I do wonder how the performance would compare to mainstream linux distro (ubuntu/gnome, mint) since linux usually has lower system requirements. But then compare to a distro with a lighter weight intent (e.g. something using xfxe).
@@mrsharps I run xubuntu w/ xfce and it works well on older celerons there is also a raspberry pi os configuration of debian for x86. I've seen arguments that mate has an even smaller footprint would like to test this.
Hmm, I'm considering buying this laptop for my toddler, so she can have a laptop like me and can do ABC Mouse crap and stuff lol I'm honestly tempted to try running this machine on Linux. It'd be pretty funny if my little toddler became proficient in Linux lmao
Look at the reviews on microcenter for similar laptops. Tons of people buy them for linux terminals. I was until I bought my girlfriend a new work laptop and took her old HP Split X2, which has similar hardware. Running manjaro plasma and its super smooth. Just need to get Wayland working with a good onscreen keyboard and I can use it as a manjaro tablet, which is my goal.
These are great secondary/3rd CPUs to have as backups around the house. Pretty much no brainers at that price and if they get some emergency gaming out of the way in addition all the better! Great content as always covering pretty much every computing need people come across on a daily basis!
I always enjoy when ETA goes bargain hunting. I'm not in the market for a Windows machine at the moment; but, I still watched because I wanted to show support for this type of content. TBH, I found this interesting and at $129, maybe I should be in the market for a neat little Windows laptop.
It's ridiculous that you can't upgrade the memory on this. Especially since it only comes with a max of 4gb, that's incredibly limiting in today's world and will only get worse with time. I like how it looks and honestly for the price the rest of the specs are amazing but that memory is definitely gonna hurt the reusability of it going forward.
soldered ram is cheaper, at this price bracket they're not looking to sell an actually decent device that can hold its own in a couple years, they're looking to sell something that has the windows 11 sticker and nothing else. the margins here are probably very small
Dude, Linux on these is a breeze. Super smooth with a lighter weight distro and DE. A Mint Cinnamon will be buttery. Lubuntu. Laptops like these are amazing for just being a mobile terminal for convenience, cash register for a POS system, etc... It coat LESS than a freaking raspberry pi and it's a better total package. What are you on about?
Seems like loading linux Peppermint or Debian Mint might work well too. I've played Steam Games on a Pentium4 with 4gig of ram on a very old Dell Inspiron.
I agree with the others, I'd love to see a video of this with a lightweight Linux install. Seems like a good value for the performance, wish you talked a bit more about the display though. But it looks alright for the price.
For anyone interested in this model. I’ve purchased it…. For $129. Highly recommend Running windows 10 instead of 11. The machine is perfect, perfect if all you want to do is browse the web and use office for school or work. Plastics feel durable and the keyboard is outstanding recommend a mouse and you have to look at the screen at the right angle.
Lenovo is probably worried to cut into the sales of their own higher end models if they put in 8GB of memory, something that they could have done for 5USD more. Which is a pity, but then again, its still fine for basic tasks. Out of curiousity I checked out Chuwi, and they sold their 14" for 219USD, and that gives you 8GB, 256GB SSD (not eMMC), and 1080P. However it had a 4020 instead, which I believe is slightly slower, which matters if you want to play games I suppose. It costs 90USD more for a way better specced laptop, or almost twice as much, depending on how you look at it. ;)
Yeah, it is not the RAM cost, it is the Licence with MS. At 4 GB they get the OS cheap, once the memory goes above 8 four GB the price they have to pay goes up to a point where it becomes uncompetitive at this price point.
The 4GB maximum of this laptop reminds me of when I was shopping for a new laptop on Black Friday 2020, and it was down to a $330 Lenovo with a Ryzen 5 or a $330 HP with a Core i3. I got the HP solely because the Lenovo had 4GB of non-upgradable RAM (unusable for my workload) and the HP was upgradable.
got an used hp 5500u with 12gbs of ram for around $294 on ebay the other day, same with a lenovo with the same stats just a 17 inch screen for $369 and that one came like new with the box and all the packaging.. best value I have found so far
I purchased this recently since I'll be starting college soon. I thought this laptop would be a perfect fit for studying my notes, test taking, typing, email checking, browsing, and watching videos.
