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no why do gamers always get the cool stuff like hp omen and ASUS rog and

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stuff they're just like oh you get a 20 80. you get a 20-70 like here's a

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300-watt power supply i get two of them screw it

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and then like you know the professionals they're like oh we spend so much time on this

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beautiful xps 15 but it gets a 1650 so like if you want a game if you want to

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do anything that's like more than looking at photos like screw you you

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don't have enough power well hp hopes to change that with the hp z

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create this thing right here it's apparently you know like pretty

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reasonable size like it's half a small one but it's got an i9 and a 20 70 super

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so let's let's give her a look this is one of those things that no one

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really cares about but every single brand loves to talk about it they've got

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this recycled cardboard in here which actually smells pretty good

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i don't think this plastic right here is going straight for the landfill

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turtle's going to choke on that it's going to be tragic this is z

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by hp i don't really get it when

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companies do branding like that but whatever it's an hp z create boom laptop

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laptop boom so in here what do we have for document we don't have any

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documentation is this a pre-production unit there's zero documentation at all

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so like we have just a power brick and nothing

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else to tell us that it complies with whatever standard which actually

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that's one of the things that they said when they were making this they were like

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yeah it's really easy to hit all of the certifications for a gaming notebook but

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when you want to make it so that it can be given to like professionals and meet all

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of those specifications it's a lot harder we have some

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construction going on that's um the air compressor lines getting installed

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anyway we have a 200 watt power brick it's definitely better than the really

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little one that you get with the xps 17. that thing's way underpowered so you

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know we've got the classic all-aluminum construction so i think

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all of in here is you know cnc'd

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aluminum backplate here it's aluminum top that also feels like aluminum yeah

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so this version right here i think you can get one that's just under five

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pounds this one's just over five pounds thereabout the finish on this edge here

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is really great that must be diamond cut it is

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that is beautiful but anyway we've got a full-size sd card reader which i love

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you will need a dongle though for the mini DisplayPort port that's here but

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whatever you've got two thunderbolts right beside it so those make up for that we also have power in

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yeah if i really line us that one i always chuck these around and people get nervous

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finally bit me and then on this side we get a full-size

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usb type a we also have a lot of venting on the side here so i'm

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kind of curious how the thermals work in this so we've got

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i'm guessing intake here a lot comes out there and then along the

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side i guess oh there's also a headphone microphone combo port right there which

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i guess we can't take for granted on laptops anymore anyway let's

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let's get right into it here well well we're gonna open it up but then

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i said it before but i'm going to say it again this is the most laptop looking

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laptop i have seen in quite some time i like it i i enjoy the look overall and

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the build quality is excellent but there's there's nothing special about it

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you have this little bit of diamond cut around the trackpad that's kind of fun

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besides that it's about as standard beans laptop looking as you can get we

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have these nice thin bezels along the sides but it is just plastic

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around the rest at the same time like who cares it's a business laptop you're

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buying this thing because it's fast not because it's sexy it's not 10 out of 10

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sexy but it's good enough hp was like they were

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hyping up their new dream color display

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and they were like have you heard of it and i was like

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is it a good ips and they were like

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yeah and they weren't lying it is an excellent ips like it's quite beautiful

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yeah i believe it's up to 600 nits brightness and this right here is the 4k

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one you can also get i think up to a thousand nits on a 1080p one but that

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has the sure view screen which is good for privacy because that's the

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one where you like when you're off axis you can't see it

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but also apparently those displays are just bad to look at so i don't know

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one thing that this screen does not have though

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is touch which is kind of disappointing

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that said this computer isn't really the

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sort of thing that you need touch screen support on so let's take a look at what

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we actually have in this so we have an Intel core i9 1088 5h

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that's an 8 core CPU it goes up to like i think it's 4.9 gigahertz editor put

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the actual number here a 2 terabyte SSD which i think is upgradable the RAM is

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not wi-fi six card from Intel excellent

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and the little rtx 2070 with max-q

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design this right here is available with up to

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a 2080. but i wouldn't necessarily recommend that because i do find you're

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really constrained on laptops like this by thermals and power

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so you're not necessarily going to get all of the advantages of the 2080 in

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something like this there also is this is the z book create

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line but there's the z book studio line which

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is the exact same thing but with quadro so if you need that then

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boom go get one of those whatever you're an engineer cool good job the deck on

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this computer is insanely stiff

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i don't know if you can tell from there but i'm pressing quite hard on this and

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the movement that you see is that the table is not flat it's not

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the laptop this keyboard is excellent there's

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really nothing that i would say to improve it if i'm honest there's

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this excellent snap like it's a real

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it's a real crispy feeling keyboard but then you have just a lot of key travel

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afterwards so you're not feeling like you need to constantly bottom them out

