What a waste of time, this video has absolutely no point and no value 👎🏼

The rant format might just be my favorite review format

When you hear first line, you know - it's gonna be good video to watch

love this channel, NEVER stop

Didn't expect another video so (relatively) soon but love to see it, keep it up!

Worth the wait. Love these rants.

Bloody hell brother (I'm not Aussie, correction!), thank you - I got so much catharsis watching this, knowing others care about these kinds of important "details" - keep calling everything out!

its the type of content we need. real criticism about how it does in real world. KZfaq is full of "reviewers" that turn the laptop on, run some games on it and call it a day "great value, reccomended, buy it through my affiliate link below".

great video. Thanks for letting us know about all flaws of this laptop!

Please continue) first honest channel for the long time)

For the linux part, you can try to see if thermald is installed. thermald is the linux equivalent of intel DPTF and allows the processor to utilize thermal headroom above what's defined in the firmware. Another thing to try is this command: echo performance | sudo tee /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/policy*/energy_performance_preference which sets the epp target for all cores. I have an SFG14-71 that does not use above 35W without thermald and won't boost above 3.8Ghz on the p-cores without the second command.

I bought the XE5 model with 3070Ti early last year for a steep discount ($1300) to use as a work laptop. I share most of your grievances with it. The 4K OLED panel is lovely but it's about the only major win the laptop's got. The 12700H struggled to live up to its full potential thanks to GB's stupid tuning... even then, with brightness turned down and 99Wh battery, battery life was never great. I ended up selling it because the VPN client that's essential for my work keeps blue screening the laptop. Months after selling it the buyer contacted me about the display producing no output; luckily GB's local warranty took care of it, but it does remind me of the laptop's single biggest potential flaw: the display ribbon cable is exposed.

thank you for bringing up the lesser talked about aspects of performance laptop: how are they to live with as not just a performance object but an actual portable computer? i find that larger channels ONLY talk about the performance and not how it actually is to live with as a laptop. also i find your commentary on design durability catharitc, as a phone/computer repair tech. hinges explode constantly and these issues NEED to be more well known.

Maybe the performance issue on linux might be due to performance settings. I use ubuntu on my crappy old laptop and it limits the cpu to 2.00 ghz when it can turbo up to 3.4 ghz. I fixed it by switching it from balanced to high performance.

Have you experienced where it dies when on battery mode suddenly. and when you try to turn it on only logo lights on but black screen? This seems to be a common issue for aero 16 xe4 and xe5 but can't seem to find east solution or fix

I really wish you had more laptop to review

My issue with mine is the power button. I carry mine in a backpack to the coffee shop to find 9 out of 10 times it had turned on (hot and battery draining) while being transported. The power button stuck up just enough to be activated by the slight pressure of the closed screen being pressed on by my books in the backpack.

hey nn. what distro do u use? u did try changing ur cpu governor right? iusearchbtw

I personally cannot stand not having dedicated page and home/end keys. So numpad is a must or having that one extra row of keys at the right side.

Is that the Ideapad 5 Pro Gen 9/XiaoXin 14 Pro 2024 at 1:55? Please review that

this will be a good one

Can you make a review of a machenike or one of those Chinese laptops and see how good or bad they are ?

I've spent so long looking at potential replacements to my laptop, an HP 250 G6, because the keys are nicely spaced, it's not often noisy, and it just works. The next thing has to do the same and finding something suitable is excruciating.

You should review a system76 laptop. Never used one but they look like they have decent specs

The fan noise sounds about the same as my Tongfang (XMG core 17 2021 equivalent) laptop.

You can charge it via USB-C on the right side (the one nearer charging barrel port) but has to be 100W, it wont accept anything less

So that's why I can't get used to typing on my HP Elitebook! It's a 15.6" with a squished numpad, but the distance from centre q to to centre p is only 162 mm.

what's the model of that tiny Lenovo beauty?!?

I loved my clevo laptops. in fact im using one rn from 2016 because it outlived a laptop from 2020 and another from 2022. very robust laptop.

The sound in 12:53 reminds me of my dell precision 7540, the fans have this "whine". In my case is due to Sunon fans, I've seen other owners of the same machine swap the fans for Delta branded ones, which have a more tolerable noise.

Wait, you mean you don't use the palm rests to cook food on while you're gaming? But isn't that what they're there for?

