This Laptop REALLY Needs A Glory Hole
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What kind of laptop gaming experience you can get on one of the most popular hardware configurations in this price point?
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I havent finished the video yet but that is one hell of a title weedman
ok
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Yeah, talk about putting yourself out there
I felt it best summarized my experience with the laptop. 😂
@@DawidDoesTechStuff you don't say
everyone: rtx 3050
dawid: glory holes
glory holes or rtx 3050 that's a tough choice🤣
I notice that with how the cooling is, where the ram is and the SSD slots are it could all be covered with one L shaped panel.
Such a stupid design. It's not like it's an esthetically super clean design where a panel would "ruin" the look (like the bottom of a laptop needs to be smooth and seamless anyway). It probably saved them five cents per laptop.
For sure! It would have been so easy.
Makes me wonder if laptop should come with some plastic or rubber pads that can be swapped with the default ones ,do they really get any air from that 1 mile-meter gap left ?
@@Assassin5671000 Often times no, this is a big part of why some laptops get way to hot. The ones that don't have additional ways to pull air. My TUF FX505 for example has a vent on the top and a vent on the back that air can be pulled in.
Ive been a Pc tech for cose to 30 years , probably a bit longer. FEW PEOPLE, could open a case like that without breaking clips.
Are those clips meant to be broken as a security feature? Or it's just bad design?
I know right! They are so easy to break.
I have the 5800/3060 version of the same machine. Opening it is a pain, but, if you are gentle the clips are fine. I've had mine open three times and no broken clips.
@@OtterlyInsane seems you have talent
@@ulrichkalber9039
Or a bit of mechanical sympathy.
"I'm going to finish testing it and then I'll break it" 😂
Dawid should make a t-shirt that says that...
If you change the profile to manual in armoury crate you can adjust the power limits their maximum. May help gain some more performance too.
I think it would just thermalthrottle after that
I did try that and it seemed to perform the same as Turbo mode. Thanks for the suggestion though.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Did u play with laptop plugged to charger? Most windows laptop lose like 70% of their performance :/
@@stolczus7280 Yes. It was plugged in. Next silly question.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff I got the same problem with my pc since a year:S really tried everything, nothing worked..
Just think of that new gap in the frame as extra "ventilation" :D
I don't even understand breaking the clips can create a gap when there's 11 screws holding the panel on. You should be able to break every single one and have it still fit tightly.
No shit.
@@sweaterfish6311bending
It helps cool the track pad really nicely. 😂
Sigh, remember those days, when a laptop came standard with ports to the RAM, the HD drives and the battery was removable. 😩
The battery is still removable it just takes a bit more work
Ram ports are standard in gaming laptops
It could have been way worse. They could have just soldered it all down.
Yah..next thing you know they're gonna pull a Samsung phone and glue it all together...because who cares about user serviceability right...😌😏. Planned obsolescence..... Laptop battery dead? Need more RAM? Oh well..looks like you gotta give us more money. Drain your wallet and fill them landfills!
Yeah, if only glory holes where the norm on laptops. It would make upgrading and fixing stupid OEM design decisions so much easier. Plus then you wouldn't have to brutalize their products as much... maybe they are masochists :D
Anna go look at some monitors or something
I don't understand why Asus hasn't hired you and Dawid for product development yet.
Also..... your videos are getting very close to NSFW with these titles 😂😂
Hopefully its not intentional, like Apple does with their products. we should all have the "right to repair" items we own. my MSI laptop (w/1660ti) luckily comes with 2 sticks, but its mounted on the keyboard side of the motherboard. UGHHHHHHHHHH.
love the video tho! like always!
After that taser incident I always raise an eyebrow whenever Anna brings up anything to do with BDSM.
I feel like the companies get off on the idea of customers breaking their devices to fix a spec flaw.
1:35 - Unboxing
2:20 - First Impressions (Design, IO, Display)
3:50 - Teardown (First Attempt)
5:07 - The Specs
6:02 - Firing it up and Testing Games (8 GB RAM)
8:06 - Teardown (Second Attempt)
10:19 - Testing Games (16 GB RAM)
12:10 - Final Thoughts
Thanks timestamp guy
So where's the glory hole?
