Apparently Temu Sells Laptops Now...

Summary

The video is a laptop review of a low cost $360 Canadian laptop purchased from an online retailer called TEMU. The laptop is tested for gaming performance but struggles to run games smoothly due to its low power Intel Celeron processor. Various games like GTA 5 and Fortnite are tested and only achieve around 10 FPS even on lowest settings. The laptop hardware is examined and revealed to have soldered RAM and an M.2 slot for SSD upgrade. Despite the low cost, the laptop's poor performance makes it a questionable purchase over more capable budget options.

Takeaways

• 😀 The video is sponsored by Deep Cool's digital AK coolers
• 😮 The X Book laptop has a Celeron J4125 processor and seems very underpowered
• 🤨 The laptop physically resembles a MacBook Air but seems to be a rebranded fake
• 📽️ The laptop can barely run Windows 11 or modern games at playable framerates
• 💻 The display is 1080p but looks soft with poor viewing angles
• 🔍 Opening the laptop reveals only a small copper heatsink over the Celeron CPU
• 🔌 It has an M.2 slot for easy SSD upgrades
• 🎮 Adding a separate Mac Ax keyboard improves the gaming experience somewhat
• 🤔 The laptop may have malware pre-installed according to comments
• 💰 At $360 CAD it seems very overpriced for the performance

Q & A

What laptop did the person buy?

The person bought an X book laptop from TEMU, a retailer that sells discounted and clearance items.

How much did they pay for the laptop?

They paid around $300 Canadian dollars for the laptop.

What are the laptop's specifications?

The laptop has an Intel Celeron J4125 processor, 8GB of RAM, 128GB SSD storage, and a 14-inch 1080p display.

What games did they try playing on the laptop?

They tried playing GTA 5, CS:GO, DOTA 2, and Fortnite on the laptop.

How well did the games run on the laptop?

The games did not run well at all, with very low frame rates around 5-10 fps in most games even at low resolutions.

Did using a separate keyboard and mouse help with gaming?

Yes, using the Mac-ax keyboard and mouse did slightly improve the gaming experience and ergonomics.

What processor does the laptop use?

It uses an Intel Celeron J4125 quad-core processor.

How upgradeable is the laptop?

It has an M.2 slot allowing the SSD to be upgraded easily.

How well did the laptop run general tasks?

General Windows 11 usage was very slow and laggy on the laptop.

Was it a good value purchase?

No, while it was very inexpensive, performance was too limited for a good experience even for basic tasks.

Outlines

00:00

📺 Unboxing and Testing a $300 Laptop from TEMU

The paragraph describes unboxing and testing a $300 laptop purchased from TEMU, a retailer selling various consumer products. The laptop is found to resemble a MacBook Air and have decent build quality. However, its performance is very lacking, only able to run lightweight games at low frame rates due to having a weak Intel Celeron processor.

05:02

😕 Attempting to Game on the Underpowered $300 TEMU Laptop

This paragraph details attempts at gaming on the TEMU laptop, including trying games like GTA V and CS:GO. However, with its low-end Celeron processor, gaming performance is extremely poor, generally achieving less than 10 FPS even at minimum settings. Using gaming accessories like the Mac-ax half keyboard provides marginal improvements.

10:03

🔧 Opening and Inspecting Internal Hardware of the TEMU Laptop

The final paragraph involves disassembling the TEMU laptop to inspect its internal hardware components like the CPU, SSD, RAM, and cooling. These are found to be low-cost budget parts fitting the laptop's cheap price, explaining its very limited performance capabilities.

Keywords

💡Temu

Temu is an online retailer that sells discounted products of questionable quality and origin. The narrator bought a cheap laptop from Temu to review it. Temu products are portrayed as low quality 'plastic crap' that may have questionable or illegal sourcing.

💡Celeron

Celeron refers to Intel's low-end budget processors. The Xbook laptop reviewed in the video uses an old Celeron J4125 processor which severely limits its performance. The narrator frequently points out how slowly the laptop runs games and software due to the weak Celeron CPU.

