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In here we have the brand new HP Spectre X36014in

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and it is the epitome of listening to what people want. So HP had this problem

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before where there are kind of only two

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reasons that you would get a Spectre X360 laptop. Uh the first is that you

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couldn't afford a Dell XPS 132 in1. And

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the second is that you had never heard of HP's Envy lineup because their Envy

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X360 was basically especially with the

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AMD processor nearly as good in every single way and

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also outperformed it and had better battery life and was a lot cheaper. But

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HP finally has like updated their Spectre lineup. So, I'm really excited

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to check this out. All right, let's get to unboxing it, I guess. Uh, this

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unboxing is 100% a lie. I've actually been using this for about a week cuz I

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could not wait to open it up. You took it home?

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Yeah, I took it home. I used it over all of Christmas break.

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Here we have a little leather carrying case. I love that HP includes these in

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their laptops. and

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the star of the show here.

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Oh,

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excuse you, HP. All right, we'll we'll skip past the laptop for a second, but

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you do get a pen with this. It attaches magnetically to the side, and also it

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goes into the Whoa, where did it go? And

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also, it goes into your little leather carrying case right here. So, you should

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be you'd have a decent time at not losing this. Onto the power brick. Cute

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little type-C doodad

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that is, let's see, 65 watts. Not too bad. It's also awesome that it's type-C

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because I didn't even open this up over the past week cuz I could just use

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chargers that I already had around the house. And on to the main event.

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Hey. Yeah, here it is

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in actually. Jonno, what do you think of the look of this?

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Looks pretty good. Like, it doesn't look too shiny or showy.

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Yeah. What really surprised me about it though is that when I showed it to my

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girlfriend, who I think is like the key demographic for this, like has a

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business degree, currently owns a Surface Laptop, she absolutely hated it.

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She would have this nowhere near her at all. She was like, "That is the

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stupidest looking thing ever." What is fantastic on this is the IO. So, we have

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a little micro SD card reader, Thunderbolt 4, I believe, headphone, and

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then another Thunderbolt 4 port there. Then on this side, you get a single USB

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type A, which is so awesome compared to

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All right, let's do it.

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So, this right here is the star of the show and why I'm so excited. We have a

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3x two display that's 14 in across and

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you just get so much extra vertical

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space for activities. This one right here, we actually speced it with the

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OLED screen which is 3000x2000p

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and it looks absolutely fantastic. Um,

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let's just turn it up here for a second. Now, you should not buy this panel. This

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panel is really dumb. Uh, they have an IPS version that's full HD. that's a lot

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cheaper, has probably much better like

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uniformity. This right here, the OLED panel still has some issues. I would not

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trust it despite it being color calibrated. These little connector

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thingies are supposed to be this nice

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brilliant bronze color, but I have put electrical tape over it.

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It turns out that's because they are

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really, really shiny. So, if you're sitting at an office with overhead

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fluorescent lighting, it bounces directly off of that and into your eyes.

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And that's why I was getting a headache while using this thing. I don't know.

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That's the sort of thing that I would never think of. But I did try it and I

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gave it to multiple people and they all immediately were like, "Something's off

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about this." So, another reason why you don't want to get this OLED panel

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despite it looking amazing is that it

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destroys your battery life. Just get the full HD display. That

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That's what I'm saying here. One thing that really surprised me about this

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laptop is that it has a lot of smart things in it that are actually smart.

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So, one of the ones that it just showed is that they have automatic color space

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changes. So depending on what you're doing, it'll switch between Adobe RGB,

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DCIP3, and sRGB, which is awesome

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because it means that whatever you have on your computer is going to look like

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it should, like whoever made it intended it to look. So if you go to a YouTube

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video, it's not going to be oversaturated, but then if you go into a

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photo editing program, it's going to properly represent all of those colors

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without you having to go in and change to the Adobe color space.

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freaking awesome. Another thing that's just so smart is in bag detection. So

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when you close this and you chuck it in a bag, it knows that it should just be

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hibernating. This is something that's bugged me so much about the XPS15

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cuz I have to turn it so that it just automatically hibernates when I close

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the lid so that it doesn't like warm up and use the whole battery in my bag.

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Another thing that really surprised me about this, and I don't know if this is

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a Windows thing or an HP thing, is that

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facial recognition has worked with a mask on. So, let's just try this one

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more time here.

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Yeah, it just worked. Every single other laptop that I have used that has facial

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recognition has not worked with the mask on. And again, I don't know if this

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actually we can just test it. This has updated Windows and it has facial

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recognition. Mondell

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It's hibernated freaking

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This is the problem. Come on.

