travisjunky

His most popular videos are mostly trashing on products or other companies. This is his sauce that gets him views. He made some points but let’s not pretend he doesn’t have something to gain, he could have given LTT the same opportunity to correct the mistakes like he gave other companies. This felt personal. 

That’s the risk you take when you send a prototype and not a consumer product to a reviewer. 1) I have enough sense to know it’s not the final product, 2) i understand that no matter the amount of testing, he can’t recommend it because there’s just too many other good value products out there that it can’t compete with. 
 
Their product became content. I fully believe if they could have made this product cheaper, they would have been taken more seriously. 

I’m highly skeptical of this piece. I think people fail to understand that these two are competitors. LMG is heavily investing in the testing space which GN occupies. Linus may take this to heart and implement changes that really do make an improvement, but people are failing to be skeptical about the seemingly good intentions. Steve clearly has a chip on his shoulder with how his video is pieced together and how he goes after some of the claims. His “I’m better than you” vibe is toxic but unfortunately it represents the majority of critics I see on YouTube in general. All these flawed people with perfect internet personas. 

Work/Play - using Sony M9 monitor with KVM switch. Work laptop connected via thunderbolt 3 dock. Ryzen 5950, Radeon 6700xt, noctua d15, Corsair 1000w PSU, 64gb ram, nvmE storage. Sound bar connected to PC, speaker on floor music, Samson microphone for live streaming, Logitech/Corsair peripherals. 

I've been using this laptop for a few months now.  I have the i5-8300H with the 1050 Ti and the 256GB SSD 8GB Ram.  Other than running a bit warm it's been decent.  I ended up re-applying the thermal paste and gained a few degrees on the cool end.  I've been playing MechWarrior online, Diablo 3, and just a touch of Fortnite.  I did sliiiiightly overclock the GPU (didn't touch the voltages, just clock speeds) and got a tad bit more performance, but left it at that.  
 
I will say, any laptop with similar specs and price will win over this one, if it runs cooler.  I do thermal throttle when gaming, although it's not constant and only at peak temperatures (after re-applying thermal paste).  That is my only complaint at this price point.  It does seem like they try to make up for it with their "Nitro Sense" program which lets you run fan speeds at max at the trade off of decibels, but that's a cover-up for bad engineering.