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you could buy a Zenbook Duo a super cool dual screen laptop or for a third of the

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price you could buy the curry Lander we

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found this gem on AliExpress and for 750

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dollars it looks absolutely outstanding

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I'm talking eight core CPU QHD screen

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second screen and ah quick shipping I

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mean with excellent reviews and specs like that what could go wrong unless

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they lied Freelander wouldn't lie no I would never

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between the intro Alex put together and my own First Impressions I've got to say

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my expectations are actually really high there are some weird things is this a

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Windows key for example I think it might be and is that an

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upside down HDMI port but the rest of the i o actually looks really good we've

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got two USB 3 super speed over here headphone microphone combo Jack

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RJ45 Jack and then over on this side more type A A type c and a DC Barrel

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plug for charging then things get really interesting at the back we've got an

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external PCI Express connection the only

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devices I've seen this on are an MSI laptop from way back in the day that had

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a proprietary Dock and then ASUS has a line up the G14 that has an external

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PCIe thing but it's not quite like this I actually have no clue what this is at

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all it mentions it know where any of the documentation and I never turned it

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around while I was testing it even the

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website does not have pictures of the bag nothing oh they have pictures of the

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back it's not there I guess it shouldn't surprise me that

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much given that Freelander is probably best known for its LED backpacks but

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given that this has no branding on it whatsoever I guess they're just

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branching out into taking some other laptop from some OEM and selling it and

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hoping for the best oh man this is really hard to peel

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oh interesting it has a hinge that lifts

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the bottom display up to a more ergonomic viewing angle like the newer

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zenbooks do this is an older one from 2019 it also has a very similar keyboard

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and touchpad layout I wouldn't describe the build quality as perfect or even as

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as good as the ASUS version of the Zenbook but it's not bad 750 bucks yeah

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I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop here but then I keep noticing more

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and more things that I love about this is this is 16x10 display yep that is

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sick uh

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does it work yeah oh oh it's on it's on it's on okay creelander

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my bitter backpack competitor I wouldn't

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say they've done a great job of matching the brightness of the top and bottom

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display a big part of that is the kind of weak viewing angles on the bottom one

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you can see it dims quite a lot I mean ASUS is hardly perfect either but that

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seems to be more due to uh like an anti-glare coating on the bottom one and

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less due to uh just poor viewing angles

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but the touchpad works with no obvious issues

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gestures seem to do about what you'd expect them to do and by golly there's

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two displays okay well while you're here while you're

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here oh that resolution is not what they said it was though yeah on the product

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page they say it's a QHD panel that's 90 Hertz what are you seeing here Linus I'm

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seeing a 1900 by 1200 display and if this is 90 Hertz I will throw up my

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breakfast and eat it again it's not

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and you cannot set it to 90 Hertz oh but

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you can set it to exactly 60. oh good

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definitely some rattle to the track pad

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oh

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that's why you wanted me to check out the keyboard this was not obvious to me

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when I first looked at it but that's

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where the backspace goes it's the power button what a disastrous

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design decision who could possibly think that you should

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put the power button where the backspace is even if you owned this computer and

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built muscle memory around that the second you went and used some other

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keyboard because that happens from time to time you would be so like

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to come back to this thing and accidentally to put it to sleep that's

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not even the best part oh no can you

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give me an uppercase a

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those of you who spotted it before I did

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you've had more time to think about it why

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would they make the right shift a delete key there's no right shift key that's

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not even like oh we had a Chinese layout

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or uh European layout that no layout is

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like that it's a crying shame because

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that's a deal breaker why would you do that this keyboard is a catastrophe a

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type just just reviewed the Tommy Hilfiger keyboard

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why do you keep doing this to me Alex I think what I want to know is if this

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thing is full of fast computer or if it's full of lies why don't we dig into

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Hardware info what are we supposed to have a 10th Generation core i7 processor

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with powerful performance max turbo of 5 gigahertz and eight cores wait this is

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not an 8 core CPU at all this is a

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completely different thing hold on a second they're half right they're half

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right they've got the model number right but then they lie about the actual specs

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of that model so unless you go on Intel Arc and make darn good and sure what the

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specs of this processor are well what's the max turbo on this thing even it is

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five gigahertz it is five gigahertz but it has two fewer cores

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I take the two cores for sure that is freaking slow memory too

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2400 megahertz that's like fine for ddr4

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wait except that they say it's supposed to be

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29.33 oh no and I'm supposed to have a

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terabyte of space aren't I uh 512. 512.

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hey they managed to get that right but I have never heard of

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hear reality before what kind of SSD is that oh wait so in

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this it shows up as one yeah the hx-001 Dual Drive yeah so

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there's no this is only one dread they partitioned it what is with this the

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other AliExpress computer we looked at recently also had a partitioned boot

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Drive why I actually have no idea for that one the

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only explanation I can think of is you got people designing these things that

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are so old school that they remember the days when we used to Short Stroke hard

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drives so you would partition them smaller so that you would only use the

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outer edge of the disc which is which is faster on an SSD it makes no difference

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oh man this system is kind of stressing me out Alex do remember

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you have a 10th gen i7 and a 750 laptop

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it's sex cores it's like actually not bad and 16 gigs of RAM for better for

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worse and 512 gigs of SSD even if I don't recognize the brand one thing they

