I went to Taiwan last week and visited the same store. Apparently business exploded for the owner after Linus' video was released and the media picked up on it. He's swamped! He also put up Linus' vid in his store on replay now.
I'm a Canadian who has lived in Taiwan for 15 years, and I just bought a PC from Guanghua a month or so ago (different shop). I can attest that my experience was similar to yours: great service, great communication, very flexible and the guy was really knowledgeable. He wasn't interested in pushing anything on me, he was way more interested in finding out what kind of system and parts I wanted, what he can recommend in areas where I wasn't sure, and how to keep the system within the budget I was going for. The PC works great (I double-checked the RAM speed after watching your video). I've been playing Ghost of Tsushima, Forza Horizon 5 and Diablo IV all in 4K and the machine hasn't skipped a beat.
Technically not true, because I am fairly certain he was already on there. Let's be real, if he lived in china he would have probably been disappeared already.
Taiwan is a great country 🇹🇼 I spent half a year there in 2018 and found it to be a very safe place, much safer than Australia and everyone was very kind and friendly. I also went to Guang Hua digital plaza and bought a 2tb HDD for my laptop for a reasonable price. Also when I got it back to my place to install I realised that the laptop or hdd didn't have mounting screws so I went back and someone there with the help of google translate was able to get me some out of their big box of screws for free. I also had a decent experience buying a $700 digital camera from the official digital camera street in Taipei with no mandarin. It was a HK grey import but they still offered a 6 month warranty back to the store.
Here in Taiwan, most local Mom & Pop computer shops are so intergrated with the community that as long as the owner is familiar with you, he ain't gonna fuss if the computer came out of his shop or not, he'll still service it well. The owner of shop in my neighborhood was more interested on what the logic behind my build was that he practically spend hours giving me professional advice for my new build for free and told me I should go to other shops to seek out the parts that I like and want to have instead of using what was ready in his store. He said he like customers being proud of their own builds instead of chasing after profit and in the end, I think he was more excited than I was when I finally managed to snatch a founder's edition of the RX 7900XTX and stuck that on my motherboard.
My wife’s family is from Taiwan. I’ve been around the world, and when I went to Taiwan for the first time it became my favorite country I’ve ever been too.
@@Recatonyllaer I mean technically speaking, Taiwan sees mainland China as provinces occupied by rogue parties in the same way China sees Taiwan as one rogue province. It's only recently that the younger generation has preferred to be identified as a separate country. It's an odd situation.
i was in Taiwan only 2 months and i was surprised with their 7 11 store, its so insanely multifunctional compare to California 7 11, In that store you can get free Wi-Fi, free hot water, you can get some food or get coffee, some medication, its copy center, its perform all payments regarding any bills, its perform some basic notorious function, All shipping can be perform by them (its like amazon lock box in any store), some places provided even shower. Taiwan for me was the country which beat the California in any aspect. I So love that country, especially people altitude.
I think you guys don’t know that place call “Guang Hua Market” which was the biggest and cheapest market selling computing parts in the world back to 80 and early 90’s, because all of them were “Made in Taiwan”, that’s why they have got very professional skills for a long time
Yeah I've lost my wallet over a dozen times already living here in Taiwan, and every single time I find it delivered in am MRT station or a police station, or even in a convenience store. Very safe living here.
woow.......As a Taiwanese, I must say that the security in Taiwan is indeed good, but there are still thieves. I think you have to be careful . you lost your wallet so many times. There will be one time you can't find it back.😅
I built my first PC 8 years ago and its still going strong but now my career is in full swing I would happily pay extra for a well built system. The ego of saying I built it myself no longer exists and I'd rather put that time to better use.
@@sniprsprimordium5625 They have their own government independent of Beijing, their own elections, their own central bank and currency, their own standing military and their own passports. Who cares what the UN says. They operate like an independent country. Their official name may still be "Republic of China", but they are not China, nor have they been controlled Beijing since the communist PRC was founded in 1949 in the mainland.
To be fair to the builder, linus did said make the system look awesome. That's why he used 4 sticks instead of 2 because nothing uglier in a high-end system like an empty unused slot.
Taiwan is such a nice country. No joke, I literally see people using their handbags and phones to reserve seats in restaurants and convenience stores while they go to the counter to pay
@@solarissv777 Taiwan was part of Japan before 1945. The government from China KMT actually made Taiwan worse than what it could have been. Taiwan was already better than China before 1945. It is not the recent things. One example of the bad things that was brought to Taiwan after 195 was the crappy buildings around Taiwan. Taiwan was pretty in 1930s. Use keywords such as Taihoku Formosa to find out.
