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companies sometimes do strange things when trying to appeal to Millennials

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like this right here because do you know what I really want on my laptop

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leather wow who would have ever thought

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this is a something that HP tried a little while ago and uh

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oh God damn it Lenovo you it up already ah so here's the problem

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lenovo's new ThinkPad z13 fold has

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leather on the back but it's actually leather that's made out of plastic

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bottles hp's leather laptop had real cow

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on it and it smelled fantastic you took that thing out of the package and it was

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like you had an old baseball glove just sitting on your desk you're like oh wow

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hmm it smells really good unfortunately no

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cows died for this Lenovo what are you doing okay but in all seriousness though

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this is a very good feeling laptop and

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also you don't have to get leather on the back this has an option where it's

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just you know normal laptop materials around the edge we have diamond cut

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edges these look fantastic very fancy

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but in like a nice way also uh IO is a

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bit lacking so we have a USBC on this

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side and USBC on that side and we also

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have a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack that's it that's all you get for Io both

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Thunderbolt 4 so that's actually not too bad I don't really mind dongling around

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I just Chuck something in my backpack and call it a day but at the same time

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it would be really nice to have just like anything else one more i o option

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but how much power will it draw

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apparently 65 Watts from this little

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type c charger and props to Lenovo you

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do have charging options on either side of the laptop

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oh yeah here we go this is an incredibly

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well-built machine like you can see some sort of flexing right here if I really

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push on it but this is the sort of like macro chassis flexing that is much more

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okay where like I'm pressing here the entire thing is yielding as opposed to

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like there being soft spots so I am guessing that is going to be very good

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for the keyboard we also have a nice large track pad and

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very little space up here I really like to see that oh it's pretty borderline

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pretty borderline my hand barely fits on this and I want to really look at this

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fortunately a little while ago I made a spreadsheet so that I could tell Dell

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that their XPS 13 just didn't fit anyone's hands and they were dumb okay

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so I just measured it the Palm rest length on this is 128 millimeter which

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is between the Specter X360 and the XPS

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13. this basically means that if you have larger hands you're gonna have a

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little bit of problem basically only 30

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percent of males and uh 47 of females

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are going to be comfortable typing on this because otherwise your hand's gonna

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fall off the back buy this if you have small hands

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that's it if you have big hands don't buy it

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do you think that was worth it no you know what Jake I don't care that's good

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the description to find a repair kit for your phone yeah so 1920 by 1200p so that

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means that this right here is the IPS touch screen this is not the best

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display that is available on this they do have a Quad HD OLED Touch model that

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I'm sure is just absolute eye candy and maybe it makes your spreadsheets look

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kind of weird so you probably want this one but until I've actually seen it all

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that in person I can't say for sure what I can say for sure though is that the

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most tuning out of the box on this thing is atrocious okay let's test this out I

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think we're good I lowered the sensitivity a little bit and turned off

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Windows enhanced pointer Precision stupid most acceleration crap

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seems pretty good now okay okay I can get behind this so what's nice about

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this trackpad is you can change how much force is required to click it how they

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do the clicks is instead of it like you know clicking a switch it measures the

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force of your finger and so I was able to go in here change the click Force to

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low and I much prefer that to medium because right now

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it just feels correct anyway what are the specs of this machine for the

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processor we have an AMD ryzen 7 6850u

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so that's 8 cores 16 threads you also

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get 16 gigabytes of oh 6400 megahertz

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memory that is some fast RAM that also means there's absolutely no way that we

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can replace it because currently sodium tops out at 4 800 Mega transfers per

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second anyway moving on to the SSD we have a 500 Gigabyte model from Micron

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Qualcomm Wi-Fi 6E that's probably pretty good and of course AMD Radeon graphics

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everybody always talks about how to absolutely incredible ThinkPad keyboards

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are they definitely were lately depending on the model it can have a

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little bit of variance on okay this is not what I was expecting at

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all from this keyboard I normally think of ThinkPad keyboards as like the really