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did get really right though 95 watt power adapter this thing charges

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it super fast all right let's send a

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bench it nothing here stands out is particularly bad though I wouldn't expect it to I

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mean this is only what like a 35 watt CPU and it looks like it's got plenty of

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cooling in it quiet too actually

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they do say that they have their AAS plus wind tunnel technology the ass plus

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wind

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that's wonderful but have you noticed anything kind of disappointing about

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this though oh wait no CPU package power 32 watts

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that's about right for an H series isn't it

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it is but it's not turboing it's not

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turboing it's at 2.6 gigahertz which is

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the base essentially all the time when you hit it

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with any load so like this guy right here

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this is probably also 10th gen 9th gen actually oh and it runs circles around

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it doesn't it we'll see in a second here but this got 8 100 points in cinebench

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or 23. I ended up with 5100 points the

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bit that kills me is that it's so well cooled that they very easily if they

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just program the BIOS better could have had a boost for way longer and it would

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have been probably like really 30 40 faster

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I even took the time to like install XTU and try and do some stuff none of it

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took I don't have the testing tools here they're all over at the lab right now I

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give you my personal Linus Tech tips guarantee that that is not 400 nits I

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went to the Labs though do you want to see the results of the screens I I would

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love to see the results were they 100 coverage of the RGB color space

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srgb RGB 311 nits all right my eyes still work

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holy crap 63 coverage of srgb

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I know that not everyone is an expert on all the DCI p3s and rgbs and srgbs so

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let me just put it this way for you guys that is dog crap I don't remember the

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last time I saw a display that bad I do it was the Acer Nitro 5 their first gen

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that was when I first started working here like six years ago with the TN

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panel it gets better though it gets better though oh my God it improves or

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it gets funnier both the bottom screen manages to do 100

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of srgb okay and actually Brandon from

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the lab seems to think it may be using the same bottom screen as ASUS's Zenbook

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Duos might explain why they weren't able to

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cheap out on it yeah like you can see the spectroscopy here yeah it's

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identical it's the same thing so they use the exact same panel from ASUS for

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the bottom and then just completely cheap out on the top it's 750 though so

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what you can do line is yes so you take your video that you're

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editing and you put it on the color accurate display down on the bottom

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and then you have the most room anyone's ever had for your timeline up on the

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other screen and everything is working against this

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thing the slow RAM impedes the onboard GPU

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from performing its best and then the crappy turbo frequencies on the CPU mean

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that you're going to run into CPU bottlenecks ironically are we done with

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the Windows Experience oh no I want to try the webcam even on

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expensive laptops the webcam tends to be where Brands cheap out

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and this is a potato and a half what

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resolution does this claim to be

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well they don't mention the webcam they don't mention the webcam if I were them

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I wouldn't mention it either but it has a nice bright indicator that it's

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working just for comparison here's the HP dragonfly

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I mean it's not great either this is one

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of the best webcams on a laptop Linus now it's time to open it up and see what

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makes it tick yep all right let's do it you know what I'm kind of wondering

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right now is if this is on clearance on AliExpress this should not be a 750

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machine even with the shortcuts that we

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see it is on sale so the normal price of

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this would be well this is Canadian so 1600 Canadian now it's a thousand

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Canadian here's yet another thing the hardware folks did right look at this

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two screws no easily breakable Clips nice easy

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access not just to the memory but to the storage as well love to see it and it

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gets even better there's another m.2 slot in here that appears to be NVMe so

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it's just cheaped out on the drive

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how much cheaper is a SATA SSD these days I mean we are talking pennies and

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on the subject of saving money the 2400 megahertz RAM is not because

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they were saving money it's because they didn't program the BIOS properly this is

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266 memory which isn't as fast as they

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advertise but is better than what it's running at

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all right that is a heck of a lot of

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cooling for this CPU they probably could have gotten away with just one of these

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I'm really surprised that they actually put in two I was expecting to only see

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one of these oh just you thought the fan would just be I thought this was just

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like mesh or something over here to make it look like there was heat sink yeah

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heat pipes are expensive that's not an insignificant cost for a budget machine

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like this which again leads me to believe that this was not intended to be

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a budget machine I think it's just ancient stock that they are desperately

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trying to get rid of yeah even the battery would indicate this is not a

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budget machine that's a 58 watt hour battery yeah I got over four hours of

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battery life which isn't incredible yeah but also like I was expecting way worse

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I thought it would be like a 25 watt hour or something it gets pretty decent at least that's

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what is written on it based on that everything else about this thing has

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been a lie it's possible that that is not in fact 58 Watt hours beak says it's

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51 and I tend to trust them because they got everything else right but either way

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for something like this that's quite a bit of battery okay fair I was genuinely

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excited for this Linus I looked at the specs and the price and I was like

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that's legit you could even ignore that bottom screen completely ignore it and

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this thing would be freaking amazing on paper yeah maybe it makes up for it in

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some other way let's try out the speakers I'm sure those are great

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they're not very loud pretty quiet

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I've heard way worse yeah like a lot of

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them will take speakers like this make it twice as loud and just distort the

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whole thing not bad not bad

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they're fine

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yes yes yes yes it costs five times as

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enjoyed this video you might enjoy the other recent AliExpress laptop video we

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did where we gave it a brown star for effort I feel like this one gets at least a

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yellow star yeah not gold yellow