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I love getting a new laptop as much as anybody does but I got to say looking at

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the kit to build my very own AMD powered framework 13 laptop investment in

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framework disclosure I kind of wish I hadn't auctioned off my Intel one for

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that BC Children's fundraiser it was kind of cool that it was my laptop of

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thesis forever and I could keep putting new Hardware in it oh well such is life

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let's unbox this thing I am looking at the framework laptop 13 DIY kit it comes

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with with bezel oh ah purple bezel

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that's a choice there's a keyboard now

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with non shattered fingerprint sensor

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power adapter don't need that that's optional you don't have to order that

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that's one of the cool things about framework IO expansion modules we'll get

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to those later and of course some memory and storage though similarly you can

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simply Doo if you want to expand outside

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of the range of options that framework provides to up to 64 gigs of DDR R 55600

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memory and up to 8 terab of storage at

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least at the present time if there are future ssds that are available in

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Greater capacities there's no reason it couldn't support

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them a bazillion more expansion modules

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we really will get to those later the only tool we'll need to assemble this

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and now the star of the show I was actually the first one to be Hands-On

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with framework's ryzen 7000 series framework 13 but but since that Hands-On

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time they have improved it in a lot of ways for one thing it doesn't blue

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screen constantly it was pre-production at the

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time for another they have upgraded the hinge now not only is it a little bit

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heavier but it opens up 180° which I

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mean when I was in university I actually used my laptop like that all the time we

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didn't have smartphones and the screen is now available with a mat option

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that's designed to be usable in basically any lighting conditions is

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rated for 400 nits Peak brightness and we found it actually exceeded that

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fairly substantially while we get this built which shouldn't take too long we

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can talk about some of the speeds and feeds it's available with either a ryzen 5 or ryzen 7 processor so that's with

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six or eight cores respectively and it's worth noting guys that this is ryzen

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7000 so while these CPUs do have an npu

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for AI Tom Foolery what they don't have is enough tops to be co-pilot ready uh

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or to run features like Windows call whether that matters to you or not I

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leave entirely up to you I've got to say I admire framework's dedication to sodm

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memory upgrades they will run at a slower speed compared to soldered memory

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but they will be upgradeable in the future which is pretty nice to see and

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they're still running at 5600 which is actually not that bad even compared to

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some gaming laptops that we've seen it's possible actually it's probable that we

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will see future configurations that are AI ready I mean they've got a risk five

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board coming did you see that ah that is so cool but at this time you will be

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just regular intelligent since we're in here this is a good time to have a look

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at our battery the two versions come with different capacities either 55 W

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hours or 61 wat hours and both are rated

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to have I think it's 80% of their total capacity after a th000 charge and

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discharge Cycles pretty darn impressive you'll be using this thing for a very

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long time and once you aren't using it anymore 1 2 three screws is all it takes

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to rip it out and replace I guess I haven't really talked about the main

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pitch for framework that was it that was

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the build process this thing is incredibly serviceable and the storage

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RAM and Wi-Fi card are all

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interchangeable actually that Wi-Fi card is something that I would probably want

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to take out AMD seems to have an agreement with all of their Partners to

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use these mediatech Wi-Fi chipsets with their ryzen mobile processors and I'm

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not a huge fan it's Wi-Fi 6C Bluetooth 5.2 which is fine I guess but I would

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really rather have Wi-Fi 7 and probably an Intel chipset we've got 2 watt stereo

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speakers a cooling solution that somehow

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has managed to stand the test of time like that is darn impressive the way

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that you've been able to upgrade these framework laptops Through the Ages here

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and my friends that's it now all we got to do

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is snap on our magnetic bezel cover

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like that conveniently framework has little guides that you can access by

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simply scanning these QR codes available

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online pops on a little something like that oh my god did this just turn on

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well cool close that real quick get this

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screwed together uh yours won't do that of course because yours won't already

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have been tested by the Labs team while we're closing it up the chassis is as

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before made out of a single machined piece of aluminum giving it excellent structural rigidity and now is a perfect

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time to have a look at our expansion cards they have so many options

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available you can put a DisplayPort port on your laptop you can expand with

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micro SD you can just put a little one tbte expansion thing you could have usba

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a you could have USB-C you could put

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fullsize HDMI port any combination you

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want the framework 13 supports four of these expansion cards and the framework

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16 supports up to six I think it is my

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usual load out is 2 C's both of which can be used for charging

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which is really can be neat you just kind of put them in wherever you want

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and then I like to have an HDMI and I like to have a USB type A although these

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other ones are very cool as well and I

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will often carry around an extra oh yeah one of the ones I love there it is ah

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yes my 2 and 1/2 gig Ethernet expansion

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just slide that in a little something like like so and I have 2 and 1/2 gig L

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baby and because they just use USB type-c

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I can use this on anything it's not just a framework expansion card oh the 3 and2

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mil Jack one is for the framework 16 cuz it doesn't come with a 3 and a half mil

