- I hate both of you, both of you.
- [Ken] Are you embarrassed yet?
(upbeat music)
- So last year I did a video on this,
the quite literally lowest spec,
worst brand new PC you can buy.
Well, lo and behold,
after taking a trip to our friendly local Best Buy,
there's an upgraded model that cost of whopping $10 more.
So let's find out if second time's a charm
or if...
$360 for a brand new all-in-one is still a bad idea.
You know with the system like this,
you have to keep your expectations somewhat low.
We're looking at a low-end Intel processor.
There's not a lot of RAM, not a lot of storage.
I mean, who buys this system right?
Sort of like businesses who want a bare basic system.
You know, there's probably a lot of grandmas out there
who don't need anything
more than me able to browse Facebook.
I mean-
- [Matt] Tech YouTubers are like making the same video.
- How dare you, Matt?
Let's see what we get for 360 bucks.
I'll immediately say here's some incredibly nice foam.
That's probably worth like $9 right there.
- [Ken] Now uh...
Yeah. Yeah.
- Here's the system itself.
Now, one of the things
that really drew my attention to this is that
they have used this same chassis for other systems.
So unlike the plastic fantastic over here,
this actually has what seems to be a metal stand
and you can actually buy fairly expensive versions
of this all-in-one.
- [Ken] You know, this actually looks very similar
to the iMac.
- Do we just get a $360 iMac?
- [Ken] No, no, we did that.
- Oh, that's actually pretty good.
No wait. No-
- [Ken] I hate that a lot.
- So there's bezels on three sides.
- [Ken] What!
I mean, it looks better than this though.
You gotta admit that.
- [Ken] No!
- Absolutely.
- [Ken] Absolutely not.
- Do you rather has this chunky white bezel
all the way around compared to a slightly weird looking-
- [Ken] Look-
- Put a piece of tape right here.
- [Ken] Look.
- Oh my- Really?
- [Austin] Is actually the thing you're doing right now?
- [Ken] Mm-hmm (affirmative).
- Okay. All right.
Hey, Ken!
- I know it's a little problem with your creative fix.
Look at my mouse cursor.
Oh, where did it go?
It's underneath the tape.
- [Ken] Well. So I think they actually figured
that since the task bar is black
that no one would notice that-
- Yeah, that looks fine.
Guess what? When you're actually using it looks fine.
- [Ken] No, it doesn't.
- [Austin] It looks fine.
- [Ken] All your icons are touching the bottom.
- [Austin] Your icons are touching my bottom.
But look at these two side by side, right?
Clearly they're similar but the design here is a lot nicer.
It's more angular.
You've got black bezels instead of the white.
You've got the speakers I assume down here.
You've got the actual metal stand.
It's got four USB ports, HDMI, ethernet.
There is a slot for an optical disc drive,
but there's nothing in here unlike the original,
which does have a full disc tray in here.
So I guess you're losing the optical drive.
That's an optional accessory that your $360
does not get you.
We also of course have the camera,
which I'm gonna try this next,
cause I think this camera
might actually not be complete garbage town.
- [Ken] That's actually kind of impressive-
- [Austin] Yo! That's a good webcam.
I mean, I will say, just to my eye,
looking at the screen here, it looks totally reasonable.
720p, a little bit fuzzy.
I really don't know how the audio is gonna sound but I mean-
- That's pretty good.
- [Austin] Something else we'll say.
So we've got that J4025 processor.
It's nothing special, it's only dual core.
4 gigs of RAM.
Supposedly you wanna crack it open,
which I don't think it's a good idea.
You could add another 4 gigs of RAM.
So there's apparently one slot open on the inside.
That's interesting.
It does show it's sodium so directly
there's a little bit upgradability.
You also do have a proper 120 gig SSD.
That's nice because if I move over... fine,
I only have one mouse and keyboard
so I'm just going to move this over.
