The Amazon's Choice "Gaming Laptop" Is... Weird

[@SalemTechsperts]

ACEMAGIC, the company that blamed an AMAZON SELLER for preloading their PC’s with malware, is Amazons choice 😂

[@vinylSummer]

Wow, didn't expect to see THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THAT EVER LIVED here

[@ItsVoltez]

Why is the greatest technician that's ever lived is here and not working on fixing something

[@ItsVoltez]

​@@vinylSummerbass boost

[@VanadiumMC]

Ah yes, another based take from THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THAT EVER LIVED

[@blue-spy-j4g]

THE GREATEST TECHNICIAN THAT'S EVER LIVED

[@JarrodsTech]

Should be illegal to call anything with only integrated graphics a "gaming laptop"

[@Vinterloft]

It's America, the only thing illegal is human decency

[@fleurdewin7958]

U have to add "for the time being" in your sentence . Because if AMD Strix Halo is really coming to laptop, then you don't need a discrete GPU anymore.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@JarrodsTech Oh for sure! Complete madness. Thanks for the comment, I hope you're doing well. 😃

[@Spurdospaerde692]

B... b... but Solitaire is a game.

[@carlr2837]

@@fleurdewin7958 While the names "AI 9 HX 365" and "AI 9 HX 370" are super memorable, and roll easily off the tongue (or not), the chips have performed fairly well in early tests. Their IGPUs (Radeon 880M and 890M) seem to be roughly comparable to a 2050. That's not going to set any records, but should be adequate for low end gaming.

[@baroncalamityplus]

Ok, that price surprised me. I thought it was going to be something "crazy" like $500 but then when you showed the actual price I was dumbfounded.

[@joshschmidt8784]

Discount on infected hardware.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@baroncalamityplus Yeah complete madness.

[@sihamhamda47]

Nah it should be lower than 500$. I found a Lenovo Ideapad Slim 3 and Acer Aspire 5 with similar Ryzen 7 5700U processor, 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD for only 399$ each

[@unionofslavstanrepublics2317]

Ah yes good old Acemagic who have shipped mini-PCs with spyware/malware.

[@tyler6602]

Hey they deserve your data too, can't let Google and Microsoft have it all

[@tonycollazorappo]

I was just going to bring that up, about the spyware 👍🏻

[@unionofslavstanrepublics2317]

@@tyler6602 Sharing is caring. 😎

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@unionofslavstanrepublics2317 Amazon clearly does a lot to vet the products they push. 😂

[@hippopotamus86]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff It doesn't even have the best reviews either. They've found a way to game the system I suspect. In the UK, amazon pushes the "ASUS TUF A15 FA507VR" as the Amazon Choice, in the USA, they have "MSI Katana 17". But Canada, it just doesn't make any sense. The listings that come up when searching "Gaming laptop" are laptops with mostly less than 10 reviews.

[@ExplosivepotatoHD2]

When a steam deck outperforms a “gaming” laptop

[@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716]

Even the msi claw outpreforms this lol😅

[@slowlanegamer]

I was going to say at this price point and horrible performance for the Amazon choice laptop just buy a Legion Go on sale and use the left over $150-200 to get you an external mouse, keyboard, and monitor for gaming at home.

[@raylopez99]

@@slowlanegamer But, like the Yoga 6, which is nearly identical, it only draws 15W TDP which is awesome. A true "gaming" laptop these days seems to be close to 200W TDP and will heat your entire room, as well as making hideous noise. If you're into gaming that much, why not skip laptops and get one of those water cooled towers? I like this laptop.

[@crestofhonor2349]

@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 The MSI Claw has a much newer chip inside

[@ej_tech]

To be fair the Steam Deck uses newer RDNA graphics cores while Ryzen 5000u still use Vega.

