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wow it's been a while since the whole uh using your phone as a laptop discourse

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for a while there it was real hot were you into it I certainly was but now

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it seems like not as many people care about it except next doc them and a few

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other companies are still trying to make lap docks which are basically laptops

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but without a computer inside it does

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have a keyboard mouse or trackpad and a

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display that can be used basically as an external monitor for anything with a

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video output which means that the

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opportunities are Limitless

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why are you laughing it is a product category that some people do laugh at

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because they say oh why would you buy a

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laptop with no computer inside when you can buy a laptop for like maybe a bit

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more expensive with a computer good side or for the

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same price huh you know I said this in the previous

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videos but it's because this future where you don't

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have to Lug a phone and a laptop and your other devices a power bank blah

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blah blah I like this product category and I'm excited to take a look at this

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new uh new product but first let's see what else is in this box got a box

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within a box all right we have a HDMI to Mini HDMI

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cable we have the power adapter which is a 20 watt PD charger we have a USBC 2C

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right angle cable and that will be for if you don't want to use the wireless

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mode you can connect via a cable and then there is also oh it does kind of a

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nice include they have a USB-C to USB a

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cable okay the device itself very

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exciting there's the next stock logo I don't know why that's their logo I guess

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it's because that's a device that you can plug into a Pac-Man and it Pac-Man

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turns into the ghost in the video game game

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the last next stock that I looked at was the next stock touch which is basically

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it was not a fully reversible 360 hinge

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neck stock and it could only go back to there so it's nice to see this is my

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first experience with the Touch model that they actually have been uh selling

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for a while now but in a non-wireless version so this is the USBC Port that

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you use for input when they got a helpful little icon there so that's nice

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specifically for input don't plug anything else don't over here is the

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mini HDMI port which you can use to you know plug in things that don't have USBC

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with DisplayPort baked in over here we

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have the charging USBC Port that won't

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carry data we got a headphone jack we got a Micro SD card slot that's a nice

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workaround for phones that don't have built-in expandable storage we've got

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the power button and a USBC Port over here which is for data

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so that's means that you can also expand your phone or whatever device you're

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using even more it's a USBC Hub too guys

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please like this product the display here is a 13 inch 1080p

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thank you it's IPS so colors should look

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okay down here we got what looks like

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four speakers one two three four and down here the

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track pad that is one area that I really

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hope that they've improved on the trackpad in previous models was pretty

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lackluster and it had some glitching uh

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effects that were made things pretty frustrating so hopefully they've

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improved that and the keyboard hmm

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another thing that was lacking in the previous models was Flex in the well not

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lacking there was too much of it there was too much Flex in the previous models

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when you push down you can kind of see the whole thing kind of press in but

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that seems to be very much reduced here it still does a little bit but uh

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a lot better than it was before now when

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you press the power button I guess it comes into this ready to connect mode it

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gives you little instructions that's nice okay the two main ways that you can

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connect to it USBC cable and wireless to connect wireless and use all the the

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keyboard and the trackpad you're gonna have to use Miracast to cast wirelessly

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your display and then you're gonna have to connect the keyboard and trackpad I

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guess together and the touch screen as Bluetooth devices swipe down here with

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okay what do we got here we got volume brightness contrast I'm supposed to know

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what half sun and on a half moon and half Sun are these Egyptian

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hieroglyphics so you can change between USBC and HDMI inputs and right now it's

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set to cast and then I don't know what these are oh

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charging oh can you like disable the charging port maybe we'll have to see

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all right let's try casting so we're

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using a Samsung phone if you don't know Samsung has a whole Desktop Android

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feature called Dex that you know turns

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Android into like a desktop environment like Windows start now

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and nice okay boom oh oh I but there's no

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touch screen and I there's no touch pad so I have to go here and connect the

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actual Bluetooth device as well okay so now I'm connected to the keyboard and

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the touch screen and I'm casting will this work it will cool you know

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honestly I don't want to say that I wasn't

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expecting it to be that smooth but I wasn't okay in full disclosure all right

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let's let's start using this thing ooh yep there's some latency it's not

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unusable this video is not going to be about you know Samsung Dex or you know

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that desktop environment like whether how usable it is although I have heard

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that it's made some major improvements recently like you got window snapping

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you know it's getting better and better but uh this video is not about that it's

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just gonna be I'm gonna try to make it just about the the hardware itself even

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though I am very I want to talk a long time about all of it I should have done

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this a bit earlier you know the fact that it's a bit stiff while opening means that it can be stiff at multiple

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different angles which is pretty nice because you know as I said you don't

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have to use this as like an actual laptop replacement or you know a a phone

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dock thing you can use it just as a monitor so like you could bring a

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console around and like prop this up and now you're playing video games on your

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little thing and that's cool too the other thing I did not mention is that I

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think these bezels are I think it's a little thicker on the top and the bottom

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than I remember seeing on the previous next talk Dutch Dutch next doc touch

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back in 2020 so I don't know whether they I mean it's kind of disappointing

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to see a big bezel like that on the bottom here but you know again what do

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you be asking for all right now we're back to using the touchpad the biggest

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weakness and in Wireless mode you know

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as you would expect there's a little bit of latency it's hard for me to tell

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right now whether I'd be able to get used to this but you know I can try

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clicking around in things and see what happens see okay

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does it have does it have tap to click it does if you like the idea of using

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your phone as a computer this is definitely an option based on the stuff

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that I've seen so far I mean they have the I think they have window snapping

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here if I yeah drink bring it over there and there's no running apps can I start

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another one right away let's open