1946 TIME “Formosans greeted the few visiting Americans with: “You were kind to the Japanese, you dropped the atom on them. You dropped the Chinese on us!” Thoughtful Chinese on the mainland began to agree with the Formosans. Said Ta Rung Pao, China’s counterpart of the New York Times: “Fundamentally speaking, China was not qualified to take over . . . she lacks the men . . . technique . . . commodities . . . capital. She governs, but is inefficient. She takes, but she does not give. This is the government’s shame.” Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan.” 1949 TIME “ At night, electric lights -rare in rural Asia-twinkled from the modest huts of tiny villages. By day many villagers not needed in the fields worked in the small industrial plants that dot the island. Compared to mainland Chinese, the Formosans were well off. Nevertheless they were grumbling. In guarded whispers they spoke of the “good old days” of Japanese rule.” “Pigs Just Eat. This resentment is grounded partly in the psychology of a colonial people whose standards of living, general educational level and technical proficiency were raised well above the standards of their mainland Chinese brethren. The Japanese, for example, trained 30,000 Formosan doctors, more than the number in all the rest of China. But when the mainland Chinese took over the island, they did not even treat the Formosans as equals, but as “liberated” inferiors. The result is that even thoughtful Formosans now say: “We think of the Japanese as dogs and the Chinese as pigs. A dog eats, but he protects. A pig just eats.” Many Formosans want complete independence for their island-to be gained by revolution or any other means. Others talk of “autonomy under a good Chinese government,” neither Nationalist nor Communist. A third group favors a U.S. mandate.”
I used to work at a computer shop in my teens and we were the backbone of our community. Corporations really ruined the community store aspect. Local stores supported local economies and communities. It's sad with how things turned out. Glad to see that sense of local community alive in Taiwan!
Taiwan is really safe, people are helpful. I couldn't speak mandarin but they just walked with me for almost 1.5km to the shop I wanted to go to. The location was densely packed so not easy to use GPS to find the shop.
As a fans of Linus that moved to Taiwan 3 years ago from Singapore, thank you for loving Taiwan.. And hope to see you back in the next computex event...
@@realcartoongirl nope, I'm currently holding a entrepreneur permit in Taiwan, it's required a 5 years stay to get a citizenship, so I'm getting my taiwan citizenship in 2026, which I had to give-up my Singapore citizenship at that time
I am from Taiwan, just to balance the point. there are shop in Taiwan that will certainly rip you off from your computer build. And we don't have tipping culture, so restaurant won't take tip. But it is true that Taiwan culture is less hustle compare to North America
@@ChipperMcManus Tipping has never, ever been about reducing the price of food. That wouldn't even make sense for someone to claim as it literarily increases the price of it in restaurants over the listing.
That's your new nickname. Big Taiwan Also, Taiwanese people seem pretty great to be honest. Humble culture and I'm feeling much more confident about potentially traveling there one day.
Some foreigners always say why do Taiwanese people thank other foreigners for liking Taiwan, that you guys should have more pride and confidence. It's called gratitude and appreciation, just like a chef getting a compliment for his dish
12:18 "I love Taiwan, it's a beautiful country". The CCP is not gonna be happy when they hear that xD Guess Linus just banned himself from ever traveling to China with the -1000000 social credit he now has lol
It’s so much fun watching that video 😂 Especially when you scared the shit out of that kid when you said that you were giving away the mini super computer, and he was the lucky recipient.
In my experience in Taiwan, there's one caveat to the feeling of safety there: the traffic is just CRAZY. Cars passing by inches away when you're crossing on a zebra on a green light, scooters going in every direction... don't get me wrong, it feels like they still kinda know what they're doing, but if you're used to traffic that actually follows the rules, it's wild.
Yes, Taiwan’s traffic is bad, but believe or not it got much better in the past two years because of the new laws and related discussions. Mainly, cars and scooters have to yield to pedestrians…. For example, in the past, only 60% or less chance to almost 99% if you are on major streets in Taipei. Still far from perfect, but you can see the changes each year.
@@realcartoongirl getting a job that can pay for a plane ticket and a temporary living situation in Taiwan, while paying for car payments + gas, house payments + utilities, and groceries, without counting for anything like car + house repairs, and especially not little luxuries, is near impossible without external help such as rich parents, or family friends who can give you a good enough job. Not everybody has that.
As someone that's studying compsci in Taiwan, thanks for showing our country to the world! I'm glad you found it to be friendly and safe here. I'll be honest, I'm glad we have TSMC, but I really hope we won't be left in the dust once the facility in the US picks up steam. I hope our country can be remembered for the people we are like what you talked about in this segment of the podcast, and not just our products. (and personally, I wish the country stopped having a crazed obsession with AI, but it doesn't seem like that's happening anytime soon)
Don't worry, the US government isn't going to let Taiwan down if China invaded you guys. Believe it or not even without TSMC, Taiwan is geographically very important to the US. Failing that: most US citizens would be very angry at our government if they didn't protect you guys.
The American factory is a fraction of TSMC's home base capacity, they are having a hard time getting skilled workers who never take vacations or days off ever, and DEI requirements slapped on by this administration have actually caused some companies to turn away from the CHIPS act and build their factories elsewhere. Intel has just started building one in Israel.
From what I hear the Taiwan fabs are still going to be producing the high end chips, while our US fab will mainly focus on the stuff that goes in most common consumer products. At least for a few years. We may eventually scale up to the high end stuff, but it will be a generation or two behind Taiwan.
As a Taiwanese, I initially followed Linus not just for his technical information, but also because he speaks clearly and articulately. Back in 2014, this was incredibly helpful for me as I needed to practice my English.
