1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,960 you could buy a Zenbook Duo a super cool dual screen laptop or for a third of the 2 00:00:05,940 --> 00:00:13,860 price you could buy the curry Lander we 3 00:00:09,960 --> 00:00:17,160 found this gem on AliExpress and for 750 4 00:00:13,860 --> 00:00:21,320 dollars it looks absolutely outstanding 5 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:26,699 I'm talking eight core CPU QHD screen 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:28,920 second screen and ah quick shipping I 7 00:00:26,699 --> 00:00:33,120 mean with excellent reviews and specs like that what could go wrong unless 8 00:00:31,859 --> 00:00:39,120 they lied Freelander wouldn't lie no I would never 9 00:00:36,180 --> 00:00:42,540 lie to you about our sponsor build Redux takes the challenge and the hassle out 10 00:00:40,860 --> 00:00:46,379 of building your own PC with configuration options support guides to 11 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:50,219 Adu and competitive pricing versus building a PC yourself why not kick your 12 00:00:48,420 --> 00:00:56,120 feet up and let build Redux handle it for you head to build redux.com Linus 13 00:00:52,620 --> 00:00:56,120 and start your new build today 14 00:01:03,019 --> 00:01:10,560 between the intro Alex put together and my own First Impressions I've got to say 15 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:16,080 my expectations are actually really high there are some weird things is this a 16 00:01:13,439 --> 00:01:20,939 Windows key for example I think it might be and is that an 17 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:25,380 upside down HDMI port but the rest of the i o actually looks really good we've 18 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:30,420 got two USB 3 super speed over here headphone microphone combo Jack 19 00:01:27,439 --> 00:01:36,000 RJ45 Jack and then over on this side more type A A type c and a DC Barrel 20 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:42,659 plug for charging then things get really interesting at the back we've got an 21 00:01:39,180 --> 00:01:45,360 external PCI Express connection the only 22 00:01:42,659 --> 00:01:49,740 devices I've seen this on are an MSI laptop from way back in the day that had 23 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:54,659 a proprietary Dock and then ASUS has a line up the G14 that has an external 24 00:01:52,380 --> 00:01:59,520 PCIe thing but it's not quite like this I actually have no clue what this is at 25 00:01:56,880 --> 00:02:04,619 all it mentions it know where any of the documentation and I never turned it 26 00:02:01,619 --> 00:02:06,719 around while I was testing it even the 27 00:02:04,619 --> 00:02:11,459 website does not have pictures of the bag nothing oh they have pictures of the 28 00:02:09,060 --> 00:02:15,180 back it's not there I guess it shouldn't surprise me that 29 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:20,280 much given that Freelander is probably best known for its LED backpacks but 30 00:02:18,300 --> 00:02:23,459 given that this has no branding on it whatsoever I guess they're just 31 00:02:21,599 --> 00:02:28,379 branching out into taking some other laptop from some OEM and selling it and 32 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:33,080 hoping for the best oh man this is really hard to peel 33 00:02:33,959 --> 00:02:39,599 oh interesting it has a hinge that lifts 34 00:02:38,099 --> 00:02:43,680 the bottom display up to a more ergonomic viewing angle like the newer 35 00:02:41,700 --> 00:02:49,319 zenbooks do this is an older one from 2019 it also has a very similar keyboard 36 00:02:46,920 --> 00:02:54,180 and touchpad layout I wouldn't describe the build quality as perfect or even as 37 00:02:52,019 --> 00:03:00,060 as good as the ASUS version of the Zenbook but it's not bad 750 bucks yeah 38 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:03,900 I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop here but then I keep noticing more 39 00:03:02,340 --> 00:03:09,360 and more things that I love about this is this is 16x10 