Windows laptops have gotten pretty inexpensive over
the years. And not only that, they're not just cheap,
they're also pretty decent. No longer do you have to
choose between a really crappy, cheap Windows
laptop, and a really expensive, high- end gaming one.
One of these such laptops is actually being hailed
around the Web as probably the best laptop you can
get for under $ 200. It's called the
HP 14- AN013NR. Yeah, not the
best name. But regardless Let me show you why if
you do only have $ 200 to spend you probably should
get this laptop among the
other
ones.
[ MUSIC ] First up, performance. The laptop has an
AMD E2 7110 quad core processor. That essentially
is similar to an Intel I3 405U in terms
of pricing, but has a slightly higher clock speed and a
much higher GPU clock speed than the I3. And
comparing that to the other computers in this price
range that all have Intel Atom processors, which are
essentially mobile processors, it's leaps ahead in terms
of power. The graphics that's integrated into the
chipset. Is an AMD Radon R two which is also is
definitely ahead of the other laptops in this price
range. And the fact it comes standard with 4 gigs of
ram is also oddly enough, more than most in this
category. And by the way, you can easily unscrew the
bottom of this laptop and put in more RAM. You can
basically double it To eight gigs for about 30 bucks if
you buy the ram online and quadruple it to 16 gigs for
about 130 bucks which is the max that the computer
can handle. And we all love benchmarks right? So
here's a quick benchmark from Geekbench on this
laptop and how it performs compared to the other
ones in this category to kinda illustrate what I'm talking
The screen is also something that HP kind of one up
the competition with. While most other Windows
laptops in the under $ 200 price range have a 1366
by 768 resolution display, HP managed to put a full
HD 1920 by 1080 screen on this little guy. On top
of that it's an IPS display that frankly just looks really
good for the price. So far nothing but good things to
say about the laptop, right. Let's really quick talk about
one of the downsides of this laptop and that's storage.
The device only has 32 gigs of internal storage,
that's it. Now, with the fact that Windows takes up
some of that, McAfee which comes on it also takes up
some of that as well as some of the unnecessary
programs that are also put on here. We're looking at
just about This much usable space,
which obviously, isn't great. Thankfully though, HP put
no shortage of ports on this thing, which does actually
give you a really cheap option to fix the storage issue.
but we'll get to that in a second. Also though, thanks to
those screws at the bottom of this device, you can also
change out the SSD should you want to. About a 100
bucks would get you a 275 Five gig storage
SSD, if you wanted to. Now the ports that I mentioned,
that HP put on this thing, are specifically two USB 2. 0
ports, one USB 3. 0 port, one HDMI, a VGA,
a headphone jack, an Ethernet port, and an SD card
slot. And frankly that's a lot of ports. It's more
than most, actually. In the price range for these
laptops. Not all, but most. And it also allows you to
have a very inexpensive option of say, putting in a SD
card or one of those flush USB drives. To add a
bunch of storage really easily, you could even just
leave sitting in the side of the laptop. For example, for
about $ 15, you could double the storage using a 32
gig SD card or a 32 gig USB flash drive. In
addition, it means that there's plenty of places to plug
in external drive, external monitors. And external
mice, which I personally prefer using external mouse
on any Windows laptop especially the more
inexpensive ones because their trackpads just aren't
terribly amazing. In fact you can even find this laptop
bundled with this HP mouse for the same price it says
you could find the laptop on its own. I'll link that below.
In addition to the mouse you can get bundled, HP also
makes a laptop bag for it that besides being a good
padded option for the laptop with room for books
etc ., so if you're going to school, it's also not bad
looking either. Overall if you need a Computer, and
you only have $ 200 to spend, you'll be hard pressed
to find one that has better specs than the HP
14AN013NR. Horrible name,
but a pretty easy choice. There, I hope you guys
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watching. [ MUSIC ]