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the advertising disclaimer did not cover the question, "did they send you the test unit for free? do you get to keep it? or did you go out to buy it so you are

the advertising disclaimer did not cover the question, "did they send you the test unit for free? do you get to keep it? or did you go out to buy it so you are sure you did not get a selected unit?" Because if you can only afford these tests if the unit is provided to you, the channel would not exactly be fine without their support, even if you have enough other companies sending units to keep you busy. I'm not that price sensitive personally, but I wish this thing had a trackpoint.

ddtaylor 3y ago
I'm not Nick but I feel I have watched his channel long enough to answer these questions. > did they send you the test unit for free? do you get to keep it? or did you go out to buy it so you are sure you did not get a selected unit? Most of the review units for the dozens of different Linux laptops he reviews are temporary units he has to send back. Sometimes they are pre-production runs, sometimes regular consumer runs, etc. I believe he did buy a Tuxedo Slimbook a few years ago out of pocket separate from the products of theirs he has reviewed on the channel. Nick is legit though. If there is a problem with a laptop he mentions it. If the laptop is nice but pretty high priced he mentions it. If it has failures because the people making it didn't actually "try to use it" he mentions that. > Because if you can only afford these tests if the unit is provided to you, the channel would not exactly be fine without their support There are a lot of ways it could be done. By no means do we need companies to send review units to YouTubers. They are doing this because THEY are competing to get their product seen. If they are stupid enough to stop interacting with the communities that build the worlds around their products we will (a) continue to look at products by companies that aren't that stupid and (b) crowdsource the products and information ourselves. I would be willing to get say a 30% discount on a laptop if Nick wants to get it shipped to him first for review.

ddtaylor 3y ago

I'm not Nick but I feel I have watched his channel long enough to answer these questions. > did they send you the test unit for free? do you get to keep it? or did you go out to buy it so you are sure you did not get a selected unit? Most of the review units for the dozens of different Linux laptops he reviews are temporary units he has to send back. Sometimes they are pre-production runs, sometimes regular consumer runs, etc. I believe he did buy a Tuxedo Slimbook a few years ago out of pocket separate from the products of theirs he has reviewed on the channel. Nick is legit though. If there is a problem with a laptop he mentions it. If the laptop is nice but pretty high priced he mentions it. If it has failures because the people making it didn't actually "try to use it" he mentions that. > Because if you can only afford these tests if the unit is provided to you, the channel would not exactly be fine without their support There are a lot of ways it could be done. By no means do we need companies to send review units to YouTubers. They are doing this because THEY are competing to get their product seen. If they are stupid enough to stop interacting with the communities that build the worlds around their products we will (a) continue to look at products by companies that aren't that stupid and (b) crowdsource the products and information ourselves. I would be willing to get say a 30% discount on a laptop if Nick wants to get it shipped to him first for review.