- What are the best laptop deals for Prime Day 2019?
I have the deals.
I have you covered and they're coming right up.
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Prime Day laptop deals from MacBooks to the off-brands
to a massive deal on a Lenovo laptop.
Hello, I'm the YouTube deal guy, Matt Granite.
I am a professional deal hunter.
It's not even a thing, but I made it one,
where I find the biggest deals right here on YouTube.
I also hunt down deals for NBC, ABC, and CBS TV stations.
I also host programming for Amazon
and I'm very excited because with that,
I am an Amazon Insider.
Yup, that's true and the interesting thing
if you look at a lot of the deals
that I hunt down right here,
many of them are not from Amazon.
I actually find the lowest recorded prices
on all sorts of products but I'm very excited
because as we look to Prime Day laptop deals,
many of you are asking, "Are they as good as Black Friday?"
And the answer is generally, overall they're not even close.
There are a few that stand out.
I want to quickly mention before I do a full unboxing
of the Levono in comparison to this MacBook Pro
that Apple and Amazon don't generally get along
like the best of friends.
So as you can imagine,
Apple doesn't acknowledge Amazon Prime Day
just as on Black Friday, if you want some of the best deals,
you don't go to Apple for a computer deal,
you go to Best Buy
but there are MacBook deals right now on Amazon.
They're good.
You're going to do a little bit better
if you want until the end of the summer.
Of course, I've listed those if you expand
the video description box right under me.
There's also a lot of deals on Chromebooks,
which I'm listing right now.
Those are really good.
You want to make sure you have at least
4 gigs of RAM minimum for a Chromebook
and some of the Chromebook deals
are tied to brands like this, New Vision,
and their tablets that convert into Chromebooks.
They're good.
They're great but for those of you
that want a fully operational laptop,
Lenovo hands-down is still one of my favorite brands.
So let's go through a Lenovo product test
and then I'll show you why this is the best Prime Day Deal.
This is a nice, basic, box.
Very well packaged though.
I do like that.
I like to see a laptop wrapped properly.
So,
need the power adapter,
the Lenovo warranty information, great.
Okay.
It's always very exciting when I get to unbox
a brand new laptop.
Now the finish on this, this feels fantastic.
This is very similar to a MacBook Pro.
I love this.
Very nice.
The one difference between this and a MacBook Pro
is that the bottom of this is the hard carbonized plastic.
It's not that titanium look but again,
this is not $1,800.
Oh!
Look!
This is a beautiful IdeaPad.
Look at this.
I love this.
Very sleek look.
I'm going to get this powered up.
We're going to put this to the test.
I always get very excited getting a new laptop
powered on for the first time.
I can't equate this to how it felt
when I held my newborn baby-girl Mara for the first time
although I will say, I'd say the weight is comparable.
All right, let's get this bad boy going.
So one this I will say is that Windows has come a long way
in that it's not the old cumbersome set up.
Not necessarily quite as fast as setting up a Mac
but I love that they have integrated Cortana
into the process.
- [Cortana] Mission accomplished.
You're all linked up.
- [Matt] She's very witty.
I like that, it's fun.
- [Cortana] Now we have some important set up to do.
- [Matt] This is actually one of the most
Mac-like PCs that I've tested,
and I mean that as a compliment, really in terms of style.
Whether or not you believe that Apple
brings any substance to the computer realm,
I will tell you that they do know
what they're doing in terms of style
and the tactile functionality tied to this keyboard,
fantastic.
I'm a classically trained musician,
for those of you that know or don't care,
either way, I'm very sensitive to touch
and the keyboard on here is absolutely phenomenal.
You also have Cortana
so if you love Siri or the Amazon Alexa voice service,
you do have some functionality built-in
that you can take advantage of.
I don't need to take you through a tutorial of Cortana
but I will tell you that the keyboard, the finish.
The trackpad in an unusual spot, right?
Usually we're used to seeing the trackpad here.
If it's a Mac, usually it's dead center.
This is a little bit more to the left than usual.
It actually makes for a very ergonomic typing experience.
You've got a way to actually rest your hands perfectly.
It is well-weighted.
You have a web-cam right here.
Great for Skype or other types of video chat.
Let's go through the ports.
You get two USB ports.
You have an SD card slot.
That's a huge bonus over anything you'll ever see in a Mac.
Headphones and the HDMI port.
I do not understand why all computers
do not have HDMI ports.
I'm thrilled to see this included and of course,
if you need to hard ethernet wire,
you can do that to this laptop.
You'll also have your power port here.
On the other side,
you could call this archaic
but this is actually a new laptop,
I'm excited by the fact
that there has been a DVD drive installed.
It's thin.
It doesn't take up a lot of space,
but if you still have old DVDs or if you download software,
of if you don't have access to a Cloud drive
or you don't want to use a thumbdrive,
there are some of us that still could rely upon a DVD drive
and my vote on this, if it is tucked away and inconspicuous,
I like that it's there as a bonus
and I don't think this ages the computer
or anything of that matter.
