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last time i picked a new laptop i made a big mistake

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i accidentally chose one with such an unforgivable flaw in the keyboard that

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my constant typos while i was making notes during monday morning meeting on

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the projector became a running joke throughout the company i actually ended

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up swapping it out for a dell xps 13 two

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in one a notebook that i didn't really have my eye on until dell sponsored a

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video about it now i ended up not following up with why

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i chose it because i was worried that people were going to say oh well he only

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stuck with this one because it was sponsored but that wasn't the case i

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just tried it out because of a sponsored video and really liked it well today

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lg is trying their hand at that same magic they sponsored this video checking

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out not one not two

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not three but four versions of their 20 20 gram

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featuring Intel 10th gen processors to see if i can be convinced to finally

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come back to the gram two long years after i left them for not

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having Thunderbolt 3. see how that goes for them

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let's begin with the one that i am very unlikely to settle on but that could be

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very interesting to you guys the gram 17. now this puppy's claim to

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fame is that it's got the same super super

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light build quality as the rest of the gram family but

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a gigantic display we go ahead and power

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it on unfortunately they don't include Windows hello facial recognition with

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these but they do have fingerprint sensors built into the power buttons of

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all four of the models that i'm looking at hi there i'm cortana and i'm here to

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help no no a little sign in here no

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wi-fi there no there we go i see the 17-inch as you're

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still very portable i mean it's still only about three pounds but extremely

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capable work machines so it has a 1065 g7 core i7 processor that'll turbo up to

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3.9 gigahertz and of course it's all

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about the massive display which not only is bigger than the other grams but it's

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higher resolution as well so it's 2560 by 1600 which at this size i think is

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just an absolutely perfect middle ground because 4k is kind of overkill and

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unnecessary and just adds extra strain to the GPU and it's going to hurt your

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battery life whereas 1080 at this size does start to get a little bit chunky

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what i really want to know is how they've done with respect to the

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keyboard here one of the compromises you end up with with the gram series is that

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they make them lighter sort of at the expense of the

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of the feel of the units they tend to have more flex than some other notebooks

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and when you push down on the keyboard there is a little bit more give than you

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might expect from a machine that's heavier but it's one of those things where you can't

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really eat your cake and have it too you've gotta you've gotta decide you

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know what do you care about something that's as light as possible in your backpack or something that you know

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you can pound on like this when you're typing right

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this flex extends to the trackpad but what i can't fault is the tracking

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they're using the Windows precision drivers and overall even on this large

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screen it feels accurate and precise

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which are different things by the way i o is pretty similar across the board lg

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crammed a couple of usb type a's over on the right along with a headphone

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microphone combo jack and micro sd card reader and then over on the left hand

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side oh yes yet another usb type a an

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HDMI and a Thunderbolt 3 port along with a barrel type charger now something i

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want to try out as part of this experience because i'm a big fan of usb

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type c charging is whether they just don't include a type c charger or

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whether it doesn't support type c charging good luck everybody this is either going

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to charge the laptop or fry the laptop

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whoa okay so it does support type c charging

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that's a strange thing to not include then because type c

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is freaking amazing you can carry around one charger use it for your laptop

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your phone your nintendo switch whatever else you

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want i absolutely love it it changed my life while i was traveling not that not

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that i travel anymore so we're looking at these more from like

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a at home context you know bottom line the 17 is

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probably not the device for me it's more like the device for

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my wife i don't need the full number pad and i don't really need all of this

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screen real estate for what i'm normally doing on the go whereas if i

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used excel a lot or you know did a lot of accounting or that kind of you know

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serious work as opposed to writing which is what i typically do then this would

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be absolutely incredible still got that grand lightness

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let's move on to a more likely contender though the core specs of the 15 are basically

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the same as the 17 this time around so this particular loadout has a one

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terabyte SSD 16 gigs of 3200 mhz ddr4

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memory just like the gram 17 we just looked at and

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this is pretty great an 80 watt hour battery that's rated for 17 hours of

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life dang it Windows update one area where the 15 falls short compared to the

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17 is like comfort so it does still have full

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keyboard and full number pad but i would say this number pad is more for

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you know data entry in a pinch whereas on the 17 it's nice and spread out and

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comfortable you've got that gigantic tall display this one goes for a more

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conventional 16 by 9 aspect ratio so it's 1920 by 1080 resolution meaning

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that you're not going to have quite as many rows in excel and actually it makes

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a big difference if you want to do something like video editing on the go

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because having a little bit of extra room gives you you know one more track

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in your video editor but that doesn't matter that much for me

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because this one feels more like my speed and i wouldn't mind seeing this

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trackpad increased in size a little bit but overall it's both comfortable and

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quiet i've always liked lg's keyboard part of it is that i'm used to it from

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daily driving a gram for well over a year a while back but

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something lg's got to watch out for is that they haven't really changed their

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keyboard much and it's still good but their competitors have been playing

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catch up so i think that's something that i'd like to see them focus on for

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the next wave ooh they sent over the 14 in a white finish

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that's actually really nice looking this

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is the machine for the road warriors or just

