Potato Party 2024 - Episode 1: Initial Impressions

[@forty2]

Two videos in two days? Am I dreaming? Love the concept of this series!

[@iHawke]

i know, if we dare to dream, we might even get a video tomorrow

[@unionofslavstanrepublics2317]

3 videos in 3 days!

[@uytin99]

i luv these kind of video. instead of big youtubers sugercoating every possible trash possible, you are out here splitting facts.

[@efftee]

I don't know how Dell managed to make a laptop entirely out of depression. Lenovo managed to provide the hottest specs from 2008. And MSI once again don't know how to hinge.

[@martinbernath]

Dell could literally just sell their 6 year old latitude E5590 and it would be a way better buy.

[@SkittleLauncher]

From one technician to another - thank you. Your honesty is refreshing. Looking forward to your in-depth reviews.

[@kintustis]

It's so refreshing to see someone actually criticizing the mistakes of companies. Nobody who breaks the 6 figure sub mark does that anymore.

[@TrusteftTech]

The full SD card in a budget laptop which is not very powerful to do much serious work (like video editing), can be used as a very cheap storage expansion, especially if you already have one such card. That Lenovo configuration would make Apple salivate. Looking at these laptops makes my 2014 Lenovo Y50-70 feel like top of the line for 2024. You mentioned a price or two which feel very high for the quality, but then again I don't know the exchange rate of Australian dollars and Euros so...yeah. Looking forward to more videos on them.

[@SegFaultOnLine1984]

Your channel is such a breath of fresh air from the "yeah this feels ok" type of reviews everyone does these days.

[@one_step_sideways]

You forgot to mention that this HP chassis from the beginning of the video will *definitely* crack after around a year, as they use some very bad brittle plastic. Expect the DC barrel jack to start flailing around and other issues. Oh, and the throttling VRMs... HP's speciality, you will have only 70% of the processor's performance at all times compared to other laptops with U-series processors, because they seem to be hard-locked to 17W and start throttling further later on. Never buy anything from HP.

[@IrrationalDelusion]

I owned that HP 15s eqsomething once.. The plastic is so disgusting to touch and use despite being good looking from far away.

[@HooverMaxExtract60PressurePro]

HP have downgraded their product to way too low. now to get a decent build quality laptop you need to buy from the HP premium range. I have a Hp laptop and it’s still working since 2008, it’s really build like a tank. The build quality it top notch. You can even toss it around nothing would happen. (also I don’t suggest tossing a laptop to test its build quality)

[@firstnamelastname366]

Good thing about HP printers being so common is that everybody learns that HP only produces trash

[@TickTackTech]

Lel like the quite the presentation that you give. Sheesh these "Hinge plague" is raging hard for the last couple of years, I heard many stories on people that have hinge break from their laptop just because companies are cutting corners by gluing metal hinges into plastic chassis of laptops these days, I can relate by this after buying several modern laptops over the years like 2018-2021 (latest one i have) few i noticed that the hinge is getting stiffer the more as the device get older, the noticable one is my IdeaPad which i bought in 2021, it was 14 inch laptop slimmed down to 13 inch due to maybe the thin bezels. when the laptop is slightly tilted, the lid wouln't want to close which is a bummer since its only like 3 years!!? I also heard that this hinge problem gets worse the larger the diameter of your device was which made my device less effected? Another issue that I have to say u nailed down on is soldered ram, I know some people argue that it is faster if soldered which I cannot deny but there are some people like me who are willing to sacrifice faster speed for upgrability, especially for those who are on tight budget who maybe have a spare cash to buy some ram and not replacing the laptop entirely which is why after all of my experience so far with newer laptops and goes down the rabbit hole of buying old used laptop and I did not regret it :) (Writing this on my Thinkpad X200s from like 2008) Anyway maybe in the future I have plan to save up to grab Lenovo LOQ laptop because they are cheap enough for me and I heard their hinges are good compared to other in its class or maybe some framework laptop if I was desperate enough someday. cheers!! you got urself a sub bud, I can't wait for you to found some decent affortable new laptop for the massess :)

[@Kazz7420]

I didn't expect new videos this fast, thank you!

