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it was a pleasant surprise for me that the system 76 orex Pro actually did

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pretty well for this channel you guys seem to really enjoy it so here we are

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again with system 76 once again again

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this one is the Darter Pro so far the Box looks pretty much the

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same uh Yep this is just a shipping box

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Unleash Your Potential open box all

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right lift platform and flatten oh ah

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wait don't cut it packaging is reusable uh a couple of people actually

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said oh that doesn't make any sense it's why are you going to reuse the box I

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mean there's a good reason like if you had to R it or something uh so let's see

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we also got the power adapter in here and a little

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card only complaint I have about this box is it's huge but I mean it's a

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shipping box so what do you expect nothing too interesting about the power

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brick I don't think uh they do give you a uh little

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cleaning cloth and a SSD uh thermal pad

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which is nice and now we have this card from system

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76 oh a desktop Sentinel

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okay thank you for purchasing a system 76 computer if you yeah yeah okay I was

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hoping there would be more to that but it's just a hey it's a warranty thing

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this is like a punchout little thing a little guy that you can stand up there

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we go there Melvin oh there's more in here

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yeah all kinds of stickers here enough with all that what is going on here oh

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okay oh that is quite a fetching unit no

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actually it looks it looks really nice I mean I know this is a Cleo design uh

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actually I have exactly what what it is here uh it's actually an ns50 muu they

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say it's under 4 lb and I believe them let's see if they're lying to us

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3956 1.79 5 kg there will be some

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variation in the weight depending on how you spec it out because this has two dim

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slots as well as two m.2 slots on the

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inside for NVMe uh one of which is PCI

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Express 4.0 which is very nice on the left side

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we have the barrel Jack for power HDMI a

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USB 3.2 type A a USB 3.2 type c

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and a Thunderbolt four port on the back

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uh we got nothing and we've got a vent actually too on the right side we've got

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a headphone mic combo Jack an SD card

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micro SD card reader a USB 2.0 Port the

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power button and uh this lovely little

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collapsible Ethernet Jack I love those oh also a Kensington Lockport that's not

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all there is to the exterior though if we take a look inside here under the lid

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we can see that we've got a really weird little camera bump what's that for well

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it's a 720p webcam so there's nothing special about that but it also has

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Windows hello sensors and you can use that with a program called howdy to

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actually use Windows hello in Linux so

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you're not missing out on that there is a I think it's a 73 wat hour battery and

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that is the same battery that's in the uh orex Pro that we looked at before

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ours is Ked out with a core i7 1165 G7

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with Intel Z Graphics uh 16 GB of RAM

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and 2x8 configuration and a 1 tbyte PCI

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Express gen 3 SSD now why gen 3 well

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it's going to be a little bit less power hungry for one and two most people

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aren't going to need Gen 4 but if you do the slot is

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there deck Flex is pretty much minimal

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for this kind of design like the lid doesn't really Flex all that much

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it's pretty much what you'd expect from a metal chassis what else is there to

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say here the keyboard layout looks pretty standard for a laptop uh not bad

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a full size Arrow key cluster here the inverted t uh Keys feel well stabilized

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actually screen is a nice matte finish

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but uh we'll see more about that when we boot it up having the power button on

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the side is actually really good because since this is using open source firmware

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you can make it so that you can turn the laptop on while it's like the lid is

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closed closed but the power is plugged in all right we're in Canada we're not

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French why do they keep saying that Canadians are French it's always

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defaults to French when we select Canada all the quebecers are like excuse me if

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you are a touch typer you can set the keyboard to whatever layout you want via

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the firmware because it's open source so you can make it Dvorak you can make it

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Colac you could make it uh quartz or Aerie anyway it's really cool so here we

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go let's encrypt cuz why not uh screw it

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1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 Please Don't Steal My Files by default they suggest that you

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do full disc encryption oh I see uh just for privacy security reasons uh restart

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device let's do it booting this will be

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familiar to anyone who's seen the orex pro video or if anyone who's used poos

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but uh here's the poos desktop it's

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super clean and uh it's got this little uh tiling thing here what's that that I

