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[@AnnaDoes]

Love an OLED. The soldered RAM and Dawids sadness is too funny … Asus is back in the naughty corner for sure 😂

[@Qwerty-uiop]

Same

[@SonicPower]

hii anna!

[@azbesthu]

With asus you never know, until you know. There are some series with one extendable slot (for example mostly newer vivobook S machines, but not the zenbooks). Btw in europe you can get for 700 usd + tax a Vivobook s15 m3502qa with 16GB ddr4 ram (8 soldere + 8 in slot). 512GB ssd, 2.8K oled 120Hz with ryzen 5800H. I bought for similar price last year the 14" intel version Vivobook S 14 k3402za, 2.8k 90Hz oled, same 8 soldered+8 stick, 512GB ssd and intel i7-12700H configuration. I added a 32GB stick. So, you can get better deals.

[@volvo09]

I was crushed with disappointment! Why only 1/2 way do it ASUS?

[@kunjupulla]

U mean *soldered RAM ryt?

[@Skumevil]

I like how you can see the pending VD in the start menu waiting for internet to install 🤣

[@moji3812]

😆

[@batsai]

Dawid's labeling of Norton Antivirus and McAfee as VD is one of the greatest things ever.

[@Qwerty-uiop]

😯

[@Skumevil]

@@batsai I have worked in several IT departments and the first thing all of them do is when a new PC comes in is wipe or repartition the hard drive. Then they install their own customized version of Windows with the MS bloatware removed and each software needed by the enduser is installed. It simplifies troubleshooting knowing exactly what software is installed on every PC regardless of when it was purchased. Symantec (Norton) and McAfee used to be a real pain to remove, and it was faster to reinstall a clean copy of windows than to battle with removing the antivirus malware.

[@Max_Mustermann]

4:00 - to be fair, a num pad is also useful for apps like Blender for shortcuts and numerical input.

[@ikeapencil7680]

Einstürzende neubauten!

[@LeoMkII]

Or games like euro truck or farming simulator lol

[@thedarkdragon89]

Num pads are the best number input method. I am a trained network tech and I do phone surveys for work, the num pad is required for those.

[@CantankerousDave]

I use mine for ALT+ unicode character input.

[@caralynx]

They moved the + and - keys though, which is probably going to trip some people up.

[@McDuglas13]

I was so emotionally invested in the RAM upgrade by the end of the gaming segment, I didn't realize I was at the end of the video runtime, so the end came quick and abrupt. Asus really needs to get into the naughty corner for this. At least solder the ram in a single channel and give a second for upgrade man...

[@Oni_Inu1775]

Strangely, I have a Vivobook that I use for travel with a 12500h and it has 8GB soldered on the board and a SODIMM slot I slapped another 8 GB in. I wonder why they nixed the slot. Seems like a pretty horrendous decision, and inexcusable in a modern laptop.

[@nicholasespinoza9610]

@@Oni_Inu1775 maybe on the other side of the motherboard?

[@guily6669]

Same opinion, thought it's not like ram would help much when pretty much the GPU is always maxed out on any crap and doesn't just have anywhere near the juice it needed for such a waste of an oled display grrr... But still wanted to see a good high number of ram in dual channel and see if it still would do anything at all...

[@MrMega200]

@@nicholasespinoza9610 Maybe if the heatsink was on the other side there would be depth room for one but no this laptop is too thin for that.

[@baoquoc3710]

DDR5 is actually dual channel since it has a dual nand stack on a stick

[@AliceC993]

A few things to note... 1) The RAM is soldered because it's _LPDDR5_ instead of standard DDR5, also hence the weird-ish speed of 5500. 2) Despite being _labeled_ as a Ryzen 7000 series, which would imply Zen 4, it appears AMD has learned a thing or two from Intel. The 7520U is based on Zen 2, which is quite unfortunate. 3) To add to the disappointment, this chip comes with Radeon 610M graphics, which are at least RDNA2, but effectively the same as the IGP built into desktop Zen 4 chips like the 7600(X). In other words, on par with an R7 250. From 2013.

[@gentle285]

bwahaha, thanks for the info! xD

[@deadskull6969]

thanks for the information, i will never buy a laptop with no RAM expansion slot. Honestly, 8gb ram is nothing when the system needs to share the memory with the iGPU.

