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AMD was a little light on the details when they announced their beastly lineup

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of stricks Halo laptop processors why so

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koi AMD I'm just going to be gaming on it as soon as these shaders are done

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compiling oh they are we are here

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sponsored by Asus taking a look at their incredible lineup of upcoming gaming

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devices I'm talking designs with ryzen AI Max Plus NVIDIA 50 Series gpus and

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even a new Thunderbolt 5 external GPU

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that has a mobile 5090 in it we're going to kick things off then with the new

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flow z13 at its heart is the ryzen AI

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Max Plus 395 and I know that name

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doesn't mean anything to anybody so let's break it down all the way down to

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the bare diey that's at the heart of this machine behind me depending on your

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configuration you've got up to 16 of the latest Zen 5 CPU cores right up here at

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the top and a Radeon 860 s GPU right

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here this is using their brand new rdna 3.5 architecture which we'll be gaming

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on in a moment but first give me a bit more time here this is the biggest on

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package GPU that I have ever seen in a PC here let me put this in context for

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you okay this is a kraken point a ryzen

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AI 300 processor that has eight CPU

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cores and eight rdna 3.5 GPU cores and

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all of the io integrated into that one D this whole thing is smaller than just

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the GPU and IOD die that's on that ryzen

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AI Max Plus 395 which by the way has a

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whopping 40 GPU cores in it and somehow

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Asus has this thing running it up to 80

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watts in this tiny gaming tablet form

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factor I assume 80 watts is going to be kind of loud but who knows maybe they'll

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surprise me let's give it a shot shockingly they didn't put any

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restrictions on me in terms of what games we could play so obviously I chose

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black myth Wukong and they even let me dial in the settings myself so I'll show

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you guys what we're running at we've got the panel set to the native 2560 x600

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then we've turned our rendering resolution to about 1080p but not 1080p

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low or medium I'm talking 1080p high and

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guys check this out I'm not allowed to have an FPS

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counter but what I can tell you guys is that this is well above 60

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FPS on a device this slim using

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integrated Graphics to achieve this took some doing though the vapor chamber got

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changed from copper to stainless steel so it's the same effectiveness at moving

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the heat but less weight and less dissipation of that heat internally

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before it can be expelled outside now it's not the quietest thing in the world

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in fact I bet you can even hear it on the

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trade show floor but the fact that it's doing this at all pretty cool and using

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Armory crate which is conveniently accessible with this nice new button

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here we can actually change our performance profile on the fly so I'm

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running in Turbo right now which isn't even the

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maximum but I'm not going to turn it to Max yet first I actually want to try

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silent which is 28 watts and see what we

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can get here okay now we're looking at something that's probably closer to

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about 25 FPS but here let me pop into

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the menu again let's turn her down to medium where

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now that's more like a smooth 30 if I

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had to guess maybe 35 onboard Graphics okay let's try 80

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Watts now to do that though the software is still early I've got to come out here

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I've got to go into manual I don't know

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turbo M nope that button doesn't work okay so let's just let's just crank it

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woo all right save and apply oh wow we

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are overclocked fing yes I understand the risk the risk is the one working

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machine in their Booth can die whoa that fans's going now boys oh

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did I even mention the RGB yet look at that so cute oh now she's

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smooth dude okay let's turn it back up

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very high perhaps W current settings

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exceed the recommended settings and may lead to Performance issues oh yeah well

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that's very stressful

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let's go back to high there we go okay bottom line this thing is sick

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but there's more to getting this kind of performance than just adding more GPU

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cores for the first time ever I just

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gamed on a laptop chip with a quad Channel lpddr 5x memory controller that

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means up to double the raw bandwidth compared to dual Channel which is

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especially important for high performance onboard graphics and gets

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even better this machine right here can be equipped with up to

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128 gigs of RAM massive right get better

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than that 128 gigs of RAM that can be reallocated as needed so if you wanted

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to run large AI models or let's call them moderate sized AI models on device

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you can fire up Armory crate and then push your high-speed system memory over

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to the GPU what a time to be alive

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surely there must be a compromise right I don't know find having a hard time

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finding it the screen looks great 180 HZ th000 to1 contrast no HDR unfortunately

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but you do get USB 4 dual front-facing speakers stylus support and even the

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keyboard feels really good considering

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that it's a folio but all right Lon is fair enough onboard Graphics is still

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onboard Graphics show me the RTX 5000

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gpus I will but first an industry lingo

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update as you may know every 50 Series laptop will have the GPU solder directly

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to the motherboard but not just any GPU

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can go on just any motherboard and the biggest factor that impacts this is

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whether the laptop design is made to accommodate board 1 or board 2 board 1

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gpus include the mobile versions of the RTX 570 TI 580 and 590 while board 2

