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Oh, goody. Why do I have to do the Apple

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watches this time?

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Did nobody else volunteer to look at pretty much the same watch, but slightly

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more different? In all seriousness, there are some significant upgrades to

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the Apple Watch 2025 series. And we're going to start with the Ultra, which is

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probably got the upgrade that would be the most meaningful to me. I have never

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unboxed an Ultra before. This is my first time. mountains. I'm feeling

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suddenly inspired to brave nature in VR

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from the comfort of my living room. Okay, maybe the Apple Watch Ultra is not

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made for me. But there is some cool stuff here. Starting with, of course,

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the fact that now in addition to 5G connectivity like the rest of their 2025

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lineup, the Apple Watch Ultra features satellite SOS, just like the full-sized

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iPhone. That means that if you are ever in dire straits, somewhere in the

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wilderness, middle of nowhere, you should theoretically have the ability to

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summon help. That's pretty darn cool.

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Both also feature the ability to monitor for hypertension. Unfortunately, this is

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not included in the new SE3, but that

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doesn't mean that the SE3 is going to be a major downer either. In fact, it looks

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like the most compelling Apple SE series watch yet. Let's take a closer look at

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the Ultra. I have seen them on people's wrists, but

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I have never actually worn one. My god, is it ever heavy. That is a fat watch.

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And I say this coming from a freaking OnePlus whatever this is. It's not

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actually any bigger than my daily driver, but it's so heavy. And they used

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that weight to pack it with cool tech. It features a new wide-angle LTPO

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display that can reach up to 3,000 nits.

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That's compared to 2,000 nits on the Series 11 and 1,000 nits on the SE3.

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Now, under most circumstances, you won't need 3,000 nits, but you have an Apple

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Watch Ultra. Can I get a dude perfect? Yeah.

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But if you're on a mountain peak where there's less atmosphere to absorb the

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rays of the sun and you need that full brightness because you're an adventurer,

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the Apple Watch Ultra 3 will be there for you. Let's put the watch strap on.

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God, it's heavy. Wait, no, sorry. Let's do this first. This is cool. Apple

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claims that you can get 12 freaking hours of battery life on just a

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15-minute charge, which really does make the sleep tracking features that they've

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added way more usable. Because if you

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have to put it on your nightstand to charge, then obviously it's not going to

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be able to do a very good job of tracking things like how often you wake

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up, how long you take to fall asleep, all of those useful sleep tracking

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features. But I don't think I'd want to wear something this size on my wrist

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when I'm sleeping anyway. And besides, I already have a sleep tracking mattress.

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I don't need another thing in my life to tell me that I don't sleep properly. I

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haven't used an Apple Watch in a while, dude. It's got so many flipping buttons

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now. So, I got Okay, this one. Neat. I

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can press the digital crown and also scroll it. Okay, I've got my action

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button over here on the left. Got three flipping microphones for beam forming

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and wind noise mitigation. That unfortunately is not present on the

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regular Series 11 or the SE3. What else can we say about the Ultra? That really

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is quite a large display on your wrist, isn't it? Oh,

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I see what they've done here. It's got like a guard so you won't accidentally

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rotate the digital crown as often, but it's not too bad. I bet I could get used

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to that. This is cool, though. I was just kind of touching the metal frame of

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the watch and I remembered the new Ultra 3 is actually made with 3D printed

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recycled titanium. That's pretty cool. And oh, and so are Series 11s in the

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titanium option. It's just that the Ultra 3 is only made out of titanium.

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Man, I've been all over the place in this unboxing. Belle's trying to keep up. Just like he could try and keep up

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with the battery life of the Apple Watch Ultra 3. They're claiming 42 hours of

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regular use, up to 72 hours in low power mode, and up to 14 hours of high

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frequency vitals tracking during fitness. Dude, if you're the kind of

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person who can actually engage in physical fitness for 14 hours, just

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throw away the health tracking monitor. You're doing fine. If anything, you

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might be overdoing it. Which is why all Apple watches include fall detection. Is

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this workout buddy? Welcome to workout. New navigation. Quickly access workout

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options like goals, music, workout views, and alerts. You can scroll to

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other workout types. Do they have badminton yet? Uh, add workout. Yeah,

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that's what I just said. Oh, damn. There it is. Let's go.

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Apple. Apple, you might have just won me

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back. Boom. In this type of workout, you

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earn the calorie equivalent of a brisk walk at a minimum. You can earn more

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based on sensor data. Brisk walk, please. Well, they did say minimum. They

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did say minimum, though. One of the big new features is Apple's new workout

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buddy. The idea is that it uses Apple intelligence from your paired phone to

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give you personalized words of encouragement during your workouts. I'm

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not sure if I fully understand the difference between this and that one

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time that I was driving down the highway and my Apple Watch buzz to tell me,

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"Great job. Keep it up with your uh cycling." But AI, it makes everything

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better, right? Oh, this is cool. It now has higher precision GPS with the idea

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being that it will be able to more accurately track your cycling or walking

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or running or whatever the case may be. You can tell from the marketing that

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it's really designed to be the ultimate companion for the outdoors person or

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extremely fitnessoriented person. Unlike the SE and Series 11, which I might as

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well just start opening at this point, which are rated for water resistance to

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50 m and IP6X, respectively, meaning

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full submersion and basically the good stuff. The Ultra 3 is rated for like

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extreme water sports, meaning that it could have like a jet of water from

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freaking going flying off of your seed or whatever. And theoretically shouldn't

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die, but who knows, maybe it will. What am I looking at here? Series 11 SE and

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same accessories, so that is to say, a USBC to Apple Watch wireless charger.