💡Gaming

Gaming is a major theme of the video, as the narrator tries playing various games on the budget Temu laptop to demonstrate its lack of gaming performance. modern Games like GTA V and Fortnite run at unplayably low frame rates on the laptop.

💡Performance

The laptop's poor performance, especially for gaming, is a recurring discussion point. Its old Celeron CPU and weak integrated graphics result in terrible performance across the board, even struggling to run basic software smoothly.

💡MacBook

The Temu laptop's design is frequently compared to a MacBook, with the narrator pointing out its visual similarities. However, its performance is vastly inferior to an actual MacBook, resulting in humorous juxtaposition.

💡Windows 11

The laptop runs Windows 11, but even basic OS functionality is sluggish on its weak hardware. The narrator notes it can barely run Windows 11, much less modern games.

💡1080p display

The laptop has a 1080p screen resolution, but the display quality itself is poor, with bad viewing angles and low brightness. This highlights the gap between its misleading specs and real-world performance.

💡Teardown

The narrator does a teardown to look inside the laptop's shoddy construction, showing the cheap cooling solution, weak CPU, and soldered RAM that contribute to its terrible performance.

💡Ergonomics

When using the optional Mac-ax keyboard, the narrator acknowledges it does improve gaming ergonomics compared to the laptop's built-in keyboard.

💡Value

The video explores whether budget devices like this questionable Temu laptop provide good value compared to more reputable brands. The laptop's dismal real-world experience suggests its low price does not compensate for terrible quality.

Highlights

I bought another stupid thing off TEMU, a $300ish laptop that's probably just plastic crap.

The laptop specs corroborate it's a gaming beast, with an Intel Celeron J4125 and UHD Graphics 600 inside.

The keyboard feels like the chewy laptop from 2 years ago, very much not a MacBook despite appearances.

The display is 1080p but quite soft, with rough viewing angles and measurements showing it's pretty garbage.

Installing software was infuriatingly slow, this laptop can barely run Windows 11.

GTA 5 ran at 9 FPS at 1080p, dropping resolution didn't help much since the GPU was the bottleneck.

CS:GO was under 20 FPS and barely playable, even at 800x600 resolution.

Dota 2 ran the best over 25 FPS, but human eye can't see more than that anyway.

Fortnite took several tries to launch and ran very poorly, around 4 FPS.

The MacAx keyboard attachment did make gaming more ergonomic and portable.

The laptop was easy to take apart with removable bottom plate and SSD glory hole.

Cooling was just a small copper plate with thermal pad instead of paste.

RAM was soldered down like Apple style, no expanding it.

Battery capacity was decent and will last long given low power draw.

For $360 this is not a very capable gaming or general use laptop.

Transcripts

I may have bought another stupid thing off TEMU  this time I bought an X book and I'm pretty sure  

that a 300ish Canadian dollar laptop off  a retailer that primarily specializes in  

whatever plastic crap fell off the back of  the delivery truck this week is going to  

be real special so let's check it out but  first today's video is sponsored by Deep  

Cool's new digital series of AK coolers it's  the same AK coolers we've come to love with  

their amazing thermals low noise and very  easy installation process but with some  

added tasteful digital flare look at that  very much not obnoxious digital temperature  

readout flexing the cooling power of our AK 620  check out deep Cool's digital series AK coolers  

using the link in the video description  thank you deep cool for sponsoring today's

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video [Music] amazingly this laptop actually  didn't come wrapped in several layers of ocean  

plastic which is a nice touch and apparently  it's from Germany ooh fancy wait so does that  

mean it's made of like BR and there's some  of the obligatory package negligence on the  

back I was actually worried initially  that there wasn't any but it's [Music]

here in this first little box we get a cool  power adapter that looks a little bit like  

a cell phone charger wow that is a 24 WT power  brick so this x book is really not very powerful  

but we're obviously still going to try game on  it wow the coup X book does look suspiciously  

like a rebranded fake MacBook Air which I'm sure  means it'll just be a gaming Beast and the specs  

do corroborate the gaming Beast Theory with an  Intel Celeron J 4125 inside I don't think I've  

actually gamed on one of these before I'm curious  to see how that's going to go and aside from the  