[@cloudy4872]

We gotta get linode back as a sponsor

[@mirzadaullymun7129]

or AKAMAI

[@avoncompton2135]

Liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinnnoooddeeee!!!! 😂

[@soli-ethd]

Linode is sadly dead, absorbed into the CDN juggernaut that is Akamai and killed as a brand.

[@averagesnailgodpraiser3840]

@@soli-ethd:(

[@samsowden]

only if dawid learns how to pronounce Linux

[@Mr.Genesis]

MicroSD Cards are still used in Nintendo Switches, steam deck, and as removable storage for your phone so having a slot actually helps when file transferring

[@vinylSummer]

Connecting your device to a laptop using a USB cable seems significantly easier than taking out an sd card, putting it inside the laptop and then putting it back in the device

[@jesusbarrera6916]

​@@vinylSummerBut just leaving a MicroSD card connected forever is the easiest way to increase storage on the laptop

[@vinylSummer]

@@jesusbarrera6916 high capacity "fast" SD cards cost a shit ton of money. If someone really needs more drive capacity they're much better off selling their old drive and buying a new one

[@BlueJDev]

@@vinylSummer well you've never had to use mtp to try and transfer over 10,000 photos to a HDD!! Taking the SD card out and using a dedicated slot is a thousand times quicker and easier than the transfer via usb!

[@mahoganywolf8843]

​​@@vinylSummer You can get a terabyte microsd card dirt cheap these days. If you're just using it for spare storage it doesn't have to be especially fast, and it's certainly much easier than installing a new drive in a laptop. And that's if your laptop is even upgradeable, which many aren't these days.

[@ToumalRakesh]

Did you check that thing for malware? Acemagic was distributing their small PCs and laptops with various pre-installed malware, and they claimed this only affected initial shipments. Would have been interesting to know if that was really the case, or if this is still going on.

[@SmithBeatZ1]

2:07 Dawid spits on the Amazon Choice garbage. Literally

[@Raintiger88]

The TF card slot avoids the licensing fees an SD slot comes with.

[@Vinterloft]

It also avoids them ever getting my money as a photographer who'd only buy a laptop with a UHS-II SD card slot

[@fleurdewin7958]

Thank for for clarifying this. I didn't even know TF card slot is a thing, all the while I only thought that is a Micro SD card slot. Micro SD are commonly use in all car dash cams. Didn't even know there is licensing fees that SD slot requires.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@Raintiger88 Oh that makes sense. All the cameras I use use SD cards so I guess that's why I'm a hater.

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@Vinterloft Exactly

[@kendokaaa]

@@Vinterloft Or at the very least UHS-I

[@foxs49er]

Correction, we learned two things. Don't buy Amazon's choice AND never use 1 ram stick unless you like a labotomized PC. The 2nd one seems to be the theme if the channel.

[@familhagaudir8561]

Is single-channel bottleneck still a significant problem with DDR5 RAM?

[@foxs49er]

​@@familhagaudir8561no its not as much. Still is a little but not as important. But the laptop had a 5700g which would still have DDR4.

[@Morrodin182]

@@foxs49er I would watch out with that statement. AMD CPUs really struggle with single stick ram configurations and knowing that AMD is the best choice for gaming (and currently maybe even best choice overall, if you take everything in consideration) then I wouldn't say its not that important anymore.

[@foxs49er]

@@Morrodin182 Still better than it used to be. It used to be a bullet to the kneecap of performance. Now your talking 10-20% for AMD and less than that for Intel (generally speaking. Its different in every scenario and processor). But that's why I said "not as much. Still is a little but not as important." Essentially saying its better than it used to be.

[@fleurdewin7958]

@@familhagaudir8561 Of course it will. It literally cuts your memory bandwidth by half. 128 bit memory bus becomes 64 bit if you have only 1 stick of RAM installed. DDR5 is getting less to no performance hit when you go from dual rank to single rank RAM sticks compare to DDR4. Dual rank = 16 memory chips on 1 RAM stick , Single Rank= 4/8 memory chips on 1 RAM stick .

