Why are we doing this?
I am coming for you.
Jono, what is this?
Okay.
Yeah, this box is like,
there's holes in it.
What happened to you?
In order to get into a package with a screw,
first, you just, you just give it a poke.
Power cord, webcam, okay.
Cable management clip, keyboard and mouse.
This, ew, this weighs nothing.
Is there anything in here?
So there's the power cable.
It feels like it was half the weight.
So this, this box lied.
We're supposed to have a keyboard and a mouse in here.
Oh, some items may be in separate packaging.
Okay.
This actually feels like a hefty keyboard.
Oh, nevermind.
Wow, that's substantial for such a slim keyboard.
They actually, yeah, they don't feel bad.
Like I don't like this style of keys
for a desktop keyboard anyway,
but for what it is, it's not bad.
Plus you've got brightness controls and stuff,
basically like Apple.
It looks nicer than the Apple Magic Keyboard.
You think that this looks nicer than like aluminum?
Yes.
You think it, okay.
I'm just gonna, just gonna grab it.
Looks pretty nice,
but I think the only reason it looks glossy
is because I'm pretty sure there's a peel under here.
How about the back?
Okay, so we've got actually a fairly substantial amount
of IO here.
We've got, there's our power.
Jono clarified that this is in fact, Gigabit Ethernet.
Which makes sense.
This should be HDMI 2.1 because I see here,
there's a little sticker for GeForce RTX graphics
along with, I believe that's 12th gen core.
Let's, no?
11th gen.
But what are we doing reviewing this thing, Jono?
Oh, right.
We're unboxing it.
Why are we unboxing last year's tech?
So we got three super speed USB ports.
Those are not colored correctly,
but nobody cares anymore, apparently.
Two Thunderbolt ports.
That's pretty sweet.
Have a Thunderbolt dock
if your onboard graphics aren't enough.
Plus we have a, I guess that's a headset jack.
There's more.
Look at this.
There's actually IO on the stand.
We got two more USB ports, another type C port.
Not sure, I can't see from here
if that's Thunderbolt or not.
And also what looks like an SD card reader.
That's really cool.
I can't help but notice
that there's another little thing down here.
Now, normally what this kind of thing conceals is more IO.
Maybe there's actually even more than we've already seen.
So I'm just going to grab this and pull it off.
That was entirely tool-less.
It's actually magnetic a little bit, I think.
It's like, yeah, it's magnetic.
It stays up like that.
Then you just clip it in on either side.
It's going to make a liar out of me now.
Yeah, just go ahead and yank on this.
Yeah.
Yeah, just give it a yank.
Oh, that's fun.
Oh wow, it's really easy.
Yeah.
Only 16 gigabytes.
16.
Well, I told you, this is last year's tech.
Why are we unboxing last year's tech?
We need 32 gigs at minimum
and we need 12th gen core at minimum.
And we also need all Thunderbolt 4 ports.
Every one of the USB type A ports
needs to be 10 gigabits per second.
And we need to get 10 gigabit Ethernet as well on here.
And if that HDMI port isn't 2.1 compliant,
I am coming for you.
I didn't know he actually, he ordered it.
Really?
Yeah, I did order it.
Why?
It looked cool.
It's just too bad.
Hey, at least you can upgrade the RAM.
Yeah, you can upgrade the RAM.
There are two NVMe ports on there, I think,
or maybe one is NVMe and one is SATA.
I'll have to take a look and see.
I mean, it doesn't tilt or anything,
but it does go up and down.
Doesn't really do side to side.
Apple could take notes like this one right here.
Yeah, and in fact, Apple used to be pretty easy.
There was a button you pushed.
It opened a door.
Apple, why can't you do this anymore?
Why are we doing this?
Why?
Apple used to care.
Oh yeah, the power cord.
It came in a whole separate box, the power cord.
Like it wasn't attached to the back of the monitor.
I didn't have to like check whether or not I was sane
looking at the back of the monitor.
Like what is that on the back of the monitor?
Could that possibly be a power cable?
Where's the power cable?
Oh, it is in fact on the back of the monitor.
Why?
I don't know.
Hey, let's try taking it off.
