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this laptop came out in 2022 and it's

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packed full of Modern Hardware but just about everything else about it looks

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like it came straight out of 2002 and

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I'm not even exaggerating from its matte screen to its delightful round trackpad

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Panasonic has used nearly the same design on its let's note lineup for the

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past 20 years but for their customers

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that's a feature not a bug and honestly

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I can kind of see their point I mean sure it's a little on the thick side but

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on top of the usual suspects usba HDMI

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Thunderbolt 4 we've got Ethernet VGA an

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SD card reader and do my eyes deceive me

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a DVD drive wait a user swappable

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battery this raises so many questions

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for me I mean what did happen to laptops

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that actually have port on them why are

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these ones exclusive to Japan and with all these features does it have a place

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docomo into a police cruiser can probably probably tell you Panasonic

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makes laptops and much like Epson they

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offer a far more varied selection in Japan compared to the West the let's

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note line began production in 1996 and it would continue to receive

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periodic updates over the years in 97 it

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got its first optical drive in 98 it got a mobile phone that's kind of weird in

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'99 it got Wi-Fi and in 2000 it got its

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signature circular trackpad more on that a little bit later first by 2002 2003

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the let's note looked nearly identical to what's in my hands today speaking of

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what do we have here today we've got a 12in IPS display with the more

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traditional 16 by10 aspect ratio love to

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see it an 11th gen Core i5 processor 16 gigs of ddr4 memory and a 512 gig PCIe

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Gen 4 Samsung NVMe Drive our machine

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could be configured at the time of ordering but there were only a handful

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of options for CPU RAM and storage the

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keyboard has minimal Flex to it and nice

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long travel on the key switches but the layout is kind of cramped and the keys

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are a touch on the mushy feeling side I'd describe it as pretty okay for touch

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typing that is at least ignoring the unfamiliar Japanese layout for me uh but

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if you're henpecking it's probably a great experience and if the Target

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demographic is on the older side that makes a a lot of sense and it is more on

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that later first did I mention that the battery is not the only thing you can

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replace on this thing you can also swap out the entire keyboard with a US

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Standard lip I mean can this thing get any cooler believe it or not like many

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of the other advantages of the sv2 this

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sort of thing used to be common entire companies existed to import Japanese

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laptops and then replace the keyboards with localized l outs but then with the

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wide breadth of choice in the laptop Market these days it seems like these

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Services have failed the test of time

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what hasn't is this trackpad for

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whatever reason Panasonic decided 20 years ago that their trackpad theirs was

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going to be circular and that's a decision that they have stuck with to

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this day while it does have modern features like support for multitouch it

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doesn't really have a lot of room on it for multiple fingers but then it turns

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out that that's barely an issue the left and the right click are both physical

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buttons so you just use it two-handed

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and scrolling can be done with a single Finger by just spinning around the

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outside like you're a DJ scratching a record w w w okay this is actually

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pretty cool and as an extra bonus you

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don't have to worry about Palm rejection since it sits comfortably right in

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between your hands on the wrist rest I would wouldn't personally trade away my

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larger more modern design though I mean

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you can't even move the cursor all the way across the screen without lifting your finger so given the obviously ample

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internal room they have to work with why is Panasonic still putting these archaic

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designs out specifically in Japan well

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there are a couple of reasons for that but the main one is that for one reason

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or another Japanese companies tend to devote a lot of development resources to

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the domestic market and the population of domestic Japan is old how old are

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they so old that according to the world

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economic Forum they have the oldest population of any country on Earth as

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you'd imagine then this permeates many aspects of modern culture including the

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decisions of it departments for large

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companies you see when it's time to replace all your laptops companywide it

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is much easier in terms of training to

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transition over to something that is familiar for your users and this is

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especially true for older users similarly if you're making decisions for

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an IT department in an older company with lots of withering technology you're

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going to need machines that still work with those older devices hence the VGA

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ports for example and this is not an issue that's exclusive to Japan as we

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saw not that long ago when we discovered NX

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a company that manufactures brand new Windows 98 PCS that is a little

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different though in that scenario it's assumed that those systems are going to

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be used for controlling industrial Machinery that depends on Legacy Isa

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cards or ancient software with the Panasonic it's much more about the

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day-to-day use I can roll into a meeting room and whether it's HDMI thunderbold

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or even VGA I can output to the projector and if I need to transfer a

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file from someone I can use usba USBC an

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SD card or even yeah the included DVD

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drive with no dongles required and it's

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all on a shockingly lightweight package thanks to the magnesium alloy

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chassis I got to say having gotten used

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to modern laptop designs it does feel a bit more like a novelty at this point to

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me but I still can't help feeling a bit sad about some of the things that we've

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lost along the way I mean sure I can

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open up my modern machine and replace the battery if it fails but what I can't

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do is swap in a new one to get me

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through the rest of the day or put an extended capacity one in if I don't mind

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having a bit of a caboose on my machine and I mean even the optical drive kind

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of hits me in the feels this 11th gen model is likely to be the last laptop

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that Panasonic makes that is widely available with this feature they've

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actually already sold this one out through their own website and when we

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attempted to purchase one at a retail Tor we were told they wouldn't be

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getting any more in stock so we nabbed this one new inbox from Yahoo auctions

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which means the only manufacturer still offering Optical is

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Vio now a machine with so many features for usability that's also targeted at

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corporate it departments should have easy maintenance and upgradeability

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right well that's not entirely incorrect

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but it is certainly not the full story H

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part of the story is that we might have a Precision screwdriver coming with

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in-handle bit storage and a super cool

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bearing sorry anyway uh the point is while the battery is obviously swappable

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and this is really cool there's a handy little access panel here that allows you

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to blow out the heat sink there are some bigger issues that we would be remiss to

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not mention the M2 Drive is only

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accessible once the bottom cover has been removed an Endeavor that requires

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removing 21 screws and right

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it's soldered to the motherboard guys

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you were so close to killing my framework investment Panasonic so close

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so then as long as framework keeps selling serviceable laptops with user

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upgradable RAM something that you can find a link to down below by the way

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Panasonic won't be showing up to eat their lunch anytime soon if you enjoyed

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this video check out the one on the Epson Endeavor a tank of a desktop PC

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from a company that usually makes printers and project vectors