Shame for all industry - 45% NTSC(minimum is 72%) for "IPS", bad angles, bad native contrast (minimum is 1500:1). Bad brightness <=250 nit.
Shame for all сhinese manufacturers - bad keyboard layout. Digital block on 15.6/17.3 broken by right arrow key on place for insert key. Or bad enter/+ key, non-standart for desktop. Very bad thing - narrow Fx keys, instead of full ones on desktop variant. Quite often, even in the Thinkpad T+, the keyboard is completely insane. Almost the standard only in Omen 2018 15.6. He and the body is almost a standard. The ports are in the back, the rest are maximally pressed to the rear edge of the left and right.
The shame for the Dell G series (and the junior Alienware) is a terrible in tactile. keyboard - short stroke and bad easy key straightening with pressure on them, fingers after elastic desktop familiar keyboards (and normal in Thinkpad) simply fail and typing into the blind is impossible physically.
fake usb-c on most laptops. Deceiving stupid buyers who don't know that can simply install the fake C(A port with C). Marketers often use this technique. But Lenovo is the most insolent in this matter.
The shame of the industry in that (purely by marketing redneck restrictions) is not the wiring of the outputs available in the hardware.
For example - Ice Lake has native support for Thunderbolt 3.0 and WiFi6 (AX) in SoС. A PHY layer for installing it to the connectors have is costs a penny, but they will be strangled, but they will not allow economical customers to get TB3.0 to usb-c and will never put it into a laptop for price $500-600 Intel AX201 card with CNVi interface and therefore worth a penny ($7).
They are more likely to strangle themselves than to install DDR4 3200 memory in a laptop with Ice Lake (as Lenovo shamefully does), although it costs literally a penny more than 2666 variants. At the same time, Acer installs 3200 on laptops with Whiskey Lake and Ryzen 3xxx, although there is higher DDR4 2400 no support! Such a transcendental level of idiocy and cretinism on the part of the morons of marketers must still be sought ...
They will choke put the RJ45 connector, although the controller itself is already inside and the PHY layer is again a penny and there's enough free space on the sides of the laptop. Lenovo S340 as example - Gigabit Ethernet Controller is detected by AIDA64, but no RJ45 with thin case!
And also a topic with artificial understatement of TDP Ryzen from many manufacturers. I know for sure that Lenovo and HP are quietly limiting Ryzen TDP to 11-12W (AC power), as a result, instead of a 15W processor, customers get a pumpkin by speed...but not a word is written about this on their sites. And all the ads are screaming - a 15W processor inside!
And manufacturers took a dumb fashion to put one 4-pin audio jack, and not yet on a separate board. but directly to the motherboard. And their quality does not stand up to criticism, especially in Asus, they break down just after a month sometimes. Soldering is terribly complicated. I have ESD soldering station and soldered it, believe me!
What prevents installing on the left and right side of the laptop on the same 4 pin audio jack? Excessive greed only. Kind of chips have long been multi-channel and cost a penny!
I have 3 interchangeable audio jacks in my laptop from MSI 2008 (line in/out/microphone/headphone on all three ports!) And in one of them there is an optical SPDIF for galvanic isolation with laptop power circuits when connecting a quality external DACs
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The reference 15.6 laptop should have:
1. most of the ports in the back (including power or the plug should be angled, and not stick out to the side like idiots in Dell, even in the business series)
2. At least 2 audio connectors with 4 pins (left and right, so that it is convenient and right-handed and left-handed). And better than 3 so that you can quickly arrange 5.1 on analog speakers somewhere. As it was before in 2008. And one optical SPDIF as mandatory!
3. IPS must be at least 280 ppi. 75% + NTSC (with strong and accuracy sRGB profile!). And no less than 1500: 1 native contrast. Not less than 300 nits. Flicker Free by Sign on Box.
4. The keyboard should be STANDARD - all buttons are the same size with the desktop (Fx mandatory!). Normal digital block, without Chinese perversions. With normal tactile communication and stroke depth.
5. Keyboard backlit should be flexibly configured in BIOS and OS. The time it for automatically turns off (0..60 sec), the brightness level. No ugly reds and greens light - just cool white or RGB.
6. When running on battery power, the processor must be able to run at full TDP (nominal) without restriction. As it was 10 years ago. So that there is no such shame as in the Dell G series, where the i7 9750H from the battery (15-19W TDP) works slower (CBR15 = 495) than my Ryzen 3500U on 11W TDP (CBR15 = 630!)! This is a form of shame for gaming laptops when their cut 11W processor!
7. For a 2020 laptop (in the fall, I think) Display Port 2.0 (Entry level for 8k monitors) and HDMI 2.1 (Entry Level for Dynamic HDR) are required, even at the level of gpu built into SoC
8. Any laptop must have Dolby Headphone support, but not the shame that started with Windows Vista +, but the level that is in XP with Realtek DH setup (trimmed from the settings starting with Vista) and in PowerDVD settings. Sonic in W10 sucks in headphones!
9.The cooling system should eliminate any noise in the office load and surfing (including YouTube with clips of any frequency and resolution). Coolers generally should not turn on or make noise on the verge of audibility and monotonous noise without a high-frequency and low-frequency component. Cooler management should be directly accessible in the BIOS and in the OS, and with editing the curve of the increase in speed depending on the temperature.
10. Minimum two M.2 pci-e x2 (2280). Or M.2+2.5" SATA slot.
11. Wi-Fi antennas, if the cover is metal, should have a 360-degree view, i.e. have a plastic insert. Or the cover should be made of carbon fiber or very high quality ABS. And not like in laptops with metal, where 180 degrees are closed due to which the exchange rate drops sharply.
Cheers!
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