@@fightkostka Win 11 home is like 100 bucks, so the laptop has a 40 bucks premium over it (let's be real, windows S after S is deactivated is definitely not pro, lol)
I was thinking the same thing - see how far back you have to go to get a Thinkpad T-series or P-series for the same money. I think if you can get a used P50 with the discrete GPU for the same money it’ll walk all over this laptop, even with a decade old CPU.
FSR shifted even more load on to the CPU, which was already being pegged at 100% and GPU was waiting on it, since it was rendering the game at lower res than the display resolution, and that's why it ran even slower. 😂
That's not how games work, FSR or resolution do not have any impact on the CPU load (with a few exceptions that change LOD with resolution). They just alleviate the GPU load which, if your CPU is fast enough, could make your game run faster, but never slower.
This is not entirely true. The CPU is still delivering the frames as slow as before, but now you have the latency of the GPU reconstructing every frame the CPU sends. Usually you get higher FPS because the game is running at a lower resolution but since you are CPU limited, lower res or not you still have to wait for this process: Slow ass CPU makes a frame -> GPU renders frame -> GPU Upscales frame -> repeat. Without FSR it's Slow ass CPU makes a frame -> GPU renders frame -> wait for next CPU frame and repeat.
1:49 every warning has its story. Maybe someone has actually unscrewed the bottom by accident, took out the bios battery by accident and then swallowed it by accident. Highly unlikely, but someone must’ve done it…
It's like the "this is not a toy" warning on bags. When children swallow those button cells batteries they get extremely sick and can die, so possibly we'll see this warning on more things in the future if a new law got passed.... Even though it's internal and the risk to a child that would swallow it is practically 0.
@@volvo09 The most likely scenario, at least in my opinion, and I'm not even a parent, is that some numb nuts had opened that computer, possibly even removed the battery, had to go to the bathroom, stop the dog from eating poo or answer the door, while they in fact should have had the kid under supervision so it wouldn't eat the battery. Also, the biggest risk is not really that the kid will be able to swallow it, it works perfectly as a lid over the tube to the lungs. If you don't believe me, look for those round small things you can buy to see if it is dangerous for your kid.
It is scary how much is shared between that $140 Lenovo Ideapad and my $500 Lenovo Ideapad. Cheap plastic, cheap keyboard, bad hinge, I think the motherboard is even the same (or very very similar).
I have the Ideapad 1 with the 12th gen i3 and 8gb of ram and I paid 260 USD after taxes. Lenovo uses this case for multiple laptops as well as a couple of Chromebooks.
I'm actualy shocked it has expendable storage and RAM, i expected it to be a tiny board with everything soldered down attached to a souped up phone battery.
Hey Dawid, running any type of upscaling technology (like fidelityFX) will actually shift more load onto the CPU to help reduce the burden on struggling GPUs, so in the case of this already being pinned at 100% CPU usage with no headroom, thats why you got the worse performance :)
Must be something similar to the "this bag is not a toy, keep away from children" warning. I noticed new button cells in the store say they have a bitterant on them to keep children from investing them, so maybe we'll be seeing more of these warning stickers about button cells.
Honestly, for the price it seems pretty good. The S mode may limit usability when it comes to gaming, but this laptop was never intended for it in the first place. S mode does, however, work just fine for office tasks, as most of them can be done via web-apps anyway. And when you need a native office work related app, it's very likely available in the Microsoft store.
This is a manufactured ewaste. Even for that price, that is abysmal compared to some cheap refurbished laptop from eBay. This would maybe perform better with Linux but that's the only thing This laptop has going for it.
Contrary to popular believe, a plastic laptop NEEDS to pass the one handed test. When the hinge is too tight on a plastic lid, more often than not, the hinge is putting a ton of pressure on small screws set into metal grommets surrounded by, guess what? Plastic. Those hinges fail spectacularly and I’ve repaired hundreds of them over the last few years, despite them only being a few years old. This heavily used 2012 MacBook Air on the other hand, still one hand open, still smooth as butter. The hazards of plastic.
