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back in january eve said that their upcoming monitor the eve spectrum would

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be the world's first 240 hertz

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1440p one millisecond ips display with

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750 nits of brightness as well as 135

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watts of power delivery for your devices all

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for a disruptive price and well this is the problem with

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kickstarting technology products isn't it because what sound space age today

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is commodity tomorrow and here we are

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11 months later having reviewed multiple 240 hertz ips monitors including more

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than one that's 1440p resolution or higher

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so then is their sales pitch still compelling as

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we head into 2021 and can eve overcome

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their tainted history to make the product a buy rather than a beware we're

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now so far all i've managed to open is the stand but it

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looks and feels pretty metal as the kids say and presumably it'll be a part of

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whichever monitor you decide to order so there's the spectrum qhd so it's 1440p

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that runs at 144 hertz for 440 bucks the

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spectrum qhd 240 hertz and the spectrum 4k

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144hz that last one is the one we have which is actually kind of unfortunate

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because i was a little more interested in the 240hz

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qhd model all of them are using lg ips panels and

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the qhds seem to use the same panel as the lg 27 gl850 while the 4k model

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probably uses the same panel as the lg 27gn 950 that is their only 4k 144 hertz

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of course this is all according to what

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eve says and eve does not have a

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spotless record for delivering exactly what they say when they say they're

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going to do it of course that doesn't stop us from being curious about their

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progress on the spectrum which is why we've agreed to take a look at what is

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an early unit to give us an idea of what the industrial design is going to look

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like according to eve this is something that we can count on hopefully what the

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performance is going to be like for anyone who either backs or buys this

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monitor once it's just normally available

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okay documentation time what the devil yeah they emailed saying

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this was out of date so here's the real one you've got a 10 gigabit per second

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uplink that's the usb type c on the bottom the two type a's are both 10

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gigabit per second the one type c on the side

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is also 10 gigabit per second and finally the type b

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is just a regular upstream five gigabit

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per second according to the latest spec sheet ah power bricks in here kind of a cool

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idea for the packaging that's neat

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pretty beefy but you would expect that from something that has to power not

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only itself but i don't know the numbers are all over the place but at least 100

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watts of external device apparently HDMI 2.1 is not yet working

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in our early unit so that's not something that we're going to try to do

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for now apparently it wants a displayport connection so we'll see how

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that goes if this doesn't immediately work we're throwing it in the garbage

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just kidding displayport's a terrible connector and it could necessitate a reboot

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that whole split down the middle thing on 4k monitors used to be a thing back

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when they were using two paneled displays and like

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displayport multi-stream technology but i thought this is supposed to be using

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display stream compression to a single tile

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display so i'm a little confused let's just double check and see if we even

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have the 4k one yes we do uh

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uh james uh did both sides of it look different

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when you hooked it up so this is our second unit actually the

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first one had a broken joystick so we couldn't navigate the menu properly

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which wouldn't have been a huge problem except that the up direction didn't work

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on the joystick and it was set to the minimum brightness out of the box so we

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couldn't turn the brightness up now this one

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you have got to be kidding me only down and right work

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i'm just going to reboot what

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i think the menu is completely frozen i think we just blue screened the

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monitor's on-screen display i mean not blue strictly speaking

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whatever you guys know what i'm talking about i don't think i've ever seen this before

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we just locked up a monitor firmware uh okay so let's try this again

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oh my god okay no that's not what i wanted to do i

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don't really know what to say at this point hold on a second

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did switching to HDR make the line go

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is it there but just less noticeable no i think it's gone fine screw it

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let's game in HDR at 4k

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144 hertz okay whoa that's weird

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do you see that shadow down the middle now now there are a handful of issues that

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eve was aware that we would find with this unit like the housing tolerances

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are not yet final the firmware is obviously early the USB-C port does not

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charge devices correctly yet but what they told us is that in terms of

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performance this was supposed to be very

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close to what customers will eventually receive at least in terms of color

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accuracy they've still got some work to do with apparently the blurbusters folks

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which is somewhat promising to me to get their motion blur reduction like

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really down pat and they claim these monitors will be calibrated at the

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factory for delta ease of less than two in p3 standard and at a d65 white point

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uh spoiler alert if this is supposed to be a delta e less than two

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we don't seem to be quite there yet HDR performance is apparently something

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that they're still tweaking and some good news is that i don't see that dark

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stain down the middle of the screen when we're out of the menu

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oh you know what it's got full screen dimming on right

