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you would think being an investor in framework that I wouldn't be down to

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accept hp's sponsorship to show off the repairability of their elitebook 845 G9

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but the truth is that this repairable laptop has a lot going for it that my

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framework doesn't for one thing hp's

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sales and distribution Network means that it's available wherever you might

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need it and for another it's got an AMD

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ryzen CPU and that's on top of it being

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highly user repair able with parts and detailed guides available to help you

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through the replacement of everything from the touchpad to the headphone jack

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to the entire display assembly all right then HP you want to

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sync my investment or what okay I'll

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play ball let's see what you

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got full disclosure that wasn't just a bit I am in indeed personally invested

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in framework laptops to the tune of

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$225,000 and it was a little over a year ago that I ended my original review of

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the framework laptop by saying the only reason other companies can't do this and

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framework proved it is because they don't care that's a problem chucking a

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device in the E-Waste bin because of one small flaw should be something that we

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try to avoid at all costs because

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everything about the design of this AMD ryzen power delete book 845 G9 really

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does seem to be rooted in Long service life and sustainable choices the first

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sign that HP is really listening comes before we even make it to the device

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itself the box is sustainably sourced

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and once we open it up the elitebook 45 G9 is lightweight but durable chassis

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uses recycled aluminum throughout and they're using postc consumer recycled

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Plastics in the bezel and the key caps

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speaking of that aluminum chassis it's time for us to crack it open and find

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out exactly how repairable these things are I'm going in pretty much completely

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blind here so um I guess we're going to learn together just how easy this laptop

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is to work on and we've got one of literally every single part that they

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offer on their online store to

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replace by the way another aspect of this whole serviceability angle that HP

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is taking is that if I wanted to cheat and research how to swap everything

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beforehand their YouTube channel has proper guides for everything that I'm

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about to do for this and actually tons

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of their other devices by the way right out of the gate I love this it's

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something that we've seen on the past few generations of HP laptops just five

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captive screws is all it takes to get inside and as small as it is this

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decision means a lot every extra screw

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or uh rubber foot that's in the way of someone opening up a laptop is another

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potential point to give up and and not choose repair or if you're a service

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tech who's working with a big deployment to these every screw is 15 more seconds

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maybe dozens of times a day costing you hours of your precious actual life so

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bottom line I really like this noons approach to getting inside we're off to

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a good start now that we're in here under this heat pipe is the star of the

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show this laptop is powered by an AMD 6850 U which is an 8 core 16 thread zen3

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plus chip fresh out of tsmc's advanced 6

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nanm Fab this thing boosts up to 4.7 GHz

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in a laptop this thin it wasn't that

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long ago that AMD laptops were dismissed for their poor performance poor battery

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life and subpar connectivity particularly their lack of Thunderbolt

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support but all of that has changed now

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ryzen 6000 is tremendously efficient and

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this model from HP implements AMD's new support for USB 4 which can do up to 40

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G bit per second of throughput and tunnels a PCIe signal meaning that you

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should be able to plug in previously Intel exclusive Thunderbolt peripherals

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like external GPU enclosures super fast external game drives or single cable

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laptop docks weirdly enough we actually have Microsoft to thank for this level

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of PCIe support they are mandating that any laptop that can come with Windows 11

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must have advanced PCIe support on all exposed USB 4 ports so thanks Microsoft

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I guess this NVMe drive is a Gen 4 unit from

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Samsung ours is 512 gig but that's user configurable and this little Wi-Fi 6

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card here is from Qualcomm how cool is

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that the RAM Shield has a little tab

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adorable 26 gig kits of also Samsung

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memory running at 4,800 megat transfers per second interestingly HP is actually

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offering an unusual level of customization in their Builder and

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they're charging sensible prices for upgrades 32 gigs of RAM cost the same

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whether you prefer a single stick for future expansion or two for better

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performance in dual Channel very sensible over on the sides we'll find a

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couple of 2 wat 4 ohm speakers not

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terribly fancy although they are tuned by bang and Olson and can actually get

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surprisingly loud

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these don't really need to come out but they make it easier to get at the most

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commonly replaced component this

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51.3 wat battery screws on one side

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clips on the other and I haven't even had to change my screwdriver bit yet all

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number one Phillips up until now let's see how long we can keep that gravy

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train rolling out of the box HP boasts they can go from 0 to 50% charge in only

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30 minutes and rates this bad boy add up to to 19 hours of use that's solid but

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as you guys know batteries wear out over time and I'm pleased as punch that this

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one could be swapped out in under 10 minutes by even a novice user if you're

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not into replacing batteries I would suggest employing hp's battery life

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manager software it automatically maintains an optimal charge level which

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is especially useful if you leave your machine plugged in or unplugged for long

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periods of time this is the point in the disassembly process that even if you've

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taken apart a bunch of different models of laptops from a variety of

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bit lost or uncertain but kudos to HP I

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can still clearly see all of the screws that I need to access in order to remove

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the rest of the components on this laptop and it's these little touches

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that prove that repairability and serviceability was a high priority