Legend
What laptop is this?
@@derex47 ROG Strix G15
And now, forever more, access panels will be referred to as "Glory Holes" and it is all Dawids fault
when i seen the title i thought he ment the laptop was so sexy he needed a glory hole till i watched the video.
I would much prefer the angled connector on the back or anywhere almost, straight ones tend to stick out and act like a lever and it's a great way to break a port which probably is solder to the mainboard.
they should give you both then you can choose which one works for your situation
If you pull up task manager, you can see how many ram slots are in use. If it was soldered on it would say 1 of 1 channel or 2 of 2. With an empty slot it will say 1 of 2 in slots used.
“Lady’s love nothing more than a dude whipping out some rog” then you mention doing honey lmao you win my internets for today
Never seen any of your videos til this one, I love your review style! Subbed
I like this dude for reviews throughout the ram configurations and full specifications of what to buy on the ram. More like this please i'm gonna share your page dawid salute! Btw make nvme ssd and ram tutorials too.
You should get a bonus from your sponsors for the extra effort you put in.
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As long as you all don’t hate the sponsored spots that’s enough of a bonus for me. 👍
I accidentally watch more of yours than i skip. Good work.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff Your sponson spots are legendary. Your Linode advert is basically a meme now.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff You fit the sponsors in very well... Others channels totally feel like hard CUTS to clip in their ads... Yours flow better, music vid ect... They dont make me quick skip past..... like most "Populour" channels... where you see then cut and paste.... clash of ..... whatever click bait Game sponsor... Appreciate you Dawid!
If you need to have substantive skills to be able to open a laptop without breaking it just to add a RAM simm (or any other "user serviceable part") -- that's a major design flaw.
I read the tech manual for laptops to see how to open.
So many tricky clips and hidden screws...
I have only recently bumped into your channel.But I can't get enough 😂. You are hilarious mate.
I have a now dead Asus G1S and I loved how all the upgradeable components had separate lids for quick access. Just a couple screws and you're in, no prying required.
I'm with you 100% on the need for a upgrade access panel or a revision on the bottom plate that is not so horrible to open. I would be pissed off to have to go through all that to upgrade ram, storage, etc...
I get the same problems with mine. I bought one with a ryzen 9, 8 cores, 300 hz 1080p monitor so the bottle neck is real 😂. I’ve been getting very worried recently because I got a 4K monitor and my cpu has been pushing 90c but hearing you I’ve gotten some confidence back, thank you. I’ve torn mine open a few times now and I don’t remember anything falling off and I was pretty cautious on a clean table. I woulda cried if something fell off mine I’m just getting into PC gaming and have had so much trouble but loving it overall.
Nice touch on the typeface. Very subtle addition to the theme
great review, thanks! Always a pleasure watching your content
6:15 The angled charging cable is actually quite helpful and easy to plug in when you are sitting in front of the laptop on a table
Also it allows for you to tie the end of that cable to a leg of a cooling stand, so when you lift the laptop up to put in a bag, you can leave the power adapter end in place and it wont fall behind the desk (along with other cables you may want to leave in place). It's much harder to do with a straight on connector. I'd always choose a 90 degree over straight on.
I am quite surprised that the thing is almost glued together, considering the optional ssd upgrade and especially the necessary ram upgrade.
-I also enjoyed the Honey music video, which i may or may not have already turned into a ringtone...
My bet is that the internals and case are designed by two different departments. The hardware team was trying to make something mostly good within their allotted budget, margin, and other requirements. Where as the case design team said “let’s look good to management by cutting an extra part that needs tooling/assembly, coming in under our budget, and screwing over the hardware team’s efforts.” Management also probably said, “Yea and that will help prevent most people from seeing the terrible RAM configuration we saddle them with because RAM is expensive and hard to get a good margin on.”
@@Pies_By_Arvid The one stick ram in laptops have bin going on for alot of years... it's a good thing Dawid and others are shining a light on it.
