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let me get this straight this is a computer

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and this is its monitor this raises a

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lot more questions than it answers like what's a J series Intel CPU and how on

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Earth did this raise over a million Canadian dollars on Indiegogo people

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really really small and a mouse this small look

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s like this tiny Segway PDQ automate patch management and

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trial at pdq.com LTT holy crap

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incredibly a fully fully cheered Windows 10 compatible PC complete with USBC

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power in three USB 3 ports a Micro SD

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reader HDMI out and even a headphone jack I know you can't take that kind of

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thing for granted these days but it's not even the computer that impressed me

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the most it's the accessory package it comes to us from a company called xdo.ai

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who completed their Indiegogo campaign way back in 2021 but only now appears to

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be actually shipping units out to their backers this thing in my hand is an

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accompanying Pico projector that seems to have well everything you'd expect

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HDMI input power button 5 volt power in

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ah little cover for the lens and even a

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built-in speaker if the audio controls anything to go by and it's not just that

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it's one of those adorable retractable cord mobile Mouse's Mouse

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it's not going to be a contender for world's smallest gaming PC shout out

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basically homeless HDMI to Mini HDMI cable we'll be using that for our setup

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little tiny tripod wow it comes with a

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remote okay what else am I looking at here oh

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stuff they seem to be engineering themselves other stuff they seem to be

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pretty much putting a sticker on and if you're wondering what leads me to

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the conclusion this is simply a re-badged product well for one thing it's USBC which isn't even compatible

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with the Pico PC so it comes with a c to a adapter and for another why would you

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add a Micro SD card reader to a product that has a trans flash card reader I

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mean hey look I'm not saying no to more expansion

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this is a really nice little carrying case though if the whole point is to

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have a little tiny computer why am I carrying it around on this there's a

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smaller version of the case whoa

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okay this is more like it I can have my

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whole computer my mouse my projector

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holy crap they're gonna have a lot of fun with this thing oh it's a battery

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Bank oh no way I didn't even notice

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that is awesome oh I'm loving this

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can I get my keyboard in here I don't know if I would describe this as the

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most cohesive ecosystem this cable apparently allows you to power both the

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projector and the computer off of the battery pack we'll take a closer look at

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that later first I want to crack this baby open whoa what a disappointment I

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brought my lethal tiny prototype LTT storage screwdriver

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and it's still not really a Precision driver it's more intended for hard to

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reach spaces bummer instead of directing

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you can't buy though I should direct you to the ShortCircuit hoodie oh actually

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that would be way better oh oh oh

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amazing you guys ready for this

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what this is bizarre they recommend configuring your Pantera PC

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not that one different Pantera with a larger SSD than you think you need which

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seems to suggest that it's going to be really hard to change after the fact if

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you end up needing more capacity but in fact that couldn't be farther from the

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truth this is just about the easiest Mini PC SSD swap that I've ever seen

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three plastic screws one fairly easily removable rubber gasket and then a

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single screw it's right there this is awesome yup that is about as generic as

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it gets it's called solid state drive lowercase state capital solid Capital

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Drive you might say it's a solid Drive no company that I recognize on either

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the controller or on the nand flash and it does not have a dram cache though

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that doesn't really surprise me at the price point for this system aside from

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being extremely small in size it's extremely small in price it should be

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noted though that that's early bird pricing if you gave them your money a

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year and a half ago the actual MSRP for these things is going to be 219 for the

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base model and go up to 399 for the 8

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gig RAM one terabyte storage model oh

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there's little plastic pins no this isn't so bad I won't break it don't worry I'm not gonna break it Jake

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oh hey there we go oh my God

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this thing is so cool

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there's our CMOS battery it's got a mid frame to separate the two boards from

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each other this appears to be the i o board if the label is anything to go by

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this appears to be a Micro SD card reader controller right here we're

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looking at a real Tech chip of some sort if I had to guess I'd say that's to do

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with the onboard audio USB 3 no idea though I suspect at least

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one of these ribbon cables is carrying a PCIe by four signal for this m.2 slot

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it's SATA oh

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what the heck is an Intel J series CPU

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what we're looking at in here is a quad core CPU that runs it up to 2.7

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gigahertz Burst 2 gigahertz base meaning that this thing could actually be

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reasonably capable if only I could get

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at it ah I see the screws the specific

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model is the Celeron j4125 and it is

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obviously designed for extremely low power applications it only supports a

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maximum of six PCIe Lanes at Gen 2

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speeds in spite of being actually relatively current product and it sips

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power at a 10 watt TDP in spite of its 14 nanometer manufacturing process there

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are a couple of smart things I see in here first of all the wireless and