display yep that is 40 00:03:07,379 --> 00:03:13,860 sick uh 41 00:03:10,920 --> 00:03:19,920 does it work yeah oh oh it's on it's on it's on okay creelander 42 00:03:16,379 --> 00:03:22,500 my bitter backpack competitor I wouldn't 43 00:03:19,920 --> 00:03:26,640 say they've done a great job of matching the brightness of the top and bottom 44 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:31,560 display a big part of that is the kind of weak viewing angles on the bottom one 45 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:36,000 you can see it dims quite a lot I mean ASUS is hardly perfect either but that 46 00:03:33,780 --> 00:03:40,680 seems to be more due to uh like an anti-glare coating on the bottom one and 47 00:03:37,620 --> 00:03:43,440 less due to uh just poor viewing angles 48 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:46,379 but the touchpad works with no obvious issues 49 00:03:44,519 --> 00:03:50,879 gestures seem to do about what you'd expect them to do and by golly there's 50 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:55,080 two displays okay well while you're here while you're 51 00:03:52,620 --> 00:03:59,700 here oh that resolution is not what they said it was though yeah on the product 52 00:03:56,819 --> 00:04:05,400 page they say it's a QHD panel that's 90 Hertz what are you seeing here Linus I'm 53 00:04:02,940 --> 00:04:09,780 seeing a 1900 by 1200 display and if this is 90 Hertz I will throw up my 54 00:04:07,260 --> 00:04:14,519 breakfast and eat it again it's not 55 00:04:11,040 --> 00:04:17,579 and you cannot set it to 90 Hertz oh but 56 00:04:14,519 --> 00:04:21,540 you can set it to exactly 60. oh good 57 00:04:17,579 --> 00:04:24,079 definitely some rattle to the track pad 58 00:04:21,540 --> 00:04:24,079 oh 59 00:04:25,080 --> 00:04:33,600 that's why you wanted me to check out the keyboard this was not obvious to me 60 00:04:30,600 --> 00:04:35,639 when I first looked at it but that's 61 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:41,639 where the backspace goes it's the power button what a disastrous 62 00:04:39,660 --> 00:04:46,080 design decision who could possibly think that you should 63 00:04:44,100 --> 00:04:51,900 put the power button where the backspace is even if you owned this computer and 64 00:04:49,440 --> 00:04:56,040 built muscle memory around that the second you went and used some other 65 00:04:53,460 --> 00:05:00,720 keyboard because that happens from time to time you would be so like 66 00:04:58,440 --> 00:05:05,699 to come back to this thing and accidentally to put it to sleep that's 67 00:05:02,639 --> 00:05:08,250 not even the best part oh no can you 68 00:05:05,699 --> 00:05:11,300 give me an uppercase a 69 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:18,000 those of you who spotted it before I did 70 00:05:15,780 --> 00:05:21,900 you've had more time to think about it why 71 00:05:19,320 --> 00:05:29,820 would they make the right shift a delete key there's no right shift key that's 72 00:05:26,580 --> 00:05:33,120 not even like oh we had a Chinese layout 73 00:05:29,820 --> 00:05:36,300 or uh European layout that no layout is 74 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:39,180 like that it's a crying shame because 75 00:05:36,300 --> 00:05:45,180 that's a deal breaker why would you do that this keyboard is a catastrophe a 76 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:48,900 type just just reviewed the Tommy Hilfiger keyboard 77 00:05:46,560 --> 00:05:51,900 why do you keep doing this to me Alex I think what I want to know is if this 78 00:05:50,160 --> 00:05:56,220 thing is full of fast computer or if it's full of lies why don't we dig into 79 00:05:54,180 --> 00:06:01,860 Hardware info what are we supposed to have a 10th Generation core i7 processor 80 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:08,340 with powerful performance max turbo of 5 gigahertz and eight cores wait this is 81 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:11,039 not an 8 core CPU at all this is a 82 00:06:08,340 --> 00:06:15,300 completely different thing hold on a second they're half right