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OneXPlayer first showed up on my radar when they had the gaming handheld that was much bigger than

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anyone else's and it seems like they are taking one more step in their journey towards a TV

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with giant controllers on the side of it with the OneXPlayer X1. That's right my friends, this

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is a handheld gaming PC. How big are your hands people?

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Look, I'm allowed to make small hands jokes. How dare you censor me editor?

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That's heavy. It's funny for me because my wife just picked up Dave the Diver on our RG ally and

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even at that size every time I look at her she's got it firmly planted against something to ensure

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that her arms don't get fatigued. With this thing you'd have to be Dwayne the Rock Johnson to be

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able to actually hold this in front of you and game on it for an extended period of time. Look,

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look at this. I accidentally dropped it in a previous take and it freaking destroyed the

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packaging. In here we find the charger which is a 100 watt charger. It supports USB power

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delivered up to 20 volts and comes with a not really satisfactory long USB-C cable. I'd like

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to see this a little bit on the longer side maybe more like five feet. Realistically we saw as much

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as six hours of battery life on this thing in our endurance test but as little as just over an hour

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in our torture test. So depending on your configuration you're probably going to be gaming

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for about two hours and change and then you're going to want to be plugged into the wall while

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you use it. I guess better buy yourself a fancy USB cable. One of the big controversies maybe not

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controversy but certainly something for you to consider around this device is that it uses Intel's

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Core Ultra 7 155H which has six high performance cores can be paired with up to 64 gigs of LPDDR5X

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memory up to four terabytes of storage and in every configuration Intel Arc graphics. We're

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going to get into performance a little bit more later. First let's take a look at the accessories

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because this is not just a handheld with one X player making this keyboard accessory available

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which I guess makes the screen size make a lot more sense. Like if this thing's half gaming

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handheld half whoa it's kind of like a like a little mini surface that's pretty cool. Of course

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the keyboard is optional so we'll take a closer look at that later. First I want to see the definitely

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non-infringing detachable game controllers. First impressions not bad they've got a bit of a soft

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touch feel to them but the finish is just plastic so you won't have to worry about them turning

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all gross and sticky over time. There were some notes from the lab about how the ABX Y buttons

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felt kind of weird like it's a micro switch at the bottom but there's an awful lot of travel.

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I see it. It feels kind of like a rubber dome that collapses and then it hits a micro switch.

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Yeah it's a bit of a weird mushy feeling. I wouldn't say that it bothers me but I'm not a fan of that

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kind of configuration for something like a d-pad and it feels like they used the exact same switches.

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One thing that some folks will appreciate though is the use of these full-sized Alps gaming grade

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which I guess means they have RGB joysticks and the inclusion of a rear button that you can

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remap to whatever you need. Trickers feel good. Shoulders feel all right. Let's have a look at

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the attachment mechanism. Hold on just a gosh darn second here. So you pull off this which

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is going to get lost immediately and then you put this on and it interferes with your micro sd slot.

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That's kind of a drag. Also here is a USB 3 type A which is definitely a welcome addition if you're

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going to be using this thing as an actual laptop. Up top we've got a turbo button which I will

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definitely be trying out later. Ventilation hole. This is actually a really nice aluminum chassis.

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The thing feels while heavy definitely well built. An oculink port. Super cool. So that's PCIe Gen 4

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by 4 and if you have a compatible dock that means you can run an eGPU without some of the

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hassle that can be associated with Thunderbolt although without some of the convenience of

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Thunderbolt meaning it's not going to be hot pluggable. We've got a three and a half millimeter

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headphone jack and oh that's curious. They reversed the typical position of volume up and

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volume down. I would expect volume up to be on the right. Here's our power button. Does that

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have a built-in fingerprint sensor? It does. Nice. On the left we've got two USB seats. No way.

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Did they really put? Yeah they did. There's no way you're getting any real actual cable

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plugged into that bottom one. Not the end of the world because at least it does have one that's

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accessible but I can't say that I'm a huge fan. Then at the bottom we've got a dock interface

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for the detachable keyboard. Man that's that's kind of weird. It feels like oh it does come off.

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This intake is accounted for in the back cover. This appears to be an intake but is not accounted

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for. The only other thing to see back here is the Harman branding. They've apparently worked

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with Harman to tune the audio on this thing to. I'm sorry I'm having a hard time taking this

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seriously at this point now. This is hilarious. As comical as it might look and as heavy as the

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device might be though the controllers manage to feel pretty solid. There's definitely a little bit

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more play in the left one compared to the one on the right but either one I would consider to be

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acceptable is not the sort of thing that I would notice over an extended period of time. And what's

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not comical at all is the sheer expansiveness of this thing. I kind of like it. It's freaking huge.