- [Matt] Almost like we have some mouse and keyboards,
you just don't wanna get 'em.
- [Austin] That's fine.
I'm just gonna plug this in over here.
- [Matt] Literally, in the drawer right there.
- [Austin] For context, on paper, this is an A4,
it's dual core with slightly high base speed,
but it is very slow.
Also 4 gigs of RAM although this one had no expandability
and a hard drive that is just sooooo slow
like oh my God.
So... part of the reason that companies
such as Hewlett Packard are able to sell a computer,
brand new with a screen and keyboard and everything
for 360 bucks is by bundling bloatware.
And I'll tell ya, it feel a little slow right now.
What's eating up all my CPU?
Wonder what it is.
- [Ken] Wait Hewlett Packard?
- [Austin] Yeah, HP.
Did you not know that's what HP stands for?
- [Ken] Thought it meant hot poop.
- (both laugh)
Like these two PCs (laughs).
- There's a bunch of stuff I want to dig into here.
Is the windows 11 update assistant live
cause I know they had taken it down for a bit.
Can I download that?
Coming soon. Oh, so it's not available.
I'm pretty sure this is going to have TPM though.
In fact, actually I can check to see.
Yeah, there we go.
So this processor is listed as compatible with Windows 11.
So I guess that's a good thing spreading around really well,
but it does run it technically.
Let's- Let's try watching a video real quick
and see how that works.
- [Ken] Yep.
- [Austin] So that's a 60% volume.
- [Ken] That's actually pretty good.
- [Austin] That sounds great.
I'm not going to say that we've cracked the code
and we found what secretly the greatest laptop slash desktop
that's ever been sold at Best Buy.
Cause that would just be an incorrect statement.
What I will say is that first impressions are really solid.
I'm about this thing right now.
As soon as I've tried to load up a game
or do anything more demanding,
probably not gonna be about this thing.
I think it's more than we can say for this guy.
- [Ken] I think it's 99 cents too expensive.
- [Austin] Oh my- will you start playing with the tape?
It's not a funny gag
when you put it on and take it off
like three times in one video.
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So one of the highlights, the first time around
when we tested the bigger brother
or the older brother of this HP was getting Crysis.
The original version of Crysis up and running.
Now that experience was, shall we say less than optimal.
So let's see what happens when we try to launch it on here.
The thing is with this chip, generally speaking,
this is speck little bit better than that original HP
that we looked at.
However, this was also using the fairly lackluster Intel.
I think it's like the HD 400 graphics.
It's the lowest of the low in Intel graphics.
Oh, it's runs great on Core 2 Duo.
So we're fine.
Oh, scan hardware and detect optimal system settings.
Please do that.
Mainstream spec. Mainstream is one step up from the minimum.
I mean, that's not, that's not nothing.
Okay. 18, 17 frames per second,
but this looks like actual real game play. Ah-
I think this counts.
I mean, it's not super smooth.
Here, change all settings to minimum.
Yo! We got 30 FPS boys!
Okay. This is definitely better than the HP.
The HP ran like absolute garbage town.
Is it impressive that a $360 all-in-one
in the year 2021 is capable of playing such an old game.
Like I, some, some part of me thinks this is really cool
because I remember this game being
like the actual absolute shit but also...
it was pretty old at this point.
Why don't we try something slightly newer.
By slightly newer, I mean,
when did Valerian come out? 2020? 2018?
- [Ken] Last year.
- Valerian, a game from this decade.
I say, this looks like it's vaguely functioning.
Excuse me?
What? No.
Oh God.
All right.
I'm gonna try to do this a little bit more quickly.
- [Ken] Okay. So.
- I don't know what to blame here.
It just randomly shuts off, but like, is it crashing?
Is it Valerian being weird?
All right, let me...
we're gonna restart it once and give it a try.
I feel that this should work though.
I think it's gonna work well,
but I feel like this should work.
Graphics quality up, up, up, up, up.
