- Hello and welcome my friends
to Austin's stupid corner of stupid things.
So, recently we took a look at a very, very dumb item
at our local electronics store,
where the employees helpfully pointed out
the worst computer that they currently sell.
The HP Fisher-Price special.
Now it's not actually a officially a Fisher-Price.
Wait until you see what's inside this.
It is, it bad.
It's real bad.
So, what'd you get with a 400 dollar HP All-in-One?
Well, not,
not much.
Wait actually, it has an external power supply?
This thing is basically the same power of like
a netbook, and yet it has an external supply?
But it has an internal DVD drive?
I am offended right now.
We haven't even opened this thing up and I'm offended.
Hope you guys are ready for Austin "Salty" Evans.
Okay actually, I will say I'm kinda digging
the white keyboard.
Obviously, it's a very cheap membrane keyboard.
That's actually not bad and it looks kinda nice.
I'll give them some props,
it does come with a 12 dollar keyboard in a box.
Seems so small I can just pick it up with one hand.
(laughing)
- [Ken] I don't like that.
Redesigned, reliable, and ready for you.
So which one of these do you think it'll actually..
- None of the above, none of the above.
Do you see how thick this thing is?
Do you see how big it is?
They couldn't have fit this just like here?
- [Ken] I love how it has a Kensington lock
in case you were worried about anyone stealing
your box.
- I will say, I'm actually a little bit of a sucker
for this white.
I mean, it doesn't actually look terrible
as far as the color goes, it just looks like
a toy, like, the bezels are massive.
So around back we have that fancy ripple pattern,
we have a Kensington lock, headphone jack, HDMI,
that's impressive, two USB 3.0, the power adapter,
ethernet as well as two USB 2.0.
And over on this side, we've got an optical disk drive,
a DVD writer, no less, in case you wanna--
You can't do blu-rays though,
so-- - [Ken] Well, I mean,
even if it could, I don't think it would play them.
- All right, let's plug this thing in.
I really wanna see how this is.
So just trying to get it to open up the Windows
set up screen is taking a very, very long time.
- [Ken] We've been here for like three to five minutes?
- It's not moved from this screen, it turned on,
I got the boot logo, it's "just a moment".
I will say, however, actually did miss one thing,
if you look on the bottom, we do have an SD card,
which is very exciting.
Also, take a look at the stand.
It has a lot of adjustability.
I can go from here to here.
Wait, that's black?
Look at this, can you, sorry, can you see this?
That's black, that's supposed to be black right now.
(computer vocalizing) Do you see?
It's just gray.
- [Ken] I will say, the most impressive thing
about this right now,
that speaker actually sounds pretty good.
- The speaker actually doesn't sound bad.
Hang on, let me just show you something.
So just in case you can't see clearly on the computer,
this is what black should look like.
And this is the black of the actual system.
Can you see how bad that is?
This might be one of the worst looking displays ever.
Oh, important set-up time.
I've got at least five more laps
on the scooter for this one.
You know, it's very strange because
there are actually a fair few all-in-ones available.
I would argue that at most stores people are buying
all-in-ones more often than they're buying
full sized desktops.
But this is one of the only all-in-ones
that does not have a touch screen.
- [Ken] Oh, don't do that.
- Do you see how much the whole screen flickers?
Wee!
Oop, oop, oop, almost broke the set.
Wee!
Okay, so we finally are up and running inside Windows.
So first of all, let me actually take a closer look
at the spec on this guy.
So we have a dual core AMD A-4 9125,
we have four gigabytes of RAM, a one terabyte of hard drive,
we do have AC WiFi, although I am plugged in via ethernet
and Radeon R3 graphics.
This,
this is rough, man.
All right, I'm gonna uninstall everything I can.
We're gonna try to get this thing as speedy as possible.
I've got a lot of things to uninstall, though.
So, after letting this sit overnight
and get all of it's updates handled,
there are a couple of things that really jump out to me,
in fact you can see it right now.
Very, very frequently it just sits at incredibly
high CPU, it's like 71% just doing nothing, right?
