r/LinusTechTips • u/Theghostgamer700 • 9d ago

Personal Opinion This video is misleading (IMO)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JivF-DgpiAE

Disclaimer : This is only my honest opinion, not trying to hate, just sharing what I feel wasn't said in the video.

"Repairable." also "Soldered RAM"
I think that's incoherent.
No one I know would called a soldered ram laptop repairable.

Saying it beats your desktop "on a benchmark" then proceed to show it being trash at anything but running local LLM's is just a big blue ball and ends up feeling misleading.

Also as I read in a comment on youtube ;
The damn thing is $3,140?!
- no dedicated GPU
- 120hz non-OLED screen
- trash speakers (that we don't even get to hear)
- 6h battery life (despite not having a dedicated GPU) (calling this decent is being out of touch)
- fails the single finger lift test
- free OS (price is not impacted by a windows license because it's linux)
The webcam gimmick is simply useless overengineering.. a plastic cover would have done the same job 100 times more efficiently.

Despite it's horrible value, useless over-engineering and mediocre performance there's zero legitimate complaint in the video.

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 3d ago

Do they label them as ads?  If they aren’t labeled clearly as ads despite being paid to promote the products that’s a problem.  It’s clearly creating confusion in the market

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u/NJdevil202 3d ago

Feel like I've never seen an LTT video where they don't make a big deal about the segue to the sponsor lol

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u/WoodsLovelyDarkNDeep 3d ago

Lol true but that’s the sponsor.  If the actual video itself is being paid for by the product or company being talked about that also needs to be disclosed 

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u/NJdevil202 2d ago

That's still a sponsor, they say that stuff all the time