it was a pleasant surprise for me that the system 76 orex Pro actually did
pretty well for this channel you guys seem to really enjoy it so here we are
again with system 76 once again again
this one is the Darter Pro so far the Box looks pretty much the
same uh Yep this is just a shipping box
Unleash Your Potential open box all
right lift platform and flatten oh ah
wait don't cut it packaging is reusable uh a couple of people actually
said oh that doesn't make any sense it's why are you going to reuse the box I
mean there's a good reason like if you had to R it or something uh so let's see
we also got the power adapter in here and a little
card only 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
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