A nice, big, 15.6 inch display.
The AMD processor in here is good.
It's not up to the same speeds you're going to find
in one of the top AMD or one of the top Intel processors.
For some of you that sometimes ask,
is AMD better than Intel?
It's two different brands.
You can have a slow Intel processor.
You can have a slow AMD processor.
Generally, the AMD processors are great.
The Dolby audio on here, phenomenal.
You get all of your shortcut keys for brightness,
your music controls, and of course, the Windows hot buttons.
It's there and I will now put this beside a MacBook Pro
so we can compare the speeds.
This is a $2,700 fully-loaded MacBook Pro
besides this $340 Lenovo laptop.
I know some of you are saying in your heads,
this is not a fair comparison.
Well, of course it's not.
That's why.
I want to see what a so-called low-end laptop does
beside a very high-end laptop.
If this can hold its own,
my big take away message is, and this is pretty good,
and also, I don't have money to go spend
on a $500 or $700 laptop right now,
which is why I'm comparing this to the laptop
that I already have for our studio.
This has 16 gigabytes of RAM.
This has eight gigabytes of RAM.
This has a really fast Intel processor.
This has a slower AMD processor.
In terms of streaming,
both videos load at the exact same second.
I will tell you, there's actually no lag delay.
That would obviously be more symptomatic of your Wifi speeds
but if you were to compare the video sizes,
and let's put these side-by-side because obviously,
Apple's retina display and all that other stuff
is very good.
The MacBook Pro definitely has the advantage
but because the screen is so large on the Lenovo IdeaPad,
if I were in a dorm room
or I was using this in place of a television,
the overall brightness,
which is a little more pronounced on here,
is under no way a better viewing experience
if you have several people gathered around the computer.
You'll see,
this picture is not drastically degraded compared to this.
The whites, the blacks, a little bit more dark on this
but again, we're comparing a $2,700 computer
to something that really is holding its own.
In overall responsiveness,
I'd say that for your basic tasks,
which means not video editing,
the computers are very comparable in terms of speed.
The RAM works very well on this.
The solid state drive, in terms of saving information,
fantastic.
In terms of downloads and doing some photo and video
work that I've done on both,
I will say that the MacBook Pro
has about a three to four second advantage.
So if you are doing very large video files,
that could be a one to two minute advantage
but for your basic word processing,
your computing, quick video and photo edits,
home movies, social media,
you're not going to find a huge difference
between both computers.
I've edited video on both computers
and exported identical projects,
downloaded new projects, streamed,
wow, this guy is really annoying
and his haircut is so short in this video,
and there's no lag time when I'm dealing with files
that are under a gig.
I've been very impressed.
In terms of playback, maneuverability,
all that other fun stuff,
let me just move the cursor up here,
and I can show you the launch speeds.
In terms of the load test,
I still give the MacBook Pro
maybe a one to two second advantage.
In terms of buffering large video files,
I mean, they start instantaneously.
They're the same on certain things,
a few seconds different on other video files
but,
I don't know how much of a difference
that's going to make for your daily life.
The RAM, again, eight gigabytes of RAM is better
than the four that you would typically see at this price.
I'm impressed.
You're not going to have your life changed by this computer
but you're going to have it enhanced
and given the size and the weight,
I will tell you the MacBook Pro and the Lenovo
weigh virtually the same thing.
You can see that in terms of how thin
one is over the other,
there's obviously an advantage to the MacBook Pro
but I guess my point is at $2,700
or even if you take a base model
at $1,300, $1,400, $1,500, or $1,600,
you get a lot for this price.
This may be enough to get you through the next year or two.
This may be great for a grad student,
a senior citizen, an every day computing individual,
not necessarily for a graphics professional
or someone with very demanding computing needs
but,
well, I'll let you make up your mind.
I love the Prime Day pricing tied to this laptop.
Of course, it's a fraction of the price
compared to the MacBook Pro.
In fact, this would basically be the tax on the MacBook Pro
if you were to buy it outright,
but do remember, you're looking at a laptop under 400 bucks.
It's not identical nor will it outperform a MacBook Pro.
A lot of the time when I do these product tests,
a lot of people say, "Well, why couldn't you just buy four
"different Lenovo laptops
"or laptops under $400, and $500, and $600."
Well, I'm not going to buy five laptops.
I don't have money for that
so I generally have cash just to buy one laptop
but the reason this ends up being a good test for me,
in my opinion, obviously I'm biased,
but it's interesting to see an entry-level laptop
or a mid-level laptop compete against one of the highest
in laptops you can buy.
If a sub or mid-level laptop can hold its own
against a top of the line laptop,
you know you've got something that's at least very good.
So expand that video description box.
You will score this Lenovo laptop
at its lowest recorded price.
You'll see the Chromebook deals,
the best Prime Day laptop deals.
I wish I could buy every laptop and show them to you
but I unfortunately, as I said, can't do that
but you can read the reviews
and I'd like to thank you for being here.
If there's other items that you want me to test,
please leave me a comment.
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