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Jack right yeah okay this one does have a 3 and half millim Jack by default

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though let's get these expansion cards installed I like to have that on the

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left because that way if I have a dongle for my mouse or I'm using a Wired Mouse

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it's not going to interfere with my movements then I like my typ C's at the

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back cuz I'm often using them for power and then my HDMI can go there so so

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convenient so customizable that's honestly probably my

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favorite thing about this laptop oh yeah and I guess that ignores the 3x2 display

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it is great having a taller display like this for productivity and it's about to

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get even better they have a 2.8k 120 HZ

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version of the display coming what so I'm using the 60 HZ version like a pleb

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we actually found that the matte display while suitable for any indoor

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environment and most outdoor environments was not overly bright

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overly color accurate or overly great for gaming which I wouldn't have said

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was a concern on the previous Intel models because as you guys can see from

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the performance numbers here the CPUs

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and gpus and those aren't great for gaming but on the AMD model you can

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actually play some real games on this thing so I would say that higher refresh

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rate display is going to be a really big upgrade even if you only run it at you a

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quarter of the resolution with uh integer scaling why did I even have my

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toolkit out here coming soon to LTT Store.com but I didn't I didn't need it

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that's it the whole thing is built it really is that simple and you don't have

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to run Windows you can get a DIY version that's pre-loaded with absolutely

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nothing and run a variety of Linux distributions on your framework 13 as

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well I wish I had my old one in hand for a side by side comparison it seems like

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they've changed the keyboard a little bit I don't remember this longer escape

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and delete key I'm going to try that in a moment though with first this message

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how it feels I've always been appreciative of how good framework's

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keyboard feels considering um well you

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know the fact that it's a boo laptop in

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what is still a very reasonable thin form factor like you would think they

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would have to give up somewhere but the keyboard

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is not it they manage 1.5 mm of travel

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which is pretty typical or even above typical in this size class and the feel

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and sound is overall okay it's not the best keyboard

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on the market but all things considered it is pretty darn good and what's cool

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is it's available in a wide variety of configurations something that is not

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necessarily an option on you know glued

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together bolted together laptops like other manufacturers make built-in

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Hardware privacy switches for both the 1080p webcam and the included microphone

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allay last time I had a look at these I was pretty impressed by the quality of

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the camera but that was before I saw any of the uh Snapdragon X Elite machines

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it's still fine it's good enough especially when you consider that this

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is pretty challenging conditions with a light right behind me like yeah these

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are these are just generally very challenging conditions but the

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expectations are going to change in a big way now that we've got the ISP built

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onto those Snapdragon X Elite processors and they're going to be able to use more

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similar camera modules to what you see in a typical smartphone I like the new

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matte display it has some issues though we observed that the auto brightness

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sensor causes the gamma and color accuracy to go kind of out of whack when

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you over stimulate it um like it's to be

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clear it's fine for daily use for an average consumer under a vast majority

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of conditions but we just have observed a little bit of odd behavior and a

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little bit of lesser performance in terms of color accuracy compared to the

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glossier panel that was in our Intel framework laptop that we used for

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comparison hopefully that's something they can get resolved in software or

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firmware but one thing they won't be resolving is that it's not really

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suitable for Creative work so maybe we'll see a difference when they

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launched the 2.8k version that's one of the best things about these things

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having ryzen in them now is you can actually flipping game on them this is

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USB hey modern laptops only have USBC

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I'm just kidding there we go I have any IO I want

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I suck at Rocket League by the way please don't judge me but what matters

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is the performance hey there we go now we're sitting at like 70 FPS 70 plus

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very very playable even if you might want a little bit more if you're you

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know a competitive player I didn't even notice how Bloody quiet this thing is

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I guess I don't have any complaints especially if it comes with these performance benefits it not only

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outperformed our Intel model and gaming it also outperformed our Intel model in

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productivity at least creative productivity it won blender cin bench

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and Puget bench but lost ul's office proon though not by a huge margin I

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guess having more cores is still a good thing long as you don't want your

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battery to last too long it also beat our Intel framework in battery life in

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both endurance and in our stress test it's hard to tell exactly what to cover

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and not cover with a device like this I mean yeah normally we would discuss the

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weight which is you know kind of mid uh

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we would discuss the you know chassis Flex kind of mid as well but these are

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all things that haven't changed since the original framework I just can't take

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for granted that you guys have watched that before we can listen to the

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speakers those actually get really loud

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uh quality is fine

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they're really loud though if you're into that the trackpad continues to be a

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trackpad It's Made of Glass it supports gestures it's about average size not the

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biggest but also not restrictively small and I think that's pretty much it it's

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time to start daily driving this thing and I'll let you guys know on the WAN

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show if I have any additional thoughts but overall it seems like it's still a

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framework they haven't lost track of their mission and as long as you're willing to pay a bit of a premium

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because yeah they're not the cheapest devices to have something that you can

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upgrade and repair and service as needed then they continue to serve that purpose

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