[@PapaBellic]

Had the same Dell inspiron and it lasted about 1 and a half years while my last lenovo g50-70 lasted about 10 years (its still working just not very well 💀). I was made to buy the inspiron by a friend of my dad who said it was a good laptop for the troubleshooting. well i still have nightmare about those error sound that calls cthulu everytime i turn it on if there is a problem

[@narenchris711]

Used business laptops are still better than every laptops in this video to be honest

[@Aygross]

Your dankpods for computers . Goddamn best laptop review i have seen on youtube no jokes. As a IT tech in a mom and pop store i see tons of thses laptops and my thoights sre basicly exactly thr same as yours.

[@jamesdizon5133]

this is an amazing review compilation of the E-waste on the market today, i’m really loving this channel!

[@r0mushii]

can never unsee the crooked screen on the hp

[@mindango4092]

I love your tech reviews. Honest, entertaining and actually in depth and useful. Benchmarks don’t even matter unless the laptop isn’t just a hunk of e-waste out of the box and too many reviewers are lazy and skip that. Your experience with the XPS 15 mirror mine. I was having so many issues with poor battery life and random throttling as well as the fans being obnoxiously loud. Yet all other reviews only were praising the build quality and screen touting it as a Macbook competitor. Makes me wonder if they are really being honest with their user experience. Paying that much for a Windows laptop really should yield a better designed laptop with effort put into the software to make sure the user experience marches the price. I have yet to find a premium windows laptop worth it however. Surface is shit also. The closest to decent I have found are high end thinkpads and latitudes. Do you have any recommendations for well put together lower end laptops (any category) and/or actual premium windows laptops?

[@shelzi_original]

We can describe all of it in one word - e-waste.

[@TheUnkown49]

He is the best laptop reviewer i love how honest he is and how he goes into depth about the laptop

[@InvictraX]

I have to like this video already before I ever finished it. This will be a good one.

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

I have a version of that HP that has an 11th-gen i5 and 16 GB of RAM. Definitely a weird combination, but it was what I needed for my college class that required running some VMs, and it was a decent price. It also has an IPS panel, so getting a more expensive model can help quite a bit. The frame is a bit fragile, now missing a chunk around the HDMI port, but fortunately the hinge doesn't seem to be affected.

[@mememe37]

Loved the idea, thanks for the video!

[@oggilein1]

Had a good laugh when you did the reveal that thr pathetic amount of memory on the lenovo is soldered, these guys are speedrunning their laptops becoming ewaste

[@RedBeardedRabbit]

Literally manufactured e-waste.

[@davitdavid7165]

My first video after i subbed. You are a very good reviewer.

[@abalanceddiet]

25:40 I, a left handed person, still use my right hand to mouse. I don't know anyone who's a lefty and uses their left hand for mouse

[@robinrai4973]

I remember my Dell Inspiron with a TN 1366x768 screen That was 14 years ago

[@SpectraFGC]

Hi, Love the content. Have you ever considered doing reviews on some business laptops?

[@858Markus]

That was fun. Brought me back to the times, when I had little money and dreamed of a laptop. Imagine the people that want to buy their kid a laptop for school or something, and go buy one of these. Happy how cheaply they got a real laptop, and how happy their kids will be 😁 Well you have to start somewhere and these cheap scrap heaps teach you how to use the most, out of nothing. Like hacking tools to make the N4100 CPU 7W to run at 15W and double the performance. Or how to manage the virtual memory so it isn´t all stuttery with that big 4GB of ram running Windows 10.