You can't?
Oh, watch this.
There you go.
Watch that.
Yeah, yeah.
And you know what?
If I, oh, there's actually a little tab here
and I'm not sure why.
Cause it's gonna have to come this way, right?
Wait, what?
It's not a full peel.
Is this just glossy?
It's really glossy.
It needs a wipe.
Oh, I didn't even notice this.
Is that a wireless charging dock?
How useful.
So you just throw your phone there,
which you're probably gonna do anyway, let's be honest.
And it'll charge.
Oh man, there's no way I can make this thing look good.
Like even if, like, just look.
Looking at it.
Every time I look at it, there's another streak.
And it's like, where are these coming from?
I don't understand.
I have yet to see a power button.
Maybe that's where the key,
like maybe it's the keyboard that does that?
Computer on.
Can you see where we can turn, how to turn this on?
Oh, I love a challenge.
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How could there not be an obvious power button?
This is insane.
Maybe, okay, maybe there's something under,
like on the underside of it, like if we tip it over.
You know what, we're getting desperate, so.
No.
It took me a while to find it.
No, I touched, I touched there.
I don't feel anything there.
It's the tiniest button ever.
They could have it pulse light or something,
so you'd know.
The dongle does appear to be built in,
so I don't need these.
Okay, so what is this?
It's.
It's mad at you.
It doesn't like your phone.
Clearly.
Yeah, okay, so I guess it doesn't wanna charge my phone.
Why?
Yeah, let me try my phone.
It's smaller.
Oh, and the webcam, right.
How could I forget the webcam?
Whoa, what?
Yeah, that's a thing.
Now, why are you unboxing things?
Because I don't really get this privilege
being kind of stuck in my corner full of Apple products.
It's probably at least partially magnetic, isn't it?
Yeah, it is magnetic, but it's.
Yeah.
Why would you do that?
Tell me what you think.
I like a chunky webcam.
There's something substantial about it.
I would prefer a chunky webcam that looks good
to a sling webcam that doesn't.
Yes, yes.
Also, here's something we can do about that.
Hey, hold on, let me add this, add this.
Just goes right into these holes,
and once it's all the way in,
it is held together with those magnets.
Yeah, this is a 4K ultra wide, is what this is.
It's 2160p tall, 5120 pixels wide.
Let's see.
HDR compliant.
It doesn't look like it is.
God, why would you maximize a window
across an ultra wide like this?
So they call this a 5K panel.
Not true.
This is anti-glare.
They definitely failed on the anti-glare.
I don't really see any effort put into anti-glare here.
No?
Like I don't really see any like frosting
or anything like that.
No.
In some cases, if you've got a lot of ambient light,
but not a lot of direct light,
a glossy screen can be more readable than a matte screen.
But if you do have direct light,
like a window or studio lighting coming in at you,
then you're going to see shadows
and all sorts of other stuff.
But get out of here.
What was this used for?
Get out of here.
You're adding nothing.
Welcome to today's episode of Pack Address,
where we talk about Hewlett Packard devices.
So this, okay, straight away, laptop GPU.
So they definitely do not have a desktop class GPU in here.
The CPU, yes.
But it checks out.
I mean, the display in this lighting, it's difficult to tell,
but it looks pretty good to me.
So far from what I've heard of the little Windows chimes,
the speakers are rather nice.
They are by Bang & Olufsen.
I see we've got McAfee LiveSafe pre-installed.
What else do we have here?
Adobe Offers, MyHP.
Okay, so MyHP is probably fine.
Dropbox promotion, why?
Anyway, they got Duet Display, which is interesting,
which means you could use Duet Display to use a tablet
or some other machine to extend your display,
your desktop onto.
This mouse is actually a problem.
Like I'm sitting here trying to set up OBS
so I can screen record for you guys.
And like the tracking sensitivity is not good enough.
Basically, I went down, hit apply or okay, and I hit cancel,
just because like the tracking is so weird.
Yeah, it's really good.
I don't think it has local dimming,
but the contrast ratio and the brightness
is actually pretty good.
It gives a fake effect of HDR just looking at it like this
as a result of that.