I was looking at picking one of these up to put Linux Mint running xfce DE. I think this would be a perfect laptop for almost any distro other than the heavy ones (Pop os! Has a recommendation of 8g ram now)
A Linux Distro like LinuxLite or PeppermintOS would work really well with this. But overall for the price this is pretty good as long as your just doing light tasks. I would say this would be pretty good for young kids that need it for school.
tiny 11 seems to work fine on it tho if i have to say for a kid i wont give linux as it it not the most user friendly out there some thing like fyde os that can run android aswell as linux
Nice little disposable haul-around laptop you don't have to worry overmuch about. With steam remote play and other remote desktop applications this is all you'd really need if you have a proper desktop at home. Also soldering on some different RAM probably isn't THAT big a hassle if you've done any soldering before. Love seeing this market make strides. Also that ultra low power draw is soooo sick for people out writing in their cabin or camping with only a solar panel or two.
I think it could be a good platform to daily carry in your bag. You could have tiny 11 on the internal memory, if you have a galaxy device it would be great to run dex on, you could have your Batocera thumb drive for gaming and whatever other Linux distro you might want to use on a USB as well. Not super powerful, but very versatile.
@@jannbautista4480 seems to run Dex just fine, although after owning the laptop for a week I couldn't honestly recommend anyone purchase it. The screen is pretty crummy, after opening the bottom panel to install extra storage the bottom panel is cracked and the trackpad doesn't right-click very well. I wish I had not purchased it and would return it had I not caused the damage to the casing. Learn from my mistake and save your money.
In Ridge Racer Revolution on PS1 you can play Galaga-like shooter at the very beginning of the game. Maybe for Skyrim it works in the similar manner ;]
@@polarvortex6601 oh my apologies, its an off topic comment and i was asking for different system, i ask for Legacy OS test on EliteDesk mini PC 705 G4 both gaming and emulations, not on this walmart IdealPad
I just found out an this in December because I really wanted one just for doccument editing but also for a little bit of gaming and I could just use xbox cloud gaming of nvida GeForce cloud gaming or steam which high quality gaming I’ve had my experience with low budget laptops and I think I have phased that this will probably run those three programs at least at a reliable frame rate I ordered one it’s coming tomorrow morning I’ll let you know how it runs
JUst bought this pc, its definetly gonna be nice to take this laptop to somewhere like a coffee shop to get some work done! might look in to installing win7 on it as well
These are okay for doing one or two quick things around the house, but I wouldn't pick them up for serious office work. I have a similar setup with six gigs of RAM and performance tanks if I have to work with Zoom open. Could be a decent Steam Link client or home media center with the HDMI port, though.
Looks like there are pcb traces for ram slots... Can you try soldering on some slots and adding ram? Might work out of the box or it may require bios mods
Very helpful video ! It hepled me a lot deciding ! Bought this laptop ...Very nice ... Screen not great though , viewing angle etc .. mediocre but ok . Cpu never thermal throttles at balanced mode 51oC top . Nice system overall . Love it . Bought a second one for my sister ! Keyboard build quality great for the price. Only downside is that it reqiures a 110 to 220 v adapter as the model is basically imported directly from Usa ... Perhaps adding an nvme and using virtual ram (page file) could increase its performance
I bought it and installed Windows 10 LTSC and stuffed it under my couch plugged in and run my Plex server off of it. Never have to touch it again. It's absolutely amazing!!!
I know that in most cases it's never good a idea to rollback to an older version of Windows, but how would something like this perform if it was converted from Win11 to Win10? Win10 being slightly lighter in requirements than normal Win11, but would be full featured instead of using Tiny11. Thoughts? I don't plan to pick one up, just genuinely curious.
I have Windows 10 LTSC installed on it and it only uses 1.4 gigabytes of RAM. I installed Plex on it and stuffed it under my couch. It's absolutely amazing!!
@@Flyingboots1 it is modded version man, not regular windows , i would not recommended anyone to buy laptop like this unless they planned to use older , easier to run, or modded os
It's kinda funny that it has the solder pads setup for a SODIMM RAM slot that they didn't bother adding in. I wonder if this version is Wal-Mart exclusive and the only real difference to a slightly higher cost model you could get elsewhere is the SODIMM actually being present.
I bet installing Ubuntu server then manually installing a GUI on top would give you solid performance. I have the small Asus laptop you showcased a few years ago and did that for an OS. A full function OS that idles at 450MB of RAM usage.
Why would you buy a lapdock over a lightweight low cost laptop or used unit for a Dex monitor/ keyboard combo? Somethink like this with a better screen could be the ticket.