[@TommyAgramonSeth]

It's funny to see the budget AMD-based laptops are still just as bad as in the past despite AMD's advancements in desktop chips. I had to, in 2019, briefly use one of those from 2012 when my Core2 Duo T9400 laptop from 2008 died. It was somehow much worse! Truly a miserable experience, not even an SSD helped. Then I've switched to a one (1!) year newer i3-4000M laptop and it's very much usable to this day even though it's a dual core weaker than i5-2400 (also still perfectly usable).

[@joe--cool]

Asus doing Asus things. AMD's naming scheme isn't great either. The second to last digit is the Architecture, examples: 7520U = Zen2 7735HS = Zen3 7540U = Zen4

[@wyterabitt2149]

I can honestly say I wasn't expecting a laptop I have with an i3 1115g4 to beat the laptop in the video in gaming when I started watching.

[@bjpalomo3225]

My favorite moment is Dawid yelling into the table 'Because nothing shouts clarity like an audio source shooting straight at a table' 😆😂😂 as an audio guy this hits extra with me 😄 it's like how people talk into the top of Yeti mics and other side address mics 😑😑

[@CantankerousDave]

Isn’t the whole point that it uses the solid surface as a sounding board to make it louder? If it’s sitting on a lap or blanket, sure, it’s dumb, but a flat, solid surface makes sense to me.

[@bjpalomo3225]

@@CantankerousDave Sure it can disperse sound across a surface such as a wood table but you can definitely lose the upper end clarity picked up by your ears by firing downard.

[@matasa7463]

So rare to see good sound from laptops these days... I have an old laptop from Toshiba that had two Harman speakers pointing upwards, which sounded amazing.

[@c0r3k1d3]

Sure it can make it louder, but that doesn't make it any clearer

[@bjpalomo3225]

@@c0r3k1d3 As anyone who actually pays attention to audio can tell you. The perception at least of clarity is greater when a source is aimed towards ones ears. Getting resonance from a table or other surface like that can maybe enhance bass perception. Anyways why has this turned into some debate?? Just enjoy a humorous comment about Dawid and his take on it. Some folks gotta debate everything nowadays.

[@pharmdiddy5120]

We need to find the responsible engineer at ASUS and make sure they write "I will not solder down underspec ram" like 100 times on the chalkboard

[@AnnaDoes]

its the only way

[@fenixspider5776]

they have been doing that for years in these cheap laptops and nothing could do any harm to them cause big youtubers don't usually review these laptops and don't call them out

[@deloswilbur466]

@@fenixspider5776 Not just the cheap laptops, the ROG Flow Z13 also has it soldered down, it's 16GB but given for some reason it's uses 55% of it on boot it's still annoying and that is definitely not a cheap laptop :-)

[@The4valanche]

​@@deloswilbur466empty ram is unused ram is useless ram. Let them use the ram! That's the whole point of having it. And it makes sense to solder in high end ram for performance reasons.

[@DG_427]

Most manufacturers nowadays are guilty of this. I work as a repair tech and this is a daily sight. If you RAM goes, so goes your entire system board.

[@premiumelixir]

Dawid makes pc content much more enjoyable with the sarcasm and enthusiasm . Almost makes me want to buy a VD ridden pre built

[@sovelissfiremane]

I can sell you the Alienware that's been collecting dust for the last 10 months if that's what you really want lmao

[@gmcanepa]

I can't imagine Corsair was happy with that intro 😂

[@TheSpotify95]

I wouldn't be happy with installing garbage bloatware onto any of my devices!

[@handyman1957]

Don't forget the offended Oil Barron : )

[@ImranAEB]

Corsair themselves admit it's not cheap

[@corollavirus4age]

honest merchandising is best merchandising

[@50H3i1]

7520U looks like a 7000 series cpu but it's actually zen2

[@enihi]

That's incredibly misleading. AMD can join asus in the naughty corner!

[@jamesmicklewright2835]

@@enihi It's like they saw Inte's naming trainwreck and went "wow, I need me some of that!"

[@jesusbarrera6916]

@@enihi they do have a chart that expains their stupid naming scheme the "2" digit in 7520 will refer to the ZEN generation for example

[@Qalibrated]

@@jamesmicklewright2835 AMD's been doing it since atleast the 2000-series as well, so it's not really a new thing for them either.