[@Zerbey]

Any "gaming" laptop that comes without a discrete GPU is a scam as far as I'm concerned.

[@MoultrieGeek]

or a desktop "gaming PC" with a GT 710/GT 1030. Pure snake oil.

[@sykoteddy]

I've been wondering a lot about the expression "discrete GPU" ever since they started using it. What are they meaning really? If it is a GPU that is discrete, it's an iGPU. Many GPU's even weigh more than the motherboard....

[@DigitalJedi]

@@sykoteddy Discrete means "individually separate and distinct". It is often confused with "Discreet," which means "careful and circumspect in one's speech or actions, especially in order to avoid causing offense or to gain an advantage." A discrete GPU is one that is separate from the CPU. I replace the word with "dedicated" as it means mostly the same thing in this context, a chip dedicated to graphics, or a dGPU. English is a fucked up language that those 2 words are one letter pair separated, but it does mean you can be discrete discreetly, which is fun to say.

[@sykoteddy]

@@DigitalJedi Thank you do much for clarifying! Now it makes sense! English isn't my native language, and we mostly read British English in school so I have some problems knowing which English for example uses "color" vs "colour". If it isn't another problem there.

[@danl9621]

Not really, the latest iGPUs from intel and amd are quite capable and equivalent to a gtx 1650, you can run a lot of things on a iGPU

[@BlurryOpossum]

My GoPro uses microSD cards so I'd absolutely be happy to not need a USB adapter to read them :)

[@MooseTea]

The saliva shooting out when he said "Kinda" 💀 2:07

[@GamingBara95]

bro 😭

[@grahamherbert3612]

I love to see spittle and drool. It helps remind us all of the genuine human experience. My Aunty Gert, gets up, and has taken a dump for me to savour.

[@Crocopotamus]

why'd you have to point it out lmao

[@khubaib1o8]

@@Crocopotamus same

[@HomiebeaR_]

You had to talk about it 😅

[@philtkaswahl2124]

3:59 "That is a very easy to get off top." Giggity.

[@CygnusTM]

Amazon must hate you. The “Amazon’s Choice“ for “gaming laptop” for me is an MSI Katana 17 with a 4060.

[@shaneeslick]

I'd say “Amazon’s Choice“ is based on your previous buying habits... Amazon knows Dawid's buying habits 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@tim3172]

It’s based on your localization. I.e. a ton of people where he lives are ignorant to how computers work.

[@CygnusTM]

It got to be personalization, not localization. I live in a rural backwater.

[@DrekiTech]

Canadian here, in the same city as Dawid, I also see Ace Magic as Amz's choice. What a terrible choice lol.

[@Morrodin182]

When I go to amazon first of all I am shown different Amazon choices for different categories. Ranging from a cromebook o.O to an alienware PC of around 2900 USD. When I look at the pc promoted for around the price Dawid showed, it suggests the Acer Nitrus V which has a 13th Gen Intel Core i7-13620H processor with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU and 16 GB DDR5 memory (though from the specs, i can conclude it is single stick ... 😢)

[@lonegaming8591]

I only ever use micro sd cards actually so having a micro sd card reader is kind of nice for myself. Mainly used in gaming like handhelds. I understand why full ones would be preferred as you can use a micro sd card in a full size slot but not vice versa

[@Lowware]

Amazing how bad the performance is

[@NebulaHatesWatchdog]

3:46 YES people still use microsd, most SD cards sold now are micro. They’ve taken over the entire SD market, and the manufacturers expect you to use an adapter if you even have something with full size SD. Many people use it daily, it’s surprising that you don’t have a device that needs microsd

[@andrew23yt33]

Amazon choices never fails to lit my house on fire

[@_lenn.box_]

so the best thing to buy would be the "amazon choice lighter", huh 😂

[@johnt.848]

lit? How about light!

