I'm actually doing a different angry video for this year :) I'm hoping to get it out end of Jan or first week Feb

That's always been true for electronics, and its especially true with cell phones. Technology doesn't improve just based on the calendar month. The only significant change in cell phone tech, for example, hasn't been apparent since the move to 5G -- which is still grossly underutilized. A scant bit more power and new camera processing software. That's all people are really paying for.

I would like for this to not br the case. Not that i am an intel fanboy, but i am actually looking forward to a world where the thinkpaf x1 carbon has something that resembles a descent internal graphics card. A thing the new meteor lake class promises.

Framework though!

​@mtadc1545 Yeah, Framework (and surprisingly the Tongfang resellers like XMG and Eluktronics) seem to be the winners this year. Even though the 16 inch Framework Laptop was announced in the third quarter of 2023 and planned to be released by the end of 2023, it was ultimately delayed for several reasons to fix several issues. However, thr transparency they showed while fixing these issues is commendable, which is why I still kept my pre-order (as well as nothing else having good Linux support with a 16 : 10 screen in the U.S.).

I would be cautiously optimistic. Lenovo has already shown their laptops won't charge at max USB-C rates unless you buy and use their own dedicated charger. If you also know the phone market, there's also many, many different battery technologies developing at the same time, resulting in different charging standards and speeds, even though they're all USB-C

yes, this is biggest problem for me now that I adopted "one charger" policy - looking now at legion slim 5 14 and wondering buy or wait

Framework actually delayed their chargers for the 16 inch laptops to get it right. So I'm sure their 180 watt charger will be the best on the market, at least until a 240 watt option appears (but one currently doesn't exist).

Maybe just use external nunpad keyboard, until you find one with numpad

This is really a worry for me too when I'll move off my elitebook. An external keyboard ends up taking up a precious port too

Always a deal breaker for me!!!

I always like those full size keyboard laptops

We definitely are this year. We have a tone more staff and team members than last year. Plus I was only full time half of last year. So that makes a big difference too

Spoiler alert: They aren't. The XPS 16, in particular, is even worse.

well too bad because you're gonna be hearing about it for the rest of your life. Also why would you be sick of it when it is literally going to change the world

@burtdanams4426 because it's going to lead mass unemployment and people will become even more dependent on technology

yes

Yes

It’s nothing but MS Access with Macros

Thanks for your support!

I'm on it right now doing the review ;)

if you are buying it just for class, then buy something older. Get like an m1 MacBook or something

AMD is pretty good on that front with their HS and especially U series CPUs. The problem is that very few laptops use them. 🤦‍♂️

They're evolving, just backwards.

You can get an adapter if you need more ports, also apply thermal paste to help cooling

They only seem to be on AMD Ryzen 7040 U/HS levels of efficient, or slightly below. In other words, Intel is still playing catch up to AMD from last year.

Asus ROG Flow x13.

Thanks mate. Glad I could deliver. So Jarrod and I did have a nice breakfast together, but other than that we were both working so hard that we didn't have time to really sit down and do something more substantial unfortunately. Re the soldered memory. I don't know but my guess is that thinner lighter laptops sell better.... but its a guess

The funny thing is Dell could have used CAMM to use LPDDR5x RAM and still made it swappable, but I think they just got greedy. Also, the managed to downgrade the storage of the XPS 16; the 2020 - 2023 XPS 15 & 17 both could take 2 SSDs; now they can only take one!

buy a MacBook Air

The Flow x13 is pretty good. Unfortunately, it still uses a M.2 2230 SSD, meaning you're currently limited to using that size of SSD, which at the moment only goes up to 2 TB, and is harder to find. The x16 from 2023 is a step back from the 2022 model in terms of battery life because the Intel 13th gen CPU uses more power and is less efficient than the AMD Ryzen 6000 CPU it was replacing. They're both still good options, but given they're both limited to an RTX 4070 at the top end (not a big deal for the x13 as that is literally a 13.4 inch laptop with a dGPU, but more annoying for the x16) and are quite expensive for what they offer. Granted, I do like the touch screen functionality and XG Mobile port on the laptops; just be prepared to spend a LOT of money on the RTX 4090 XG Mobile. Personally, they're some of the only Windows laptops I'd buy from 2023 or 2024.

