- Today I am going to be taking a look
at the worst buy at Best Buy.
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and now onto... (imitates air whooshing)
Okay, so the first item is going to be a spicy one.
So the premise for this video is really simple,
we went on bestbbuy.com and purchased some
of the best-selling items that they sell.
And while some were boring, like, guess what?
The best-selling Apple laptop is a MacBook.
But looking at some other categories
it got a whole lot more ridiculous.
This, my friends, is the HP ENVY Desktop TE01-3254.
Yeah, I know, the 3254 was my favorite too.
All right, so first of all, we've got some accessories.
Sure, they're gonna be very high quality and fancy.
They include Duracell batteries,
that's worth a solid $100 in.
They're also wireless peripherals.
You know what?
Actually, I'll give them some props.
Most of the time when you get, like, a mouse and keyboard
with a computer,
it's like the most bare bones basic thing ever,
and while, I mean,
this is still a very cheap mouse, It's wireless,
so props to HP.
- [Jared] You did the bare minimum,
Yay! - Yay!
Bare minimum. - Best selling.
- Look at this.
They can tell that it's made for old people
cause it's like, "Hey, don't forget your dongle,
don't forget your dongle, it's really small,
but it's still in here."
I bet these get thrown away like half the time
and people call HP Support,
"My mouse and keyboard don't work."
Look, my normal beat are gaming computers, right?
So someone who's purchasing
a desktop not for gaming
is a little bit strange to me because laptops exist,
all-in-ones exist, tablets exist,
smart TVs exist, typewriters exist, pen and paper exists,
stone tablets exist.
- Chalkboard? - Chalkboards exist.
Oh, good Lordy.
Let's get the plastic off here, and take a look at that.
Beautiful design, wow.
- [Jared] I mean, in all honesty, it looks all right,
it's not ugly, but it's just, it's pleasant.
- You know what it doesn't have though?
- What? - Optical disc.
(Jared gasps)
Let me show you around back, okay?
This, my friends, is the port selection-
- What? - Of 2006.
We have ourselves VGA and HDMI, that is it.
DisplayPort?
Never heard of it.
DVI? Hell no.
Just keep in mind, this is not some old computer.
Look at this right here, do you see this?
Intel Core i7, that's a 12th-gen, wow, wow,
that really wiggles.
It's a 12th-gen sticker, okay?
So even though this is a brand-new computer, again,
the best-selling desktop on Best Buy at this very moment.
Okay.
- [Joanna] Can I tell you secret?
- Uh-oh. - Yes, please do.
- [Joanna] I bought an HP desktop from Best Buy.
(Jared gasps) (glass crunches)
- No cap?
- [Jared] Are you a double agent, Joanna?
- [Joanna] What?
- Are you're a best buyer? - Are you a best buyer?
- [Joanna] No.
- Inside we've got, well, it almost fell backward.
Wow, that's empty.
First of all, it's incredibly unbalanced
'cause the only thing that's heavy in it
is the power supply on the bottom.
There's nothing in here.
Wow!
Theoretically, you could put a graphics card there,
however, with this power supply,
all I see are a couple of SATA connectors.
So the only kind of graphics card
you could put in here is a low-power card
that does not need external power, which I will tell you
is about the most basic graphics card
you can get your hands on.
Now, I've also noticed something else,
and this is the part that actually is gonna bother me.
What you'll see is a single DIMM of memory.
- [Jared] A single?
- It's only one stick, which means it's running
at half the speed that it realistically should.
- [Jared] Which is gonna make
your already bad integrated graphics even worse.
- What I'm struggling with is to understand
where my money went.
What is the MSRP on this system?
- So the MSRP is $970, but,
but we got it on sale for only $800.
(playful music)
- Okay.
$100 motherboard, another $100 for the RAM and SSD,
$30 for the power supply, $20 for the case,
that's still what?
$300 less?
This is bad, like, this is very bad.
CS:GO is about the most friendly modern game
that you could play.
Now, if you really wanted to get into a computer like this,
you would get something with, oh,
I don't know, a graphics card,
but because we don't have one, and we have terrible memory,
and terrible bandwidth, I play CS:GO on a butt cheek.
- But, excuse me?
- Whoa. - Run that by me again.
(both laughing)
- A left butt cheek.
Oh, I'm at 30 frames per second. (imitates vomiting)
- Dude. (Austin imitates vomiting)
- 1080p? - Yeah.