[@DawidDoesTechStuff]

@@_lenn.box_ Ironically the Amazon's choice lighter would be the only one of those products that wouldn't manage to burn your house down.

[@_lenn.box_]

@@DawidDoesTechStuff yeah thats why its "amazons choice". can let ur kids play with it 😂

[@Imjeezus]

I bought a ROG Zephyrus with a 6900HS and rtx3060 for $600. Spending $900 on a no name laptop with no GPU is wild.

[@Zerbey]

Nice deal, I'm in the market and I'm probably just going to buy something similar.

[@scarthy]

SD slots are still super good to have on a laptop, especially for stuff like photographers since they can easily just pop out the card from their camera and into the laptop to edit and sort

[@andynormancx]

They are, but that isn’t an SD slot. Not many cameras use microSD nowadays. However us GoPro and DJI drone users still use microSD a lot.

[@scarthy]

@@andynormancx To me, photography includes drones and such too. Use a DJI mini 4K myself 😄

[@shaneeslick]

@@scarthy Yeah I'd say "Taking Photos" or "Recording the Footage" from a GoPro or Drone with a Camera is Photography/Videography too... But for some people apparently not 🤷‍♂

[@tim3172]

@@andynormancxSD to MicroSD adapters are literally just physical adapters. So yes, literally all camera that support SD support MicroSD within the same limitations (SD vs SDHC vs SDXC limitations still exist.)

[@Kiabeta]

3:36 Hey I need that to mod my New 3ds

[@some-replies]

I thought cyberpunk was just youtube compression but the metrics were still crystal clear. trippy

[@bufanda]

Of course we use micro SD-Card. They are great to expand Storage on the Steam Deck and other Handheld gaming devices.

[@explosivelybrilliant]

Still a big fan of having a MicroSD card slot on portable devices/computers. Definitely a nice easy way to add some additional semi-permanent storage, especially on non-upgradeable machines like the older Microsoft Surface Pros.

[@RobertFixit]

define “gaming” does solitaire count?

[@ACE-p7b]

Depends on how hard you slap the cards down on the closed lid. :)

[@lovecraftcat]

Running crysis 1 physics benchmark without exploding

[@spartaninvirginia]

Yes, I still use microSD cards. Phones, tablets, raspberry pi, steam deck...

[@ElenaSerrano-dp4ss]

Bought an Acemagic during that time. They replaced mine without hesitation and even improved their testing. Been using it for months now with no issues.

[@MarkS-ir6db]

"As clean as a nun on confession night.", "Puddle of pixel vomit." This is the kind of stuff I keep watching your videos for!

[@lennard9331]

That APU has been operating at 15W for much of the video, which really kicks its performance in the nuts. Idk about this specific laptop, but I know that it performs somewhat better at its max power limit of 28W.

[@MuyBonitaCoco-di9sc]

I had one of the affected models, and I gotta say, Acemagic’s customer service was top-notch. They replaced my PC，offered techniacal support and made sure everything was safe going forward.

[@drake5557]

I purchased a similar HP laptop. Ryzen 5 7535hs, 8gb single stick of ram, 500gb Gen 4 NVME Drive, RX6550m 4gb (similar to a rtx3050m). I purchased the laptop from Besbuy on sale for $479 USD, and was able to upgrade the ram for $17 USD (absolutely insane, DDR5 SODIMM is so cheap). After taxes and upgrades, we were looking at $518 USD final price. Absolutely insane price for the money. You get a 144hz IPS 1080p screen as well, which you forgot to mention. That should still be optioned on your RTX2050 HP.

[@entity3329]

04:00 SD card reader may be needed when you have to move photos from your digital camera's sd card to your laptop

[@andynormancx]

@@entity3329 nope. Very few cameras nowadays use microSD, except things like GoPros and drones

[@tim3172]

@@andynormancxThere are over 200 models of digital camera which support MicroSD cards and all camera that support SD will accept MicroSD with a simple physical adapter.

