This Laptop REALLY Needs A Glory Hole 

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Yeah, talk about putting yourself out there

I felt it best summarized my experience with the laptop. 😂

@@DawidDoesTechStuff you don't say

glory holes or rtx 3050 that's a tough choice🤣

Such a stupid design. It's not like it's an esthetically super clean design where a panel would "ruin" the look (like the bottom of a laptop needs to be smooth and seamless anyway). It probably saved them five cents per laptop.

For sure! It would have been so easy.

Makes me wonder if laptop should come with some plastic or rubber pads that can be swapped with the default ones ,do they really get any air from that 1 mile-meter gap left ?

@@Assassin5671000 Often times no, this is a big part of why some laptops get way to hot. The ones that don't have additional ways to pull air. My TUF FX505 for example has a vent on the top and a vent on the back that air can be pulled in.

Are those clips meant to be broken as a security feature? Or it's just bad design?

I know right! They are so easy to break.

I have the 5800/3060 version of the same machine. Opening it is a pain, but, if you are gentle the clips are fine. I've had mine open three times and no broken clips.

@@OtterlyInsane seems you have talent

@@ulrichkalber9039 Or a bit of mechanical sympathy.

Dawid should make a t-shirt that says that...

I think it would just thermalthrottle after that

I did try that and it seemed to perform the same as Turbo mode. Thanks for the suggestion though.

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Did u play with laptop plugged to charger? Most windows laptop lose like 70% of their performance :/

@@stolczus7280 Yes. It was plugged in. Next silly question.

@@DawidDoesTechStuff I got the same problem with my pc since a year:S really tried everything, nothing worked..

I don't even understand breaking the clips can create a gap when there's 11 screws holding the panel on. You should be able to break every single one and have it still fit tightly.

No shit.

@@sweaterfish6311bending

It helps cool the track pad really nicely. 😂

The battery is still removable it just takes a bit more work

Ram ports are standard in gaming laptops

It could have been way worse. They could have just soldered it all down.

Yah..next thing you know they're gonna pull a Samsung phone and glue it all together...because who cares about user serviceability right...😌😏. Planned obsolescence..... Laptop battery dead? Need more RAM? Oh well..looks like you gotta give us more money. Drain your wallet and fill them landfills!

Anna go look at some monitors or something

I don't understand why Asus hasn't hired you and Dawid for product development yet. Also..... your videos are getting very close to NSFW with these titles 😂😂

Hopefully its not intentional, like Apple does with their products. we should all have the "right to repair" items we own. my MSI laptop (w/1660ti) luckily comes with 2 sticks, but its mounted on the keyboard side of the motherboard. UGHHHHHHHHHH. love the video tho! like always!

After that taser incident I always raise an eyebrow whenever Anna brings up anything to do with BDSM.

I feel like the companies get off on the idea of customers breaking their devices to fix a spec flaw.

Thanks timestamp guy

So where's the glory hole?

Legend

What laptop is this?

@@derex47 ROG Strix G15

they should give you both then you can choose which one works for your situation

LENODE

As long as you all don’t hate the sponsored spots that’s enough of a bonus for me. 👍

I accidentally watch more of yours than i skip. Good work.

@@DawidDoesTechStuff Your sponson spots are legendary. Your Linode advert is basically a meme now.

@@DawidDoesTechStuff You fit the sponsors in very well... Others channels totally feel like hard CUTS to clip in their ads... Yours flow better, music vid ect... They dont make me quick skip past..... like most "Populour" channels... where you see then cut and paste.... clash of ..... whatever click bait Game sponsor... Appreciate you Dawid!

when i seen the title i thought he ment the laptop was so sexy he needed a glory hole till i watched the video.

My bet is that the internals and case are designed by two different departments. The hardware team was trying to make something mostly good within their allotted budget, margin, and other requirements. Where as the case design team said “let’s look good to management by cutting an extra part that needs tooling/assembly, coming in under our budget, and screwing over the hardware team’s efforts.” Management also probably said, “Yea and that will help prevent most people from seeing the terrible RAM configuration we saddle them with because RAM is expensive and hard to get a good margin on.”

