- [Instructor] What are your best
back-to-school laptop deals plus
how do you save on a MAC?
I have you covered!
Plus a little give-away's comin' right up.
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Hi I'm the YouTube Deal Guy Matt Granite.
Welcome to your one-stop shop for the
biggest deals on the planet.
I hunt them down,
and I also give my favorite gadgets
away for free at the end of the video
every week and I have got all sorts of
crazy tech and lifestyle savings lined up.
But I know a lot of you are having back-to-school.
Many of you are shopping for people who
have gone back to school or are going back to school.
I've also heard from a couple subscribers
who are doing some adult learning classes
at night on top of your jobs and I
wanna make sure that you are covered.
So I wanna begin quickly with MACs.
I just should mention that all of the incentives
tied to Apple computers and the recertified models
with that extended warranty from Apple,
as well as the additional savings tied to these,
your best bet is actually right now not Black Friday.
There will be price drops then,
but these are loaded with incentives.
My favorite deals are located right under the video screen.
Now I've tested a lot of laptops.
My favorite brands?
Personally Lenovo.
HP has actually made a little bit of a comeback and
I have some issues with Dell customer service,
but they do have deals as well.
Located under this video screen,
you can find a full list of my favorite deals
to make sure you get hooked up.
If you are searching for a laptop deal,
back to school and beyond,
this is what I recommend.
Don't buy a Chromebook.
If you are buying a Chromebook and I know a lotta people
love the Chrome operating system,
please make sure it has at least four gigabytes of RAM.
Many of the models that you see discounted have two gigs.
That is not enough to make it
through any of the basic tasks.
I did find a couple of models that have enough RAM,
but I do wanna mention some of the more fully loaded
laptops with more substantial Solid State drives.
They are your better bet this time of year.
What else should you look for in a great laptop deal?
Solid State drive as you just heard me say.
That means that you're not using that traditional
hard drive that spins and gets hot and takes
a little bit longer to process data.
Solid State is the way to go,
but keep in mind that many of the models
that have 32
gigs of storage?
Well your iPhone has more storage than your computer.
So please watch that.
That's a way a lot of merchants will
play tricks on you to help you think
you're getting a huge deal when your
laptop is just underequipped.
And then you wanna make sure you've got a good chip.
It doesn't always need to be Intel.
There are other brands but just make sure that the specs
at least give you the performance so you can
get through a day and battery life.
Lot of merchants will quote 11 hours
as something where its more likely you'll get eight.
On the fully loaded MacBook Pro,
fully loaded to the point where this is over $2,900 dollars,
this laptop that we use in our studio
apparently has a full-day battery life.
When I'm doing intense YouTube video editing on this,
I can get no more than three and a half hours.
And I'm not alone.
So just keep in mind a lot of the specs
that the stores quote are not always what you get.
If you've made it this far,
I'd love to know what are your other back-to-school
needs or back-to-work needs.
I wanna make sure that I get ya hooked up.
So let me know what you wanna save money on.
I'll read through the comments and now,
it's time for give-away.
I'm giving away a free $50 Amazon gift card.
If you're subscribed to this channel,
you are now one step closer to that free 50 bucks.
Using TubeBuddy's random selection tool
to find a subscriber who's commented in the last six months,
congratulations goes to,
congratulations Donna!
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