they're half 83 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:20,940 right they've got the model number right but then they lie about the actual specs 84 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:26,340 of that model so unless you go on Intel Arc and make darn good and sure what the 85 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:31,080 specs of this processor are well what's the max turbo on this thing even it is 86 00:06:28,860 --> 00:06:35,639 five gigahertz it is five gigahertz but it has two fewer cores 87 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:42,660 I take the two cores for sure that is freaking slow memory too 88 00:06:38,600 --> 00:06:43,560 2400 megahertz that's like fine for ddr4 89 00:06:42,660 --> 00:06:49,380 wait except that they say it's supposed to be 90 00:06:45,680 --> 00:06:52,500 29.33 oh no and I'm supposed to have a 91 00:06:49,380 --> 00:06:54,660 terabyte of space aren't I uh 512. 512. 92 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:59,819 hey they managed to get that right but I have never heard of 93 00:06:57,419 --> 00:07:05,520 hear reality before what kind of SSD is that oh wait so in 94 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:12,539 this it shows up as one yeah the hx-001 Dual Drive yeah so 95 00:07:10,080 --> 00:07:16,199 there's no this is only one dread they partitioned it what is with this the 96 00:07:14,639 --> 00:07:20,160 other AliExpress computer we looked at recently also had a partitioned boot 97 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:24,599 Drive why I actually have no idea for that one the 98 00:07:23,039 --> 00:07:28,740 only explanation I can think of is you got people designing these things that 99 00:07:26,460 --> 00:07:31,919 are so old school that they remember the days when we used to Short Stroke hard 100 00:07:30,479 --> 00:07:36,180 drives so you would partition them smaller so that you would only use the 101 00:07:34,020 --> 00:07:41,520 outer edge of the disc which is which is faster on an SSD it makes no difference 102 00:07:38,819 --> 00:07:47,940 oh man this system is kind of stressing me out Alex do remember 103 00:07:44,460 --> 00:07:49,979 you have a 10th gen i7 and a 750 laptop 104 00:07:47,940 --> 00:07:54,960 it's sex cores it's like actually not bad and 16 gigs of RAM for better for 105 00:07:52,319 --> 00:07:58,560 worse and 512 gigs of SSD even if I don't recognize the brand one thing they 106 00:07:56,819 --> 00:08:05,160 did get really right though 95 watt power adapter this thing charges 107 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:06,180 it super fast all right let's send a 108 00:08:05,160 --> 00:08:11,759 bench it nothing here stands out is particularly bad though I wouldn't expect it to I 109 00:08:09,780 --> 00:08:17,940 mean this is only what like a 35 watt CPU and it looks like it's got plenty of 110 00:08:14,340 --> 00:08:20,099 cooling in it quiet too actually 111 00:08:17,940 --> 00:08:25,639 they do say that they have their AAS plus wind tunnel technology the ass plus 112 00:08:23,340 --> 00:08:25,639 wind 113 00:08:26,580 --> 00:08:31,620 that's wonderful but have you noticed anything kind of disappointing about 114 00:08:30,479 --> 00:08:36,060 this though oh wait no CPU package power 32 watts 115 00:08:34,140 --> 00:08:41,820 that's about right for an H series isn't it 116 00:08:37,260 --> 00:08:45,180 it is but it's not turboing it's not 117 00:08:41,820 --> 00:08:46,260 turboing it's at 2.6 gigahertz which is 118 00:08:45,180 --> 00:08:50,040 the base essentially all the time when you hit it 119 00:08:48,720 --> 00:08:55,260 with any load so like this guy right here 120 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:59,459 this is probably also 10th gen 9th gen actually oh and it runs circles around 121 00:08:57,720 --> 00:09:06,959 it doesn't it we'll see in a second here but this got 8 100 points in cinebench 122 00:09:03,180 --> 00:09:09,300 or 23. I ended up with 5100 points the 123 00:09:06,959 --> 00:09:15,000 bit that kills me is that it's so well cooled that they very easily if they 124 00:09:12,360 --> 00:09:20,580 just program