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Yeah. So, the XPS15 cannot use facial recognition while I'm wearing a mask,

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but it immediately gets it when I take it off. My personal biggest problem with

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the Spectre X360 13-in, though, was just

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that my hands physically wouldn't fit on it. So, it had a fantastic keyboard as

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far as like the switches were concerned, but that doesn't matter if like your

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hands sort of awkwardly half off of the laptop, half on it. That's an

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exaggeration, but it feels like you're typing like this cuz you can't rest your

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palms on it. This right here, because of the taller screen, also means you have

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way more space for your palms and for the trackpad. So, I have right here a

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great big Excel sheet that tells you basically what percentage of males and

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females will be able to comfortably type on a laptop. This is based off of the

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standard deviation of hand sizes. There's some ratios in there. Whatever.

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You go from the home row down to the bottom. Let's see. 140 mm

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compared to 129 for the old 13 in. So,

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you might think 11 mm, how big of a difference can that be? It's freaking

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massive. The number of males that were comfortable on the old one was only 32%.

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And even half of females on the old 13-in, their hands just simply won't

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fit. On this one right here, though, 60% of males and 80% of females will be able

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to type with no problems at all. That's

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just so many more people that can use this laptop and enjoy it. fantastic. It

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also means that we have this really nice and large trackpad that's just so much

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better to use. The old one just didn't have enough vertical space. So, I

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constantly found if I was going from the bottom of the screen to the top, I would

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just well run out of space. Whereas now,

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no problem. It's just generally an

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excellent trackpad. The only thing that slightly bothers me is that they have

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these keys on the right here that are full size. And that means that on the

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left you're really close to the edge.

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And that means that for things like copy and paste and so on, my hand is off the

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left hand side. But that's a very minor complaint compared to my hands always

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hanging off of the back before. Let's see how these speakers are. Okay. this

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So, like, yes, the XPS15

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is better, but like it better be. It's a 15-in laptop. It's just massive compared

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to this thing. This is so much lighter.

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And at the same time, the HP, I think, has better clarity. Like, you can hear

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more of what's happening in the song. You don't get the deep bass, but at the

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same time, it's for something of this size,

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excellent. One thing that I actually totally forgot about until now is the

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power, cuz in a thin and light, it matters, but it doesn't really matter.

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So, we had an 11th gen Intel Core i7 1165G7.

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So, that's only four cores, but they're pretty speedy. And you also get Iris XE

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graphics which are just so much better than any other integrated graphics that

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have existed. Well, I guess AMDs are like good, but they're not as good as

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this. Well, you'll be able to play some games. That's that's about it. You'll

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not be able to play like Cyberpunk on this, obviously. You also get a Wi-Fi 6

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card and in this one 16 GB of RAM. Now,

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should you go for 16 GB of RAM?

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You might not need it in a thin and light, but if it's not upgradeable, then

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you really should. So, yeah. I guess let's find out. We're

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going to have to remove these rubber feet, and they're never going to go back on the same.

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Okay, here we go.

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Uh, you can't see a whole lot. What there is, though, is just a massive

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battery. Like, look at how much of the laptop this takes up. We've got a good

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old 66.5Wh hour dude right here. Okay, so HP's

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numbers for this battery are with the OLED screen, 12.8 hours of video

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playback. Whereas with the full HD

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screen, which is the one you should get, it's 19 hours. Then Netflix streaming,

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which is a bit more realistic, the OLED screen gets 10.2 hours, whereas the full

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HD gets 15.4, 4, which is wicked. I

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think we're able to upgrade the SSD under this. There's the

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SSD. So, that's fairly easy to replace. You don't need to go ham on that if you

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don't feel like it. As for RAM, though, I'm not seeing

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anything. Yeah. No, there's not a lot in

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the way of cooling. If you're planning on using it for video editing,

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well, I don't know. just get something that's more powerful if you want to do video editing. If you wanted to do photo

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editing, then maybe you'll run into some

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situations where you'd wish that you'd gone for like the Razer Book. In my use

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with it, I don't think I've heard the fans once. I think that's about it for

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this laptop. Hands fit on it. Loads more space vertically for activities and fun

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times. I think this thing's awesome. Uh if you're looking for a laptop that's

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like this, it starts at what? Uh, oh

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jeez. So, it starts at $1,300. That gets

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you an i5, 8 GB of RAM, the full HD

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screen, and a 256 GB SSD. Not amazing,

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but at the same time, for a lot of people, that's probably enough power.

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The one that I'd recommend, holy crap, that's almost $1,600. Um, $1,589.99.

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That gets you an i7. Uh the full HD

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screen again, 16 GB of RAM and 512 gig SSD. That's pretty steep, but at the

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same time, the XPS 132 in1 is really

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expensive, so I guess that's what you get. And then the model we have right

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here is $1,700, which gets you a terabyte SSD and the

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OLED screen. All of them come with the pen. and

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don't buy the OLED. If this is the kind of laptop that you want,

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it's pretty hard to do better. Well, anyway, I quite enjoyed giving this

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thing a look. I might continue. Actually, that's a lie. I'm going to use

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the XPS 15, but it was it was close. It

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was pretty close. You know, if I didn't quite need power

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for like Solid Works, I would legitimately use this every single day.

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Um, it's a great laptop and I hope you

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guys have a great day. Hit like, get subscribed and so long.