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welcome to a very exciting unboxing Samsung's fairly new at the gaming

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notebook game however they've been doing notebooks for a while and they're

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obviously very experienced when it comes to a lot of aspects of it especially

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manufacturing so I'm very excited to check out the English side of the

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packaging here on the 700 series 700 NP

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700 g7c this is the S01 and the particular

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spec is it is a 17-in notebook with Windows 7 Home Premium a core i7 3610 qm

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this is an ivybridge CPU hence the three at the beginning of the part number a

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17.3 in full HD 400 nit LCD screen a GTX

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675m with 2 gigs of gddr5 so that is not

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your grandmother's graphics card 16 gigs

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of DDR3 memory as well as a blue oh it

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has a Blu-ray player cool gigabit Lan as well as a 2.11 abgn and Bluetooth 4.0

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this is a black gaming notebook it has an illuminated keyboard and I believe it

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also has a 1.5 terabyte drive inside it so let us take

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a look see at what we will find first we

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have accessories in a very plain brown box that uh oh this this is

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um not what I would have typically expected to find in terms of sort of

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packaging strategy this is a very strange

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shape I'm really not sure what they were

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going for here yeah know I know that slick but I just don't understand how

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this fits in here okay well no see that didn't even

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go in there no it

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doesn't yeah even even then I really don't see

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it okay forget it um so anyways we have

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a power brick which is a pretty substantial power brick it's a GTX 675

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so it's yeah pretty pretty significant so how

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many uh 19 Vols 10.5 amps is what they

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want for this guy got a power cable not a whole lot in terms of

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accessories although that's pretty much to be expected and it's not much that

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goes with a notebook we've got a battery standard battery pack battery cells made

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in Korea and assembl in China 89 wat hours or 5900 milliamp hours okay

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that's valid okay get started with Windows 7

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don't forget guys if you buy a notebook today um you can get a Windows 8 Upgrade

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for nothing or no not for nothing for 15 bucks us or something like that so don't

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worry about buying a Windows 7 notebook today and not uh being able to run

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Windows 8 when it comes we got nice Soft Cell foam here again it's a very strange

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shape why is it Bo like that see that see how it's bowed why is it

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bow see this one's bowed too see look at

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it did they like like did they save money on the foam by like having

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slightly less foam here very

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strange I mean either way the notebook arrived in one piece so we can't really

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complain if the notebook was you know in

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several pieces then we would definitely definitely complain

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ooh that's very nice actually check this out so this is a very unique finish now

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Samsung isn't new to the whole brushed plastic thing so brushed aluminum

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looking plastic however this one has a glossy layer on top of the brushed

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plastic look with their Samsung logo right there looking pretty nice as well

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this is actual aluminum right here so that is an actual brushed aluminum

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finish right there although I'm usually a bigger fan of just the plain brushed

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plastic for a number of reasons including their being EAS e easier to

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clean for a gaming notebook even this is a lot of cooling huge cooler here huge

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cooler on the other side even on ASUS's G Series I've seen them have two big

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vents at the back but one of them is actually just a dummy vent and there's nothing actually in it in terms of heat

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sinks no this one is serious business about the cooling because this is again

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not your grandma's notebook she can't lift it it is a gaming notebook it is

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pretty heavy and it is pretty thick so there's the old iPhone comparison that

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you guys are so fond of and uh let's see what else we got going

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on here so uh should we Boot It Up first or should we here let's put the let's

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put the battery in really quick so the battery goes

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here okay locks into place all right

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let's flip her over oh let's see what we've got in terms of uh easy

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upgradeability so these ones look like they don't come off too easy this one

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looks like it comes off pretty easy so I see uh yeah I can't tell what what I see in

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there so let's flip it back over Okay so

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let's boot her up let's see how much of a charge comes on the battery ooh look

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how nice it is I'm very fond of

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this maybe I'll get one for my birthday probably

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not let's go ahead and take all the plasticky bits

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off look at that backlit keyboard that is

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gorgeous

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all right so while it's booting up we can have a look at what we've got in terms of oh man look at that

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here sorry I'm like getting ahead of myself here but look how awesome that is

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can you see how awesome it is dead sexy

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very bright very nice okay all right I/O

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so there's your Blu-ray Drive there's your USB 2 Port here's another more

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different USB 2 Port this knob right here is for gaming mode balance mode uh

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energy saving mode and then I think that's probably normal mode so you just go like that to switch between all the

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different Power modes it's pretty cool so we're going to put it in Balance mode

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for now okay on the front we find not a whole lot other than in power LED as

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well as a hard drive indicator LED on oh no I don't think that's what that is at

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all I don't know what that is okay moving right along we've got on the back

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ventilation and on the left the bulk of

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our IO so here we find our Kensington lock our power input our gigabit Lan VGA

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HTM and DisplayPort lots of different options here two usb3 super speed ports

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a an SD card reader microphone and headphone jack so that is a very vibrant

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display as well viewing angle is not bad color doesn't distort too

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much actually that's not bad at

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all my language is definitely English so let's go with that okay you cannot

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change your language later haha um so let's go

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demo press next uh type a password okay

