BillyCool

Oh cool. More fossil fuel power plants being powered back on just for the sake of mining virtual currency that people decided to attribute value to. Just what the world needed.

What we need is proper, working, full speed 4G, not 5G...

What we need is proper, working, full speed 4G, not 5G...

What we need is proper, working, full speed 4G, not 5G...

What we need is proper, working, full speed 4G, not 5G...

What we need is proper, working, full speed 4G, not 5G...

LinusTechTips is an advertisement channel and has been for the past couple of years. You subscribe to get ads into your subscription box.
People on this forum are generally extremely defensive about this cold hard truth because they like the ads. They feel somewhat of a personal connection to Linus and will therefore defend him religiously.
 
It's kind of bizarre because to me, defending Linus' crappy videos by saying "they have to make money" makes about as much sense as defending Battlefront 2's terrible lootbox system with "but EA has to make money!".
 
I have given up on giving constructive criticism, and I recommend you do too.

Who's not lazy and wants to create a lovely userscript that adds the button back? Someone will eventually...

Who's not lazy and wants to create a lovely userscript that adds the button back? Someone will eventually...

Live stream the event.

Thanks Intel. Amazing value for my money and a great solution to my streaming problem.

This is what you can get to show up if you mess with the CSS on that launch page. I guess it's the real thing.

This is what you can get to show up if you mess with the CSS on that launch page. I guess it's the real thing.

"Sellout: Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular; someone who forgets their roots."   10/10 Title. Future ideas:   How to triple your FPS: Play a different game. How to triple your Youtube money: Sellout.

Decided to check out the video just to see how bad it was and oh boy. I was not disappointed.
Linus... How can you not be ashamed to put out this garbage? Do you not have have any ounce of respect or standards left? Or is it just that your lust for money is too strong?
Do you really not care about anything but money anymore? Because it certainly does not seem like you do.
"It's sarcasm"
No it's not. It's not sarcastic or ironic when you are just straight up doing the same thing and profiting from it. It just comes off as this comic:

 
 
To start of with, the title. Let's look at what it says.
It says triple your battery life for free. OK so if I do the things mentioned in this video I will get three times as long battery life? That sounds too good to be true. But the video title ensures me that this method (so it's just one?) really works! So I am sure that if I do the thing in the video I will get three times my current battery life. That sounds great!
 
 
 
0:30
Well that's a lie. You did not mention minutes or even hours in your video (except in one test, the airplane mode one). So why say that you will determine how much battery you save down to the minute?
I like this video idea, but your execution was terrible and the clickbait is frankly disgusting. You're just getting worse and worse with this. Soon you will be posting titles like "you won't believe how much battery life this one trick can save you!".
 
1:21
Wait, so which laptop did you test? Did you do the tests with the Spectre X360 or did you do it with the laptop you showed in the video? I am asking because I genuinely don't know which laptop you tested. Your audio and video don't match, and the text on screen does not say if it was just for the glamor shot you used a different laptop or if you had to send the laptop back mid-test and started fresh with another laptop.
If you had to send the laptop back before you got some footage of it running then why not just not include that clip of a completely different laptop?
If you had to rerun the tests using this new laptop, why not change the voiceover to match what is actually happening on screen?
 
1:38
Dubious sure is the right word. Right of the bat you're doing a pretty unreasonable test. I sure hope you did not use this as the baseline for your "triple your battery life", because then you're just straight up misleading people.
It would be like saying "this simple trick will triple your miles per gallon", and then as the baseline you only just first gear and try to drive at 40 miles per hour. Then when you stop being an idiot and change to fifth gear your mpg goes way up. Most people drive on a somewhat appropriate gear, so if you're going to tell them that they can triple their battery life, then you need to use a baseline that is somewhat representative of the average viewer. And trust me, there might be some people that bring their RGB keyboard and mouse with them, but they are a small minority.
 
02:06
Hold on there Linus. This is a very big mistake when it comes to statistics. Boosting something by 30%, and reducing something by 30% are two completely different numbers.
I am sure you already know this, but in case someone who don't know how percentages works is reading this, I'll explain.
 
Let's say the laptop had a battery life of 100 minutes without the RGB stuff connected.
Since the text on the screen tells us that having them plugged in reduces the battery life by 30%, we can calculate that the laptop has a battery life of 70 minutes with the peripherals plugged in.
But wait, Linus just said that unplugging the peripherals boosted the battery life by 25 to 30%. How much is 70 minutes plus 30%?
70 * 1.3 = 91
91 is not the same as 100, right? So which one is it? Did plugging the peripherals in reduce the battery life by 30%, or did unplugging them boost the battery life by 30%? The audio and video gives conflicting numbers.
Going from 70 minutes to 100 minutes would be a boost of ~43%.
 
This is such a rookie mistake I can't believe someone with 10+ years of benchmarking experience (and what I presume is a basic education in math) would make such a mistake.
 