@@Pies_By_Arvid The one stick ram in laptops have bin going on for alot of years... it's a good thing Dawid and others are shining a light on it. Yesterday i decided to inspect and order parts to upgrade an old ultrabook i bought in 2012, when i realised, it too only had 1 stick of ram...🤦🏻‍♂️ ...but yeah, it might be exactly what you are saying, about 2 departments working on each part, and the department manager having bin a little to easy, to persuade going along with the 2 separate design teams ideas.

I read the tech manual for laptops to see how to open. So many tricky clips and hidden screws...

Also it allows for you to tie the end of that cable to a leg of a cooling stand, so when you lift the laptop up to put in a bag, you can leave the power adapter end in place and it wont fall behind the desk (along with other cables you may want to leave in place). It's much harder to do with a straight on connector. I'd always choose a 90 degree over straight on.

Only if it has RGB mate .

LGBTQ+ friendly lights are a must!

I mean that's how Dawid landed me. He whipped out his ROG and I was like HELLLLYYYEEAAHHHH

@@AnnaDoes 🤣🤣🤣

did you also upgrade the ram to dual channel for better performance?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yeah mate I have a 17 inch one with a 3060.

It even kinda looks like one to be honest.

@@DawidDoesTechStuff yea, you're right btw love the merch!

If only this laptop opened like the Legion, but I don't feel like giving Lenovo credit for their repairability right now because I am very salty about the whole CPU locking thing as it directly affects me. Every one of my main PCs has been a beast with various Xeons from old workstations all around a decade old at the time.

@@steelfox1448 yea, I'm pretty salty about that too, but the opening procedure looks fairly similar to me

You should try new glasses, or re-read what you thought you read.

@@Chris-6768wv It clearly says “3.3GHz octa-core AMD Ryzen 5 5600H” in the first time stamp. You should try new glasses, or re-read what you thought you read.

@@-Burb Yep, you are right. Too much Bourbon! Apologies Mr. Williams.

LG has word marks for their IPS logos but not a trademark on "IPS" itself (which could be easily contested). That just means no one else can use their artwork. It's IPS like or IPS level because it is probably uses alternate tech like PLS.

@@kamX-rz4uy PLS is an alternative form of IPS, original IPS technology is patented by LG, all other IPS monitors are basically copycat of the technology, so PLS can be marketed as IPS The laptop is TN

@@re4796 LG made improvements but did not come up with or patent the original IPS technology. They were about 10 years late to the party but ended up becoming the biggest manufacturer. If this is a TN panel then making it sound like it's basically an equivalent is very misleading.

@@kamX-rz4uy they did actually patent the IPS technology, they just bought the rights to it and ownership of the patent. They did nothing with it.

@@re4796 I don't know where you are getting this but only partially correct. They bought the rights to use the original patents (but not exclusive rights) and then patented their changes. Other manufacturers can make IPS panels without infringing on LG's patents however to use those improvements they have to pay LG. Or they can do what Samsung did and come up with a similar alternative.

Me with my Dell precision M6800 : -Remove battery -Remove one screw -Slide off panel -Congrats, you have access to the whole fucking PC (i'm litterally not joking, this thing is a repair/maintenance beast !)

But that would be pro consumer and we're not allowed to have nice things.

Phone manufacturers are snickering at this comment........

I’ve got an original Omen x, with a 1080. Just had it open to replace the battery. I didn’t break any clips that I noticed, but there’s 10 screws holding the back on. Only 2 are captive, and on reassembly I was wishing they all were. Iirc the instructions mentioned using a spudger to open it. But my old battery was swelling and each screw removed opened the back more and more.

i was about to type about this

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That is a setting that you can tweak in software normally

​@@joelthenoob9868 i slap my monitors saturation on 200% better colors imo

@@joelthenoob9868 There is no way to tweak the software, it's a limitation of the low color capability of the panel. If i recall correctly its 77% of SRGB. Also 20ms+ response times

@@MaxTheCenturion ok, some gaming laptops I have worked with have completely adjustable colour. I haven't worked with one of these recent Rog laptops. It was a suggestion

@@joelthenoob9868 Most do have good settings! I just wanted to save someone the sadness I had when I started it up for the first time. You can even see the pink ROG logo in the video that's supposed to be red on start up LOL

the ladies really love a dude whipping out some ROG🤣🤣🤣

Here that's like €1200 you got a super good deal

Legion 5 is no cap best value laptop on market imo.