[@baoquoc3710]

@@jesusbarrera6916 still, Zen "2" but as powerful as the "igpu for the sake of an igpu" ryzen 7600X is still insulting. Vega 6 even b slapping it all day

[@GeekSheekNerd]

to be fair at 2:01 when showing off the hardware sticker, on the RAM it says "RAM:LPDDR5 8G (ON BD)" which means on board and should have already put Asus in the naughty corner from the start

[@UnsungAces]

That one was not Asus' fault, that APU only supports LPDDR5 which puts the blame on AMD

[@Zubkover]

Me, looking at the outer box with "LPDDR" printed on the specs sticker. "Well, sb gonna be disappointed really soon" XD

[@JaikrishnaAdithya]

Hi Dawid!! So I have been watching you for a long time and just wanted to say that your content is getting cooler and cooler!! Keep it up!!

[@fleurdewin7958]

8:39 You cant blame Asus for soldering the RAM down. This is because of the AMD 7020 series CPU , which must run only on LPDDR5-5500 (it is written on AMD's website as such) , that has to be soldered down. Besides that, this series of CPU runs on a 64 bit memory bus, which means equivalent terms of a single channel memory .

[@deadboy9955]

This makes so much sense now. I had a laptop with Ryzen 5500U cpu in it and it ran CS:GO reliably at 90+ fps. seeing this laptop struggle with even a third of that fps made me think something was seriously wrong with the computer in the video.

[@spuryaas]

@@deadboy9955 This new 7020u Ryzens although using newer RDNA 2/3 architecture, has very few actual GPU cores and often pales in comparison to previous Vega counterparts.

[@randomwaffler]

@@deadboy9955the 7020U series has a very low amount of RDNA2 (not 3) compute units (CUs) and limited memory bandwidth

[@gwonky931]

My intel based Zenbook 14X OLED (Q410) unfortunately is soldered on :(

[@sguploads9601]

@@spuryaas archetecture does not matter for ugpus - what matters is ram and its speed. Perfomance is connected to lowest component

[@davidlussier7447]

Your demonstration of down firing speakers on a laptop really brought it home LOL

[@jasonjazzz5]

i openly laughed when you made the suggestion that you'd be able to upgrade the ram on a budget laptop. imagine my surprise when i was right in the end

[@jamesmicklewright2835]

@@veryevilpersonfromillumina5893 That's such a weird move too, pairing LPDDR5X with a low end Zen 2 APU. At least something Zen 3+ or Zen 4 based you could argue that the iGPU can make use of the faster memory speeds, so it's a performance vs upgradability question where neither is technically wrong, just different mindsets, but this is essentially an overclocked Ryzen 3 4450U from 2020. It really doesn't need that extra speed.

[@UnsungAces]

​@@jamesmicklewright2835it's not that weird, this one is unfortunately not on Asus, according to AMD's website that chip ONLY supports LPDDR5

[@MTN1601]

Vivobook go will always come with soldered ram, also higher end vivobook pro. Only normal vivobook have 1 empty sodimm slot for upgrade, but a lot of features were removed from vivobook pro. That’s why I didn’t recommend buying asus vivobook, the oled screen is good but it’s the battery hogger, so I still choose ips or possibly miniled

[@Lawthugg]

The way you pronounced vivobook😂 vee-vo. Another great video. Much entertainment

[@evo271]

I own the R5 5600H for a while and i love it. Alot of editing and occasional Fortnite, and the only few drawbacks are the soldered 8gb which means 16gb max in dual channel, and the temperatures get over 90 degrees which are normal for the cpu but i would've love to be lower, but you pay for the display and the rest is just there.

[@misakianimated]

Perfectly said 😂😂 "You pay for the display, the rest is just... there"

[@Madpiggaming]

You will never find a laptop that runs cool, the manufacturer will always push it to its limits because if they don't then they're just leaving performance on the table. You want it to run cooler, under clock it.

[@TheSykoRC]

awesome ad for corsair link!!! "if you are an oil baron..." LOL. You are great!

[@sorappoli5137]

8:29 - I hear that little Mario jingle you did there you sneaky sneak Dawid

[@PeteOliva]

It's amazing the jump in quality from their Vivobooks to their Zenbooks. For not THAT much more Asus has some incredibly well made machines in the Zenbook line.

