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the AMD ryzen 9 3950x blew us away with

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its 16 CPU cores and 4.7 gigahertz boost

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clock humiliating Intel's fastest offerings

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so what would happen if someone put it in a

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laptop

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we'd get the apex 15 the newly crowned

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fastest laptop ever at this point it's not a question of whether it will wreck

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the competition but rather by how much it'll wreck the competition let's get

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the original plan was to compare the apex 15 to other laptops from the blue

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team but given that Intel's best was

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just eviscerated by the thin and light zephyrus g14 here we figured we needed

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to up the ante so on every single one of our performance charts you're gonna find

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the desktop core i9 9900k to show you

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just how overpowered this thing is

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at the time of writing the core i9 9900k is Intel's fastest consumer desktop CPU

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and unsurprisingly its eight cores were

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no match for the 16 course in the apex

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15. if you are looking for pure CPU

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power on the go there is absolutely nothing like this you're not reading

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that wrong unless you think the blender classroom render didn't finish five

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minutes earlier than the 9900k maybe the biggest surprise though is not

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only that the apex 15 beat the core i9 900k but that in some tests even the

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zephyrus g14 beat big blue reinforcing how much of a

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beast it is as for single threaded performance well

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the 9900k is still the king of the hill

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but not by the margin that i was expecting in cinebench just five percent

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moving on to gaming tests though Intel does manage to hold on to the top two

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positions on our chart although i would most certainly hope so given that one of

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those chips is a desktop one and that the other one is equipped with the new

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super variant of the mobile rtx 2070.

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the 3950x then is without a doubt the fastest mobile gaming CPU that we've

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ever tested and the apex 15's cooling system which you probably just heard

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spin up right there performed admirably keeping our GPU at around 1700 megahertz

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and our CPU above 4 gigahertz that's

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dang impressive so surely there must be some compromise then right how does the

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apex 15 fare against a desktop r9 3950x

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well unsurprisingly there's just not enough

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power or cooling for the apex 15 to keep up with a true desktop or with my

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underwear photo shoot LTT Store.com so the r9 3950x is running in eco mode

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knocking the TDP down from 105 watts to

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just 65 watts now originally there was

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actually a suite of overclocking tools in this laptop's BIOS until

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their bower took things a little bit too far and cleveland locked the BIOS down

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to prevent overzealous tuning

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anywho hopefully soon there will be an expert BIOS mode down the road that puts

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the options back in with some warnings that it could void your warranty etc etc

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the apex 15 is also slowed down by the 16 gigs of 2666 memory that we

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unfortunately had to use the original plan was to use 32 gigs at

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3200 megahertz but ryzen 3rd gen desktop

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chips and sodium memory sort of

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uncharted territory so over the next few months we're hoping a BIOS update should

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add support for loads more RAM with an accompanying performance boost

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back to the thermals though the CPU does get up to about 90 degrees celsius when

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it's under heavy load at which point the clock speed does drop to three gigahertz

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and that might sound kind of slow but guys remember there are 16 cores and 32

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threads in this laptop i mean we will regularly see six or

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eight core laptops that have to drop to the mid 2 gigahertz range when they're

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under heavy load so this is still very impressive

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sort of because something's got to give right

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so what has xmg well i mean really clevo

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the original designer done to keep the thermals of this beast in check in short

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the apex 15 moves a shocking amount of

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air for a laptop and it creates quite a

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bit of noise while doing it surprisingly i didn't find the noise too

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annoying there's no high-pitched wine and last half full since the fans are

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going full tilt pretty much all the time the laptop is kind of easy to tune out

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to really figure out how they kept the apex 15 cool though we'll need to take a

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little trip inside first you're going to want to take out the battery by removing

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these two screws and pulling up we were only able to get about an hour of time

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away from the wall by the way with this 62 watt hour battery but putting a

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larger one in would have been more expensive made the laptop bigger and

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heavier and let's face it guys it's not like 1.5 hours of battery life is

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suddenly going to make the apex 15 viable for use anywhere that you don't

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have easy access to an outlet five more screws which are different

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lengths by the way so be careful when you're reassembling and we can slide the

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bottom cover off revealing oh

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look at that copper and the heat pipes

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those are some of the largest heat pipes that i have ever seen at 11 millimeters

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wide which i guess means it makes a bit more sense how the processor didn't have

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a complete meltdown underneath the heat pipes and a generous

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dollop of thermal grizzly cryonot is the motherboard and this is cool almost

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everything in here can be upgraded there are two m.2 slots a two and a half inch

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hard drive bay and easily accessed RAM

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even the CPU uses a standard desktop am4

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socket so adding another level of craziness here it could actually be

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possible to upgrade to future processors

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assuming that a BIOS update were provided that means the graphics card

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that's an rtx 2070 is pretty much the

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only bit that can't be swapped out in the future it's kind of like the the

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anti-macbook back to the exterior though the apex 15 is built like a brick a 5.69

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pound brick to be exact and although the chassis construction is

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plastic there's enough copper on the inside that it gives it a pretty solid

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feel with my only complaint being that the keyboard the like wrist rest itself

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and the keys themself are a little bit squishy now it didn't stop me from

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liking the keyboard reasonably well it's not top tier but the key switches never

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actively annoyed me so i'll give it a solid b the bad news is that the track

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pad did actively annoy me overall the

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tracking and click feel is mediocre but

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it's the poor palm rejection that really made me want to outright disable it and

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just use a mouse with that said on a different laptop that would be a

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straight up deal breaker do not buy but

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with this i suspect that most of the time where you can plunk down this thing

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and your power brick you can also plunk down a mouse i mean the thing is less of

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a laptop and more of a desktop that can be moved around easily i mean even the i

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o is desktop-like you have three display outputs on the

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back i mean you don't do that if you intend for this thing to be used on the

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go but all of that positive stuff aside

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assuming you're after something like this should you spend your money on it does

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come with some compromises remember that you're only getting 65 watts of CPU

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power you're getting a lot more noise than a desktop and if you're willing to

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give up some CPU performance basically any other laptop out there is going to

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beat this for portability and battery life however if you're after a high

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performance rig the value of this machine is something that i don't know

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if i've ever seen before our config right here will run you about

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five hundred dollars which is a lot of money but consider this an equivalent

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desktop is going to run you close to two grand and unlike the apex 15 that

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desktop doesn't come with a 144hz ips

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gaming display or with a keyboard also the performance per dollar of this

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machine can be improved by settling for

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12 cores instead of 16. the r9 3900x

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variant drops the price to around 2 grand which is only about 200 more than

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an equivalent desktop that is pretty compelling i'm used to

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seeing big price premiums on these weird low volume high performance skus but

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it's not really here this time so if pci express expansion cards aren't

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in a well relatively portable container isn't it

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