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can Corsair make a laptop they clearly can the real question is can they make a

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good laptop

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let's find out we have a nice little cloth to get your

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fingerprints off of it it comes with a nice little laptop case of course they

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are branding on it

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for power we get 230 watts from this

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brick right here delivered through a barrel plug

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this is a very tall laptop oh look at this the way that they have their whole

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streaming chummy up here like just for comparison here that's the xps 15. it's

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so much longer this is going to be a

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legitimate problem for a lot of people i think backpacks designed for 15-inch

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laptops i don't think we'll be able to put this in it overall though i think it

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looks pretty good it looks mean i think that's accurate it also looks like it's

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attracting fingerprints geez i see why they included this

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what do we have for io two usb type-cs

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not Thunderbolt because this is AMD we also have headphone microphone combo our

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barrel input anything on the back nope then around this side we have full size

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usb type a another usbc and a full-size

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sd card reader really like to see that i just told these are usb type-c gen4

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and it has Thunderbolt 3 compatibility

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damn this feels like maybe just under 5 pounds

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5.28 not bad

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oh my god it's so tall look at this this is ridiculous we have so much space down

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here for their streaming doodads like i think that this

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actual display is yeah the display is the same size it's so tall that it's

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like screwing up our lighting i'm not getting light to like this half of the

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laptop this is shockingly stiff if i'm

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honest i was expecting it to be a bit of a flop monster because Corsair has never

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done this before and i kind of figured that they have what 2500 employees a

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company like dell has like 160 000 like

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how would they possibly be able to match that massive track pad too oh we've got

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on our track pad here and i don't quite understand what it's saying if i double

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tap here does it just disable the right side it does

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why would you want to do that like i could make an argument for why

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you might want to disable the left side because like if you're gaming you have your mouse here you have your hand here

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it's going to be resting on the left side of your trackpad but here they

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disable the right side where i don't get it

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arrow no one uses the arrow keys andy

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but whatever we'll never use it again by default we have elgato stuff here and it

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looks like that we have streaming buttons bound

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oh satisfying deal though this elgato software which i think should be working

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but is not s macro keyboard what is this

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then nothing's assigned but they have this elgato overlay here that matches

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the layout of my macro keys here but it just does nothing if i'm honest

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uh i don't stream but i do use macros

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all the time i will normally have like a bunch of ones set up for word excel

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and solidworks and that just makes my life a lot easier info s buttons can be

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programmed for streaming actions in the elgato stream deck software but it just

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told me to come here this is a bit of a pain in the airs to

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do i really like macro software where

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you're able to program it without going in and doing all this software bullcrap

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this is the sort of stuff that i will use once and then probably never touch

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again and if it isn't quite what i want i'm never gonna bother with it new

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assignment keystroke key

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s2 text

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text three Jake is a butt

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not the jig that is here the other one

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and s4 let's have it open up notepad because that's where i want to go next

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select application s4 yep okay she works all right we

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opened up notepad b-roll l-roll Jake is

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a butt not the Jake that is here the other one it's working all right great

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i could legitimately see this being very useful it works decently well it's not

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making your keyboard in a stupid spot like some of the ones where they'll have macro keys over here and your whole

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keyboards like right all right let's open our notepad back up and figure out

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what the keyboard is like

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it's not the best that i've ever experienced it's kind of weird there's

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like a lot of travel kind of before it actually

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types the way that the keys yield is just kind of strange there's like not

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really like a tactile bump it's kind of like a

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that's that sound is the only way that i can describe how this key press feels what

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would i rate it as though a minus i think this is a very good track pad like

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i am honestly shocked that Corsair has been able to come out of the gate and

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make something that's as good well they probably didn't they probably just sourced a good track pad from someone in

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which case good job a lot of people have a lot of trouble doing that

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for the processor we get a ryzen 9 69 nice 100 hs

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that is eight cores 16 threads and just

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generally quite nice little processor i believe this one goes up to 40 watts we

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also have 32 gigabytes of RAM that's 4 800 mega transfers per second ddr5 2

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terabyte SSD this is going to be a freaking expensive config also wi-fi 6e

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thanks to qualcomm and to round it out we have an AMD Radeon rx 6800 m that's

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slots somewhere between 30 70 3080

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performance here we have

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what i would consider the best gaming laptop that you can buy that's

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reasonably thin and generally just a good one for specs

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this has same processor 6900hs same

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amount of RAM same speed it does have one terabyte less storage but most

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importantly we have an rtx 3070 ti for the GPU now we already know that the

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zephyrus g15 is an excellently cooled machine and that 100 watt TDP

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it does it great how did Corsair do apparently they have a vapor chamber i

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don't know how well they have actually done it this is a streaming orientated

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device and although it seems to have some

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pretty cool streamer things one thing i was a bit concerned about was the GPU

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AMD's Radeon gpus are pretty great at gaming

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actually i would say they are exceptional at gaming what might matter

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to you though is the encoders NVIDIA's nvinc encoders

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are freaking incredible so if you want to stream you can do so on NVIDIA GPU

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and it is going to be just a great time just simply recording some stuff right

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now on this and it is taking up 43

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of the GPU and the GPU is currently at 76 degrees celsius now for this test we

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are going to be using a fairly aggressive bit rate so 1500 kilobytes

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per second but i also know that that is absolutely fine with an end vent encoder

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okay so in fairness to what i said before task manager is currently showing

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the NVIDIA GPU at 70 usage well it is

