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I like small computers the reason I like small computers is you can just tuck

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them behind your monitor or stuff them in a drawer or just get them out of the

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way but this is a mini computer that wants to be seen it's a mini computer

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from our friends at minis Forum that has a can you see it already there's a

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screen on this thing and not just a screen a touch screen as you can imagine

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not really meant to stuff this one in the drawer I guess uh probably sits okay

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yeah there's a stand ah this is making more sense is it an adjustable stand oh

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look at that that's got some niceo she's stiff it doesn't have screws

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so you can't make it stiff again if it becomes loose but that it's pretty good

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to start clip it on there and you can

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see Boom the mini form Adam man

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x7t I bet the ti stands for titanium

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it's a little computer with a 4in touchcreen on it why I don't

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know look at that it's so quaint and

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shiny I mean fingerprints wise like look look at this there's some other stuff

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going on here what is that is that a do look like microphones oh God it's a

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computer with a webcam you guys know how much I liked the last one of those this

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one kind of makes sense though cuz you have to have it front and center for the

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the touchcreen so you might as well stick a webcam on there we've got some

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cables in the Box h HMI cable which mini form pretty much always includes nice

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touch we got the little Mickey ears to a standard

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cable and then a cute little power

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brick in Chinese okay never mind and

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that's it for the Box this is 120 watts

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that's a lot of juice on the outside on the top okay this part of the io is at

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least smart if you need an SD card slot it's basically as convenient as it

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possibly could be oh look at that do you see what's happening here look at this

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look it's got a physical blocker dad so you can actually disable the webcam

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which is very nice when it's a webcam that's physically integrated into the

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device power button lots of ventilation

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here I mean we got 12 120 W power brick so I imagine uh it needs it we've got

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this guy here we've got that guy there

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and some ventilation on the bottom on this side we've got the DC power in an

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HDMI 2.1 Port always nice to see some

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manner of USB type A the blue one I

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think this is a 5 gig port cuz they list that there's one 5 gig and two 10 gig

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type A's we'll see the rest of those in a second we've got a USB 2.0 type A

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we've got DisplayPort 2.0 they don't list the throughput rate so I'll see if

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I can figure that out before the end of this video two 5 gig Ethernet Jacks a

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USB 4 and ocul Link is 5 gig making a

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comeback this is the first recent product I've seen that actually is integrating it again which is great

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because yeah doubl the speed of even 2.5 gig

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five times the speed of 1 gig that oculink Port is great if you want to run

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an egpu mini form even actually makes an oculink dock that you can buy for a

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somewhat reasonable price uh but this is a PCIe Gen 4 by4 connection inside of

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here it's not Thunderbolt even though there is this USB 4 which you also could

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use for an egpu it's just like a straight PCIe connection which is pretty

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nice cuz there's a little bit less overhead there are the other USB type A

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ports I was talking about these are likely 10 gig and then we've got another

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USB 4 combo audio and a reset button

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that's pretty much it for Io that looks great on my desk I wish

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the stand had some thought put into like cable management like if the ports came

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out of the bottom and it was a little bit taller stand that kind of hid them that would be cool or like hey how about

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put the io on the back maybe huh it's not the worst thing I've ever seen but

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it's not the best all right boom

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the race check it out in the description oh wow it's got like stuff on it already

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who look at that wow I've got this

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wonderful color appropriate very stealthy cable to plug

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into the side of this thing all right specs wise we've got a core Ultra 9

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185h this is a meteor Lake chip with

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some AI stuff built in we got 32 gigs of

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RAM a 1 tbte Kingston SSD you can also order this thing as a Bare Bones which I

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would encourage you to do because you can probably get a better deal on the

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SSD and RAM yourself we can see the 5 gig Ethernet I mentioned earlier and

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then also Intel Wi-Fi 7 which should be

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pretty fast I don't have a Wi-Fi 7 access point here to try it with um but

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we'll we'll do a little speed test in a second here I've been informed that

