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well it finally happened guys i am in the market for a new laptop

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because my previous one my blade stealth 2018 decided to off itself

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quite literally i was sitting in a job interview i was interviewing i'm not

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quitting don't worry i was sitting in a job interview and

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did it just boot up

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video cancel no that's fine the issue isn't actually

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that it won't turn on the issue is that i can't charge it just to clarify that

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statement a little bit i plug in my charging cable and it goes

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something's shorting something's wrong with it it is time for a replacement so we have

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assembled a flock a herd murder whatever it is a

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bunch of laptops to determine which will be my new daily driver and there's going

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to be quite a few considerations screen is going to be a major factor i type

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fast and i type a lot battery form factor and of course i would love to

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have i o that i can actually use although it should be noted that i do

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always carry a dongle because i have just embraced that dongle life

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and my dongle's not on me because i'm

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actually using it for a review that i was working on but trust me i almost

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always carry a dongle so in front of me are the five candidates

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let's find out which one gets the cheap

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and expired chocolate rose 2016 this thing was best before

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speaking of that before my segway thing has gotten pretty stale

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now hasn't it but i'm going to keep doing it anyway this video is brought to you by ridge wallet bridge wallet is the

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i think this is going to be a lot of fun and i'm actually really looking forward

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to it so of the five ultra books in front of me

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some of them we paid for but some of them were submitted by the manufacturers

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thing is i don't know which was which so if i

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pick one that we paid for then i'm going to go with that and ultimately i'll be

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buying a notebook for the first time in a while and if i pick something the manufacturer provided we'll send the

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other ones back for refund but we did it this way to ensure that i wouldn't be

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able to have any bias as i'm making a selection another thing that this was

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actually the idea of one of our new writers was evaluating without actually

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knowing which device i'm using so this is my first time

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standing here in front of this and i guess apparently they snuck a macbook in

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there so this is a macbook of some sort like what's what's the challenge do i

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just sit down and start trying to type something wow those are not very pronounced homo

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nipples oh wait there they are okay

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i really like this keyboard i did struggle with the backspace but i think

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part of it might have been the duvetyne on my hand so i'm not gonna hold that

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against it too hard i'm gonna give this keyboard an eight and a half nine out of

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ten i really like it this is already a different style of

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keycaps that i do not necessarily prefer

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accuracy on this one is not bad but it feels a little bit slower it's got those

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kind of borderless square keycaps um

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this one's like a seven and a half for me i think i already know what i think of

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this one but

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okay i have the same feedback that i had about this before i feel like it's

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really easy to fire off quick bursts but as soon as i

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try to type a longer sentence i really struggle to keep up on it for some

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reason the short keystrokes really don't work well for me

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oh these have kind of a it's a long travel but kind of an empty feeling

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travel the really long keystrokes make double characters a little bit tougher

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on this one and my my weaker fingers my ring and my pinky fingers struggle a

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little bit it's okay seven it's probably

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the worst one so far i like this one too i think it's between uh this is an eight

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and a half for sure and then which one was the oops

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oh i kinda saw which one that was whoops so keyboard test is pretty clear to me

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this one and this one stand above the crowd this one is shortly behind this is

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shortly behind that and this is honestly probably somewhere in this territory as

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well for me because i do do a lot of sort of short bursty typing as i'm

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thinking you know go go go go go go go go now our content consumption test

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might end up telling me even more that i need to know about these things because

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at this point in time i would have a hard time switching to something without

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a touch screen so this one has one

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that's good to know i would describe the speakers as okay

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it's not nearly as oversaturated as contestants 2 and especially 4 are

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but it doesn't look as good as the macbook

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so the ones on the end i'd say are the closest to the macbook with these two

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trailing behind yeah you can see there's a lot of green in the water here

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oh right it's a macbook speakers are sort of samey across the

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board so far touchscreen good good

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this is the worst offender as far as oversaturation goes

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honestly this one speakers sound like they're doing a bit of weird tuning it's

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a little harsh sounding as far as content consumption goes it's

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clearly the ones at the end or the macbook i mean you can calibrate the

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display but i want the one that is as neutral and accurate as possible out of

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the box i know for a fact brandon wouldn't shoot anything that looks like

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that so with that out of the way the next part of the challenge is apparently

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for me to find out exactly what all of the notebooks are and

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identify them so that's definitely a macbook air

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oh shoot okay well i saw that one so

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i'm gonna guess the one with the good display but

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subpar keyboard is an hp spectre

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i don't know who to blame for this poorly calibrated display over here you

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know what i'm going to throw lg under the bus and i'm going to guess that

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that's a razer blade stealth and i don't think there's a surface laptop to here

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let's find out what's actually back here though

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wow that was a surface laptop too

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oh i gotta say i don't think its keyboard

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is as god-tier as alex does this was an lg gram oh lg

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i was hoping i was wrong about you and that's a blade stealth so actually

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the thing i didn't have was the spectre

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x360 i did get the rest of them right though so the next step is to go through

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and sort of talk build quality how they feel what the i o is like you know it

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totally makes sense that i would have liked the keyboard on the blade stealth

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as much as alex might hate this keyboard i personally really like it so this

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one's only got two usb type a's but that

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is enough for a keyboard and a thumb drive which is sort of my typical

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maximum when i'm traveling it does have Thunderbolt 3 as well which means you

