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so this is my sister's laptop and um as

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you can see it's seen better days the

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actual problem with it is uh something to do with the the the power delivery

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inside it's causing the the AC adapter

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to short out and long story short the shell is pretty much useless at this

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point so it was either throw it away or

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find a more creative solution now it just happens NC just brought in a whole

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bunch of these ocz DIY notebooks so uh

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this one is the Avenger ag2 and it

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happens to be about the same age here I'll flip this upside down so you can

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actually read it it happens to be about the same age as the laptop that I'm

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trying to fix so what I figured I'd do is grab one of these at a good price and

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then just transplant all of the parts from the old laptop into the new shell

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so we're going to see how it goes and I'm going to just unbox the Avenger ag2

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for you today if I could get the tape to break here we go so I actually got the

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pink model um partly because I like pink

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and partly because it's for my sister how much of which of those reasons is uh

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how much each of them is actually contributing to the purchase you'll never

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know okay notebook computer enjoy with

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me this is very this is a very odd package for an

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ocz like barebones computer but um I

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guess I can't really complain here why don't we go over the basic specs so you

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can see on the side here this is model M70 r-p it has a modem okay it um has a

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four cell battery it has a DVD writer

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okay it has oh these are optional so

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optional webcam Bluetooth and antenna so

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I know that this one does have Bluetooth but I don't think it comes with a

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wireless card so I guess that means it just comes with an antenna very strange

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uh okay so it has a 12 .1 in screen and

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it has uh let's see it need okay it requires CPU hard drive and RAM so

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that's what I'm going to pull out of the old laptop cameraman's phone's going off

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he's turning it off that's very polite of him usually it's my phone that goes

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off in the middle of our uh filming sessions but no no cameraman pulled a

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Linus today all right so let's have a look at the wow hey this is pretty nice

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so the package here this is an ocz DIY notebook so they include everything you

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need to do it yourself okay so you've got your your notebook power cord your

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AC power adapter you've got um what's in

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here so you've got a little microfiber cloth for cleaning off the screen or

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what have you and then

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um looks like uh looks like an isolator

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for the bottom of the hard drive to make sure that it doesn't short out on anything I'm guessing okay you got some

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thermal compound very nice very nice and

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you got a couple screws oh hard drive screws there you go so it takes standard

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2 and 1 half inch hard drives modem cable I'm sure you've seen one of those before or like a foam cable okay then in

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here we've got some more stuff we've got a the cheesiest looking driver CD I've

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seen in quite a while so four Windows Vista I'm hoping this thing's going to

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run Windows 7 for her but if not I can always throw Vista on it all right uh

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sometimes Vista drivers will work with seven oh well whatever I've given away

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this CD key now power DVD is included

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Nero seven Essentials are also included

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and then yeah there's the driver CD concise oh man concise users guide look

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at this thing concise wow so uh I'm

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guessing there's a lot more in here than you would typically find in a user's

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guide like I my my guess is that it's going to include instructions on how to

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actually put this thing together and so far I actually I don't see that

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happening here no no instructions on how

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to put it together they really take this DIY Thing

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seriously uh so they show you how to install a wireless card but other than

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that nothing about the CPU or the RAM or anything okay well that's fine I can

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handle that then we've got the um this is a four cell battery all right and

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then we find a little heat pipe cooler module so I'm going to assume that's for

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the CPU and that there's going to be some kind of a fan that blows over that

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so why don't we put this aside for now and then I'll get the actual

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notebook out here now I realized this is a bit of a downgrade for my sister

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versus the one that she was using before it's a 15in whoa there go all the screws good

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thing I'm not trying to put this back together

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whoops okay I'll just put that there it had like an 8600 uh GT mobile GPU in

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it now I have no use for that whatsoever okay let's pull up the notebook moving

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on here it is that is like that is pink

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that is as Pink as I've seen in a while for a pink notebook all right let's get

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the tape off here that's some pretty solid

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tape all right wow even through the blue

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plastic that is like the pinkest

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notebook I've ever seen oh wow this is really hard to open

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see I really should just have a knife on my keychain if anyone wants to get me

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like a Christmas present I need a knife for my keychain all right wow so let's

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take off the plastic oh actually why don't I leave it on because to prevent

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damage to the high gloss style finish top cover follow these guidelines okay

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remove the protective color let's take off remove the protective color slowly

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and carefully do not forcibly tear off the protective covers this may damage

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the surface do not use pointed object oh okay I think I have to actually open up

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the notebook first to take off the tabs on the other side aha yes there they are

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oo this is actually kind of nice looking so uh this is probably going to take me

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like a minute or two and I'm I apologize for that but I've got to take off all of

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these uh all these little tapy things in order to actually get at the notebook

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itself and I'm obviously not going to be able to turn it on cuz I still have to

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build this thing but we'll still be able to have a look at the um at the notebook

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and have a look at the keyboard and you

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know what what the overall fit and finish of it looks like which could be

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very helpful for anyone who wants to grab one of these cuz they're available

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in five different colors I think there's a yellow white blue black and the pink

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one that we have here all right still working on

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this oh I did it again I've had a couple people complain about my little habit of

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coming to myself while I unbox things but it is hard to resist I'll have you

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know okay there we go we finally got it sort of un un glossy package fin this

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thing is pink okay so let's have a look

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at what we've got in terms of IO on this side we've got a Kensington lock a modem

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One USB port uh we've got our DVD drive

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then around the front we've got our headphones microphone and spit if wow

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that's kind of random then we have an SD card as well as our indicator lights for

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wireless battery and whatever else that is then we have two more USB ports on

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this side a firewire port VGA out this is a bit of an older model so no HD HDMI

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or DVI then we have gigabit as well as power in and around the back we find

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where the battery plugs in so I'm going to have to take this whole thing apart

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and install all the hardware inside it but um yeah until then all we can really

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do is have a look at the keyboard keyboard layout is actually very nice

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this is a little bit high so it's um hitting the space bar isn't the easiest

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thing in the world but with my sort of smallish hands I can very comfortably

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reach all of the keys on this keyboard they haven't done anything stupid like

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uh like an abominably short shift key or anything like that you've got a proper

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two space uh backspace key all of your

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function keys are things that sort of make sense brightness up brightness down

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volume up volume down all that kind of stuff the uh fit and finish of it

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actually overall seems very nice there's not a whole lot of flex to the Shell

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itself I mean there's a little bit but once you put the battery in there it's going to be pretty darn good um that

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pretty much does it it's a widescreen LCD and there is the webcam that the

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cameraman is so kindly showing to us and thank you for checking out my

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unboxing of the ocz Avenger ag2

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barebones DIY notebook