Connection error.
Okay. I think realistically,
I'm probably gonna need to try to re-install Valerian
to see what it's all about,
but I have an idea.
Now it's one thing for me to sit here
and play with what I think could potentially
be one of the worst new pieces you can buy.
Certainly one of the cheapest new desktop
all-in-ones that you can buy.
But the real question is,
what do people want me to actually do with this thing?
I know for me,
I wanna try to play games on it and see how it works.
But something tells me that what I do with a super cheap PC
is slightly different than what most people
who actually buy something like this are actually gonna do.
What did I do to deserve this?
I don't even know what video this is.
It's like Linus reviewing leggings.
Everyone is looking at me right now.
Everyone's looking at me.
- [Ken] Oh, wait till you walk by the group of kids.
Oh no, do I have to go that?
Can we please turn this off?
- [Ken] No. Go.
(Ken laughs)
- Hello!
How's it going?
Don't watch this channel, it's a bad channel.
I hate both of you.
Both of you.
All right guys, this is enough.
I'm leaving now.
Can I take off the shirt yet at least?
- [Ken] No.
- W-what sick pleasure do you get out of this?
Well, why is there an iPad here?
- [Ken] So, I think that this is a better value
than that thing that you have on your back.
- Which iPad is this?
- [Ken] It is the 7th gen base iPad.
- Base iPad.
So this was like $330 new.
That was two years ago, three years ago.
- [Ken] Now it is around $280 on eBay.
- Yes. So about a hundred dollars less
than this contraption.
- [Ken] Yes, which-
- [Austin] What are you trying to prove?
- [Ken] Wait. Well, this has Geekbench on it.
Yeah. Oh-
- Did you install Geekbench on my back?
- [Ken] Yes.
Yeah. Why not?
- If we're being somewhat practical
and not just haha Austin was wearing a Linus Tech Tip shirt.
The iPad actually is what I would recommend for most people
who are considering an all-in-one like this,
because the iPad,
while it's portable is a great device for the home.
It has a lot of power
and a lot of the stuff that you do on this
like web browsing and Facebook
and that kind of stuff is done really better on an iPad.
It's a much more sort of comfy form factor.
Is it plugged in because the battery was dead?
- [Ken] Yeah.
- Great. This is such a scientific test.
- [Ken] Here's the only thing about this.
You can get a cheap stand and use it like a computer anyway.
- You can, you can.
And the 8th gen or the 7th gen,
I think specifically was the one
that added the smart connector.
We actually can have a keyboard,
which makes an iPad a lot more useful.
Wait, this isn't- this is an A9.
This shows up as a dual core processor.
Interesting. Okay.
So our score is 764 on single-core, 1381 for multi-core.
Well, hang on.
What's the score of my HP Qua?
(Ken laughs)
What is it? What is it?
What is it?
- [Ken] Single-core 484.
Multi-core 854.
- So even one core of this,
which for some reason is showing up as two, instead of four,
one core of the iPad is basically as powerful
as this entire system behind me.
Look, I know this sounds ridiculous
and you might not take anything seriously
from a guy who's wearing a computer
on his backpack with the Linus Tech Tip shirt on,
but it is kind of jacked up
that a brand new Windows 10 PC in the year 2021
can be as underpowered as this.
It is vaguely usable, but like if a old iPad,
an old out of date,
for some reason only using half it's cores iPad
is still that much more powerful.
It should say something about the fact that, I mean,
if you really need Windows, they got you.
Other than that, look,
look how much it takes to make this thing portable.
Oh look it's portable.
So if that's not sales pitch,
I don't know what is.
Another sales pitch I will give you is to make sure
to subscribe to the channel and Ring Ding-A-Ling-A-Ling bell
for more high quality...
Sorry, for more content like this.
Quality notwithstanding.
- Why you have a computer on your back?
- ...that's a long story
and involves a lot of eighth graders.