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here we have the lenovo legion 7i 16 inch and it's a gaming laptop but it

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doesn't have all of the gamer looks about it which makes it great to use as

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an everyday laptop as well it's a great combo so thanks to lenovo legion and

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Intel for sponsoring this video and let's get straight into it power brick

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first of course so let's see here 300 watts that's

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a lot of watts for a laptop i think this thing has a 3080 in it though so no

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wonder oh

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got a sticker okay here we go though

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there's the main event let's have a little look at the i o here

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so headphone jack Thunderbolt 4 love to see that we also have our power input

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usba three of them HDMI 2.1 we also have

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another Thunderbolt 4 port right here full size Ethernet and then usb type c

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not Thunderbolt and it looks like a little webcam hardware shut off the

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look overall is not too over the top for

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a gaming machine it just seems like it's all

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mostly stamped aluminum with some plastic stuff i think that this right

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here is plastic but along here is all

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metal build quality is

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fantastic this thing is like i said pretty much all aluminum

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very stiff around the whole thing

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no complaints it's also just set up in like

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a logical way for a laptop like we've got a nice big track pad

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very generous keyboard even has num keys i know some people love those

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the real star of the show here though is the display what i love most about this

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display is the 16x10 it's the sort of thing where it adds a lot of versatility

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to the laptop where you're able to do things like web browsing using words

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spreadsheets basically all of your productivity crap is a lot easier to do on a display like

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this as opposed to 16 by 10 but then you also have the 165 hertz

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and it makes everything smoother oh and also has g-sync support

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this one's a 30 60 i thought we had the 3081 jono i guess

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it is good we get to see how this one holds up as opposed to the 3080 version

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that i've already used before and is expectedly incredibly fast

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let's just do a full rundown of the specs here so we have an Intel core i7

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11800h so that's eight cores 4.6

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gigahertz max turbo we also have 16 gigabytes of RAM 3200 mega transfers per

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second 512 Gigabyte SSD

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i would probably spec it with a little bit more if you want a bunch of games

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but we'll see if we can upgrade that later for wi-fi we have Intel wi-fi six ax-201

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so that is basically the best wi-fi card that you can get and our rtx 3060. this

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right here looks like it's the six Gigabyte version so this is

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what i would probably recommend that you get it's the kind of thing where this

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chassis will handle a 3080 or a 30 70.

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it's not going to care it can do the cooling i believe this is vapor chamber

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cooled but as a laptop i would much rather have a

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3060 in it because it's still it's going to be fine for playing all of your games

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it can most likely we'll see in a bit but do 1440p 165 hertz in the majority of

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things and g-sync will help you out if it can't

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quite and then you don't have to worry about being

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super loud or being super power hungry

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when you're on battery and so on i think 3060 is where i would go with this one

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lenovo legion specifically said in their notes that they want some high octane

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gameplay for this so uh should we turn

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over the farm in valheim jonno yeah

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uh we should probably make this guy some clothing first

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i haven't really used him yet so we've got a bunch of carrots here

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well a bunch of carrot seeds actually here we go

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we're getting 98 FPS while planting

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carrots lenovo also has their legion ai

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engine so that basically just allows you to

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well it decides when it needs to be loud and quiet and so on you basically

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don't have to screw around with Windows

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power management profiles and i lost about 30 FPS let's uh

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let's go back to auto so we can just figure out what it needs to do yeah now

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we're back up to 90 FPS that's a lot better

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so silent mode does work yeah it it just doesn't make your

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performance great so overall i would say that that was

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an excellent seed planting experience i

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still have 65 carrot seeds but those can be for another day 30 60 is doing great

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as expected i am seeing some dips to like

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70 60 FPS not really a problem and it is

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absolutely cranked right now so i'm sure that if i wanted to i could easily get

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an extra 30 40 FPS from it by just

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turning off a couple of kind of dumb settings there's a situation that we're

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like this screen just looks so good at

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this size you really do not need

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4k and with this GPU you could not run

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4k like just full stop it wouldn't do it but it's pretty happy running 1440p

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and it looks great like it's real nice and bright colors are good

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165 hertz that's probably my favorite bit along

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with the g-sync which means that like we are dropping to like

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70 60 FPS in spots but the whole thing

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still feels smooth and there's no tearing or crap so you're not noticing

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it i don't know if you saw that but down in the bottom right corner a little

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pop-up came up that said display mode dedicated GPU mode only which is awesome

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because this has a dedicated muk switch and i think that that means that it has

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NVIDIA optimus plus or two whatever the crap it is

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doesn't matter basically means that in some laptops you have your GPU and your

