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wow this is the biggest box we've had in

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a while this thing is freaking massive how heavy is this thing well I can tell

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you for sure it is one heck of a laptop this right here is the aorus 17x and it

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has an RTX 490 and the first one we've seen here security seal is already

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broken that's because Labs had a little look at it first

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team up fight on oh and also this is sponsored by aoris thanks guys

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let's have a look here let's go over here first

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this thing is 330 Watts gallium nitride

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so like you have seen Chargers that are this big before but not this dense this

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thing actual weapon

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okay nope

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what do we have in here warranty card quick start guide

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is it plug it in and turn it on yep plug it in hit the power button thank you

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guys oh

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this is not a late laptop that you got us here Jeff oh can you see all the

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different colors that this aorus logo is changing to that's pretty cool overall

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the design is very gamer it's not like

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quite as over the top as some stuff that we've seen in the past they say it's

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space themed and they are certainly accurate there also holy look at the

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amount of copper that you can see here that right there you take that to the

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scrap yard and you can get it pretty penny or two anyway let's have a look at

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the i o here so we have headphone microphone combo Jack two USB type A's

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around back we have Ethernet not sure if

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it's 2.5 or gigabit we'll put that right here hopefully 2.5 we also have

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DisplayPort out I really do appreciate Mini DisplayPort it seems kind of a

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little bit like a weird one it can be very nice VR headsets HDMI 2.1 are power

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n around the other side we have Thunderbolt 4 and another type A

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6.5 pounds yeah that is an exceptionally heavy laptop it's pretty thin

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like given like it's not bad

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oh apparently the chassis been redesigned

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and it's all cnc'd aluminum now and

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the overall chassis rigidity here seems really good you can get some like

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if I really push on it some flexing but

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it's nothing that you're gonna notice unless you're really given her

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the way that they've designed the chassis here is a little bit interesting

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they have this sort of step down to the keyboard which is nice because you know

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it doesn't smack in the display but it does leave not quite as much space as I

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like to see for the trackpad to be clear still nice large trackpad and they did

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put their little aorus logo on there if you can see that in the correct light but this

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is a massive device they could put much bigger one on here how does it work

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though well we're gonna find out after it wait

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I don't have to tell you about our sponsor because it's a Gigabyte

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ah same thing so there's

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RGB back here where oh right there I see

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it's like RGB on the RGB thing you have analog and digital RGB okay

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we're in here let's see how it all feels Notepad

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keyboard is really good now it's a

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little bit on the soft side but it does

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have a really nice actuation and it doesn't have any bad like

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hook here you can push the side of the key and the key still actuates instead

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of like the whole thing just sort of going or it is quite well done I

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personally for typing with like something that's a little bit snappier

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but this is primarily a gaming laptop so having something that's a little bit

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more linear a little bit softer is nice because you're going to be just like

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holding down W for a super long time or whatever those stupid games that don't

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have auto run the trackpad also is fantastic again it's not quite as large

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as I would have liked on something like this but when I'm using it I don't

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really care I didn't even need hand lube and it already just feels great so nice

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and smooth to go around on no tracking issues at all and the click feels nice

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and good it's even pretty satisfying here like

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good job the display also is fantastic so 1440p 240 hertz pretty much as good

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as you can get on a laptop I do really wish that they had 16 by 10 just bring

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her down there a little bit I would like to but you can get away with 16x9 on a

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display that is just this big

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240 hertz is probably going to be Wicked to Game

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On and Here we have the I9 13950 HX that is 24 CPU cores at 5.5

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gigahertz Maxim that is mental also 32

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gigabytes of ddr5 at 5600 Mega transfers

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per second one terabyte SSD made by Gigabyte makes sense and another one

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terabyte SSD also made by Gigabyte for Wi-Fi we have Intel Wi-Fi 6E love to see

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it and of course the NVIDIA RTX 49. this

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thing goes up to 175 Watts on the GPU which is as much as

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NVIDIA will let you put in your BIOS you can cool it better and they probably do

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but NVIDIA won't let you have more oh also it's 16 gigabytes of GPU memory so

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you should remember that the 4090 and a

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laptop is not a 4090 on the desktop this right here is the same die as the 4080

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but at the same time like you've seen

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the size of the coolers on the 4090 there's no way that could

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exist in something like this without it turning into I don't know a star or

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something anyway I want to play valheim oh yeah that looks good

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we've been doing so many stupid like thin and lights lately it's so nice to

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have a laptop that actually can do this so we're getting 85 FPS Quad HD well

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recording it so screen recording that is important to note and this thing right

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here no trouble at all playing this game

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now it should be noted that we are in the balance profile so you might be able

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to in the future get a little bit more out of this

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but for now you can't and we'll explain that later anyway for now I want to hit this deer

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with some fire never mind he's running away from me I

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just wise Mr deer anyway plays valheim

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just fine 70 FPS when it's a little bit more stuff

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around you but that's pretty good

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how does plan something a bit more challenging oh we just saw that down in the corner

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there and it said display mode GPU only that is because this has NVIDIA Advanced

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Optimus and that allows your GPU to connect directly to the panel instead of

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in some gaming laptops it will go dedicated GPU integrated GPU panel and

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you can lose like 10 15 of your gaming

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performance by doing it that way so love to see if they did it correctly

