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@LinusTech Two months ago, you already gave ASUS a warning to improve their customer service or have the relationship put on pause. It was the conclusion of a half hour discussion on WAN show where ASUS released a beta BIOS to fix voltage problems killing CPUs, and people thought their warranty was going to get voided. It's on LMG Clips titled ASUS is in the Doghouse. Quote is the last 20 seconds or so: https://youtu.be/657lFpAA3_s?t=2117 edit: poll results for all the people who have had bad customer experience: https://youtu.be/657lFpAA3_s?t=1955 Coincidentally this is the same video where you announce secret shopping sponsors. You already warned ASUS: https://youtu.be/657lFpAA3_s?t=213 I'm sorry man, any company does not deserve this many warnings. More than once in the video you talked about how you had to intervene on behalf on poor customer experience from the community. I get that they have so many SKUs, operate internationally, and it's extremely challenging, but that's not a valid excuse for a company that has had so long to improve processes. They clearly aren't interested.

I have a ViewSonic VX2758-2KP-MHD. It's a great little monitor, but I consistently have trouble switching sources. I have one DisplayPort plugged into my 1070ti and an HDMI plugged into my laptop. It picks up both sources in the monitor's menu, but when switching and both computers are on, it rarely takes. When switching from sources it either turns off briefly then just switches back to the original, or it goes off for a while and says "No signal" and switches back to the original. If I unplug the HDMI from the laptop while my DisplayPort is on it does the same thing. However if I unplug the HDMI and THEN turn on my computer hooked up to DisplayPort, it switches to the DisplayPort just fine. If I want it to switch to HDMI from DisplayPort I have to unplug my laptop's HDMI, turn off my desktop, then plug the HDMI back in. It's not the worse thing in the world considering the price, but it's just annoying to not be able to have both on at once when switching sources. Has anyone run into this or have any suggestions? For what it's worth my video card drivers are up to date.

At only a few hours of battery life though even when not gaming, what if you have multiple classes back to back?

Yeah, but at $2600 and almost 2 feet wide it's not practical for most people except for the use case on the site which is on a boat, which would make sense I guess, it's still incredibly expensive though. Seems like there would be much cheaper solutions. Hell, you could keep an external drive for all your stuff and buy a whole other laptop for that much.

I was about to say that it's not really practical as a portable solution, but then I saw it's only a 5x4x4 inch cube and only 3lbs AND a solar charger if you're working outside! I might actually buy this.

This is really meant for when there's no outlet available though. If there's an outlet available then you wouldn't need this in the first place. Another good use case I could see for this is a student with a gaming laptop in class where there is almost always not an outlet available.

Would it really be an extra 10lbs though? That seems like a lot for battery -- that's a whole other laptop!

I had an idea after watching today's video about ASUS's Zephyrus for extending battery life in laptops in general, and just wanted to float it to everyone here in the hopes that if people thought it was cool that someone would actually make it. The biggest problem with laptops is that you have such a limited amount of space to work with so it's always a balance between cooling, performance, and how large of a battery the manufacturer can cram in. To help alleviate this, for those looking to do serious gaming: external GPU enclosures move the bulk of the performance outside of the laptop, leaving a larger amount of space for battery and/or other internal accessories. So that got me thinking -- is there a way to move the battery outside of the laptop without being inconvenient and clunky? What if you had two bricks in series on the same power cord: the normal one to convert AC -> DC power for the laptop, and another one right after that acts as a battery in addition to the one internal to the laptop? That would allow for a smaller battery in the laptop itself. This would obviously be for the case where there's no wall outlet available but you still need battery life beyond what the laptop is normally capable of, and could be available as an after-market accessory without the manufacturer needing to change their designs, so able to be used on any laptop. This is just off the top of my head and maybe is actually a dumb implementation, but I do think there could be good non-clunky way to implement moving an additional battery to the outside of the laptop, even if it does have to be done by the manufacturer. I mean, sure -- if you really need to have a super extended amount of battery, you can always carry a spare one if it's easy to swap out, i.e. without needing a screwdriver or opening it up. But that's also not always an option and in some cases can be overly expensive. I can see this is especially applicable to gaming laptops which already have a larger than average power brick in the first place. What are people's thoughts of the above implementation, or even the idea in general?

How you created your "FPS per dollar" spreadsheet for the Scrapyard Wars videos and how we can make our own.

I traded in my tower desktop life for gaming laptops because I travel for work, but mostly because I like sitting on the couch with my wife with a mouse at my side and hanging out more than I like sitting in a room by myself. However there seems to be relatively fewer reviews of (reasonably priced, aka not the Predator) gaming laptops. It would be nice to see a round up of reasonably priced ones (say $1000-$1500) from MSI, Asus, etc.