hey hey folks it's here my 165 dollar
Dell refurbished laptop that I picked up
got this kind of cardboard in insert
here that allows it to not Shake around
so let's pull this out and comes with
the power brick
and while we're pulling the plastic off
all this stuff basically I was looking
for a small inexpensive laptop
that either I could use on the go
or that my kids would be able to use for
their schoolwork
so this is the Dell Latitude 7290 get
all this packing crap out of here and as
you can see it actually is a 12.5 inch
laptop so let's go ahead and take a look
at exactly how these Dell refurbished
laptops show up in the mail so if I'm
looking at this it does look pretty
clean I can see a little bit of dust
here in the logo
and that just might be dust left over
from the packaging that was there
and if we open it up
it does look like they replaced the
entire front and the back let's check
the bottom
as you can see like I said before it
does have the refurbished the Dell 7290
it does come with Windows 10 which was
nice didn't have to buy it but if you do
have to buy it you can check the links
down below I've got some links to the
SCD key I've used them a zillion times
to buy Windows keys so that's something
you all can do if you want so as you can
see it's a pretty compact laptop and it
does come with the full charger which is
to be expected and one of the things I
want to point out about this laptop is
this is actually not the first laptop I
bought from Dell refurbished I went
ahead and purchased this one on Black
Friday because they always have a 40 or
50 off coupon that you can apply to
pretty much any laptop or desktop
computer on their site instantly get 40
off no gimmicks no switcheroos it's just
exactly what you see is what you get so
like I said this one was 259 to begin
with tossed in the coupon code and
brought it down 103 dollars to a total
of 164 dollars so 164 laptop let me see
if it turns on if it's got any kind of
battery for a Dell 7290 has a 12.5 inch
screen 1366 by 768 resolution I went
with the smaller solution because it is
such a small screen I consider doing the
1080p but I've decided against it it
does have a webcam it has an Intel Core
i5 quad I5 8350u 1.7 gigahertz uh came
with eight gigs of RAM 256 gig SSD
inside and so I specifically went with
the lower amount of ram just to see how
it would run for a while super easy to
pop the back off toss in another memory
module if I want but for now again for
what I'm using it for I think this is
going to end up working out just fine
alrighty so we're all booted up and
ready to go one of the things I wanted
to mention was you might ask me hey Carl
why why'd you go through refurbished and
I'll say to you that in general I like
to buy refurbished laptops especially if
they're coming directly from the company
that builds the laptops because they do
spend a lot of time on quality control
opening this laptop feels exactly like
opening a brand new laptop to me sure it
may have been pre-used but I know that
they'll replace the battery probably
replace the keyboard depending on the
screen they might might replace that
they definitely replace the outer case
just to make sure everything looks nice
and clean and ready to go and buying
something like this at 164 bucks I could
have easily bought two of them and been
able to give one to each of my kids but
right now I'm just buying this one to
see if it's going to work and like I
said this might be something that I want
to use it doesn't have a graphics card
in it or anything just the standard
built-in Intel graphics card if I want
to do any sort of video conferencing any
sort of meetings on the go anything on a
laptop that's nice small and portable
this was a great affordable option at
this point in time doesn't look like
there's any real odd sort of bloatware
that they've added to it it just comes
with the max audio Pro for the sound
card comes with their Intel rapid
storage technology Bluetooth
touchpad standard Windows security so
nothing nothing too big it does come
with one Cloud but it looks like it's
not signed in because I didn't sign into
my account I'll see if we can try out
the web cam and there it is
now you get to see me instead of these
big old Clunkers right here so it's
looking pretty nice looks like there is
no there is HDR on this webcam I was
that's pretty surprising I probably
won't use that so that's all working
there is a nice little LED light here to
let you know that there is
somebody or something using the web
camera so if I do turn this off you'll
see that that light goes off so that's
nice there's no little switch or
anything that'll allow you to cover that
up
but I'm not too worried about it you can
always get like a little sticker and put
it over there so yeah let's take a look
at the uh the rest of the laptop and see
what it comes with so I'm really digging
this 12.5 inch laptop and it's so super
small on the side here it's got the HDMI
out for an external monitor USB it's got
a USB C port on the other side since it
is a small form factor it does have a
direct ethernet port but this little
switchy switch right here will pop out
would allow you to be able to put the
connector in it's got another USB
it's got a SSD card reader which is very
nice uh headphone jack and there's
nothing on the back so let me go ahead
and shut this down and we'll open up the
back of the computer and just see how
tidy it looks on the inside and it looks
like we just have one two three four
five six seven screws to take out here
oh and that's actually pretty nice looks
like each one of the screws has the I
don't know what you call it the sort of
lock on the back of the screw If someone
knows what it is they can put it down in
the comments but basically the back of
the screw doesn't allow you to pull the
screw all the way out what that means is
I don't need this little magnetic mat to
store my screws as I'm bringing them out
because they are connected to the back
plate super helpful if you don't want to
have to lose all these little miniature
screws while you're trying to take the
back off and one of the most frightening
parts of the hole take off the wall well
that was actually pretty easy so as you
can see the back comes off all the
screws are still connected
so let's take a look on the inside here
so as you can see it looks pretty good
on the inside here looks like they did a
good pretty good sort of cleanup job you
have your battery here looks like you
have your memory stick here fan
Wi-Fi and it looks like oh that's nice
that there's actually an nvme drive in
this so I could easily replace this with
a larger hard drive if I wanted to
literally right here ready for me to
upgrade whenever I want it looks like I
do have one dim slot which is fine
that's the eight gig if I took it out I
would replace it with the 16 which I
believe is the max for this particular
board but looking it over
looks like there's not a lot of soot
there's a little bit of marking on the
metal here I'm not sure if that's just
part of the machine
but yeah overall I'm pretty happy with
this so to put the back back on there's
two little tiny notches on the back here
just hook them in
screw the screws back in alrighty Teddy
Lefty Loosey uh screw screw screw screw
screw
and now that we're all set up with
Windows let's go ahead and do a boot
test see how fast this sucker pops up
all right so boot test I'm on the go I'm
ready to start typing out some stuff
press the power button
a couple seconds into the bootloader
loading up Windows
and I'm in
ready to go don't look at my password
super secret AAA
I haven't set it up yet so
it's a super super secret password for
the laptop all right so that was a super
fast boot uh that's one of the promising
things or one of the good things about
the having the uh the fast nvme Drive is
that things will boot up real quick
doesn't look like there's a lot of
things that load on Startup either
alrighty so let's boot up Edge see how
fast that starts up pretty quick
first thing we do with Edge is download
Chrome
yay go ahead and jump over to YouTube
yeah so everything seems to be running
pretty quickly no issues with this
laptop so far so I think we got a winner
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hit like on this video but all in all I
really think that this little laptop is
going to be a winner it's going to be
perfect on the go if I need to use it in
travel especially on like an airplane I
have a small little laptop here for now
I'm gonna let my kids use it at school I
think the Chromebook that they had is
actually super slow so this will be this
will help out I'll also leave a link to
the Dell refurbished site down below as
well as a link to their coupon page I
think one of the most important things
about this I probably should have
mentioned earlier is that if you get on
their mailing list they will continually
send you out good coupon codes like for
example the one I used was I think
Harvest 7490 or something like that and
that particular case they gave me 40 off
of this computer but they sent them out
all year round but they also a page that
lists them all so like I said I'll put
those down below and again thanks for
watching and this is Carl from technical
goodies and I'm out
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