I'm wondering if FidelityFX made things worse because the limiting factor was the CPU, not the GPU, so decreasing the render resolution didn't do anything because it wasn't what was limiting performance, and the extra processing for fidelityFX was actually putting *more* work on an already swamped CPU. Either that or the CPU and iGPU were just busy fighting each other for access to the tiny amount of (presumably) very slow memory
Whaaaa - an actual upgradeable notebook... And it only cost $140??? Whoa!!! I don't care how well or not it games, it's a big hats off to Lenovo for thinking long term with this notebook!
If you just need a laptop for work typing, or school note taking then it's a great price.... But that CPU is extremely underpowered. It's going to bog down and run like poo on the web, especially without an ad blocker to stop scripts and crap. The screen resolution is also very low, so windows elements take up more screen space and it would suck to work on spreadsheets with that display.
12:27 of course fidelity fx make it worse, the CPU bottlenecks the GPU 10 times over, adding fidelity fx makes the cpu having to work more on those 5 frames, making it even worse lol
As a person who at some point used an HP elitepad 900 (intel atom z2760, 2gb of lpddr2💀) and a Toshiba nb510 (intel atom n2600) as primary gaming devices, I can certainly say that this thing is built for gaming.
The one hand open test is also a test of the weight of the laptop. Some laptops have solid hinges but fail this test because the main body of the computer is so light that the hinge just takes the whole thing with. This is most common with cheaper laptops. Personally, so long as it stays in place I'm fine with the hinge.
What I can't stand are cheap laptops that have a heavier display than base, so when it's on a lap it always wants to tip over without you holding it down 😡 Tablets with portable keyboards are the worst at that.
@@volvo09 Definitely. LCD panels have gotten pretty lightweight these days. It can't be that hard to make the system more balanced. Even just adding some metal weights would help. It's a terrible practice to pass a cheap product off as premium, but a decent way to make an affordable product more stable.
I spent 50$ on a chromebook out of a pawn shop, turned out to be a really nice laptop. Acer with a 11th gen i3, 8gb of RAM, 64gb eMMC storage tho. SOF audio so windows is tricky, but works great under linux. It's got a strange resolution at 1366x912 (683:456) but it's actually pretty nice. Runs some games pretty nice too. Wish it was a lot easier to re-purpose rotated out chromebooks. Some you can't even get past the locked down boot process, I got lucky with a model I could install coreboot on. Bunch of decent e-waste sitting there locked to chromeos.
Man I'm really digging that case on its side, hopefully heavy GPUs will drive us back to horizontal towers. $210 seems about right considering what's included and bequiet's quality
I miss the opening theme. :( edit: I wonder how much dropping in 16 GB of decent RAM and an NVME (assuming things can be fiddled in the BIOS to turn that into the boot drive) would help? :)
There is a similarly looking lenovo laptop, that i got from best buy, with an i3-1215u, 8gb ddr4, 256gb ssd. I would be happy if Dawid reviews that too.
you need to install the nvme ssd and boot windows from there to see some last upgrade. you can plug pcie adapter for vga riser into the mini pcie that has wifi card in it, and then add external gpu thats enough to not bottleneck the cute cpu
install some linux(nobara probably would work ootb) on that, will make it significantly better to use, and with the correct kernel(custom compiled tkg kernel with intel optimization patches would be preferred, but that shit takes over 10 hours to compile on that cpu, talking from experience) you will also be able to at least play *some games at at least 20 fps
I got a no-brand Alibaba laptop for travelling. €300, 1tb SSD, N5095 celeron, 32gb RAM. I play modded New Vegas and Oblivion at 60fps, and with the discounted Ge Force Now, raytraced Cyberpunk. Basically its the best travel tool i could gave gotten. My poor 6900xt at home will be crying tears of dust
Gotta say, I prefer my 2012 Macbook Pro 😛 "Hopefully that's the number that stops the shower crying", and that kind of content is what we come here for
At this point I'm subscribed just to hear what increasing ridiculous metaphor and/or simile Dawid will craft to describe the experience of shopping for computer stuff on the internet.