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doing this the difference though is that the AMD Radeon one has all of its stuff

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in the 3d category so that's possibly

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the stuff that you use to do games i don't really know another thing about

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having an AMD GPU here that is just worth noting because we're

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running the tomb raider benchmark is that it does support NVIDIA's dlss i'm

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disabling it but you could potentially get way better performance by just

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enabling that on this we do have Radeon super sampling in this which you can

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apply to anything through their drivers but it's kind of a pain in the air so

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you probably won't most of the time i'm almost certain that the zephyrus is

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gonna win i think this one right here is really struggling because of the

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streaming stuff they are very similar in loudness

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oh and their FPS's look identical all right maybe i was just an AMD hater for

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no reason but they're both 240 hertz and they both look fantastic to my eyes well

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here we go 81 FPS 87 FPS so the zephyrus

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won but just a tiny bit and i imagine

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that depending on the game it's going to flip-flop around depending on which one

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of these wins my bigger concern was the video encoding but at the same time same

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settings on each one running on AMD's encoder and bank they both worked great

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yep that's very nice smooth playback right here

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same with the zephyrus all right my concerns about AMD's encoders were

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completely unfounded so good job

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Windows update freaking incredible all

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right you've gotta love it when Windows updates just decides to insert itself in

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your gameplay i don't know how much battery life this Corsair laptop gets

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but i can guarantee you if you leave it in your backpack it's gonna be dead

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afterwards because of Windows modern standby it's terrible Corsair go and

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talk to microsoft tell them it's trash even though this is only one benchmark

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i am very impressed that Corsair has been able to keep up with the ASUS

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because like they have been at this for a very long time and the g15 absolutely

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destroys a bunch of other like 15 16 inch laptops

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that don't have proper vapor chamber cooling in them

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i think that we went 2fps slower without streaming on

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NVIDIA so uh enable ops makes your games run faster

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that's a tech tip right there no actually don't do that i do think the

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Corsair is running quite a bit faster though now that it is not encoding

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all right 98 FPS all right so we got 10 more

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by not streaming coding at the same time that's a fair bit faster than this guy

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here so you do have a performance hit by encoding on the AMD GPU which you did

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not have on the NVIDIA one but at the same time in this game at least at these

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settings the AMD one's a bit faster i don't think this is going to be great

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i can guarantee you that the xps 15 blows us out of the water

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that's better

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yeah that's uh that's

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not even like same ballpark like this right here is like kids playing t-ball

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in the sound department go and contact harman or someone Corsair

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we also get to look at the displays here unsurprisingly the xps 15's display is

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better but at the same time this one's 240hz

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i think for a gaming laptop this is an exceptional display

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especially 16x10 you don't get that all the time on gaming laptops but it gives

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you just a little bit extra vertical room so it's awesome for doing productivity

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stuff as well Corsair says that they have a very good 1080p webcam in this

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the problem is the quality of your actual hardware doesn't really matter

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it's pretty much 100 software at this point now the xps 15

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even though this generation was not very

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good it was a huge leap over the old one and this is like pretty all right

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this is bad oh my god this is terrible

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um okay so we're gonna have to just manual do this so that okay so

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maybe more brightness and more contrast

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that's starting to look a bit better but it's also kind of looking like a early

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2000s music video yeah the con just too much contrast and

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it looks kind of strange but at the same time it's not the worst that i've ever seen this is pretty challenging lighting

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if you don't have a hat on it's a little bit better the shadows are

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pretty crushed um the highs are kind of weird it's perfectly okay like i think

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it is doing now that i've tweaked the settings a little bit better than dells

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which makes sense 720p 1080p you'd hope you'd be able to get it a little bit

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better i would say that the webcam and microphone on this

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are perfectly fine okay heck yeah we have got Windows facial recognition on

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this thing which is awesome so we have our fingerprint reader right here and

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also facial recognition up there having both is excellent all right up until now

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Corsair has done a shockingly good job if it's upgradeable i'm damn impressed

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the screws are not the same size so if you are taking it apart just make sure

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that you do something like this keep track of where they go don't put a long

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screw in a short screw spot or you're gonna have a screw poke through the

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front of your chassis

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dang alright so here we have a massive vapor

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chamber covering both our CPU and GPU we've got our fans fin density not super

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high but at the same time like we saw that it works pretty decent two SSD

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slots so one of them's unpopulated right over here super easy to upgrade your

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storage we've got our RAM right there Corsair vengeance RAM damn who would

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have thought oh good old ddr5 battery is right here super easy to replace if you

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want to and if you can get replacements for it and we have our wi-fi controller

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right there and looking under there if you take out the battery it looks

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like you can even pop the track pad right now it's just held in with a couple screws good job Corsair oh the

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chassis cnc milled as well you can see it right here we have our mill marks

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whole things probably done out of aluminum looks like it's all anodized as

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well so it should last quite a while before it looks like poo

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pricing oh it's really freaking expensive uh this one's what like three

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grand more than that as tested this one right here is 3050.

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that's a lot of change but at the same time this one's specked very high what

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does it start at like a bit over two grand 27 oops okay so you're basically

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in it for three grand so you can get the g15 with an rtx 3080

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which will help make up that performance gap same processor

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800 more oh you have to really want some macro keys

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to do that geez so good job Corsair you've made an

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excellent laptop i really hope that you can make a lot more of them to get some

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economies of scale to bring that price down a bit so that uh i can properly

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recommend it just like good job for watching this video hit like get

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subscribed and just have a fantastic day see you later