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complaint I have about this box is it's huge but I mean it's a shipping box so what do you expect nothing too interesting about the power brick I don't think uh they do give you a uh little cleaning cloth and a SSD uh thermal pad which is nice and now we have this card from system 76 oh a desktop Sentinel okay thank you for purchasing a system 76 computer if you yeah yeah okay I was hoping there would be more to that but it's just a hey it's a warranty thing this is like a punchout little thing a little guy that you can stand up there we go there Melvin oh there's more in here yeah all kinds of stickers here enough with all that what is going on here oh okay oh that is quite a fetching unit no actually it looks it looks really nice I mean I know this is a Cleo design uh actually I have exactly what what it is here uh it's actually an ns50 muu they say it's under 4 lb and I believe them let's see if they're lying to us 3956 1.79 5 kg there will be some variation in the weight depending on how you spec it out because this has two dim slots as well as two m.2 slots on the inside for NVMe uh one of which is PCI Express 4.0 which is very nice on the left side we have the barrel Jack for power HDMI a USB 3.2 type A a USB 3.2 type c and a Thunderbolt four port on the back uh we got nothing and we've got a vent actually too on the right side we've got a headphone mic combo Jack an SD card micro SD card reader a USB 2.0 Port the power button and uh this lovely little collapsible Ethernet Jack I love those oh also a Kensington Lockport that's not all there is to the exterior though if we take a look inside here under the lid we can see that we've got a really weird little camera bump what's that for well it's a 720p webcam so there's nothing special about that but it also has Windows hello sensors and you can use that with a program called howdy to actually use Windows hello in Linux so you're not missing out on that there is a I think it's a 73 wat hour battery and that is the same battery that's in the uh orex Pro that we looked at before ours is Ked out with a core i7 1165 G7 with Intel Z Graphics uh 16 GB of RAM and 2x8 configuration and a 1 tbyte PCI Express gen 3 SSD now why gen 3 well it's going to be a little bit less power hungry for one and two most people aren't going to need Gen 4 but if you do the slot is there deck Flex is pretty much minimal for this kind of design like the lid doesn't really Flex all that much it's pretty much what you'd expect from a metal chassis what else is there to say here the keyboard layout looks pretty standard for a laptop uh not bad a full size Arrow key cluster here the inverted t uh Keys feel well stabilized actually screen is a nice matte finish but uh we'll see more about that when we boot it up having the power button on the side is actually really good because since this is using open source firmware you can make it so that you can turn the laptop on while it's like the lid is closed closed but the power is plugged in all right we're in Canada we're not French why do they keep saying that Canadians are French it's always defaults to French when we select Canada all the quebecers are like excuse me if you are a touch typer you can set the keyboard to whatever layout you want via the firmware because it's open source so you can make it Dvorak you can make it Colac you could make it uh quartz or Aerie anyway it's really cool so here we go let's encrypt cuz why not uh screw it 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Please Don't Steal My Files by default they suggest that you do full disc encryption oh I see uh just for privacy security reasons uh restart device let's do it booting this will be familiar to anyone who's seen the orex pro video or if anyone who's used poos but uh here's the poos desktop it's super clean and uh it's got this little uh tiling thing here what's that that I don't think was in the orex pro video you can basically just do everything via the keyboard now so I can do I can hold down the Windows key and press the arrows to move around between the different Windows let's see what all the shortcuts are yeah so I can increase the size like that it's cool if not super useful for everybody and because it's based on auntu I can install Steam if I go into the pop shop I want to know just how well Intel's Z Graphics Works under Linux because unlike NVIDIA it's not a proprietary driver it is open source basically everything on this machine is open source with the exception of CPU micro code and the Intel management engine which syst 76 actually disables by default or at least as much as they can uh because it's a security risk so you have pretty much total control over the hardware processing shaders oh God the progress bar went backwards and it straight up says known Intel driver issues not supported all right let's put that at a test cuz we just spent the past 15 minutes installing it play Doom Eternal I don't know why they don't make this skippable oh man Alt Enter so it looks like it just doesn't like Intel okay uh H let's CS go just need to wait for this cut scene to end cuz they added this for some reason and you can't skip it all right cool we're in business uhoh a here we go oh can I not oh this is horrible pal rejection is a thing uh so I can move and I can turn but if I press a but key on the keyboard and try to turn I cannot do that so I need to stop to turn and I got killed by a bot how is it looking though like frame rate uh frame rate is like 70 or 80 there's actually a lot of um weird graphical glitches going on here I don't think the driver is perfectly adequate yet uh which would explain why it didn't really work very well in Doom Eternal all right so gaming isn't this thing's Forte at least not right now until the driver is you know improved but that's not too bad because this machine isn't really meant for gaming anyway it's more of a portable workstation how much is this spec going for right now uh the current spec I think is550 roughly um I'll have the full price on screen here but um it's uh $10.99 for the base unit so that's I think with a core i5 and 8 gigs of RAM and a 250 gig SSD so with that in mind let's test out the speakers I think the speakers are coming up yeah the speakers are on the bottom can we use this video also as a screen quality check uh I mean the screen looks fine nothing fancy as far as like HDR or high refresh rate goes but it looks pretty spoton to me let me load up a line of St video and see what that looks like you know it looks like a perfectly fine display it is IPS so it's not going to let you down in that regard you're not going to have difficulty seeing it off AIS brightness of the screen though this is as high as it goes let's let's do like half brightness iPhone right next to it yeah yeah I mean the thing about this is that it's actually straight up a Clevo design so if you've seen one of these you've seen them all physically so there's not really a whole lot else to say about it the secret sauce as it were is all in the operating system and in the firmware for the money it's not a bad machine it's just not amazing it's not going to outdo a MacBook Air M1 um which isn't around this price point so it really depends on what you value as a consumer like do you would you prefer a Windows laptop I mean maybe would you prefer macOS also maybe but if you prefer Linux if you want to get into something that you can Tinker with because you can change so many things like the battery charge rate the battery um I think the maximum charge you can probably tweak as well uh you can change the TDP of your CPU to turn it down or turn it up the keyboard basically anything you can think of which is really cool so there is a little bit of overhead for that and I think it should be kind of considered when you look at the price for this kind of thing like the thing is this is here today it works it is very well integrated as far as integration goes um system 76 is probably more deeply integrated with the hardware and the software than any Windows PC manufacturer just as a result of the the core boot the uh custom firmware for the memory controller but they don't take that away from you they give it to you and that counts for a lot yeah I mean if you're looking for a nice portable workstation that you can upgrade that you can service and that isn't actually uh like it doesn't really have any major downfalls aside from the fact that the speakers suck it's it's good they do have their own in-house laptops coming though there will probably be a couple more generations of these before they actually manage to get a laptop out but when they do I'm looking very much forward to seeing what they can come up with thanks for watching get subscribed so you don't miss the next time we take a look at a uh obscure piece of Hardware from a semi-obscure company"}