Yesterday i decided to inspect and order parts to upgrade an old ultrabook i bought in 2012, when i realised, it too only had 1 stick of ram...🤦🏻♂️
...but yeah, it might be exactly what you are saying, about 2 departments working on each part, and the department manager having bin a little to easy, to persuade going along with the 2 separate design teams ideas.
4:22 Oh thank God, I can relax and enjoy the rest of the review now. Was wondering what the heck Dawid meant in the title. xD
Great review, sir. Definitely agree on the clips, at all points.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who places importance on being able to open the laptop with one hand. It just smacks of quality when you can easily open the lid of a laptop
I have last year's version of this laptop. i7-10870H and RTX 2070, which cost $1300USD. It had 2x8GB@3200MT/s. My version does have a glory hole and has 3 MVNe slots. I upgraded to 32GB of RAM and added 2x 2TB NVMe's for a total of 5TB of NVMe storage. It's a great little machine, runs cool, and is plenty fast for my needs.
Even my 1991 Amiga computer(it was a microcomputer where the entire machine, including motherboard, floppy drive and later a hard disk was housed inside the keyboard for plugging into a standard TV via RF cable, a really common configuration on low price gaming computers back then) had a glory hole for putting RAM and an expansion card in.
They have no excuses in 2022.
I always take my Dawid videos with a hint of madness and a side of LINODE. 👌
You got me at glory and I couldn't stop watching. Man love the content!
They need to legally call it "IPS level" or "IPS like" because LG did a dick move and trademarked "IPS".
LG has word marks for their IPS logos but not a trademark on "IPS" itself (which could be easily contested). That just means no one else can use their artwork. It's IPS like or IPS level because it is probably uses alternate tech like PLS.
@@kamX-rz4uy PLS is an alternative form of IPS, original IPS technology is patented by LG, all other IPS monitors are basically copycat of the technology, so PLS can be marketed as IPS
The laptop is TN
@@re4796 LG made improvements but did not come up with or patent the original IPS technology. They were about 10 years late to the party but ended up becoming the biggest manufacturer. If this is a TN panel then making it sound like it's basically an equivalent is very misleading.
@@kamX-rz4uy they did actually patent the IPS technology, they just bought the rights to it and ownership of the patent.
They did nothing with it.
@@re4796 I don't know where you are getting this but only partially correct. They bought the rights to use the original patents (but not exclusive rights) and then patented their changes. Other manufacturers can make IPS panels without infringing on LG's patents however to use those improvements they have to pay LG. Or they can do what Samsung did and come up with a similar alternative.
I own this laptop with a slightly different configuration. I had to open it because the stock Mediatek wifi card was crap, and I replaced it with an Ax200 from Intel. I was careful while opening it but still managed to break a clip too 😅
did you also upgrade the ram to dual channel for better performance?🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
i have the G15A version of this laptop. to say it rips is an understatement. the bottom panel does kinda suck but after opening it once, its not too bad now. really happy with the build and its nice to see the cassis doesnt change too much.
omg that title, im dying, u are my second linus tech tips!!
Ohhh, maybe I'll actually get a date if I whip out my ROG?
Only if it has RGB mate .
LGBTQ+ friendly lights are a must!
I mean that's how Dawid landed me. He whipped out his ROG and I was like HELLLLYYYEEAAHHHH
@@AnnaDoes 🤣🤣🤣
Wait 62% srgb???? This must be horrendous
i was about to type about this
Braver man than me.. you kept going after the first bad cracking sound while taking the back off.. I would have just put the screws back in and used it for web browsing.. its crazy how hard some manufacturers make it..
Thanks for the advice about the DRAM. I just cancelled an order for 1.35V XMP SO-DIMMs and ordered some 1.2V sticks reported to work in my laptop model.
This laptop reminds me of Legion 5 in quite a lot of ways
Yeah mate I have a 17 inch one with a 3060.
It even kinda looks like one to be honest.
@@DawidDoesTechStuff yea, you're right btw love the merch!