My T470 thinkpad is also 175mm, but my mechanical keyboard is actually 170mm

Lol, got this at random, i have similar feelings to my old AORUS x3 plus V7? I think, was one of the best gaming laptops that "Just kinda works i guess" i used to mine on it when i was bored xD had a similar fan sound profile too, was it perfect? No lol, has many similar features (I have no idea if i hated writing on it, i did often game, but looking back, it might very well of had that same keyboard issue I have owned 1 laptop that i disliked typing on and it was either my aorus, or a cheap TUF asus?) I just never heard of a "Glowing review" from a aorus laptop again, then they done the Gigabyte aero aorus merge after that for the range, mostly a name change. Also i can relate to the linux issues, i messed around with linux that had identical problems on the x3v7 i had and just thought it was kinda normal, yet many other devices i have since then booted linux on have been fine, including the Stealth 16 i have had for a week hah. The stealth 16 studio, is it perfect? lol no, its likely gonna burn your hands off how hot the top gets, general temps are fine tbh, but i got good hopes that this will last me some time, had it for a week but its been so easy to get along with and that says a lot about any laptop, I also use a Lifebook u7313 with linux that is just a blessing to use overall.

1:33 ok on my XPS 9500 this is 171-172 mm - hmm, never had problems typing but I'm average height/size hands.

What happened to your mic on this video? Audio quality ain't the best

I have the Aorus XE5 - basically same spec just with DDR5 and Aorus gamer thingy. The Fan is loud as hell just like your and the gigabyte crapware is shite of course but I've never experienced the hot surface on the palm area - prob maybe because mine is built out of plastic material and yours are metal I guess?

we want mooooooore videos

I think you're ready for an M3 Pro Macbook Pro

I can relate, it even LOOKS abrasive...

Another dope video with a crap laptop

W yap session

I have the 17 inch version with the 4k mini led panel, I didnt have any issues with the keyboard, I used many keyboard and I fel like its a good keyboard and I have massive hands. The 17 inch version charges via USB C just fine, but only 100W and upwards, which sucks because id love to use a 65W charger. The speakers sound fine. The brightness buttons dont work on mine either, but I always run max brightness anyways, the gigabyte software didnt fix this either. Gigabyte Control Center, is the worst Laptop software ive ever used, Razer Synapse by far the best and armory crate actually being the second best, I dont get the complaints people have with it. I use windows, a Linux VM runs fine. The biggest problem with the Laptop is the cooling solution, its not been scaled up to the bigger chassis, theres giant empty spaces inside the chassis, the fans are super quite, the CPU and GPU temps are super cool and yet the palmrest area is painfully warm, gaming on it with the built in keyboard, is impossible. I bought it because I wanted a powerful mini led Laptop with a numpad for less than 1.5k, its pretty good at that, basically the best Laptop with the wrong software and painful keyboard palmrest. My next Laptop will be the Lenovo Yoga pro 9i with the miniled panel and the 4060, its around 2k and it doesnt have any of the issues. Also the Battery, I minimized System Wattage down to 10W and yet I only get 2 hours and that point it cant decode videos at all, which my Razer Book 13 could easily do at 3W, intel is to blame for that one. But the battery life is so bad, people forget that the other stuff apart from screen, CPU and GPU also draw power and this thing absolutely chugs it. the Razer Book ran on 4W absolute total just fine (calculated from full charge draining rate) this thing without CPU and GPU draws at least 20W if not more, its horrendous. Its such a shame, because its the best quality chassis ive ever seen in a Laptop, even beats the macbooks in terms of shear girth, the screen is the most beautiful ive ever seen too. The I7 and the 3070ti is such a good combo if intel wasnt sniffing powder.

Having to install proprietary Windows-only software to have basic stuff like brightness keys to work makes this laptop an INSTANT pass for me. No Linux support for basic functions, no buy. Even if it's windows only, its only a matter of time until the driver gets too old and not supported into new windows versions anymore. Not to mention all the other Linux problems you mentioned. Getting a laptop that is extremely dependent on Windows is an extremely stupid move in 2024+

Man, I have a bone to pick with Gigabyte. A while ago a client brought his laptop to me with a fan issue. This machine was under a year old, so I decided to go directly to Gigabyte to purchase a new set of fans. They refused to sell me parts and said parts are no longer available. This machine was technically still under warranty, but I simply wanted to purchase fans from them for a quicker turn around time. Is that even legal? Speaking of purchasing parts directly from manufacturers - Asus, why the bloody hell won't you let me buy parts from you? I hate MSI machines for their hinges and various other issues, but at least they'll sell me parts. Now I'm the one ranting.