My girlfriend bought the 4-year-ago version of this Lenovo laptop (Ideapad 330) since it was under $200 back then. It was hard-drive based and painfully slow with Windows 10 so she abandoned it and I bought her a decent Dell to replace it. But now I had a horrible laptop that I figured I'd see what it took to make it usable...and after an SSD swap, maxing the memory and installing Fedora Linux, it is now a fine email and RUclips laptop that I use every day. The 330 has the 10-key and a much wider screen which, while not particularly fantastic, I love the extra real estate and muted colors. The keyboard has begun to fail, though (press a key and nothing happens without banging on it)...so I would definitely steer people clear from this low-dollar laptop as it takes lots of effort and sacrifices in usability to make it at all functional.
Okay Dawid, now you have to upgrade that laptop spec to the absolute insane max. It's got upgradable storage, ram and you can thermal paste the other die on it. Then get really stupid and water cool it and if possible jimmy rig a GPU to connect to it. See how absolutely insane you can get it!
You should do more testing with Linux. I dug out my trash bin SP7 16GB i7 because it was dead on Win 11 100% cpu usage on the desktop non stop. I did a thermal paste change, put a new battery and nothing changed. I installed Ubuntu and I can use it for development work Next, FastApI, a few Docker containers and 2 IntelliJ. I think this little guy will fair a lot better on Linux
Funny enough, if you put 2TB or maybe 4TB ssd in it, the laptop would make a great Jellyfin server because of the hardware transcoding and miniscule power consumption.
With such devices it would be interesting to see whether old but good games would run. Specific example: The first part of Stalker. On my current system it runs at an average of 400 fps. Sometimes it goes up to 1800 fps. No joke, it would be interesting to know whether the old classics would actually run on it.
I have a crazy idea what maybe fits what you are normally doing. I mean crazy things. What if you don't have cooling paste for your CPU what household food will be the best replacement. Like peanut butter, jam, cheese or something else what has a decent substance.
The reason for less performance with fsr was the resolution was lowered and upscaled which lowers the gpu utilization and increases cpu utilization which was already bottlenecking so it got worse
It looks like it uses thermal throttling to keep the processor about 60-65c so you have to keep it cooler than that to get any more out of it. You should try mounting an a.i.o. To it.
In CPU limited Scenarios FSR or DLSS will make a game run worse. You are essentially introducing overhead by having the GPU reconstruct the image but you are still waiting for each frame from the CPU which means do not get the benefit of the lower resolution performance boost (Lower resolution or not the GPU is waiting for the CPU either way). So yeah not only do you not get any benefit from FSR or DLSS you now have to wait for the reconstruction of each frame the slow CPU is sending to the GPU which makes it even slower
Well, a Pentium 2 on Windows 98 SE can provide a better gaming experience with titles circa 1999. Maybe the little laptop should have tried something easier to run? Drop a couple of Quake 1 and 2 runs, maybe a Half Life 1 and Unreal. And perhaps finish it off with mid 2000's games such as Bioshock or Fallout New Vegas?
My father has had the same HP two in one for like four years. Recently he broke the chassis/hinge on a flight. Wanted to use this as an excuse to buy him a better one. He’s in his 70’s and it’s a email machine basically. I couldn’t find one that was better. He just needs so little and there haven’t been any new must have features that it was literally down to, buy him the same laptop again, or have his fixed for nearly $200. I don’t have a point, just wish laptops weren’t so boring trash.
That is probably close to my laptop. a baytrail dual core celeron. it was originally given to me with 2 gigs of ram and a sizable 1tb HDD, only it had windows 10 on it and it took 10-15 minutes just to get a usable desktop. Since I had no other laptop, I ordered a cheap 4Gb ram stick and a 250gb SSD, and it is at least usable now. why they release these things in that kind of condition just confuses me. Would love to get my hands on one of those gpd mini laptops. I do love these vids though, highly entertaining Dawid :)
you should have tried adding two sticks of the same size and same latency rating.... OEM ram sticks are quite shit.... Also upgrading the storage and the cooling would have definitely helped.....