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can either use just a standard type c dongle like i already have or something

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like an external Thunderbolt GPU it's got a quad-core processor razer switched

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over to Intel networking from killer networking and i'm personally a fan of

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that move overall the only thing i didn't really like about this from the

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original review was kind of the the boxy

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shape but i kind of feel now like i might have

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been a little bit unfair to it because it really doesn't feel that bad in the

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hand at all and the touch pad being nice and big like that i'm a huge fan of that

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the RGB backlit keyboard is obviously a nice touch

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actually wait a minute this doesn't have dual Thunderbolt does it oh dang

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oh that's really nice now the ground's main selling point is

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the massive 72 watt hour battery and i've daily driven one of these before

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and it is really nice basically charging every two or three or maybe four days

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depending on how heavily you use it something to note about this one even

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though we do have the barrel adapter plugged in is that it does charge over

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the Thunderbolt type c port so that's a huge plus for me more than i really

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thought about before i started this because it means i can carry a single

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type-c power adapter for my switch my laptop and my phone while i'm traveling

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but only a single Thunderbolt port

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native HDMI out though full size that is

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pretty nice to see but they're still using an msata SSD there's no discrete

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graphics like this one and unlike most of the other contestants it's using only

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a 1080p display which strikes me as a little bit ironic given that lg is the

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only company here that actually manufactures lcd panels on the subject

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of things that it has to make up ground for the build quality is just not up

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there with the razer blade stealth on the subject of build quality

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apple still does it like few others do

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this thing is hyper thin super rigid i

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mean even the screen it's almost like they have a bunch of experience building

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tablets you know like super thin tablets super thin phones you know that bent

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once before and they learn their lesson from

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the thing that's really hard for me to get over here is the i o not having it even a single

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type a usb is the kind of thing that can end up really inconvenient for me

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because maybe i do go out and buy a type c you know

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usb thumb drive or something like that there's still things where i might have

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to like a two-factor authentication key where now i have to go get that and i

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have to go get a dongle and i'm usually using something like that at a time when

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it's really inopportune to be slowed down the other thing that kind of kills

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the macbook air for me is the dual core processor if they refresh this thing

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with a quad-core CPU now they got my attention again because

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the keyboard's not my favorite but the trackpad pad is hands down the best out

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of anything in front of me so it does have touch id built into the power button something i really liked when i

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spent time with the last macbook that i reviewed but some of the Windows

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machines here including the blade stealth and our next one have Windows

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hello with facial id and i definitely

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prefer that i'd also have to get used to macOS again but i mean it wouldn't be

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the end of the world it's just not my preference unless this really blew me

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away i wasn't going to go with it moving on

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to the surface laptop 2 2 microsoft's credit magnetic power cords are pretty

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cool in like a 2008 chic kind of way but

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unlike the magsafe connector this one you can actually pull the laptop a fair

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distance with it before it disengages depending on the angle you're using so

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you could actually conceivably pull it off the table

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without actually coming off biometric authentication it's three by

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two which is really nice for productivity that aspect ratio makes a

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huge difference it was far from the worst display and it feels really good

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in the hand but it's not as stiff as the others although

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i get it because they've got this you know soft touch surface here and

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it's just it's really expensive i just don't think it's really a candidate for

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me now this one was kind of surprising to

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me when i saw the pricing so the dell xps 13 as equipped has 16 gigs of RAM

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512 gigs of NVMe storage it's a similar spec CPU to everything else we're

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looking at here so if i was going to you know do some light photo editing or very

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very light video editing or plays a casual steam game or something on the

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road it would perform similarly to anything but the blade stealth 4k which

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is going to outperform it by about double in games if 3dmark is anything to

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go by a single Thunderbolt port no dual

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Thunderbolt again with another type c on the other side

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microsd and not a single type a man it

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already had one rose but the pricing the pricing the pricing for this guy is

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really reasonable and when you consider the build quality which is

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you know what i seem to remember it being better

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it's okay it's not up there with apple or razer in terms of the

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actual flexibility of it i really like the

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keyboard and i really like the screen and i really like the price and i really

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like the look it's been a long time since i've used adele i actually don't

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remember the last time i daily drove a dell yes i do wow my old xps 12 two in

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one that thing was a tank though i mean i've yet to have a razer laptop last me

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more than two years and that thing got rained on

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i took it apart dried it out put it back together and it is still working to this

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day honestly when it comes to io and external build quality and looks there's

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really no question that has to be the razer

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blade stealth it doesn't have a full-size HDMI which really bums me out

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a lot but that's becoming harder and harder to

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find so i guess i'm carrying my dongle around anyway but at least it has a

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couple type a's still has dual Thunderbolt and it is

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just plain built more rigidly than the other

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Windows machines anyway i wish i had a little bit more time to do this because

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i'm on my way out the door to go on a trip so whatever it is i'm going to set

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it up for this trip i'm going away and that's it that's going to live in my

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backpack but it's tough so the dell config for a similar spec is about 300

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less but when i say similar i mean similar

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because the razer blade stealth it has discrete graphics which means i'm not

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going to get as much life out of it but they don't have Windows hello facial

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recognition on this model is it a touch

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sensitive power button that'll make a big difference to me

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it is it's a fingerprint sensor see that's pretty good

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but it's not quite and go

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you know what i've been gaming quite a bit more lately

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i'm giving razer another chance don't let me down this time razer

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