The $199 Motile M141 With AMD Ryzen 3 3200U Offers Surprisingly Decent Performance

[cb88]

The prices wen't back up after not just phoronix, youtubers and reddit hyped the laptop. I'd say its an OK but slighly marginal deal at the current price, $200 is a no brainer.

The reason it is slower at compression is the single channel ram.

[starshipeleven]

Yes, but it's discounted from $599, so as my significant other might say, "I got a deal!!"

I guess you like blondes

[tweak42]

That's pretty respectable for a trashbook (laptop in the sub-400$ price range). I also applaud on the choice to place a SSD in there.

Michael Is the screen an IPS? It seems it has decent viewing angles for a TN in the images

No applause needed. The cheapest 120GB SSD is cheaper than any new mechanical hard drive. Sad this miss the performance bump a second ram slot would have added.

[starshipeleven]

No applause needed. The cheapest 120GB SSD is cheaper than any new mechanical hard drive.

It's been like that for years, but laptop manufacturers still crammed huge (1-2TB usually) internal hard drives in a craptop or trashbook as a way to attract customers.
When instead they should have pushed people to be rely on an external drive for their stuff as these laptops fail reliably in 3-4 years of use and most people don't have the basic skill (and know what a sata-usb adapter even is) to actually take out the drive out of the dead junk their laptop became to save their data.

Sad this miss the performance bump a second ram slot would have added.

That would have costed a pretty penny for this price range. Dual sockets are starting to be rarer in 800$ price range laptops too.

[Paradigm Shifter]

For $200 that is a great deal. For $280 it's still good but not at the price where I'd think about buying more than one. Put a slightly less hungry distro on and 4GB should be OK for basic tasks I'd want to throw at it.

[Cape]

This would be absolutely MASSIVE in EU!! It's the perfect laptop for us Europoors!!
Unfortunately, it's only available via wallmart in A-merica...

No kidding, they would sell millions in Italy/Spain/Greece/Poland etc... 😢

[starshipeleven]

This would be absolutely MASSIVE in EU!! It's the perfect laptop for us Europoors!!

what

speaking of poors, it would sell very well in UK in a few quarters.

[Cape]

what

speaking of poors, it would sell very well in UK in a few quarters.

I like how you clearly made a distinction between UK and EU

[starshipeleven]

Hope to see you soon from the other side of the border as well!!

I'd rather not see you at the border thanks. We get enough fucking refugees already.

[enigmaxg2]

It's been like that for years, but laptop manufacturers still crammed huge (1-2TB usually) internal hard drives in a craptop or trashbook as a way to attract customers.
When instead they should have pushed people to be rely on an external drive for their stuff as these laptops fail reliably in 3-4 years of use and most people don't have the basic skill (and know what a sata-usb adapter even is) to actually take out the drive out of the dead junk their laptop became to save their data.

That would have costed a pretty penny for this price range. Dual sockets are starting to be rarer in 800$ price range laptops too.

SSD get a nice performace bump, but at the cost of going back 15 years in terms of capacity (on entry level or mid-range laptops), Windows and office fuck-ton of updates, fill them faster than light...

Since optical drives are phased out, they could use the space to put a traditional drive in there in addition to the main SSD.