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look away

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uh okay and

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hint that's not a very good hint at all

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okay I accept the license terms which I have of course speed read through really

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fast because that's an important part of uh making sure that you accept license

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terms properly okay so here we go so we've got lots of different sort of like

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sexy stuff going on in here that like apparently like it's like muted now or I

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don't know is this like a wheel or we'll have to figure that out okay so we got

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speakers here we got like turbo buttony thing going on here there's our hard

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drive indicator LED there's our caps lock indicator power buttons here uh

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more speakers here and what happened to that backlit keyboard it looked so good

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oh there we go oh my goodness touch sensitive buttons so sexy so that's your

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is that your mute button I don't know but I like this one oh

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yeah so cool Okay so we've got lots of different hot keys with the function so

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brightness up down looks like control panel external display turning the

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touchpad off um apparently it has software on it that will automatically

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turn the touchpad off and turn the Windows key off if you're playing a game

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so I don't know how well that works cuz I haven't tried it but uh this looks

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like it's probably the keyboard LED backl how bright do you want it or how

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not bright do you want it given that all the software isn't

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loaded like probably all this functionality isn't necessarily working yet that's something to do with fans and

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that's turning Wireless on and off although there is a dedicated button for

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that as well so why don't we give it a few minutes to boot up here and then

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we'll uh come back to this so we took this off to find out what was under it

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not realizing that it was of course clearly labeled Optical hard drive and

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memory um so down here check this out

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we've got two memory dims each of these are four gigs so that means there's

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probably two more under the keyboard that's a very common configuration and

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then we've got two hard drives you can also remove the optical drive with this screw right here so you could actually

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remove one of these 750 gig drives which are yeah probably in raid zero I would

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assume although that's the least wise possible thing to do in a notebook my

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personal opinion I would go with an SSD and a hard drive for mass storage um but

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yeah so I take one of those out throw it in an external enclosure and uh you know

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get yourself a 750 gig drive out of the deal and then install your OS reinstall

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your OS onto an SSD drive that is the

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way to go I love notebooks that have

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multiple hard drive installations that is one long screw um because it gives

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you the option to have the best of both worlds SSD and HDD so we have the system

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I think pretty much booted up thank you but we're good uh set the touchpad and

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Windows key game option modes okay that's cool gaming mode dial brilliant

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graphic card fast booting okay all right

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so they actually that is a very cool desktop background but this is not a

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cool Mouse po pointer yeah Samsung just no you may not

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do that um okay let's try some more the buttons

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and stuff uh so let's try the turbo

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button um okay we'll have to find out how that

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works so let's finish up the physical attributes of it there's your microphone

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so if you were say for example webcamming it up with somebody with the

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included webcam then you could make sure that you sort of talk sort of close to

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that that would be good okay all of these buttons are working now that we're actually loaded into the OS so you can

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see brightness goes up and brightness goes down keyboard brightness actually

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this will be more evident with the lights a little bit lower in here

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keyboard brightness can also be turned up or

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down there you go so it's all the way down and it's all the way up and all the

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way up looks really good so cool okay um

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moving right along turbo it turns out is just like um an LED okay this does mute

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it okay so you can see over here mute not

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mute okay uh the wireless one okay all of that stuff seems pretty good built-in

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full keypad uh full um number pad

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honestly the keyboard feels pretty good there's very little Flex to it and the

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keys feel really really nice the system also seemed really responsive and I was

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kind of going to Slick I was like well does it have an SSD cache oh looks like

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they have these configured not in raid so just two separate drives and then

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they're using they are using an SSD cache to cash the boot drive so there's

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8 gigs of SSD cach uh which you can see

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here from a Samsung issd so that's

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really cool love to see that SSD caching is awesome and it should be used

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absolutely everywhere yeah yeah don't worry I haven't forgotten um nice big

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touchpad left and right buttons all of this is pretty much to be expected and I

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think that pretty much covers it in terms of you know overall build quality

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feels really really good actually um the weight's a little high but what can I

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mean it's a gaming notebook what can I really tell you so let's show you guys

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the different modes here so if you switch to Balan mode you can see that

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the actual desktop background does change and it goes into you know well

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more of a balanced uh configuration so we switch into whatever mode that is

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here let's find out what that mode is because I was sure we still had it did

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you just call it Library mode mhm because I don't think that's what it is

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honestly called Library mode okay Library mode guess it's for like reading

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and then the last mode is eco-friendly mode which is the most power saving one

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so if you're in Balance mode the uh silence button actually works so if you

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go here and here you can go into silent

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mode which incidentally makes it run very quiet now we're going to turn

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silent mode off and I'm going to show you guys like the coolest thing ever check this out so we're going to go back

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into gaming mode hold on hold on you have to watch me hit the switch well no

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just go back more so they can see everything see I'm going to hit the

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switch oh it's muted okay we have to oh

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we have to do it again okay so we go back to balance

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mode and then here hold on let me turn it up dramatic

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pause a yeah gaming mode by the way your

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battery might run out quickly if you don't plug in AC power and game mode and you actually play games so that sort of

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goes without saying so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look

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