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apparently it is very expensive to license from NVIDIA

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all right so 1440p Ultra nightmare we

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are currently looking at 250 240 260 FPS somewhere right around

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there yeah this thing

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is a good laptop to play Doom on that is

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for sure 200 140 Hertz panel means that even though

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I'm pretty bad I am nowhere near as bad as I would be

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on my other laptops that is for sure yeah this is about as good as you can

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get for something like this who would have thought 49ing a laptop

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240 hertz panel it's good for gaming now

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although this is about as good of a gaming experience as you can get there

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is a bit of a problem now we are currently at 240 FPS let's see what

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happens when I unplug the power

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oh oh that's worse than I thought it

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would be uh

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we are now at 30 FPS

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so yeah going from 250 FPS plugged in

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to 30 FPS which I think NVIDIA might be

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artificially limiting but yeah this is not the same gaming experience we just

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yeah completely different laptop right

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now not even remotely in the same league as what we

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were just experiencing see if I put this back in will it come

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right back oh 40 160.

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200 240. okay and now it's back so yeah

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it will very quickly return to its

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normal Power limits when you plug in the charger but that is pretty disappointing

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that it just completely poops itself when you take the charger out which

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I feel like is going to get fixed in the

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future and I say that because uh a lot of this laptop currently seems

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like it's a little bit broken now for the most part that isn't going to matter

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because for the time being you're going to go to the power mode here in Windows

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make sure it is on balanced this is

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crucial because for whatever reason better performance gigabytes turbo

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profiles so on yeah they're broken

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so if we look at the Labs testing Dave that we have here first of all we can

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confirm very fast laptop exceptionally

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fast turns out 490 in here does a good

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job problem is so if we have it in best

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performance mode we'll just use Forza Horizon as our example but it's

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consistent across Modern Warfare 2 and cyberpunk 2077 as well so best

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performance mode the one that you would think it would perform the best in we

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got 94 FPS balanced mode 109.

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and then we use gigabytes AI Auto overclocking boost and it's a hundred

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and two game boost even worse 94 FPS so strangely balanced

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mode is by far the best mode to have

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this in and I think it's just simple firmware problems this right here very

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early so many people are always like oh you guys get the Press samples those are

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the best ones no those are the very first ones to come off the production

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line and they're normally broken so so that's what I think is going on here

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that said this is a very easy firmware update to fix and with any luck Gigabyte

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will have a firmware update here down there in the description I don't know

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hopefully it's there we'll see what I also want to see is how good the

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speakers are

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especially much on the draw

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well everyone back there is dancing but uh I don't know that's what like a B

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minus maybe whatever it's a laptop just get other speakers you could afford this

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thing you can afford a hundred dollar Bluetooth speaker to go with it what

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else do we have here oh webcam oh we've got here looks a little bit on

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the grainy side that is for sure this right here is what

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720p I am guessing no no

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1080p could have fooled me it seems like it's struggling a bit I am

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very grainy but at the same time I look fairly natural so does it improve

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if I kind of this is a pretty challenging Scene It is

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exposing well for my face it is just exceptionally grainy that

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said I am incredibly happy that they were able to get Windows hello facial

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recognition and on this thing not something you normally see on gaming

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laptops and love to see it on here

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all right let's take it apart

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a bunch of T6 screws later and we are in

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now do note there are different size screws in here so make sure to put them

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on like a tray or something like this to keep track of where they go because if

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you put one that's too long in the hole of one that's too small you will go

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through your laptop ask me how I know wow

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that is a cooling system right there big

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old Vapor chamber all the way right along here and then some heat pipes to

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get that heat extra far down four fans

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two big boys two little ones and just so

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much copper heatsink going all the way down here and along up there we do

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fortunately have upgradable memory so in the past 4 800 Mega transfers per second

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was as fast as you could get unless you soldered it down now with new 13th gen

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processors you can get 5600 Mega transfers per second and you can just

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put it right in your palm like

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come on okay there's a thermal pad on the bottom that was a little bit

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difficult but you can have it in the palm of your hand

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just like that also in here we have easy access to our two ssds and is this a 99

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watt hour battery yep 99 Watt hours right there perfect

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that is as large of a battery as you can put in the laptop and legally take it on

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a plane so love to see that I'm guessing

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there's a lot of performance in this machine so what do they claim the

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battery life is well I wasn't able to find any claims of

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battery life on their website which means it's probably terrible but the

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good news is with that massive charger you can get 50 battery in just 30

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minutes by plugging it in so you are good off there so just look at how much

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mesh there is on this bottom lots and lots of air can go through here

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to their wind Force Infinity stuff I like it I really like the raw copper

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anyway Jeff hit me with the price 40 90 13th gen I know these things are

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just ridiculous how how much damage will this do to your

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wallet generational debt

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okay 3500 USD honestly better than I was

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expecting given some of the prices that I've seen it's still a lot of money to

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spend on a gaming laptop I'm not going to comment on the value because well for

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one it's a sponsored video and also this is the first 4090 laptop we've properly

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tested but it is one heck of a gaming

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Beast that is for sure and huge thanks to aorus for sponsoring this video so if

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you like this video hit like get subscribed and just have a fantastic

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whole day go and go play your favorite game or something or don't I don't care

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just have a good day