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For many years now, people have been debating and exploring whether an iPad

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can replace your laptop or substitute for it or something. Everyone was going

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back and forth. Oh, they have these new features. They have mouse support. They have all this new stuff. Meanwhile,

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Samsung's over here with their Galaxy Tabs. And people are using these as

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their laptops and desktops through Samsung Dex the entire time. And their

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latest flagship tablet, the Tab S11

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Ultra, is a great example of that

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future. It's already here. Why are we Why are we talking so much? Let's get to

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work. Now, this channel is supposed to be kind of like unboxing Plus, but this

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thing is already out of the box because Samsung sent it to us without a box,

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which is actually fine because the main thing that I'm interested in with this

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tablet is that affforementioned desktop

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like functionality. I mean, look, tablets are cool. People use them for

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drawing and all that stuff. I don't draw. I've just been interested in

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tablets and iPads because of that. Steve Jobs or whoever that was that said that.

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I think it was Johnny IV actually talking about a single single piece of

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glass that does all your computing. So, we're going to take a look at this thing

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today. Is it good? Is it impressive? Is it a laptop? I'd say it basically is.

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But first, let's take a look at the external design. It is nearly the exact

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same size as its predecessor, the S10, but it is a little bit thinner at 5.1

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millimeters thick versus 5.4, which actually matches the iPad Pro M5's

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thickness. Um, so we're really on a battle of the flagship tablets here. On

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the back, we have a 13 and 8 megapixel camera here next to a flash. Pogo pins

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on the back now instead of before I believe they were on the bottom. antenna

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bands on the side. On the bottom, instead of those pogo pins, we have two

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little mounting points that will attach to the keyboard attachment, which we

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will bring out in a second. On the side that uh previously may have been called

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the bottom, but we're going to call like the right side now, is a USBC port and

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two speakers matched by two speakers on the opposite

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side as well, along with a mic. And then on this side that I'm going to call the

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top. I I do not know. We have volume

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rocker over here, power button, two more mics, and a micro SD card slot that will

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accept SD cards up to 2 terb micro SD

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cards. Now, the new iPad, the M5 iPad

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Pro, allows you to buy an option with 2

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TB of storage inside. This one only goes

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up to 1 TB. On the front, we have a 12 megapixel camera and of course the

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massive 14.6 inch display. It's the same

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resolution as its predecessor, 2960x848,

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aka WQXGA plus, but you already knew that. And as

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you can see when I was angling this up, there's like an anti-reflective

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coating on this, sort of like what you might see on glasses. It's not matte.

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It's very much reflecting things uh clearly, but it is kind of darkening it

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and tinting it a little bit so it's not so uh offensive. The last thing to

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really mention about the external, you know, hardware design is the fact that

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the previous model, the S10, allowed you to charge and attach magnetically the

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previous model S Pen to the back of the tablet. The new S Pen attaches to the

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top of the tablet here and doesn't need to charge. It's just there's no

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Bluetooth functionality, so you also can't use it as a remote apparently,

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which you know,

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some [music] people will be more upset about that than others. But we do have

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another accessory that I'm way more excited about because I don't draw, but

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I do type. We have the official keyboard attachment for this called the Book

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Cover Keyboard Slim. Let's put it in there. So, that goes right there. It's a

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nice strong magnetic attachment. Pogo

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pins. Oh, that little thing flips up. I didn't see that before. Look at that. Do

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you see that? Oo, that's satisfying. And then that

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comes off like that. And boom. Okay. Apple made an attachment that lets you,

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you know, adjust the angle that your

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their tablet is is at. And Samsung is like, "Oh, we got Dex. We got our

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desktop experience." But we're still giving you a keyboard folio that doesn't

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you can't adjust it all. That said, I

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kind of clicked on the keys earlier and it feels pretty good so far. There's a

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very very distinct tactile bump and there's even like a decent amount of

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travel for like a tablet cover. We'll see. I'll maybe try typing things once

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they've changed this so that before you

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could use Dex just with your tablet, cuz these are huge. This is like a nearly

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15-in laptop. So, people are like, "Ah, yeah,

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I want to use this like a desktop or a laptop." So, I'm gonna hit the function

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and dex keys up here, and [music] I'm

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going to go into Dex mode. Except, uhoh,

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this isn't Dex mode, guys. This is Android 16's new desktop mode, which is

