Review on 💻 YELLYOUTH 15.6" HD Slim Laptop PC Intel Core i3 6157U 16GB RAM 256GB SSD Windows 10 Notebook with RJ45, HDMI 3.0, WiFi, Bluetooth - Grey by Eddie Gordon

Oh my god. YELLYOUTH 15.6" Slim HD Notebook. I was very excited when this device became available, mainly because the included i3-6157U is significantly better than the Celeron N4020 or J4125 that you usually get in budget laptops. Also, they are 16GB is a staggering amount RAM and you get an SSD even if it's only 256GB -2500 (Sandy Bridge) CPU but since the iGPU handles video decoding duties you probably aren't CPU bound very often Software or try edit a video or stream, you probably already know you really need to look for something better. Although it is listed as "SSD" on the product page, that's probably a bit of a misuse of the definition, typically people think on SSDs to either SATA or NVMe NAND flash drives. In this case it's the eMMC NAND flash module. While the current eMMC 5.x is much better than the narrow bus eMMC of yesterday, it always is not that good yet. At first glance, read and write STRs of 410-440 MB/s (according to ATTO measurement) seem pretty close to SATA speeds, but write speeds drop drastically once multiple processes write to the drive at the same time (reminiscent of a mechanical hard drive). This causes disk-intensive tasks like downloading Windows updates to take much longer than expected (more on that in a minute). The touch experience of a laptop comes from the screen and the input devices. What you will notice is the screen. At 1920 x 1080 the resolution is good and probably the lowest you should accept at this screen size. Brightness is good (for indoor use) and backlight uniformity is pretty good. However, there are problems afterwards. There is really only ONE problem and that is the TN panel that YELLYOUTH used. Everything is fine within about 20 degrees of the viewing angle. However, if you deviate further from the axis, everything goes wrong. Color reversal, lack of contrast, and just general illegibility. In other words, this is NOT the kind of laptop that a bunch of people need to watch Netflix on. This laptop would be truly amazing with an IPS panel or even a VA panel. The keyboard, while having chicken-style keys, is actually pretty good. Decent travel, little flex and pretty good clearance (due in part to the 15” chassis). The trackpad is fairly conventional in its specs, but it helps offset that with its relatively large size. At around 6 inches, the trackpad looks more like it's on a high-end laptop. Interestingly, a FocalTech fingerprint scanner is integrated into the trackpad. FocalTech is WBF compliant, so you can use it to authenticate on Windows. The laptop has a decent array of ports consisting of two USB-A, one USB-C, one full-size HDMI, one hinged RJ-45 (!), one TF card slot, one 3.5mm headphone jack and a DC socket . Unfortunately, USB-C doesn't support device charging. Given that many newer laptops support USB PD, I find it a pretty major disadvantage that this laptop requires a proprietary power supply instead (and a large 50W power supply at that). As for the end user experience with this laptop. fine with me. My everyday driver laptops are Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 7. While they are much faster, YELLYOUTH doesn't really slow down when doing normal non-CPU intensive tasks. For example, to surf the web, watch videos or write documents, YELLYOUTH was just as good. In terms of operating system, this laptop comes preinstalled with Windows 10 Home. It took quite a long time to update the installation to Windows 10 20H2, mainly due to the slow eMMC. Some updates also failed to download. First of all, I blame this on the OS boot image on the laptop. In fact, I would suggest a clean boot of the operating system from a bootable flash drive. The laptop has a TPM module, so it could theoretically be licensed for Windows. Despite the OS issues, I don't think the YELLYOUTH is a bad laptop. The specs, even with eMMC, aren't all that bad. In fact, the usability for light tasks is actually quite high. The problem is the price of $600. In the roughly $20 range, you'll find HP, Dell, and Lenovo laptops with IPS screens, i5 or Ryzen5 processors, and "real" SSDs. You should really get one of these instead. However, if YELLYOUTH falls in the $450-$500 range, it's likely a worthwhile buy.