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long travel it sort of feels like a big membrane keyboard but like somehow in a

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good way this right here is different this has not very much travel but like a

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really nice kind of soft feeling snap also in the keyboard we have the very

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famous track point right here now in the past I have been a huge fan of these not

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because of the track pointness of it but I haven't liked them because of what

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they did to the size of the trackpad itself so instead of having the two

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massive buttons up here that just take up all of your trackpad space we instead

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have just a couple little Marks here so it's super easy to know when you're in

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the right spot have a little click and you can track Point around without

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sacrificing all of the usable space of

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your trackpad I really appreciate how they've done it this way it's a really

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good sort of trade-off between having a good

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track pad and having a good track point something that I don't think I've seen

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before Lenovo made a big deal about their webcam and I say that because they

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actually laser engraved on the back they have a full HD F 1.2 and a digital mic

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array how is it in practice hello hello this is me talking into the ThinkPad z13

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while also recording video at the same time this looks pretty pretty darn good

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we do have some sort of weird graininess and blockiness but it really is not all

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that bad especially given how challenging the scene is it is exposing

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for my face very well and at the same time like you can sort of see some

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detail in our sound editing up here the blinds look like blinds instead of like

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either blown out or underexposed now of

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course we need to Benchmark this against the XPS 15. so you can really appreciate

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just how good of a job Lenovo has done here oh we just have to wait a second my

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uh XPS 15 has to come out of hibernation do you know why Windows modern standby

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it's complete Lenovo you should really go and talk to Microsoft and tell them

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that it is unacceptable and they are losing customers to Apple because it is

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so ass I have been complaining about it for so long it was it's been what like

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three years something like that I'm gonna just get a Macbook it okay so

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they're both doing not too bad of a job but the Lenovo is just clearly a better

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camera than the one on the Dell Dell is more blown out and more underexposed at

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the same time uh yeah good job Lenovo you did it this is me

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testing the sound on the Lenovo ThinkPad z13 versus the Dell XPS 13. if Lenovo

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does not win this one I will be very sad yep easy Lenovo wins cool good job

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Lenovo claims that they have really good speakers on the z13 they have a Dolby

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Atmos certification let's see how that does

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okay immediately this is very clear

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sound if you're doing like voice calls video calls this is going to be very

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good it doesn't have the base though

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not bad not bad that is very respectable

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God damn it Dell stupid waves Max audio

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keeps on turning itself on and it just makes the whole thing sound like poo poo

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there we go

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so unsurprisingly the XPS 15 does have

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the better speakers once you've disabled their stupid waves audio crap but that

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is not unsurprising at all this right here is a 15 inch laptop with big old

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speakers here and this right here is where the heck even are they they have

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some down firing ones right there oh I wonder if it sounds better without the mouse

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that didn't really help but that said for a laptop of this size that doesn't

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even have a facing speakers this has impressive sound I would be totally

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happy with this

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what restart required

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for this mouse that was just at yes

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Windows I'm sure I'm gonna do that okay okay it looks like we're all good now

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that I have the Logitech mouse I was really concerned there for a second that

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like some of these business laptops will have brutal input latency on the display

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and it'll make gaming just a jelloy mess

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and the menu at 1200p I'm getting a

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30-ish FPS so I think we need to knock that down a bit

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oh wow the keyboard's getting hot kind of fast and above the keyboard is

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legitimately going to burn you so here we are at 1200p and we're getting about

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40 FPS which is not great this is low

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settings uh it looks like ours but at

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the same time it's doing it I'm gonna just knock down the resolution bring up

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the graphics a bit I think we can okay yeah you can't even run medium settings

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at 720p or I guess this is 800 P because

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it's 16 by 10 display so instead we're just going to run a full resolution at

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low this keyboard is getting hot fast

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like really really fast so yeah it looks

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like our best bet is like 1200p we're getting 40 FPS on low if we

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lower the resolution up to settings it's about the same but just a blurry mess