@@chriscross3924 yeah and ?

@@TheOriginalBruh He's trying to tell you he overpaid; the same model goes for 1160€ now 😉

@Donald Nemesis Gaming I think he knows it’s a better value in terms of specs, he’s just saying it’s ugly.

What the heck I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Which laptops have you had? My Q550LF, Q304UA, and G14 were all super easy to open. I’m disappointed they decided to make the laptop in the video so annoying to open.

Stolen how?

I go to college and one day I went to go use the bathroom and I left my laptop at a table. As you can guess someone came up and took it. Unfortunately the guy never got caught. 2022 has been off to a lovey start lol

@@cgarepair1487 lmao is it hard to ask someone nearby to watch the laptop for you?

It just didn’t cross my mind lol

Back in the day this was a necessity for a slightly different reason, though. HDDs were prone to fail, for example. I remember buying HDDs, installing them at home, having them fail within a day and returning them to the store up to three times. It was a similar story with RAM, even with new laptops (shipping and handling in particular as well as non-ideal storage conditions where reasons this would happen). To be perfectly honest, all this is just a symptom of the times. Way back when (e.g. 10 to 15 years ago and earlier), you'd buy your PC stuff (and laptops) in a brick and mortar store an just have a store technician handle upgrades (they'd usually do it for free if you bought the upgraded parts there). This also meant that it was often retailers who were offering different configurations instead of manufacturers, so small upgrades had to be easy. Ever since online retail took over, it's the manufacturer that configures your machine and they want you to buy the upgrade from *them* instead (with a considerable mark-up). In light of this manufacturers today don't care about how difficult upgrades are, unless the target market is business customers.

You mean 3000mhz?

@@dracopug 300hz refresh rate maybe

Was it the Advantage edition with AMD GPU? Those were incredible value for sure

Same. Got the G15 advantage on a deal at best buy US $1500..(November?) just in the last month I think I saw they had $1400 or $1450!! 300hz display, 8/16 core 5900HX RX6800M, the 16 gb ram they put in is Single rank 2 dimms but dual rank or Dimms with tighter timings will increase the performance around 15% meaning you still gotta open the damn chassis

Wait they’re selling a laptop with a 3050 and a 300Hz display? Or does it have a better GPU with your model? I can’t imagine the 3050 could run anything at even close to a consistent 300 fps.

Yeah the “physical design” of being serviced is bad, but it’s just criminal that the spec REQUIRES it to be serviced to get decent performance.

Same here bro. I remember ripping mine apart 3 dabs deep 🤣

You're mixing laptop and desktop SKUs. Laptop GPUs are always slower than their desktop counterparts. Sure, you can complain about the laptop 3050 being slower than desktop 2060, but that's totally missing the point.

@@samiraperi467 you've missed the point but thank you for... well im not sure but have a nice day

@@samiraperi467 The 3050 laptop card is slower than the 2060 laptop card is what they’re saying

whaat? ive never heard this

Yeah the old budget Asus stuff definitely had that issue. ROG is pretty good tho

My mom's old laptop still works fine. It's ancient. And by works fine, I mean, works despite at least 1 major fall due to our dogs pulling it off the table while charging, and requires constant feeding by virtue of only having wall power. But besides that? It still held up super well. I recently got her to get a new laptop, which she admits definitely now that it was necessary, but the old one was super great. So I can't deny it wasn't falling apart, BUUUUUUT that was no fault of Asus' product.

I’ll only buy Asus laptops. Ive owned 3 in the past 13 years and all of them are still working fine. My current laptop is a 2020 G14, and before that I had a Q550LF and a Q304UA. The only issue I’ve ever had was a hard drive failure on my Q304UA but thats a super easy upgrade/fix once I swapped it with an SSD.