[@docter4ever]

Thank you for the down facing speaker example 👍🏼👍🏼

[@familyfundays2023]

You really should give Linus some lessons regarding humour 😂

[@jkell411]

Linus sucks

[@2Based23]

Y LTT humour is really condescending and anoying most of the time 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@familyfundays2023]

@@2Based23 exactly! Dawid does a way better job & you just know his shlong is way bigger. 😂

[@gwenryanmillett]

I actually like ltt humor

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Linus does have emotions, just like @styropyro He can't feel feelings, so he doesn't know how to joke properly. Linus is actually version 2.0 of that Honda Asimo robot that fell down onstage after it tried to climb stairs, and the engineers had to pull a curtain around the stairs so the robot didn't get embarrassed and pee oil in its metal pants. That's why you NEVER see Linus using stairs in ANY of his videos. Honda still hasn't worked out how to make their robots use stairs or make funny jokes. Also, you'll never see Linus with his shirt off because he has no bellybutton.

[@apolloxlix679]

i have the mid-spec vivobook oled 15 version with a 13500H i5 and rtx 3050. it isnt marketed as a gaming laptop, more so as a productivity/rendering laptop. it can technically game but dont expect it to run rings around a gaming laptop. for using it as a productivity laptop its great - good performance, fabulous screen and good enough battery life. also the mid and higher spec variants have a 90hz refresh rate and 16:10 aspect ratio too, along with a 2.8k display edit : yes, the ram is soldered so its wise to pick up the 16gb ram version from the start

[@TheRuddegga]

love the ad read, corsair won't be solving the second issue with RGB anytime soon! lol

[@TheSpotify95]

Corsair won't be getting any of my precious PC space with its iCue software!

[@Alxium]

I use a numpad and I feel offended. I make animations, so I use the numpad for my hotkeys and shortcuts. Very useful since I don't have to it alt+, shift+, or ctrl+.

[@FirmMathers]

Love to see BBR come into the benchmark rotation

[@kunjupulla]

I have the Vivobook pro 15x with Ryzen 9 5900HX and RTX 3050Ti. It's OLED, thin, lightweight, and oh boy it performs well for the size. One thing I don't like is that because it is thin the two fans have to spin like crazy to keep my baby cool. Yeah so the fans wear out.

[@90lancaster]

If you are using it at home prop it up on something with mesh holes that makes the fans run slower or even plug a USB fan into it and push more air into it. not ideal though having to think of external cooling for a portable device.

[@anabang1251]

Used the Vivobook Pro 14x with same CPU and a 3050 for a day… Man it‘s always so hot and the fans keep spinning. I‘m literally on Desktop or YT and it‘s getting really warm

[@AnnoyingPenny]

is that model also very plastikky?

[@anabang1251]

@@AnnoyingPenny Not at all, feels really nice to me. But people with Rolls Royces will say that a Maybach rides harsh so always consider that

[@graved1gger]

I''ve got myself Vivobook 15x Oled with Ryzen 5600H and 16GB ram (8 soldered and one memory stick) and I'm quite happy with it. Obviously, I do not game on it but it is more than enough to work on it, watch youtube, surf the internet, etc. while away from my PC. Display looks crisp and smooth no wonder with 2880x1620 resolution in just 15 inches with 120Hz and the colors of that oled are amazing. For me it is a tool for a certain tasks and those tasks doesn't include gaming. As for build quality, well, not to say it's outright bad but it isn't good either, indeed feels like a midrange laptop from 2011.

[@Alex-xj6ff]

Love to see the loot lord plush also good review!

[@scottyensen]

3:30 lmfao. thanks for the laugh Dawid.

[@roflewafe47]

Dude I was just thinking about how this would play battlebit and then you pulled it out!

[@moji3812]

Loved the vid Dawid! :D

[@LetsMesch]

Love to see Battlebit there!

[@nazigoreng2296]

The RAM of Zen 2 based on 7000 series / 7020 series much more likely isn't possible doing any standard upgrade because of only LPDDR5-5500 is supported

[@undersquint]

Nice Hughes and ketner amp dawid!

[@simone.giordano]

What you should do when gaming with these amd apus is: first play with the charger plugged and then search in bios some performance mode that usually boosts the tdp which these apus really benefits from

[@arghyaprotimhalder5592]

He have charger plugged BIOS performance mode doesn't do much in laptop it's usefull in desktop but not in laptop

[@simone.giordano]

@@arghyaprotimhalder5592 you're wrong, these amd apus are so tdp hungry and changing the tdp in the bios can go from 15w to 30/35w which gives massive boost in performance

[@simone.giordano]

there's multiple videos on youtube and i''ve done on my laptop too

[@Qwerty-uiop]

Yeah, guess so

[@adiirfan01]

No, this apu is garbage from the start, this is basically slower than igpu inside Ryzen desktop, which also not faster than igpu inside Intel desktop cpu

[@jragonwriter6316]

Even the bit about the sponsor is entertaining! I watch all of David's stuff at 1x speed.

