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for years alien wear's laptops have been absolutely insane out of this world

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machines that are insanely fast that you

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maybe don't actually want cuz using them in real life kind of sucked well

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hopefully they're going to change that here today cuz we have the new M16 R2

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that promises to be kind of practical but first let's have a look at the power

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adapter to see just how fast this might

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be you're looking at 240 WS which is

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being delivered over a barrel Jack now at that kind of a wattage it is pretty

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difficult to get it over USB type-c so I will accept the barrel Jack but it's

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still not my favorite cuz this is a massive power adapter is there anything

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else in here we got a little manual do

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we have any stickers oh stickers heck yeah so here we have the new

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M16 and it is looking pretty good it actually looks a lot like Dell's gaming

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budget stuff but this is definitely a bit more premium how heavy is this it

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feels pretty like given that I know there's a 4070 in here one sec 5.4 lb

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that's pretty heavy but not too bad

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given that it's a gaming laptop and with the charger we're up to O nearly

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6.9 for context that's a total carry weight just over 3 Kg looking at the iio

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it is quite solid on the right side we have a micro SD card reader and two type

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A ports that are in the exact correct spot to make sure that if you have a

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Wired Mouse it runs straight into the wire right there very bad placement but

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I'm glad that they have them we also have Thunderbolt 4 USB type-c that

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connects directly to the dgpu HDMI 2.1

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our power input right there on the left side we have headphone microphone combo

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Jack and 2.5 GB land which I really like

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to see looking at the design overall the materials are quite premium although it

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does kind of look like a laptop from like 3 4 years ago this really isn't

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giving me designed in 2023 Vibes but

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that said look at the size of this trackpad it is Tiny compared to the

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amount of space that they could have used if they really wanted to go for it

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ShortCircuit set it is a slightly larger laptop

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but just look at the size difference of those track pads it is complete night

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and day looking at the design overall

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again it is very reserved but it is very

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high quality as you can see there's very little Flex around the keyboard it's

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very well built we also can see where

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all of the cooling is going so there's a whole bunch of vents here vents on the

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sides and vents on the back back so I believe it's sucking in from the bottom

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and blowing out there and there and there and there and it's really loud at

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in the description looking at this display the first thing that I'm noticing is that it's not particularly

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bright although it is a matte display so Props for that alien wear it gets up to

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375 nits as tested by our Labs which

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means it's fine enough indoors I have it

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maxed right now and it's acceptable enough but at the same time you try and

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take this outside not going to happen you are not going to see a thing and

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that is compounded by the gamma leaning a little bit towards the darker end so

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things that are black are going to be more blacker on here so you're dark

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areas might be not quite as bright as you would expect that said though the

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color accuracy of this panel is absolutely fantastic it covers 100% of

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srgb although it only covers srgb you

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don't get a wider color space than that we measured an average Delta e2000 of

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1.42 which is absolutely fantastic you

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expect less than two to do professional color work so as long as you don't need

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the wider color spaces like d C ip3 or adobe RGB you can very much trust this

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display now in the future we are going to be changing our measurements a little

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bit to Delta e ITP which is a better way

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of measuring the colors on a display and this right here as our first one gets an

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average Delta e ITP of 6.54 which is again really good it's not

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quite as good as like a Macbook in reference display mode but you know what

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a Macbook can't do display 240 FPS straight to your eyeballs that's right

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this thing right here has a 240 HZ panel and

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1600p so that's like 1440p but a 16 by10

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Edition which is just fantastic because I really love that even gaming laptops

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like this have those slightly taller displays because it just it makes more

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sense for the size of a laptop and also

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it's just so much better for professional applications browsing the

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web that sort of stuff what also is great are the specs of this thing so we

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have the Intel core Ultra 7 155h if you really want it you can go up

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to the ultra 9 but I suspect that's not going to be getting you a whole lot more

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performance we also have 16 GB of RAM running at 5600 megat transfers per

