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in our launch review of qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite we praised both the

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performance and the battery life of these new laptop chips and we were even

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impressed by their ability to seamlessly run software that's designed for

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traditional x86 laptops then the very

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next day we live streamed our attempts to run dozens of PC games and nearly

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half of them failed I mean they clearly aren't meant to be gaming machines but

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hey neither is this thing and yet it can play games and that's important to a lot

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of people so what is the real conclusion here is it worth the risk that your

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favorite program might not run at all if it means better battery life than a

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Macbook in everything else you do well we're going to find out today and the

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day after that and the day after that and so on for an entire month that's

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right three members of our team are going to fully switch to Qualcomm

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laptops to see just how usable Windows on ARM is in

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2024 so we announced the challenge video over then right

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no oh good lord we've still got to decide which of these numerous laptops

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we're going to be using for a month and it's not going to be easy since there

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isn't a single bad one in front of us or

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behind us so many options to tell you

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description let's kick things right off with the surface laptop 7 Microsoft has

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been desperate for our response to Apple silicon and their co-pilot plus Flagship

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is the first big update to this product line in 5 years Al really wants this one

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so much so that he made sure that we had two of them to ensure that he gets one

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the sensil trackpad means great gesture controls and haptics and as far as

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facelifts go this one was a doozy it's lighter smaller and maybe even Better

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Built I have heard the keyboard's a bit underwhelming though so we're going to

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have to test that out and there's no time like the present it's definitely a softer typing

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experience not the longest travel distance and a little bit on the squish

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side but I don't think this would affect accuracy and there's a lot else to like

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about this machine it's got a 120 HZ display that does support HDR with Peak

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brightness of up to 600 nits for a pretty solid HDR viewing experience it's

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in that magic 3x2 aspect ratio that is

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incredible for productivity and on that note it has one of if not the best

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webcams we've ever seen on a laptop and of course includes Windows hello facial

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recognition for instant login she's tempting but I have to ask Alex what

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exactly happened here uh that was a little bit awkward you know how we said

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that that sensil track pad is really really good uhhuh uh one of them didn't

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work oh so when it arrived made a little mix and match yeah so now it's fixed I

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like what you've done here I really love it actually and you can see the whole

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experience of swapping out the bottom panel and the trackpad at lm. g/f flat

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plane you know it's very on brand that you have a janky one would you look at

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that that's a lot of washers that just came out of there I really like this top

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now I'm like emotionally connected to it we literally just started getting back

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on their good side this is not going to

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help I'm so sorry Microsoft next up

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we've got the Samsung Galaxy book for Edge and she's a little heavier but

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there is a lot to like here including that shockingly thin profile that

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somehow doesn't compromise on iO with full-size HDMI ports and full size USB

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and a Micro SD Storage slot we also get a fingerprint sensor and oh that display

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now it's no secret that Samsung makes some of the best panels for everyone

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else on the market be they phones laptops or TVs so it shouldn't be a

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surprise they have an absolute Banger of a display on this machine on top of the

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solid specs Samsung has gone the extra mile to avoid one of the pitfalls of

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previous OLED touchscreens where the touch digitizer wouldn't line up

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perfectly with the OLED subpixels on this one it's Crystal Clear so you don't

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get any of that potential graininess that we've seen in the past meaning this

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is an extremely strong Contender I mean it's panoramic now there is one problem

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with this we have an international layout keyboard which is a bit of an

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issue I didn't even notice that but do you know what arrived literally 30

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minutes ago oh a not that one a not that

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one oh perfect but if you want to take it there is someone that you will have

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to fight oh Samy's interest is seeing

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how it integrates with the rest of the Samsung ecosystem he's already got the

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phone the watch the fridge so and the ear bud brand loyalty for the win I

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guess of course Colin flag

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me that's not why Sammy is your name is it no short for

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Samsung for the XPS 13 Dell sent us two

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different options and on both of them you give up some IO and you definitely

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give up some screen size but you also give up unsightly bezels and on this one

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in between that nearly frameless design is the very first tandem OLED panel on a

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PC guys if this comes even close to the one in the new iPad Pro this is likely

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to be the best screen on a laptop period

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the only problem is that according to Dell the full HD Plus IPS version of the

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XPS 13 gets literally double the battery

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life so they provided that option for us as

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well would I trade my newfound excellent battery life for an otherworldly ped

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display well fortunately it isn't as bad as they said this thing right here got a

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solid 12 hours just this one's

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incredible look I had to write it in cuz it got nearly 17 hours of battery life

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when I printed these off it was still just going in the chamber from the night

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before and there's a lot more to like here at least on paper the backpad

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keyboard speakers build quality and especially on the full HD Plus model the

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best battery life in a sea of MacBook beating batteries it's incredible except

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no headphone jack or physical Escape key

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D but another there is that's right

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Dell's XPS line isn't the only Contender

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they sent over and their traditionally lower-end Inspiron machine it's actually

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looking very tempting I can't say I'm a huge fan of the mushy keyboard nor am I

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that into giving up an HDR display but by simply avoiding many of Dell's foot

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shooting design forward decisions the Inspiron family could end up being the

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only reasonable Contender for a lot of buyers now with only 11 hours and 6

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minutes of battery life it got the shortest of all of our Snapdragon

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laptops but it still bests the MacBook

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Air M2 by 43 minutes so it's still pretty darn exceptional of course being

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a more budget friendly model this is also the only machine out of our options

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that's configured with the X+ chip and not the ex Elite so we'd have to live

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with just 10 cores in our thin and light for a month 2024 truly is a tough time

