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Posted by Robert

- March 04, 2019, 08:20:07

Coil whine can also be tested by attaching a phone to the USB port. If it has a full battery even better. My HP ZBook 15 G3 has a very annoying one.

Posted by Vit

- March 03, 2019, 18:27:52

Keep it up, Notebookcheck!
Your efforts are highly appreciated.

Posted by heffeque

- March 02, 2019, 19:05:17

Quote from: Puppy on March 02, 2019, 10:04:43
Components lottery. For instance in premium price Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon you can get either good Samsung SSD or "compatible" super slow Lenovo branded crap SSD.

That's why I am back to self assembled PCs, I have full control over the components.

I won the lottery on my MSi PS42 8RB. The one reviewed here in notebookchech was slooow, while I got a Samsung PM981, which is quite fast.

As for assembling PCs... do you know of any ultrabook that you can assemble? I don't seem to find any.

Posted by vinco

- March 02, 2019, 18:39:48

Very true. They also fail to measure how noisy the cooling system is and how it impacts the temperature of the chassis. These are some of the most important deciding factors for me, because they directly determine if the laptop is annoying to use or not.

Which is why I always end up here for truly in-depth reviews. Keep up the good work, guys.

Regarding coil whine - sadly it's often dependent on a particular piece. Some instances of the same model do exhibit coil whine while others don't. It's can be a matter of luck..

Posted by Girish

- March 02, 2019, 17:19:41

Best site ever for laptop reviews the icc color profile from this site greatly improved my greyscale and color deviation

Posted by Tom Reader

- March 02, 2019, 15:09:29

One of the main reasons why I skip most YouTube reviews and wait for the review on Notebookcheck. I've yet to find a comparable site that does such a through review of laptops.

You could also include the response time of displays as something missed by most reviews. I had to return my XPS 15 as the ghosting was giving me a headache.

Las thing: The HP SureView, while a great feature does limit viewing angles by a large margin, the 120hz display is nice on the laptop (required for HP SureView technologiy work) but the PWM just gave me a headache and I couldn't get use to looking straight onto the screen and seeing dark spots appear if I move my head just slightly.

Posted by Puppy

- March 02, 2019, 10:04:43

Components lottery. For instance in premium price Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon you can get either good Samsung SSD or "compatible" super slow Lenovo branded crap SSD.

That's why I am back to self assembled PCs, I have full control over the components.

Posted by Redaktion

- March 02, 2019, 01:58:51

When buying a new laptop, it's undeniably important that the model both performs well and looks great. Nevertheless, these lesser-known aspects are just as important to the user experience even though they are almost never mentioned by most publications.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/What-most-reviewers-fail-to-talk-about-backlight-bleeding-coil-whine-graininess-and-more.411451.0.html