If only this laptop opened like the Legion, but I don't feel like giving Lenovo credit for their repairability right now because I am very salty about the whole CPU locking thing as it directly affects me. Every one of my main PCs has been a beast with various Xeons from old workstations all around a decade old at the time.
@@steelfox1448 yea, I'm pretty salty about that too, but the opening procedure looks fairly similar to me
@Dawid Does Tech Stuff the datasheet 5:12 says it's an 8-core Ryzen 5 5600H. The sticker on the laptop 2:37 says it has a six-core CPU. Also here 5:16 it indicates a six-core CPU. ???
You should try new glasses, or re-read what you thought you read.
@@Chris-6768wv
It clearly says “3.3GHz octa-core AMD Ryzen 5 5600H” in the first time stamp. You should try new glasses, or re-read what you thought you read.
@@-Burb Yep, you are right. Too much Bourbon! Apologies Mr. Williams.
Dawid better drop a whole mixtape after those fire bars in the Honey ad. Don’t leave us hanging dude.
mate you were the only CZcamsr that has been able to get me to watch a honey ad . man that so unexpected haha haha. i very often skip them straightaway. send you greetings from Colombia not Columbia hahaha.ome
I'm still using a few year-old run-of-the-mill Dell i5 laptop and it opens effortlessly.
Me with my Dell precision M6800 :
-Remove battery
-Remove one screw
-Slide off panel
-Congrats, you have access to the whole fucking PC (i'm litterally not joking, this thing is a repair/maintenance beast !)
Manufacturers could just make it easy to open with or without a RAM and SSD cover. After all laptops need to be opened periodically to clean the dust out.
But that would be pro consumer and we're not allowed to have nice things.
Phone manufacturers are snickering at this comment........
I’ve got an original Omen x, with a 1080.
Just had it open to replace the battery. I didn’t break any clips that I noticed, but there’s 10 screws holding the back on. Only 2 are captive, and on reassembly I was wishing they all were.
Iirc the instructions mentioned using a spudger to open it. But my old battery was swelling and each screw removed opened the back more and more.
I’d love to see you review the variants with the RTX 3050ti and the 3060 both with 16gig of ram as I’m trying to decide between the two currently. Great vids - keep them coming!
That sound of the plastic clips giving way always sends a shiver down my spine.
I was expecting a linode..not a honey, 2022 is already throwing me curveballs
:D
I think you may have given the term "Glory Hole" a whole new meaning. Some of your viewers are going to innocently use that term to describe access to a computer. You're a funny guy and I like watching your videos for a bit of light entertainment rather than a tech tech channel that can be a bit dry. Added bonus - sometimes I actually learn something.
I like the angled power cable. Uh, all you have to do is turn it toward whichever way the power source is. If it comes straight out the back it can limit your laptop placement as well as more wear on the cord, as every power cord phone owner knows
Just love your videos 😂 Love The humor and easy getting around 👌 However please add Chapters to your videos. It’s quite nice to have 😉
I always applaud the courage for ditching the webcam.
Just brake all the clips so that it is held together only by the screws. Alot easier to get in the next time. :)
Dawid, I would agree. My wife got one of these in Australia, but I was concerned about thr drive space. My old ROG had an upgrade port, which I used to put in new drives (including an nVME) so I knew I could do this with hers. But no access port. Was a real pain to get the back off, but you need to be really careful with the screws. They are a mix of long and short, and I made the mistake of placing a long one into the short holes with resulting damage to case on top 😭
I do agree that the clips is balls and I do not know why include them when it have screws, but the technique to remove them is start at the front and when you reach the ventilation on the side, use the guitar pick to push the vents out and down. I had a hard time myself.