- [Jared] I think I could draw frames
faster than this PC can help put 'em.
- I didn't even know this was possible.
Look how jittery it is.
Oh, it just crashed, okay.
(Jared laughing)
Ooga-booga, booga. (playful music)
- I'm gonna. - Bleurgh.
It's the Crash Bandicoot sound!
- Austin just went- - Ooga-booga.
- [Jared] Primal for a second there.
- Can we think of anything positive
to say about this computer?
- [Jared] It looks okay, it did turn on.
(upbeat music)
- I'd rather a 10th gen iPad.
Oh, that one actually got me in the gut.
All right, so, okay, so we're cheating on this one.
When we looked up the best-selling laptops on Best Buy,
the first one we saw was the Chromebook
that we had purchased the last time we did a video
like this from Best Buy, so we already have this one,
we have a little bit of a headstart on that,
but the best-selling Windows laptop
was not really what I expected.
(dull music)
- [Jared] Very graceful.
(paper rustling)
- Ow!
This is the ASUS-
- [Jared] It's just in another box.
- E410M.
So this is exceedingly cheap, cheaper, in fact,
than the Chrome OS equivalent,
and it is running a full copy of Windows 11 in S Mode,
which we can turn off in about three seconds.
- [Jared] Look, a 14-inch laptop.
- No, no, no, it's nice.
You gotta know where the Enter key is.
Actually, wait, hang on, let's do the first test.
If you really wanna know if your laptop
is cheap bargain basement, does the keyboard flex?
(dull music)
- Oh. - It does.
- [Jared] Not as bad as I thought.
- I would say it's- - That's pretty-
- Moderate flex.
All right, so with Samsung we've got, yeah,
also moderate flex.
Okay, that screen, so.
(Austin hums)
- Not terrible. - Is it IPS?
- It's, it's S.
So we've got ourselves a dual-core Celeron processor.
If you go to Intel and say,
"Give me the cheapest CPU you've ever made," they go,
"Here you go," and they give it to you
and you give them 55 cents in return.
We've also got ourselves a whopping four gigabytes of RAM,
which interestingly- - Sheesh.
- It says it's SO-DIMM and there's one free slot
on the inside.
I actually kinda wanna open it up
and see. - Wait.
- I don't believe that. - Really?
- I don't think- - I don't think
that's true at all.
- I don't think so either.
Also, you know it's a really cheap computer
when your main hard drive just shows up as SD.
- Do you have an SSD man?
"Yeah, well, I got an SD." - Yeah.
(both laughing)
Jared, what's the regular MSRP on this device?
- It'd be $250, but that's not what we paid for it.
- [Austin] How much did we pay for it, Jared?
- We paid $130 for this.
- Remind me again, how much does a copy of Windows 11 cost?
- [Jared] I believe it's like 120 bucks, so.
- So get a copy of Windows and the laptop for free.
(upbeat music)
That was nice and lightweight.
I'm gonna drop it anyway though.
This next item is what happens, we do a very simple search
for the best-selling tellular.
- [Jared] Tellular?
- Cellular telephone, not tellular celephone.
So this is the Boost Mobile Samsung Galaxy A03S.
Now, this has a 6.5-inch display, triple cameras,
only one of which are real, 32 gigs of storage
and three gigs of RAM, with that two gigahertz processor.
- [Jared] This is one of the phones of all time.
- This is very cheap.
Now, you might be picking up on a little bit of a trend here
that a lot of the best-selling items on Best Buy
are cheap ones.
How much is this Boost Mobile prepaid cellular telephone?
- [Jared] This bad boy was only 60 bucks.
(upbeat music)
Good deal.
- Let's hope that we can activate this
without signing up for Boost Mobile.
If I had to create a new phone number, I'm tweeting it,
and just taking random calls in this video.
(Jared laughs) So.
Inside we've got.
Wow, that's a phone.
Oh, okay.
So you know, you think $60 smartphone,
the expectations are low
and usually there are massive compromises,
terrible battery life, horrible cameras, this though,
while plastic, I will say it doesn't feel great, but-
- [Jared] It looks pretty good.
- From this angle, can you not tell that I didn't spend $800
on the latest Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra Note 5G?
Oh, there's even a headphone jack.
- [Jared] Dude, this is the best phone ever.
