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for years Intel has gotten all the love from laptop manufacturers they get the

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coolest designs the most prominent placement on the website and they get

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all the marketing until today

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hp sponsored this video for us to look at not one not two not

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three but as is sort of becoming tradition

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four of their 14-inch laptops that are aimed

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squarely at everyone from home users all

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the way to professionals who want something portable and powerful with AMD

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at the heart of every single one of them

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so let's take a look shall we

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first thing i should probably cover is you are never ever to store laptops by

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stacking them on top of each other like this that is a big uh-oh whoopsie no no

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second we're gonna take a quick look at the elitebook 845

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g7 so an elitebook is different from a pro book in that

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this is designed around your corporate rollout so one of the big selling points

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for hp of this puppy aside from having creature comforts that professionals

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apparently like like the uh nub in style mouse in the middle of the keyboard is

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serviceability so as part of this is very unusual as part of a sponsored

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video they've actually told me yeah it's fine to whip out the tool kit and crack

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this thing open first i want to fire it up though so let's have a look at our

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external i o we got our two usb type cs

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full size HDMI that is something i have really missed on my current daily driver

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barrel plug although the type c's are apparently also good for charging which

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is great then over on the other side two type a's another thing i have sorely

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missed on my current laptop as well as a headphone microphone combo jack and is

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that a smart card reader sweet is that a built-in oh

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i think this one's got their built-in privacy screen i was like is that a tn

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panel in 2020 no

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no it's not that would have been pretty embarrassing

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wouldn't it hey there it is now you do lose some of your

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horizontal viewing angles for having that feature but

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if privacy is a factor for you it's a lot better than having a film over the

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top of it having it integrated into the screen like this that's sick hey so look

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at that off axis boom blank screen

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matte finish 1080p 60 hertz and a very nice keyboard

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very soft too not too loud i did promise though that we're going to

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take a look at the insides one of the first ways they've got to impress me is

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by not having too many screws and not requiring any kinds of fancy security

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bits extra credit

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captive screws very nice hp one of my worst nightmares

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when working on a laptop is popping off the bottom panel only to have all the

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screws go you know because i accidentally left one

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in or left them in on purpose thinking i'll just leave these in here and then

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five screws that's it and they're all

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stuck in there no way to lose them absolutely love it inside we're going to

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find a ryzen 7 4750u so that's an 8 core

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12 thread processor that runs at 1.7 gigahertz base and boosts up to 4.1

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gigahertz so this is one responsive little machine that can also

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you know run a video render if you're into that sort of thing as well it's got

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16 gigs of RAM pre-installed so each of these is an 8 gig module and these are

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of course easily replaceable whether by a tech or

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by a user given that it's only five phillips head screws we're running a 256

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gig NVMe SSD this particular one is from western digital but of course your

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mileage can vary on those we've got now that's interesting we've got a second

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card oh that's probably for like a 5g card or

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something like that we've got our Intel ax wireless over here and of course

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we've got a 53 watt hour battery so in a machine this size that is a very

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respectable capacity everything in here is

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really i mean very standard in terms of the layout

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single heat pipe this cooler comes out with just it looks like

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a couple of screws if you need to remove it for servicing or whatever the case

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may be uh this little daughter board is attached by a ribbon over here

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yeah this thing looks crazy simple to work on like battery

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swap is like one two three four four screws

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and then one cable it's freaking awesome

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it's like the fastest teardown ever

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oh uh oh please tell me it still works hello

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from my angle i can't see it i thought i just broke the laptop while i was

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i was supposed to be making a video about it okay in terms of performance we

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scored 48.18 in pc mark now it doesn't have a crazy beefy cooler on it which

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for an eight core processor you might think that's insane but AMD's ryzen 4000

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series mobile chips are quite frankly

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a marvel they perform great they run cool they run usually quiet but we're

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about to find out how that worked out in the elitebook here

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very reasonable to sub Windows hello too

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sick fingerprint and Windows hello

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real nice our next contestant is the pro book 635

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aero g7 this puppy features a ryzen

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4700u so we step down a little bit in terms of CPU but

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very similar access to the bottom chassis and cut down but still very

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reasonable i o so over on the right full sized HDMI usb type-c with charging or a

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barrel plug if you prefer that and over on the left side two usb type a's as

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well as a headphone microphone combo jack that is what i'd consider to be

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basic but very flexible because at least you can use that type c with a dongle to go

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okay you know there boom with one thing clicked in i've got another HDMI three

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usb type a's a microsd sd reader and a

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gigabit Ethernet jack our render is almost done on the elitebook so this has

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been running for quite some time keyboard temperatures are still what i

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would describe as warm-ish definitely not hot

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and in terms of noise my microphone's actually right here guys