[@jasonescudero3185]

0:36... Next video, use that watercooling kit on the laptop... 🤷‍♂😂

[@nealhammersmith8798]

This would be the perfect laptop for a highschool or college student who wants to get work done. I had a couple of these types of laptops through college. They were not great but got the job done.

[@AnnoyingPenny]

This would have been a much better laptop only if they allowed an extra ram slot but hey, in India, we have offers going on for vivobook like $40 for 3 years of laptop protection plan from spillage and damage adn things I guess, so thats a huge plus tbh (and after watching this video, I think it really needs that protection plan)

[@frostedbutts4340]

Lmao just spill something on it after 2 years 364 days ''accidentally''

[@arnavjade903]

Definitely try the km513 model of oled asus laptop. it has a upgradeable 16 gb ram and sata expansion albeit with smaller battery. also it has older ryzen 5 5500u processor. it also has one more USB port.

[@AchiragChiragg]

Tbh the CPU in this laptop (Ryzen 5 7520U) is also a Zen 2 CPU like the 5500U and worse than the 5500U as it's only a 4 core/ 8 thread instead of the 6 core/12 thread that is the 5500u

[@alcatraz6275]

I really hope that someday Dawid secretly eliminates companies that use soldered ram

[@n0madfernan257]

agreed. put acer in the list

[@GrandmaEater69]

This is the first video I have seen that Dawid didn't start with GTA 5

[@grumpywolfgaming]

Soldered ram is common on these ultra thin devices. I have a lenovo yoga 730, and a dell lattitude tablet, same exact way. Soldered ram, but you can upgrade the nvme.

[@Eli-kt3td]

"controllable RGB crap" something tells me you're going to be getting a passive aggressive email complaint from your sponsor on that one :P made me chuckle though :)

[@dktol56]

Hmm, when it says LPDDR5 RAM (LP for low power), then, yes, it's soldered on the motherboard. You didn't see this on the Amazon page? To be fair, I noticed other Asus Vivobook clamshells (16", non-oled) that had soldered RAM and a single SODIMM socket for expansion.

[@cowboygeo1989]

That Corsair bit cracked me up 😂

[@TheSpotify95]

Corsair iCue is garbage as it increased my CPU temperatures by a good 15'C on the test devices I used it with. Oh and it starts on boot and has to be disabled in services.msc... yeah, IMO it is hostile software.

[@BenState]

@@TheSpotify95 user error

[@OMARALI-hd3ks]

always love your sense of humour dawid 😂

[@hereallyisfranz6555]

McAfee removal b-roll was the best bit

[@stephenn504]

My zen book 15 has an oled and it’s gorgeous. I hate that asus has non upgradeable ram tho. Funny video as always.

[@conor9100]

loving the Owen Wilson "Wow" addition.

[@HairyStuntWaffle]

my partner has this laptop, it's amazing. cost bugger all in the UK. does video really well. plays RTS games just fine.

[@qster]

Now we need a right-to-upgrade movement? I'll grab the pitchforks!

[@gwonky931]

I got a Zenbook 14X OLED (Q410) from best buy for $600 before tax. 2880 x 1800 @ 120hz on an OLED panel. The chassis is aluminum as well. Also only 8GB of soldered on RAM though, but for $800 you can get the version with soldered 16GB RAM. I've enjoyed this laptop ALOT so far. Never had an OLED monitor or laptop before and wow is this amazing. Has some features built into the ASUS app that comes with the laptop to mitigate problems inherent with OLED displays like screen burn-in and flickering.

[@shadoom]

I cant have plastic straws to slurp my boba tea but they can solder e-waste to anything they want 😫😫😫

[@DeimosPC]

What's wrong with numpads? I use them for work daily and for media purposes I bind record/stop/etc to the numbers lol. In games like elite dangerous, it works well too.