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Uh, but these have a lot more differences between them than the Ultra

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does with the Series 11. Let's talk about that. The Series 11 gets the same

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sapphire glass and wide-angle LTPO display, albeit only to 2,000 nits max,

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while the SC3 gets a regular LTPO display, no sapphire glass, and only

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a,000 nits peak brightness. And the Series 11 boasts a wider suite of

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sensors, including water temperature sensing as well as blood oxygen level

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monitoring. You can even just see on the back that it has a lot more sensors in

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it. In terms of the wearability, both of these are frankly, in my opinion, a lot

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better than the watch Ultra, so they have that in common. And all three of

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the new watches use the same S10 chip as last year, which was a little bit

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disappointing to me. Both the Series 11 and the Watch Ultra 3 have the ultra

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wideband precise location sensing with Bluetooth, so you can use the Find My

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app to find your devices more easily, which has been very handy for me at

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times in the past. I had someone at a resort once put my AirPods up in one of

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the equipment closets for reasons that

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never became clear to me and I can only assume where to stash it to take them

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away later. Uh, but I was able to find them thanks to the Find My app and I

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would have been able to find them faster if I'd had the UWB chip in any of my

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devices. Looks like our SE is dead. So, let's go ahead and charge it up. In the

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meantime, we can talk about the differences in Apple's claimed battery life. They say 24 hours of regular use

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for the Series 11 with only 18 hours for

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the SE3. With that said, that finally,

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thank you, Apple, includes always on

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display for the first time in their SE lineup. I have always been of the mind

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that a watch is not a watch unless you can always tell the time on it, even

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when you are subtly sneaking a peak during an extended social interaction,

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for instance. This makes the Apple Watch SE3 the first of their SE's that I would

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consider to even be a watch. Tell me I'm wrong. Go ahead. If you can't tell the

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time, it's not a watch. Stay on. Oh my

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god, you guys. Wait, it is charged. >> Okay, check this out. Okay, straight on.

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Yeah, they're both kind of compensating for the brightness in here. About the same. Okay, that's the same angle,

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buddy. That is very noticeable. Man, the SC3 is

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so light, though. Given that I really don't give two hoots about all of the

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like sleep tracking, blood tracking, health tracking stuff. I feel like this

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would be my one. I just Man, it's always on now, which is good. But I do wish the

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display was a little brighter. Can she go any brighter than this? And they look

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the same. So, I guess we're not going to be able to tell the difference cuz obviously both of them have ambient

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light sensors and we are not pushing them to their limits. You know what? I'm

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going to go outside and look at them and I'll be right back and I'll let you know

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how different they feel. I think it's sunny, right? >> Yeah. Yeah. Nice. In conclusion, all

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three are very readable in outdoor conditions, even in direct sunlight. But

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the Ultra 3 is the most readable, but 2,000 nits is enough that I didn't

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wouldn't really bother me at all. This is a little bit on the dimmer side,

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though. Now, let's fire up our flashlights for reasons that will become

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very clear in a second. Oh my god. Just stay bright. That's what

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I'm talking about. People are making a pretty big deal out of how big the

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bezels are on the SE3 and they are

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they are bigger than the Series 11. Although, I got to say, I don't think I

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would care that much if it wasn't for the fact that this hurts the

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functionality of the device. Apple has deemed this to be simply too small of a

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display for a querty keyboard. So, if you want to be able to text people from

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your wrist using a full keyboard, you will need to spring for the Series 11 or

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the Ultra 3, which is probably important to the market Apple's targeting here.

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While the Ultra 3's marketing focuses on adventure folk and thrillsekers, the SE3

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is clearly going after the parents of kids going, "Hey, look, did you know

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that you can use it with no SIM, but with full cellular functionality? All of

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them have 5G, Bluetooth 5.3, so full cellular connectivity. They can get

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their own phone number and you can manage their watch and their ability to

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make calls and text people from your iPhone without them even owning an

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iPhone. It's not a new functionality for the Apple Watch, but it is one that I

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could see a lot of parents being interested in, and I guess it being the

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most affordable of the new lineup. This is probably the one you'd want to get for your kids who are probably going to

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crack it or lose it. The SE3 starts at $2.49 49 with the Series 11 starting at

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$400 and the Ultra 3 being $800

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before you buy a fancy designer band for it or whatever it is that you do with

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your Apple Watch. As for where I would land between these three, there's no way

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I'd spring for the Ultra, which means it's between $250 and $400 for what is

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for me a lot of the same functionality. Man, I I think I'd probably spend the

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extra 150 bucks for the Series 11, though. Then when I'm done with it,

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it'll have like more sensors and stuff for like my grandparents that I give it

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to, you know, even if I don't care about that stuff. It'll keep it current a lot

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longer. But if I was buying something for a dependent, this would definitely

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