So, one of the things about the system
is that with such a slow dual-core processor,
something as simple as the host process
for setting synchronization can peg the CPU
almost entirely.
I get it, cheap computer but the problem here is that
it is not that cheap.
400 dollars is still 200 dollars more
than I think this thing is probably worth.
But, I did tweet out, I did ask if anyone had any questions
about our wonderful HP All-In-One.
All right, so let's see how long Twitter
actually takes to load.
Mind you, I'm on ethernet right now.
So,
mkay.
It's coming, it's not the worst thing I've ever seen.
Dry hump it.
No, Kyle.
Hackintosh.
Look, I am not gonna hackintosh this thing.
I don't wanna make the world (bleep) iMac, here.
Technically it might be possible,
no actually, I don't even know, it's got four gigs of RAM,
I don't even know if it would, don't you need eight gigs
for the most recent version of Catalina?
- [Ken] What if you do the older versions?
- That sounds terrible, I don't wanna do that.
(laughing) Run Crysis.
Oh my God, you know what?
I don't even think I can watch a video
of Crysis on this thing, right?
No, no, it's not--
I have four gigs of single channel memory with like,
no.
- [Ken] Well, that's easier than installing it.
- It won't even install, I bet.
We have Pentium four, one gig of RAM
GeForce 6800 GT.
(exhales) This actually might work.
Look,
I'm gonna do this for the PC Master Race,
but I'm not happy about it.
All right, here we go. Crysis Warhead, let's do it.
So, it's only six gigs. Oh man, that's actually kinda nice.
Look at that, it's allocating disk space
in an incredibly rapid (chuckles).
I can't say anything nice about this thing.
Okay, let's see how long it's actually gonna take.
'Cause theoretically, we're on ethernet,
oh look at that, five minutes.
Wait a minute, that's actually pretty good.
Wait, are we really gonna install this
in less than three minutes?
It's (chuckles) bottlenecking hard,
but you know what, who cares?
If I can get like three frames per second in Crysis,
I will consider this to be a success.
(laughing)
Yo, I saw 710 down.
To be fair, that really has very little
to do with the computer in entirely the fact
that we have a gig connection here, but still.
Look, PC Master Race right? I gotta rep my true colors.
- [Ken] White?
- Ken!
Unacceptable, man. - [Ken] (laughs)
- I am offended.
Oh c'mon, any computer could get
through to the loading screen, right?
- [Ken] Yeah, a 3D generated video?
- Yeah, (chuckles) runs great on Core 2 Duo.
You know what, I don't even think
this is as powerful as a Core 2 Duo. Realistically?
It might be close.
(computer plays music) - [Ken] That is very loud.
- I'll turn it down a little bit.
Gonna work.
C'mon 99 percent.
(computer vocalizes) It works!
I mean this is 16 frames per second, but this works.
Oh okay that was a stutter.
All right, hold on, hold on.
Let me turn some settings down.
Let me crank it all the way down.
This actually works, though.
So, we're minimum at 800 by 600.
So,
don't do that.
Don't do that.
Oh look. I'm up to 22 frames per second now.
This is the jitteriest frame rate I've ever felt.
It like bounces between 30 and two, it feels like.
But this is Crysis.
You know what's something I've really noticed here,
the screen is terrible, like the black point
I've never seen the black part of the screen
be the same as the gray part of the screen.
Like there's no difference whatsoever,
like it's so, like the lack of contrast is crazy.
Look, I think this is really straightforward.
Is it a great version of Crysis? No.
But does it actually, technically work? Yes.
I actually am, not gonna say impressed,
but surprised is definitely the way I would put it.
Wait, you can't ask questions on Twitter.
Can it fold?
No.
Why are asking Twitter?
You're like right here,
you don't have to ask questions on Twitter.
Oh hell no. Someone wants to play to the Witcher 3.
- [Ken] Nope.
- Please don't play Fortnite on it.
No problem. Fortnite definitely won't work.
Edit a video with it.
So, you may have caught a video I did last year
where I bought my very first laptop
and tried to edit a video on it.
It was a complete and total disaster.
