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you know it's kind of funny how there's differences between what reviewers say

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and what people actually get so like lots of reviewers will be like oh hey go

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out and get the xps 13. it's freaking awesome and then in

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the real world i see absolute loads of zen books

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because really they're a good you know well everyone

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just says they got them on sale that's why you buy a zen book because

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it's on sale ASUS hopes probably to change that maybe

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they don't i don't know i see lots of them in the wild so maybe they have a good thing going

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but either way we've got a brand new one here and

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i want to check it out it seems pretty legit let's see here

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oh wow do you see that

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the whole thing pops up when you open it up it's kind of fancy

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wow there's so much going on in this box

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like do we have something back here oh geez

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oh it comes with a little like case your laptop's going to get way less scratched

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when you throw it in bags or stuff

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it feels kind of cheap though but

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whatever oh this is a bad sign

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uh so included first of all

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we have usba to Ethernet i actually really like to see this

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the thing that concerns me though is we have a usb

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type-c to headphone jack

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is there not one on here there's no way

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there's no way guys right they wouldn't just can a headphone jack would they

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it hardly would they certainly would

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yeah i'm pretty concerned now let's see what do we have for power

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65 watts okay so that's not too bad apparently you can charge i think

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60 of the battery in 50 minutes

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using this thing no nothing else

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here we go the main show it's light wow

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two and a half pounds which is what like

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1.3 ish kilograms it feels really good

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like just like this i believe the whole thing is

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cnc machined aluminum so it's not surprising that it feels

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good let's actually open it though

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wow i really like the i guess you could call it machining marks i don't exactly

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know what it is but the little texture that's on the back

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panel here just looks really nice but the big question oh my god they did

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it guys no headphone jack what are they thinking

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it would have been tight but also like what the hell

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come on i just want to be able to plug actual headphones in especially since

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ASUS is kind of known for having good dax

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oh yeah i guess i can tell you what they actually included so we do have

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a full-size HDMI two usb type-c Thunderbolt

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yeah they're both Thunderbolt and then on the other side we have a full-size

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type a and a micro sd card reader it's kind of

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annoying that they don't have type c on both sides for charging but it's a

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pretty small complaint no headphone though what the heck i just

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got my fingerprints all over the back of this thing and you

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can hardly tell let's uh start it up and by it

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the bezels here are really thin but the first thing that i noticed is that

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they're plastic uh how expensive is this thing this

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is a budget orientated device okay

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as the plastic bezels suggested this is not the most expensive laptop

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on the market so for eleven hundred dollars you get an i7

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1165 g7 16 gigs of RAM i believe a whole

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one terabyte hard drive or SSD i mean yeah and

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the 67 watt hour battery so those specs

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for that price with like you know aluminum and stuff

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it's actually pretty compelling as long as like you know

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the rest of it sort of falls in line

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wow every time that i pick it up i'm surprised by how light it is

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like but that would probably be the

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selling point for me personally with this thing apparently we got a

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full-blown calculator numpad on our trackpad here

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that's kind of weird but if it works well that's awesome i guess

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that was way more satisfying than i thought it would be

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let's start it up oh come on ASUS so i

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realize this is probably a pre-production model but like

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Windows isn't activated i want to change the desktop background because it looks

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like they have just kind of like a compressed wallpaper here so i can't

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really tell how good the screen is but i can't change it because they

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didn't activate the damn thing what no i don't want Linux wallpapers i

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want Linus there we go charlie oh

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god yeah

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my thoughts on the screen just after you know

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this little bit of beauty got put on it it's pretty good

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so you have three options for the display that you get from this there's

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a 300 nit 1080p 400 nit 1080p

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and i believe a 4k you want to go for the 400 nit

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because it's also the one that consumes the least amount of power

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surprisingly so you get 400 nits and at

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150 nits it only consumes 1 watt so that means

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that if you know you can knock the brightness down a couple of

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notches she goes for a long time

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according to ASUS this will last for 21 hours

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i don't believe them i think they're full of crap but you're

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you're still probably going to be able to get like 15 hours or something like that out of it which is pretty awesome

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oh also lttstore.com get some boxers they're nice

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actually david can you get in close on the track pad here some kind of weirdness

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i'm kind of sticking to it i'm not a fan they're kind of like sticking

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i have noticed this before in ASUS laptops

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and it's kind of gross the solution um

