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00:00 Intro
01:16 Asus E210
02:54 Display
03:28 Keyboard & Trackpad
03:53 Chassis & Ports
05:14 Speakers & Webcam
05:25 Performance
08:10 Linux Performance
08:55 Fan Noise & Heat
09:08 Battery Life
09:23 Conclusion

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[Atilolzz]

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

[mexk]

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$).

[kmieciuever]

Rule of thumb: never buy a laptop equipped with eMMC drive.

[mightyarbokking]

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!

[zarent]

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.

[fabiandimaspratamathesecond]

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.

[freddyhung]

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!

[Vikushu]

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.

[ranulpallemulle]

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.

[NickCookCreates]

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.

[KalosLikesComputers]

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!

[baltasareyang]

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, YouTube 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.

[robinray]

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

[SaneGhoul]

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.

[TAINCER_]

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.

[qanittakmeel]

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.

[XhoowieX]

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.

[kostastsampiras]

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 😬

[GankMamaElite]

I bought this for $99 and put ChromeOS Flex on it. So perfect.