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So I got this laptop for about $180 and I thought it was a real deal. Came with a stylus and the build quality was pretty good. But in experience, it feels like a darn netbook!
So I checked what was wrong with it and look at this:

Grandmas have faster reflexes than that latency!!!
@Det0x , it seems LPDDR4 and probably LPDDR5 have serious issues where despite being CL20, the latency is almost 2.5 times as bad.
@adroc_thurston may be able to shed some light on the why and how.
Interestingly, slots 1 to 4 are empty. This was meant to be a 16GB laptop but it was cut down. So that might affect the bandwidth but don't think the latency will improve even with the full 16GB.
So I checked what was wrong with it and look at this:

Grandmas have faster reflexes than that latency!!!
@Det0x , it seems LPDDR4 and probably LPDDR5 have serious issues where despite being CL20, the latency is almost 2.5 times as bad.
@adroc_thurston may be able to shed some light on the why and how.
Interestingly, slots 1 to 4 are empty. This was meant to be a 16GB laptop but it was cut down. So that might affect the bandwidth but don't think the latency will improve even with the full 16GB.