We usual walk to 7-11 at midnight to take express box, also have night hair salon close at 2:00am , and eat hotpot till 4:00 am, it’s normally life. Hope you can stay longer next time, to visit more south and east beatiful TW❤
This is the typical experience in Taiwan, and yes, you can ALWAYS bring back something even after the warranty period, and they still will fix it for free.
It depends man if it's a chain appliance store the employees probably can't do that Individual sellers can rip you off or block you when you have a problem too
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson I've bought a roached Xbox series and only found out after a while and the sob second hand gaming shop was very rude to me and blocked me. My dad always buys a pc from a near by shop and one time they put a GPU different from requested and when brought back to change it out they charged for the GPU we wanted in the first place. There are more examples involving salesperson or home renovation people or mechanics etc. Some scummy shop still exist and if they determine the risk of getting exposed or the customer have a lot of trust in them then they might try to screw you over.
Just so you know most people here in Taiwan build systems around 1000 bucks, with free labor. By giving a shop 5 grand to build a system, we damn sure make it as perfect as possible including after-sales service, because that is an absurd amount of money for a PC.
17:50 yeah I'm one of those people. I dont really watch stuff fresh out of the gate, I keep them in a backburned in my mind and when something REALLY fun like that taiwan PC build showed up, I watch that one and then I binge(in this case) your stuff until i reach "oh i've seen this already" and go off somewhere else again there's just too much stuff to check in lately, and for free.
18:07 Ive got the "My wifi is better than yours" a couple times in my recommended even AFTER ive watched it. None of taiwan video(s) (idk how many there are, im gonna search for it/them in a moment) showed up in my recommended or my subscribed page(and im subscribed to main LTT channel). None! I didnt even know youve been to taiwan if not for WAN show. So no wonder those videos did poorly - no one's gonna click on a video if youtube doesnt show them. And I'm not hitting that stupid bell(for any YT channel). I like LTT but not as much as I hate notifications.
This is an old comment now, but I feel compelled to corroborate. I love the shit out of Taiwan, been here most of my adult life. Grew up and spent the bulk of my 20s in Toronto. I still have the softest spot for Toronto and the intersection of cultures, which is still unrivaled anywhere I've been. but Taiwan is something else, and you owe it to yourself to check it out.
Oh, when you're big in Taiwan, tonight Big in Taiwan, be tight Big in Taiwan, ooh, the eastern sea's so blue Big in Taiwan, alright Pay then I'll sleep by your side Things are easy when you're big in Taiwan Oh, when you're big in Taiwan
As a Taiwanese who later immigrated to the U.S., thats one thing about being born in Taiwan, you expects good honest service everywhere, and it’s just a constant disappointment in the States.
I don't know about north america, but at least in some countries in asia, it is standard practice to provide the boxes and its contents along with the PC build itself. The concept is that you are bulk ordering PC parts (box and all) from the shop at a discount and paying the shop an assembly charge to build it for you. So what that builder did was very standard and very believable. More likely he thought of Linus as a whale customer and maybe gave a premium service hoping Linus would be a return customer and give more whale referrals. The fact that he assembled the GPU cooler and put everything back nicely was a big plus. Probably part of the whale service. Again, this is very believable and very good service. And the workmanship and specs are sick. Awesome build.
Nah, unless you specifically demanded shops to throw away the boxes and spare parts, it standard practice in Taiwan to hand over everything to you after you purchased your PC. First it has more to do with parts warranty where you have to provide the copy of the invoice and send in the complete set back if there are any problems. Second, it makes it easier for the customer to seek help with another store for after purchase services as you have all the spare parts and the other shop owners can just configure it back to default if anything fails and you need a quick and easy fix.
as a Taiwanese, i can tell you the worker in TSMC are banned to bring anything that can take a photo into company, even the smartphone. Instead they will have a TSMC phone and that phone seems like nokia 3310 without camera
@@er-nuo6760 Come on, it's normal, I was a stage artisan, I don't get to take picture and post it online even I was part of the stage crew of some child drama for charity, not to mention a mutli-billions worth of tech
@@keiming2277it’s actually way more than that. Even the employees are not allowed to bring in smart phones and USB flash drives. If you want to use a smart phone, you would need to use a company approved one. I got a tour at TSMC in college and they collect your phones at the entrance
Dude, my next door junior high school girl says she could go outside for convenience store by herself in the mid-night and her Mom and Dad would just say: ok! Yeap that when you say you feel safe! Guess what? I am living in Taiwan!😆
Taiwan doesn't really have tip culture especially for the mom and pop shops because to them they calculated their cost and profit carefully and the service they provide is the shop standard regardless of your race, dressing code etc. If you really want those small shops to survive, may be you can give the money as donation, I know some shop have a donation system. People give small donation to the shop and the shop owner may treat their "in need" customer meals.
I went to Taiwan last week and visited the same store. Apparently business exploded for the owner after Linus' video was released and the media picked up on it. He's swamped! He also put up Linus' vid in his store on replay now.