Not sure how much of an issue this is for other people, but the screen colors are absolutely terrible to the point I returned the 5900HX/3060 version. All the colors are extremely washed out , (reds orange, blues teal, etc) and no contrast at all. Ended up going with an Eluktronics Max-17 for the same price
That is a setting that you can tweak in software normally
@@joelthenoob9868 i slap my monitors saturation on 200% better colors imo
@@joelthenoob9868 There is no way to tweak the software, it's a limitation of the low color capability of the panel. If i recall correctly its 77% of SRGB. Also 20ms+ response times
@@MaxTheCenturion ok, some gaming laptops I have worked with have completely adjustable colour. I haven't worked with one of these recent Rog laptops. It was a suggestion
@@joelthenoob9868 Most do have good settings! I just wanted to save someone the sadness I had when I started it up for the first time. You can even see the pink ROG logo in the video that's supposed to be red on start up LOL
Clipping coupons, the great American pastime.
With all the money that ASUS have, if they are cheaping out on not having a glory hole at least they should design the case to open only by removing screws.
the ladies really love a dude whipping out some ROG🤣🤣🤣
I can see the purpose of the 90 degree power plug. If you lift the laptop from the front leaning the back against the table top,, this prevents you front putting as much leveraged pressure on the port and breaking it.
OMG i have been watching your vids for ages now. i love them so much,
This dude has by far the most hilarious tech videos out there.
I really liked the review and Asus should, probably does, know better on the design and memory configuration.
I have the exact same model and my GPU usage is pegged at 99% in most games. Maybe it's some defect in the specific unit you got? Great review btw!
I will test it and then break it - Love your videos Dawid keep up the good work :)
Ive had Asus Laptops for all of my life and they are always extremely painful to disassemble and you slowly get desensitized to the cracks when opening it.
What the heck I’ve had the exact opposite experience. Which laptops have you had? My Q550LF, Q304UA, and G14 were all super easy to open. I’m disappointed they decided to make the laptop in the video so annoying to open.
For 1k€ I got a legion 5 with a 5600h, 3060, 16 GB Ram and a 512 GB SSD back in November, so this looks like a bad deal to me.
Here that's like €1200 you got a super good deal
Legion 5 is no cap best value laptop on market imo.
@@chriscross3924 yeah and ?
@@TheOriginalBruh He's trying to tell you he overpaid; the same model goes for 1160€ now 😉
@Donald Nemesis Gaming
I think he knows it’s a better value in terms of specs, he’s just saying it’s ugly.
I own this laptop build with rt3070 from release date 02.2021, and cant say anything bad about it. It works great! Screen , battery, performance, keyboard, plugs, hinge, build is great! Not slim but compact enough!
Theres something totaly wrong with your settings if you have 60% gpu usage, my mashine works 100%, thottles a little on gpu side, but still can pull of 50% more performance and fidelity then my Playstation 5!
The stock ram stick look like the el-cheapo 1Rx16 density ones. Swapping that out with the actual pair of the Ripjaws would probably yield better performance overall in gaming.
Glory Hole? Okay Am I On The Right Website?
I do miss the good old days when laptops came with small removable panel cutouts on the bottom for both RAM and HDD swaps. I don't know if I would use the same terminology for them as Dawid did, but those were handy.
Back in the day this was a necessity for a slightly different reason, though.
HDDs were prone to fail, for example. I remember buying HDDs, installing them at home, having them fail within a day and returning them to the store up to three times.
It was a similar story with RAM, even with new laptops (shipping and handling in particular as well as non-ideal storage conditions where reasons this would happen).
To be perfectly honest, all this is just a symptom of the times. Way back when (e.g. 10 to 15 years ago and earlier), you'd buy your PC stuff (and laptops) in a brick and mortar store an just have a store technician handle upgrades (they'd usually do it for free if you bought the upgraded parts there). This also meant that it was often retailers who were offering different configurations instead of manufacturers, so small upgrades had to be easy. Ever since online retail took over, it's the manufacturer that configures your machine and they want you to buy the upgrade from *them* instead (with a considerable mark-up). In light of this manufacturers today don't care about how difficult upgrades are, unless the target market is business customers.
This was a fun one as I have a version of this laptop. Same casing and I have had to take it apart once so I really felt your pain taking the back panel off for sure. The temps on mine can get up there. Have see GPU at 89⁰C but usually hovers around 80-83⁰C with most games I play at max settings. CPU stays around 70s. All in all I'm very happy with it. The fan can be VERY loud. I cranked it up one time just to see how loud it got and compared that to how much it helped the Temps. It would drop the Temps a good 7⁰ or so but damn that noise.
