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we had a bit of a hard time figuring out exactly what to make this video about on

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the one hand it's obviously about the razer blade 2019 which is a super sick

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laptop it's powerful it's got rigid construction it's got great features

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it's pretty much the complete package but on the other hand it's also the

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first gaming laptop in three years to be available with an OLED display so i

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guess we're also going to have to take a deep dive into that because there are

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things that we love about it but also some things that left us kind of

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scratching our heads what's going in and out of your pc when you're connected to

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the internet well with glasswire you can find out and see if there are any

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suspicious or badly behaving apps use offer code Linus to get 25 off at the

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link in the video description

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let's not beat around the bush here looking at this samsung manufactured

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display is a treat 600 nit peak brightness 100

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dci p3 coverage HDR 400 certification

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and calibration from the factory just looking at the desktop background i was

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like oh it's so good the colors i mean even just

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opening the settings menu which is in dark mode by default nice touch razor is

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super satisfying like 600 nits with

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perfect blacks means an incredible contrast ratio that just makes all the

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text and icons jump out at you

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overall this right here is the most

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satisfying display that we have ever seen on a laptop for watching netflix

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the thing is buying a 3 300 machine to just watch

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netflix is maybe not the best idea ever

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so let's investigate some other use cases fortunately the blade 2019 has the

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specs to back up that price rocking an Intel core i7 9750 h6 core processor 16

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gigs of upgradable sodium RAM in dual channel and an NVIDIA rtx 2080 max q

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which will allow you to really crank up the details in your games at 4k while

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you're at it by the way you might as well even turn on rtx since the one

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thing that you won't be getting out of this display is more frames per second

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unfortunately due to its 4k resolution

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this OLED panel won't do anything over 60 hertz and it doesn't even have g-sync

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which means that for gamers i simply

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can't recommend the OLED display model of the blade 2019 especially when

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there's an option to equip this computer with a 240hz 1080p ips panel which will

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not only give you a considerable competitive advantage but it'll just

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make everything feel way smoother while

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even saving you a buck it is 300 cheaper

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now this might be a bit of a tangent but i haven't griped about it recently and i

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feel like i've got to get it out of my system i feel like there's this

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disconnect between display marketing and

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panel manufacturers and what would actually be best for consumers

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thing is 4k sounds like a great idea on

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paper but this is a 15 inch display not a

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65 inch one and you would actually need to get within 11 inches of this thing

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like uncomfortably close to actually make out the individual pixels that's

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four and a half inches closer than even the macbook's retina display

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so for my part i would much rather see a

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company like samsung invest in a 1440p

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OLED panel with like a 120 hertz refresh

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rate which by the way still offers plenty of pixel density at this size

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that way i could easily recommend this laptop to movie watchers and any gamer

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that isn't an esports professional which isn't to say though that the trade-off

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won't be worth it for some people the blade 2019 is still

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awesome to look at for games and great

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for productivity too so maybe then it'll be great as an everyday

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carry laptop with some extra punch for creative applications like video editing

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along with some sightseeing aaa gaming at first glance it definitely seems so

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as always the build quality of the blade is fantastic with the aluminum chassis

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super thin bezels and matte black appearance giving it a premium look that

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works both at lan parties and at business meetings that is depending on

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how you configure your RGB

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there's also plenty of i o including a couple usb type a's a single Thunderbolt

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3 full-size HDMI and mini DisplayPort the freaking massive track pad maintains

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its place as the best track pad on any Windows laptop i really can't say enough

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good things about it but as for the keyboard i can't quite say the same it's not bad

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but alienware and ASUS have really raised the bar for gaming laptop

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keyboards in the last year knocking the blades keyboard down from say an a minus

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to more like a b plus with the spectacularly stupid short right shift

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key eliminating the plus i'm gonna call it a b now one leg up the blade 19 has

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on other gaming laptops is Windows hello facial recognition a really nice touch

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for anyone that plans to use the blade on the go which by the way is very

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possible given its six hour battery life in our testing

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although your results may vary significantly here

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depending on what exactly is on the screen

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yes we're back to the screen because the thing is

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because each pixel on an OLED panel emits its own light the power draw of

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the display is highly dependent on what's on the screen so fire up a

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picture of batman swimming in a pool of ink at night and it might consume only a

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watt or two that is far less than the lcd version of the blade 2019 but a

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bright image or heaven forbid a web page

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that's not in dark mode you're looking at more like 15 watts of

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power consumption so if you're planning on staying away from power outlets you

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need to make sure that you enable dark mode everywhere you go so then that's a

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pretty easy solution leaving us then with a powerful computer with

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respectable battery life and a beautiful screen so you guys are probably thinking

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and i sure was well this is a digital creator's dream and by the way it did

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chew through big timelines and large renders with aplomb

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except for a couple of problems so first is the audio the speakers are

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okay but we did find them lacking in the low end which wouldn't matter even

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except that the headphone dac was mediocre when compared to those found in

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ASUS laptops second up is that although the OLED screen looks beautiful to the

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eye i simply cannot recommend trusting it for color critical work so going back

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to how on OLED each pixel emits its own light well the thing is there isn't

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enough power available to drive all of the pixels at once at their highest

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brightness which is where average pixel levels or apl comes in

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so in order to achieve high levels of brightness in

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some spots on the display saturation and

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therefore color accuracy has to be sacrificed to make sure that the display

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as a whole doesn't consume more than its

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overall power budget the most obvious situation where this can be seen is that

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the color accuracy of the panel goes up by 35

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just by going from the brightest setting to one notch down now this might seem

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like a crazy design decision but for

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watching videos or playing video games this is a trade-off that i agree is well

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worth it because our eyes are much more sensitive to changes in brightness than

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they are to changes in color it just also means that as i said

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unfortunately this panel can't be trusted by digital artists because if

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they were to go and change their brightness their accuracy could all of a

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sudden be way off and we haven't even mentioned the

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elephant in the room burn in with OLED since each individual pixel is

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emitting its own light they can actually degrade at different rates depending on

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what kind of light they're used to emitting throughout their lifetime so if

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there's an area of your screen that's always bright like say the start menu

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icon in Windows or the hot outline of your favorite game

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after a while it could become etched into the panel basically ruining the

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picture quality now razer seems pretty confident about this one and samsung

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clearly took their time on it but three thousand dollars is a lot to ask for the

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privilege of beta testing something so then now for the really difficult bit

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would i recommend the blade 2019 well with the 240hz display absolutely once

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again razer has nailed having a laptop that kicks ass in games while also

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functioning surprisingly well for non-gaming related tasks

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as for the OLED screen version well it's not ideal for gaming artists can't trust

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it and it's damn expensive so aside from

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flexing that you paid 3 300

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for the best darn netflix machine that money can buy i just can't find a good

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reason to recommend it

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but i do like it i mean the color

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the contrast like i really want it but

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yeah i shouldn't you shouldn't buy it but like other people should buy it

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like they've got to fund the development somehow right it just

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so beautiful maybe with like a high refresh rate 1440

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