14in 1080p display what's kind of concerning  to me is that there are also Linux versions  

of this laptop I really hope this is the windows  version cuz I don't want a pseudo app get nothing  

and then finally this is a middle of the- pack  8 gig variant we get a nice heavy envelope in  

the Box I'm assuming with like warranty stuff  in it now I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure  

that's a picture of a MacBook Air right there  other than that it is just a bunch of warranty  

crap [Music] nice that I'm not going to lie  smells kind of like an Apple product it's  

got that artificially injected neutral clean  smell to it which is interesting usually you  

pay hundreds of dollars for that smell and then  we get what looks like a very gamery logo for the  

little coup wow there is some Deja Vu looking  at this laptop the silver plastic reminds me  

quite a bit of that chewy laptop I had a look  at like 2 years ago the I/O on the right side  

of the laptop aside from the USB and microphone  headphone jack has a nice professional touch with  

the micro SD card slot ooh and on the left next  to the tiny little power jack and USB 3 Port is  

the horrendous mini HDMI port I really hate these  but it's a thin laptop I they probably wouldn't  

have been able to fit a full-sized one here so on  the one hand it's a herpes connector on the other  

hand at least there's a connector although on the  bottom we do have something very exciting I think  

this is only the second time I've seen it on a  new laptop a glory hole look at that that looks  

like an m.2 glory hole that's a bit small for my  liking but it's more than enough to accommodate  

me other than that there's very little room for  ventilation on the back but we do have a seller  

on it here so that doesn't really matter to be  honest uh let's see if it passes the one hand  

open test I like how the little internal  cloth bit is hanging out like just BW me  

from a sandwich i' I've never seen that before  normally they actually have them the correct

size very much

not yeah if you're far enough away and squint hard  enough it does really look like a little MacBook

I haven't interacted with the chewy laptop in  ages but that is exactly how I remember its  

keyboard feeling it has quite a big trackpad  with reasonably nice little clickies to it  

the front firing speakers are that those aren't  actual holes those are just little stickers that  

they stock on there that is some real nice  attention to detail there I like that a lot

oh yeah good peel around the edge of the  display we've got this like fake carbon  

fiber effect sticker I'm not going to try and  pull it off I don't want to ruin the aesthetic  

of our Majestic laptop they managed to fit the  little webcam up there that's a good spot for it  

I'm sure it's very high quality now because this  is a 14-in laptop we don't get a numpad on it so  

unfortunately you can't use it for QuickBooks  or whatever oh actually so if you like function  

key you can do Quickbooks on this little laptop  that's a pretty cool implementation and with that  

Revelation I guess it's time to fire up the laptop  and see if we have to suffer through some pseudo

[Music] today Mega Trends it's been a while  since I've seen that okay that is Windows  

stuff happening so I'm not going to have to deal  with Linux once the laptop struggled through the  

setup process the display stood out to me first  is this really 1080p it is 1080p it feels quite  

soft the viewing angles are also rough you  lose a lot of brightness when you're off AIS  

in terms of measurements the display is pretty  garbage for a Modern Display but in practice  

it doesn't look quite as bad as the measurements  would suggest at least when you're looking at it  

on aess specs wise here's our 5-year-old little  on 8 gigs of RAM which says four of four so I'm  

assuming those are four solder down little memory  modules which we'll find out when we open up the  

laptop a bit later storage wise 128 gig SSD  and then finally our UHD Graphics 600 which  

should make for some real amazing gameplay next  installing all the software I needed for gaming  

on this laptop like Steam and MSI After Burner  was an infuriatingly slow process this laptop  

can barely run Windows 11 it feels like using a  device that suffered a recent and traumatic head

injury which bodess real well for actually gaming  on now of course we're starting with GTA 5 because  

it runs terribly in a really funny way and I'm  being real Brave here starting at 1080p on a  

laptop that can barely run Windows 11 oh never  mind this actually isn't going that badly no  