😂😭
Good for him 😂
I'm a Canadian who has lived in Taiwan for 15 years, and I just bought a PC from Guanghua a month or so ago (different shop). I can attest that my experience was similar to yours: great service, great communication, very flexible and the guy was really knowledgeable. He wasn't interested in pushing anything on me, he was way more interested in finding out what kind of system and parts I wanted, what he can recommend in areas where I wasn't sure, and how to keep the system within the budget I was going for. The PC works great (I double-checked the RAM speed after watching your video). I've been playing Ghost of Tsushima, Forza Horizon 5 and Diablo IV all in 4K and the machine hasn't skipped a beat.
I like your pfp
Because of your PFP I’m thinking about how a blue striped blue sun flag with the Canadian pale would look.
下次購物完記得去那裏吃個飯 光華商場那裏好有很多好吃的東西
I'm from Tainan, and when we went to Ximending on our graduation trip, I just hopped on the MRT and went straight for Guanghua😂😂
which store name did u buy from? did it have flashy cool design like this one?
You are the biggest in my heart now😂, thank you that you lilk my build again my man! love you!
THE BUILDER SPOTTED!!!!!!!!!!!
goated builder in comments
Let him cook!
you're the best! great build!!
Did you recognize Linus when he came to your shop?
China put Linus on the watchlist the moment he said Taiwan is a Country
yeah... Bilibili gonna take back that plaque now 😂💀
Technically not true, because I am fairly certain he was already on there. Let's be real, if he lived in china he would have probably been disappeared already.
Suppliers for LTT store in China are nervous
West Taiwan has more problems domestically to deal with. They busy right now.
I think he was already on their watchlist for multiple reasons.
Glad you liked it and even promote this video. Taiwan needs friends, especially in the coming days
Yup
😮😮😮
Taiwan is a great country 🇹🇼 I spent half a year there in 2018 and found it to be a very safe place, much safer than Australia and everyone was very kind and friendly. I also went to Guang Hua digital plaza and bought a 2tb HDD for my laptop for a reasonable price. Also when I got it back to my place to install I realised that the laptop or hdd didn't have mounting screws so I went back and someone there with the help of google translate was able to get me some out of their big box of screws for free. I also had a decent experience buying a $700 digital camera from the official digital camera street in Taipei with no mandarin. It was a HK grey import but they still offered a 6 month warranty back to the store.
Here in Taiwan, most local Mom & Pop computer shops are so intergrated with the community that as long as the owner is familiar with you, he ain't gonna fuss if the computer came out of his shop or not, he'll still service it well.
The owner of shop in my neighborhood was more interested on what the logic behind my build was that he practically spend hours giving me professional advice for my new build for free and told me I should go to other shops to seek out the parts that I like and want to have instead of using what was ready in his store.
He said he like customers being proud of their own builds instead of chasing after profit and in the end, I think he was more excited than I was when I finally managed to snatch a founder's edition of the RX 7900XTX and stuck that on my motherboard.
that sounds so wholesome
My wife’s family is from Taiwan. I’ve been around the world, and when I went to Taiwan for the first time it became my favorite country I’ve ever been too.
The ccp would disagree 😂
ccp aint gonna like this one
@@Recatonyllaer I mean technically speaking, Taiwan sees mainland China as provinces occupied by rogue parties in the same way China sees Taiwan as one rogue province. It's only recently that the younger generation has preferred to be identified as a separate country.
It's an odd situation.
-20 social credit
@@Revenant-oq9ts The truth is, Taiwanese was lied and forced occupied by KMT and ROC after WW2. ROC is the invader.
i was in Taiwan only 2 months and i was surprised with their 7 11 store, its so insanely multifunctional compare to California 7 11, In that store you can get free Wi-Fi, free hot water, you can get some food or get coffee, some medication, its copy center, its perform all payments regarding any bills, its perform some basic notorious function, All shipping can be perform by them (its like amazon lock box in any store), some places provided even shower. Taiwan for me was the country which beat the California in any aspect. I So love that country, especially people altitude.
I think you guys don’t know that place call “Guang Hua Market” which was the biggest and cheapest market selling computing parts in the world back to 80 and early 90’s, because all of them were “Made in Taiwan”, that’s why they have got very professional skills for a long time
It is literally the OG Asian Tech Mall
As someone who is currently in Taiwan for studying, I absolutely love it here, and the people here really are that great.
Every Taiwanese person I have met in school (in California) have been very friendly and I fw their beliefs heavy
The original video was already super sweet. I'm really happy to see the story gets even better.
Yeah I've lost my wallet over a dozen times already living here in Taiwan, and every single time I find it delivered in am MRT station or a police station, or even in a convenience store. Very safe living here.
Why are you losing your wallet so many time? 36 years on this earth and I haven't lost it once.
He consumes too much cheese 😀@@GG-os4is
woow.......As a Taiwanese, I must say that the security in Taiwan is indeed good, but there are still thieves. I think you have to be careful . you lost your wallet so many times. There will be one time you can't find it back.😅
I lost my wallet in high-school and the police called my dad that night lol (I have his business card in my wallet)
If such a personalized service existed for people to build a PC with, even if it was like $200-$300 extra, I am convinced people would pay it.