[@Realicestorm]

Had the same hp chassis that is shown in the video, within 2 years, the hinges got ripped off, and the body cracked and broke in multiple places. Whenever I open the laptop to clean and stuff, I expect something will break so I keep some superglue ready. The plastic has started to become powdery and in some places just crumbles to dust. HP is Hinge Problem.

[@MRi-iq5wf]

I really liked my Asus Vivobook OlED. Had the same chasis with a 1080p oled i5 1135g7 with 12gb of ram for about $400.

[@johnsalamii]

i like how the screen on the hp looks bent on the side he held to open the laptop

[@Sykxezn]

Used thinkpads smash every budget laptop

[@Kikker861]

The 3000 does feel bad because of the recycled plastic chassis, but the internal hardware is more than acceptable. The only hitch was the Windows Intel audio driver that explodes everytime you use teams. Linux was comparatively smooth and I still use one. It's even better now that Dell has killed off the Vostro line, bringing over the new keyboard from the Latitude line. That keyboard is the golden ticket for potatoes like these.

[@narenchris711]

Never thought that dell would have soldered ram, even their xps 15 is upgradeable, well at least that inspiron's hinges appears to be bolted to metal mounts instead of plastic mount, or is it?

[@DeadpoolPlayz]

Ah yes, the nugget (un)lucky dip

[@thebristolbruiser]

What is wrong with having an SD card slot on a cheap laptop? Is it that inconceivable that someone may want to store photos on their laptop?

[@XsaviXander]

The SD Card slot is a must for me. Screw adapters.

[@keerthan7558]

My friend bought that same model Dell laptop, the hinge is indeed horrible . It broke within 3-6months of very light use , he barely used it

[@BenAzaria17-z9p]

please can you review acer nitro v15

[@dbzssj4678]

soooo, one guy went on ebay and found a macbook from 2009 and said "thats alright! Lets copy that!" in 2024. TN screens, small batteries, impossible to upgrade.

[@minhvunguyenviet7821]

Can you also do some Thinkpads?

[@IrrationalDelusion]

Asus is really smoking out the competition! Absolutely best build quality cheapest laptops, and best build quality budget gaming laptops! The TUF Dash 2022 touchpad is so smooth unlike many other even more expensive gaming laptops. Almost no money = get Vivobook. If only Dell could catch up with touchpad and software, that would be interesting.

[@nFyrin]

Seems MSI overcompensated for criticism of having tight hinges.

[@BigTylt]

I'm glad someone is as irrationally annoyed at the lifty-hinge designs that we have been seeing in laptops nowadays. They're just an attempt to manage shitty thermals, and like you say, they make using your LAPTOP on your lap uncomfortable.

[@xboxfcontent_yt]

I’m curious, what you do with the laptops when you’re done reviewing them do you throw them away? Sell them put them on a crypto farm

[@hydroponicgard]

That ASUS One would be a dream "cheap side hassle/backup" laptop imo. 8GB of RAM? It's fine. Slap Fedora KDE, customize it a bit, optimise n all, for 1080p youtube, older games, and maybe some light weight Blender work? She'll sing.

[@one_step_sideways]

But what if you just buy a ThinkPad T480 that sells for $200-250 used? Linux could always use more RAM, and it doesn't need 8 cores. It needs fast and powerful cores, like 4 of them, with 8 threads. And the T480 can be upgraded to 64GB RAM, and you can install an IGZO low-power panel (like I did on mine, for $60, which made things way better) and a 72Wh battery. If you're going to run some Docker or especially Minikube, you've got to have more than 16GB RAM. Only then you can think about having more than 4 cores and 8 threads. That's why you should buy something like Beelink EQ12 mini-PC with the Intel N100, which has the same cores, 4 of them instead of 8, but can also be upgraded to 32GB RAM with a single DDR5 stick, which will be drastically better for this processor compared to DDR4, which works badly in single-channel. KDE belongs in the trash, by the way.

