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14in gaming laptops have just exploded

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in popularity but even though they're so

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small they are a big impact on your wallet except for ah this one right here

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it's a medium big impact on your wallet

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here we have the Predator Helios

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neo4 it's like the Helios 14 but the Neo

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means it's a little bit cheaper which honestly matters quite a bit in this

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segment right now first thing that I'm noticing fingerprints

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they really show up for power we have a 230 W brick which is delivered over a

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real old school looking Barrel Jack now

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I do wish that they had something that's a little bit more modern but at the same

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time for that kind of power you aren't going to be able to deliver it efficiently over USB type c so they

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can't just be using that so I guess Barrel Jack's fine do we have

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stickers here we go we've got to do it it's the rules laptop comes with

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stickers they go on the laptop do you like that real bow no training no enter

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heck yeah there we go that's 5 FPS right

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there for sure this laptop's clearly been uh through the review cycle a bit

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we are not the first ones with it and you can tell because it's kind of

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mangled back here look at how wavy that is for a 14-in gaming laptop we do have

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quite a solid assortment of IO so on the right hand side we have a micro SD card

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slot USB type-c with display out and

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charging usba a and a full-size HDMI

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port 2.1 and around on the left we have the input for our Barrel Jack another

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USB type a Thunderbolt 4 and a headphone

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microphone combo Jack now around the back and most of the sides we have a

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whole lot of heat sink we can see there

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all the way to there on the side that's all heat sink that's all heat sink this

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thing better perform really freaking good cuz that's a lot of heat sink and

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I'd be pretty embarrassed if it doesn't

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it's not light it's not super heavy it is 4.29 lb

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which is pretty good for something of this power it does have a 4070 in it and

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for the rest of the world that is 1.95

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kgs how heavy is this charger though

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it's much larger than like the Gallum nitride ones that we see in some other

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guys ooh 6 lb carry weight that's

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getting up there for sure once you add this overall besides the e of

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fingerprinting this machine I do think the build quality is quite High it

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appears to be manufactured out of stamped aluminum and the chassis

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rigidity is pretty good it's kind of soft over here actually I'll take it off

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the map for you not that this area of the keyboard

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really matters but it's something to note now before I turn it on it does

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seem like it can be passable enough for

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professional environments it isn't too wild with the gamer design but let's see

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what happens once the RGB gets enabled oh that's a lot I guess you can turn

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that off but uh you going to want to make sure that you turn it off before

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you go to your lawyer or whatever sure

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the RGB here looks pretty funky and that is largely because it's only three zones

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so we have color color color instead of each individual key being its own RGB

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light which doesn't allow you as much customization but at the same time it's

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one of the things makes the Helios Neo just a little bit cheaper than the other

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one and do you actually want to pay for individual lighting of your keys maybe

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don't buy this then why is my mouse so big this is hilarious it's almost as

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risk-free 30-day moneyback guarantee all right let's have a look at our specs

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here this thing is the Walmart special config you can only buy it from Walmart

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and it comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155h that is 16 cores 22 threads with

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that processor you get six performance cores eight efficiency cores and two low

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power efficiency cores and it goes up to 4.8 GHz as for memory we have 16 GB

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running at 6,400 megat transfers per second so may be able to be swapped

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although it says row of trips here so probably not we also have a Samsung NVMe

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SSD that is at 1 terte killer Wi-Fi 6E

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for networking and of course the star of the show is our RTX 470 from envidia

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this only has 8 GB of vram which is

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questionably enough these days but it should be able to get you gaming pretty

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good what isn't so good though is the npu uh all of Acer's marketing material

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and every single laptop Maker's marketing material is AI wow AI so much

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of it doesn't meet the in specs

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Microsoft's co-pilot plus so uh I don't know get screwed it's kind of useless

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now there are two panel options and we have unfortunately the worst of the two

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but it is still really quite good it's 1600p 120 HZ we have gsync and advanced

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Optimus in here and in our testing it performed really quite well Acer claims

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that it's a 350 niip panel but we tested it at 374 so that's borderline able to

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use it outside kind of brightness and the color accuracy even though the they

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said almost nothing about it is quite good we measured an average Delta e2000

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of 1.78 which gives us about enough color accuracy to be doing professional

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color work on this although that said your Reds will be a little bit saturated

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one thing that is completely missing though is HDR support which makes sense

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it just simply does not get bright enough if this isn't quite enough for

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you there is a higher resolution higher refresh rate display which is presumably

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decent but we haven't measured it so this one right here decent all right

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let's have a look at this keyboard here the first thing um it feels kind of

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strange they have a bunch of keys over on the right here like uh your Predator

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sense and your media Keys which shifts

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everything over here but your trackpad

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is centered so I end up just kind of on top of it why is there an avatar like

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it's like knockoff Master Chief anyway let's look at the keyboard

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this keyboard I'm going to give an astounding fine there's nothing wrong