Specs
Ryzen 9 5900HX
16 GB RAM (pretty sure single stick 😔)
RTX 3070
1080p 300Hz screen
I doubt it would make much of a difference, but did you use the original RAM stick with one G.Skill stick, or did you use both of the new sticks? Also I assume you tried Windows power settings. Fun vid as always!
I had one of these before it was stolen and they actually are pretty good
Stolen how?
I go to college and one day I went to go use the bathroom and I left my laptop at a table. As you can guess someone came up and took it. Unfortunately the guy never got caught. 2022 has been off to a lovey start lol
@@cgarepair1487 lmao is it hard to ask someone nearby to watch the laptop for you?
It just didn’t cross my mind lol
I actually bought one of these a couple weeks ago. There is a 300Hz with dual channel memory version (the one I got), it’s actually incredible price to performance value.
You mean 3000mhz?
@@dracopug 300hz refresh rate maybe
Was it the Advantage edition with AMD GPU? Those were incredible value for sure
Same. Got the G15 advantage on a deal at best buy US $1500..(November?) just in the last month I think I saw they had $1400 or $1450!!
300hz display, 8/16 core 5900HX RX6800M, the 16 gb ram they put in is Single rank 2 dimms but dual rank or Dimms with tighter timings will increase the performance around 15% meaning you still gotta open the damn chassis
Wait they’re selling a laptop with a 3050 and a 300Hz display? Or does it have a better GPU with your model? I can’t imagine the 3050 could run anything at even close to a consistent 300 fps.
Spot on review, hilarious attitude - yeah you may have been a little bit clumsy because SOMETIMES there are screws under the pads / stickers so the manufacturer know if has been opened.
This is all of course, more of a reason to add easier upgrade options.
Thanks for tip for my future lap top propably
The Legion 5 definitely needs a glory hole too. It's kinda' the same design and was more of a PITA than it needed to be just to install an additional m.2 drive. And for the record, I used to be field engineer for HP and Dell. I've opened thousands of laptops. So while I can open it without breaking anything, I agree that this can be designed better, and other laptops are. But at least there are two physical slots for RAM. Getting real sick of these gaming laptops with one DIMM soldered to the board.
This is designed to never be user serviced. Glory hole at the minimum, being able to completely take the bottom off without fragile clips and I/O in the way would be best.
Yeah the “physical design” of being serviced is bad, but it’s just criminal that the spec REQUIRES it to be serviced to get decent performance.
i enjoyed the sound of Dawids laptop opening grunts
Something to add here! Upgrade the ram to x8 instead of x16 if you can. This can sometimes make huge performance difference, because x16 is much denser thus increasing the timings which can slow the computer down. LTT made video on that
Guess I'm part of the 1% who's opened this type of laptop twice without breaking anything 😂
Same here bro. I remember ripping mine apart 3 dabs deep 🤣
this rtx card/laptop is slower than last gens lowest tier rtx card so thats cool
You're mixing laptop and desktop SKUs. Laptop GPUs are always slower than their desktop counterparts. Sure, you can complain about the laptop 3050 being slower than desktop 2060, but that's totally missing the point.
@@samiraperi467 you've missed the point but thank you for... well im not sure but have a nice day
@@samiraperi467
The 3050 laptop card is slower than the 2060 laptop card is what they’re saying
I really appreciate your drive. Sometimes you just have to cram your spluger in the available hole and hope you can finish without permanent damage or at least no VD (visual damage).
The groaning when Dawid opens a laptop case is always hilarious.
I won't ever buy another ASUS laptop. Everyone I know with ASUS laptops has disposed of them in like a year because they have battery issues, trackpad issues or start falling apart. I also forgot to mention that ASUS has been caught repeatedly now killing the performance of Ryzen laptops by shipping them with single channel RAM configurations, and choking off airflow. This laptop seemed to have thermals under control, but in the past there were identical Intel and AMD models, and the AMD models had plastic blocking off a lot of the vents on the bottom. I can't remember if it was you or another CZcamsr but they took a dremel and removed the plastic and then it didn't overheat anymore.
whaat? ive never heard this
Yeah the old budget Asus stuff definitely had that issue. ROG is pretty good tho
My mom's old laptop still works fine. It's ancient.