That thing reminds me of a crappy HP laptop I had years ago with an AMD A9 2-core in it. Absolutely garbage and bogged down with even simple Windows tasks. When I replaced it a few years ago with an AMD Ryzen 5500U laptop, it was amazing to see what a basic 6 core CPU could do over that crappy 2-core A9.
Intel specification doesn't require from them to use any thermal paste on PCH. For some reason (I really wonder why) shorted PCH is most common issue with these cheap laptops.
The most useful thing about it is that it has a windows license
basically buying windows at discount with free laptop
@@fightkostka Win 11 home is like 100 bucks, so the laptop has a 40 bucks premium over it (let's be real, windows S after S is deactivated is definitely not pro, lol)
windows is literally free nowadays
The license is embedded into the mobo
@ you can read it out and use it on other devices
I'd love if you could buy a $140 laptop on the used market and see how it stacks up against this.
$40 laptop would probably beat it lol
I was thinking the same thing - see how far back you have to go to get a Thinkpad T-series or P-series for the same money. I think if you can get a used P50 with the discrete GPU for the same money it’ll walk all over this laptop, even with a decade old CPU.
FSR shifted even more load on to the CPU, which was already being pegged at 100% and GPU was waiting on it, since it was rendering the game at lower res than the display resolution, and that's why it ran even slower. 😂
That's not how games work, FSR or resolution do not have any impact on the CPU load (with a few exceptions that change LOD with resolution). They just alleviate the GPU load which, if your CPU is fast enough, could make your game run faster, but never slower.
This is not entirely true. The CPU is still delivering the frames as slow as before, but now you have the latency of the GPU reconstructing every frame the CPU sends. Usually you get higher FPS because the game is running at a lower resolution but since you are CPU limited, lower res or not you still have to wait for this process: Slow ass CPU makes a frame -> GPU renders frame -> GPU Upscales frame -> repeat. Without FSR it's Slow ass CPU makes a frame -> GPU renders frame -> wait for next CPU frame and repeat.
1:49 every warning has its story. Maybe someone has actually unscrewed the bottom by accident, took out the bios battery by accident and then swallowed it by accident. Highly unlikely, but someone must’ve done it…
It's like the "this is not a toy" warning on bags.
When children swallow those button cells batteries they get extremely sick and can die, so possibly we'll see this warning on more things in the future if a new law got passed.... Even though it's internal and the risk to a child that would swallow it is practically 0.
@@volvo09 The most likely scenario, at least in my opinion, and I'm not even a parent, is that some numb nuts had opened that computer, possibly even removed the battery, had to go to the bathroom, stop the dog from eating poo or answer the door, while they in fact should have had the kid under supervision so it wouldn't eat the battery.
Also, the biggest risk is not really that the kid will be able to swallow it, it works perfectly as a lid over the tube to the lungs. If you don't believe me, look for those round small things you can buy to see if it is dangerous for your kid.
It is scary how much is shared between that $140 Lenovo Ideapad and my $500 Lenovo Ideapad. Cheap plastic, cheap keyboard, bad hinge, I think the motherboard is even the same (or very very similar).
Don't forget the terrible screen!
I have the Ideapad 1 with the 12th gen i3 and 8gb of ram and I paid 260 USD after taxes. Lenovo uses this case for multiple laptops as well as a couple of Chromebooks.
At least when you go to 700€ Yoga it feels like it could be metal. That is surprisingly nice. Not that it can game either.
@@bena2.014 I hate 1366x768 screens, especially with terrible color quality. They should have disappeared 10 years ago but are still hanging around
The laptop i have is also veryyy similar but it is metal and is an oled screen with r7 7530u is 700$
Brilliant. This laptop changes CS2 into turn based strategy game.
having seen too many cheap 4GB laptops, upgradable RAM is unexpected
I'm actualy shocked it has expendable storage and RAM, i expected it to be a tiny board with everything soldered down attached to a souped up phone battery.