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don't think was in the orex pro video you can basically just do everything via

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the keyboard now so I can do I can hold

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down the Windows key and press the arrows to move around between the

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different Windows let's see what all the shortcuts are yeah so I can increase the

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size like that it's cool if not super useful for everybody and because it's

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based on auntu I can install

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Steam if I go into the pop shop I want

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to know just how well Intel's Z Graphics

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Works under Linux because unlike NVIDIA

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it's not a proprietary driver it is open source basically everything on this

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machine is open source with the exception of CPU micro code and the

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Intel management engine which syst 76

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actually disables by default or at least as much as they can uh because it's a

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security risk so you have pretty much

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total control over the hardware processing shaders oh God the progress

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bar went backwards and it straight up says known Intel driver issues not

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supported all right let's put that at a test cuz we just spent the past 15

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minutes installing it play Doom Eternal

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I don't know why they don't make this skippable oh man Alt Enter so it looks

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like it just doesn't like Intel okay uh

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H let's CS go just need to wait for this

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cut scene to end cuz they added this for some reason and you can't skip it all

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right cool we're in business uhoh a here we go oh can I not

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oh this is horrible pal rejection is a

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thing uh so I can move and I can turn

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but if I press a but key on the keyboard and try to turn I cannot do that so I

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need to stop to turn and I got killed by

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a bot

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how is it looking though like frame rate uh frame rate is like 70 or 80 there's

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actually a lot of um weird graphical glitches going on here I don't think the

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driver is perfectly adequate yet uh

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which would explain why it didn't really work very well in Doom Eternal all right

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so gaming isn't this thing's Forte at least not right now until the driver is

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you know improved but that's not too bad

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because this machine isn't really meant for gaming anyway it's more of a

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portable workstation how much is this spec going for right now uh the current

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spec I think is550 roughly um I'll have the full

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price on screen here but um it's uh

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$10.99 for the base unit so that's I

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think with a core i5 and 8 gigs of RAM and a 250 gig SSD so with that in mind

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let's test out the speakers I think the speakers are coming

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up yeah the speakers are on the bottom

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can we use this video also as a screen quality check uh I mean the screen looks

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fine nothing fancy as far as like HDR or high refresh rate goes but it looks

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pretty spoton to me let me load up a line of St video and see what that looks

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like you know it looks like a perfectly fine display it is

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IPS so it's not going to let you down in

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that regard you're not going to have difficulty seeing it off AIS brightness

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of the screen though this is as high as it goes let's let's do like half

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brightness iPhone right next to it yeah yeah I mean the thing about this is that

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it's actually straight up a Clevo design

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so if you've seen one of these you've seen them all physically so there's not

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really a whole lot else to say about it the secret sauce as it were is all in

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the operating system and in the firmware for the money it's not a bad machine

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it's just not amazing it's not going to outdo a MacBook Air

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M1 um which isn't around this price

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point so it really depends on what you value as a consumer like do you would

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you prefer a Windows laptop I mean maybe would you prefer macOS also maybe but

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if you prefer Linux if you want to get into something that you can Tinker with

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because you can change so many things like the battery charge rate the battery

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um I think the maximum charge you can probably tweak as well uh you can change

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the TDP of your CPU to turn it down or turn it up the keyboard basically

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anything you can think of which is really cool so there is a little bit of

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overhead for that and I think it should be kind of considered when you look at

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the price for this kind of thing like the thing is this is here

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today it works it is very well

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integrated as far as integration goes um

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system 76 is probably more deeply integrated with the hardware and the

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software than any Windows PC

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manufacturer just as a result of the the core boot the uh custom firmware for the

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memory controller but they don't take that away from you they give it to you

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and that counts for a lot yeah I mean if you're looking for a nice portable

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workstation that you can upgrade that you can

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service and that isn't actually uh like

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it doesn't really have any major downfalls aside from the fact that the

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speakers suck it's it's good they do have their

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own in-house laptops coming though there

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will probably be a couple more generations of these before they actually manage to get a laptop out but

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when they do I'm looking very much forward to seeing what they can come up

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