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This laptop, the HP Dragonfly Elite, is

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my absolute favorite Windows machine, and it also is now dead. And in its

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place, we have this right here, the HP Elite Book X G1A. This looks like it's

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going to be a fantastic machine, but can it possibly compare to its older

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brother? I don't know. All right, let's see what we have in the box.

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Oh, wow. That's a big power brick. I was

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not expecting one to be this large. I'm surprised that we have a 100 watt

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charger here because this is quite large

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and quite bulky for what is going to be a very thin machine. Oh, yes. Plug it

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in. Turn it on. Do you think it's going to be pretty, Belle? Yes.

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It's actually It just looks like a laptop if I'm honest. This is one heck

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of a laptop looking laptop. I'm not going to tell you the price yet, but

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this right here looks like a machine that could be anywhere from $700 to

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quite a bit more. It does not feel like

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a cheap machine, though. This is, first of all, very cold to the touch right now

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because it is all metal and it feels very solid. One finger open, no problem.

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And here we have our keyboard. First things that I'm noticing right here, we

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have a shutter for the webcam, which I absolutely love to see. That way, you

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can just know that when you're off hours time, you're not going to accidentally

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still be in a team's call or something. The chassis is made out of 80% recycled

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aluminum, and it is hecking stiff. I'm

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going to push here. Wow. It's not very often that we're

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going to break out a MacBook for comparison, but man, it is close. The HP

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is not quite MacBook Pro stiff, but it's way stiffer than something like a

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MacBook Air. The IO also looks very impressive. On the right, we have

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Thunderbolt 4 USBA. On the left, we have

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another Thunderbolt 4 USBC and HDMI 2.1.

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So, you aren't going to be having any issues plugging this into kind of

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whatever you want. I really love that they keep on including USB typeA on

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these laptops because it is a lifesaver. the industry completely screwed up the

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whole transition to type-C. The weight of the Elite Books feels a little bit

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heavier. That aluminum is not going to be as light as the magnesium that was on

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the Dragonfly. So, it comes in at 3.28

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lb. It's not too bad, but its predecessor is 2.8. That's not going to

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be backbreaking difference, but it is a difference indeed. And the MacBook for a

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full comparison is 3.5. All right, let's

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turn it on. Ah, nice. It has HPWolf

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let's have a look at this machine. Now, the first thing I'm noticing is this

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desktop background looks really soft. Is it is that a problem with the display?

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Okay, this display does look pretty good. The background was most of the

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issue, but at the same time, this is not a display that is going to knock you out

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of the park. It's 1920 x 1200, so it's not going to be quite like a retina

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display or 4K on something like this. And you can notice the softness. Like

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I'm going to open Notepad. And it's

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decent enough. I would say you can kind

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of from back here have a pretty good time, but if you use your computer from

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like right here for whatever reason, you are going to be starting to notice that

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the resolution is not the highest. But the good news is though that you can get

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an OLED panel on this if you don't mind sacrificing a bunch of your battery

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life. And my eyes don't deceive me either. The Labs test results for this

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display are a bit on the mediocre side.

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Now, it is quite bright. They advertise 400 nits, but we measured 465, which is

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an excellent showing, but everything

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else is not as good. There is a noticeable green tint on the display and

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only managed to cover 96% of sRGB at a

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time when most displays are getting close to 100 of DCIP3, which is way

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wider of a color gamut. So, what you want to do on your laptop is do photo

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editing or video editing or watch content in a beautiful way, this is not

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going to be the laptop for you. But again, there is an OLED option. Oh, and

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it also isn't a touchcreen. In fairness to HP though, for the people that I

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think they're aiming this laptop at, this display is going to be very good.

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What it is fantastic at is having quite low eye strain. I am not seeing anything

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on here that's going to make you be fatigued after a while. And also, it has

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a matte cover on it that is fantastic at

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rejecting glare. Like, we have a light above my head and that's how much glare

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we're getting. We can look, there's a studio light. It's of course a bit

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diffused and stuff like that. Let's look at that on the MacBook. Yeah, there we

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go. You can really see that. And our studio light. Yep. You're not seeing a

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thing on that display. This is aimed at being a business machine though the

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keyboard and trackpad have to be exceptional. So let's have a

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look. Oh, that's a really good

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keyboard. Okay, the Dragonfly is way better. It has a fantastic snap to it.

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Whereas we come over to the Elite Book, you can hear that it's just way more

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dull. So, we've we've got

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the compared

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to you can just hear the difference in the snap. So, HP has kind of shot

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themselves in the foot here because this is by all regards an absolutely

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fantastic keyboard. I'm going to give it a very solid A because I think that it

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is great, but it is following up the

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best laptop keyboard on the market in my opinion. So, you didn't get there, guys.