[@JaySee5]

What's the specs of the OLED and the RAM? It'd be nice to know the refresh rate as well as the *TYPE and SPEED* of the RAM. I'm guessing it's some sort of LPDDR5X RAM which would explain why it's soldered on. You can't have LPDDR5 or LPDDR5X RAM in SODIMM form, so I wouldn't put Asus in the naughty corner if it's using low-power RAM for better battery life and possibly higher speed memory.

[@CaveyMoth]

I love how you say "Vivobook!" It's so facetious!

[@coco3212]

I did notice that it said that the ram was soldered on the box lmao

[@Gazereths1234]

Have you looked at any of the mini PC's? The cheapo ones from Minisforum and Trigkey etc? Just got one for a trip and it's OK.

[@mrfungaltoe]

but he wasn't just disappointed, he was clearing miffed. Roll credits hahaha

[@Zebra_Paw]

Soldering RAM there kinda sucks but at least they didn't solder storage, and, you know, pair encrypted partitions to the firmware, so that you can't boot to an external drive if the internal SSD no longer works... There's only one brand that does that and effectively gets away with it, because people don't know enough. And this brand deserves way more than being in the naughty corner!

[@mirelurk-fish7387]

Do you mean apple and their ewaste m series MacBooks ?

[@GaganDeep32469]

"branding on tracksuit pants" how do you manage to come up with something relatable like this every video

[@Rockport1911]

I like the OLED screen on my MSI GE67. nice and crisp picture on a 15inch machine, but they are still not common even with the pricetags a fully specced machine comes with these days. It has however downward facing speakers which is a sin :)

[@Errationatus]

That "ODD:WO ODD" on the box sounds like my love life.

[@55rz55]

Throwing shade while giving a sponsorship, respect

[@GhostAcez]

The funny thing is it says "8gb ram on Board" on the side of the box when he shows that at the beginning. So they literally tell you on the spec list its soldered yet hes still surprised.

[@unserios]

So i had an older Vivobook in 2020. The design was like a Macbook from back then just with bruised metal (hope thats the right word, english is not my native language). The Laptop packaging was at least a bit more creative. IO was worse, it had one of those weird smaller HDMI-connectors that you need to buy an adapter cable for and also only two USBs. It had an 8th gen i3 and 4 gigabyte ddr3 ram. I used that thing for school and minecraft. Those things are designed for doing things with office stuff or watchig contend online. Ram was also soldered on the pcb. The speakers werend bad but the case of the laptop starts to vibrate if you turn up the volume to around 80%, creating a noise. Also the screen cable from the laptop broke an d the screen was having flickering and other stuff going on if you tilted it on certain angles. It died shortly after christmas in 2021 taking half a year of school stuff with it. Also the powersuply died half a year before the laptop.

[@TheUnkown49]

What do you do with the pc and laptops when your done with the video

[@xxvjvxx]

lol battlefield looked like you had motion blur at max stun.

[@fenixspider5776]

Did you flip the motherboard? my old asus laptop has the free ram slot in the backside of motherboard lmao so you essentially have to open the back , get the motherboard out and flip it and then replace the only free ram slot

[@EcksGamer]

See i wouldn't have mind if it was like 8gb soldered and there was a spare slot to add in more memory which yes i know would be strange to have 24gb after when installing a 16gb stick but it would make the system a little better in my opinion if Asus did this and also Acer does that on their "lower" laptops.

[@JaySee5]

Except that's literally impossible due to the CPU specs.

[@tigeroats913]

could you take a look at the lenovo ideapad gaming 3 that has the ryzen 7 5800h and rtx 3060 with 8gb of ram and compare after upgrading

[@sethbessinger2025]

I got a $500 HP laptop recently. Whenever you tap the bottom corner of it, it’ll freeze, have graphical artifacts, and now it’ll restart. I tried to replace the RAM, and it’s also soldered in.

[@BenState]

warranty?

[@be8824go]

Can you go in a dark room and turn the brightness all the way down to see how bad the OLED flicker is that I've heard about?

[@jeremiahblaze2352]

Hey new to pc building i got a MPG Z490 GAMING PLUS motherboard off a buddy for a low price is this a good starting point for a build?

[@pow9606]

Tell you what goes nice with that grey. Pin stripes. Oooo, got to pur chase it.

[@mofkergt]

how does a single stick of ddr5 compared to dual channel ddr4?

[@philtkaswahl2124]

"I'm gonna do the thing I do to everything I buy; I'm just gonna try and game on it." Dawid buying an LTT screwdriver to game on it is only a matter of time, folks.