[@ge2719]

it may end up feeling like you're watching a compressed youtube video of someone else playing cyberpunk, but just the fact a laptop can run a game with that much stuff on the screen is nuts. the lighting, and textures, processing all of that is nuts for a laptop.

[@AtoManPL]

What's with that MicroSD slander? Do you expect phones using full size SD? :D

[@patayder566]

laptops like this don't last too long. they start slowing down after a few months if you really use it for gaming

[@jritechnology]

@2:06 to see Dawid expel a vehement "kind of", so much so that spittle ejecta forcefully spews from his maw.

[@richardmarkert7736]

Looks like the holes on the top are 90% decorative (not a sticker, but they look actually partially drilled) and a 10% section with holes to the inside of the machine so.... you're gonna get crumps and swamp gooch in there.

[@nasko235679]

Gotta say that's a great choice of sponsor Dawid. Boot dev is awesome

[@lilion59552]

Weird this is 900$ when it's 540€ , on sale at 399 on the manufacturer's website

[@advantagehiphop]

People absolutely do still use microSD cards my guy! Here in Canada I use them for my single board computer projects, but in markets where cheaper phones are dominant over flagships you'll see them used a lot more. Including a microSD card slot it cost effective for the manufacturer since they can include less storage, it also gives the customer a lower base price since they're not paying for the extra storage until they choose to. I've seen some cool setups that also allow for a second sim card in place of the microSD card, using the same physical space inside the phone.

[@fredsigu6684]

I love tiny shroud's cameos

[@balthasarking8570]

I have a 5800u laptop with the same igpu, it runs cyberpunk at 900p with mix of low and medium setting and ffx at quality with a stable 35-45 fps, it's not perfect, but it's perfectly playable without stutters or anything. IGPUs are pretty ram dependent and that thing has 2666mhz while my soldered one is 4266.

[@hammersampson]

Dude, everyone knows “Amazon Choice” just means that Amazon has a shit ton of this item sitting in warehouses and desperately wants to get rid of them!😂

[@faroukmajed1035]

The Problem with the laptop is the CPU only getting 15 watts of power that is why it is spiking and you get bad framerates. The CPU can get to 4.3ghZ while it is on 1.4-3.0ghz

[@caboose6411]

I still use micro sd cards. I saved my entire school laptop to one and then put my own admin account on it. Plus they work well for storing old games

[@Z020852]

I think laptop manufacturers going with microSD are basing it off on Android device and action cam sales, without consideration to how they're actually used. 1. I haven't hooked up a microSD card to an Android phone or tablet in years, because I only use Spotify on all of those. Used to be at least one phone or tablet would have my FLAC rips, but Samsung got rid of the headphone jack. 2. The only times I've connected a microSD card to my computer was to load an Android audiophile music player (with a fixed 2V line out for my home system), and even then I used a freaking SDXC to microSDXC adapter because my laptop had the regular size slot. When I upgraded the laptop to an A15 (2022) and had to get a card reader, I got a USB hub for it too for other stuff on my desk...and just used a card reader plus the adapter because pulling the microSDXC out of the reader's slot was a PITA. It wasn't that hard, but it SHOULDN'T even be hard, making for that adapter sitting on my desk being an extra step feel easier by comparison.

[@beyondu77]

Acemagic is known to ship illegal versions of Windows 11 on their PCs.

[@Techsnowball]

2:06 that tiny bit of spit that comes out and just stays there on the table 🤣

[@fabienb8570]

When you have a laptop with only an integrated graphics chip, you have to go into the bios to allocate it more RAM, because you can see in the video that the graphics chip only has around 500MB of RAM, whereas you can usually allocate up to 4GB, which would have enabled you to get much better performance from this laptop (I have a laptop with a worse processor and I get much better gaming results)

[@stevethepocket]

I can't remember the last time I saw an SD card for sale that wasn't a MicroSD card living in an adapter.