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Not only that but this display kind of sick. 2560x1600 so that's a 16x10 aspect ratio. Really

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nice pixel density. It manages to achieve even better than the 540 nits of peak brightness that

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they rate it for. And it manages 99% coverage of the P3 color gamut while being reasonably accurate

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especially if you enable the compensation within Windows that doesn't work great on all devices

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but does work well on this one and all of that and it runs at 120 hertz. Now the ArcGPU in here

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might struggle to run games at that kind of refresh rate and resolution but hey don't let

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me tell you let me show you. I kind of thought I was okay with the ABXYs. They're not good.

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While the simple mushiness of them isn't the worst that I've seen by a long shot this joystick

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being right here makes it kind of a chore to press it unless you're really adjusting the ergonomics.

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And on something like a Nintendo Switch that's no problem because the thing's so light you can kind

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of hold it however you want. Here you really gotta hold on to this thing. I'm not a big fan of that

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eight position. Like I'm not exaggerating. If I if I want to press this with this part of my thumb

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I mean you might have bigger hands so your mileage may vary but not a fan.

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When I have my hands covering the controller it doesn't look quite as ridiculous. If anything

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it looks great. I mean it's almost an 11 inch display. This is basically the equivalent of

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sitting like yeah this distance from a flippin 65 inch TV. But when you see the controller it's like

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look at him he's so cute.

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Something friends and family

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life. That is so cool. I'm keeping her there forever. Okay we have a pretty close family friend

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who's deaf and whenever I see my family and I'm talking to her she like does the equivalent

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of signing like this for me like thank you Danielle because I can't understand you otherwise

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I'm pretty slow I'm rusty. It's just funny because an audible version of that would be like

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bonjour Linus. This is running a lot better than I expected after all the issues that I've heard

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about with the Core Ultra 7 155H not to mention the ones that I experienced on the early drivers

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when I was checking out the MSI cloth CES. I was expecting a lot more of that kind of

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it almost feels like rubber banding because the frame rate will drop and then go up and then drop

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and then go up oh okay that was more of just a stutter but kind of like that actually it looks

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like they've improved a lot since then but one of Intel's big problems with their ARC Alchemist

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generation GPUs is inconsistency from one game to the next. One game will run great and another one

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will be dogshite. In fact one of our games, Returnal, we weren't even able to include in our results

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because the physics in the game went all wonky. Intel says they're working on this but we don't

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have an ETA for the fix. Actually what I was playing around with right now was the joysticks

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basically very little in the way of dead zones they advertise nothing essentially and while I'm

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sure there is something I'm not able to detect it usually I'm pretty sensitive to them too I'm

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really good driver as long as I don't have dead zones you can see that right god this display

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though man that's sick it's not even cranked whoo look at her go wow no HDR support mind you but

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sdr looks absolutely flippant awesome I bet you didn't be able to play outside with this thing

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I really like these joysticks one x player doesn't say specifically on the product page

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if they're hall effect but they feel really good let's take a short gaming break and have a look

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at some of one x player's software which in the past for me has been a weak point of their systems

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against competitors like the ally which one is their software oh there it is nice do we have a

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shortcut for it the you hit the turbo button god I pressed everything okay this is bad let's start

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over shall we turbo button perfect there's the software we're in the 35 watt mode that could

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explain part of why the performance doesn't suck because it was especially more moderate tdps that

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the claw was suffering the last time that I looked at it that and 35 watts is a lot you're not going

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to get a ton of battery life out of that typically I'm going to be using my devices in more like the

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15 watt range unless I'm really trying to get maximum performance in which case yeah you might go up

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to about 30 fan mode is automatic curiously we found that it tracks with the IGPU temperature

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rather than with the package temperature so that's good for gaming in that you can be running a game

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and pretty much immediately the fan will kick in like Jake's car but it can be kind of unfortunate

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in that you can have a Windows update running in the background using 20 percent 25 percent of the

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CPU and your tempsal spike and the fan will just stay idle almost this is nice being able to change

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the reported resolution of the display there you go can't decide whether I'd go for 1920 by 1200

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or 1280 by 800 that is that is not a lot of pixels at this size you'd probably have to go with