@@cameronbosch1213 thanks for the advice. 13 is a bit too small for me. And tbh I think the x16 is too thick to be portable. So I'll wait for the 2024 yoga pro 9i 16

Yes we have the Spectre 14 here. It should be out this month. Just testing it now

@@JustJoshTech Great to hear! Thanks Josh, keep up the great work.

I got one and returned it. Not sure if it was a defective unit, but the OLED display had a visible pentile-like grid.

​@@livedreamsgThat might be a defective panel in the panel lottery. Try another model; it may just have been that one panel.

On thunderbolt 4 desktop gpu is not mucb better than similar mobile gpu cuz bandwith constrain , jarrod have compared mobile gpu and desktop egpu with thunderbolt , i wonder how egpu will perfrom on thunderbolt 5

It is mixed bag, basically

​@mrbobgamingmemes9558 Correct. Thunderbolt 4 is a really big bottle neck for eGPUs, to the point where I wouldn't recommend them over Thunderbolt 4. Maybe with Asus's ROG XG Mobile, however, it's propietary and only on a small subset of Asus laptops.

@@cameronbosch1213 yeah even with thunderbolt 5 i can only recommended egpu for mobile device like laptop, handheld , or both maybe, not mini pc cuz mini pc should be used by itself since the reason why mini pc is exist is because mini space usage , there is no way you can fit mini pc plus egpu but cannot fit mini itx pc

Framework?

@@cameronbosch1213 I checked their website and it is small arrow keys too. Framework is a good project and can match needs of lots of people but it has by design its own limitation. What if there is breakthrought in terms of termals or battery, and everything needs to be built differently ? Starting to 1600 or 1900 prebuildt for 16 inch seems expansive, considering that by design too the laptop is forced to be behind on lots of aspects. Furthermore, I was speaking in general. There are bad trends since almost 5 or 6 years. All trends that are a customer regression are a bad trend. Laptops make more noise, have more heat, less ports, numpad are removed, small arrows keys that are not user friendly to use, speakers become garbage while they were all decents or very good 10 years ago, build problems on almost every high-end models, battery life that don't progress, glossy screens which is a pain to work with, etc. Who are the people using small laptops in general ? It is students, people who move a lot, carry their laptop. These people need laptop with 10-12 hours battery, screen that could be discret with no annoying reflexion (in the library, classroom, train...), usable ports like hdmi to connect to a videoprojector to do a presentation, 2 jacks depending on the headset they have, no noise at all and no heat, numpad for productivity because trust me you write a lot of its when you are a student or work on excel, etc... Considering the small size of the laptops, and that people who bought them are not especially richs, they should be in a 800-1700 range maximum too.

The Slim 7 is now the Legion 7. It actually now gets _another_ redesign with two RAM slots.

We're fighting back here!

They did have them there. We have not found that the Intel Ultra Core 7 CPU does that in our testing - fast, cool, and quiet. I'm not sure what testing Dave did. So i can't speak to that.

​@@JustJoshTech oh, that's too bad, was hoping the duo would be quiet and have an okay battery life

Already requested

Thank you! That is the Slim Pro 9i from last year. Updates to it were minor and they didn't fix the port situation i.e. slower ports than 14, so I left it out

it may, honestly knowing the 13 (not plus anymore), it ran very hot

@@Eman009 fucking heartache man. What a sexy looking device. So sad that its so useless.

@@abhinandanbanerjee5471 yeah i know i was planning on buying it but instead I just got the 2023 razer blade 14 for 1999.99. I know its overpriced but its a really good laptop. I picked up an amazon warranty because razer's warranty is terrible.

Are you sure you can deal with non physical function row on keyboard ?

@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 my girlfriend has a m1 macbook pro

Last gen is bascially the same. 7840 HS or 8840 HS; get whatever is cheaper.

Whats wrong w keyboard

Qualcomm demoed two configs. One at 80w and another at 23w TDP. Even the 23w (which could be passively cooled, like an iPad or MacBook Air) had a pretty awesome 2780/14000 Geekbench 6.2. Also, keep in mind those are system TDP not CPU-only figures. The TDP of a 12-core M3 Pro only (CPU/GPU) is up to 30w.

By the end of the month afaik. I don't think Batch 1 units (which I am getting my unit in said batch) are shipping out until the end of the month.

Can wait too. I really wish them all the success. They are a very fresh and much needed wind on the laptop market.

@@JustJoshTech. when?

We do have one coming in but likely won't be out till end of March. There are alot of laptops in front of it

A big video on them coming next week

@@JustJoshTech Yasss!

Thank you