"Mum I want a laptop for Christmas". You know there's going to be a kid that wakes up with this on Christmas morning and tries to game. 😂😂😂
Hey Dawid, running any type of upscaling technology (like fidelityFX) will actually shift more load onto the CPU to help reduce the burden on struggling GPUs, so in the case of this already being pinned at 100% CPU usage with no headroom, thats why you got the worse performance :)
Now try a $140 used laptop and compare them. I’ve seen Thinkpads with Ryzen 5 4650Us in them for around the same price
still better than my laptop
yeah the igpu is so much better than mine
dude ?
What is ur laptop?
Try linux :)
Then buy it idk
Even my cell phone has more Spec than this laptop, Dark times for people who have this.
that McAfee ad after switching out of s mode was hilarious lol
for that warning to be that size, there must been something behind
Must be something similar to the "this bag is not a toy, keep away from children" warning.
I noticed new button cells in the store say they have a bitterant on them to keep children from investing them, so maybe we'll be seeing more of these warning stickers about button cells.
Honestly, for the price it seems pretty good. The S mode may limit usability when it comes to gaming, but this laptop was never intended for it in the first place. S mode does, however, work just fine for office tasks, as most of them can be done via web-apps anyway. And when you need a native office work related app, it's very likely available in the Microsoft store.
You can turn S mode off. I had the same problem with my ideapad 1. Once I shut it off the problem was fixed.
Web apps 🤮
This is a manufactured ewaste. Even for that price, that is abysmal compared to some cheap refurbished laptop from eBay. This would maybe perform better with Linux but that's the only thing This laptop has going for it.
Contrary to popular believe, a plastic laptop NEEDS to pass the one handed test. When the hinge is too tight on a plastic lid, more often than not, the hinge is putting a ton of pressure on small screws set into metal grommets surrounded by, guess what? Plastic. Those hinges fail spectacularly and I’ve repaired hundreds of them over the last few years, despite them only being a few years old. This heavily used 2012 MacBook Air on the other hand, still one hand open, still smooth as butter. The hazards of plastic.
I think you missed the most important benchmark for this machine: Facebook.
I'm wondering if FidelityFX made things worse because the limiting factor was the CPU, not the GPU, so decreasing the render resolution didn't do anything because it wasn't what was limiting performance, and the extra processing for fidelityFX was actually putting *more* work on an already swamped CPU. Either that or the CPU and iGPU were just busy fighting each other for access to the tiny amount of (presumably) very slow memory
That's exactly that
Fidelity FX relieves the GPU at cost of CPU, so it's ideal to solve a GPU bottleneck, it only makes a CPU bottleneck worse lol
Whaaaa - an actual upgradeable notebook... And it only cost $140??? Whoa!!! I don't care how well or not it games, it's a big hats off to Lenovo for thinking long term with this notebook!
Fun fact, this Laptop is 320 USD in Germany…
Yikes. I paid 260 USD after tax for my ideapad 1 with the 12th gen i3 and 8 gigs of ram and a 256gb Nvme.
Probably just put at for a few weeks 320 so it can legally be called being put on sale at 240 with "lowest price in the past 30 days 320" tbf.
This is actually an amazing laptop for the price. Having anything upgradeable on a laptop at this price point is so good.
If you just need a laptop for work typing, or school note taking then it's a great price....
But that CPU is extremely underpowered. It's going to bog down and run like poo on the web, especially without an ad blocker to stop scripts and crap.
The screen resolution is also very low, so windows elements take up more screen space and it would suck to work on spreadsheets with that display.
I am pretty sure it is not sold as a game laptop, at least not by Lenovo. But the store itself might, at least if it's Amazon lol.
We should get an older high end laptop vs this one and see what’s better
12:27 of course fidelity fx make it worse, the CPU bottlenecks the GPU 10 times over, adding fidelity fx makes the cpu having to work more on those 5 frames, making it even worse lol
No intro in this one, kinda missed the muzak and the CPU fingering. 🤣
My thinkpad T500 could run circles around that celeron, and it's a core 2 duo from the vista days lol
That says more about these cheap Celerons then it does about a core 2 duo. T series laptops are still solid work horse machines in my book. 👍
As a person who at some point used an HP elitepad 900 (intel atom z2760, 2gb of lpddr2💀) and a Toshiba nb510 (intel atom n2600) as primary gaming devices, I can certainly say that this thing is built for gaming.