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isn't it I mean it is but not because of

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this next up I'd love to show you this design from framework who of course I'm

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invested in I'd love to show it to you but they don't have one so let's move on

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the HP Omni book X is kind of a funny one because on paper nothing about it

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really stands out and yet this is one of those rare devices that manages to be

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more than the sum of its parts it's thin it's light the keyboard is great the

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rounded corners on the chassis feel nice in your hands and the iio is even

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surprisingly decent for a machine this slim with one of those cute little

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full-size type A's the screen also

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doesn't get very bright only 300nits Peak meaning that outdoor use in

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anything but an emergency is out of the question but it sips power giving this

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thing the second best battery life in our tests of course if you want almost

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as much battery life and a bigger brighter OLED screen the ASUS VI book

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S15 has got to be on your radar although

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that's not necessarily a recommendation this has got to be the most all over

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theplace laptop we've got see on paper it features the slowest version of the X

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Elite but in turbo mode it manages to ramp power to that thing to 50 WTS

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making it the fastest real world performer in multicore workloads even

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though it's the second slowest out of everything we tested in single core the

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screen is 120 HZ OLED and hits 600 nits

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but it's 6 by9 and non-touchscreen which

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I'm frankly not that into the keyboard and build quality are best described as

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fine I guess but it comes with the best IO out of the bunch and comes with a

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terab of storage for a reasonable price bucking a trend that the rest of the

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industry seems to be happy to go along with where reasonable amounts of storage

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cost an ARM and a freaking leg I should have said leg and ARM that would have

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been much funnier get it we're going to have links down below to where you can

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find pricing and full specs for all of these machines but for now I think it's

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time to get off the spec sheet and start comparing side by side and I got to tell

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you that tandem OLED almost looks

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unnaturally over Juiced especially next

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to that HP yeah if I'm honest I did try

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this in HDR in this video and non HDR it looks way more natural not an HDR so I

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think it's just the color grading I was typing on this to bring this video up

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and I do not like this keyboard I like

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rounded keys I do not like these flat

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hard edges on the keys I don't know I've used these a little bit and I find that

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you get used to it and really like it in like maybe 10 minutes that's fair enough

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I mean I don't want to disqualify a machine based on a temporary

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inconvenience but if there's something that feels good to me out of the box and

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I don't have to deal with this overblown gamma tracking nightmare of a display

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then maybe that's a good thing Alex did suggest though that I turn HDR off and

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see if it feels better oh my my God that is a nice HDR display and that one looks

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functionally identical I would say the

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most true to life looking of all of them is actually the vi book yeah that's not

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surprising OLED and it is color calibrated it looks pretty freaking good

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I think the Samsung might have a wider gamut you know the surface has a really

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good display compared to the rest of them it does not hold up it doesn't

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stand out anyway same with the Inspiron although matte finish I do really

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appreciate okay all right crab Rave you

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can pack so much music in this bad boy you really can that's only half

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volume it gets worse as it gets louder it really does didn't get much louder

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did distort

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oh In fairness if we hadn't heard that

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first it wouldn't be so

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awful that sounds good not bad Samsung yeah this must be that Harmon

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acquisition I don't even see a Harmon logo on it or

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anything gets better when you give it some space

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too that's really solid yeah I dig it

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how' Microsoft

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do it's pretty good it doesn't get that

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loud you just desperately want to like this

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thing it's fine yeah it's fine it's well-rounded and it's not nearly as

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loose and boomy as the Vivo book s but

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it does have that Clarity that we saw on both the Samsung and the

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dell and not every

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Dell not the worst is great yeah I

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thought that speaker test would go way better than it did went great for

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Samsung yeah it went great for Samsung they were a surprise if not winner

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definitely Contender and everyone else kind of realistically we're both pretty

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close to picking something I think but there's more to life than subjectivity

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and we did some performance analysis on the machines as well are there any that

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stand out above or below one thing that

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surprised me is that the Samsung on paper has the fastest chip in it it's

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the only one that gets the top skew mhm and it is the slowest of the bunch well

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the Inspiron lower but it has a 10 core CPU so of course it's slower this is a

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really valuable lesson on laptop specs and why we can't take them at face value

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anymore I mean I have a thin and light laptop that has an RTX 470 in it see

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that face right that that face tells you everything you need to know also very

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strange I think some BIOS optimizations need to happen cuz three of our devices

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were faster on battery than well plugged in and like repeatedly too high

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performance mode in both situations

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faster on battery run after run enough

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stalling pick one I want this one I knew you were going to do that why 3x2

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display touch it doesn't do any

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horribly wrong and you do get a type A I

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really hate that you have to use the stupid this thing I much prefer just

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type c but can it charge on those type-c ports though it can yes oh then you

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don't have to use it at all you just ignore it and it's just an annoying

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thing that's there see I still consider mag safe to be a feature sorry excuse me

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safe magnet I don't know what Microsoft calls it but it wouldn't lean me toward

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a device going Sammy I kind of really like

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it now there are definitely things I

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don't like included number pad not only

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am I not an accountant but what it does is it offsets your trackpad to the left

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meaning that you're always either sitting with your arms like this or

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looking like this a little bit but what else would I choose there is one

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honorable mention that unfortunately we weren't able to get here today it's kind

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of similar to the XPS 13 and it doesn't have a headphone jack either

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I'm probably going to regret this but I'm going to go with the Omni book you think the 300 nits is enough I almost

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review or that long stream was like 3 or 4 hours yeah where we tried 40 different

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games something like that yeah it's pretty eye opening