I built my first PC 8 years ago and its still going strong but now my career is in full swing I would happily pay extra for a well built system. The ego of saying I built it myself no longer exists and I'd rather put that time to better use.
@@shanebovell6733 Its not really a new concept depending on how advanced the build is 100-300 bucks
it will be cheaper
@@shanebovell6733 building em is fun tho!
@@shanebovell6733 Also if a component is faulty I won’t have to go through RMA hell. The one building it can handle that mess for me instead.
Guang Hua is my safe place.
教授很高興在這裡看到您的留言！👍👍👍😍😍😍🎉🎉🎉
教授很高興在這裡看到您
See why this country is worth defending? They deserve having the great country they have.
❤❤
Thank you ❤
they are not a country, no matter how many times you say it
台湾加油！！！！
@@sniprsprimordium5625 They have their own government independent of Beijing, their own elections, their own central bank and currency, their own standing military and their own passports. Who cares what the UN says. They operate like an independent country. Their official name may still be "Republic of China", but they are not China, nor have they been controlled Beijing since the communist PRC was founded in 1949 in the mainland.
I'm an American in Taiwan. Cool to see more talk about this small country
FREE the Republic of Texas and Hawaii
@@aurigalin6327 Hawaii?😂
😮😮
@@aurigalin6327freedom with arms and human rights not like your country.
@@aurigalin6327 what the heck, that is silly comparison
I visited Taiwan this summer, multiple cities, everyone just leaves stuff out and were so nice, I can't wait to go back.
Taiwan is my favorite country
To be fair to the builder, linus did said make the system look awesome. That's why he used 4 sticks instead of 2 because nothing uglier in a high-end system like an empty unused slot.
many brands that offer RGB memory also offer cheapish RGB dummy sticks for this reason.
@@fweaksdid most manufacturers still make those?, i remember Corsair and gskill makes them but never seen one in any way even online
Totally agree. lol
@@fweaks do you know where i can get some? i cant find them anywhere
@@Seizuqi V-Color probably the only one making some dummy kit ram (recently)
Thank you for using your platform to share our country with the world ❤❤❤🇹🇼🇹🇼🇹🇼
This was such a wholesome and fun video, win, win, win.
Truly
Taiwan is great, I spent a night there unintentionally when a flight got grounded enroute to Korea, awesome food, helpful people, safe
I am so using "your bullshit detector needs recalibration", that goes hard
Only country Linus can feel normal sized in
Lmao
LMFAOOO
GOTTEM
TBH, Taiwanese men's average height is 172.4cm (5' 787). I think is taller than Linus.
@@jyunnheikusada7003I am 174 cm. One of the only countries where I would be above average for men lol
The mom: ”What you have there?”
The kid: “PHLASH SPEED 5”
The Korean meme is damn strong on this one
I love it
Taiwan is such a great country I’m glad this story came out
Taiwan is such a nice country. No joke, I literally see people using their handbags and phones to reserve seats in restaurants and convenience stores while they go to the counter to pay
Imagine the entire China could be like that if not for the communists.
@@solarissv777
Taiwan was part of Japan before 1945.
The government from China KMT actually made Taiwan worse than what it could have been. Taiwan was already better than China before 1945. It is not the recent things.
One example of the bad things that was brought to Taiwan after 195 was the crappy buildings around Taiwan. Taiwan was pretty in 1930s. Use keywords such as Taihoku Formosa to find out.
@@bctvanw what was it? here comes the pig after the dog?
1946 TIME
“Formosans greeted the few visiting Americans with: “You were kind to the Japanese, you dropped the atom on them. You dropped the Chinese on us!”
Thoughtful Chinese on the mainland began to agree with the Formosans. Said Ta Rung Pao, China’s counterpart of the New York Times: “Fundamentally speaking, China was not qualified to take over . . . she lacks the men . . . technique . . . commodities . . . capital. She governs, but is inefficient. She takes, but she does not give. This is the government’s shame.”
Most foreign observers in Formosa agreed that if a referendum were taken today Formosans would vote for U.S. rule. Second choice-Japan.”
1949 TIME
“ At night, electric lights -rare in rural Asia-twinkled from the modest huts of tiny villages. By day many villagers not needed in the fields worked in the small industrial plants that dot the island. Compared to mainland Chinese, the Formosans were well off. Nevertheless they were grumbling. In guarded whispers they spoke of the “good old days” of Japanese rule.”
“Pigs Just Eat. This resentment is grounded partly in the psychology of a colonial people whose standards of living, general educational level and technical proficiency were raised well above the standards of their mainland Chinese brethren. The Japanese, for example, trained 30,000 Formosan doctors, more than the number in all the rest of China. But when the mainland Chinese took over the island, they did not even treat the Formosans as equals, but as “liberated” inferiors. The result is that even thoughtful Formosans now say: “We think of the Japanese as dogs and the Chinese as pigs. A dog eats, but he protects. A pig just eats.”
Many Formosans want complete independence for their island-to be gained by revolution or any other means. Others talk of “autonomy under a good Chinese government,” neither Nationalist nor Communist. A third group favors a U.S. mandate.”
