Brown Star for Effort – This AliExpress Gaming Laptop is HILARIOUS

Linus singlehandedly raised Deeq Inc. valuation by 100%.

The magnetic webcam is actually quite nice.

The Thumbnail + Title made it seem like it was going to be wayyyyy worse, but this was actually pretty decent and deserves more than a "Brown Star for Effort" !!

If Deeq were to legitimize their products a bit and fix some quirks, they would actually have a big fighting chance against other laptops on the market. It's crazy!

Linus: "Who the hell is Deeq?" AliExpress: "Can this Deeq fit in your mouth?"

Deeq actually has a long and illustrious product catalog, starting with their flagship models Ligma and Sugma.

An eyetracker or hand motion sensor would work pretty great on top! Could add extra VR tracking to gaming laptops or accessability for people who need it!

The pins and magnetic connectors on this laptop almost remind me of the way the Motorola Motomods connected to the back of your phone. Which was a pretty incredible idea tbh! They work surprisingly well even years and years later, the connection between the laptop and the pins area probably is the biggest hinderance to the design here since the only issue I had is sometimes the MotoMods would be finnicky if you didn't exactly have them lined on properly or there was a bit of dirt on the connections, but they had much stronger magnets and the flat back a phone has means it was a much stronger and secure connection and would "lock" into place.

Still better than my school's "computers"

It took me 3 months at my current IT job to realize all of our network drops are at 100mbs and we’ve been reimaging devices like MacBooks on this network.

5:40 I cannot decide which is funnier, the fact that LTT got a fresh new Chinese gaming laptop and one of the first things they did was install Genshin Impact on it, or the fact that a Chinese gaming laptop comes pre-installed with Genshin Impact.

The inside is amazing. It just pops off! Screw normal laptops that have like 200 screws and 8 stages you have to do in order or some ribbon cable commits sudoku.

It's a Celeron CPU. The fastest ddr4 ram it supports officially is 2999

14:00 Linus calling Andy to read something that is clearly English 🤣

Multiple partitions are still useful for system recoverability. Stick the library folders on a secondary partition (or preferably, second drive) and reinstalls of the OS become so much easier.

I love how Linus called Andy to tell him what the battery voltage was although it was written using normal decimal numbers

Ah Ali express, the hive of wisdom and budget Edit: Damnnn so many likes

The windows activation you were seeing there was KMS. They are checking their own KMS servers and registering via that method. KMSPico will do this on your own without calling home to China. You can setup the MiniKMS server on your own computer and have it call itself.

Impressive kit for the price. A suggestion for video: try and find out if any of the sketchy computer/network gear actually phone home or raise a suspicion of that (non standard firmware/chips, rootkits etc). Most suspect that some do but finding one such would make a great video

I never thought I'd see the day Linus playing Genshin