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here in MSI's Booth they're showing off everything from laptops and monitors to

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car chargers but what I wasn't expecting was for them to get into a new category

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which is

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paint yeah I pulled you into the video just to make that joke sorry cliff in

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all seriousness though the MSI claw does a lot more than just change the color of

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the existing handheld gaming systems on the market from the outside yeah it

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Bears a lot of similarity to a system like the Rog Ally or the steam deck but

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on the inside it is running Intel's allnew core Ultra Series processors

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which promises some pretty interesting benefits I'll get to that in a bit first

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I want to talk about what's special about the outside but first this message

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joysticks and triggers right out of the box with the claw I wasn't expecting

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this move after valve stated they opted not to use hall effect joysticks over

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reliability concerns but given how much I prefer using them it's definitely a

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welcome one to me even if uh I don't know something could go wrong at some

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point other than that they've ticked all the important boxes dual stereo

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front-facing speakers that are not covered by your palms love to see it an

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integrated fingerprint sensor in the power button a Micro SD slot that

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uh hopefully it doesn't overheat and

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good enough feeling buttons and ergonomics that I don't expect this to

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be an issue whether you're more of a rested in front of you gamer sit it in

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your lap gamer or just hold it up gamer whether they came up with that on their

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own or uh borrowed from their competitors I don't know but

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realistically at this point it doesn't matter because there's one other standout Fe feature that I absolutely

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love to see because they've gone Intel they have an integrated Thunderbolt for

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Port which means that like the Ally you'll be able to run an external

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graphics card on the claw but unlike the Ali you're not limited to ASUS's

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proprietary XG mobile Graphics interface

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now Thunderbolt does have a disadvantage this is Thunderbolt 4 not Thunderbolt 5

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so it runs at half of the total Bend with the vusa solution but as long as

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you're not hooking a 4080 or a 4090 up to this thing you can still get a

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healthy Graphics boost by docking it to a GPU and a part of what enables that is

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the strong CPU performance of the meteor Lake core Ultra 5 or core Ultra 7

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processors that are at the heart of these things which of course we're about

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to take a look at here no no you're not going to break that one what you can try

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this one I want the real oh is this just a dummy one no it's actually functional

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oh well then why is this a sacrificial lamb because this one is more important

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okay fair enough to even get to open it for you guys at all I had to sign away

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my life they said they want two free sponsored videos if I break it yep but

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you said this one's not important not as important after all the shenanigans I've

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gotten up to in their booths over the years I'm surprised they're letting me do this at all but I couldn't resist an

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opportunity to show off the very early prototype of our Precision screwdriver

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kit coming soon to LTT Store.com and besides a big selling

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point of competing handhelds like especially the steam deck is the ease

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with which they can be opened up and upgraded or repaired so I would like to

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see if that's something that can also be said about the claw we're off to a good

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start six screws all of which are the

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same oh and a fairly easy single piece

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back that gives us let's see wo a dual

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heat pipe cooling system love to see it

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my goodness no what I didn't even think about it but that was running Assassin's

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Creed Mirage and I could I mean I'm in a show Flor but I can barely hear it ah

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not bad MSI not bad there's actually a lot to appreciate in here for one thing

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look at this battery I was wondering how they packed a

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53w hour battery into this thing and I guess the answer is with a really funky

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shape but that's a really good thing it contributes to a really even hand feel

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and Intel claims will give you a full 2

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hours of battery life running Full Tilt at the 35 W maximum TDP that this thing

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will do when it's running on battery power they claim more like 8 hours when

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it's running in the 10 wat endurance mode and there's more good news the

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Wi-Fi module is not soldered and we saw

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the importance of this when valve upgraded the steam deck to the steam

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deck OLED and we saw a dramatic increase in download speeds when they went from

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Wi-Fi 5 to Wi-Fi 6E of course that's

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going to be less of an issue on the claw in the first place because it ships with

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Wi-Fi 7 meaning you're probably going to run into a CPU bottle next for

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downloading games before you max out your Wi-Fi as an added bonus with that

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chip while you can use the 32 mm headphone microphone combo Jack it's

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Bluetooth 5.4 meaning that with a compatible headset you can expect much

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lower latency even over traditionally kind of crappy Bluetooth coming back to

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that CPU again there are two different chips that you might find in the MSI

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claw the cor Ultra 5 135h or the core

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Ultra 7 155h both of them have two of what Intel

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are calling low power efficiency cores which are basically just the same as

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their regular efficiency cores but built on a different process and tuned to

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handle background tasks they both have eight regular efficiency cores and then

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the difference is they have either four or six performance or pees so depending

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on the AAA games that you might want to play it could make more sense to go for

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the 15 155h especially given the relatively low difference in price end

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of q1 at three different price points

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starting at $699 with the middle one looking like the best one in my mind

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because that 512 gig SSD can easily be

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upgraded just by removing a few screws and popping in a new 2230 m.2 SSD oh and

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all my excitement about the speeds and feeds I kind of glossed over a major

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detail the screen is 1080p 120 HZ and

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should reach a peak brightness of around 400 to 500 nit so about what you'd

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