1 00:00:00,160 --> 00:00:07,440 I sent $385 2 00:00:03,679 --> 00:00:10,719 to the NWNLAP Factoe outlet on 3 00:00:07,440 --> 00:00:15,120 AliExpress and in return I received 4 00:00:10,719 --> 00:00:18,080 this. It's got a 16in 2560x600 5 00:00:15,120 --> 00:00:24,800 type screen, a fully mechanical keyboard, 16 gigs of RAM, five free 6 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:30,400 included accessories, including this sleeve, and an aluminum shell. This 7 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:35,920 might be the best value gaming laptop that I have ever seen. Unless they 8 00:00:32,559 --> 00:00:39,200 skimped out on this. That is so cool. 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:42,480 And on this. Oh no. 10 00:00:39,200 --> 00:00:44,239 And if they screwed this up. 11 00:00:42,480 --> 00:00:49,600 The closer we look at this thing, the more questions we have. But spoiler 12 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:51,280 alert, I can't even begin to guess what 13 00:00:49,600 --> 00:00:56,960 the designers were thinking when they built the NWNLAP H16. Right out of the 14 00:00:54,480 --> 00:01:03,520 gate, the product page for the NWNLAP notebook 16.0 in is about 4 miles of 15 00:01:01,039 --> 00:01:09,360 laughably inaccurate information. Starting with the price, we paid $385 16 00:01:06,720 --> 00:01:13,119 for this thing. But we have no idea what the real price is. Somewhere in the week 17 00:01:11,119 --> 00:01:18,960 between it arriving in our office and us writing this script, the price almost 18 00:01:15,439 --> 00:01:21,680 doubled to $660. Then a day later, it 19 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:26,720 dropped below what we paid to $375. Then there's the fact that I have never heard 20 00:01:23,759 --> 00:01:32,799 of NWNLAP. It seems like what they've done is put their sticker on the bottom 21 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:36,000 of a machine that is actually from Dee, 22 00:01:32,799 --> 00:01:38,159 which explains everything. No, actually 23 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:42,159 that explains nothing. Who the heck is Dee? I've never heard of them either. 24 00:01:39,920 --> 00:01:50,640 The only information I could find on Google is this company profile on EC21 25 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:53,840 that introduces Deak as a laptop OEM/ODM 26 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,280 with the most excellent circuit design. 27 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:58,719 According to this page, they have between 50 and 100 employees in 28 00:01:57,280 --> 00:02:03,200 Shenzhen, China, and they were established in 2011. But then, according 29 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:07,920 to this same page, the last time they logged in was 10 years ago. So, this 30 00:02:06,240 --> 00:02:14,640 information could be out of date. No worries. I'll just click through to their website and oh, let's take a 31 00:02:12,239 --> 00:02:19,440 closer look at the included sleeve and the other free gifts. That's pretty 32 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:23,760 sleevey. Oh, you know what's funny? It's mouse pad material. It's just sewn 33 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,680 together. I have to know now, though. Is there like a rubberized backing on the 34 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:31,120 inside of this? Oh, you know what? No, I don't need to bring out my keys because 35 00:02:29,200 --> 00:02:34,520 I have my Jerryrigg everything knife available at ltstore.com. 36 00:02:34,720 --> 00:02:39,760 I think it is. No, no. The sleeve is a 37 00:02:37,840 --> 00:02:47,280 denser foam and it has a different backing on it. Oo, 38 00:02:43,200 --> 00:02:49,760 it includes a gaming mouse, 3D gaming 39 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:54,319 mouse. This is no two-dimensional mouse. We also get a USB to Ethernet adapter, 40 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:59,200 but don't expect it to be a very impressive one. This is Wait, what does 41 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:05,760 this thing work? Really? We found drivers and tested it. Half of 42 00:03:02,720 --> 00:03:08,720 the contacts in the RJ45 port are 43 00:03:05,760 --> 00:03:14,959 missing. It's only fast Ethernet, which by today's standards is not fast. 44 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:19,040 Megabytes per second is what you're going to get from one of these. And then 45 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:24,159 your final free gift is some orange key caps for your gaming keys. On the left, 46 00:03:21,519 --> 00:03:31,440 we've got a whole lot of nothing. On the rear, we've got USBC, mini