The one hand open test is also a test of the weight of the laptop. Some laptops have solid hinges but fail this test because the main body of the computer is so light that the hinge just takes the whole thing with. This is most common with cheaper laptops. Personally, so long as it stays in place I'm fine with the hinge.
What I can't stand are cheap laptops that have a heavier display than base, so when it's on a lap it always wants to tip over without you holding it down 😡
Tablets with portable keyboards are the worst at that.
@@volvo09 Definitely. LCD panels have gotten pretty lightweight these days. It can't be that hard to make the system more balanced. Even just adding some metal weights would help. It's a terrible practice to pass a cheap product off as premium, but a decent way to make an affordable product more stable.
Man I love these type of videos
In the next episode, Dawid is going to try to game on a 5$ USB-cable (Type-A).
I spent 50$ on a chromebook out of a pawn shop, turned out to be a really nice laptop. Acer with a 11th gen i3, 8gb of RAM, 64gb eMMC storage tho. SOF audio so windows is tricky, but works great under linux. It's got a strange resolution at 1366x912 (683:456) but it's actually pretty nice. Runs some games pretty nice too.
Wish it was a lot easier to re-purpose rotated out chromebooks. Some you can't even get past the locked down boot process, I got lucky with a model I could install coreboot on. Bunch of decent e-waste sitting there locked to chromeos.
"Am I also dead? We're going to have to wait a moment to see" - hilarious 🤣
it's always a good day when dawid uploads
Man I'm really digging that case on its side, hopefully heavy GPUs will drive us back to horizontal towers.
$210 seems about right considering what's included and bequiet's quality
It’s a beauty
this channel never gets old
somehow pls wire a videocard to that dumpster, nice video
I can tell dawid will put definitely gpu on that
Because of that free m.2 port
Put an SSD in it
Yeah, and install windows in there, with some swapsies file I can see the CPU bottleneck becoming way less of a problem lol
And another stick of RAM would get it from wheelchair to crutches.
@@janezverbic2093 there is probably only one ram slot
@@potatoes5829 He said you can drop in an additional stick of RAM. If you cant its on him.:)
I miss the opening theme. :(
edit: I wonder how much dropping in 16 GB of decent RAM and an NVME (assuming things can be fiddled in the BIOS to turn that into the boot drive) would help? :)
10:09 0% gpu usage 😂
There is a similarly looking lenovo laptop, that i got from best buy, with an i3-1215u, 8gb ddr4, 256gb ssd. I would be happy if Dawid reviews that too.
I think I have the same machine. The Ideapad 1 has been a solid machine after retiring my daily driver Lenovo n585 dual core laptop of 12 years 😂
@@rmcdudmk212 1215u and alder lake was such a jump it goes on par with the 1185g7. I have both and its pretty amazing how good that I3 is.
Nobody : i will buy this 140 dollar laptop cause i need laptop
David : 140 dollar laptop , gaaaaaaaming
That went well!! LOL! 5 fps in csgo is BAD.
At 5 fps your basically watching a low res gif of the game you just tried to play 😂
At least there's 1 game it can 60 fps Stardew Valley
The human eye can't see past 1fps so you're good
Wonder how long it would take to get a kill in a game, haha
you need to install the nvme ssd and boot windows from there to see some last upgrade. you can plug pcie adapter for vga riser into the mini pcie that has wifi card in it, and then add external gpu thats enough to not bottleneck the cute cpu
I used to game on an i3 4030u Dell laptop. It was crazy being able to bring a computer to it's knees with runescape
install some linux(nobara probably would work ootb) on that, will make it significantly better to use, and with the correct kernel(custom compiled tkg kernel with intel optimization patches would be preferred, but that shit takes over 10 hours to compile on that cpu, talking from experience) you will also be able to at least play *some games at at least 20 fps
Dawid you're a legend
6:40 As per usual with most modern laptops, the chip that doesn't have thermal paste on it is the Chipset
I got a no-brand Alibaba laptop for travelling. €300, 1tb SSD, N5095 celeron, 32gb RAM.