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second ooh and it says the form factor is sodm which is very exciting this

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might actually be upgradeable we also have a Samsung NVMe SSD that is 1 tbte

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and also apparently you can set this up in raid Zero from the factory if you

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just want things to be really fast and not very reliable we also have Intel

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RTX 470 that is the top speec of this

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means that the new one is slower but as

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we said at the start that is because they were able to make this chassis way

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smaller than the old one and most people just weren't buying over a 4070 anyway

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also in here we have the npu with our Intel processor which we now know is not

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powerful enough to do most of the AI things that come with Microsoft co-pilot

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so uh it's useless all right let's play some games now uh I did just launch

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rocket league and as you can hear it's really flipping loud now one interesting

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thing that our Labs noted is that even if you're in like balanced mode or quiet

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mode or whatever if it's plugged in and you turn on a game it automatically goes

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to Performance performance mode which is why is this 100% GPU fan speed you can

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see this right here the GPU is at 50° C

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it does not need to be at 100% fan speed balanced maybe quiet down please all

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right it appears that we have gained 2° oh maybe three on the GPU and we now

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cannot hear the fans excellent tuning D

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all right this is not a very heavy game but we are seeing 250 to 300 FPS that's

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pretty darn good and especially with this 240 HZ display I imagine this is

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going to be a pretty good time if I'm honest I was planning on kind of

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complaining about this display cuz if you look at it compared to like most of

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what other gaming laptops have now which is like oleds and stuff like that it

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didn't sound like it would be too good but now that I'm seeing it in game this

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is excellent for gaming you don't necessarily need like the darkest blacks

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or the most contrast for a game cuz sometimes that can be not even as good

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if what you want to see is kind of dark on your display we have confirmed that

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this gaming laptop is much powerful enough to play this let's head out just

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changed over performance mode again switch to Performance preset no change

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settings all right we can disable it we can go in the software we can flip a

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switch and then it doesn't automatically go to Performance mode which I quite

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appreciate if you are playing a game and it seems like things are heating up a

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little bit too much you can just press this button right here boom high

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I don't want that we can just very simply have it be in Balan mode and

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everything will be happy this does also have NVIDIA Advanced Optimus so you have

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gsync in there of course and we also have a direct line from the GPU directly

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to your display so it can get a little bit confused at times but for the most

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part that means that you're going to have an extra 10 or so FPS compared to

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if it had to put those frames through your igpu first to get into this display

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yeah we're in valheim here and we're looking at 75 FPS highest possible

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details that's at, 1600p of course our

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lab also put it through the paces so we're looking at 104 FPS in cyberpunk

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2077 159 FPS in F1 2023 and 80 FPS in

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Total War Warhammer 3 and that is coming out of the 140 wat 470 in this model of

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the M16 that we have right here now that was able to beat the Asus sephus G14

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which is good cuz this is a much larger laptop although it wasn't able to quite

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match the Rog strix g16 which you'd think would be pretty

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similar at 140 W TDP on the GPU as well

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but maybe they're able to just stretch their CPUs legs a little bit more either

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way this is a pretty freaking fast laptop even if it is quite loud in that

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performance mode but loads of gaming performance is no good to you if the

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keyboard is trash fortunately though this one feels

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excellent yeah this keyboard is fantastic I'm going to give it just a

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solid a there is loads of consistency

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between the keys there is heaps of travel look at that they feel really

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good they have a nice tactile bump at the top they don't bottom out in any

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sort of a weird way there's enough chassis rigidity that they are just

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working really quite well now I will

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briefly complain about the trackpad it's overall pretty good the tracking solid I

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haven't had any problems with it like right clicking when I meant to left

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click or stuff like that I just wish there was more of it like I said before

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there's quite a bit of space here that they definitely could have put a

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trackpad into and it kind of seems like they just reused the old one from the

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laptop that had all of that extra space for fans and crap on the back and all of

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this was moved down but instead they just didn't bother making a new one for