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with it per se I was able to get up to full speed pretty quickly I'm not making

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many errors but the whole experience is just not super enjoyable the key travel

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is very short we have a lot of kind of

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mushy feel like if you look here it doesn't take very much to flex the

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keyboard even though like if I push hard on it it doesn't go any further but if I

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push just just a little bit it moves it moves a little bit there and that's

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enough to kind of make it feel mushy the key consistency not great like if we

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look at this here the J key is kind of floppy it's easy to move around I can

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get that kind of below the chassis before it actuates whereas K is really

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quite a good key K is doing just fine

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and that inconsistency is going to make your typing experience just kind of

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worse that said it's acceptable you'll get used to it you'll just not love it

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I'm giving it a B A flat B not a plus not a minus just a

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b still a quick Palmer ejection test since this is directly under where my

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hand is H the Palmer rejection seems okay

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enough you aren't going to get inputs if you just have your hand on top of it but

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it is really easy to click the mouse and that always clicks the most so try and

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avoid that I don't love it that said though the trackpad itself self is quite

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good it isn't particularly large it's a little bit on the small side but at the

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same time it's using up most of the space that's available I guess all of

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this could have moved up it's good enough it is the sort of

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trackpad where when I first started using it it was not the best I was

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having some kind of sticking issues like if you look here I can kind of get that

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right there there's a big

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bounce you can get sort of a bounce over the track pad but once you get your hand

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grease on it and all of that nice finger Lube on there it works just great no

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more skipping around yay gross all right let's see how

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this does in rocket League we are currently screen recording so that will

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be a little bit of a performance hit but at the same time it should be fine

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enough and yeah we're getting 160 FPS

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easy we are looking at ooh 100° on the

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CPU is pretty hot that isn't unheard of for gaming laptops like this like the

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Alienware that we just had was similar but it's not great that it's just

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immediately at 100° it's also just

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clearly reading wrong I don't think it's

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at 9 GHz we are in our performance mode

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right now and we are at about 80° on the

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GPU which is where it will start to get slower but it hasn't yet and also the

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fans are loudish but they aren't crazy like that

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alien wear that we had last time that I guess we're just going to dunk on for a

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bit overall though this is quite a good laptop to play games on from my short

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bit of testing right here 120 HZ display g-sync nice and colorful I'm having a

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good time overall the gaming performance of this thing is quite good Labs tested

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it and when you have it in turbo mode where that 4070 is going up to 125 watts

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it was able to beat the Asus G14 and yeah basically everything all of the

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gaming tests this thing right here one compared to the G14 but with its ryzen

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processor the Asus G14 was able to Edge

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out in some of our more professional benchmarks let's give crab r a listen

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given our last Acer laptop that we had in here my expectations are not

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high wow that's already on 100 H

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treble that is comically lacking in

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volume and base and mids and in staging uh I do

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want to hear it without this cuz it does

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have some down firing speakers and it's

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still yeah those are abysmal we're going to compare to a MacBook Pro 14 Ju Just

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for a second so you can really hear just how butt sounding these are

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wow yeah Acer fix it oh my God webcam it

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looks fine it's 1080P and I'm kind of

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blown out and I'm really fuzzy it's completely dying when we look towards

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the lights here if we go around this way I'm still completely blown out and now

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I'm both too dark and blown out

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excellent the most disappointing thing here though is that I don't see any

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Windows hello facial recognition or fingerprint sensors so you need to just

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log in like a caveman typing out your password nine T5 screws later and we are

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inside we can see here that

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uh guys look at this look at this fake

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vents they're Liars they only have heat

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sink right here that explains why we're hitting 100° even though I thought that

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we had a freaking heat sink all the way across the back anyway there are three

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heat pipes here and they do do good enough of a job and we have a fair bit

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of heat sink on the sides and the back even if it isn't as much as I thought we

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had for repairability you can swap out the Wi-Fi card you can swap out your SSD

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although there are no extra SSD slots and the RAM is soldered down so there is

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no getting at that we also have a 76w

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battery which Acer has been able to really push to its limits in their eco

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mode we able to get 9 hours and 40 minutes away from the wall which is just

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exceptional for a laptop like this you typically see these maybe getting eight

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sometimes 6 seven so seeing them be able to get over 9 and 1/2 hours in this

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thing is incredibly impressive now can it pass our double-sided drive test

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check get in here goes down yep you're all good if you want to

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upgrade to a double-sided drive if we look at our Walmart config for this

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right here here it comes in at $1,600 for that 47d and an ultra 7 which is

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pretty darn good similarish laptops will

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be coming with a 4060 for that kind of a price but at the same time if you're

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willing to spend 2300 more dollars you

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will be able to get much better speakers and like an OLED display if that's

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something that you want if you're just looking for battery life and performance

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though this thing's pretty darn good do you know what also is pretty darn good

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you thank you viewer for watching this hit like get subscribe and just have a

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great all day see you later