The one I recall was from MSI, I think it may have been the GT80. They didn't make cards past the GTX900 series (which is what the laptops started on). I didn't know Alienware also tried this. I think the MSI didn't allow for a CPU upgrade.
It was a new standard that didn't go anywhere, it was called MXM - Mobile PCI Express Module. Dell and MSI weren't the only ones doing it, it was a push for the laptop segment that I guess flatlined because people want thin laptops that look Apple:ish. You could probably get a non-MSI/Dell MXM card and slot it in.
From my personal view I don't think people here hates Linus but more that they dislike how he's handling LTT, where a tech channel doesn't have basic tech and his fans put him as the tech god
I feel the opposite way. Unfortunately a lot of server hardware gets sent to Linus, where the coverage is garbage because neither Linus nor his staff have any idea how or why any of it is the way it is. I'd rather Kioxia et all send their datacentre stuff to Wendell, who knows how to use it, and can put together an accurate (if far less flashy) presentation of it. I'd also rather keyboard manufacturers send their autistic junk to Linus, who knows how to advertise the 1000th iteration of cloned Cherry switches, than to Wendell, who resorts to waving it around over his head going "wooOOoo" as if there is any need for another keyboard when the MX Keys exists.
It is an unfortunate outcome of Linus being the tech top dog on Youtube. They keep sending Linus B2B server hardware and watch as all he can do is plug it in and run Cenebench on it. Numbers go fast power draw big, is all he can really say and his writers have to come up with the banter dialog to get to the ad run time limit. That one video where they had a server that NASA uses and all they did was do a benchmark and show a still image of what it was used for and mention the TDP and Watts from the wall. It could have been and interesting video if they got someone in to demo what they use the server for. But all we got was a overly long tear down with """"banter""""". Some may argue, that they can't do that because NDA's and all that. But server company's have demos they show to other businesses as a pitch. It makes any server hardware video he has all look the same and not worth watching after 2 of them.
Do they have a gaming division? Feels like reviews and gaming news would be something that they could reasonably segue into. Maybe recruit some existing YouTubers who do pop-science and bring them into the fold. It's unfortunate but some niches really just don't have room to grow forever in them. There are natural limits to how much content you can produce on certain topics like chips and ram and plugging in cards. They could do more partnerships with people like iJustine. I remember the video editing showdown between her and his guy as a pretty fun video. Diversity, if it's not in the racial and sexual quotas sense, can actually be a good thing.
This is something that puzzled me for a while. I casually wached Linus about 2020-2022, did catch some Wan shows too. Something I noticed in that period was how he announced things YEARS in advance.
Scrapyard Wars didn't get too big, Linus did. IIRC Luke only got recognised once, while Linus got recognised at half the stores he went to, because he apparently used to be on billboards as the face of some local electronics store. I'm sure Scrapyard Wars would have been fine if they'd just switched to other participants, or continued on the "teams" concept one of the runs had, and just had the less recognisable person do the shopping.
Yeah, I meant to say Linus & LTT got too big. That's on me for poorly wording that sentence.
I’m kind of in this camp, tbh. I just find it incredibly crass when someone for whom slightly overpaying for an item makes absolutely zero difference will haggle over single dollars with someone for whom getting slightly overpaid makes a huge difference. Travelling in Asia, I constantly get annoyed when I see obviously well off western tourists shamelessly trying to make impoverished locals operate at a loss in bazaars, just because they think haggling is fun. Just pay the asking price, it makes zero difference to you but it means a nice meal for the whole family to the seller. I’ve actually Karened a few of them, and to their credit they did seem to understand what I was saying and felt bad about what they did.