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okay so the tops back 6860 Zed also has

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a 12 GPU count so the performance is

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going to be about the same I was hoping that they have a stronger Apu model not

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a thing so if you are a gamer probably sit this one out but also the

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performance isn't even what would make me sit this one out I'm just going to leave this here for a second I'll be

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back so we've been playing this for a while like three minutes maybe and already

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around the keyboard we're seeing what like up to 50 degrees like up here we're

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at like 45 or so the only thing that

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should be keeping you nice and hot is this beanie from lttstore.com your

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laptop should not be at 51 degrees especially after just three minutes not

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great this is one of those things that Apple has done very well with their M1

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and M2 chips is just keep your hands from getting literally burnt I was

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really hoping that they'd have some sort of a good mode so we have intelligent

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cooling which sure okay so I've turned

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off intelligent cooling or in best performance mode

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yeah we're still at 50 degrees I really

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wish that they had like a cool mode so for instance on the XPS here I always

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just leave it in cool mode because if I sit down with it on my lap I want to

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like be able to have children in the future I am really disappointed that they don't have like better cooling

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settings HP and Dell both have really good like do you want it quiet do you

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want it cool do you want a high performance there are trade-offs between all of those but I like having the

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option to like pick which one I want okay getting in there was super easy so

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we just have a five Phillips head screws all of them are captive so you can't

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even put them back in the wrong way and it just popped right off so they have

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their like Vapor chamber here it goes

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all the way down here but this like isn't even really touching anything all

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right here it also says caution hot surface do not touch uh they should have

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that on the other side as well the only thing I would expect you to be able to

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upgrade on this is your Wi-Fi card and your SSD

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aha there we go so this is a strange SSD

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so it's a 2450 so that's the 50

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millimeter version which is not very standard I think 80 is the standard or

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like if you have a small one it's 30 as for the rest we have two fans here with

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incredibly high fin density and a nice big old Vapor chamber for Apu right

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there we also get what is this a 51.5

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watt hour battery so Lenovo claims that this will last for 18.3 hours I think 18

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and a half hours is pretty optimistic but at the same time these AMD CPUs are

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very good at being power efficient so you can probably get over 10 or so also

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one thing that they have is fast charging for the battery so you can get 80 percent an hour which is great the

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last thing for this is the price I don't know it yet but I'm guessing it is

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rather high for one we have this beautiful chassis that's made out of

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aluminum we have the leather although who cares about that but also we have

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one Nova's business-centric features the biggest one for me is their BIOS what do

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they call it smart BIOS BIOS flashback something something either way your BIOS

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corrupts you don't have to worry about it it's going to be just backed up on

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here and you'll be all good to go all right Jake hit me how bad is it over two

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grand starts at 13.55 starts at 13.55 not bad

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does that have a ryzen 5 or a ryzen 3. so that has a ryzen 5. okay ryzen 5 for

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1500 that that's not too bad that's not too bad what's this one aspect is

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1705 dollars one thousand seven hundred five dollars

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aspect okay that's like pretty in line with I guess like an XPS 13 or a specter

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X360 like that makes sense it is definitely a

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laptop where you're paying for like this very beautiful finish around the edges

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and the incredibly well put together just everything about it oh wait is

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there expandability look at this right there you can put another SSD that is

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fantastic really good job Lenovo actually if you can just upgrade the

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storage that's something that you don't see on a lot of 13-inch devices so the

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Lenovo z13 it uh doesn't smell as good as the competition in the leather laptop

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space but also no cows died for it so that's a plus I guess if you're looking

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for a small 13-inch laptop that like you

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don't really care about performance like it has eight cores it's gonna do

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spreadsheets and just fine it's fantastically built keyboard trackpad

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trackpoint screen all incredible so if

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you want like a 13 inch laptop that looks pretty cool in my opinion I think

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it's a good buy oh and if you don't care that 1700 bucks you can get something

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that's very similar for much less but that always applies you know it also

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always applies have a good day see ya