I have the previous one of these with the celeron 2 core 2 thread @ 2.9. Some issues are.... Windows defender just kills the battery life and one to 2 of the processors, when installing or transferring or downloading. The windows 11 install that it comes with is a shit show. It runs linux really well with one caveat. My wifi is not supported by any of the kernels I have tried, so I downloaded drivers and compiled them. After compiling for linux the wifi drivers sucked, but this being a cool 8 hour battery life laptop which is what I have been looking for, I invested in an intel wifi card and a 512 m.2 ssd. Now it is my go to distrohopping laptop. I have reformatted the EMMC that came with it as Ventoy and I just drop ISOs that I want to try on it. 4 GB of ram is fine for any of your chosen distros. Also Windows Ameliorated flies on this thing as the drivers work for windows 10 or 11.
I'm not sure about the other custom Windows installs, but you could always just reinstall Win11 and put it back in S mode if you wanted to. Not sure if thats what you were asking though sorry.
I think I might buy it. I need a secondary laptop for web browsing and light gaming like visual novels. I have a gaming laptop but that thing runs out of battery quite fast. I'd like if you could try more retro games with this machine!
Choose another laptop or secondhand one cuz 4gb of soldered ram will f**k you up even for basic task unless you willing to use different operating system like linux, tiny 11 maybe
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 it's still fine for this kind of usage. Even for some light gaming. A PC at my parents house with Athlon 3000G + 4GB of RAM even allowed me to play Total War Shogun 2 and Bioshock Remastered with decent performance at low settings
@Mr Bob Gaming & Memes i don't expect to be the fastest machine. I need a light laptop that I can use while I'm playing on my ps4 and i need to look for a guide or something like that... for power I have my desktop pc or my gaming laptop.
@@kevinsantos2894 yeah definitely get that. It's more than enough. If you don't need to play VN there you can also considered a cheap Amazon Fire tablet
@@kevinsantos2894 its up you, i just warm you about potential ram issues since windows using nearly 4gb at idle ,and i am sure opening a browser will eat all those ram ,
I have the AMD 3050e/Vega 3 version of this and am using Manjaro XFCE. I have to say I think this thing just flys in everyday use for a lower powered processor. The AMD 3050e actually has a higher passmark rating with only a 6W TDP. Would like it if you could put Manjaro XFCE on it and show everyone how much performance they can squeeze out of it.
BestBuy currently is offering a 'Lenovo - Ideapad 1 15.6" HD Laptop - Athlon Silver 3050U - 4GB Memory - 128GB eMMC' It has an AMD Athlon Silver 3050U CPU, which benchmarks perhaps 10% better than the Pentium N5030, has a 15.6" screen, plus has a 'one DDR4 SO-DIMM slot, dual-channel capable' that allows for as much as 12GBs of RAM to be installed. Currently for $179.99. Hmm!
I'd love to see this running a lightweight linux distro. I suspect this unit would scream with a low overhead ui
i want to see linux mint or AntiX.
I do wonder how the performance would compare to mainstream linux distro (ubuntu/gnome, mint) since linux usually has lower system requirements. But then compare to a distro with a lighter weight intent (e.g. something using xfxe).
@@mrsharps yeah man, i really wanna see AntiX on this. i bet it would be great
@@mrsharps I run xubuntu w/ xfce and it works well on older celerons there is also a raspberry pi os configuration of debian for x86. I've seen arguments that mate has an even smaller footprint would like to test this.
I would like to see debian with xfce.
I really want to see how much of a difference tiny 11 makes compared to stock windows 11 on a low end system like this.
it's night and day
would love to see a comparison video from ETA too
He did a video about tiny11 on this laptop right before this video.
Hmm, I'm considering buying this laptop for my toddler, so she can have a laptop like me and can do ABC Mouse crap and stuff lol I'm honestly tempted to try running this machine on Linux. It'd be pretty funny if my little toddler became proficient in Linux lmao
This is a good backup/grandma/guest laptop.
Great review! It would be interesting to see this laptop run a Linux distribution.
Thank you again 👍
Look at the reviews on microcenter for similar laptops. Tons of people buy them for linux terminals. I was until I bought my girlfriend a new work laptop and took her old HP Split X2, which has similar hardware. Running manjaro plasma and its super smooth. Just need to get Wayland working with a good onscreen keyboard and I can use it as a manjaro tablet, which is my goal.