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1920 by 1200 why don't we have a look at the keyboard case now it's worth noting that this is a prototype

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unit and not fully representative of the final quality one x player went out of their way to say

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hey don't judge the keyboard too harshly this is pretty early and we're gonna have a pinned comment

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if the final version that they sent us is markedly different but it at least gives us a chance to have

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a look at what the ergonomics of the setup will look like with the keyboard trackpad attachment

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piece this feels like such a monstrosity look at this it's hilarious especially with the

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controller still attached to it let's go ahead and get our rivetuner thing set up okay that's a

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pretty stiff click I can see what the Labs was talking about on the trackpad wow that's really

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stiff okay but it prototype let's try i mean there's some give but this is very usable

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I would say with some improvements

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this is definitely a uh thick tablet computer handheld thing

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oh guys that's why the volume rockers like that

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it's a tablet we'll turn the auto rotate on there's your problem right there yeah I think that's

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going to be the minority of the time that people spend using this but I think I found the rationale

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at least no no okay fine you guys man you guys are a terrible audience not not not you the people

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who are sitting in this room with me and like acting like they're dead coming back to the

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software for a moment one of the things that was really weird about this is we found a turbo button

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in the software here and then we found a second Intel turbo boost toggle in the cog menu here

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as far as we can tell the best way to run it is with this off which doesn't seem to do anything

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and turbo on in the one x player slide in menu it has a oh mouse gyro it's smooth

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I love that 120 hertz display freaking love that uh we can turn it on if the left trigger gets

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prepped oh that's pretty cool so this is useful obviously for navigating Windows like I'm doing

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right now but also for playing FPS games because I don't know about you guys but for me playing

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first person shooters with a controller joystick I really struggle with it whereas when we did that

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video a couple years back using the PlayStation 4 as a gyro aimer and then just the buttons for

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movement and weapon switching and all that stuff made a huge difference for me out of the box it's

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configured to allocate 16 gigabytes of the onboard memory to the GPU in this particular configuration

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your mileage may vary with that I've been instructed to try the webcam I mean I guess if this is going

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to be your laptop then you're going to want a decent webcam that's cool it has the ir emitter so

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that you can use it with Windows hello for biometric authentication and I think I see an

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array mic there so the recording quality on this thing might actually be decent do they really

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brand it as an AI camera have they said what makes it AI autofocus tracking I mean I look as good

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in any place as I ever do it's only a one megapixel camera and no amount of AI is going to fix that

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much and the audio is as good as what it is right now let's try out crab brave speaking about you

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I search for crab brave youtube.com bing get good the first result is bing videos with that said

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this will just play the youtube video and it won't have ads so it's kind of a hack did you know this

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yeah there's no there's no ads that's piracy line no that's not piracy that's a workaround

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all right let's turn on the sound it's wi-fi 6e so that's good but not the best

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very decent not bad actually pretty impressed not an amazing soundstage but pretty reasonable

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quality on the subject of things not amazing we've got return all fired up now which looks fine right

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now but we haven't tried to run the benchmark yet give me a second here I see there's supposed to be

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shrapnel there but instead they're just kind of isn't and as much as this isn't 1x players fault

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this is down to Intel's optimization of their arc drivers it's definitely something that 1x player

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has to deal with and something that will affect the users of this device what will also affect users

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of the device is the performance compared to AMD based devices like the ally and the Lenovo

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Legion go the reason I bring up the Legion go is not because I was particularly enthused about it

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when I used it but because it is a large screen device that would be at least closer to equivalent

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to this one hopefully Intel can continue to improve that because the bones overall are pretty cool it

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doesn't get obnoxiously loud and the size of the screen makes it a truly unique experience compared

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to other handhelds the only other obstacle then is the price you can buy over one and a half Legion

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goes for the price of this thing and almost two allies both of which will perform better hey look

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it's my wife hey von come try this so you've been playing some Dave the diver on the ally what do

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you think of the weight and ergonomics of this boy um it's really heavy actually is it not do I

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have that wrong no I I mean you can't be wrong about whether something is heavy to you I mean I

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said that you were basically she hulk and that it wouldn't bother you earlier when I was talking

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about it but like sure go ahead and contradict me just like with the kids I find the triggers

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easier to hold this one's harder to press but this one's easier to press compared to the ally yeah

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okay wow I like your screen that's cool all right thanks hush okay and thank you for watching

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