@@bctvanw it's just so ironic to me as Japanese
I used to work at a computer shop in my teens and we were the backbone of our community. Corporations really ruined the community store aspect. Local stores supported local economies and communities. It's sad with how things turned out. Glad to see that sense of local community alive in Taiwan!
Taiwan is really safe, people are helpful. I couldn't speak mandarin but they just walked with me for almost 1.5km to the shop I wanted to go to. The location was densely packed so not easy to use GPS to find the shop.
12:18 -10000 social credits
Plus Death Panelty in China.......
As a fans of Linus that moved to Taiwan 3 years ago from Singapore, thank you for loving Taiwan..
And hope to see you back in the next computex event...
so you have dual citizenship
@@realcartoongirl nope, I'm currently holding a entrepreneur permit in Taiwan, it's required a 5 years stay to get a citizenship, so I'm getting my taiwan citizenship in 2026, which I had to give-up my Singapore citizenship at that time
@@chicken1995tw fail
Why?對台灣人來說新加坡是更好，令我們羨慕的國家，不管薪資政府教育都是，我是台灣人如果可以我反而希望去新加坡
@@Jackhjj6 生活壓力大，開銷也大，光是電費就是台灣的三倍，然後買機車或車子也很貴，通勤只有公共交通，每次上班都要提前一個半小時起床，捷運、公車也都很擠。像我來到台灣，電費兩個月不到一千、通勤可以騎機車，多花一點時間賴床XD
I am from Taiwan, just to balance the point. there are shop in Taiwan that will certainly rip you off from your computer build.
And we don't have tipping culture, so restaurant won't take tip.
But it is true that Taiwan culture is less hustle compare to North America
Fuck yeah i love taiwan
bro theres always will be shops that tries to rip you off wherever it is.
Hope tipping culture never comes. It is beyond irritating and is just a way for employers to lower pay, pay less tax, and pocket more themselves.
@@curtisbme it is supposed to reduce the price of the food, but these days it has just become subsidy for living wage.
@@ChipperMcManus Tipping has never, ever been about reducing the price of food. That wouldn't even make sense for someone to claim as it literarily increases the price of it in restaurants over the listing.
That's your new nickname. Big Taiwan
Also, Taiwanese people seem pretty great to be honest. Humble culture and I'm feeling much more confident about potentially traveling there one day.
Looking forward to your visits!
Taiwan welcomes you ❤
Do visit, maybe not during the summer 😅
Some foreigners always say why do Taiwanese people thank other foreigners for liking Taiwan, that you guys should have more pride and confidence. It's called gratitude and appreciation, just like a chef getting a compliment for his dish
12:18 "I love Taiwan, it's a beautiful country". The CCP is not gonna be happy when they hear that xD
Guess Linus just banned himself from ever traveling to China with the -1000000 social credit he now has lol
You just gave me ptsd wow bro thanks
Chinese little pinks watching this video
Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Can't wait to see the reaction from the bilibili division lol😅
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It’s so much fun watching that video 😂 Especially when you scared the shit out of that kid when you said that you were giving away the mini super computer, and he was the lucky recipient.
In my experience in Taiwan, there's one caveat to the feeling of safety there: the traffic is just CRAZY. Cars passing by inches away when you're crossing on a zebra on a green light, scooters going in every direction... don't get me wrong, it feels like they still kinda know what they're doing, but if you're used to traffic that actually follows the rules, it's wild.
Cars passing by on turns has been much better recently due to new laws with hefty fines 😆
Yes, Taiwan’s traffic is bad, but believe or not it got much better in the past two years because of the new laws and related discussions. Mainly, cars and scooters have to yield to pedestrians…. For example, in the past, only 60% or less chance to almost 99% if you are on major streets in Taipei.
Still far from perfect, but you can see the changes each year.
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As a Taiwanese, I can certainly confirm that the traffic is still terrible in Taiwan although it had improved in the past few years.
Subways are great. Other than that everything is terrible.
Huge shout out to the custom pc maker, he really nailed that build
hand written invoice/recipt is quite common in taiwan, especially for smaller shops.
Should we remind him that each invoice in Taiwan is also a lottery ticket?😂
That lady ran to give back your tips is Legend
STOP! I DONT HAVE THE FUNDS TO GO TO TAIWAN! AND YOURE FORCING MY BRAIN TO WANT TO GO THERE!
Pretty cheap once you get there though.
then get a job
@@realcartoongirl The privilege is strong with this one...
@@realcartoongirl getting a job that can pay for a plane ticket and a temporary living situation in Taiwan, while paying for car payments + gas, house payments + utilities, and groceries, without counting for anything like car + house repairs, and especially not little luxuries, is near impossible without external help such as rich parents, or family friends who can give you a good enough job. Not everybody has that.
@@meerbee2910 not necessarily with help from others. With a bit of luck and hard work you might make it, but it's definitely not a given
That was one of the best videos yet 🙌
As someone that's studying compsci in Taiwan, thanks for showing our country to the world! I'm glad you found it to be friendly and safe here.
I'll be honest, I'm glad we have TSMC, but I really hope we won't be left in the dust once the facility in the US picks up steam. I hope our country can be remembered for the people we are like what you talked about in this segment of the podcast, and not just our products.