HDMI, an AC 47 00:03:28,400 --> 00:03:33,840 and barrel jack, and a USBA. There's 48 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:39,440 another USBA over on the right along with a micro SD slot. It's nice. I like 49 00:03:36,640 --> 00:03:47,200 to see that. A headphone jack and a webcam storage slot. Now, hold on a 50 00:03:43,599 --> 00:03:50,080 minute. That's right. This is an idea 51 00:03:47,200 --> 00:03:55,120 that I actually pitched ages ago back when ASUS was dumping webcams from all 52 00:03:52,640 --> 00:04:02,000 their gaming laptops. It's a magnetic webcam and it actually uses magnets and 53 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:07,760 these pogo pins to attach to the top of the display. No need for a notch, no 54 00:04:04,879 --> 00:04:12,239 need for a cutout or a big tall upper bezel. 55 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:17,040 These guys must watch LT. And what's really cool is if you weren't NWNLAP and 56 00:04:15,360 --> 00:04:22,000 you were able to build out an ecosystem of accessories here, you could put other 57 00:04:19,199 --> 00:04:28,240 stuff there, like a better microphone or uh um okay, I don't have too many ideas, 58 00:04:25,840 --> 00:04:31,919 but definitely a webcam. You got to give them credit. The aesthetics aren't 59 00:04:29,680 --> 00:04:36,000 really any worse than any other gaming laptop these days. I've seen laptops 60 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:40,160 that cost twice this much with more chassis flex than this has. It's pretty 61 00:04:37,919 --> 00:04:45,199 rigid. Uh, let's go ahead and turn the I really hope this display gets a little 62 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:47,440 bright. Hey. Yeah, not bad. And the 63 00:04:45,199 --> 00:04:52,479 display is one of the highlight features of this machine. It's advertised as a 64 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:57,280 golden ratio display. And what that means is that it uses a 16x10 aspect 65 00:04:55,440 --> 00:05:01,840 ratio. And you know what? This is one of the things that I feel is absolutely a 66 00:04:59,600 --> 00:05:06,400 fair marketing point for this product. 16x10 is so much better for anyone who 67 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:11,360 can make use of a little bit of extra vertical space. uh be you a writer, an 68 00:05:08,960 --> 00:05:14,639 avid reader, uh a video editor. It's like that many more tracks, that many 69 00:05:13,039 --> 00:05:20,479 more lines of text. It's freaking awesome. It's also an IPS type matte 70 00:05:17,600 --> 00:05:26,400 panel with good, if decidedly last gen viewing 71 00:05:23,840 --> 00:05:32,560 angles and brightness. Like, man, if all I wanted was a big fat 16x10, I mean, 72 00:05:29,919 --> 00:05:35,280 it's 60 Hz, but like for for under 400 bucks for the whole machine. Wait, what 73 00:05:34,080 --> 00:05:41,280 do you mean you can't find my camera? Come on. Oh my god, this mouse is Can 74 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:43,039 you hear the sound it makes? 75 00:05:43,039 --> 00:05:48,000 Best advice I have. Off, on, off, on as many times as it takes to get it to 76 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:53,039 Oh, just do it a bunch of times. Well, that's unfortunate. I guess my idea is not as good as I thought. Uh, 77 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:56,320 one idea we have is to try to pull out the pins a bit. 78 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:00,400 Yes. See any flaw with this? 79 00:05:58,160 --> 00:06:05,680 No, this seems pretty good to me, too. Hi. Just uh checking out the Oh crap. 80 00:06:03,039 --> 00:06:12,479 Well, not every one of my ideas is good in practice. That's as staying in there 81 00:06:08,080 --> 00:06:15,280 as it is. Oh boy. 82 00:06:12,479 --> 00:06:21,800 I mean, I guess it kind of stays. The screen looks great. Cannot emphasize 83 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:21,800 that enough. 84 00:06:21,919 --> 00:06:25,600 Wait a minute. These aren't speakers at 85 00:06:25,120 --> 00:06:32,560 all. No, they are purely decorative. Oh no. 86 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:38,240 Okay. Where's the sound actually coming from? They're coming from the bottom. At 87 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:43,600 least they're stereo and they do not sound very good. However, they get loud 88 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:48,319 enough and are clear enough that I don't think that watching just random content 89 00:06:45,840 --> 00:06:53,600 is going to be a huge problem. What about the keyboard? It's a greenaxis 90 00:06:51,600 --> 00:06:58,560 mechanical keyboard with what they're calling multi-geear backlighting to let 91 