[@jamesbrendan5170]

@@one_step_sideways spotted the GNOME user. (/s, of course, people have their own opinions regarding DEs, I don't think it's based/gigachad to say such negative things (I wish I could say that word straight up, but YT keeps deleting my comments for doing so), though)) anyway, I think the i3-N305 is just as powerful as something like the i5-8350U or i7-8550U, even in single-core stuff? (can't find many benchmarks for this though)

[@one_step_sideways]

@@jamesbrendan5170 Worth mentioning is the fact that there are mini-PCs with processors like the Ryzen 5 5600H for roughly the same price as the Intel N305 mini-PCs by the likes of Beelink. They absolutely smoke the N305 across the board. So I'd much rather buy a Ryzen mini-PC with 6-8 hyperthreaded cores with no RAM or storage, to add my own much better storage and 32GB RAM myself. Zen 3 in particular has some great single-core performance, and Zen 2 can be undervolted with UXTU for better all-core efficiency at a smaller price and with a limited TDP, if your apps require many slower cores.

[@one_step_sideways]

@@jamesbrendan5170 Worth mentioning is the fact that there are mini-PCs with processors like the Ryzen 5 5600H for roughly the same price as the Intel N305 mini-PCs by the likes of Beelink. They absolutely smoke the N305 across the board. I use Linux Mint with Cinnamon, by the way.

[@one_step_sideways]

@@jamesbrendan5170 So I'd much rather buy a Ryzen mini-PC with 6-8 hyperthreaded cores with no RAM or storage, to add my own much better storage and 32GB RAM myself. Zen 3 in particular has some great single-core performance, and Zen 2 can be undervolted with UXTU for better all-core efficiency at a smaller price and with a limited TDP, if your apps require many slower cores.

[@shuginubi]

17:14 at my office we have like 9 of them exact models, and no cracking noises from hinges, and are more sturdy.. strange Maybe you're really that much unlucky 😂

[@PaneledPear]

I would not buy any of these products. Surely this is the goal of reviews. The MSI was so close 😔

[@one_step_sideways]

MSI laptops are all bad. All of them. They're never close. They share the same design features both outside and inside as laptops from 10-13 years ago. And they don't last.

[@IrrationalDelusion]

Asus still did the best build despite budget constraints!

[@one_step_sideways]

@@IrrationalDelusion Indeed, Asus is not like how it used to be before. Back then they made some pretty mediocre budget laptops, now they're making less mediocre budget laptops. But the non-expandable RAM is still inexcusable on their laptops.

[@IrrationalDelusion]

@one_step_sideways Expandable RAM doesn’t really matter if the touchpad creeks, bends down, hinge is stiff and noisy, and plastic causes depression. Most companies have offerings with upgradable RAM as well as soldered.

[@Sylandrophol]

thank god someone is as anal retentive about laptop screen hinges as i am, you get a screen hinge pop open on an acer aspire a317 that you've only had for a little over a year and a half, and that sticks with you--not to mention a screen hinge getting fucked on a toshiba satellite c55a (iirc) that you've had for about ~8 years too

[@MarkHyde]

It's a travesty that some of these laptops are sold as appropriate for students - when they can't even run their installed operating systems - let alone run Microsoft 365 on top of that. Non-techie people/consumers are ripped off so much.

[@mintmint-fh2xe]

i had a vivobook a more expensive ryzen one for about 3 months before it decided to die on me no display on the main and external display.

[@SimisearOfficial]

if MSI had not terrible build quality I honestly would buy that one solely because of it having really good specs for the price, especially for like a decently powerful but not too expensive linux laptop

[@kggupta3643]

Excellent Keep making this video about hinges & you should also talk about ethernet ports and keyboard replacement In these laptops as they are designed for reviewers not for ur average user even many modern ThinkPad don't have ethernet ports for the Linux users which it is designed for who have most use of it. I still remember one of my friends in college cannot give a company exam because his laptop keyboard stopped working and he cannot connect an external keyboard because it has only one usb-a port which is connected to an Ethernet dongle. In simple words he and many of us are screwed.