- A little bit of a chin, but it's fine.
Also, I like how it's got even, like,
the little rounded corners, which is a premium feature,
but the rounded corners are almost
like cutting into the battery percentage.
Like, I feel like they could have padded it out
a little bit more.
- [Jared] So I just looked this phone up
on Samsung's website, not having it be through Boost Mobile,
this would've been a $160 phone.
- So that sounds a lot more like it,
that this is like $160 phone, because again,
you talk about those super cheap unlocked phones,
which mind you, this is not unlocked,
this is attached to Boost Mobile.
Also, this is the best-selling phone on Best Buy.
Ah, ah, ah, that looks pretty promising to me,
it's gonna load eventually right?
Hey, all right.
Look, being able to open and close your notifications
with the fingerprint sensor by swiping is so cool.
I mean, this phone's big,
unless you've got like a 6.5-inch thumb.
- [Joanna] I cannot hold this with one hand,
it's too big. - You know.
- Then this is super helpful, but if Shaq's watching this,
(upbeat music)
you probably not using a Boost Mobile phone.
(Jared laughing)
Let's take a look at Roboraptor.
You see how choppy the feed is?
When you're in portrait mode it clearly is very much a lot
for the phone to deal with, but the actual still itself,
if it eventually loads, that's actually not bad.
To be fair, definitely didn't focus on his face,
but let's see the regular photo.
(upbeat music)
That's actually fine, this is not bad.
- [Jared] You should put that picture on your Twitter
and see what people think.
- I don't think that,
they're gonna have different thoughts on that.
(Jared laughs)
It's not good, but it's not bad.
Okay, you could have given me some warning.
All right, let's see what we got here.
Pause.
Sit down for a moment, shall we?
What do you think the number one best-selling headphones
on Best Buy are?
Seriously, think about for a second.
- [Jared] AirPods.
- AirPods are a good guess.
Maybe some Galaxy Buds, maybe some Bose QC35s?
Well, if that's your guess, you're wrong, Jeremy.
They're Beats by Dre,
Studio 3 Wireless. - What?
So wait, hold on.
On all these other products, people had no budget,
they had to go for the cheapest laptop,
they had to go for the cheapest phone.
- Yeah. - But then they go
for the headphones and they decide, "You know what?
I don't need dinner this month.
I'm just gonna buy these."
- "Change the way you hear sounds."
Okay.
- [Jared] Does that mean like, not with my ears?
- Here's the thing, new Beats are good,
like the Beats Studio Buds, lowkey some of my favorite
relatively affordable in-ear buds.
Audio quality aside, which of course is very important,
damn, that colorway is clean.
Whoo!
So you've got the very nicely-padded headband.
You've got what admittedly is a little bit
of that sort of matte plastic,
but you've got some glossy elements like the Studio
and the headband expander, but these still feel premium,
these still feel like high-quality headphones, right?
And let's be clear, these are still expensive.
While the MSRP, I think is still at, what?
300 or 350 bucks?
- [Jared] 350.
- So they're a lot of money, but at Best Buy,
they're 225 bucks.
Is that worth it?
Hard to say, but it's a whole lot closer
to what I think they should be after five, six years.
So we've got our controls, which are still physical,
that's fine.
Oh wait, we've got a little pamphlet, we can try it free.
It'll be the real test if this is still Beats Music
instead of Apple Music.
It's Apple Music.
Okay, it's not- - Okay.
- [Austin] That old, it's not that old.
- [Joanna] Sticker! - That's a big sticker.
- [Joanna] Thank you.
- All right, let me sync these up.
(chill music)
Oh, that does feel good, those are comfy.
These look phenomenal.
I know that headphones should be judged
based on their features and their sound quality, but...
(chill music)
So let's start out by rocking Dr. Dre.
Now I'm gonna ask this and I'm gonna get really upset
if I got the wrong answer.
Does anyone in the room have a favorite Dr. Dre song?
- [Jared] Who's Dr. Dre?
(Joanna and Jared laughs)
- [Joanna] I was gonna say that, Jared.
(Joanna and Jared laugh)
My favorite Dr. Dre song is "Beats."
(chill music)
(Jared laughs)
(Joanna laughs)
- Alexa, play "Beats" by Dr. Dre.
- Y'all can both leave, I can finish the video from here.
The Beats by Dre sound.
Bass!
Highs!
Mids.
(no sound)