well hello there well today my good people we have an interesting
competition that is about to happen in front of me are two identical expect
machines from Lenovo and identically priced to would like put in $50
difference so one of these is gonna go to mic one of them is gonna go to Eber
they can do their own testing and we all can see what the experience is like
owning one of these machines boys take it away we didn't want to bring up
something pretty important to you and that is both of our systems are
similarly SPECT the only difference is that you have desktop class components
and I have notebook components now in terms of pricing that's that's something
interesting because even though the we are partially sponsored by Lenovo and
this video is sponsored by legion we actually went out and we purchased these
ourselves we always been like 5 grand yeah grand Canadian right just to give
you an idea his system ended up costing us around twenty two hundred dollars and
the same thing with mine except mine was about thirty dollars more than than his
so considering the pricing and the specs it's gonna be really interesting to see
how these two align with one another but there is something else that I know that
you guys are screaming at your screens about right now because most of you guys
build your own pcs these are or at least my T730 is for somebody very very
different it's for people who don't have the time or who aren't really inclined
to build their own pcs it's one of those pre-built systems it comes out of the
box it's ready to go you just hook it up to a monitor it's even got a really
basic mouse and keyboard but if you're interested in building your own custom
PC you can check out my how to build a gaming PC video right over here and if
you're interested in buying either of these systems links will be in the
description down below so what we really wanted to do here is not only test
performance from one system to another but also from an experiential standpoint
so this is actually gonna be one of my first experiences with a pre-built
system and it's true actually it is you have enough experiences with notebooks
so I think I think we're gonna split up for a next couple of days and then we're
gonna meet back here with the benchmarks can't wait to compare those numbers
let's go alright let's go
so it's been a few days we have got our fair amount of time testing both systems
and you can actually see that my girlfriend has sort of been busy with
the all the decoration all day decorators there's a beautiful Christmas
tree on that side of those just and we're at way and we're at my table again
like I'm in a Christmas shopping mall I've got my new book all ready to go and
where's the desktop well oh wow alright that is a monster but you know
if this wins portability no it does not so I think what we wanted to do is we
wanted to start right away with the perforce numbers because neither of us
has seen each other's performance numbers we put them together yeah you
know offline and now we're just gonna sort of combine them and see what's
what's going on yeah but there's an irony here I know why do you have your
notebook open because you're supposed to well you told me a screen in front of my
face wouldn't have been very inviting and it wouldn't have been good for your
composition Michael you're not getting my point my point is my notebook comes
with a screen but the desktop does not know yeah it doesn't know get it all
right so what are we gonna look at here we're gonna look we're gonna start with
general performance yeah general performance
yeah we're gonna start with general performance oh oh okay all right well I
think we're I'm not surprised because looking at these first numbers the the
desktop does win but not by as much as I thought yeah because if you look at
Cinebench and even you know both are 15 and are 20 both in single core and
multi-core I can't tell if there's a major difference they're only off by 10%
which is amazing considering how a notebook CPU competes with something
like the 97 okay now do keep in mind that I have more threads compared to the
9700 Kay yes but Santa bitch loves threads well next up we are talking
about drive speeds so you have the fastest SSD which again not by much by
about 5% maybe yeah and and surprisingly my one terabyte hard drive is faster
than yours what yep
yes yep it is faster but it's the same isn't it the same Drive no it is not I
do have a 7200 rpm Drive I just happened to find that my right speeds are faster
than your read speeds which is did you happen to look what do i do have not
really moving on to some real-world tests we're gonna do blender and again
guys I am surprised easy but again there doesn't really seem to be a big huge
difference except well look at the premiere I was just about to bring that
up like my notebook destroyed your desktop so does that mean that the IGP
was in well yes it was but you don't for some reason on the desktop no I from
what I could see there was absolutely no way to enable the IGP even though it has
one integrated I went through the BIOS and went through Lenovo Vantage ok so
you did battery life but you know this No that is a point to bring up I am
gonna bring up that point why because if I run out of power which which we have
in the last couple of days actually why we didn't have one of our reviews up in
time yeah so so so you know the fact that I have a battery so that I can
still run off of a battery power source is pretty amazing
whereas on your desktop side you're out of luck if power goes out then the whole
system is up so you lose everything and you never know alright so now it's time
to take a look at gaming performance you ready I'm ready
all right let's do it Wow well you got the Polish number one taking a look at
actual games you do have the edge man like that 97 under K at that sustain
high clock speeds and the 27 e yeah Damo here what kind of sacrifice you're
making with the max-q design you know technically the specifications on that
are TX card are the same it's really the clock speeds that are lower so there is
a serious edge right now for the desktop system but to give it another leg up
lenovo allows for overclocking on the k-series chip so what I ended up doing
is there's a little switch inside of Vantage that allows you to it says
overclock the CPU or overclock only during gaming I just flat out overclock
the CPU my clock speeds actually went up in multi-threaded workloads from around