[@navorski7660]

Asus got the cake for this one i think

[@Halzion_Alpha]

I looked the AMD silver one, and yeah😂 it's bizarre. Just why AMD creating 2 core 2 thread processor with kinda okay-ish graphic card? I'm confused in a good way

[@simsim6990]

Amazing video ( i have not watched it yet)

[@davitdavid7165]

I was wondering, could you summerise which laptops you actually reccomend i one video at some point?

[@TheLukas9922]

Pretty sure his channel focus is on crap laptops, not good ones. That being said Zephyrus G14 and G15 are one of the best rated laptops Got myself a G15 and it's been performing amazing for 3 years

[@davitdavid7165]

@@TheLukas9922 idk, it would still be nice.

[@one_step_sideways]

ThinkPad T480. The best.

[@PrinceOfPickles]

I can recommend the Lenovo Legion 5 slim Do be careful with new laptops - S0 sleep is broken on a lot of them and S3 sleep doesn't exist/doesn't function.

[@SkittleLauncher]

What do you plan to use it for?

[@StarEclipse506]

Asus ROG Flow review when

[@MuhammadZikri2023Official]

only laptop hp 15s it have upgradeable ram and m.2 ssd😥

[@derinrodoslu7555]

man i really need to know your opinion on asus a15 507NV 2023 rtx 4060 build quality

[@CataclysmZA]

I recently ordered a 507NU for my dad and the build quality is good so far. Opens with one hand, keyboard is decent, trackpad is mylar and fingers glide easily. No disappointments so far.

[@IrrationalDelusion]

Asus is best build quality, especially among budget laptops. But you still should do the touching before purchase to verify your unit is going to be really good. Source: I touched budget Asus, own TUF Dash F15 2022. Even the TUF Gaming series is built tough, but Dash has better touchpad.

[@derinrodoslu7555]

@@IrrationalDelusion @CataclysmZA thank you guys for the response 🙏💯 i bought the asus TUF A15 507NV version and i agree with the build quality!

[@sylvieMori]

Please do Asus ROG Flow X13 next

[@debsan471]

funnily enough i have used nearly all of this laptops in the past 10 years or so. I think i should take a loan and buy a good laptop for once🤣

[@gentatituteto]

can you do yoga laptop? I wonder how good is their hinges thanks

[@creaturedanaaaaa]

you could tell me that dell is 10 years old and I'd believe you lmfao

[@PeterParker-rl2zx]

Asus G14 2024 review!!

[@IrrationalDelusion]

G14 Strix or Zephyrus?!

[@mintmint-fh2xe]

at this point get an old laptop like a thinkpad over all these landfill e-waist laptops. they are made to be thrown away. buy an old laptop that was made to be good in its day. not new cheap laptops made to be cheap and noting more.

[@violetstxr]

its sad to know my hp laptop is more entry level than that one

[@IrrationalDelusion]

Getting at least some money to jump to Vivobook Go would make a huge difference. That HP build quality literally causes depression.

[@jahnahjarvis2963]

Whilst I appreciate the quality of the content and the concept of this series, I do think the video would have benefitted from having a more calm tone. The hands moving everywhere and the constant twitching and fiddling of the laptops became distracting after a short time. Less caffeine for next time!!

[@nemo.1842]

wow nuclearnotebook is back babyyy do a video about best budget gaming laoptops

[@IrrationalDelusion]

best build quality budget gaming laptop should be Asus TUF series. In 2023 I touched a lot and Asus software works good. Dell has mostly garbage touchpads, buggy laggy software. Lenovo sponsors onlyfans models. MSI terrible build quality, they put some trash foam under touchpad for it to mimic smooth presses. Acer also sponsors onlyfans models. Clevo modifying manufacturers probably have worse build quality and suck at portability.