 So I signed up for Dell's promotional newsletter a little while back because I bought something from Dell and got signed up by accident. Thanks Dell. But every once in a while I do see something interesting in there. A $200 laptop you say? Maybe that would be great for a back-to-school feature. But our rep over there is a regular viewer, so he was understandably hesitant to send us a base model of anything and said he'd prefer if we checked out the $400 version. So, this thing then? Well, there are three compelling reasons not to buy it. 🎵 CyberPower PC's lineup of gaming desktops feature Intel 7th generation Core i7 processors. Check them out at the link below. Reason number one, not to buy this $400 laptop. This $200 one. The best part of the little blue Inspiron P24T is the price. The keyboard is pretty cramped. The TN screen is kinda poop and it's far from fast. But it does exactly what it needs to do and honestly exceeded our expectations for the price. Like, come on, this thing is hardly more than the cost of the included full copy of Windows 10. And after a bit of practice, I was able to type quickly and easily write Word documents and forum posts with it thanks to the small but comfortable matte surface touchpad. I mean, I'm not sure that I'd want to use it to write up the script of my next big Hollywood blockbuster, but let's face it, if I was working on stuff like that on a regular basis, I would have more than $200 for my laptop. Usability wise, I can live with the single tasking paradigm enabled by the two core Celeron processor for the most part. And I'd say the screen is the biggest bummer. Colors are pretty flat, viewing angles aren't great, and it doesn't get bright enough for use outside. But if you plan on watching YouTube videos or Netflix, it'll be good enough and I wouldn't go as far as to say it's actually terrible like other cheap screens I've seen before. The only true disappointment came when we opened it up. I was hoping that it would be possible to add a hard drive or SSD in the future and upgrade the RAM, but they're both soldered to the motherboard with no expansion slots. So I guess in a nutshell, the best thing about this product is that there's nothing so bad as to make it a total deal breaker. And at $200, occasionally on sale for $150, that's all I can really ask for. I can only really recommend it as a secondary computer. If you spent all your money on a desktop, this will work great when you need to go out into the real world, God forbid, but it still scrapes by with a recommendation. So why doesn't its $400 cousin get the same treatment? Reason number two, the Inspiron P25T is pretty much more of the same and sits right around the amount of money that lots of people think they want to spend on a laptop. But our problem is that we don't feel like they're getting twice the experience for something that costs twice as much. Upgrades on this guy include a 500 gig hard drive, double the RAM, a two-in-one capable touchscreen, and a slightly better processor. The issue, though, is that the 5400 RPM hard drive is slow as molasses. And, I mean, maybe this is Microsoft's fault, but Windows 10 chugs on a mechanical drive. Simple stuff like switching modes, hitting the start menu, opening files, or really anything is just such a slog. Plus, with almost everything done on the internet now, the need for large amounts of local storage is becoming very limited, except in gaming rigs, workstations, or desktop computers with a large amount of storage because you put all your stuff on them. So when you consider that, the biggest problem is that we still need a primary computer, just like the $200 laptop, but without the practically disposable price tag to make it more palatable. I mean, to be clear, tablet conversion and touch will be important to some folks, and the performance is better. But performance is better in a way that's only really noticeable if you compare them side by side. Like, you're still buying the type of computer where you type in a web address and then you take a sip of coffee while it loads. So what do we recommend, then, for someone who's on a budget but with more than $200 to spend? Reason number three for not buying this, the Inspiron P69G. I mean, sure, this isn't the be-all and end-all of $800 laptops, but it represents the kind of improvements in productivity that you can get by increasing your budget to the bang for the buck level. Everything gets an upgrade. With a Core i5 processor, 8 gigs of RAM, decent I.O. including HDMI and USB 3, an SSD, and a full HD IPS touch display, it checks all the boxes that I would consider for a computer that I would actually recommend to somebody that I like, provided they don't need faster than 1x1 Wi-Fi. I do realize that $800 is a big jump from $400, but these can regularly be found for under $700, and functionally speaking, it's not even in the same ballpark as the other two. It's not startlingly fast, sure, but I never got annoyed at it. You don't have to worry about running out of RAM just from opening a few tabs, and the processor is fast enough for some programming work, some basic image editing, MATLAB, or even some light CAD if you want to view small assemblies. This kind of stuff is simply not possible on the cheaper laptops. So for this one, then, the outside is simple, but the keyboard is satisfying enough that this whole review was typed on it without annoyance. The brushed plastic finish looks pretty smart, and chassis rigidity is overall very good, though I think the wobble on the 2-in-1 convertible touchscreen could be better, and this model isn't available without it. At the end of the day, though, the choice is yours. Battery life was decent across the board, seems that problem has pretty much been solved with low-end laptops. The webcams on all three were comparable and surprisingly good, although Windows Hello on the $800 model is a really nice touch, and all of them feature speakers that are comparable to a decent smartphone. So, not that great. Wrapping this up, though, honestly, I don't really have a special relationship with any of these exact models from Dell, and the main goal of this video was to hopefully help you narrow down your search in terms of pricing and the features that we think matter when you're looking for a secondary laptop or a back-to-school machine. So, you don't want to spend too much, but you also don't want to spend too little, and also spending even less might be even better than that. 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