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excuse me i'm allergic to ShortCircuit system 76 is a

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bit of an odd company i mean when you think about it they've got all of these products that

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are relatively high end and yet it's all based on open

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source software from the thelio to the server to

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the oryx pro which is what we're looking at right now

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honestly i haven't unboxed this yet i've opened the box to see what's inside

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but this is the first time that it's actually going to be taken out

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this is a big box for a very small

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laptop this is a 15-inch laptop i got this kind of weird packaging method here

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everything is bound up in this rather heavy duty cardboard and uh

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plastic and what you're supposed to do

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is unfold it and

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it'll just slide right out

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like so that way you can reuse it and it

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cuts down on waste which is honestly quite awesome so let's

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get the main event out here ah that's better

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the inside of the box is pretty nice too actually when i stopped to look at it

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all around it are these these nerdy kind of designs like you can see the

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rocket ship there blasting off you've got uh some kind of crystal here

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uh yeah all kinds of really cool stuff here

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so that is definitely something you'd want to keep

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which brings us to the laptop as far as the aesthetics go

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it's a pretty standard design this is actually a clever unit that system 76

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has customized for their own use so yeah

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it feels really nice glass track pad all metal exterior

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very thin bezels on the screen a little bit of wobble but it's not too bad but

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you might be asking yourself what's so special about it then it's a

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clever laptop that's running Linux and that is where things get very

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interesting this aside from the fact that it just

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runs Linux is running a custom firmware it's

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running core boot that system 76 has specifically

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engineered to allow it to not only use Thunderbolt

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but also NVIDIA switchable graphics it's

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kind of a first in that regard as far as i'm aware it may actually still be the

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only one that's capable of doing that and what that essentially means is

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you're going to be able to modify the firmware for yourself you can

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go on github download the firmware modify it build it and flash it i'd like

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description below i didn't even notice this but the packaging here actually comes with

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a nice little cleaning cloth and

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what is this is this a thermal pad this looks like a thermal pad i guess they

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expect you to open it up which is honestly kind of

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neat it's also possible they expect thermal pads to degrade over time so

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they want you to be able to keep this for a while i'm guessing this would be a thermal pad

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for the chipset perhaps the embedded controller which if

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i had to guess probably mates to the bottom shell here

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so if you were to open it up to replace your RAM or upgrade your

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storage then uh yeah you've got this this nice

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little thermal pad here very nice nice standard but

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decent feeling power adapter okay so the power plugs into the back and it

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actually uh reminds me i've been so excited to just fire this

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up and play with it that i haven't even gone over the i o so

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on the back here we've got a Thunderbolt 3 port power HDMI displayport mini

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displayport actually over on the other side we've got a

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little expandable Ethernet port isn't that cute i remember

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the first time i saw those like 10 years ago i mean you used to be

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able to see them on pcmcia cards but whatever anyway we've got two usb 3.0

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ports here and then around the other side we've got headphone jack microphone jack

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usb 3.0 and a micro sd card reader

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so this thing is pretty kitted out before i power it on

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let's have a feel for how the keyboard is

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it's got very striking lettering i'm not sure if that's a clever thing or a

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system 76 thing uh the keys themselves feel pretty solid

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they're they have a very um very stable throw actually

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system 76 those guys are actually kind of keyboard nerds

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in fact from what i understand uh i think it's

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jeremy one of the lead programmers over there our lead product designers over

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there actually flashed there are created and flashed their own

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keyboard layout for this computer so yeah that all feels pretty good

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a little bit of deck flex but i mean this is made of metal so you're

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not really going to have to worry about that too much and when you're typing

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there's nothing so let's go ahead and power it on

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i've never used a core boot enabled machine before press escape for boot

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options cool this trackpad feels amazing by the

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way holy crap it is buttery smooth one of the things

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that i love about popos is that it actually asks you right off the bat whether or not you want to

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encrypt your hard drive or SSD as it were what that lets you do

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is protect your machine say if it got

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stolen that way they need your password in order to access all your files

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so it's actually quite useful to have especially on a laptop but we're not

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we're not going to do that for now there's not really a whole lot of settings that you can change in the BIOS

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of this thing i guess that's the whole point of the core boot thing you can just change it

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all and recompile it so one of the other things that pop west does really well is it has

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all these integrations for online accounts so you've got google next cloud facebook

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microsoft flickr foursquare and your traditional

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enterprise imap and smtp and stuff what this lets you do is you can

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configure your email your calendar your cloud storage all that kind of

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stuff all at once from here you don't have to go through every single

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application and log in each time so we don't want to

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do any of that right now oh yes you can't really see this because

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i don't have any screen capture right now but the oryx pro has switchable graphics and

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it's saying that here that you can just switch it by going up to the menu here

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and toggling it uh that's great that's something that like

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i said i don't think has actually happened before now for a core boot enabled

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device this is not running any kind of proprietary firmware whatsoever it's it's

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mind-boggling because like this is a company again that is completely in the open ecosystem

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so firmware software even their

