Hey, how's it going Dave 2d here, and this is a video on some inexpensive laptops for students
And I know you can get some very cheap laptops out there for like 200 bucks that have Windows 10 on them
but those laptops
I feel like they wouldn't last for regular use for what a student does day in day out putting it out of your bag
Using it everyday. Those are not good laptops
I feel for students so what I have in front of me are three very well-built
Well priced laptops that all do different things these aren't competitors. There's not going to be a comparison of them
It's just three individual laptops and depending on what you do as a student or what you want to do with your laptop
You might be interested in one of these and I also have a couple other side picks as well
But the three main ones are: the asus ux305
The acer aspire 5
And the lenovo 320s. So let's start off with the Acer first
I've done a full review of this thing before this is a great device for students who want to get a laptop for school
But also want to do some light gaming basically
It's an inexpensive
regular looking 15-inch laptop that can handle current gaming titles
Reasonably well because of the video card. It has an MX 150 from Nvidia
Which is kind of like the GT 1030 and most current titles are very playable on this machine. If you want a more detailed review
I'll link my video below. The configuration with the MX 150 cost
$600 and it's a great laptop for the money. Now there were two things like might be an issue for students
First is the battery life
I'm only getting around five hours of battery life for this so if you want to bring it to school and you have a full
Day of class you're gonna have to bring your charger with you. The second thing is that it's not super thin or light
It's not like a really thick gaming laptop, but it has some size to it. Now if you are looking for something
That's a little thinner and lighter that is still a good price point
It's this thing Lenovo 320 s so this thing starts at I think
$550 for the base model, it's a full aluminum build
but the chassis has some flex to it the bottom panel is easy to open up for upgrading the RAM and storage the
Screen is a little dim and the base model isn't a 1080p screen
It's not bad though videos and pictures still look really sharp at normal viewing distances the keyboard is comfortable to use but
The keystrokes are little softer than I'd like and there's no backlighting. The trackpad uses Windows precision drivers
Which are really and the battery life is surprisingly good as well , I'm getting around seven hours
But this thing comes in couple configurations starts at around $500 - $550 depending on sales, but great device for students
Okay, next up we have the Asus UX330
Which is the successor to the UX306 which I've reviewed in the past
and this thing is a surprisingly good laptop for the money. Now, it's not super cheap
It's 700 bucks. This thing has great build quality and a pretty simple design
It has two regular USB ports, a USB C and a micro HDMI. It has a good screen 1080p matte finish
And it gets pretty bright. Also has a nice backlit keyboard and windows precision trackpad. Tracking is really good on the surface
It's just a nice texture, but the button clicks are a little shallow. They don't feel bad though,
Just really short travel. The speakers on this thing are really good. They're located on the bottom, and I mean for this price
It's kind of crazy
How good these speakers sound. They have Harman Kardon branding, but usually having branding like this for a laptop speaker doesn't mean anything
They usually sound very average, but these actually sound good
It still doesn't have strong bass, but it's a very clean, audio, and you'll be happy with these speakers
It is a 13 inch screen. It's a little bit smaller than the other two laptops
I've mentioned so far
So depending what you do or what you want to do with your laptop this might be too small
But if you're looking for a 13 inch device you're on the money
The one thing I don't like about this device is actually the fan noise
It comes on way more often than you'd like it to and when it does
It's pretty loud and actually comes on when you're doing very un-intensive stuff like watching a YouTube video or browsing the web
It's kind of weird because this is something that software should be able to fix
But it's been out for several months and there hasn't been a change, so we'll see. Now for the price for $700
It's not something that is for someone looking for the cheapest laptop right, there are going to be cheaper laptops on this
But if you're in the market for some of that's kind of higher-end like an XPS 13 or an HP Envy
Those are like 900 bucks or more. This thing is a lot less
But still a really good laptop, now the other thing I want to mention
This is not part of the three that I was originally going to talk about is kind of like an off pick so this is
the Dell Inspiron 13 7000
now this is a two in one device. I'm not a big fan of two in one devices. I find that they're a little bit
kind of cumbersome for everyday use as a student
But I know that a lot of my audience are crazy about two in one devices just because they're so versatile this one's
$650 and I think it's the best foldable two in one device at this price point now
There's a lot of inexpensive two in one devices and a lot of them suck. Just they're not good as laptops
They're even worse as tablets
But this one is very usable in both forms the keyboard in particular is surprisingly good for the price
It feels like honestly it feels like they're XPS keyboard. It's really good trackpad is good
It's a Windows precision driver the whole thing has excellent build quality lots of metal, impressive speakers for the price
It's a great two and one the two things that I don't love about it
Though are the screen and the battery life
The screen feels a little dim and I really wish it was brighter because this is such a good device for media consumption
But because of the dimmer screen you can't use it outdoors readily, and the battery life could be better
I'm only getting about five hours of life on this thing, but for a cheap
But well built two and one, this is my top pick so the last thing
I want to talk about are some devices that are well. They're not really on the table here
It's kind of like a theoretical device so right now the eighth generation
CPUs from Intel have been launched Intel's coffee Lake and those 8th gen CPUs are kind of trickling down into all these devices and everything
Is getting refreshed so the seventh generation KB Lake CPUs those prices are coming down a little bit?
But there are some sixth generation skylake CPU laptops that are significantly cheaper
and they're still available on Amazon and some of those devices are barely a year old so they're actually quite new still it's just a
Matter of perception of whether or not you want the brand-new one that's coming out or one
That's a year and a few months old ok
I'll link all this stuff below
And I'll link some
Sixth generation skylake CPU laptops down below as well as some of those have amazing pricing like this 510 s that I have over here
But yeah, hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs. If you liked it subs if you loved it. See you guys next time