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igpu and GPU goes through the igpu to the display and you lose like 10

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performance and this right here goes straight from the GPU to the

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display you get those extra frames love to see

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it now we get some real high octane gameplay oh HDR i can enable it let's see what

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happens but we do have ray tracing in this game i don't think i'm gonna turn

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it on but what i do think i'm going to do is enable dlss so

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that's kind of the thing where when you have a 3060 what i would lean on

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their tensor ai ray tracing cores to do

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the legion 7i is powered by the latest 11th gen Intel core h-series mobile

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processors it offers streamers and content creators a choice of

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high-performance processors for superior streaming low latency high FPS and close

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to desktop caliber performance on mobile it's basically the best gaming processor

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you can get these days i just love the display it's a big selling feature for

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me personally one thing i did notice while we were gaming there

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is that the keyboard seems like it's tuned for games so um

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yeah so the keyboard on this has a really short

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snappy throw and not a whole lot of force to hit the keys

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it's quite good for typing on although it's not quite as like tactile as you

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would want for like a real productivity focus machine but it trades that off to

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make it way easier to game on so sort of thing where when you're hitting wasd the

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low actuation force makes it just easier to do that and you're not going to get

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like hand cramps from having to push down control and shift and

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use a lot of force to do that and it's not like the typing experience

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is bad it's just it's clearly geared

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towards gaming specifically this is the kind of keyboard where it's super easy

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to have really fast inputs because it's like a real nice little snap at the

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start so you can really like trackpad is good

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it's the kind of thing where if you have a trackpad on a gaming

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laptop that's not bad you've basically won this one right here it's big enough that

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i'm not mad at it and it tracks well enough that i haven't

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noticed anything bad about it again and even looks like

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the latency on it is quite decent as well you can

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sometimes notice when you have like a high refresh rate display like this one

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right here that the experience between using a

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mouse that's pulling at whatever this is like 500 or a thousand hertz and then

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you go to your track pad and just kind of feels jelloy this one's really quite good i'm

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actually curious what it's pulling at okay yeah it's not magic so it is

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pulling at 144 hertz like pretty much every track pad does you're not going to

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get super high pulling rate track pads these days

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just because the trade-off is the more hurts it has the more battery life it

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uses

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okay that's not bad they're like a bit on the

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muddy side but there is some bass there which is a lot more than you can say

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about most laptop speakers i would say adequate

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heck yeah look at that 80 megabytes per second over wi-fi

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that wi-fi six card is pretty legit oh one thing that i forgot to talk about

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before that i really like about this laptop are the markings

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here for the i o they light up when you have it on and it

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makes plugging stuff in when you're looking like back and around way easier

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that was a very simple disassembly just some phillips head screws now

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this looks like a pretty typical stamped aluminum part

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which is fine i think it's these days probably the most sense making way to

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manufacture laptops because you get the nice rigidity without it being super

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balls expensive like unibody chassis so it looks like we have two m.2 slots

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so there we go take off this little heat spreader thing we see our wi-fi card and

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our SSD looks like it is what is this it's made by samsung excellent on the

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other side we have an empty m.2 slot

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as long as you have a phillips head screw and a guitar pick you're going to

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be able to upgrade your storage in this without much issue now under right here

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the RAM i really hope that's upgradable sick it

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is so here are two sodium slots it's eight gigabytes 1r x16 memory so this is

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the more slower stuff but also big oems can't get the more

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faster uh 8x stuff so

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there you go this is a sort of laptop where you could easily do double duty as

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like a school engineering creator

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video editing or you know architect

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laptop as opposed to just gaming only and the rest of what we see in here is

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all vapor chambers so all the way down here up here we've got CPU GPU

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presumably probably a bunch of vrm crap in here and it goes to exhausts there

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and there got two fans that have little legion logo on them very nice i love

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vapor chambers they allow you to have laptops like this that are relatively

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quiet and relatively cool and finally we

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have what is this an 80 watt hour battery which is pretty decent for a

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laptop of this size up to 6.6 hours

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now if you get the non-eye version of this you should be able to eat a bit

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more battery life out of it this is the kind of laptop where what you're doing

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is what will determine your battery life if you take it down to 60 hertz on the

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display and drop the brightness and don't game

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you'll probably get those six hours and apparently there's rapid charging it'll

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do zero to 50 percent in less than 30 minutes which is pretty cool that that's

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the kind of thing that can save your bacon if you're doing a big long trip to the library or group

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project or something there you go awesome laptop great display just

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love the display on this thing that's the selling feature for me personally

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huge thanks to nova legion Intel for sponsoring today's video and if you

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liked it hit like get subscribed