So no, I'm not doing any more edit challenges.
I value my sanity more than 35 seconds of your entertainment
I apologize.
That may have been rude to be...
- [Ken] But you played Crysis.
- Crysis is fine. Oh wait, here's a better,
someone asked, "open ten tabs in Chrome."
You think we can do ten tabs?
I should probably install Chrome first.
K, so I have installed Chrome.
And right now, we're sitting at 2.5 of our 3.9 gigs
of memory used, so let's just start opening tabs.
So, I have a YouTube page up with a video which is paused.
We're at 2.8 gigs of RAM, so we have, we're okay.
This is just tab number three.
Oh, 3.1 uh. And we're pegged CPU, okay.
Next, let's go Apple.com.
That's a, that should be an easy enough website to load.
- [Ken] Easy? - Yeah.
- [Ken] Is it easy?
- Apple sites actually are pretty well optimized.
Okay, so we're at 3.4 gigs of RAM.
This is not good. We're four tabs in. We're almost maxed.
- [Ken] I love how we're at the point of this video
where the Verge is the benchmark.
- Hey man, they (bleep).
- [Ken] Oh, we gotta censor that one. (laughs)
- Sweet shout out to Mister Ken Bolido on Instagram,
we're up to 3.3 gigs.
Isn't this an insightful, wonderful video
full of information you wish you knew five minutes ago?
No? Me neither.
See if Reddit wants to load. It's actually not that bad.
Let's go to Google. That'll be an easy one.
Okay, so now grandma has her MSN, what's our final tab?
- [Ken] Um, Fox News.
- No, stop. It's not the grandma special.
Let's go to uh -- - [Ken] CNN.
- No, no, we're still loading MSN actually.
We're not done with MSN yet. It's still 100 percent CPU.
Okay we're loaded, all right. CNN.com for our tenth tab.
System is very slow at this point.
We're almost full of memory.
- [Ken] Wait, you decided to do CNN anyway.
- Yeah, what did you want me to do?
- [Ken] The Weather Channel. - Oh.
- [Ken] We didn't wanna talk about the virus, Austin.
We wanted to keep positivity up on the channel, Austin.
- Look, we're all positive right now.
We have a dumb PC that we're doing dumb things
like trying to open ten tabs on.
Weather Channel is loading. This news is (exhales).
- [Ken] (laughs) So much for positivity.
- Why is that the first thing I see on?
- [Ken] Wow, the weather's looking great.
384 people died. (laughter)
- That's (bleep) up man. That's (bleep) up.
- [Ken] Sunny with a chance of death.
- We have ten tabs loaded.
So, our CPU is permanently pegged at 100 percent right now.
We have 3.6 gigs of RAM used.
Can I actually open up all of these tabs now?
Okay, that one's here. That one's here.
That one's here. Actually I think it worked.
I mean, it's probably caching these,
but every single tab seems to be doing it.
Oh, it had to reload that one.
Oh, no it can't keep them all in.
Look how long it is when I switch between them.
Eh it's not terrible.
I'll give that a pass.
- [Ken] This is more multitasking
than my mom will do in like a week.
- Well, no matter what we do, the CPU
is permanently pegged at 100 percent just having
all of these tabs just running in the background.
So, yes, technically it can run ten Chrome tabs.
But barely. And our RAM is (chuckles) not happy with us.
And of course Josh in here with
"do the speakers bump, though?"
- [Computer] I'm Austin, I'm Myke. We are the Test Drivers.
(computer vocalizes)
- What great speakers. Incredible.
- [Computer] we have a Test Drivers bonus exclusive.
On the Xbox Series X. - What?
It's almost like there's a link to that
in the description of this video.
Incredible. Some galaxy brain (bleep) right there.
- [Ken] I didn't think you said enough about the speaker,
but I appreciate the ad spot.
- (laughs)
This video is brought to you by my brand new podcast.
Please download it. Thanks.
I want to see you return it. (laughs)
Me too. I would love to see that as well.
Overclock? There's no way this thing would let me overclock.
And if it could, - [Ken] It'll catch on fire.