15:57 "They've built something that's so close to greatness, then just forked it up" - my feelings about windows laptops since... forever. Been waiting forever for a proper, minimally-compromised, minimally-annoying machine.

I think the keyboard size thing depends on people's preferences. My ZBook Studio G7's Q-to-E size is also 175mm with over 34mm of dead space, plus my hand is on the larger size...but I can type on it all day without issues. And holy shit, that fan noise. If you didn't tell me that it's actually fan noise from a laptop, I'd start thinking of it as a torture device invented by the CIA. Also unrelated, but the Aero 16's hinges doesn't seem to be very good either in my opinion, seeing as how it's wobbling around from just you lightly touching the laptop. I'd never expect to see hinges that loose from a laptop this expensive, the last time I've seen this is from a MY2022 HP Victus...of which were very famous for having a really shitty hinge design.

I swear to God if youtube just ate my comment... Urh. Okay, retyping a TL:DR version. Linux part: Try throttled, and manually adjust the TDP/Wattage/power states. If you need any help, lemme know! Cheers! EDIT: Might also be power states not working, and being locked down to "power saving"

Get an MSI GT 83VR and call it a day

Sound like a jet turbine.

15 minutes crying because of the keyboard, bruh

And this is why ''creator'' laptops are forever going to be a giant scam 99% of the time. Because even though OLED is cheap now, OEM's still don't put it on gaming laptops because they know for a fact that gaming laptops will crap all over these so called creator laptops if they got those high end OLED's. Even my budget nitro 5 charges via USB c though only supports upto 135w. It'd likely work as a very good creator laptop had Acer put a 2.8k OLED 60/90/120hz panel option and a 1080p 60/90/144hz option. Thats on top of coming with soldered ram most of the time, limiting your upgrade potential. The 6800h ddr5 ram nitro 5 can potentially get upto 96gb of ram. Its 3 storage slots can accommodate upto 24tb of ssd storage. And you'd still get ~6hr of battery life due to ryzen. What makes me mad is the lack of advanced bios options on gaming laptops and creator ones. Why is it important? Because it allows me to bypass intel's dumb UV restriction by doing the AC loadline tweak to UV instead like I've done by accessing my nitro 5's advanced bios. The IMON tweak lets me make my 3070ti use its full 150w TDP no matter what. And the nitro 5 handles this increased wattage just fine and with a repaste with good thermal paste I can even keep temps well under control. It handles it so well that CP2077 maxed out at 1440p with DLSS Q + mods + reshade still let my i7 12650h hold 3.8 to 4.1ghz with ~50-60w being used and the 3070ti holding a solid 150w TDP with 1700-1740mhz clocks.

My Chinese 400$ taofeng laptop works better on Linux - CPU idle temps, response time, even battery lasts longer. I know gigabyte is not the best engineering company to buy laptops from(many vrm problems and general cooling issues), but everything what you talking about... Why they still exist? How they survived? Who's still buying that s$lt

Hate this company , i wasted on a gigabyte laptop aero xd 3500 euros ,worst decision in my life. Btw all my friends call this laptop the "Vacum" is that loud .

I just want a chinese manufacturer to copy the ThinkPad T480, everything it does well. And it does _everything_ well, though I want to have a 9-cell 99Wh battery instead of a 6-cell battery that you can't hold the laptop on to. Power Bridge isn't necessary as it would drive the R&D and production costs up a lot, but limiting the charge to 60-80% and having a 99Wh battery is. Lenovo doesn't want to produce laptops that you can use for a long time anymore. They threw a bone to the legacy ThinkPad fans with the newly announced T14, but looking at the promo material - they again radically changed the final version compared to the prototype, removing one of the RAM slots and turning into yet another T480s-type overpriced trash. I DON'T WANT A NEEDLESSLY EXPENSIVE THIN LAPTOP, JUST MAKE ONE WITH STEEL HINGES, PROPERLY FAT AND ROBUST!!!