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hey everyone Eber here with hardware connects and i'm here with michael AKA sky mt l in Beijing for Lenovo now they were actually kinda have to invite us over here and sponsor our trip to check out some of their upcoming products for 2019 but also give them some honest feedback on those products on certain things that could potentially help improve or that potentially they could improve on that could fit the end users they were also able to invite some other influencers as well as some professional eSports gamers to give them feedback on some accessories as well which is pretty cool and before we get into that I need to describe this whole situation over here that's taking place in Beijing so as I'm recording this you may probably hear cars honking in the background and a whole sort of noisy environment pardon me for that but you know it's definitely certainly an interesting experience but even worse is that you know since we are content creators on YouTube China actually has some 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absolute bonus with a VPN service alright so coming back to Lenovo over the next few days we're actually gonna be going through a few workshops where they'll actually take the take us over through a variety of their products including their laptops their desktops their accessories and a great example would be their legion Wi-Fi 30 which i think is a fantastic notebook for the price because it doesn't sacrifice on the build quality department but it also offers the performance that you need for just you know casual gaming and stuff like that but we'll also be going over a bunch of other things specifically on how they'll be testing some of these upcoming products by taking a look or taking a quick tour on their different test facilities within their headquarters so I think they'll be pretty interesting with that being said let's head off to Lenovo I'm gonna go right now all right so the first thing we realized when arriving at the Lenovo headquarters was the legion team was taking this whole thing very seriously there were people from every product team on hand and every single one of them wanted to know what we thought of their products there was everyone from product managers to folks who designed their products and the first thing everyone said was not to hold anything back and that's exactly what happened our first day was pretty much dominated by notebooks and desktops both of which are very important to Legion strategy for example the c5 30 that they meet reviewed not too long ago looked good from the outside but it's CP cooling was pretty terrible and caused the entire system to throttle the legion engineers realize that a little while ago and are already working on cooler designs for the next revisions they later showed us what the next generation of cooler would look like and it's a huge upgrade water cooling will be used for their overclocked systems as well for notebooks there was a pretty heated discussion about the direction things should go we obviously needed a bit more focus on the thin and light segment that focuses on productivity and supposedly lenovo will be addressing that very soon of course we also mentioned things like Windows position drivers for the trackpad and keeping things simple with their designs and versatility is pretty important but what do you guys think other than pricing what features do you guys look for in a notebook let us know in the comments so after day one of the workshop we actually spend the rest of the night getting to know the other influencers a little bit more and we also had some fun so the second day started with Intel explaining how they'll be approaching the competitive gaming market in the near future basically eSports is one of the fastest-growing markets right now and Intel's making a huge push into it rather than focusing on products this is all about building brand awareness through the creation of Extreme Masters Tournament and their participation in other events okay so back to the interesting stuff because there was certainly some great discussions around peripherals and monitors did you know Legion produced a peripheral lineup we actually covered their keyboard and mouse and let's just say there was a long way to go and honestly that hasn't really changed one of everyone's favorite Mouse was actually the Logitech G 400 so we actually set off to find one and well this is what happened at the new big review new athletic mouse 400 or you can actually I've been working in retail like my the dead the dead do not matter did so other than a little cockroach infestation probably the most interesting thing about what happened was our tour of lenovo's amazing product testing facilities one of the reasons why lenovo has been well known for their high quality products is that every one of their designs is put through a rigorous process to see how far it can be pushed before failure that means things like putting them into high humidity and temperature chambers for hours or subjecting them to electrostatic shocks there's also several massive acoustic testing chambers that are set up to measure exactly how much noise is being put out inside of those there are some of the most expensive tools in the entire building these are actually designed to test exactly how the human ear is able to hear different sounds each of them is jam-packed with sensors that can read over 10,000 data points in parallel it's really amazing to see it in person but legion isn't all about the typical products either and some of their designers are working on some seriously cool projects this is the Star Trek build that may actually make its way into the market sooner than you may think inside of it there's a miniaturized Z 390 motherboard with an i-9 9900 K and a GTX 1080 founders Edition not only that but the upper saucer can also be removed and used as a wireless speaker / projector combo alright so I'm gonna be quiet for a few seconds and run a few more shots of this amazing Lenovo system so after all of that it was time to unwind and I have to say Beijing and its suburbs may have almost as many residents as all of Canada but it is an amazing city to explore the electronics markets have to be seen and to be believed since they have everything from countless cables to GPUs to older CPUs trying to navigate them is crazy but boy did we find some interesting stuff and the Forbidden City well let me just say I was astonished by just exploring that part well guys that pretty much sums up our four days in Beijing visiting Lenovo I just want to take a few seconds to thank the legion team for paying for our flights and accommodations while we're there but also being such amazing hosts it's just amazing to see a company like Lenovo that's willing to listen to you know what users have to say and allowing us to use your comments in our videos and give them a real voice I think that's the best takeaway from this whole experience you know because we read all of your comments in our review videos and if a company like Lenovo is willing to you know listen we use what you have to say as a guide for feedback and I think that's how the whole process of good product design happens anyways I think that's it for now I hope you guys enjoyed this little bit of a different video compared to our normal stuff and if you have any feedback for Legion or us feel free to let us know in the comments down below until then I'm signing off and I'll see you guys