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this gen which is kind of disappointing

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especially given that this is not a cheap laptop it's passible I am going to

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accept the size of the trackpad just simply because Alienware did such a good

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job on this keyboard so I will be okay

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maybe plugging in a mouse every now and then if I need to if it does mean that I

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can comfortably type on this keyboard for hours and hours but can I

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comfortably listen to music 4

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hours all right

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tiny wow there's there's not a lot going

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on there it's loud but there's no base

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whatsoever compared to the speakers that I've been hearing on other laptops like

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those from Asus and Razer and HP these

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do not match up to what they have been able to achieve and it's especially

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disappointing cuz Dell on their XPS line

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has really f fantastic speakers and it's kind of sad that that technology wasn't

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able to make it over here J's probably also really disappointing given Dell's

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streak the webcam we do have a 1080p

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webcam here and it looks okay I guess I look really blocky

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and kind of blotchy and overall just not

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particularly flattered by what I am seeing but at the same time it's not

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doing anything egregiously wrong it's

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exposing for my face as well as I can even though it's kind of completely

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blown out right there it's so grainy and

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overall trash looking that wa look at

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those Halos whenever I move it the like the image stays for a second I would say

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that webcam is perfectly acceptable even

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though not good at all hopefully the Qualcomm laptops that are coming out now

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will just blow this out of the water or they do I can tell you that for sure one

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thing that is very nice about this camera though is that there's IR sensors

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up here so you can use Windows hello facial recognition to get into your laptop which is my personal favorite way

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to get into a laptop one thing I have been noticing though is that it's

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getting really warm around this it has the exhausts on the side that are

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blowing out this way and the area on the

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kicking out a lot of heat and I imagine if you to play games for half an hour an

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hour or so your hand over here is going to be getting very toasty especially if

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you're gaming in the summer so note that eight Phillips head screws later and we

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are in and I am quite impressed so many

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laptops these days do not have upgradeable RAM and I love to see that

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Alienware has kept on including that here even in their mline which is you

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know supposed to be a little bit thinner and lighter this rate here huge bonus

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for me so we only have 16 GB of RAM in

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our model here if you need more in the future just put in more you can just do

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it super easy to do this I absolutely

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love to see that kind of upgradeability and it moves this laptop up a couple of

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places for me personally also if you want to put in a second SSD you can do

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so right here if you did insc one from the factory and if for whatever reason

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Wi-Fi 7 doesn't work in a couple years well you can just replace your Wi-Fi

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card as well so that is about as good of upgradeability as we can expect expect

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from a laptop like this so good job guys

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also looking at the heat sink here it's nothing too crazy we don't have a

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massive Vapor chamber we just have a couple of heat pipes going to our vents

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on the back and on the sides we've got two fans that are just pretty typical

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fans for your laptop but the star of this show here besides our SOA memory is

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the 90w hour battery now this being a

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gaming laptop it's not the most efficient in the world but we were still

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able to get over 7 and 1/2 hours in our battery life endurance test which is

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pretty good for a laptop like this something like the Asus G14 does beat it

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pretty much every ryzen gaming laptop does beat it actually but for an Intel

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gaming laptop it is really quite good I feel like it's very rare these days that

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a computer manufacturer manages to just make something that overall is solid

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there's nothing about it that blew me away I wasn't like oh an OLED screen wow

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what if the same time there's nothing really bad about it like I can wish for

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a slightly larger trackpad but that's not a deal breaker for sure and the

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keyboard more than makes up for it so I quite like it this model that we have

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right here with 16 GB of RAM terab of memory and that 470 comes in at

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$1900 so it is definitely a bit expensive but it is also quite in line

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with everyone else and in particular if you can find one of these on sale I

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would jump on it just like I'm going to jump jump onto the end of this video hit

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like get subscribed and just have a great all day see you later Labs just

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asked if I want to talk about the max spec version that's 3,800 bucks I don't

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that's stupid don't buy that one just upgrade it yourself