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great that that's there. I've been we many people. I mean, you could ask

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anybody on the street. Everyone's been asking for an Android official desktop

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mode on Android, and it's here. I mean, if you use Android tablets, uh you might

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know this already that it's that it's here and you can open stuff up in in

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Windows and move them around and like resize them and uh you know, snap them

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to one side. Boom. Yeah, you can do that. And on the other side, Samsung Dex

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had a number of features that this doesn't have, like window tiling to

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quadrants. You can only, as far as I can tell so far, you can only snap to one

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side or another. I wait, did I exit desktop mode somehow? So, the Dex

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dieards, God bless them, are upset about

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this. You can still use Dex if you connect to

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an external monitor, which I'm going to do now. Now, you might be wondering,

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Riley, why do you care about it's a tablet? Why don't why are you trying to

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use it as a desktop or a laptop so bad? Why why is that the only thing you care about? Well, it's because these chips

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inside these tablets keep getting so dang powerful. Okay, the Tab S11 Ultra

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has a MediaTek Demenity 9400 Plus, which

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was their flagship uh chip at the time of building this. Now, some smartphones

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are starting to come out with the Demenity 9500, but it's a powerful chip.

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Samsung says that uh compared to the Tab S10, the Tab S11 Ultra, it's getting you

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like 25ish% uh increase in performance for CPU and

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GPU. and then 33% increase for the NPU.

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Now, it still pales in comparison to the iPad Pro M5, the brand new flagship iPad

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from Apple, which according to our Labs tests, uh, you know, just smoked [music]

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this thing. But, you know, it's got 12 gigs of RAM. Uh, with the 256 gig and

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512 gig versions, you can get 16 gigs of RAM if you get the 1 TB version. So,

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it's like there's some horsepower here. There's some there's horsepower to be

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had. So yes, I'm interested in how this

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thing performs if you know you you plug it in and you use it as a as a desktop

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because like especially if the main use case that you're using a computer for is

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not like he hardcore gaming video

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editing kind of stuff and it's like you know it's your work PC you need to use a

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browser you need to use Google Docs. Belle brings up Chromebooks

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and it's like, yeah, Chromebooks are a lot cheaper, but they also, you know,

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they do leave some performance to be desired. Remember when I was talking about Dex? This is apparently Dex. It

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looks the same as the Android desktop mode except for

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this thing down here in the corner. You got little uh Windows style, you know,

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clock and [music] and notifications and quick settings and stuff. You can turn

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volume up. You can change your media output. You can check notifications,

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take a screenshot. So, that's down there. Um, I will say the last time I

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tried Dex on a Samsung tablet, I was like, there is like some latency going

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on when you connect a wireless uh mouse like I have here. See, I would not want

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to use this. This doesn't have the Windows feature where you wiggle a

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window and then everything else minimizes. Unusable. This is funny cuz

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like Samsung has had Dex for years. As I've said, they clearly like are

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invested in maintaining the idea that people should use tablets

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as in in desktop mode. It seems like Dex

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is like we're going to activate this when you connect to an external monitor

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and this is going to be like a secondary display. You can use that tablet display

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if you really want to, but it's going to be all about this. But if I disconnect

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that, we're still in desktop mode on this and my alt tab. Oh, I have no

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running apps. That doesn't seem right because I had a bunch of running apps

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before. So, it seems that when you connect an external monitor, they're

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like, you're using this external monitor. We're It's like, forget about

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this for the most part. You can have multiple desktops like Windows or Mac

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OS, which is like a [music] step forward. But if I want to access those

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full screen tablet apps that I had open over here, I can only have the the app

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switcher open on one monitor at the same time. This is great. I I just love

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everything [laughter] about this. This is just making me want to go back to

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iPad OS and kind of like, you know, deal

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with how they're doing things because like look, I can minimize this. It's

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down here, but I know that I have other apps that are open like YouTube. I can

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put it into windowed mode and then minimize it. Oh, and now it's

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minimized over there, but I have another app that's like open here. Like on

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Windows, if you have an app open, you can see that it's open on the bottom

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taskbar. And the same thing with macOS. Little things like this. Anyways, I'm

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going on a bit of a tangent. The point is, Google, I love that you're bringing

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more desktop features and stuff to these

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devices. Can we make them a bit more a bit more desktopy, a little bit more

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along that line? I mean, Google has said that Chrome OS is transitioning to

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basically be Android. Listen, we already have Android laptops. It's right here.

