you could buy a Zenbook Duo a super cool dual screen laptop or for a third of the
price you could buy the curry Lander we
found this gem on AliExpress and for 750
dollars it looks absolutely outstanding
I'm talking eight core CPU QHD screen
second screen and ah quick shipping I
mean with excellent reviews and specs like that what could go wrong unless
they lied Freelander wouldn't lie no I would never
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between the intro Alex put together and my own First Impressions I've got to say
my expectations are actually really high there are some weird things is this a
Windows key for example I think it might be and is that an
upside down HDMI port but the rest of the i o actually looks really good we've
got two USB 3 super speed over here headphone microphone combo Jack
RJ45 Jack and then over on this side more type A A type c and a DC Barrel
plug for charging then things get really interesting at the back we've got an
external PCI Express connection the only
devices I've seen this on are an MSI laptop from way back in the day that had
a proprietary Dock and then ASUS has a line up the G14 that has an external
PCIe thing but it's not quite like this I actually have no clue what this is at
all it mentions it know where any of the documentation and I never turned it
around while I was testing it even the
website does not have pictures of the bag nothing oh they have pictures of the
back it's not there I guess it shouldn't surprise me that
much given that Freelander is probably best known for its LED backpacks but
given that this has no branding on it whatsoever I guess they're just
branching out into taking some other laptop from some OEM and selling it and
hoping for the best oh man this is really hard to peel
oh interesting it has a hinge that lifts
the bottom display up to a more ergonomic viewing angle like the newer
zenbooks do this is an older one from 2019 it also has a very similar keyboard
and touchpad layout I wouldn't describe the build quality as perfect or even as
as good as the ASUS version of the Zenbook but it's not bad 750 bucks yeah
I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop here but then I keep noticing more
and more things that I love about this is this is 16x10 display yep that is
sick uh
does it work yeah oh oh it's on it's on it's on okay creelander
my bitter backpack competitor I wouldn't
say they've done a great job of matching the brightness of the top and bottom
display a big part of that is the kind of weak viewing angles on the bottom one
you can see it dims quite a lot I mean ASUS is hardly perfect either but that
seems to be more due to uh like an anti-glare coating on the bottom one and
less due to uh just poor viewing angles
but the touchpad works with no obvious issues
gestures seem to do about what you'd expect them to do and by golly there's
two displays okay well while you're here while you're
here oh that resolution is not what they said it was though yeah on the product
page they say it's a QHD panel that's 90 Hertz what are you seeing here Linus I'm
seeing a 1900 by 1200 display and if this is 90 Hertz I will throw up my
breakfast and eat it again it's not
and you cannot set it to 90 Hertz oh but
you can set it to exactly 60. oh good
definitely some rattle to the track pad
oh
that's why you wanted me to check out the keyboard this was not obvious to me
when I first looked at it but that's
where the backspace goes it's the power button what a disastrous
design decision who could possibly think that you should
put the power button where the backspace is even if you owned this computer and
built muscle memory around that the second you went and used some other
keyboard because that happens from time to time you would be so like
to come back to this thing and accidentally to put it to sleep that's
not even the best part oh no can you
give me an uppercase a
those of you who spotted it before I did
you've had more time to think about it why
would they make the right shift a delete key there's no right shift key that's
not even like oh we had a Chinese layout
or uh European layout that no layout is
like that it's a crying shame because
that's a deal breaker why would you do that this keyboard is a catastrophe a
type just just reviewed the Tommy Hilfiger keyboard
why do you keep doing this to me Alex I think what I want to know is if this
thing is full of fast computer or if it's full of lies why don't we dig into
Hardware info what are we supposed to have a 10th Generation core i7 processor
with powerful performance max turbo of 5 gigahertz and eight cores wait this is
not an 8 core CPU at all this is a
completely different thing hold on a second they're half right they're half
right they've got the model number right but then they lie about the actual specs
of that model so unless you go on Intel Arc and make darn good and sure what the
specs of this processor are well what's the max turbo on this thing even it is
five gigahertz it is five gigahertz but it has two fewer cores
I take the two cores for sure that is freaking slow memory too
2400 megahertz that's like fine for ddr4
wait except that they say it's supposed to be
29.33 oh no and I'm supposed to have a
terabyte of space aren't I uh 512. 512.