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okay that's that's a really good result right there so what i was trying to do is on some

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laptops you can feel the buckling point when there's like a bit of a stiff one

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at the top where you press it and you get the buckle but it doesn't actuate the actual

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key when you do that and that can kind of like you think

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you've hit the key but you haven't and then you just kind of have to go slower and

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make sure that all of the words are actually coming out this one right here

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it's awesome excellent keyboard good job guys the closest keyboard to this is the one

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on the xps 15 which i've got right here actually so i guess i can compare them

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side by side this is currently my favorite keyboard

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on the market and

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yeah they're both awesome i really couldn't say

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one or the other is better they've both got that excellent snap and then a fair

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bit of travel afterwards the z book is a bit stiffer like

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if you're kind of a heavy typer you'll probably like this one more i feel like

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i might be able to get slightly higher burst speeds than the delve i don't know

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they're both awesome excellent job as for the track pad oh we've got another

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one of these situations it's it's one of the hand lube needed

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track pads it's a real phenomenon some track pads

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you know you just need to get some of your hand gunk on there before they work

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well so one thing that's very notable

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is the size of the trackpad it still is a pretty decent size but i'm not a huge

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fan of these laptops where they put the

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speakers up at the top instead of along the sides because you just lose that

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little bit of space for the track pad that said i think it's big enough it

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feels great i'm able to use it with my thumb which is

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something you can't always do i don't know how many other people do

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that but i really like being able to use it like this and this is excellent for

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that use case oh the fans broke up a little bit they're installing chrome hp

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did say that they have this you know this newfangled

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ai algorithm stuff where they're able to control the power going

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to the CPU and the GPU and the fan speed so that you get

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basically the best experience that you can so

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on a lot of laptops you'll have let's say

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100 watts or maybe 80 watts dedicated to the GPU and it's just like

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this 80 watts i need it that's mine

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don't take it whereas in this right here they're able

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to be like hey GPU you're not using all of your 80

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watts like you still have priority for that but we're gonna chuck some over to

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the CPU so it can do more faster things and then sort of balance between the two

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depending on what sort of a task you're doing i think it's cool also the screen

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is calibrated from the factory so you can immediately get into photo work

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with it

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huh

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i don't know which one's better uh they're both really good that that's

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like a tie in my mind this right here is a tiny bit more bass but it's a bit more

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muddy in the center this right here i'd say is a slight bit more like

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flat eq but you don't quite get the like burner

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so awesome job hp that's like

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maybe the best Windows laptop right now

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i'm sorry you had to see that oh oh we did it

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yes okay it might just be that once it's off

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i think this bottom plate's made out of magnesium though which is pretty fun

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that's not a cheap part right there it's basically just a vapor chamber so we get

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an 83 watt hour battery that's i believe the same as the xps 15. i don't think

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they could have put any more battery in here given

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how much cooler there is like all

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of this is cooler and all of

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this basically is vapor chamber i'm gonna take off a little bit more screws

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here and see if we can get a better look at it looks like we have a little maybe

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aluminum shield here that is probably just to

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make it less likely that the heat you know goes down into your lap instead of

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out the side in the back i think we've got it yes we did it wow

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that is that right there is why this right here

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is a 4 000 laptop i haven't really mentioned the price yet

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but you know it's a professional laptop you shouldn't be surprised that

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it's really freaking expensive respect at i think a bit over four grand

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the spec that i would go for you can probably get away with not a two

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terabyte SSD you can probably do like one maybe half

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and like you know that brings it down a bit at the same time you probably do want

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like the 2070 and the i9 if you're going for

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this you can probably get something a bit smaller or like you know you can go

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for like an xps if you don't need that power oh one more thing

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they they were really happy about uh the design of their i think it's a

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liquid polymer crystal fan ASUS has been using these in their

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zephyrus line for a bit but allows them to make these super small fins and just have so

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many of them can you see that there david they're just so small

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anyway i think this thing's awesome if you're the sort of person that

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needs this kind of power and is doing like you know more creative sort of

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stuff it's definitely expensive and if you go for

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you know the lineup that has the quadros in it it's gonna be

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even more expensive but at the same time just just look at this thing it's wicked

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if you guys want to see more hp vapor chamber shenanigans we took a look at

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their nv 15 a little while ago which was wicked they just thief the cooling

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system from their gaming laptop put it in their professional laptop great idea

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and yeah get subscribed actually there's a laptop that should be arriving

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like in an hour

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you'll want to get subscribed to see that one it's gonna be wicked have a good day

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oh jesus just turned on that's really not good oh no you don't

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have a cooler uh where's the battery we're unplugging

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you there we go uh no more power for you

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yes everyone always unplug the battery on your laptop before you take it apart

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especially when you shake it this far apart