- Edit RED footage?
- [Ken] No. Hard no.
- Watch YouTube at 8K.
- [Ken] Oh, I'm down with that.
- Okay, let's find an 8K video and let's work our way up.
I'm watching your ads Marques, I hope you're grateful.
So, we're watching an 8K MKBHD video.
We're gonna start out 480p and see if it works.
(computer plays video)
yeah.
That's fine.
Okay. Next, let's go to 720p.
Where do you think it's gonna choke?
I think it's gonna hit 1080 and stop.
- [Ken] I think 1080 is probably our cap.
- Yeah, okay. So, 720.
All right.
Well, it's a little jittery.
Okay. Next, let's go 1080p.
Can it do 1080p? Uh oh.
Oh yeah. - [Ken] Oh there we go.
- Oh no. It's stuttering, look. It's jittery.
I would give it a minor pass at 1080.
What would happen if we go 1440?
It's definitely gonna choke here right?
1440's kinda hard to play.
- [Ken] Not liking that.
- Not so, eh it's buffering...
Oh no, no.
Not happening.
Look, it's kinda playing.
- [Ken] Wait, no no no. Let's just,
let's try to answer the question as soon as possible.
- [Austin] Are you just gonna go straight into 8K?
- [Ken] Of course I am.
- [Austin] Dude, it's not even gonna load.
- [Ken] There we go, there we go.
- It's not gonna work.
It's not gonna work. There's no way it's gonna work.
Hold on, hold on.
Wait, calm down. Calm down.
Dude, it's not gonna load.
8K is a hard no on this one. 1440p is a hard no on this one.
Check Amazon for upgrades.
Can I
open
this
PC?
It's not meant to be taken apart, that's for sure.
The thing is though is that I don't think
there's really anything to really upgrade
besides maybe I could swap out the hard drive for an SSD.
'Cause it's got a single channel of memory, right?
And honestly there's not really much that's worth upgrading.
I guess an SSD wouldn't be terrible if you want
to just crack it open and pull the hard drive out.
But I feel like,
look, I'm lazy. I don't have to tear this thing apart.
I know what's inside. It's not gonna be exciting.
You could theoretically open it.
Are you just tryna like pry it apart right now?
I don't think it's that poorly built.
A lot of people asking for Linux.
Linux should work.
- [Ken] Linux might actually run better than Windows.
- Yeah, Windows 10 is fine. The thing is though
is that this PC is meant for your grandma.
Your grandma doesn't need Linux.
Your grandma doesn't need Windows.
Your grandma needs an iPad. (laughs)
- [Ken] That's actually not a bad point actually.
- Look, I don't trust grandma with this. I'm just saying.
- [Ken] Wait. Well, if I'm real,
this thing right here is probably what you need for grandma.
It is cheaper than this thing.
- A base iPad will run you about 300 bucks.
Whereas this is 400 dollars.
I would definitely agree.
The only thing is though if you want a bigger screen.
One of the advantages here over something like a laptop
is the fact that it's got like a 19 inch screen or something
- [Ken] Give grandma better glasses, I don't know.
(chuckles)
- I mean I guess. (chuckles)
Give grandma better glasses. Ken Bolido's official opinion.
How about the webcam?
Should we try the webcam?
Oh look, I look like I'm potato man.
Okay, wait. Can I turn the HDR?
HDR auto. There we go, that's the move.
Can I change settings here?
- [Both] Pro mode. Pro mode. Pro mode.
- Video quality 480p or do we want 360p?
- [Ken] 360p.
- I want 480p. I want my extra pixels.
Oh we can change the brightness.
Oh, that's it?
Those are your settings? That's your pro mode right here?
We are recording.
Hello my friends and welcome to the webcam
on my HP All-in-One laptop.
As you can see it's in beautiful 480p standard definition
which we really all know is the resolution of the future.
Can I stop making this video yet?
- [Ken] All I'm saying is that if you get that iPad,
it's cheaper and you can FaceTime grandma
and not this poor (bleep).
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Until next time, I'm going to go
not use this computer every again.
Not good. It's not good.