Would love to see a Linux video for this machine. Thank you for always having great content!
No problem, manjaro? Ubuntu?
@@ETAPRIME Manjaro 👀
@@ETAPRIME any would be fine, I just want to ensure that all the hardware works under Linux. Thank you!
@@jonlawrence Yup. Especially the WiFi and toughpad.
Would go with either Linux Mint XFCE Edition or Xubuntu on this machine
I love that you modded the rally car in Skyrim. It ran fantastically!
I bought this laptop a couple months ago. Been happy with it. Came with xbox game pass free 3 months.
These are great secondary/3rd CPUs to have as backups around the house. Pretty much no brainers at that price and if they get some emergency gaming out of the way in addition all the better! Great content as always covering pretty much every computing need people come across on a daily basis!
primary, secondary, *tertiary* 😉
Grabbed one of the 11 inch versions as a grab and go don’t care if it breaks machine
This is my main computer. I’ve found anything that is under 4gb of ram runs just fine.
aaah yess Skyrim... I remember the days where I rode an offroad car, drifting on the unpaved roads of Whiterun.
I always enjoy when ETA goes bargain hunting. I'm not in the market for a Windows machine at the moment; but, I still watched because I wanted to show support for this type of content. TBH, I found this interesting and at $129, maybe I should be in the market for a neat little Windows laptop.
I will definitely go out and buy this soon as I can! Been needing to buy me another and better laptop than what I got right now.
It's ridiculous that you can't upgrade the memory on this. Especially since it only comes with a max of 4gb, that's incredibly limiting in today's world and will only get worse with time. I like how it looks and honestly for the price the rest of the specs are amazing but that memory is definitely gonna hurt the reusability of it going forward.
They probably do it to save money
soldered ram is cheaper, at this price bracket they're not looking to sell an actually decent device that can hold its own in a couple years, they're looking to sell something that has the windows 11 sticker and nothing else. the margins here are probably very small
Cheaper to manufacture
In 2:20 we can see there's some solder traces with the shape that is supposed to be an extra SODIMM slot, but they are not putting it.
Dude, Linux on these is a breeze. Super smooth with a lighter weight distro and DE. A Mint Cinnamon will be buttery. Lubuntu. Laptops like these are amazing for just being a mobile terminal for convenience, cash register for a POS system, etc... It coat LESS than a freaking raspberry pi and it's a better total package.
What are you on about?
Seems like loading linux Peppermint or Debian Mint might work well too.
I've played Steam Games on a Pentium4 with 4gig of ram on a very old Dell Inspiron.
7:10 Damn when did Skyrim get cars? 🚘🔥
I think a light-weight linux distribution ( with something like linux mint xfce edition ) would help this out
Tiny 11 is really interesting. Love that someone made it.
I use this as my GOG gameing for all my old GOG dos games, and so far no issues.
Good video as always... (this intro really stuck in my head - simply the best!)
I agree with the others, I'd love to see a video of this with a lightweight Linux install. Seems like a good value for the performance, wish you talked a bit more about the display though. But it looks alright for the price.
Never saw this Skyrim 7:03 mod before
The title sounded like LTT series. Great seeing how tiny11 performed
Honestly the thumbnail of this video was just really well-made and pleasing to look at, that's one of the main reasons I watched it lmao
For anyone interested in this model. I’ve purchased it…. For $129. Highly recommend Running windows 10 instead of 11. The machine is perfect, perfect if all you want to do is browse the web and use office for school or work. Plastics feel durable and the keyboard is outstanding recommend a mouse and you have to look at the screen at the right angle.
A dedicated Retro game machine with Batocerra would be great. Thanks for this video too.
im surprised n5030 do so well, even running gta 4 only with 4gb ram. as always good video eta prime, thanks.
I swear Everytime I see a cheap Pc you already have a review up 🙏🏽 🐐’d
Lenovo is probably worried to cut into the sales of their own higher end models if they put in 8GB of memory, something that they could have done for 5USD more. Which is a pity, but then again, its still fine for basic tasks.
Out of curiousity I checked out Chuwi, and they sold their 14" for 219USD, and that gives you 8GB, 256GB SSD (not eMMC), and 1080P. However it had a 4020 instead, which I believe is slightly slower, which matters if you want to play games I suppose. It costs 90USD more for a way better specced laptop, or almost twice as much, depending on how you look at it. ;)
Yea that is much worse in terms of CPU. In that price you might as well buy a used Ryzen laptop.