[@FerralVideo]

3:43 I actually use micro-SD. You can get adapters to make full size SD devices use microSD cards. Enough of my devices use the size that I've just gone all-in on it as my format of choice for removable media. Adapter cards are ubiquitous enough that I just leave one in every one of my full-size-SD devices. Before I forget, the USB readers for them are _adorably tiny_ and make me irrationally happy.

[@justporter]

Micro SD slot is in use in literally every device I own. It's an awesome cheap/easy way to add 1.5TB of storage (like for my google drive to reside on), and on many of my smaller/cheaper units that don't have any other way to expand it's about the only way. I was irritated on a recent cheaper 17" that I got didn't have one, so I added a USB micro SD drive that barely sticks out any at all, smaller than any thumbdrive.

[@BouncingZeus]

Yes I mean my Ally and steam deck use it lol. It is such a major form factor that made no sense. Plus don't cameras use it too?

[@heroninja1125]

@@BouncingZeus Usually bigger cameras use the full size SD cards. Some even use CF express cards (even larger memory cards that have much better speeds due to being Pcie based.)

[@chibikawaiichris]

Your wit and humor is better than almost any comedian.

[@overkill-edits]

my phone got splashed in water and this was the vid it picked lmao

[@uuu12343]

I see Akamai has fucked up linode so bad that Dawid dropped them as a sponser candidate

[@Biggest_subhuman]

Brutal buddy boyo

[@klopferator]

I use Linode and apart from all the branding stuff and a slightly overhauled dashboard I haven't seen a difference yet.

[@gentle285]

Krazy Ken too?

[@lennard9331]

It seems to be a marketing decision on Akamai's part. I haven't seen them sponsor GN in a while either, which they regularly used to do.

[@drizzle8309]

Wdym "do people still use this size?" What other sizes are there? Besides the full one, which is only useful for cameras and printers (yes, some people use it that way, no idk why). I can't tell if that's a genuine question or if you're comment baiting.

[@Raphtalia.Everyone]

2:06 mate spitting on the table.

[@Zoyx]

How can you call it a gaming laptop without the RGB WASD keys? When ETAPrime tested a 5700u, his TimeSpy benchmark score was only 1460. That was nearly three years ago.

[@DecrepidOne]

We need the micro SD slot so we can load our dashcam footage to KZbin

[@ekkcry]

You should try "Lossles Scaling" with these low end grafics processors, to look if it could improve this pathatic performance

[@asinglefrenchfry]

Lossless scaling butchers the input delay though, feels like you’re cloud streaming the game with a bad connection

[@TheGoldenRoom-hs4gw]

I heard about the issue too, but seems like it really stepped up. No doubt, it’s great to see a company own up and make things better.

[@Btuando]

The Big Ol' spit blob at 2:07 lol

[@satsumagt5284]

15W was the limitation here, I'm quite sure the APU could do a little more if given more power to work with

[@OnTheRocks71]

I noticed that it seemed to be running at 25w in the Doom Eternal test, you could see the temperatures were much higher (but not dangerous). Makes me wonder if there's a BIOS option to force a 25w limit, or if there was some weird Windows power management stuff going on.

[@satsumagt5284]

@@OnTheRocks71 I don’t quite remember if he ran the laptop on battery or plugged in, but I know very well there’s a massive difference in performance

[@Goodbarsix]

I just found your channel yesterday and am loving it. I could have sworn you were imitating Dark Helmet at first. 😆

[@LeRatVisseur]

2:08 bro spat on the table lmao

[@MrBee_OG]

yes, microsd is stil very much appreciated, loading roms for retro handhelds, reading dashcam cards, drone cards, etc. :)

[@MajorSilvaa]

Ay that Victus is my current laptop. Got it last year during Black Friday season for an actual Black Friday price (just under $500). Though its NVME drive did kill itself after like 2 months, after replacing it has worked like a charm ever since

[@Juancarloscano-ce2ho]

Bought an Acemagic Mini PC around that time too, and honestly, without any issues. When I heard about the malware thing, double checked mine just to be safe, but it was still fine. Seems like it didn’t affect all the devices, probably just a few.