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:02,720 your fingers dance. They appear to be using a replica of the Chalk is Kale's 92 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:07,520 low profile line. I mean, remember when Kale was the ripoff switch company? How 93 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:11,840 the turntables have turned. The feel got a pretty mixed reaction around the 94 00:07:09,199 --> 00:07:19,560 office, but most people had their expectations happily exceeded once they 95 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:19,560 heard the price. As for me, 96 00:07:19,759 --> 00:07:28,000 they're a little mushier than they could be. I'm definitely detecting some 97 00:07:24,479 --> 00:07:30,800 inconsistency between the keys. This has 98 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:38,639 hands down the best keyboard I've ever seen on a laptop under $500. Not evening 99 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:42,880 close new standard of entry-level laptop 100 00:07:38,639 --> 00:07:44,880 keyboard. If all you need to do is type, 101 00:07:42,880 --> 00:07:50,319 this thing might actually come away from this with a recommendation. There are 102 00:07:47,199 --> 00:07:53,039 some quirks. For some reason, three of 103 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:58,000 the function keys all have exactly the same function. See this brightness down 104 00:07:55,039 --> 00:08:02,400 one? It doesn't go down. It just cycles through all the brightness levels. But 105 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:05,919 there are some things the keyboard does right even when it comes to 106 00:08:03,759 --> 00:08:10,319 functionality. For example, it has function keys to turn off the backlight 107 00:08:08,479 --> 00:08:14,639 of the display and to disable the touchpad. The trackpad is not big by 108 00:08:13,039 --> 00:08:20,479 modern keyboard standards, especially for a 16-in device, but it is 109 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:22,160 surprisingly usable. Two-handed, which a 110 00:08:20,479 --> 00:08:24,960 lot of the time can have issues with lower-end laptops where the palm 111 00:08:23,680 --> 00:08:29,360 rejection will kick in and it won't work. And it's perfectly responsive. I 112 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:35,200 man, I was expecting to just dunk on this thing, and I actually kind of like 113 00:08:30,879 --> 00:08:37,919 it. Wa! Shut up. It has fingerprint 114 00:08:35,200 --> 00:08:42,640 login and it works. And who are we sending our fingerprints to? Actually, 115 00:08:40,399 --> 00:08:47,279 on that subject, it's time to explore our Windows installation, and things are 116 00:08:44,800 --> 00:08:51,440 about to get a lot weirder. The writer for this video has a list of four 117 00:08:49,760 --> 00:08:55,279 strange changes that have been made to the stock Windows install, and I'm 118 00:08:53,120 --> 00:09:01,360 supposed to see how many of them I catch here. Oh, that poor CPU at 100%. 119 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:07,680 Opening up Task Manager. That's a little rough. Celeron. Now that's a name I've 120 00:09:04,640 --> 00:09:11,360 not heard in a long time. But we got 16 121 00:09:07,680 --> 00:09:16,160 gigs of RAM. 2400 122 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:20,560 megahertz. Is this DDR3? It is DDR4. 123 00:09:16,160 --> 00:09:24,240 It's just really slow DDR4. Who even 124 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:28,080 still makes 24 and Wait, am I am I out 125 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,399 of touch here? Is 2400 DDR4 slow? 126 00:09:28,080 --> 00:09:35,440 Yes, it's slow, right? Like that's really slow, right? 127 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:39,600 This is a 10 nanmter chip. This is not 128 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:42,959 old. Launched in Q1 of 2021. This is a 129 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,959 10 watt chip. Should it be obvious? 130 00:09:42,959 --> 00:09:48,080 Um, one of them is pretty obvious on the desktop. I think the others will be a 131 00:09:46,880 --> 00:09:52,959 little more obvious if you're poking around. Okay, I give up. What is it that's not 132 00:09:51,279 --> 00:09:57,680 default about the desktop here? It's the icons. They've enabled the snap 133 00:09:55,440 --> 00:10:00,080 feature so that you can't move an icon where you want it to. It always goes to 134 00:09:58,959 --> 00:10:05,839 the end of the list. Interesting. Now, this isn't like, oh, 135 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:08,000 phone home, you know, weird hackery nonsense or anything. 136 00:10:07,040 --> 00:10:13,600 We'll get to that, but it does indicate that they have 137 00:10:10,800 --> 00:10:17,279 absolutely made changes to Windows before shipping it with this machine. 