3.9 gigahertz all the way up to in between
for point three to four point four gigahertz so and looking at these
results I'm gonna have to bring these up onto the screen right now and say look
they did improve from a real-world testing perspective and Cinebench r15
but at the same time gaming performs didn't improve all right so to conclude
the performance between these two systems I have to be honest I'm very
impressed with how far the Nova can catch up the desktop pc i'm horrified i
wanted this thing to be so far ahead i mean typically when you think about
performance you typically go towards desktop systems because they're
generally a lot faster than notebooks but the fact that you can get that all
in a portable package is pretty amazing so i like that i I like it too but I
don't because there's one thing that I wanted to bring up and that's the
silence of this system the same can't be said about this thing
okay so we've already talked about performance the desktop is the clear
winner but we did want it to go a little bit past that to kind of walk you
through what are some of the pros and cons of having a notebook and having a
desktop and I'm gonna start with the exterior the looks so Mike what do you
think of your desktop PC personally I love the looks I mean it looks like
microwave yeah but I mean I think we're I think now we're just gonna be talking
about really obvious things right yeah I mean I love the légion why 740 because
it's very minimalistic not to gamer II I mean I've got ports at the back that's
conveniently accessible which is nice I will find is conveniently accessible
because you have to reach around the screen first of all first of all let's
be honest I have a USB type-c port which supports none of all three I have no USB
type-c ports none see that's a that's a major problem I think that's one of the
things that I saw in mind its quantity of USB type aids over quality of inputs
and output all right Mike oh you ready for this this rapid fire round
I've got speakers and they sound amazing this notebook has a dedicated subwoofer
and it's probably one of the best sounding systems on a laptop I've got
I've got no now speaker which I had to purchase separately but there you go
I've also have a display it's 144 Hertz 1080p g-sync
I mean it's an all-in-one package how about you you need to use your notebook
your your your your notebook to talk about but okay so I think I think that
also has a lot to do with lifestyle right is I like having a separate PC for
a desktop and then a really really thin and like portable nor notebook like this
x1 so the next thing that we need to talk about is a great ability so I'm
going to start with a notebook it's fairly easily accessible so you've got
two memory slots can be aware 32 gigabytes there's only one m2 slot
that's already populated by the Windows drive but unfortunately I really wished
if they added an extra n dr. slot because it's a 17 inch laptop in the
first place and there are other notebooks in the market with that
configuration now the two and a half inch hard drive bay can be swapped for
an SSD if you want something a little bit faster and that's about it you can
upgrade the CPU you can't upgrade the GPU but I think that's where the desktop
comes in yeah Lenovo allows you to upgrade a couple of the components
number one is the GPU the GPU is on a tool as bracket and can just be pulled
out and easily replaced the hard drives there's one additional caddy that has a
hot swap adapter you just push in another hard drive and you're good to go
the other area that can be upgraded as the memory but with 32 gigabytes and
this one you probably don't want to do that the one thing that I was really
hoping for is another m2 slot because I've already come up to almost the
maximum capacity of that nvme drive I would have liked another high-speed
storage option on the Z 370 motherboard all right so I think it's time to
conclude this video and I think we're gonna find a winner or at least I think
we're gonna fight for ourselves to find a winner because I'm unhappy with this
guy I'm happy with this guy we're gonna keep you talk with adaptability and I
think that goes to the notebook why because it's an all-in-one package you
get a display a really good display and it comes with a keyboard speakers it's
it's an all pal it's an all-inclusive package you can gain comfortably on it
you can edit videos if you do want to do that and it's portable which means this
comes with you wherever you go where are you okay hanging around with
like 15 pounds on you well if you go for the 15 inch version of the Wyson 40 then
that that can be easily disregarded and I think from an adaptability standpoint
I want a gaming desktop and a less expensive but very efficient notebook
and that for me is my definition of adaptability well next up we have
upgrade ability and that clearly goes to the desktop whereas with a notebook it's
very limited finally we have performance or second last we have performance and I
think the desktop takes the edge once again it does but it's not as much of an
edge that I actually thought was gonna be there it's 25% better but it also
shows how powerful those notebooks are becoming now the last category is value
and I think this clearly has to go to the notebook why because for the same
price as we Specht out as I want to refer back to this mind my point earlier
is that it's an all-in-one package you get a display get a keyboard where it's
the desktop you to invest in additional accessories like
a display like a keyboard and a mouse maybe but at the same time for me value
also has to do with how quiet the system is it also has to do with that upgrade
ability factor so I think what we're coming to a conclusion of here is that
it really depends on what your lifestyle is or not I mean I'm gonna be honest man
I'm I'm pretty happy with this notebook and I'm sorry I think this is desktop so
I don't know how are we supposed to sell this now all right so let's go uh tails
is this guy all right heads is yours okay all right fingers crossed if that
would go in there yeah my boy Wow all right I guess that's it desktop that
concludes this video thank you so much for watching guys and let us know which
one you would prefer yeah thanks so much for watching and we'll see you in the
next one are you trying to like static clean your no but I don't want to well
it's I'm so hopped up and that's where the another shark Athena