[@northwestrcs]

Can you try Adrenaline and see if the egpu is set to productivity instead of performance? You might be able to increase the VRAM. Good video, always look forward to new ones!

[@HomiebeaR_]

Ok for a laptop that I've never heard of, the inside looks really clean

[@CatWithoutAHat901]

Maybe you could adjust the power limit for the 5700U in the Acemagic? The temps were fine, it was limited to 15W. I feel like theres been a lot of performance left on the table.

[@ThomasCarnillJr]

Nice spit-take @2:08 Your videos are always the best; keep up the great work!

[@HR-wd6cw]

Micro SD is still used in phones (that have the slot), security cameras, some regular cameras, and tablets all use micro SD. So yes, it's still used (and they've even got some quite spacious cars (around 1TB, although due to their size, I don't think there are any UHS-II micro SD cards because they probably can't fit a second row of leads on the small card, so as far as I know, all are UHS-I rated, but for storage purposes they are decently fast). The one thing I didn't like about some of the Victus laptops when I looked at them was the limited upgrade options. Some, you couldn't even add a second SSD and you could upgrade the single SSD in there, but they were an odd form-factor like a 2230 or 2240 drive, which at the time, only about 2-3 manufacturers made those drives in anything larger than about 1TB (it's changed now and companies like Corsair now make 1 and 2TB versions of the 2240-40mm sized drive). So I guess if you can live with just a single NVME slot, then the cheaper Victus laptops could work (some have dual slots but these are a bit more expensive like around $1,000 USD or more). I think the other thing was that some had 4GB of RAM soldered onboard so you only had one slot and that limited how much RAM you could put into the laptop in general (I think when I looked, 12GB was supposedly the max on the model I was looking at, but again, this was maybe 2 years ago). I paid about $800 for my Lenovo Legion 5 laptop (which I use for photo editing, not gaming) has plenty of room for upgrades (supposedly holds 64GB of RAM, has 2 full 80mm NVME drive slots, and even includes an RTX 4060 which is not top of the line but is better than most found in sub-$1000 laptops. The CPU is not the fastest AMD and you can buy laptops in the same price range with faster CPUs, but most didn't have the 4060 and you had to settle for a 3050 or 4050 instead).

[@AtomSquirrel]

Breaking out the Victus! I bought my Victus two years ago. It’s a solid laptop. If only the trackpad weren’t so massive because it clicks around while I’m typing. I have to turn it off. Thankfully, they thought of that by putting the button to disable the trackpad on F11. One of the first things I did was add extra RAM and a M.2 for game storage

[@ge2719]

phones, retro handhelds, steam deck, nintendo switch, drones, some cameras like go pros, or vr cameras like vuze, 3d printers. theres a lot of things that use micro sd.

[@lemagreengreen]

Something funny: the back panel is identical to Dell's vostro/inspiron aluminium laptops from 2020-2022 (I think). Like identical, every part of it is the same. That price though, ooft. There's an HP RTX4050 laptop for $600 at Walmart right now, 8GB but has a free slot for upgrade. Has a much better screen etc.

[@KrantiRai-ly1zi]

Just bought an Acemagic AMR5 last month, and it’s been running perfectly. The company’s clearly learned from past issues because my device has been nothing but solid so far.

[@KABAR1943]

Most 3D printers prior to the last couple years use MicroSD I have 10 of them for different categories of projects, like work, house, fun stuff etc

[@raylopez99]

In defense of the "ZoZ", the Lenovo Yoga 6 has the same chips and I found it to be "OK" gaming, and the biggest benefit is that it has a TDP of only 15 W. So it doesn't heat up your entire room and make hideous noise. That said, it's kind of expensive. Several years ago it cost $1k USD for the Yoga 6 but I see for a similar machine the prices haven't dropped that much.

