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I bought one of those off brand laptops a couple days ago. It's a T160R from a company called Exsurf, which I have never heard of before. However, I can't find *any* reviews for this thing (the model number turns up a large variety of laptops with differing specs). Supposedly it comes with an AMD 7840HS, 780M integrated GPU, 32GB of DDR5, 1TB NVMe, and a 1920x1200 IPS display.

I'm skeptical, especially given the price, but I like to live dangerously. I did charge it to my credit card, so I always have the option for a chargeback if they ship me a box filled with rocks or something.

I may use this as an excuse to do a video review and teardown, if that's something folks would be interested in!

#laptop #computer #computers #gamble

#computers #computer #laptop #Gamble
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I do expect this kind of thing to be *technically* as advertised but with caveats, like 32GB of RAM but at like 4800MT/s, or the 1TB drive being lower read and write speeds. Curious what you'll end up with when it gets there
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@sudaksis Same! I wouldn't even put it past the manufacturer to spoof reporting on the hardware (eg, trick Windows into reporting a 7740U as a 7840HS, and by extension the 740M GPU as a 780M). I'm hoping I can catch that sort of thing with a Linux live USB, and I'm planning to run some benchmarks against my work computer (which has an 8840HS, and so should perform about the same).

I'd also like to open it up and see what parts are inside, but I'm going to do some noninvasive testing first.

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Good idea. Best case scenario is it is a good setup and just comes with Windows and whatever bundled software they get paid to stick in it
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@sudaksis From the reviews I've seen for the Auusda laptops (which seem to be the same), they actually don't have any OEM bloat!

Which... that just makes me more suspicious, really.

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@Delta Sierra Reminds me of Unihertz phones, multiple brands sell the same device right down to the model number, I think Unihertz owns a couple of the brands, but most are just companies paying to put their brand on it apparently, not entirely certain if Unihertz is the manufacturer or not.
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@vextaur haven't heard of Unihertz before, but that sounds very similar to Clevo on the laptop front (they make unbranded/generic units and other companies throw their names on there).

Which is pretty cool, because there's a lot of parts interchangability!

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@Delta Sierra Heh, that's always fun. Years, and years ago (almost 30), had a coworker/fellow driver at a pizza place who used to pick up specific GM platform vehicles he liked. Back in the 80s GM badge engineered their cars, Pontiac, Chevy, Buick, and Oldsmobile all offered variants of the same car with little differences other than lights, grills, paint colours and interior materials and colours. One of his cars was made of parts from three broken cars he'd bought.
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@vextaur that's awesome! I actually have a 91 Chevy Camaro (body style debuted in 82) with Pontiac Firebird and GMC (assorted) parts on it.

I've also got four Dodge Dakotas, because most of those parts transfer around easily.

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