I know 9 frames per second not being that bad  maybe a bit of a stretch but at least stuff's  

rendering you know it is actually running GTA  5 a little bit better than it runs Windows 11  

no this is super unplayable like not even almost  playable happening here I'm I'm going to have to  

drop the resolution a bit that has made a bit  of a difference which you can't really take  

for granted with these cerons usually the CPU is  the bottleneck in terms of frame rate so this is  

pretty impressive in a baby figuring out how to  not vomit on itself kind of way dropping it to  

the lowest resolution the game supports hasn't  really given us that much more performance which  

is interesting considering that it seems like  the GPU is still the main issue here yeah sub  

20 frames per second really doesn't count  as a playable experience especially at 800x

600 yeah I'd say this is perfectly usable for  competitive CS go gameplay look at that smooth  

game play we do have a bit of a disadvantage here  in that there are Bots running and we are pretty  

severely CPU limited so that is going to have a  big impact on our performance and besides even  

if the frame rate doubles it's still just going  to be 10 frames per second let's see can we get  

him hey I took a bot down though so shroud can  definitely use this for competitive play next  

let's try performance Fidelity FX and see what  that does for us wo we've jumped all the way  

up to S frames per second now oh yeah smooth as  silk it's back down to four I guess it depends  

qu oh do you know why I think it jumped up to  seven because a bunch of the Bots died DOTA  

is the best running game so far peing over 25  frames per second and as we all know the human  

icon more than that so even if we wanted to we  couldn't use anymore the next four games I tried  

either straight up refused to launch or just died  straight after pretending to launch even fortnite  

took several attempts and a driver update to get  running it only took five tries but it's finally  

launched oh yeah look at ooh those are some good  stutters uh according to the game we have some  

network connectivity issues as well I mean it does  look very deyy oh no I think there's someone in  

here this isn't going to go great is it wow that  went very well but I think I know what the problem

is now according to the comment section  of the entire last temu video This Little  

Mac ax half keyboard thing isn't nearly  as stupid as I said it is because for  

laptop gaming it is very good apparently  let's see if adding the Mac ax to our temu  

laptop significantly improves our gaming  experience oh yeah feeling way more gamery

already and fortnite is unironically running  better it's obviously not because of the MC  

axe but I think it's because the desyncs gone  I I I think it was a server related issue this  

feels like I'm playing a game 25 years ago on  my grandmother's computer this is crazy like  

look at them graphicss oh yeah water a tree  oh there we go there you go we got our tree  

finally now when it comes to the macx yeah in  this context ergonomically it is a lot better  

than gaming on the laptop and because it's  small it's still portable so yeah for games  

like fortnite I do agree with you angry commenters  in the previous video it does kind of make sense  

although interestingly I did have somebody tell  me that this product they actually had to recall  

off of Amazon because it's known to install  malware on your PC so I am going to have to  

scrub this laptop after I'm I'm done with it  but potential malware aside let's tear down  

the laptop and have a look at its guts uh oh I  forgot about the glory hole that needs to open

first and just like that we have access  to our SSD which we can now upgrade very  

easily through our glory hole this  actually looks like it's going to  

be a very easy laptop to take apart cuz  we've got a clear separation between the  

bottom plate and the side one some screws and  then hopefully the back's just going to pop

out wow that's a strong clip oh there we go  so this bit of thin copper is all they need  

to cool that little Celeron uh next to that  we've got our 120 gig SSD which we can access  

without taking the whole bottom plate off uh  other than that here is our battery it's not a  

super high capacity but this is a very low power  draw device so it's the batter is going to last  

for ages and the right IO is connected to the  main motherboard with this little daughterboard  

thingy and a ribbon cable but with that I do  actually want to take this little copper piece  

off and have a look under there but before we  do that we have to unplug the battery before  

the internet shouts at me [Music] whoa that is  some sickly looking copper on the bottom but  

putting that aside they used the thermal pad  instead of thermal paste to interface between  

this little bit of copper and the Celeron down  there which is very interesting and then finally  

on the PCB we've got the very cute little Celeron  and then in typical Apple fashion we've got some  

solder down RAM on the side so at the end of the  day we did get a functional laptop off temu but  

for $360 Canadian dollars we've seen devices  on this channel that don't feel like doing  

your Computing on something that's recently  been heavily lead poisoned which brings me to  

the end of another video subscribe if you liked  it don't if you don't and until the next video

[Music] bye-bye