[@kumedzanimuloiwa2058]

Who is else is just glad Dawid moved the hair sticking out by the first minute? 😅

[@tradingnichols2255]

I normally already watch your videos in full, but already being sick and nauseous adding Jeff's improbably gaming PC to my viewing schedule... I'll skip the end if it helps skip me puking. LOL

[@haileyhawkins-px7os]

Picked up a Acemagic PC last week, and I’m impressed. After hearing about the this issue earlier this year, I was cautious, but it’s clear they’ve improved. No problems at all with mine.

[@Yuyu5001]

As others commented, be really careful with Acemagic devices. Several TechTubers from all around the world found pretty bad viruses like Bladabindi and others on their minis. And that was months after the issue was found. Also, yay, a Victus! I managed to snag one with a Ryzen 5 7640HS, 16GB DDR5 5600 dual-channel RAM, and a 4060 in it for 800€ in June! Was super happy and for that price basically a steal. It's not even running especially hot, sitting at ca. 70°C CPU and 65°C GPU when gaming, and that's with the GPU overclocked, too. 75% fan speed. Quite a bit of thermal headroom. Actually typing on it right now xD

[@kaseyboles30]

I have more than a few peripherals that use a to b connectors. USB microphones and printers especially.

[@RickBrostek]

Epic distances on a low tier gaming laptop is kinda on odd choice. I feel like sometimes maybe putting it in performance mode where you could put direct x would give us a better idea on what you can get with it. Or maybe disabling high texture graphics from epic settings well

[@WaylandGaming]

I don’t know about Acemagic specifically, but laptops like these are great for non-gaming usage with Linux. iGPU so you don’t have to mess with drivers. Two upgradable sticks of RAM. Upgradable NVMe SSD. And most importantly, upgradable Wi-Fi card where you can pop-in an Intel AX211 or even BE200 for Wi-Fi 7. It’s even got some decen IO. Perfect Linux laptop. A newer Zen 5 APU would even be better for gaming too. As the drivers are in the Linux kernel, and the iGPU on those are pretty good.

[@bearded_beagle]

Always a good day when a new vid drops

[@Rockport1911]

There is a video showing that you can game decently on an integrated graphic Radean 780m like it comes with a 7950HS. Thats said this laptop is few price classes away from this and we arent in Corona anymore where GPU´s where unobtainable.

[@ahkong501]

5:29 I'd usually increase the RAM allocation for the igpu from 500mb to 2GB for a 16GB RAM system. Much more better gaming performance

[@SammySnake0803]

I actually just used a micro sd slot to emulate on my 3ds, im certainly glad that my moms old laptop had one!

[@garethgsxr]

thank you for lightening my viewing, your great.

[@hellmalm]

New Dawid video, life is perfect!

[@peternganga7158]

I've been using the ACEMAGIC gaming laptop for a few months now, and it's been awesome for the price! Runs most games smoothly and has great portability for on-the-go gaming.

[@MSThalamus-gj9oi]

I prefer using SD cards for installation media over thumb drives. I install / boot with external devices far more than most people, though.

[@Wynner3]

I wonder what if it would work with Lossless Scaling. I can't imagine it doing that much better, but could be fun to play around with.

[@OfficialiGamer]

I use MicroSD in my switch, Surface Pro 6, Samssung Tablet, so yea its still defintely used, unless you meant just your standard SD Card, than no not really.

[@orxanr5955]

Dawid, ive come across some aliexpress listings, that can be of interest to you. So the listing title is "BGA TO LGA 12900HX", they took a laptop i9 and tinkered with it intull it worked on a desktop mobo. I wouldnt dare to pay for it, but you have the youtube cash so maybe give it a try.

[@johnt.848]

I love the sneaky giggity in this video.