Because it has that 500 nit peak brightness,
it's the same as the Apple Studio display.
So it looks really good,
but it doesn't have that HDR tone mapping, you know?
Just as Alex walks in.
Oh, wow.
It doesn't get as loud as I thought it would,
but the top end is pretty sharp.
It's not terrible.
High is really good, mid's really good.
The sound, like the bass is, it's good,
but it's like, it doesn't go too far down.
Like, you know?
Yeah.
It's, it doesn't have...
It's not rumbling your butt.
Yeah, well, they got the,
oh, they got a bang on the Olsen sound control.
Oh, the bass is cranked a little bit.
It's at 69%.
Nice.
So what if I were to turn all of this off?
What does it sound like now?
Oh.
Turn it back on.
The stock setting is actually pretty good.
Oh, nice.
They do have it.
The display control.
That's what I wanted.
What I really like is that you can do the auto color,
because then you can go from like Lightroom
to your websites and stuff,
and it'll automatically switch like SRGB and Adobe RGB.
All right, let us try out that webcam.
Okay.
Oh, hey, it's got facial recognition.
It knows when people are in frame.
It looks like it's doing autofocus a lot,
which is kind of weird.
And there's Jono.
Oh, I can set the autofocus.
Set where it should be.
Oh, I see.
So it actually has like kind of a built-in ring light.
That's interesting.
I'm not sure how actually useful it is,
but I guess it's better than nothing.
What do we have here?
Oh, okay.
So I can adjust the aperture of it.
I can adjust the temperature of it.
So that's warm.
And that's cool.
That actually does make a difference.
It auto rotated.
What?
Whoa.
Is that built into Windows?
Yeah, you can just have,
you can straight up just have it down there.
In fact, there's a reason why it's a little bit,
a little bit halo-y.
And we forgot to do a peel.
You're gonna get to see a peel from the other side.
You are the peel this time.
Oh, here it comes.
Whoa, it's so much sharper.
I thought it was just a bad webcam.
So yeah, I guess we are hearing presumably
the speed of the microphone array
that is built into this display.
And wow, that actually, yeah, that looks really good.
Let us play some games.
Yeah, it's hovering around 60 FPS.
I'm wondering if I have V-Sync on.
It doesn't seem to be when I'm in the menu.
V-Sync is off. Okay.
So it only does about 60 FPS max at these settings,
which is 1440p wide, ultra quality.
This thing's got a really, really quiet little fan in it.
This thing is clearly struggling right now
because the CPU is gonna be hit pretty hard
in a game like Doom.
And the GPU is obviously struggling
because it's got a whole bunch of stuff going on right now.
But if I mute the audio while the game is running,
I don't, I don't hear anything.
Like.
I think I hear our server even better.
Ooh, oh, it is pumping out a lot of heat up here.
I had to say, despite the fact that I went into this,
like kind of crapping on the specs,
it's really good overall.
Like it's a good all-rounder.
Long story short, it's got a good display.
It's not the best display, but it's a good display.
It's got a good webcam.
It's not the best webcam, but it's actually pretty strong.
It's got good speakers,
if only because it has the good software.
Okay, well, this is not so good, but it works sometimes.
It's got pretty good IO.
I don't have any major complaints, to be honest,
aside from all the complaints that I've been doing.
I've been complaining this whole time
about like bloatware and stuff.
Would you buy this?
Oh, should you wait until this is the 12th?
I would say, wait for the 12th gen model.
That being said, if you get this on special in the meantime,
because the 12th gen model is gonna come, then sure.
Like this is the kind of computer
that I would buy for my grandparents.
For somebody who doesn't, you know,
need to upgrade their computer super much,
like maybe they just need to upgrade the RAM later on,
or they need to add more storage, then yeah.
This is actually super easy to get into.
And so for somebody who's not technically minded,
you could walk them through doing that very easily.
I came into this kind of not being impressed with the specs
and not being impressed with, you know,
some other aspects of it,
but it's actually really good overall.
I like it.
And I like you and the fact that you like ShortCircuit.
So get subscribed and I don't know,
maybe comment down below
what other machines or otherwise
that we should take a look at.