hey they managed to get that right but I have never heard of
hear reality before what kind of SSD is that oh wait so in
this it shows up as one yeah the hx-001 Dual Drive yeah so
there's no this is only one dread they partitioned it what is with this the
other AliExpress computer we looked at recently also had a partitioned boot
Drive why I actually have no idea for that one the
only explanation I can think of is you got people designing these things that
are so old school that they remember the days when we used to Short Stroke hard
drives so you would partition them smaller so that you would only use the
outer edge of the disc which is which is faster on an SSD it makes no difference
oh man this system is kind of stressing me out Alex do remember
you have a 10th gen i7 and a 750 laptop
it's sex cores it's like actually not bad and 16 gigs of RAM for better for
worse and 512 gigs of SSD even if I don't recognize the brand one thing they
did get really right though 95 watt power adapter this thing charges
it super fast all right let's send a
bench it nothing here stands out is particularly bad though I wouldn't expect it to I
mean this is only what like a 35 watt CPU and it looks like it's got plenty of
cooling in it quiet too actually
they do say that they have their AAS plus wind tunnel technology the ass plus
wind
that's wonderful but have you noticed anything kind of disappointing about
this though oh wait no CPU package power 32 watts
that's about right for an H series isn't it
it is but it's not turboing it's not
turboing it's at 2.6 gigahertz which is
the base essentially all the time when you hit it
with any load so like this guy right here
this is probably also 10th gen 9th gen actually oh and it runs circles around
it doesn't it we'll see in a second here but this got 8 100 points in cinebench
or 23. I ended up with 5100 points the
bit that kills me is that it's so well cooled that they very easily if they
just program the BIOS better could have had a boost for way longer and it would
have been probably like really 30 40 faster
I even took the time to like install XTU and try and do some stuff none of it
took I don't have the testing tools here they're all over at the lab right now I
give you my personal Linus Tech tips guarantee that that is not 400 nits I
went to the Labs though do you want to see the results of the screens I I would
love to see the results were they 100 coverage of the RGB color space
srgb RGB 311 nits all right my eyes still work
holy crap 63 coverage of srgb
I know that not everyone is an expert on all the DCI p3s and rgbs and srgbs so
let me just put it this way for you guys that is dog crap I don't remember the
last time I saw a display that bad I do it was the Acer Nitro 5 their first gen
that was when I first started working here like six years ago with the TN
panel it gets better though it gets better though oh my God it improves or
it gets funnier both the bottom screen manages to do 100
of srgb okay and actually Brandon from
the lab seems to think it may be using the same bottom screen as ASUS's Zenbook
Duos might explain why they weren't able to
cheap out on it yeah like you can see the spectroscopy here yeah it's
identical it's the same thing so they use the exact same panel from ASUS for
the bottom and then just completely cheap out on the top it's 750 though so
what you can do line is yes so you take your video that you're
editing and you put it on the color accurate display down on the bottom
and then you have the most room anyone's ever had for your timeline up on the
other screen and everything is working against this
thing the slow RAM impedes the onboard GPU
from performing its best and then the crappy turbo frequencies on the CPU mean
that you're going to run into CPU bottlenecks ironically are we done with
the Windows Experience oh no I want to try the webcam even on
expensive laptops the webcam tends to be where Brands cheap out
and this is a potato and a half what
resolution does this claim to be
well they don't mention the webcam they don't mention the webcam if I were them
I wouldn't mention it either but it has a nice bright indicator that it's
working just for comparison here's the HP dragonfly
I mean it's not great either this is one
of the best webcams on a laptop Linus now it's time to open it up and see what
makes it tick yep all right let's do it you know what I'm kind of wondering
right now is if this is on clearance on AliExpress this should not be a 750
machine even with the shortcuts that we
see it is on sale so the normal price of
this would be well this is Canadian so 1600 Canadian now it's a thousand
Canadian here's yet another thing the hardware folks did right look at this
two screws no easily breakable Clips nice easy
access not just to the memory but to the storage as well love to see it and it
gets even better there's another m.2 slot in here that appears to be NVMe so
it's just cheaped out on the drive
how much cheaper is a SATA SSD these days I mean we are talking pennies and
on the subject of saving money the 2400 megahertz RAM is not because
they were saving money it's because they didn't program the BIOS properly this is
266 memory which isn't as fast as they
advertise but is better than what it's running at
all right that is a heck of a lot of
cooling for this CPU they probably could have gotten away with just one of these
I'm really surprised that they actually put in two I was expecting to only see
one of these oh just you thought the fan would just be I thought this was just
like mesh or something over here to make it look like there was heat sink yeah
heat pipes are expensive that's not an insignificant cost for a budget machine
like this which again leads me to believe that this was not intended to be
a budget machine I think it's just ancient stock that they are desperately
trying to get rid of yeah even the battery would indicate this is not a
budget machine that's a 58 watt hour battery yeah I got over four hours of
battery life which isn't incredible yeah but also like I was expecting way worse
I thought it would be like a 25 watt hour or something it gets pretty decent at least that's
what is written on it based on that everything else about this thing has
been a lie it's possible that that is not in fact 58 Watt hours beak says it's
51 and I tend to trust them because they got everything else right but either way
for something like this that's quite a bit of battery okay fair I was genuinely
excited for this Linus I looked at the specs and the price and I was like
that's legit you could even ignore that bottom screen completely ignore it and
this thing would be freaking amazing on paper yeah maybe it makes up for it in
some other way let's try out the speakers I'm sure those are great
they're not very loud pretty quiet
I've heard way worse yeah like a lot of
them will take speakers like this make it twice as loud and just distort the
whole thing not bad not bad
they're fine
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enjoyed this video you might enjoy the other recent AliExpress laptop video we
did where we gave it a brown star for effort I feel like this one gets at least a
yellow star yeah not gold yellow