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today we're going to be checking out a thick tablet Meet The Minis Forum V3 a

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gaming grade tablet that features a ryzen 7 8840 U processor 32 GB of memory

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and some really cool IO starting with

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this guy right over here let's get right into this we've got no way no way is

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that a full-sized SD card slot okay I'm

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kind of into that we've got a volume rocker that can operate in two different

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mod modes one to adjust volume and one to adjust yes that's right my friends

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get this the brightness of the display when you are using this USBC Port that

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supports something that I'm seeing for the first time in person here called

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vlink vlink allows this tablet computer

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which yes is a full-fledged PC that I'm just going to go ahead and click on that

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is capable of running even triaa games like cyberpunk it allows you to turn it

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into a portable monitor I'm such a huge

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advocate for this functionality because what it does is it allows you to use it

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as a tablet for most of its usable life cycle and then use it as a monitor later

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in fact that is a feature that Apple used to support on their old IMAX called

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Target display mode so you could just use it as a monitor once the insides

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were kind of useless uh let's take a quick look at the outsides here so we've

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got some Pogo pins for oh right it's not

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just a tablet it's a threein one sold me taking a look at some accessories

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that'll attach to that coming around this side we've got two more USB-C's

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these both USB 4 we've got a power button with integrated fingerprint

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sensing uh moving around to the top ah yes ventilation if you're going to put

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eight Zen 4 CPU cores in this thing not to mention a 12 cuu GPU that boosts to

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up to 2.7 GHz you're going to need a couple intake fans and you're going to

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need a couple of heat sinks man I am

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liking this display it does not support HDR but what

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it does manage to do is hit the stated 500 nits of peak brightness with what we

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would describe as reasonable color accuracy and it's got an extremely I'm

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using the word aggressive here but really what I'm going for is effective

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anti-glare coating that in spite of the fact that this place is covered in

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studio lighting still manages to yield a

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usable image it doesn't have the thinnest bezels and we did notice some

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odd behavior from the display where using it as a Target display for another

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Machine versus using it with the tablet

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itself resulted in both different performance in terms of brightness and

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in terms of color accuracy and grayscale tracking kind of odd but none of the

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results were unacceptable so I would take the additional functionality even

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if it does come with some caveats and caveats there are this is a 144 40p

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display that can run it up to 165 Hertz

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I mean look when I said that this was a gaming tablet I was not yank in your

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chain but in display Target mode it can

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only achieve 60 HZ and we noticed that

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instead of running an 8 bit mode natively it was running six-bit mode

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with dithering which we didn't observe any banding issues but could show up

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depending on what it is that you're trying to achieve wow Big Picture Mode

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looks flipp and awesome on this and wait

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this isn't 1440p is it it's not it's

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2560 x600 so that's a 16x 10 aspect

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ratio which is great for productivity whether you're a video editor or writer

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I mean really anything where you can benefit from a little bit of extra vertical space you know what I'm not

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always a huge fan of the feel of anti-glare Coatings this is not bad it's

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still not quite what you'd expect from you know a modern smartphone with

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Gorilla Glass 3 or victus or something like that but it's pretty satisfying and

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realistically I don't think there'd be any getting away from this given that ah

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yes one of the big selling points of this tablet is that it is suitable for

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drawing right now their pen is included as a free gift with your purchase of the

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V3 tablet but it is rumored to cost in the neighborhood of around $100 at some

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point and supports up to 4,096 pressure sensitivities so can we

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play fort Horizon 5 with a pen we're about to find out while we wait for this

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plan at the link down below H yes the

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answer expectedly is no but that's fine

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because that gives us a good opportunity to talk about some of the accessories that are included that we kind of

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glossed over before there's a power adapter which you can't take for granted

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these days wow that is really small is this a powered it is 65 Watts Max and so

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tiny I love this and it comes with a USB-C Toc cable the pen comes with an extra

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tip and a puller and a convenient place to store it though it should be noted

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that we found that while gaming which is where I was getting to with this it gets

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really hot because it overlaps ever so

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slightly with these exhaust vents so we would recommend that if you're playing

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games or realistically doing anything intensive for a long period of time on

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this thing that you maybe just put your pen in your bag and then bring it out

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when it's time to actually draw for our part though let's try out some more of

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the accessories ooh the stand oh I guess

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better this is this is really not that convenient do I really have

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to oh wow that's a that's a really stiff

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hinge dang goes over the camera and that

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goes like that that's technology all right

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oh let's see if the keyboard's a little

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better man I mean that's about as good as I could ask for for something so low

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profile but I can't say that it's the most awe inspiring typing experience

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I've ever had wait a second where the Sam Hill do they pull in air from is

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there another air pull source

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it appears that the intention

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ah is that actually holds on there a

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little bit better too all right minis Forum

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touche I got to say I'm surprised it took so long for someone to put one of

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these mobile AMD chips into a tablet like obviously at this screen size 800p

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is going to look a little Alias but this is very usable and in a chassis this

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size I don't know if this is just credit to to the mini forum team which has a

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lot of experience building super small desktop

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PCS it is surprisingly quiet like look

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at this I'm holding this right up to the mic you can barely hear the flipping