You got it right with the "20% shorter battery life" bit about the less flash peripherals though.
 
 
03:10
Did you really have to go that far? You know very well that nobody is going to subject themselves to such torture. Why not try something a bit more reasonable like 4K down to 1080p? Or maybe even throw in 720p as well and show a graph of how resolution and battery life correlated.
 
 
 
The rest of the tests were good.
Keyboard backlight test was interesting, but it would be interesting to see if having it at medium or low would have had the same impact as the screen on medium or low. This is assuming that the keyboard had multiple brightness settings of course.
Turning off USB ports/webcams and WiFi were good tests. Like you said, it's something people say all the time and it does not seem like they have done much testing to validate it.
The screen brightness test was good too, especially when you showed the nits numbers and not just assumed that the brightness curve was linear.
So two thumbs up for those tests.
 
 
 
05:30
Good. So is this the baseline you tripled your battery life from? Because like you said, this is the baseline that you feel should represent the real world.
 
 
07:44
Ehm... Spotify is not an UWP app. I think your editor knew this as well because while you do show Skype and Slack in the store, you do not show Spotify.
If you knew that the info in the video was wrong, why not edit that part before releasing the video?
 
 
The summary of the video was good, but the 8 minutes you have to endure to get to the point of the video just feels really drawn out and boring.
 
 
By the way, since you have ran into issues testing battery life before (the browser tests), using the same laptop and same software using Windows 10, I assume you have fixed those issues? Because if rerunning the same test over and over gave widely different results (like it did during the browser tests) then this entire test if flawed. If you have fixed the issues, could you please give the browser battery life benchmark another shot?
 
 
On another note, why do you keep suggesting TunnelBear? I know that it's because they pay you, but seriously. There are far better VPN providers out there. Why recommend a mediocre product when you never mention some of the cheaper VPN providers which are also better in very significant ways? I would feel really bad if I knew I people were spending money on a mediocre product just because I got paid to encourage people to buy it.

"Sellout: Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular; someone who forgets their roots."   10/10 Title. Future ideas:   How to triple your FPS: Play a different game. How to triple your Youtube money: Sellout.

"Sellout: Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular; someone who forgets their roots."   10/10 Title. Future ideas:   How to triple your FPS: Play a different game. How to triple your Youtube money: Sellout.

"Sellout: Anyone who sacrifices artistic integrity in an effort to become more successful or popular; someone who forgets their roots."   10/10 Title. Future ideas:   How to triple your FPS: Play a different game. How to triple your Youtube money: Sellout.

A company's first priority should be satisfying their customers, then everything else follows. Not doing so, leads to an inevitable fall.
 
 

All the comments about "Buy the 7700K if you're gaming" and I'm here thinking...
 
If you're gaming, you buy the i5, not the i7, the i5 clocks 5GHz as well and the extra threads don't really have a benefit in most games. If you buy the i7, you need the extra threads. If you need the extra threads, Ryzen is better than the 7700K in every way.
 
So who is the 7700K for other than those with more money than sense?

All the comments about "Buy the 7700K if you're gaming" and I'm here thinking...
 
If you're gaming, you buy the i5, not the i7, the i5 clocks 5GHz as well and the extra threads don't really have a benefit in most games. If you buy the i7, you need the extra threads. If you need the extra threads, Ryzen is better than the 7700K in every way.
 
So who is the 7700K for other than those with more money than sense?

All the comments about "Buy the 7700K if you're gaming" and I'm here thinking...
 
If you're gaming, you buy the i5, not the i7, the i5 clocks 5GHz as well and the extra threads don't really have a benefit in most games. If you buy the i7, you need the extra threads. If you need the extra threads, Ryzen is better than the 7700K in every way.
 
So who is the 7700K for other than those with more money than sense?

All the comments about "Buy the 7700K if you're gaming" and I'm here thinking...
 
If you're gaming, you buy the i5, not the i7, the i5 clocks 5GHz as well and the extra threads don't really have a benefit in most games. If you buy the i7, you need the extra threads. If you need the extra threads, Ryzen is better than the 7700K in every way.
 
So who is the 7700K for other than those with more money than sense?

All the comments about "Buy the 7700K if you're gaming" and I'm here thinking...
 
If you're gaming, you buy the i5, not the i7, the i5 clocks 5GHz as well and the extra threads don't really have a benefit in most games. If you buy the i7, you need the extra threads. If you need the extra threads, Ryzen is better than the 7700K in every way.
 
So who is the 7700K for other than those with more money than sense?

All the comments about "Buy the 7700K if you're gaming" and I'm here thinking...
 
If you're gaming, you buy the i5, not the i7, the i5 clocks 5GHz as well and the extra threads don't really have a benefit in most games. If you buy the i7, you need the extra threads. If you need the extra threads, Ryzen is better than the 7700K in every way.
 
So who is the 7700K for other than those with more money than sense?