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anyone who doesn't like charging devices it's only 2.2 pounds so that's one

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kilogram 14 inches and even though it's only got

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a 72 watt hour battery compared to the 80 watt hour in the 15 inch because of

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the smaller screen and the power sipping core i5 processor it's actually rated

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for 18 and a half rather than 17 hours of battery life

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it's still got usb 3 full sized HDMI and Thunderbolt 3 this

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was what ultimately caused me to abandon my gram back in the day was that the

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model i liked the size i wanted to use didn't have Thunderbolt 3 while the

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other ones did that's gone they've all got Thunderbolt 3 now but we do lose one

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of the usb type a's over on the other side in terms of keyboard flex i would

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say somehow this one actually isn't as good as the 15. it seems like

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the 15 is the one that kind of got the most attention with respect to balancing

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weight and sort of construction ruggedness

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but if you want the absolute lightest

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this is the gram for you bringing us finally to the one that i am

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actually considering since i left the gram they introduced

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the gram two in one as you can see i already had this one open because

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i actually logged it into my microsoft account and started getting

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some of my apps set up on it and everything because the truth is i have

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grown quite accustomed to being able to

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switch my laptop into tablet mode over the years i actually started out with an

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ancient dell xps 12 two in one and it's

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the kind of thing that you don't use all the time in fact

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i use it maybe two percent of the time but when i want to use it

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it is pretty freaking handy

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now that's curious i wonder if it allows you to use your oh it does you can use

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fingerprint login from the back of the device so just like the other ones

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you've got a full-size keyboard with no cardinal sims committed it's even got

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separated up and down arrow keys which is a pretty big deal to me

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it's got Thunderbolt it's got the fingerprint reader

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and in terms of io this is really really nice this is one

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of the big things that's bothered me about my xps 13 two in one

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right there that full-sized HDMI in my

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job i actually conduct a lot of meetings and being able to plug into HDMI to the

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projector and present when i'm talking to people is a pretty big deal without

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pulling a dongle out of my bag the one change on the right hand side compared

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to the 14 is that the lock button is there now or actually oh

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wait what is that a second oh

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interesting so this lock button gets disabled when

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you're not in tablet mode uh yes i would like to switch to tablet

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mode this is a quad-core CPU

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so okay i'm not getting uh not getting an upgrade to six core there it's the

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same spec that we saw in the 15 and 17. i'm setting up my gaming graphics card

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for gamers and i actually realized there's a stylus pen in the box

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so this is a wacom stylus pen with over 4 000

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pressure levels it uses what looks like a quadruple a

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battery got a couple of extra tips included there

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let's go ahead and put it together

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this is the kind of thing i really don't see myself using very much

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wow go away there's a little bit more flex

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than i would probably like in the screen

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but i think it's the kind of thing where oh shoot i just hit the power button i

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would be unlikely to notice if i was actually holding the device in my hand

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like this i wanted to try

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handwriting oh no way i got that

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that's terrible let's find out if lg has considered

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where to store the stylus when not in use

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unfortunately it looks like they have not i mean it's not the kind of thing i

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would use anyway i plan to just leave it in the box immediately yeah i think it's something

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that all laptop makers should consider if you're going to include a stylus

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there should be somewhere to put it going to beat up some bots hmm that's a

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little unfortunate from a gaming perspective it gets quite toasty on the

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left side of the keyboard here this is a perfect example of how even an ultrabook

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these days with the right accessories can totally be used for gaming

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now i'd like to see everything phones gaming machines ultrabooks i'd

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like to see everything move to high refresh rate at least 120 hertz so maybe

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that's something they can work on for the next generation oh shoot i just got killed by a bot

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but uh at least the performance is there we're

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turboing up from 3 to 3.3 3.5 gigahertz

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not bad for the CPU definitely enough for a decent gaming experience but as i

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mentioned before the 60 hertz refresh rate of the panel is gonna hold you back

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as far as that goes at least it's an lg laptop so it uses an lg ips display so

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the image quality is really good if you're not after those super high

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refresh rates for me though ultimately this is a very very i would

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say tertiary use case for a device like this

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for me so it's gonna come down to

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the keyboard time for a side by side

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fingerprint unlock super close xps is

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probably a touch brighter actually now that i now that i look at it

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keyboard flex worse on the gram

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but the grams got the bigger screen and it manages to be lighter in spite of

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it i mean that it's a gram that's kind of their whole jam

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and one of the really big annoyances for me with the xps has been the i o not

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having an HDMI port has actually bothered me more than the lack of usb

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type a but the gram has both

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i think what i'm going to do is i'm going to switch to the gram for a while

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and i'm going to see if the xps beckons me back because

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it does have its drawbacks but it also has its advantages

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and it really is crazy light considering the size

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so thanks to lg for sending over all these notebooks for sponsoring this

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video thanks to you guys for watching if you guys are looking for another video

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to watch maybe actually check out the other video i did when i chose my chose

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my new laptop i didn't ultimately end up sticking with that one but it did

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include a lot of my thoughts on a lot of the things that i look for when

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selecting a device