And by works fine, I mean, works despite at least 1 major fall due to our dogs pulling it off the table while charging, and requires constant feeding by virtue of only having wall power.
But besides that? It still held up super well. I recently got her to get a new laptop, which she admits definitely now that it was necessary, but the old one was super great.
So I can't deny it wasn't falling apart, BUUUUUUT that was no fault of Asus' product.
I’ll only buy Asus laptops. Ive owned 3 in the past 13 years and all of them are still working fine. My current laptop is a 2020 G14, and before that I had a Q550LF and a Q304UA. The only issue I’ve ever had was a hard drive failure on my Q304UA but thats a super easy upgrade/fix once I swapped it with an SSD.
FIRST!!
This would also be a good IT laptop. That Ethernet port on the back is nice to have.
You are spot on, there is absolutely no reason it needs to be this hard to open. We all know it's to stop upgrading/fixing.
i've taken apart like 10-15 new rog laptops and never had the plastic clips broken. you just have to unscrew the bottom right screw will will pop things off nicely
I've upgraded RAM in one of these recently. Looks like you have an iFixit Kit. I recommend using the Blue Sticks instead f the guitar picks.
I have an ASUS TUF with a 3060. I had all kinds of performance issues I couldn't figure out. Changing profiles helped, but not enough. Removing Armory Crate and all the ASUS software fixed all my issues.
I've got another RoG laptop that uses the same body shell (G15 Advantage Edition) and yeah, the nightmare clamshell and dubiously durable ribbon cables are baffling when you finally get inside and find that the motherboard is so easy to service. When I first got my laptop I immediately went for an SSD upgrade, and because of inexperience on my part I had to try several times before I got the SSD working. Every time I tugged on a ribbon cable or began to crack open the clamshell I felt like I was defusing a bomb. At least the many broken clips now littering my desk and carpet will make getting inside for regular cleanings easier.
The sound you make when the laptop snaps open omg hilarious
My legion 5 has the same issue, to get at the upgradeable components the whole back bezel has to come apart, I bought a used zbook g2 (workstation quadro gpu from yesteryear) and it just has a nice latch, the g3 actually went back to the full back bezel design but much easier to remove than lenovo. I miss the individual coverings of MUCH older lappies, a zbook predecessor the elitebook (the obama laptop) had individual door thingies for the gpu, the mem and hdds/ssds. It just brought back memories of how I always wanted a fully modular laptop with discrete graphics (via mxm) and it never happend, instead we regressed and now you can't even upgrade the cpu (most these days are bgas).
Was at a coffee spot listening to your teardown and had my headphones in at a pretty reasonable volume. Anyway, I dropped my phone, pulled out my headphones while scrambling to catch my phone, and then 8:35 - 8:41 happened. Yup, time to leave the coffee shop.
David both the video and the moaning are on point 😂😂😂
You need to review more laptops buddy this was fun lol
Just watching you ripping that poor thing open was painful because it brought back memories of me having to do that with my son's Asus laptop two yrs ago when we wanted to add a hard drive and upgrade the ram. So many screws, but worse all.the weird angled corners to be pried open. We got it open and upgraded, but I swore I'd never do it again. Now he needs a new SSD drive 😩
Surprisingly the best laptop I've had for ease of upgrading was a Lenovo I owned many years ago... Three covers that were easy to unscrew, one for ram, one for the hard drive bay, and one to replace the battery.
I have the G15 Advantage Edition which has the exact same design besides the red accents for it being the Advantage edition. Opening that thing up sucks for the first time but once you open it its far easier every sucessive time
I have an older version of this laptop with a GTX1650 in it and it’s one of the most comfortable laptops I’ve ever used. Not super powerful but for I do with it, it gets the job done well