Yeah, it is not the RAM cost, it is the Licence with MS. At 4 GB they get the OS cheap, once the memory goes above 8 four GB the price they have to pay goes up to a point where it becomes uncompetitive at this price point.
@@ebattleon Right, I had forgotten about that. Its a pity they don't just use Linux.
I bought one. Installed Zorin Linux on it.Very good laptop for the price. Runs great with linux on it !
The 4GB maximum of this laptop reminds me of when I was shopping for a new laptop on Black Friday 2020, and it was down to a $330 Lenovo with a Ryzen 5 or a $330 HP with a Core i3. I got the HP solely because the Lenovo had 4GB of non-upgradable RAM (unusable for my workload) and the HP was upgradable.
got an used hp 5500u with 12gbs of ram for around $294 on ebay the other day, same with a lenovo with the same stats just a 17 inch screen for $369 and that one came like new with the box and all the packaging.. best value I have found so far
Great video as usual! Would love to see how it handles Batocera.
Would be interesting to see if Indie/Pixel PC games run on it like Shredders Revenge, Cuphead and Dead Cells.
You are a blessing thank you for showing this video
May the Force be with you Always !!
I purchased this recently since I'll be starting college soon. I thought this laptop would be a perfect fit for studying my notes, test taking, typing, email checking, browsing, and watching videos.
Good luck with that soldered ram unless you bother to install other operating system
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 Windows 10 LTSC is perfect!!
I was looking at picking one of these up to put Linux Mint running xfce DE. I think this would be a perfect laptop for almost any distro other than the heavy ones (Pop os! Has a recommendation of 8g ram now)
A Linux Distro like LinuxLite or PeppermintOS would work really well with this. But overall for the price this is pretty good as long as your just doing light tasks. I would say this would be pretty good for young kids that need it for school.
tiny 11 seems to work fine on it
tho if i have to say for a kid i wont give linux as it it not the most user friendly out there some thing like fyde os that can run android aswell as linux
7:05 this wasnt censored before.
Actually.... Is better to find an old 2nd hand option with upgradability options or wait for Alder Lake options.
Nice little disposable haul-around laptop you don't have to worry overmuch about. With steam remote play and other remote desktop applications this is all you'd really need if you have a proper desktop at home.
Also soldering on some different RAM probably isn't THAT big a hassle if you've done any soldering before. Love seeing this market make strides.
Also that ultra low power draw is soooo sick for people out writing in their cabin or camping with only a solar panel or two.
I think it could be a good platform to daily carry in your bag. You could have tiny 11 on the internal memory, if you have a galaxy device it would be great to run dex on, you could have your Batocera thumb drive for gaming and whatever other Linux distro you might want to use on a USB as well. Not super powerful, but very versatile.
Running Dex on this might take up all CPU and memory bandwidth
@@jannbautista4480 I'll let you know, should be here in a few hours.
@@jannbautista4480 seems to run Dex just fine, although after owning the laptop for a week I couldn't honestly recommend anyone purchase it. The screen is pretty crummy, after opening the bottom panel to install extra storage the bottom panel is cracked and the trackpad doesn't right-click very well.
I wish I had not purchased it and would return it had I not caused the damage to the casing.
Learn from my mistake and save your money.
Hold up that's not Skyrim
I really like your channel
I got the Lenovo P1, AMD 3050, Vega3, 512Gb SSD with 4Gb of Ram. Only costs €250. So i'm quite happy with it.
Didn't know you could drive a racecar in Skyrim 😅
In Ridge Racer Revolution on PS1 you can play Galaga-like shooter at the very beginning of the game. Maybe for Skyrim it works in the similar manner ;]
Legacy OS test on EliteDesk 705 G4, both gaming and emulations test please😁
emulation is going to be garbage on this laptop
@@polarvortex6601 oh my apologies, its an off topic comment and i was asking for different system, i ask for Legacy OS test on EliteDesk mini PC 705 G4 both gaming and emulations, not on this walmart IdealPad
@@Bilal.Hussain.Shaikh NO BIGGIE dude,salaam!