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pretty darn quiet sorry i know i'm spending all the time on the elitebook

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but this is the one that i feel like is more likely to end up in my backpack so

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i'm just checking it out for me and for you so

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i'm running the render again in the background here and it's not falling

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under 2.8 2.84 gigahertz

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that is way above base clock this is an all-core

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load all right

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with this machine the initial feel is actually very similar and you've still

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got some professional features like Windows hello

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fingerprint reader really nice feeling keyboard

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but you do give up some things so you've

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got no mouse nipple in the middle no smart card reader of course and no

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built-in privacy filter so this is just your standard issue 400 nit 1080p

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display the screen is also a little bit smaller at 13.3 inches instead of 14

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and the specs get downgraded a touch as well so we're running a ryzen 4700u

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instead of that 4750 in the other machine

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in practical terms that performance difference is

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difficult to measure though and you're more likely to notice something like the

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difference between the speakers so the elitebook has banging all of some tuned

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audio whereas the pro book does not it doesn't sound bad or anything

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it's just not quite as as full sounding is the easiest way for me to describe it

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one thing i did forget to mention though is that the pro book weighs just 0.999

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kilograms or 2.2 pounds for our imperial friends so that's a benefit if you're

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running around the office with it in your hands finally the battery is

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smaller but it does have hp's fast charge feature just like

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our next contestant the pro book 445 g7

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so here we get a screen size upgrade we

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maintain our good mix of i o so kensington lock usb type a we've got an

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sd card reader this time over on the other side

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two usb type a's HDMI oh yeah

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wired Ethernet as well as usb type-c and

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a barrel plug if you're into that sort of thing and we maintain our good

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biometric security with fingerprint sensor as well as Windows

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hello and gotta love that little slidey slide on the webcam so you can cover

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that up if you're not into it now i'm having a little bit trouble finding power button there it is

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yeah this one's got a pretty dim screen

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resin on my hoodie damn you resin table

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oh that's really bad buy a new one from my ltpstore.com

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we don't carry resin tables andy oh the hoodie that makes more sense yeah

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lttstore.com thanks andy once again in spite of the ryzen 4700

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rather than 4750 processor we still have

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extremely similar performance but the screen's a touch larger than our last

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one at 14 inches although it is not as

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bright so watch out for that if you're planning to use your laptop outdoors for

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example and one of the compelling features for this one is that it can be

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easily upgraded with more storage with a two and a half inch device so this is

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the first out of all three models that we've looked at that has a two and a

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half inch bay like the other two it uses the Windows

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precision drivers for the touch pad and has a nice soft touch keyboard but

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that's pretty much all there is to say about this one it's a little bit thicker

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a little bit heavier the 635 arrow was crazy light but still a nice feeling

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machine bringing us finally to the pro book 435

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x360 as you guys might put together

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this one has a 360 degree hinge making it

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now that i think about it probably the most solid contender for

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my backpack because i forgot when i was looking at that first

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one that i actually i do use my two in one capabilities a fair bit now we lose

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Windows hello on this one but we've still got the fingerprint sensor and in

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spite of downgrading all the way to a 4300 u so this is just a four thread

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four core processor we're still putting up fairly respectable numbers in pc mark

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another big plus for me is that even though it's a two in one it's still got

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a usb type a port and then over here on the other side oh yeah

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full size HDMI usb type a usb type c with charging again and a barrel plug as

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well as a micro sd reader and headphone microphone combo jack the number of

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times that in a work environment especially that you need to

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whip out an HDMI cable and plug into a projector or something like that or

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capture device you know sometimes capture software can be inconvenient

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compared to just plugging into something external in my line of work anyway it

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comes up a freaking lot i'd say the weakest points for this

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machine are probably the 250 nit screen and single channel memory but like it's

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pro book and elite book cousins that we've had a look at today

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it's very easy to get access to so let's have a look at the internals of this one

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no broken clips very nice

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western digital NVMe is this a little pull tab for it

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oh that's nice thanks hp why does it say

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single channel memory in my specs that can't be right just as much cooling

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in spite of the fact that we're only running four processor of course

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sweet let's go ahead and fire Windows back up here and see if maybe something got

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mis-transcribed hardware info

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all right show me the dual channel money yeah the memory is totally running in

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dual channels so it's 3 200 megahertz dual channel that's

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freaking awesome for a value machine i guess that's kind of the theme when it

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comes to AMD equipped laptops is more bang for

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your buck so thanks to hp for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for

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watching it you can check out their elitebook and pro book lineup at the

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link in the video description featuring AMD ryzen processors it's really like

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look at how complete this lineup is so nice to see AMD treated treated properly

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properly i'm gonna make a laptop tower

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wait for it