Aliexpress Laptops Are Weird... 

Do it david or u gay

ally is signifigantly more powerful than the deck

YES! Ryzen z1 extreme or 7840u would be insanely good for this system ngl

How is the steamdeck or rog ally a beast? :))))))))((

@@lebastard2085 compare their performance with the performance of this video

theres nothing decent about this CPU even just for the web browsing

it could be a very nice emulator for retro gaming :)

theres nothing decent about this CPU even just for the retro gaming

There's nothing decent about this setup...posting from an i5 laptop from 2012, works good for web, Office and chess gaming.

@@LetrixAR it’s on par with some chromebooks. But with enough ram, a solid display, and a mechanical keyboard to make good use of web apps

buckling spring keyboards

yes because everyone would love to hear the sound of your keyboard in a coffee shop lol

@@virusumfNot every mechanical keyboard is loud.

​@@virusumffrom my experience at coffee shops, anyone bringing a laptop to it really wants you to know they brought it... so I think it would be welcomed... well not for normal people who just wanted a chai tea latte

@@virusumf What better way to get a bunch of attention from strangers?

Can't get distracted by games if they don't run, eh? 😂

Perfect for your kid at college, who needs something for research and writing, and not for fragging and fighting.

​@@ikepigotti think xonotic might run on that so that kid is still getting frags(fragged)

it would be a great little web-dev unit for sure

@@rayjaymor8754 Will this processor keep up with that kind of workloads?

The literal opposite of a sleeper.

It would be an actually good laptop if it had an i5 (even U Series would've been enough) and a 'fixed' webcam

It's more like anti-sleeper. Looks high end but it's the laptop version of a Pontiac Fiero dressed up in a Ferrari body kit. When you want to look like you have money but don't.

@@DDBT-nk7lq I doubt anybody could hear it over my loudly chewing gum.

JUst what i was thinking this is really a good laptop for remote/rdp/parsec laptop in my opinion. My only concerne is the battery life because of that 4k display but seems good enough i guess

I know this comment is old, but I would agree for writers, especially considering the price of things like the freewrite (nice keyboard and intentionally limited to be distraction free) you get a lot more for your money with this, and the lack of power would help limit distractions

The body looks like an Acer Nitro 5 knockoff to be honest

​@@sihamhamda47it looks better. The acer looks boring

Yeah the celeron really is the main problem with it. Also the webcam is stupid. 😂

but then it can't be priced at $500 lol

​@DawidDoesTechStuff so will you attempt to swap the cpu with anything better?

That makes a lot of sense

@@shepherd6692 Hang on. When did anything that comes out of China via Aliexpress ever make any sense?

can it be made to order with a 4050 and so on /4090 if so link

I bought one, this laptop sucks. Fan noise is very bad. The keyboard is good for a laptop but nowhere near as good as an external mechanical keyboard--and look at the small right shift key. The touchpad is very small and way off center. The "palmrest" is too narrow to rest your palms on. The GPU can't handle 1440p60fps RU-vid videos (forget about 4k videos). The display is excellent. Mine did not have a problem with excessive speaker volume. They could have made this laptop fanless, or at least they could have been way less aggressive about the fan kicking it at low temps. I wish mainstream PC makers would make a fanless light laptop with an excellent keyboard and screen for regular office tasks like web browsing, Excel and Word, etc. At least they should include fan control software like gaming laptops; my son can make his G14 fanless with the software ASUS provides, to extend his battery and keep the noise down while in class.

@@dr.nigelcool3771 What's important to remember is that this isn't a laptop designed to be used, it's designed to demonstrate features. The processor is very weak, so low performance is to be expected. I would think you should be able to configure the fans with a generic fan control software though.

then why isn't it playing a single frequency bruh gummon

@@ethanwasme4307 Well, "bruh," you can simply tune a recording with a narrow bandwidth resonant filter so that is excites a known resonance in a given reproducer, to make for a very loud, but bad-sounding playback experience.

or they used on board amp that was just for power and overpowering speakers also whit mostly hollow laptop it would be louder

@@ladislavzenk2139 Could be.