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What you can replace, though, is this trackpad down here. Although, I don't

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know why you would want to because it is great. It is glass topped and although

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it is not force touch, which is a bit unfortunate, I can forgive it because

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the click feel is fantastic. It is large and I just like it. It feels really

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good. I'm also going to give the trackpad an A. Although, that said, I

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think at the price point of this machine, they could have got four such

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in there. Although this does not have quite like gaming laptop power, it is

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quite a competent little machine. And here we have the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro

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375 with Radeon 890M. That is quite a mouthful, but it

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does have 12 cores, 24 threads. It is

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quite a fast little guy. We also have 32 GB of 8,000 mega transfer per second

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RAM, which is going to be quite rapid, but also not replaceable. A 1 TBTE

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Kioxia NVMe SSD. MediaTek Wi-Fi 7. I

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would much prefer if it was not MediaTek cuz they're not the most stable in my

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experience, but oh well, maybe we'll see if you can change it out later. And of

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course, the Radeon 890M for the graphics. The graphics in this are quite

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good and we tested it compared to Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H in the Lenovo

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Idea Pad and it turns out that it's a

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wash between the two. In Cyberpunk, AMD

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gets quite a big league. In Rocket League, they are pretty much identical

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in performance. And in Dota 2, Intel absolutely sweeps it with plus 33%

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performance. So, it's a toss-up of which one's going to be faster, Intel, AMD, I

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don't know. It depends on the game. What is not going to be a wash, though, is

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the NPU. On the Intel side, they intentionally made the NPU smaller for a

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larger GPU in order to match AMD, whereas AMD just has a big NPU and a

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good GPU because this right here has 55 tops of performance, meaning you can do

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all your co-pilot stuff if you actually like AI for whatever reason. I like to

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think of it as onboard machine learning hardware. Let's have a listen to Crab

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Rafe here. This does have Poly Studio speakers, but I suspect it's not going

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to be able to keep up with our MacBook, even though they're the same size. And

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it looks like they dedicated very similar amounts of space to their

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speakers. Oh, sounds pretty

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good. It's clear and loud, although it does not have a whole lot of bass. Let's

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listen to the Mac. Oh, that's way

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better. Wow. Yep. The HB sounds pretty

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good until you hear a MacBook. Wow. That's a There's a lot more stage.

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There's a lot more bass. The highs still sound pretty

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clear. Yeah, they're about equally

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loud. I would say that's a pretty good showing for HP, but it is not going to

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be tangling with the best in the market. One thing that is very nice about this

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HP compared to the Mac though is that there's no stupid notch. And there also

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is quite a nice little webcam. Up here we have a 5 megapixel webcam which can

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record at 1440p. And I cannot tell if

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the webcam is at fault, but I look green and sickly. I'm pretty sure that's a

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problem with our display and the fact that it has a bit of a green tint to it.

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That said though, this webcam is doing a fantastic job. It is exposing for my

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face fantastically. We can see a really bright light here. Really dark stuff

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over here. It doesn't care. It is exposing for me. It looks nice and

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sharp. Can move around here. Is it going to figure it out? It did. Moving around

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even more. Just directly into some studio lights. My face is still

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perfectly exposed. It's not having any issues. And maybe the microphone's

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pretty good. You guys can be the judge of that. I didn't mention it before, but

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we did ask HP if the color space and the

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display accuracy are what they expected and they said it is within their specs.

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So, you might get one that looks like this. Four Phillips head screws later,

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all of which are captive. I love to see that. And we are in. Now, the

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repairability itself is not the best,

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but HP does get a whole bunch of points for publishing on YouTube a full repair

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guide for this thing. So everything that can be repaired, you can repair, or at

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least in theory, you know how to do it. In here, it looks like we can replace

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our SSD. And that's about it. The Wi-Fi

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card sadly is soldered down. The RAM, as we expected, is underneath here

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somewhere. Soldered down. Can't replace that. The real reason why we're in here,

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though, is the battery. Despite this being quite a small laptop, HP has

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managed to put a 74.5Wh hour battery into this thing, which netted us a bit

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over 11 hours of battery life, which is very impressive for something with that

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powerful of a processor, although no GPU. We can also see the woofers right

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here. And there's not a whole lot more that we can do in here. Now, I've

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alluded to it before, but we need to talk about the price. What we have right

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here as spec is a $2,200 machine. Now, it is built for

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businesses. So, if you're buying a whole bunch of them, I'm sure HP will give you

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a bit of a deal. And also, I think that these are the kind of laptops that go on

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sale quite a bit. But at $2,200, this is

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the sort of machine that I would recommend you have your employer buy for

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you instead of maybe purchasing it for yourself. That said though, there's a

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lot to like with this laptop. Build quality is fantastic. keyboard, trackpad

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also fantastic. The IO is quite good.

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It's just the screen and the price are not quite where they need to be. So, do

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I think that the Elite Book is a good replacement for the Dragonfly? Honestly,

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I think so. The Dragonfly was also way

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too expensive if we're honest. And although you are giving up the

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magnesium, this Elite Book is quite a

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good machine. And you do have to remember with these business laptops

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that you're also paying for things like dual BIOS, the support that comes with

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it in theory, and also me liking you for

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watching this video. So, huge thanks for watching. Hit like, get subscribed, and

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I hope you guys have a great old day. See you later.