the BIOS better could have had a boost for way longer and it would 125 00:09:17,640 --> 00:09:25,019 have been probably like really 30 40 faster 126 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:29,880 I even took the time to like install XTU and try and do some stuff none of it 127 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:33,180 took I don't have the testing tools here they're all over at the lab right now I 128 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:37,200 give you my personal Linus Tech tips guarantee that that is not 400 nits I 129 00:09:35,580 --> 00:09:42,540 went to the Labs though do you want to see the results of the screens I I would 130 00:09:40,019 --> 00:09:48,440 love to see the results were they 100 coverage of the RGB color space 131 00:09:46,019 --> 00:09:54,380 srgb RGB 311 nits all right my eyes still work 132 00:09:51,920 --> 00:10:00,899 holy crap 63 coverage of srgb 133 00:09:58,500 --> 00:10:06,260 I know that not everyone is an expert on all the DCI p3s and rgbs and srgbs so 134 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:13,080 let me just put it this way for you guys that is dog crap I don't remember the 135 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:17,519 last time I saw a display that bad I do it was the Acer Nitro 5 their first gen 136 00:10:15,779 --> 00:10:21,180 that was when I first started working here like six years ago with the TN 137 00:10:19,380 --> 00:10:25,500 panel it gets better though it gets better though oh my God it improves or 138 00:10:24,120 --> 00:10:33,420 it gets funnier both the bottom screen manages to do 100 139 00:10:28,260 --> 00:10:36,360 of srgb okay and actually Brandon from 140 00:10:33,420 --> 00:10:41,459 the lab seems to think it may be using the same bottom screen as ASUS's Zenbook 141 00:10:39,959 --> 00:10:45,720 Duos might explain why they weren't able to 142 00:10:43,620 --> 00:10:50,519 cheap out on it yeah like you can see the spectroscopy here yeah it's 143 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:54,899 identical it's the same thing so they use the exact same panel from ASUS for 144 00:10:53,339 --> 00:11:01,019 the bottom and then just completely cheap out on the top it's 750 though so 145 00:10:58,860 --> 00:11:03,959 what you can do line is yes so you take your video that you're 146 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:09,779 editing and you put it on the color accurate display down on the bottom 147 00:11:07,320 --> 00:11:12,839 and then you have the most room anyone's ever had for your timeline up on the 148 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:15,959 other screen and everything is working against this 149 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:21,180 thing the slow RAM impedes the onboard GPU 150 00:11:18,779 --> 00:11:25,019 from performing its best and then the crappy turbo frequencies on the CPU mean 151 00:11:23,579 --> 00:11:29,220 that you're going to run into CPU bottlenecks ironically are we done with 152 00:11:27,300 --> 00:11:35,399 the Windows Experience oh no I want to try the webcam even on 153 00:11:32,579 --> 00:11:41,940 expensive laptops the webcam tends to be where Brands cheap out 154 00:11:37,740 --> 00:11:45,959 and this is a potato and a half what 155 00:11:41,940 --> 00:11:47,760 resolution does this claim to be 156 00:11:45,959 --> 00:11:52,380 well they don't mention the webcam they don't mention the webcam if I were them 157 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:56,579 I wouldn't mention it either but it has a nice bright indicator that it's 158 00:11:53,760 --> 00:12:01,500 working just for comparison here's the HP dragonfly 159 00:11:57,959 --> 00:12:03,300 I mean it's not great either this is one 160 00:12:01,500 --> 00:12:06,839 of the best webcams on a laptop Linus now it's time to open it up and see what 161 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:10,500 makes it tick yep all right let's do it you know what I'm kind of wondering 162 00:12:08,160 --> 00:12:16,920 right now is if this is on clearance on AliExpress this should not be a 750 163 00:12:13,860 --> 00:12:20,880 