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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. So Walmart is selling some new gaming laptops under their
00:08OP gaming brand. It stands for overpowered gaming. And on paper, it looks reasonably
00:13appealing, right? You got these thousand dollar gaming laptops, they have Nvidia cards in
00:17them, they have fast screens in a not super thick chassis. So I think a lot of people
00:21are looking at these like, hey, these are good. They're not, at least not the base model.
00:25So let me explain. This particular laptop is made by a Chinese company called Tong Feng
00:30and they make these bare bones chassis that a whole bunch of other companies will resell
00:35and they'll put different hardware into them. So Origin PC has some, Electronics has some,
00:40they're all exactly the same laptop. They're just stuffing them with different things inside.
00:44Walmart, they're selling a configuration that just should not exist on the market. It's
00:49a GTX 1050, a two gigabyte GTX 1050 with a 144Hz screen. And just to put this in perspective,
00:55very few games will be able to hit good frame rates on this laptop. And you can lower the
00:58quality, you can lower the resolution, but at the end of the day, you're still dealing
01:02with a very underpowered video card. So my recommendation is if you're interested in
01:07this particular laptop, you look elsewhere because there's definitely some better options
01:10out there and I'll put some in the description below. But that's just the quick version of
01:14this video. If you're like at the store and you're interested in this laptop and you Googled
01:17it and you found this video, I just saved you a thousand dollars, look at the description.
01:21But if you want to know the details of why this is not a good choice, here we go. Okay,
01:25this laptop, the best part of it is the screen. It's a 144Hz panel, looks really good, games
01:30look really smooth on it. But in order to showcase the screen properly, you need a powerful
01:34video card and that $999 base model at Walmart does not have a good video card. If you're
01:39going to purchase this particular chassis or this particular laptop, you need to have
01:43a fast video card, a minimum of a GTX 1060, but a faster card would be ideal. Now, the
01:48next thing on this laptop that makes it kind of unique is the keyboard and it's a mechanical
01:52keyboard and Walmart lists this feature pretty prominently in the marketing materials. The
01:57thing is, this keyboard is a niche keyboard. This really isn't for everyone. It's loud,
02:02right? It's not like a silent keyboard and it can be pretty obnoxious if you're using
02:06this device at home or in libraries or at school or anything. It's certainly not a quiet
02:10keyboard. But more importantly, the feel of this keyboard is not universally loved.
02:17Walmart is a store that should be selling products to a more wider audience, right?
02:21Like a very broad audience and this is such a niche keyboard and such a niche laptop that
02:25I feel like it's the wrong device for them to be selling in their retail stores. The
02:29layout's also a little bit weird, like the arrow keys and the number pad all kind of
02:32blend together. The trackpad's fine, it uses Windows precision drivers, but the keyboard's
02:36just a little too niche. I don't think they should be selling this kind of keyboard at
02:39a store like Walmart. Okay, if you want to see like a full review of this, I've done
02:43a full review of this particular chassis before on my channel. I'll link it down below. But
02:47I want to talk about a more broader problem with this particular laptop. It's the customer
02:51service. So any company that sells this TongFeng chassis is normally a boutique laptop company.
02:57They'll take the product, they'll kind of customize it. You can get your own thermal
03:00paste, you get your own hard drive, like your specific brand of memory. They will tweak
03:04it to your heart's content and then sell it to you, which is great. That's not what Walmart's
03:08doing. They're buying these things, marketing them up just enough so they're making some
03:12good profit, but they're selling these things with what I promise you will be terrible customer
03:17support. So all those boutique companies I was talking about before, they give you great
03:21customer support. That's how these things sell. This laptop sold at Walmart under the
03:25OP Gaming brand is going to have trash customer support in comparison. And that's really the
03:29difference in price. So if you buy this from Walmart, you're going to save like a hundred,
03:32maybe 150 bucks. And if you bought this product at a boutique company, you'll have spent more,
03:37but the customer support is going to be way better, like so much better that it just,
03:43it just doesn't make sense to be buying this thing from Walmart and their mid tier configuration
03:46at $1,400 isn't a bad value. Like you'll get decent frame rates on that and it will be
03:51able to use that screen reasonably well. But the customer support is going to be, it's
03:56just going to be so bad. I can already see the complaints, people buying these laptops
03:59and then going to the customer service desk and be like, you know, this is wrong, that's
04:01wrong. And they're just not going to be able to help you. So please do not buy the thousand
04:07dollar or $1,400 configuration of the OP Gaming laptop from Walmart, please. Okay. Hope you guys
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