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covers the 5070 and below so depending

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on which board a laptop chassis was designed for you might see high-end

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vapor chamber cooling or more basic heat pipes you might also see a difference in

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thickness to accommodate the greater thermal output of higher-end board one

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gpus confused yet great making matters

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more complicated there is no hard and fast rule for the power envelope of

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these new gpus so there will be a wide range in the real world performance of

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say a 5070 TI depending on how much

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cooling and how much power you can deliver to it so in summary four fact

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impact gaming performance in these 50 Series Laptops the board it's designed

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for the GPU die that is soldered to that

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package the power delivery that's built into the motherboard and the thermal

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design all need to be optimized to get the most possible FPS with that in mind

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then let's throw to one that seems to be quite

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optimized was I not holding a mic the whole time check these out we've got the

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strix scar 16 and strix Scar 18 both are

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equipped with up to a core ultr 9 275x up to 64 gigs of user upgradable ddr5

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and a panone certified 2560 x600 nebula

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HDR mini LED display at 240 HZ with up

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to 1200 nits Peak brightness dang I mean

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even the back of these things looks good check this out meanwhile Apple can't

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even manage to bring back the glowing logo pathetic both of these machines can

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be configured with up to an RTX 59 Mobile in its maximum power

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configuration of 175 WTS game on it yeah

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we asked NVIDIA is not letting anyone do

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that but here's what we can do we can all imagine

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together you guys imagining right now good because realistically with

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mobile 590 starting at $28.99

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USD which I promise you this one will cost more than that that might be all

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most of us are going to do has a bunch more cool stuff though sick keyboard

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giant trackpad all around RGB lighting with woo dual Thunderbolt five ports and

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a redesigned thermal solution that intakes air all across the bottom of the

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machine and then blasts it out of this gigantic heat exchanger at the back

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maybe we can at least open it and show you here before anyone stops me let me

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just take out my Precision screwdriver set from LTT

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store.com no way I don't even need it a

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toolless bottom latch on a

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laptop it's that fast check this out 90w

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hour battery dual Gen 5 SSD slots and

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there it is those upgradeable sodium slots we focused on the 16 because the

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18 is almost the same bigger display

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obviously and a number pad and a bit more space for the speaker drivers so it

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ends up sounding a bit better that's about it now it's time to

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check out the redheaded stepchild of this generation strix G I mean the Intel

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version looks pretty sick but the AMD version has AMD's new fire range mobile

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processors which look nuts with up to 16 full fat Zen 5 cores add up to 55 Watts

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there's even a 3D vcash variant that should be the fastest mobile gaming CPU

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on the planet which makes it all the more disappointing that the GPU maxes

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out at a 570 TI I mean look I know this

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is sponsored or whatever Asus but what the heck those of you listening closely

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will know that the 57 ETI is board one

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so a 5090 would be pined compatible with

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the motherboard why not make that available ah well those of you who were

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listening even closer will know that power delivery and thermal design also

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play a major role in GPU compatibility and this motherboard wasn't built with

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enough for the bigger chips it also has

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a non-HDR display smaller trackpad Etc which is a shame because I'd like to see

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fire range get the proper high-end laptop

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treatments maybe in the future finally it's time for the machine

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I'm probably most excited about see I've been really enjoying my Snapdragon X

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Elite you know great battery life and all that but I'm hungry for something

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with some gaming oomph and the zephrus G14 looking kind of sick this generation

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it's the same great chassis we know and love but now with a strix point CPU and

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a slightly more betterer chassis to love even more see there's a board 2 version

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that is going to be able to support up to a 5070 and a board one version that

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is a little thicker than before like a millimeter plus that'll do up to a

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5080 I'll be it at just 110 Watts it

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also launches alongside a new XG mobile

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that is both very exciting and also a bit of a kick in the teeth to the

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customers who previous ly bought into the XG mobile ecosystem on the one hand

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Thunderbolt 5 looks like it is going to fuel a Reawakening for external gpus

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according to Asus only about 60 gbits of the 80 gbits is directly available for

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GPU data transfer which is actually lower than the previous XG mobile which

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is PCI direct but on the other hand being Thunderbolt means better hot swap

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support and broader compatibility including backwards compatibility it's

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just that ditching the old standard leaves anyone who bought an old zephrus

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or a first gen Ally high and dry for ausa's part there is still something

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they can do I've already seen some Community efforts to reverse engineer

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the XG mobile connector but a step further would be to just open source the

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bloody thing and give these folks an upgrade path it would be a great PR move

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and it would go a long way towards showing that you really care about your customers in the long term just like I

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care about you guys watching some more of our CES coverage this year I'd

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strongly recommend starting with our summary of AMD's keynote which has some

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more information on their incredible ryzen AI Max and fire range CPUs