machine even with the shortcuts that we 164 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:23,700 see it is on sale so the normal price of 165 00:12:20,880 --> 00:12:27,779 this would be well this is Canadian so 1600 Canadian now it's a thousand 166 00:12:25,380 --> 00:12:32,100 Canadian here's yet another thing the hardware folks did right look at this 167 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:37,740 two screws no easily breakable Clips nice easy 168 00:12:35,279 --> 00:12:43,079 access not just to the memory but to the storage as well love to see it and it 169 00:12:40,500 --> 00:12:49,019 gets even better there's another m.2 slot in here that appears to be NVMe so 170 00:12:45,860 --> 00:12:51,959 it's just cheaped out on the drive 171 00:12:49,019 --> 00:12:56,940 how much cheaper is a SATA SSD these days I mean we are talking pennies and 172 00:12:54,779 --> 00:13:02,639 on the subject of saving money the 2400 megahertz RAM is not because 173 00:13:00,480 --> 00:13:08,940 they were saving money it's because they didn't program the BIOS properly this is 174 00:13:05,060 --> 00:13:10,680 266 memory which isn't as fast as they 175 00:13:08,940 --> 00:13:13,279 advertise but is better than what it's running at 176 00:13:14,959 --> 00:13:21,000 all right that is a heck of a lot of 177 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:25,440 cooling for this CPU they probably could have gotten away with just one of these 178 00:13:22,740 --> 00:13:29,339 I'm really surprised that they actually put in two I was expecting to only see 179 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:32,579 one of these oh just you thought the fan would just be I thought this was just 180 00:13:31,019 --> 00:13:36,720 like mesh or something over here to make it look like there was heat sink yeah 181 00:13:34,740 --> 00:13:41,220 heat pipes are expensive that's not an insignificant cost for a budget machine 182 00:13:38,700 --> 00:13:45,420 like this which again leads me to believe that this was not intended to be 183 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:49,560 a budget machine I think it's just ancient stock that they are desperately 184 00:13:47,639 --> 00:13:53,339 trying to get rid of yeah even the battery would indicate this is not a 185 00:13:51,420 --> 00:13:57,959 budget machine that's a 58 watt hour battery yeah I got over four hours of 186 00:13:55,440 --> 00:14:01,980 battery life which isn't incredible yeah but also like I was expecting way worse 187 00:14:00,540 --> 00:14:07,560 I thought it would be like a 25 watt hour or something it gets pretty decent at least that's 188 00:14:05,639 --> 00:14:10,560 what is written on it based on that everything else about this thing has 189 00:14:08,820 --> 00:14:16,560 been a lie it's possible that that is not in fact 58 Watt hours beak says it's 190 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:22,500 51 and I tend to trust them because they got everything else right but either way 191 00:14:19,920 --> 00:14:27,899 for something like this that's quite a bit of battery okay fair I was genuinely 192 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:33,000 excited for this Linus I looked at the specs and the price and I was like 193 00:14:30,480 --> 00:14:38,040 that's legit you could even ignore that bottom screen completely ignore it and 194 00:14:35,880 --> 00:14:42,240 this thing would be freaking amazing on paper yeah maybe it makes up for it in 195 00:14:40,380 --> 00:14:47,100 some other way let's try out the speakers I'm sure those are great 196 00:14:45,240 --> 00:14:53,220 they're not very loud pretty quiet 197 00:14:49,100 --> 00:14:55,680 I've heard way worse yeah like a lot of 198 00:14:53,220 --> 00:15:00,199 them will take speakers like this make it twice as loud and just distort the 199 00:14:57,899 --> 00:15:03,430 whole thing not bad not bad 200 00:15:02,459 --> 00:15:06,260 they're fine 201 00:15:06,260 --> 00:15:11,459 yes yes yes yes it costs five times as 202 00:15:09,300 --> 00:15:16,860 much it costs five times as much Alex just like this message 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