@@polarvortex6601 walaikum salam
I just found out an this in December because I really wanted one just for doccument editing but also for a little bit of gaming and I could just use xbox cloud gaming of nvida GeForce cloud gaming or steam which high quality gaming I’ve had my experience with low budget laptops and I think I have phased that this will probably run those three programs at least at a reliable frame rate I ordered one it’s coming tomorrow morning I’ll let you know how it runs
I have a older AMD version of this laptop and that is still kinda good to this day
excelent review, great chep machine
Would be interested to see how Linux runs on this for sure. Looking at Amazon in the UK they seem to only list a 64GB version that I can see though
JUst bought this pc, its definetly gonna be nice to take this laptop to somewhere like a coffee shop to get some work done! might look in to installing win7 on it as well
basically this one is way cheaper than raspberry pi 400 or 5b board. just throw in m.2 nvme drive it is worth more than SBC world.
7:02 It says Skyrim but its some racing game
These are okay for doing one or two quick things around the house, but I wouldn't pick them up for serious office work. I have a similar setup with six gigs of RAM and performance tanks if I have to work with Zoom open. Could be a decent Steam Link client or home media center with the HDMI port, though.
Looks like there are pcb traces for ram slots... Can you try soldering on some slots and adding ram? Might work out of the box or it may require bios mods
Very helpful video ! It hepled me a lot deciding !
Bought this laptop ...Very nice ... Screen not great though , viewing angle etc .. mediocre but ok .
Cpu never thermal throttles at balanced mode 51oC top . Nice system overall . Love it . Bought a second one for my sister !
Keyboard build quality great for the price.
Only downside is that it reqiures a 110 to 220 v adapter as the model is basically imported directly from Usa ...
Perhaps adding an nvme and using virtual ram (page file) could increase its performance
As a technician that repairs this model A LOT due to cracked chassis and snapped hinges...no, you should not buy this model
I bought it and installed Windows 10 LTSC and stuffed it under my couch plugged in and run my Plex server off of it. Never have to touch it again. It's absolutely amazing!!!
Would be interesting in 11-12", not sure why they keep doing those 14" low res screens
Love to see deliberately produced e-waste.
I wouldn't mind a laptop that gets great battery life is snappy and play magic the gathering arena or a game stream. While I am on the couch.
a low overheard linux distro would be super nice on this!
Windows 10 LTSC
With a lightweight Linux distro, this machine will fly!
I know that in most cases it's never good a idea to rollback to an older version of Windows, but how would something like this perform if it was converted from Win11 to Win10? Win10 being slightly lighter in requirements than normal Win11, but would be full featured instead of using Tiny11. Thoughts? I don't plan to pick one up, just genuinely curious.
Drivers would be the main issue trying to downgrade Windows on any laptop
Just dont because even at idle windows 10 using almost 4gb of ram
I have Windows 10 LTSC installed on it and it only uses 1.4 gigabytes of RAM. I installed Plex on it and stuffed it under my couch. It's absolutely amazing!!
@@Flyingboots1 it is modded version man, not regular windows , i would not recommended anyone to buy laptop like this unless they planned to use older , easier to run, or modded os
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 Windows 10 LTSC is an official version of Windows, look it up.
It's kinda funny that it has the solder pads setup for a SODIMM RAM slot that they didn't bother adding in. I wonder if this version is Wal-Mart exclusive and the only real difference to a slightly higher cost model you could get elsewhere is the SODIMM actually being present.
129$ laptops has a SD port. Yet ppl have to fight to get Apple to add such a thing to their lineup. 🤦♂
I just ordered one of these, may need to run Tiny 11 though, we'll see....
Cool video.
Check out the new MSI Stealth 15M with the new i7 1280p and 3060 GPU?
It's a 70% performance boost compared to the older model!
Please, do a linux review. Thanks.
The question with this cheap machines is if secure boot can be disabled. Please try a non secure boot OS.
Can this be use for transcoding my twitch streams
I'd like to see a Linux review.
Wow! That's an awesome price. That laptop is twice the price in Canada. We just can't get those awesome deals.
got a T480 with 8350 intel cpu thinkpad for 200$, installed tiny11, it is the best thing ever.
Please do a video about comparison of running Linux Mint vs Ubuntu on this laptop 💻
I bet installing Ubuntu server then manually installing a GUI on top would give you solid performance. I have the small Asus laptop you showcased a few years ago and did that for an OS. A full function OS that idles at 450MB of RAM usage.
Why would you buy a lapdock over a lightweight low cost laptop or used unit for a Dex monitor/ keyboard combo? Somethink like this with a better screen could be the ticket.
I actually picked this up a month a go for $99. I wonder what size m.2 it supports. Can't find much info on it.