I play modded New Vegas and Oblivion at 60fps, and with the discounted Ge Force Now, raytraced Cyberpunk.
Basically its the best travel tool i could gave gotten.
My poor 6900xt at home will be crying tears of dust
I would have liked to see an M.2 drive slapped in it.
Gotta say, I prefer my 2012 Macbook Pro 😛
"Hopefully that's the number that stops the shower crying", and that kind of content is what we come here for
At this point I'm subscribed just to hear what increasing ridiculous metaphor and/or simile Dawid will craft to describe the experience of shopping for computer stuff on the internet.
I spent a little bit more and got an ideapad 1 with an i3, nvme drive, and 8 gigs of ddr5
I see Dawid, i click, me happy, I like
They never put those warnings there unless someone already did what they're warning against. Someone opened up their laptop and ate the battery.
My girlfriend bought the 4-year-ago version of this Lenovo laptop (Ideapad 330) since it was under $200 back then. It was hard-drive based and painfully slow with Windows 10 so she abandoned it and I bought her a decent Dell to replace it. But now I had a horrible laptop that I figured I'd see what it took to make it usable...and after an SSD swap, maxing the memory and installing Fedora Linux, it is now a fine email and RUclips laptop that I use every day. The 330 has the 10-key and a much wider screen which, while not particularly fantastic, I love the extra real estate and muted colors. The keyboard has begun to fail, though (press a key and nothing happens without banging on it)...so I would definitely steer people clear from this low-dollar laptop as it takes lots of effort and sacrifices in usability to make it at all functional.
Okay Dawid, now you have to upgrade that laptop spec to the absolute insane max. It's got upgradable storage, ram and you can thermal paste the other die on it.
Then get really stupid and water cool it and if possible jimmy rig a GPU to connect to it. See how absolutely insane you can get it!
You should do more testing with Linux. I dug out my trash bin SP7 16GB i7 because it was dead on Win 11 100% cpu usage on the desktop non stop. I did a thermal paste change, put a new battery and nothing changed. I installed Ubuntu and I can use it for development work Next, FastApI, a few Docker containers and 2 IntelliJ. I think this little guy will fair a lot better on Linux
Always nice to have an extra server made to be energy efficient for a few extra home or networking services!
Funny enough, if you put 2TB or maybe 4TB ssd in it, the laptop would make a great Jellyfin server because of the hardware transcoding and miniscule power consumption.
With such devices it would be interesting to see whether old but good games would run.
Specific example: The first part of Stalker.
On my current system it runs at an average of 400 fps. Sometimes it goes up to 1800 fps.
No joke, it would be interesting to know whether the old classics would actually run on it.
This Laptop looks inside like one of those fake 50tb harddrives.
A lot of empty space
I have a crazy idea what maybe fits what you are normally doing. I mean crazy things. What if you don't have cooling paste for your CPU what household food will be the best replacement. Like peanut butter, jam, cheese or something else what has a decent substance.
the bquiet case from the add is really really cool
7:32 ah I see, a fellow No Man's Sky enjoyer
The reason for less performance with fsr was the resolution was lowered and upscaled which lowers the gpu utilization and increases cpu utilization which was already bottlenecking so it got worse
TBH, torx screws are just so much better than phillips head. I want torx in every PC Case
FidelityFX uses the CPU to do the AI upscaling stuff. If you have a CPU that is pinned at 100% usage, FidelityFX will just put MORE demand on the CPU.
upgradable ram and storage ist actually pretty crazy
It looks like it uses thermal throttling to keep the processor about 60-65c so you have to keep it cooler than that to get any more out of it. You should try mounting an a.i.o. To it.
In CPU limited Scenarios FSR or DLSS will make a game run worse.
You are essentially introducing overhead by having the GPU reconstruct the image but you are still waiting for each frame from the CPU which means do not get the benefit of the lower resolution performance boost (Lower resolution or not the GPU is waiting for the CPU either way).