Nah, as you can see on the frequency plot of the app that is not what they did, and why would they? Giving that thing a class-d chip with some 'practicly unbreakable' tiny speakers does the trick. And as you see on the faces those tiny speakers just are way beyond their limits. Making things loud is easy. Making tiny things loud (with low frequencies) and sound good is an art form. I would even go as far that they didn't even want it to be loud. They just took of the shelf components without doing too much math and thats the outcome.

That’s awesome!

I can't find it on Aliexpress. What search terms do I use to find it? I wish Dawid would link to the items he reviews.

​@gnarlin4964 I put "mechanical laptop" and it came up

Is it actually decent? How is the battery life? Any idea on Linux compatibility of the hardware?

@@Alpha8713 parsec burns the battery down pretty fast, maybe 2 hours of use, I use the windows 11 install it comes with but I don't log into anything other than parsec (because china), no idea about linux, its decent but feels very cheap, incredible value

same with the pentium, they were good back in the 90s and 2000s but ever since 2009, they turned into slow high-end processors that are obsolete the moment you buy it.

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Actually, this is a decent laptop for non-demanding users (mostly female) . 4K display for movies, loud speakers for crappy pop music, decent keyboard for emails and short memos, lots of RAM for browsing, relatively light and compact. CPU is not so bad, it has 4c/4t .

@@aleksazunjic9672 Also totally fine for most software develoment and such purposes with a good keyboard when on-the-go.

@@aleksazunjic9672 It's a super office laptop - loud speakers that are great for use as audio source for a large meeting hall, great tying experience for document writing and communicating on Slack, and amazing monitor with good colour accuracy for graphic design work or anything requiring those good visuals and clean display output using the high pixel density. Having a beefy cooler for the weak CPU also means it can keep the system cool enough that heat would never get in the way of work, and replaceable NVMe storage is a must for the PC, as it has to be easily repairable in a fast paced office environment. I think a faster CPU like the newer Ryzen laptop chips would make this a premier office PC.

@@aleksazunjic9672 4x Intel Atom (Tremont) cores and 10W TDP. Tremont/Jasper Lake was the predecessor to the Gracemont E-cores used on Intel 12th, 13th and 14th gen

​@@aleksazunjic9672"mostly female" lol ok incel

as someone who just received something taped like that and was stopped and inspected by customs I would beg to differ. Some of that is to cover branding that might be stopped by customs. China also seems to ship in the box it comes in rather than re-boxing which we usually se in the US.

Is that why? 🤯

This is complete BS. Customs is going to tear your item open if they want to regardless of how it's packed. This tape is by no means difficult or a deterrent in any way.

This is to protect it from liquid spills in transit.

@@razter6678 if they want to, sure. Just most of them don't want to. I ordered a lot of fake stuff from China years ago, and they literally told me that they did it because it made it less likely to get opened...

Pop your favorite Linux distro on this puppy and you got a stew going.

Same

FR

Yep, I did picture getting something like that to use as a basic thin client.

It would choke and thermal throttle.

​@@particelywhat do you mean bro?

Movie machine (4K) and party machine (loud speakers).

It would be a great office machine. You just benefit by running software that might be a little lighter, that's all. 🤣

They probably could have had, but the problem is that that PCB has very little cooling ability and not enough power delivery. Any other CPU wouldn't work.

@@akshaymathur136 maybe the frame could be used as a heat sink a way to disperse Heat

@@smartduck904 Yeah, a couple of extra small heat sinks and a laptop cooler base will help with the heat, but power delivery will still be the issue. If the power delivery is only designed for 15W CPU, then putting a 35W CPU won't help. It would be power starved when trying to hit the higher frequencies.

I think N100 would have been a solid choice. Still 6W but a decent performance hike. Still not for games, but better for office stuff.

Celeron would be extremely problematic.

The angular body reminds me of an older-model Acer Predator or something like that.

My T61 already went. 😢 Only the CPU fan, but even those are pretty expensive for such an ancient machine.

Agreed, completely.

The DS stylus walked so webcams could fly

@@DrTacoPHD665 exactly

100% this would be a solid student laptop for like college, if you just needed something to type on all day and a basic webcam for study groups, like you could do WAY WORSE.