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you just want to really get your finger grease

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read into it like get your hands kind of sweaty yep

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move's good now just need that hand lube

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that's pretty gross while we're on the

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subject of the track pad how does this work okay so you hold down

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for one second on the top right this comes up and

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apparently it's able to tell the difference between me wanting to

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you know touch numbers and just using the trackpad so let's see here how good

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is it

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wow that's actually quite impressive it seems to be pretty good at

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noticing when like i want a number and when i don't

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it is kind of not perfect like there are times when i was tapping kind of close

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to the top where it couldn't quite tell but i imagine if you use it for a couple

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hours you could easily figure out how to have it work every time what's maybe the

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most interesting to me though is that the switches on here like the key

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switches have 1.4 millimeters of actuation

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so the dell xps 13 has one

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i think the xps 15 has 1.3 hp is also

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around 1.3 1.2 somewhere around there

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so this is for a thin and light i believe the longest key travel you can

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get in a laptop right now so let's see how it actually does

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one thing that dell and hp just miss on is the light piping in their keyboards

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they just must not have enough experience like you know rgbing things

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out like ASUS does for the uh what's it called

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they're republic of gamers that's just blinged to the nines and they've clearly

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you know taken that knowledge and put it into this and it just

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looks fantastic that said though

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the keyboard itself gets a resounding

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fine from me so if you look closely here there is a

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bit of deck flex sort of around the key area you're

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obviously not going to be pushing this hard but i can notice it just a tiny bit

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when i'm actually typing that said what

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really appeals to me with this is that it's long enough you have the 14 inch

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screen and you have just a tiny bit of bezels

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top and bottom and for me personally i can comfortably

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rest my hands on it so if you have slightly larger hands and

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like you know you just can't use a 13-inch laptop this guy right here might

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be what you need if you want a thin and light

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then again you could also just get the surface laptop

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i didn't check is this a touch screen oh no

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oh geez is this really i'm gonna just

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double check it doesn't oh there isn't even an option for a touch screen what

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are you doing oh that's for me personally in a thin

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and light i find i constantly use the touchscreen like

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you know you're just like walking around with it and you'll be like

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or maybe you're like kind of in an awkward position like you're on the

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couch you're playing like this right here and it's way easier to just go like

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that instead of getting in here

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put a touch screen on it guys where what was it what was i even saying i was

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talking about something else before i realized that oh the tiger-like

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processor okay so the i7 1165 g7 that's a really stupid

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name but anyway you are at least going to be able to play video games on this like not full

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blownsies amazing details video games but at the same time

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1080p medium in modernish games

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not a problem which is

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pretty freaking awesome you couldn't do that before

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now you can although you don't get a touchscreen

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one area though that ASUS has the potential to claw back though

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is in upgradability if you know there's some decent stuff on the inside here

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for you maybe that matters more than having like soldered RAM

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the ability to upgrade it later is pretty awesome

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this has been tough uh i think i permanently bent

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the back piece of aluminum here trying to get in

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if you don't have an ifixit kit just don't open this you will destroy it

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like i thought that under these feet there were screws but there isn't i pulled one of them off and

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there's nothing under them oh those

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bastards there are screws under the back feet

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no screws under the front feet we know that now

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probably would have made this a lot easier

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okay we did it no it looks like it's still straight so that's good

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so we get loads of battery that's kind of like i think the main selling point

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of this you get screw off fly you do get loads

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of battery though i do think that the 67 watt hour battery

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is kind of the main selling point of this thing that's way more than like the

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surface laptop or the xps 15. i think it's pretty similar to the

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spectre no upgrading the RAM though

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certainly not doing that there's also a 13-inch version of this

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and it looks like that they haven't used any of the space that turning into a

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14-inch afforded them so we have just these huge

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gaps here there's a gap there heaps of space down here it's not really

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a problem because you still get an absolutely massive battery

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but i do kind of wish that they'd taken advantage of it a tiny bit more

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so overall buy when it's on sale

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um that's that's that's about it there's no headphone jack that's

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oh fly no touch screen okay keyboard

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buy it when it's 900 or 800 that's

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that's about where i'm at i am really excited to see ace has a zenbook pro

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coming out soon with a 3x2 display that could legitimately be like daily

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driver contention anyway get subscribed for when we do get

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the zenbook pro with the 3x2 display in really excited

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about that and just have a fantastic day so long