I think Linux Mint Mate or Xfce desktop would run well on this.
I would love to see it run a dedicated emulation Batocera build.
I have the previous one of these with the celeron 2 core 2 thread @ 2.9. Some issues are.... Windows defender just kills the battery life and one to 2 of the processors, when installing or transferring or downloading. The windows 11 install that it comes with is a shit show. It runs linux really well with one caveat. My wifi is not supported by any of the kernels I have tried, so I downloaded drivers and compiled them. After compiling for linux the wifi drivers sucked, but this being a cool 8 hour battery life laptop which is what I have been looking for, I invested in an intel wifi card and a 512 m.2 ssd. Now it is my go to distrohopping laptop. I have reformatted the EMMC that came with it as Ventoy and I just drop ISOs that I want to try on it. 4 GB of ram is fine for any of your chosen distros. Also Windows Ameliorated flies on this thing as the drivers work for windows 10 or 11.
what happens if you install Steam OS on something like that?
ETA PRIME IS a Gamer CRAZY..... xD
Show more Tiny 11 tweaks and what's the best way to max out the performance please
In case we're not satisfied with Tiny11, what do you recommend to back up the original OS that came with this $129 PC?
I'm not sure about the other custom Windows installs, but you could always just reinstall Win11 and put it back in S mode if you wanted to. Not sure if thats what you were asking though sorry.
I would like to see you do something different like installing Haiku on it. if not at least install a Linux distro on it.
Is there a screw provided for the 2280 or do I have to procure one myself?
Would probably work better with ChromeOS Flex on it! Thanks for the review 👍
I think I might buy it. I need a secondary laptop for web browsing and light gaming like visual novels. I have a gaming laptop but that thing runs out of battery quite fast. I'd like if you could try more retro games with this machine!
Choose another laptop or secondhand one cuz 4gb of soldered ram will f**k you up even for basic task unless you willing to use different operating system like linux, tiny 11 maybe
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 it's still fine for this kind of usage. Even for some light gaming. A PC at my parents house with Athlon 3000G + 4GB of RAM even allowed me to play Total War Shogun 2 and Bioshock Remastered with decent performance at low settings
@Mr Bob Gaming & Memes i don't expect to be the fastest machine. I need a light laptop that I can use while I'm playing on my ps4 and i need to look for a guide or something like that... for power I have my desktop pc or my gaming laptop.
@@kevinsantos2894 yeah definitely get that. It's more than enough. If you don't need to play VN there you can also considered a cheap Amazon Fire tablet
@@kevinsantos2894 its up you, i just warm you about potential ram issues since windows using nearly 4gb at idle ,and i am sure opening a browser will eat all those ram ,
7:08 Skyrim looks a little... different
They should just name this thing the E-wastePad 1i
Like to see it with Manjaro. It's not all that different physically from a Lenovo laptop with a Ryzen 5 that I bought from Costco recently
shameful move by lenovo to make ram not upgradeable
HEY 👋 ETA... Did you tried to install any Linux operating system? Are they working or not?
7:19 skyrim ?
I mean it's a real computer for computer tasks(slowly) that's the same price as base model airpods. Good stuff
I have the AMD 3050e/Vega 3 version of this and am using Manjaro XFCE. I have to say I think this thing just flys in everyday use for a lower powered processor. The AMD 3050e actually has a higher passmark rating with only a 6W TDP. Would like it if you could put Manjaro XFCE on it and show everyone how much performance they can squeeze out of it.
Looks like you forgot to leave the tiny11 link in your description. Just wanted to let you know!
I'm thinking about getting this and throwing Linux on it. Just use it for school work and coding. Is it good enough for that or should I keep looking?
How about running FydeOS on this? You've done a nice video on ChromeOS/FydeOS - I'd love to see how the Lenovo Ideapad 1i would work with that OS.
Sounds great, except for the unexpandable RAM. :(
BestBuy currently is offering a 'Lenovo - Ideapad 1 15.6" HD Laptop - Athlon Silver 3050U - 4GB Memory - 128GB eMMC'
It has an AMD Athlon Silver 3050U CPU, which benchmarks perhaps 10% better than the Pentium N5030, has a 15.6" screen, plus has a 'one DDR4 SO-DIMM slot, dual-channel capable' that allows for as much as 12GBs of RAM to be installed. Currently for $179.99. Hmm!
7:07 i dont think its skyrim lmao