Can You Live with a $200 Laptop? #Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin we spent a lot

of time reviewing high-end gaming gear

such as $3,000 gaming laptops but we

don't do enough it's check out things

that are little bit more reasonably

priced and by recently priced

I mean $200 for the entire laptop this

is the asustadizo 800 3ma no first

glance it looks every bit it's $200

price tag but when you're considering

this kind of budget plastic is kind of

what you should expect you know boy is

that what you get here luckily that's

actually not really a big deal I mean

sure it's that the most durable thing in

the world but I have no doubt that this

will hold up for some decent use inside

your bag or for normal kind of wear and

tear something I really appreciate is

the size I used to use an 11 inch

MacBook Air and the portability of that

was so nice to have and that's sort of

where it kind of brings me back with

this yes it is a little bit on the small

side and there are some sacrifices based

on that for example the keyboard is a

little bit of a smaller layout compared

to standard laptops but on the flip side

I've spent enough time using things like

the service go and the iPad pro then I'm

kind of used to a slightly more shrunken

layout something that's a little bit

harder to get used to is the display now

to be fair it is decent for such a cheap

laptop I've seen much worse

so yes the white bounce is a little bit

on the cool side and these sizes

especially the viewing angles really

aren't all that hot but importantly it

does get bright enough and I can kind of

make do with it for normal use it's just

you know a 200 hour laptop screen I've

also got to give us soos props for the

port selection now I do have a pair of

full USB 3.0 ports as well as HDMI but

importantly we also do have a USB C port

now at this point I've moved almost my

entire life over to USB C so it makes a

huge difference having it on my laptop

now that I can use my yubikey I can use

a ton of different dongles I've

collected over the last couple years to

do basically everything I need to do on

a regular basis with this $200 laptop

and that goes for most of my experience

with using this laptop sure have I been

tempted to go for one of the expensive

laptops around the office yes but you

know what this is able to do pretty much

everything I need it to I've been using

the $200 version of the vive book but if

you want to go even lower budget Amazon

does have a version available for $150

which cuts the ram down from 4 gigs to 2

gigs and the storage down from 64 on

model to only 32 gigs now technically

this actually still can run Windows 10

but uh yeah I think it's a worthwhile

create Rex you want to use this for

anything more than like a chrome tab

even with the upgraded RAM you do need

to temper your expectations

so for basic use such as having a few

tabs open in chrome as well as having

spotify and slack running it's usable

but the issue is it's just a little bit

on the slower side it'll get the job

done just not quickly where the slowdown

really happens is when you start to push

the system with some crazy over-the-top

tasks such as watching video at 60 P and

HD or trying to have seven or eight tabs

open at once but as long as you can be a

little bit reasonable and I've kind of

forced myself to be over the last week I

haven't had any major issues are you

kind of sensing a trend here I mean it's

not fast it's only got a dual core

Celeron right I mean you're not

expecting anything crazy out of a two

hundred laptop the important thing is

for the vast majority of what I do every

day this has been able to get the job

done one of the most surprised about is

battery life now usually when it comes

to cheap laptops you're getting kind of

three four maybe five hours on a charge

but this is downright impressive

it sounds so wholesome and downright

you're impressive people the screen set

to a hundred percent brightness and

windows on high-performance mode I'm

still getting almost eight hours on a

charge that's that is the vast majority

of the laptops I take a look at and

especially it is way way better than

those gaming laptops and I'm usually

reviewing it's a very very nice change

not even think about taking the power

adaptor to be fair ultrabooks also has

great battery life but they also cost I

don't know like five six times this so

yeah I'm not complaining after over a

week with the vive book I've been

pleasantly surprised

no you won't want to do anything heavier

such as save video editing or gaming but

I mean it's 200 hours what do you expect

we recently did a video trying the

cheapest laptops on Amazon and if the

vive book was included it probably would

have won if you're looking for a cheap

laptop on a budget I really have no

problems recommending this guy although

I am gonna go back to a slightly nicer

laptop is my daily lean helpful