(and personally, I wish the country stopped having a crazed obsession with AI, but it doesn't seem like that's happening anytime soon)
Don't worry, the US government isn't going to let Taiwan down if China invaded you guys. Believe it or not even without TSMC, Taiwan is geographically very important to the US.
Failing that: most US citizens would be very angry at our government if they didn't protect you guys.
The American factory is a fraction of TSMC's home base capacity, they are having a hard time getting skilled workers who never take vacations or days off ever, and DEI requirements slapped on by this administration have actually caused some companies to turn away from the CHIPS act and build their factories elsewhere. Intel has just started building one in Israel.
From what I hear the Taiwan fabs are still going to be producing the high end chips, while our US fab will mainly focus on the stuff that goes in most common consumer products. At least for a few years. We may eventually scale up to the high end stuff, but it will be a generation or two behind Taiwan.
As a Taiwanese, I initially followed Linus not just for his technical information, but also because he speaks clearly and articulately. Back in 2014, this was incredibly helpful for me as I needed to practice my English.
16:30 Linus and Luke discovering good urbanism
Glad that you had a good time in Taiwan
We usual walk to 7-11 at midnight to take express box, also have night hair salon close at 2:00am , and eat hotpot till 4:00 am, it’s normally life. Hope you can stay longer next time, to visit more south and east beatiful TW❤
This is the typical experience in Taiwan, and yes, you can ALWAYS bring back something even after the warranty period, and they still will fix it for free.
It depends man if it's a chain appliance store the employees probably can't do that
Individual sellers can rip you off or block you when you have a problem too
@@simon_96 that isn’t my experience with individual sellers, the only problem is if the individual seller goes out of business or closes shop
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson I've bought a roached Xbox series and only found out after a while and the sob second hand gaming shop was very rude to me and blocked me.
My dad always buys a pc from a near by shop and one time they put a GPU different from requested and when brought back to change it out they charged for the GPU we wanted in the first place.
There are more examples involving salesperson or home renovation people or mechanics etc.
Some scummy shop still exist and if they determine the risk of getting exposed or the customer have a lot of trust in them then they might try to screw you over.
@@simon_96 just to clarify, you are talking about Taiwan, right?
@@MichaelSidneyTimpson I'm Taiwanese
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It's wild that it got 5+ million views in 10 days and still isn't in your top 100 videos by view count
I don't know if they're gonna let Linus back into China after he just said Taiwan is a super nice country. (It is!)😃
Or they will, but will they let him out - that is the question
OMG there is a link to the OG video. This never happens on LMG vids, thank you, and I hope this is a new trend!
I loved that video, you gave a pc to someone who loved you and needs it. Also loved the story you’re sharing in this video, it was funny too. ❤❤
Taiwanese service is the NUMBER 1 in the world
Taiwanese people trust each other, it's a great Country
Just so you know most people here in Taiwan build systems around 1000 bucks, with free labor. By giving a shop 5 grand to build a system, we damn sure make it as perfect as possible including after-sales service, because that is an absurd amount of money for a PC.
I LOVED the Taiwan video!
Well there goes scrapyard wars Taiwan.
17:50 yeah I'm one of those people. I dont really watch stuff fresh out of the gate, I keep them in a backburned in my mind and when something REALLY fun like that taiwan PC build showed up, I watch that one and then I binge(in this case) your stuff until i reach "oh i've seen this already" and go off somewhere else again
there's just too much stuff to check in lately, and for free.
That video made me feel like Taiwan is doing the American dream better than America
但我們的創投市場仍然沒有美國優秀，我們許多企業家也是在美國才有所成就，像是Nvidia和AMD執行長
@@Jackhjj6是的，台灣在這方面應該學習美國，才能留住好的人才
Korea, Japan, Taiwan and Singapore are one of the few south east/east asian countries that you can walk at 3am and feel completely safe.
Welcome to Taiwan anytime!
glad you have a good time here really made me proud of my community ❤️
我可以很自豪的說，大部分台灣人友善且會熱心幫助別人😂
Listening to Linus talk about things that were in the video as if they where taken out really shows how things have changed
Someone should make Song about it. "Big in Taiwan, tonight!"
18:07 Ive got the "My wifi is better than yours" a couple times in my recommended even AFTER ive watched it.
None of taiwan video(s) (idk how many there are, im gonna search for it/them in a moment) showed up in my recommended or my subscribed page(and im subscribed to main LTT channel). None! I didnt even know youve been to taiwan if not for WAN show. So no wonder those videos did poorly - no one's gonna click on a video if youtube doesnt show them.
And I'm not hitting that stupid bell(for any YT channel). I like LTT but not as much as I hate notifications.
I swear I had videos just simply not appear on the subscriptions tab before, defeats it's whole purpose imo
notifications annoy you so much? Lmao
I remember he once shot a video in my hometown Taoyuan, which is also maybe one of his employee's in a different channel years ago.