So yeah not only do you not get any benefit from FSR or DLSS you now have to wait for the reconstruction of each frame the slow CPU is sending to the GPU which makes it even slower
Well, a Pentium 2 on Windows 98 SE can provide a better gaming experience with titles circa 1999. Maybe the little laptop should have tried something easier to run? Drop a couple of Quake 1 and 2 runs, maybe a Half Life 1 and Unreal. And perhaps finish it off with mid 2000's games such as Bioshock or Fallout New Vegas?
audio lag is probably because even the cam pegs that little celeron to 100% on its own lol. Wonder how much better something like Tiny11 would run?
There are a whole bunch of places near me selling 40$ Chromebooks that I think would be funny to game on
truly one of the laptops from a certain point in time
Upgradeable ram and storage in a cheap laptop is just amazing. I would have loved it if it had n100 or celeron n5000+ cpu
I honestly don't think a laptop like this that can't even smoothly perform basic Windows actions should be sold.
would be cool to see how a lightweight linux distro compares to the win11 installation on this hardware
It will probably even succeed in running Cyberpunk =)
There's a 10.8" dell tablet with a hinged detachable keyboard (with a 2nd battery) going for around $120 on ebay that destroys this thing . . .
14:53 😂 “I think we’re supposed to be in a house here”
Try booting on an SSD. On such low specs, it might even show some improvements while gaming.
My father has had the same HP two in one for like four years. Recently he broke the chassis/hinge on a flight. Wanted to use this as an excuse to buy him a better one. He’s in his 70’s and it’s a email machine basically. I couldn’t find one that was better. He just needs so little and there haven’t been any new must have features that it was literally down to, buy him the same laptop again, or have his fixed for nearly $200.
I don’t have a point, just wish laptops weren’t so boring trash.
That is probably close to my laptop. a baytrail dual core celeron. it was originally given to me with 2 gigs of ram and a sizable 1tb HDD, only it had windows 10 on it and it took 10-15 minutes just to get a usable desktop. Since I had no other laptop, I ordered a cheap 4Gb ram stick and a 250gb SSD, and it is at least usable now. why they release these things in that kind of condition just confuses me. Would love to get my hands on one of those gpd mini laptops. I do love these vids though, highly entertaining Dawid :)
you should have tried adding two sticks of the same size and same latency rating.... OEM ram sticks are quite shit.... Also upgrading the storage and the cooling would have definitely helped.....
Put a gpu in it
If there's a laptop that comes with a SSD Glory hole, no matter how garbage it is, Dawid would praise it as the best laptop of 2024.
Those Intel N processors are, in the words of a famous tech person, *a waste of sand.*
That moment when Dawid takes the mickey out of your laptop...
11:38 ... but bigger number means bigger better!
Move those epic 150ms frame times at 720p! I'm pretty sure that a Raspberry Pi could outgame this thing.
This laptop makes Idiot Shinji look like the world's most powerful mind.
I believe FSR needs a bit of CPU processing power, which would explain why CS2 runs worse with it on.
They can ship DOS laptops with drivers for Ubuntu & Fedora
Excellent videos
That thing reminds me of a crappy HP laptop I had years ago with an AMD A9 2-core in it. Absolutely garbage and bogged down with even simple Windows tasks. When I replaced it a few years ago with an AMD Ryzen 5500U laptop, it was amazing to see what a basic 6 core CPU could do over that crappy 2-core A9.
McAfee at 8:47 is WILD they know you hate them
TBH, it's kinda hard to not hate McAfee...... lol.
Because it's fanless, this thing might make sense as a thin client.
The gameplay is actually better than it would be on those gaming pc's you can buy for £279 on Ebay and Amazon....
didnt claim the kilowatt case what the hell
These videos need to use the sweet spot settings of 1440p and 60 fps.
Also, does it run San Andreas?
Intel specification doesn't require from them to use any thermal paste on PCH. For some reason (I really wonder why) shorted PCH is most common issue with these cheap laptops.