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Firefox oh okay oh see here oh did you see that you guys

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didn't because you can't see but I went to I was trying to click that X

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and there was like a ghost I guess I did

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a ghost touch on the touchpad and it jumped all the way down to the bottom

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I'm coming into this as somebody who actually is kind of interested in the

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idea of using like a phone as a PC and the touchpad remains in every model that

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I've tested it Remains the thing that turns me off the most I'm like this

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isn't ready not because of the software or other elements of the hardware it's

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literally just the touchpad it might be kind of basically the same model of

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touchpad as it was in the previous ones which is a it's definitely disappointing

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and the thing about having Hardware problems with a product like this is

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that you know oh whoops I turned it off what are you doing next dog

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so I accidentally hit the power button and then that means it breaks the whole

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connection I don't know whether that's the thing so the point I was just going

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to make is that if there's an issue with the hardware they can't fix it with like

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a firmware update or a software update because there's no there's no there's

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nothing in here except the keyboard and the touchpad and the and the Monitor and

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there's no there's no processor anything there's nothing to push an update to on

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the one hand that's an advantage because you know according to nextdoc it's like

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you don't have to worry about driver updates you have to worry about glitchy

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stuff and uh you know trying to fix it but the the con is the same thing it's

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like there's no driver updates so ways rant over oh okay all right well

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well that's a plus at least you know I I started decks up again and it

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automatically was right it was still connected via Bluetooth so that's that's

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something but still so touchpad

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experience usable but on the border so

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what happens if I put okay that brings up the apps kind of like Chrome OS

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Firefox okay oh see right there I'm trying to click on stuff I might have to

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rescind my rating as of this trackpad as

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usable so we tried to enable a refresh rate in the developer options

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understandably uh the phone you know isn't quite ready to I guess Android

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maybe correct me if I'm wrong in the comments Android isn't ready to show you

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the refresh rate of an external display or maybe it can but I'm not an Android

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developer I don't know how it says 60 over here but it won't tell me what this

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is based on the information we can see online this is a 30 Hertz display which

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is definitely you know it's okay it's not so great in a world

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in which we're used to seeing UH 60 FPS

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laptop displays at least 30 Hertz 1080p

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display is a little lackluster but you

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know what are you gonna do okay all right that Saga is done

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okay full screen but then you actually have to full screen the

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because in decks what

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wow because in decks you have your like each

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one each of your Windows is like it's acting as if it's an Android device with

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the screen that size so I full screened it within the window but now I have to

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full screen the actual window itself that's a little annoying

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you know honestly so great

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honestly they're not great but they're actually better than I thought they

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would be I think they are improved over the previous next doc uh model you know

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it's not the worst speakers I've ever heard in a laptop

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they're not good speakers it's a good thing there's a touch screen because I'm

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getting frustrated with the touchpad and using the touchscreen more often than I

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would like for sure okay we're at uh 4K quality on a 1080p display here I mean

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I like the colors the colors look you know pretty vivid see now the other thing is

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that we're going Wireless here this is on a Wi-Fi connection and so like I saw

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a little bit of stuttering there just like a tiny bit but it seems to have

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recovered so you know there is that potential when you're when you're streaming wireless

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video that you're gonna get some artifacts like that but overall I'm

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pretty impressed like this looks great I forgot that it was Wireless

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that's enough crabs there's a 44 watt hour battery in the nextdoc wireless

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which is actually less than the one that

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was in the next doc touch although I can kind of understand that because this

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thing is as far as I can tell quite a bit thinner than the other one was it's

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not too heavy either which is understandable you know for the reasons that I've said uh no computer etc etc

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now since the last video I did on the next doc there's actually been a fairly

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interesting development the rise of these gaming handhelds based on

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both Windows and Linux Steam OS powerful

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handheld computers that you can use as

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computers in addition to like you know gaming handhelds I won this Aya Neo at

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the Christmas party so I've got this Windows handheld it's still running

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Windows 10. I'll probably have to connect via Bluetooth to the keyboard

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the same way probably connecting to your device come on or

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unless that just maybe just timed out connected duplicate oh whoa whoa we got

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some artifacting here all right some protocol is confused

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it's not breaking I think

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nice okay so hear me out here you don't

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want to get a laptop but you do want to get one of these handheld devices that

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are so so so popular and all of these gaming devices they're small they're

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portable they have really powerful processors in them if you have a steam

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deck which has a desktop mode right

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I haven't used it but I've heard that it exists or you have one of these Windows

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powered gaming handhelds look at that you got did you

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now you have you have both but I hear some of you saying Riley this thing is

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well the wireless version is 349 and the

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non-wireless version is 299 you can get Chromebooks for that price and

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Chromebooks are a much better value for your money are they though because if

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Chromebooks in education markets have just kind of broke after a few years

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because they break all the time uh

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because they're cheap is the hardware in this thing that much better

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if you've been watching this video you might be able to tell that okay no it's

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not that much better still want to hold

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a hold future okay listen this product doesn't make sense for a lot of people

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most people shouldn't buy this but I think that the improvements that

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I've seen have been just enough to keep my faith in the

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i in the idea that one day we could potentially have a situation where this

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is our phone and our laptop and our

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regular computer and we just kind of have docs that we just like use when we

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have to I know that I'm foolish I know it's just

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a dream but I believe next doc

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fix your freaking trackpad please and 60 hertz on display and then we can talk

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more next time hey thanks for watching this video guys if you want to watch

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something else uh you could watch the previous review I did on this on the

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next stock touch back in 2020 it's a little old but that's the last time

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anyone in the world I think thought about this idea so