[@KyleRuggles]

Not bad, probably does pretty well with photo editing! I'd love to see some benchmarks for video editing and photo editing. Surprising it sucks at CS. Wow... Soldered ram.. no buy.

[@sladkyhermelin3756]

yea, the ram is a letdown, i had to pay like 100$ more just to have 16GB instead of 8GB. but great laptop nontheless

[@myew]

I actually have the ASUS Vivobook Slate 13" OLED abomination, and I love it. I got a functionally brand new return/open box for just $230. The Pentium N6000 can't even handle Omega Strikers.. but it's perfect as a media machine or remote desktop use. Maybe eventually I'll get the new i3-N300 variant.

[@Modderfestival]

The day i could use magic is the day that interchangeble batteries by law would have been inplemented at least 10 years ago

[@eye776]

I think the box says on it that the 8GB of RAM is onboard, or well... soldered.

[@arcaderacer586]

He buys a new cement truck,takes it to the race track and then reviews it as a race car! LOL

[@sourav6049]

I've Asus vivobook k15 OLED😊 such a nice display, using it from 3 months, no issues with this , smooth laptop ❤

[@jamesdobeli2812]

I'd love a video of you Frankensteining the beautiful screen into a good laptop somehow. Dawid style of course, the more jank the better.

[@freduah4253]

3:33 You killed me XD

[@Jagcycle]

I can't believe that you didn't read the box (2:02) that clearly states that the ram is on board... oh, wait - I can.😂

[@gamergod9182]

bottom-firing speakers can actually help boost low frequencies, and as long as you place the laptop on a hard surface, the high frequency will just be reflected back towards the listener. they are not as stupid as they may seem.

[@wargamingrefugee9065]

I agree. Aiming tiny, low power speakers away from the listener does make some sense -- much in the same way viewing a laptop's screen with the lid closed is a good idea.

[@pramodchouhan7604]

just a video of Dawid doing Dawid stuff

[@FlorimondH]

For only 900€ (in Belgium) I bought a 14 inches 2K OLED Vivobook with 16GB of RAM and an i5-12500H. I came from a Zenbook 13 inches HD OLED with also 16 GB of RAM but a 11th gen i5. But it was a Zenbook. Certainly the build quality is a little bit lower in a Vivobook, but nothing horrendous. The machine is a bit thicker, which I think makes for better thermals. I develop and play some light games on it and I'm actually very happy with this purchase. I don't regret it, even coming from a Zenbook. And I certainly don't want anything else than an OLED display anymore.

[@macking104]

How does it handle things it is designed for… like you tube videos, threads, word processing…?

[@hannescampidell]

my fujitsu lifebook u9311a comes in a 8 and 16 gb variant (i have the 16gb) and the 8gb is 1100$ the 16gb is 1400$ (it has also a ryzen 7 instead of a ryzen 5) oh and it came out a year ago

[@noobhere2176]

this laptop come with this ryzen 5 7520u, while the name is deceiving with ryzen 7000 tag, it is actually a 4 core zen 2 refresh. It comes with rdna 2 graphics, but only 2 gpu cores and really low clock frequency, so it is worse than old school vega 6 and really not ideal for gaming. Also, the ram would have to be soldered down as it *ONLY* supports LPDDR5 ram with no support of ddr4/ddr5.

[@broodjenoodles]

You got to allocate 2gb ram in the bios, that is used as vram with amd

[@JJDaMan808]

Yes, webcam privacy shield to prevent "someone" from watching you watch cat video or Dawid video 😂

[@themaxster_]

I wonder if you could allocate more vram in the bios like some other APU based notebooks, even if 1gb of vram would mean hamstringing the rest of the system with 7gb for windows lol

[@TommyCrosby]

I have a Vivobook S 14X, bought it for the screen, hate the rest with passion (especially the logo bump). Mine have the R7 6800H 8C/16T coupled with the RX680 iGPU which is a BEAST but clock in at 45W and have LESS ventilation slots, so you know, it behave like the few last generations of Intel MacBook Pro... But you know, it have a Samsung made 2.5K HDR OLED panel...

[@gar_ee8884]

For like an extra 200 - 250 dollars you can get the vivobook pro 14X on one of its regular sales, which gets you a Ryzen 7 5800H, 16GB ram, RTX 3050, and a bump up to the 2880x1800 90hz oled display actually becomes a little competent gaming machine, especially on games with dlss support