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custom designed chassis the thelio is open source

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and yet they're selling it and they seem to be doing pretty well

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this is popos you guys have maybe seen it before

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i've used it in a couple of videos now in our

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gaming on Linux updates and also in

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uh the pc build challenge that uh

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Linus and i went through uh it was a bit of a race

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and unfortunately pop os i'm gonna say

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it was half and half papa west let me down and i let papaws

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down because there were some configuration changes i could have made

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that would have made things a lot better suffice it to say popos is actually a

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pretty nice operating system it's a more or less stock uh gnome

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or gunno interface here so we've got our notification area up here

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we've got our um system tray up here which includes

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our wi-fi control sound control uh display brightness

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we got bluetooth our power settings the fan just kicked in for some reason

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it's getting warm yeah a little bit okay that's to be expected when running

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primarily on the dedicated graphics card and we have a quick access to our

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settings control panel here i won't go through all the different details of popos but

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yeah let's let's explore a little deeper for one

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looking at it it all really matches well like the the dark

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theme for popo s really matches with the theme of the theming of the machine

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don't you just love it when you download steam and then you launch steam for the first time

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and it's like updating steam what version of the NVIDIA driver we use in

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here 440.100 so it looks like this screen is

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not a freesync compatible screen otherwise we'd have the g-sync compatible button here

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which is fine but it is a 144hz panel

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and it is silky smooth it doesn't say what technology the display is

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that's a little unfortunate uh actually while i'm here

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what GPU is this it's an rtx 2080 super

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max q so that is the top of the line i believe

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they have them available in the rtx 2060 and 2070 as well

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so that's cool looks like 64 gigs of RAM so this thing is kitted out

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NVMe boot drive 512 gig

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i think steam is having trouble looks like there were some major

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maintenance run on it yesterday all right i'm going to give steam one more

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shot i'll switch to the us server nope

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wrecked all right gaming's not all this laptop

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has to offer anyway part of the whole appeal here is

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unleashing your potential if we want to

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build something i'm gonna have to install some build tools

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we're looking at a key map so there are two layers on a typical laptop keyboard

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your standard you know keyboard and then also the keys

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that you know happen when you press the function key so you can press function

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and plus and minus for example to change the backlight brightness

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of the keyboard you can press function and

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let's see f9 to increase the brightness of the monitor or f8 to decrease it

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uh f6 to enable the sound to go up and

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down those are all handled here this block

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here this upper block is our regular keys you

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can see we've got escape f1 f2 f3 f4 f5 blah blah blah

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and it's all laid out in the order you see them in your keyboard

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similarly we've got the same thing down here

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i'm not entirely sure why

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but there's not a whole lot assigned to function and

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you know the regular keys so let's just say

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for giggles let's let's change the uh let's change function t

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to something else well i mean let's just change it to l

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so we can just do function l and then tt

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or function t and then tt and we've got LTT

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now i need to close all running applications unplug

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everything from the computer aside from the power adapter meaning

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you'll lose screen cap sorry and run make flash internal

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i'm more excited than i should be for my stupid little custom

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key map because it really is truly stupid

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alright we're back let's open up our uh text editor and let's see what happens

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function t that looks like an l

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shift t that is capital l t

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t l l t t l l t t l l t

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t this is way more amusing than it should be but basically i can make any

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key on the keyboard any other key on the keyboard you can change the layout of the

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keyboard at your own whim and that's just the start of it you can

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change the the fan profiles you can change all kinds of

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stuff in the in the embedded controller here and that's all built into the

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the oryx pro like it's it's pretty amazing

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so what you're getting is basically complete control over the computer like

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the embedded controller handles like power delivery it handles

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the fan curves like i said the voltage curves the frequency curves all of that

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stuff is handled in the embedded controller and it is completely open for

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you the only problem is that there is a price to all of this

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which is 16.99 and that's for

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a 15.6 inch panel GeForce rtx

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2060 and a 250 Gigabyte SSD

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which is SATA on the base model so you've got some upgrades to do but the

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good news is you can do them what is the price of freedom really

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you've got a completely open source operating system you can do whatever you

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want with you've got a completely open source firmware you can do whatever you want

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with you can adjust the internal

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specs of the computer as much as you want you can

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expand it with Thunderbolt you can choose to run it with or without the

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NVIDIA graphics card it's a cliche and i already used it in

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this video but it's basically the apple of the Linux world

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you're paying a premium but i mean you are getting a pretty premium machine

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i think it feels fantastic i think the philosophy behind it is fantastic

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the company behind it is pretty great the um the ceo i met him a little while

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ago at the um superfan three event he kind of gives

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me a hank scorpio vibe and like i want to support that again

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it's just how much are you willing to pay for it that's the question you have to ask

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these guys are premium you get a premium product is that what you want

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for Linux that's what i want but it's a question you're gonna have to ask

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yourself thanks for watching make sure to get subscribed so you can see more short

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circuits like this one or unlike this one this is kind of different

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and i'll see you later