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during its design oh interesting the fan

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is not actually even taped no adhesive

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even between the fan and the heat sink so these pieces can and should then

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be replaced independently cool here's

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another really nice touch have you ever had something get stuck in your headphone jack I mean it's obviously

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more common with phones with you know pocket lint and all of that but they can

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still wear out from regular use and the fact that this daughter board is so

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easily replaceable means that you will never be stuck without audio again this

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part costs $26 reasonable oh also on the daughter

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board is a 5 GB per second USB type a port and space for an optional SIM card

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slot that we don't have on our model if we did there would also be a mobile data

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card for us to remove from here just below the fan moving over to the other

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side there's also an optional smart card reader which we do have installed a

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couple of those fancy 40 GB per second usb4 type-c ports I mentioned earlier

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both with power delivery and DisplayPort 1.4 along with another 5 GB per

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second type a port and a full-sized HDMI

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2.0b starting to look kind of empty in here and we can take it even further the

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fingerprint sensor ah yes here you are comes

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out don't break please please don't

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break you just pull out okay oh there's

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your fingerprint sensor bo bo Boop the realtime clock battery uses no screws at

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all and the touchpad has just seven screws around the perimeter we finally

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had to change the bit and the screwdriver that's okay I understand why

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these are very very tiny little screws so we're going to use a Phillips

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zero this little boy comes out but is a

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little bit tricky because this cable right here is actually adhered to it so

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we just got to oh boy oh yeah okay oh

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that's not that bad that's not like permanent adhesive or anything and then we also need to pull out uh this boy

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easy peasy the battery is super easy to

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remove too but we're not going to take that out because it makes life more

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difficult we'll have to go back into the BIOS and adjust a whole bunch of settings and I don't feel like it now

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that the touch pad's out we can take a closer look at it it's got a glass

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surface and it's massive a big part of

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that is actually because of the screen so uh I'll explain in a moment let me

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take these final hinge screws out and we can talk about the

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screen LTV store

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they're finally shipping I'm just going to give it a

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little one of those and a

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little it's fine and there's the display

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assembly that's right the reason the touchpad is able to be so big is the

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aspect ratio of the display the excellent 16 by10 that I and that guy

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hey Alex 16 by10 yay or nay yes good

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exactly you get a little more height compared to 16x9 which means whether

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you're gaming or browsing or video editing you get that extra 120 pixels of

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vertical space that can be an absolute godsend for your toolbars or your extra

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video tracks or whatever it is you need behind the display assembly is hp's 5

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megapixel webcam complete with autof framing infrared for Windows hello and a

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physical camera shutter as well as the Hubbard that powers both it and hp's

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dynamic noise leveling microphone array to hp's credit while this does use clips

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and and adhesive the replacement parts are available individually even for

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different variants of the screen so if you actually wanted to change out the screen you

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could and with that we've actually run out of parts to remove from this thing

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as they say in the automotive World reassembly is the reverse of disassembly

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which means it's time for us to undo everything

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oh yeah uh script says success it still

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boots looks like we got ahead of ourselves a little bit there we don't

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don't actually know that for certain here we

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go yes okay good that was pretty

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impressive it wasn't that long ago that this level of user serviceability

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was mutually exclusive with having a device this thin and with such a nice

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design language HP hasn't compromised on

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any of those things here which leads us to our conclusion the benefits of a

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device that is repairable and upgradeable like this one cannot be

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overstated when deployed at scale in a commercial setting with dozens hundreds

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or even thousands of users the text that actually have to work on them will be

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infinitely thankful to have someone at HP in their corner are fighting for

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Simplicity in design and maintenance there are other benefits for commercial

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users as well such as HP wolf security and HP sure view screen privacy which

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isn't to say that you can't pick up one of these for home use if you wanted to

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the socketed RAM Wi-Fi and SSD are all

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wins and while hp's part store appears to show that everything is out of stock

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they told us that this is a bug and replacement parts are in fact available

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to both companies and to individuals to order so hopefully whatever that is

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going on right now will be sorted out by the time this video comes out uh while

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you're at it by the way HP pictures please service manuals as I mentioned

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before are readily available on the product support portal you don't even

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have to create an account or do anything like that so kudos to that and you can

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cross reference those to find the right part numbers for replacement pieces but

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it's nice to have peace of mind especially as an end user by being able

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to compare the thing that's in your hand to an actual photo on the website

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so sponsored or not if you want this level of performance coupled with a dash

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of genuine serviceability your short list is well incredibly short HP hasn't

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committed to you know future motherboard upgrades or anything like that but it is

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absolutely easy to maintain we're going to have a link in the description if you

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guys want to play around with their configuration tool and they even offer freedos as an OS option so bottom line

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for $2,000 if HP keeps this up Niche laptop makers May struggle to catch up

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and other big manufacturers may need to step up and follow suit if you guys

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enjoyed this video you might also enjoy the video where oh I don't know we water

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cooled a Mac Studio there that was fun

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not really very much like this video but definitely fun