That factory tour was super
This is an old comment now, but I feel compelled to corroborate. I love the shit out of Taiwan, been here most of my adult life. Grew up and spent the bulk of my 20s in Toronto. I still have the softest spot for Toronto and the intersection of cultures, which is still unrivaled anywhere I've been. but Taiwan is something else, and you owe it to yourself to check it out.
TAIWAN NUMBAH ONE!
loved the video, remembered me the video when Luke was in the Nvidia icafe.. for me at the time was the nicest place in the world to be in
Oh no... he called Taiwan a country.... bots gonna be mad.
lmao
Insane how origin has been able to keep in business charging $2000 on an i5 and 2060 with 8gb ram and 256gb ssd.
"feels like everyone's on the same team" the china threat I think is the cause.
17:09 Hi-Life convenience store 萊爾富商店 但是我聽到OK Mart哭泣的聲音 15:11 因為某些原因 台灣是一個在地球上被隱藏的地方 但它絕對是一個最全世界最值得被造訪的地方 你們率先發現了它 但是裡面還有更多被隱藏的神祕東西等著人們去挖掘 就像從泥沙掏出黃金一樣的喜悅
For some reason? 😂
linus just got canceled in china he said "taiwan and country" in the same sentence :D
謝謝您們替台灣發聲❤❤❤👍👍👍
haha.. man, you and your team are welcome to Taiwan..
Factory tour was VERY cool!
Sad Linus didn't go to Syntrend (another market in front of GuanHua). First floor is full of weird cases (some even NSFW)
Linus did make a video about syntrend before. But it's clearly for a different purpose.
Welcome to shoot more videos in Taiwan❤
Oh, when you're big in Taiwan, tonight
Big in Taiwan, be tight
Big in Taiwan, ooh, the eastern sea's so blue
Big in Taiwan, alright
Pay then I'll sleep by your side
Things are easy when you're big in Taiwan
Oh, when you're big in Taiwan
glad I wasn't the only one who thought of it from the title
lol, first thing I thought of
same
I have only ever heard the Eiffel 65 remix.
First thing in my head when I read the title. lol
As a Taiwanese who later immigrated to the U.S., thats one thing about being born in Taiwan, you expects good honest service everywhere, and it’s just a constant disappointment in the States.
I don't know about north america, but at least in some countries in asia, it is standard practice to provide the boxes and its contents along with the PC build itself. The concept is that you are bulk ordering PC parts (box and all) from the shop at a discount and paying the shop an assembly charge to build it for you. So what that builder did was very standard and very believable. More likely he thought of Linus as a whale customer and maybe gave a premium service hoping Linus would be a return customer and give more whale referrals. The fact that he assembled the GPU cooler and put everything back nicely was a big plus. Probably part of the whale service. Again, this is very believable and very good service. And the workmanship and specs are sick. Awesome build.
Nah, unless you specifically demanded shops to throw away the boxes and spare parts, it standard practice in Taiwan to hand over everything to you after you purchased your PC.
First it has more to do with parts warranty where you have to provide the copy of the invoice and send in the complete set back if there are any problems.
Second, it makes it easier for the customer to seek help with another store for after purchase services as you have all the spare parts and the other shop owners can just configure it back to default if anything fails and you need a quick and easy fix.
@@mahoslash That's what I said. It's standard to hand over everything because it is all treated as purchasing the parts retail. Not as a PC.
the Taiwan custom PC video is the best performing LTT video of 2024 so far
What a great vid. Great build👍
I’m sorry for not taking our incognito conversation serious , love the show
Now I want to go visit. Great video.
Now that LTT is huge in Taiwan, when's the TSMC tour?? 👀👀
OH I NEED THAT
@@illuminoeye_gamingmhmm!
as a Taiwanese, i can tell you the worker in TSMC are banned to bring anything that can take a photo into company, even the smartphone.
Instead they will have a TSMC phone and that phone seems like nokia 3310 without camera
@@er-nuo6760 Come on, it's normal, I was a stage artisan, I don't get to take picture and post it online even I was part of the stage crew of some child drama for charity, not to mention a mutli-billions worth of tech
@@keiming2277it’s actually way more than that. Even the employees are not allowed to bring in smart phones and USB flash drives. If you want to use a smart phone, you would need to use a company approved one. I got a tour at TSMC in college and they collect your phones at the entrance
The PC Builder was a freaking legend!
Dude, my next door junior high school girl says she could go outside for convenience store by herself in the mid-night and her Mom and Dad would just say: ok!
Yeap that when you say you feel safe!
Guess what? I am living in Taiwan!😆
That was a fun and cool video. Thanks.
You should bring that shop guy on for an interview
15:49 "No, everyone feels like they're all on the same team..."
...so you're saying the secret is a common enemy, perhaps?
The Factory tour is one of my fave videos of all time
Taiwan doesn't really have tip culture especially for the mom and pop shops because to them they calculated their cost and profit carefully and the service they provide is the shop standard regardless of your race, dressing code etc. If you really want those small shops to survive, may be you can give the money as donation, I know some shop have a donation system. People give small donation to the shop and the shop owner may treat their "in need" customer meals.
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Thank you for loving Taiwan. Welcome back anytime!
I loved that video!
High-trust society. Literally the opposite of the mainland.