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Bluetooth chipset here has the antennas glued onto it not in a like malicious

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anti-rite to repair way but in a hey we really don't want these to come loose in

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shipping because this is going to be a real nightmare this is super cool and then the air intake is basically handled

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through a grill right here that has a little stopper to make sure that it

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never gets compressed and blocks the fan from spinning and then there's a tiny

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Gap just enough I guess to get air to that 10 watt CPU that can then be

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exhausted out the side of the unit through uh yes this vent hole I can't

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believe how much computer is in here my

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gaming desktop when I met Yvonne was in a Silverstone tj07 and had a quad core

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CPU and 8 gigs of RAM what is this for lighting it has

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lighting nice this is awesome it's

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shockingly serviceable you know what Jake this m.2 slot is not keyed for SATA

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only there's no way that they would they would just use a SATA key to m.2 slot

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wow it's so little oh no this is too small you know what if I just put it in

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here I put a little one terabyte Sovereign Gen 4 Drive it'll probably

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work

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oh I can't use the keyboard in the BIOS

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because it's Bluetooth holy

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no way running into my Windows installer which is good whether or not it's going

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to detect the NVMe drive is a whole other story

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come on

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ah drive not detected

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portable look at that it's got the blue lights

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that little cooling fan in there and watch this boom taller tripod oh

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yeah oh yeah it's got Auto Keystone uh

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it's not the brightest thing ever oh no way the projector is also running what

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Android I guess oh there's no batteries in the remote for the projector

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thankfully I have these handy dandy buttons on the top shut up is this a

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mouse it's a mouse it's a mouse Andy

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it's a track pad on the top are you kidding me yes I have a focus wheel oh

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that's sharp oh no way I could rear

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project and then I could put this in front of me and point it and sit behind

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the curtain oh there it goes given that it took a full minute to get to the sign

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in screen I think I'm done with the Android aspect of the projector let's

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switch to our HDMI input and try our Pico PC okay I'm triggered by the fact

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that their USB ports are upside down of what is normal we're having a very hard

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time getting clear text out of this projector the issue is that the native

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resolution is 854 by 480. wide VGA I'm

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imagining a d sub connector walking through the Halls just getting wider and

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wider uh this mouse wheel does not have a oh it does have a middle click that is

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the heaviest middle click it's usable that's usable I mean the enter key is

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not really where it's supposed to be but it's usable would I take this to a

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coffee shop not unless I was trying to start a conversation with all the dudes

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with facial hair there and the projector is way louder than the computer their

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Indiegogo is amazing a new era of

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personal computer New Era Jake why would

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you build a computer when you can have this perfect for work from home use

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their expandable storage 4K UHD video output works as a game center note they

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don't say gaming PC yeah I don't think we have enough CPU to even like download

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us oh wow okay okay we're looking at

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about 60 CPU usage downloading at

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150 megabit and more impressively our

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poor SSD is at 50 usage just downloading

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Counter-Strike to be clear if you wanted to use this as a thin client for

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streaming say for example with steam link I don't see any reason why that

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wouldn't work with reasonably current HD graphics HD graphics though it's only

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downloading at 10 megabytes a second

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look it's not about being privileged or whatever it's about the capabilities of

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the product it is only 10 megabytes a second not 16. when the cable is plugged

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into can carry 115. okay 122 then if you

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want to be super pedantic about it this SSD may be slower than a hard drive

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okay here we go CS source

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what kind of FPS let's go

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how did he know I was using this computer

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oh come on Hacks

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oh my God I just got headshots

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I can't even see anything

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and the latency is actually not bad very

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usable oh my God you can't be moving the display around while I'm trying to game

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here I could get one kill okay I'm gonna get

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one kill no now come on they're

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everywhere I can't even tell what team people are

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on though everything is just a moving black blob

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KTV like like that BBK like one plus BBK

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this is pretty slow for a wired connection can we watch a 4K video

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though the answer is yes while I can't say that

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I would necessarily recommend the projector as anything more than a toy

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for the kids or I mean I guess their pitch for it is it's for in an emergency

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doing a presentation or something like that the computer itself actually kind

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of an interesting value proposition obviously it's underpowered compared to

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other small computers but it's also underpriced compared to other small

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computers there are performance deficiencies the SSD isn't great the CPU

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leaves a lot to be desired and frankly

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the fan on it isn't exactly silent but at the cost and size its competition is

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probably closer to an Intel compute stick than it would be to a full-size

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desktop PC or even a laptop and if all you're gonna do is watch YouTube videos

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and do basic word processing there is no reason that especially the Windows 11

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compatible version couldn't last you for years it's kind of compelling like this

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