138 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:23,680 Now, this is something I should have checked right away. How on earth is this 139 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:25,760 licensed? It just doesn't say. 140 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:29,040 That's not how Wait, hold now. Hold on just a gosh darn minute here. 141 00:10:27,839 --> 00:10:33,079 A laptop that's already on. No, no. I've got the best laptop. 142 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:41,040 Everything about this appears to be completely normal. This is activated 143 00:10:38,560 --> 00:10:46,399 using my organization's activation service. Okay. Can I get updates? These 144 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:51,200 lights here, which I assumed were for like num lock and caps lock and stuff, 145 00:10:49,200 --> 00:10:55,920 appear to be purely decorative. I can get updates. I'm afraid I'm not going to 146 00:10:53,600 --> 00:10:59,600 find the weird stuff about this thing. Hit me with it. What's weird? I I can't 147 00:10:58,399 --> 00:11:04,320 figure it out. Hidden files was enabled by default. 148 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:10,600 Oh, okay. Okay. What What What else is there? Missed the batch file. 149 00:11:06,800 --> 00:11:10,600 Which one? This one. 150 00:11:11,279 --> 00:11:17,040 Wait. Whoa. Okay. Hold on just a gosh 151 00:11:14,399 --> 00:11:22,640 darn minute here. Okay. There's a Win10 JH batch file here that I accidentally 152 00:11:20,560 --> 00:11:27,279 started for a second there. Uh we're going to go ahead and open this in 153 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:30,000 Notepad. I see a lot of product keys. 154 00:11:27,279 --> 00:11:33,440 Oh, okay. Do we know what this is doing? As far as I can tell, this is how 155 00:11:31,279 --> 00:11:38,480 they're doing their Windows activation. Got it. Pinging a couple Chinese websites to 156 00:11:36,079 --> 00:11:44,160 double check that it's working, I think. Oh my god, this is hilarious. 157 00:11:41,519 --> 00:11:49,600 Look at this error handling. The defined key is not found. Haha. Product 158 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:54,560 activation successful. Sorry, failure. 159 00:11:52,720 --> 00:11:58,320 The last kind of quirky thing we noticed is the way that they partitioned the 160 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:04,079 boot drive. We've got a 200 gig partition for Windows and then a 150 and 161 00:12:01,440 --> 00:12:08,079 then a 125. Why they did this, I don't know, because there hasn't been a real 162 00:12:05,839 --> 00:12:12,240 benefit since the days of slow mechanical drives when you could short 163 00:12:10,160 --> 00:12:17,839 stroke your drive by creating your operating system partition just using 164 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:22,720 the area of the disc around the outside where the sequential read speeds were 165 00:12:19,920 --> 00:12:26,560 higher. On SSDs, it's everything's kind of stored all over the nan flash, so it 166 00:12:25,040 --> 00:12:33,839 just doesn't matter. The performance might not be as bad as you might think. 167 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:37,200 This CPU apparently has a reflex of 2.9 168 00:12:33,839 --> 00:12:39,920 GHz. Intel calls it the burst frequency, 169 00:12:37,200 --> 00:12:42,720 not to be confused with boost frequency. Let's see what kind of frequency it'll 170 00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:47,839 hit when we're actually running a sustained load. Four cores, 2.5 GHz. I 171 00:12:46,560 --> 00:12:51,600 mean, I'd have been happy to have this in a laptop 5 years ago. That's four 172 00:12:49,760 --> 00:12:55,120 real cores. I got to say, I'm coming around on this thing. Other than the 173 00:12:53,040 --> 00:13:00,320 sketchy operating system, which I would absolutely remove and reformat before I 174 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:05,519 connect this to my home network, for example. It's kind of an okay machine 175 00:13:02,959 --> 00:13:12,000 for the price. Let's open it up and have a look at what's inside this beast. 176 00:13:08,639 --> 00:13:16,160 Please tell me that this is an M.2 177 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:18,160 upgrade slot. That is so cool. The SSD 178 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:24,720 is a little less awesome. It's got an eene extension on it. No, 179 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:25,680 half of this SSD has no SSD on it. You 180 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:32,160 guys ready? I have no idea what's in here, but whatever it is is definitely 181 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:38,079 interesting. It's about 50% mechanical keyboard, machined aluminum chassis. 