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thing that's really impressive running a AAA game like Port of horizon 5 now what

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you might not be as impressed by is the battery life it's got a 50w hour battery

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in it which is an okay size but resulted

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in an endurance battery life test of about 5 hours well short of our Target

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of about 6 hours to be decent and gaming

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battery life of just over an hour regardless of the performance profile

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speaking of performance profiles I'm probably in the balanced performance

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profile right now because the fans do get a bit more aggressive in the 28 watt

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maximum profile let's get their application open so we can have a look

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at that yeah we're in Power Balance mode

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oh oh I got to plug it in for power premium mode that is a very short

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included power cable so this is not also

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a regular USBC Port well that's good to

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know looking over here hey there we go 28 watt TDP 165 HZ

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refresh mode there we go that's a few more

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fpss and it's still not even that loud I

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think the most impressive thing about these AMD mobile chips is just how long

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it's taking Intel to catch up to them like they technically have a competitor

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in the form of their core Ultra 100 series family but I mean we have a

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competing product from 1 x player that has a larger 60 plus wat hour battery

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it's got the competing core Ultra chip running at a maximum 35 watt TDP instead

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of 28 watts and it still doesn't manage to match the performance of this thing

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and AMD hasn't even updated the GPU in these for an entire product refresh one

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thing they have updated is their npu or

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their neural Processing Unit so they saying that your onboard radon Graphics

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can now be used for things like gaze correction when you're on conference

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calls automatic Framing and advanced background adjustments uh speaking of

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which we should probably have a look at this camera I was going to say that's

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not bad for having an anti-glare Coating in front of it but um it doesn't that

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does impact my impressions of a little bit I mean it's very usable and I'll let

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you guys be the judge of the microphone quality eye contact hello can I have eye

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contact with you guys no matter where I'm looking on my screen is it

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correcting it uh it really doesn't look like it

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automatic framing though is this is any of this doing anything is oh

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heyy there you go whoa buddy okay that's

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kind of cool I haven't actually played around with this wait a second we're not

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done with the camera yet there's a rear camera so you can be the supremely

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gigantic pad hole ever oh my God the

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quality of this is terrible I don't remember the last time I took a picture

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with something and it looked this bad this is like iPhone 4 grade I can't even

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tell what finger you're holding up yeah okay all right all right all

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right all right we get the point back to the front camera for a second though it

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supports Windows hello which is nice and I got to say the overall weight of the

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device is not that bad it's about a kilogram which is heavy obviously but

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thanks to the magnesium alloy chassis it's not nearly as heavy as it otherwise

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could have

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been not bad actually not very loud but

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they've done a good job of managing Distortion even if you're not going to be getting the most Soul thundering base

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out of this thing you know what I don't even need to launch this to tell you

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guys the Labs tested the gaming performance of this device and we were

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pretty impressed it does about as well as you would expect one of AMD's latest

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apus to do and leaves Intel struggling

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to look for a reason to exist exist in this gaming tablet gaming handheld space

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what they couldn't test was how well it works for art now see I happen to be

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something of an artist I'm just kidding realistically whatever they did to have

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a look at the pen performance is more useful than what I'm about to do but hey

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I can at least say if it's super laggy

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he hey look at that okay can I just say

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mad respect to anyone who does a daily or even a weekly strip because anytime I

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sit down and try to think of something

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funny I draw a

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blank come on that's a little bit funny I mean realistically all I really care

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about is what kind of finess of control do I have with this thing it is possible

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to make contact with the screen and not leave a mark which is sort of a bummer

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however even the slightest bit of pressure does leave a very very thin

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line oh something that I'd like to try though is using it in Target display

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mode we're going to be using a Nintendo switch let's go ahead and get this plugged in here external DP signal

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detected shut down and switch to tablet mode yes do you confirm all your work

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has been saved that makes sense I've got to turn off the computer oh now is a

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good time to mention that we did find that it managed full coverage of the

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dcp3 color space as advertised however

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you're going to want to turn on Windows's autocolor Management in order

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to make sure that regular SDR content doesn't end up oversaturated now let's

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left to do is turn on our switch oh wow

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this is interesting it is stretched is there an

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OSD that allows us to change the aspect

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ratio okay that doesn't adjust volume

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anymore okay as we discussed that does brightness well is there any other OSD

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oh that is nope that just turned it off

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that is a bummer I pressed the power button and it turned the computer back

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on which was not actually my desired outcome when I had the switch plugged

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into it so it's an unusual device the

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one thing that I haven't been told in advance of this unboxing is the price

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I'm going to guess it's pretty cool it comes with a lot of accessories I'm

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going to say this thing is probably going to cost you a cool ,000 1500

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us$1,500

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us okay apparently it's on promo for 1,200 right now they know about the iPad

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right no they haven't heard of the iPad I mean

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this is a different device and if you're the kind of person who wants to run

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Windows software you want a tablet you want something AMD powered you're not

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going to have a whole ton of options and I understand that when you're producing

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devices at lower volumes there's going to be some inherent overhead but I think

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it's going to be a very particular customer who goes with this over one of

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the other mobile Computing solutions that are out there even if honestly it

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does seem pretty darn cool to me hope you guys enjoyed this video subscribe to

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