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But it's halfbaked, so we need to bake

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it all the way. Now I feel like I'm in a desktop. It looks more like a Mac than

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Windows. But that's okay. I don't know. This was the first time that I saw this

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and I was like, this just feels like using Windows, you know? I have I have a

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connected display. I have my main display and you can move this around to

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like position it where you want. If you have a Galaxy Tab S10, you probably want

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to wait a little bit more before you upgrade. So, we thought the more

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pertinent comparison was with the iPad Pro M5 that we just tested. And there's

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a couple of interesting points that we came across on our stress test. The Tab

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S11 scored quite a bit lower than the iPad Pro M5, but it also continued to

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dip as we did more runs, whereas the iPad Pro uh kind of stayed it hit a

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certain level and then kind of stayed there throughout all uh you know,

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subsequent runs. So, the Tab S11 Ultra

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doesn't have whatever special uh thermal juice the iPad Pro M5 has. That's what

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they use, by the way. Uh tech tip, thermal juice. [music] In our luminance

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tests, this thing was able to hit Samsung's claimed peak of 1600ish

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[music] nits. And that actually it kept up with the iPad Pro M5 there. So, good job,

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buddy. Unfortunately, despite having a larger battery than the M5 [music] iPad

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Pro and claiming that it can last for up to 23 hours of video playback, it only

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lasted 13 hours and 52 minutes.

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lasted nearly 16 hours. So, uh, big

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at least that department. To be fair, their battery test may be different from

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ours, but they said video playback, and our video playback test is a little bit

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more intensive, but that's a huge difference. After fully discharging the

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battery, to get back to 100% took an hour and 48 minutes, which isn't that

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bad for an 11,600 mAh battery. And it

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did get to 50% in just 40 minutes with

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our standard 45 watt charger that we use. And then it got to 90% in 72

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minutes, which is so just really that last that last stretch it struggles, but

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[music] Max it out. Max it out.

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[music] Now, you know, I love when tablets and laptops have the courage put

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in some meaty low end. I feel like this this got a little bit too big for its

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own britches here because there's a there's so much bass that it kind of is

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like it it feels like [laughter]

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it feels like there's a giant like bass guitar in there and they're like

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blanging on it's like blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah speaker's

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pretty good. I would say that like

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back at unreasonable level turn on motion photo now so you can edit

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expressions later with best face and gallery. That's okay. At first, it kind

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of shocked me because I thought it was like very sharp, but now it doesn't seem

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that sharp. Flip it around.

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It's hard to say because it's closer up, but that the the jelless definitely

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seems better on the megapixel than the 8 megapixel. I don't know. And that's the

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uh that's the 8 megap. Okay, you got your samples. I mean, overall, it's a

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tablet camera. Can't complain much. Now,

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with all that said, and with all my jabbering about this being a desktop

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replacement, what are we looking at in terms of price? This thing starts at

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$1199 for the [music] 256 gig version with 12

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gigs of RAM. And that's laptop price, baby. Even if the processor is up to the

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task of doing more intensive stuff, if

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you want to use it as a desktop, I mean, honestly, you probably want to just

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connect like get a a different Bluetooth keyboard for it and use, you know,

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existing your existing Bluetooth mouse or whatever because this [music]

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keyboard attachment, the book cover

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keyboard slim is $210.

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It's $1,200. It starts at $1,200. the tablet and then $210 more dollars for

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the keyboard. I want like I want to, you know, I but I don't know. I guess the

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argument there is that instead of a laptop, you're buying this and you can

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use it as a laptop. It's got decks. It's got all those things. Things are getting

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better and better, but I want to see them get even better than that. I don't

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know what this means, but doing this video and playing around with this thing

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has just made me want to try using an [music] iPad. But to be fair to the many

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many people out there who are very well

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represented in comment sections on videos like these, people have been

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using Samsung Dex for many years to be productive and as their, you know,

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sometimes their main desktop machine and

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that's great. It's there. It's usable if you need it. We don't, we have Android

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laptops already. Um, but if we are going to say that Android laptops are a thing

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and we want those, let's make them better. Okay, let's let's do better. And

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you can subscribe to ShortCircuit. I know you can. And if you like this

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video, go watch the iPad Pro M5 one. We talked about it enough in this one.

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Might as well.