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now wait what just happened

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it's supposed to be off okay now just a sec

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it's clearly on right brandon like when i open the menu

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the entire screen clearly gets brighter okay so this it's not supposed to have

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dimming enabled though see backlight dimming is supposed to be off

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so it's just this broken menu

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yeah strangely g-sync doesn't show up at all

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so it doesn't even allow me to force it one other thing we can test is whether

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my laptop will charge right now they say the main problem is

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compatibility so some devices should actually work even

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on this early unit for charging mine does not

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this is the bottom one right

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yeah okay well whatever you know what what's the worst that can happen fry my

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laptop pc isn't charging use the recommended

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charger and cable and make sure it's directly plugged in all right fair enough the correct way to evaluate a

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display using the blurbuster's ufo test

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is not with your eyes but i've looked at it enough times that it

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gives me a rough idea to just look at it and i can tell you guys now that there's

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no kind of blur reduction enabled

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whatsoever yeah okay okay overdrive off so let's try

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and see if that helps at all because i just don't

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i don't think any of this is doing anything the plan today was to pull out the high

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speed camera and shoot 1000 FPS footage of this so that we could really evaluate

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its motion blur performance because that's one of the things that's so great

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about the lg monitor that's based on this same panel but this is so far off

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that there'd be no point even evaluating it

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i mean i don't know but not soon moving on to color then we know that this panel

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is capable of excellent performance which means it comes down to calibration

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unfortunately compared to the lg gn 950

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it's not even close in spite of eve telling

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us that this unit was supposed to be pretty representative of the color

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accuracy of a finished model now it's better than the one that was locked at

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zero brightness but i wouldn't use it for any kind of color accurate work

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whereas the lg out of the box was pretty darn close so then

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here's our problem going back to the original sales pitch

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everything looks great and honestly

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there's a lot here that's really promising it's

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very compelling value if they actually deliver on all those selling points

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but this is the issue with backing tech products on kickstarter

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back when they announced this monitor it seemed like unbelievable

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and now the timeline has slipped i mean this

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project began in earnest in march 2019

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to the point where there's competing products that you can

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already buy and this is

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if this actually ships on their estimated date which is february 2021

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i will be floored like

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this unit right here there's a manufacturing date on the back december

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2020. they just made this and it's it's

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just it's not close it's not close at all but with that said

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remember how i said you could sort of buy competing products

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let's talk about that for high refresh rate ips monitors we've got the acer

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predator xg17 that runs at 240 hertz and

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the ASUS pg259q which actually runs at a

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whopping 360 hertz but those aren't

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really quite comparable because they only run at 1080p whereas 1440p which

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should theoretically be available at up to 240 hertz with the need spectrum is

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much much finer looking now as for 1440p

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240hz there is the samsung odyssey g7

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but it maxes out at 600 nits peak brightness it sold out basically

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everywhere though in theory you could get it for as little as 550

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and it's curved which not everyone is into there's the samsung odyssey g9 that

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one's also 240hz 1440p but is super wide

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also curved and is a thousand dollars

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now as for direct competitors for this guy right here 4k 144hz well lg already

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has the 27 gn 950 it's 800

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has RGB on the back which is cool but it

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has no power delivery no HDMI 2.1 so if

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you have a gaming pc and a next-gen console say in your dorm room or

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something like that because you're a baller student or whatever and you want to hook them both up to the same display

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well you'll get the best experience with something that does have HDMI 2.1 and

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it's sold out everywhere and is going for anywhere from 1100 to 1400 on ebay

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damn new scalpers and finally ASUS has announced an HDMI

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2.1 43-inch monitor but they are also

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not shipping that yet so time could be more on each side than we originally

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thought if they can deliver which is kind of the

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biggest elephant in the room because eve's got a bit of a history the ev was

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a Windows 10 two in one that compared very favorably to microsoft surface pro

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while costing considerably less unfortunately evetech couldn't produce

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or fulfill enough orders to meet the demand and many backers receive their

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devices months or even years after they placed their orders it just kind of

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points to them not necessarily having a perfect track record when it comes to

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supply chain management and following through which sort of raises the

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question i see a lot of potential here but the concern for me is that they were

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so eager to send me something that's not quite ready that it gives me concerns

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about the business side of things do they have enough funding to actually do

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the production runs or do they need more pre-orders for example and i have no way

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of answering that question for you so

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if it actually lives up to the specs that

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they say it will have looks pretty freaking sick to me

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but it remains to be seen if it will just like it remains to be seen how i'm

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