182 00:13:36,000 --> 00:13:41,920 That is a very small battery. It was also advertised as having 5,000 183 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:47,120 milliamp. Do we know what the voltage of this battery is? Okay, hold on. Andy, 184 00:13:46,480 --> 00:13:51,040 what's up? Uh, what is the voltage of this battery? 185 00:13:49,839 --> 00:13:56,880 7.6. That is super weird. It's probably fine 186 00:13:54,079 --> 00:14:01,519 for a 10 watt CPU, but not the kind of capacity you'd expect in a 16-in 187 00:13:58,959 --> 00:14:05,279 chassis. What else we got going on here? Perfectly adequate heat pipe cooling 188 00:14:03,519 --> 00:14:09,600 solution. Better than you'd find on many MacBooks these days, actually. They call 189 00:14:07,199 --> 00:14:13,279 this hurricane cooling. Is there Denzel Washington in here somewhere? The 190 00:14:11,120 --> 00:14:16,399 motherboard is extremely small, which makes sense given that this is a class 191 00:14:15,040 --> 00:14:22,000 of processor that you would normally find in like a netbook class product. 192 00:14:19,440 --> 00:14:26,240 Uses an Intel Wi-Fi chipset, though. Where's my weird off-brand wireless 193 00:14:24,399 --> 00:14:31,120 chipset? Should we game on it? Let's do it. The product marketing features a lot of 194 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:40,160 gaming imagery. All right, let's open up with CS:GO. More like CS slow. 195 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:44,079 Oh, it defaulted to high. Oh my god. 8x 196 00:14:40,160 --> 00:14:46,800 MSAA was enabled. Oo, 197 00:14:44,079 --> 00:14:52,160 not promising. We're getting a stuttery 15 frames per second. This is all low. 198 00:14:49,839 --> 00:14:55,760 Technically, the game is running. I did manage to get a kill there a second ago. 199 00:14:54,320 --> 00:15:00,959 You know, it's smoothing out a little bit, though. Oh, wow. Yeah, you're better than me. 200 00:14:57,839 --> 00:15:02,880 Yeah, I'm running at 2560 by600. 201 00:15:00,959 --> 00:15:07,920 Like, it looks great when the frames render. If it was me in high school, I'd 202 00:15:06,079 --> 00:15:10,880 be like, heck yeah, I can play the game. What about Genchin, though? 203 00:15:09,199 --> 00:15:14,959 Let's get full cut scenes, by the way. No, 204 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:18,399 they claim you get 50 FPS in this game. Sure do. 205 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:22,079 Because this is not 50 FPS. I can tell you that much. It's also not as bad as I 206 00:15:20,480 --> 00:15:27,680 thought it was going to be, though. Ooh, but our render resolution is at 6. 207 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:34,880 So, it's not that. It's more like 1080p. Everything but crowd density is minimum. 208 00:15:31,199 --> 00:15:37,760 Yeah, this is not as fast as 209 00:15:34,880 --> 00:15:41,839 that's not good. It's not at 50 FPS. Certainly not when the action gets 210 00:15:39,440 --> 00:15:45,600 heavier. But once again, it's playable. And personally, I think I'd rather play 211 00:15:43,920 --> 00:15:49,920 on something like this with a nice big screen than on a little tiny mobile 212 00:15:48,079 --> 00:15:53,279 device. I can't recommend this machine because of some of the sketchy things 213 00:15:51,279 --> 00:15:58,160 that we observed, particularly this installation of Windows. But the reality 214 00:15:55,440 --> 00:16:02,560 of it is that brand new, I have never seen anything that comes even close to 215 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:07,680 the value proposition of it, especially for certain use cases, like if I was a 216 00:16:05,360 --> 00:16:11,360 writer, for example. It's kind of mind-blowing. There are some other 217 00:16:09,600 --> 00:16:14,480 options if you don't mind buying used. Uh, we'll have a couple of them linked 218 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:19,279 down below. Flashing a couple on screen right now. But other than that, I just 219 00:16:16,800 --> 00:16:26,399 have never seen this kind of value in a laptop. So, I guess good job 220 00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:28,079 Dee or NWNLAP or whoever you are. If you 221 00:16:26,399 --> 00:16:33,199 enjoyed this video, you might also enjoy our video on the ONN laptop from 222 00:16:30,320 --> 00:16:35,680 Walmart. It didn't fare quite as well. Did this Did the game just crash? 223 00:16:35,120 --> 00:16:41,199 Looks like it did. Did the game just like Was that due to inactivity? Because the 224 00:16:39,279 --> 00:16:44,800 launcher is still here. That was 225 00:16:42,880 --> 00:16:47,199 pretty weird. It's not a gaming machine. Okay.