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there is no software I mean it's reading stats there's a piece of software on

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here called sccs I am not familiar with it doesn't

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seem to launch but I think that might be the background app that does the like

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communication let's see how accurate are we talking here 42 Dees on the CPU

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package says 43 there that's close enough right oh yeah there's a few

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second delay looks like maybe 3 seconds

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but it does actually seem to read the spec somewhat accurately I'm sure it's

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just pulling from the sensors through that piece of software what if we try

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like a speed test does it update let's

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see oh yeah look at that they say it's a 480p screen so I guess it's 480 x 480

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given that it's a square it is a touch screen so we can adjust our system

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volume we can adjust the screen brightness what does this USB button do

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device interface whoa oh look it tells you it's a map of the ports that's kind

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of cute except it says USB 3.2 on all

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three of these blue ones very helpful uh what else we got here does

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this display other things mode adjustment ooh performance mode does

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this just change the power profile and can you even like oh yeah it's

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making noise now it doesn't this is doing something

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else it uh slightly adjusts the CPU GPU

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balance for the wage what else we got in here

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clock how do I is there not other screens like swipe how do I do oh oh

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look at that wow we got fancy clocks this is Apple watch now this seem this

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seems like what most people would display on this screen you know like

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it's got a clock on the computer it looks okay it's not going to be the most

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customizable thing in the world you can't like drag and drop stuff but you can at least change the languages and

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slightly adjust where things are I mean I'm not mad about it it's cool that it's

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not just like a DisplayPort connection to your PC and you have to run some like

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stupid software in the background although there is some software in the background let's try the

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webcam I'm sure it's great oh man look at that that's lovely this is actually

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that that's it's pretty good actually does that not look pretty good it looks

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pretty I mean we're at like half Studio lighting half not very lit it does look

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good even in the dark I mean there's still one light above me but it's pretty

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dark in here and it's a little noisier but for a webcam like seriously all

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right boys and girls let's see this go Burr hey look at that 5 gigabit dude 5

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gig is sick if just more things supported it it would be much better but

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pretty freaking sick naturally we should try the Wi-Fi

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too it's a it's an Intel Wi-Fi chipset it's fast I mean realistically this AP

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seems to max out at about 600 unless you're on 6 GHz so yeah good 700 up look

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at that boom it's an APU is I mean this

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is like a top chip with integrated Graphics it's not going to blow your

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socks off but it will play games like rocket League at 1080p pretty decently

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or if you're using it as like a little hdpc it's going to do that totally fine

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for comparison we looked at an Asus zephrus g16 uh with the dedicated GPU

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turned off so it's basically the exact same chip as in here at that point and

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and generally it was faster it doesn't seem like the balance versus performance

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mode makes a huge difference um if anything it's within an FPS or two but

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it also is very possible that the g16 is thermal throttling cuz they like to do

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that this thing doesn't seem to I mean it's it's relatively quiet let's see how

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loud it gets this is in the balance profile right now and cinebench is one of the situations where you could

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actually see a difference between balanced and performance mode even though it didn't make much of a

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difference in games I mean it's pretty quiet right now if this was sitting on

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my desk next to my monitor I think it would get annoying if

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I wasn't wearing headphones or if I had open back headphones this would drive me crazy I mean the exhaust

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is like right upwards in your face it just kind of sounds like a a laptop it's

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a quiet laptop here this will give you a better indication here's performance

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mode balance mode it's way

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quieter when you move to non-performance tests like blender or photoshop a g16 is

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a touch faster but we're pretty much in the same range um so it performance as

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expected I don't know if anyone is looking to buy this thing as a

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performance monster but it it would it

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would do calculations pretty much as to your expectations I can't imagine it's

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getting that hot oh it's click I should be trying to score here ah hey thanks

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teammate I'm a little disappointed in the noise levels I mean minis for them

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their mini computers are usually pretty good noise wise but the screen obviously

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causes a little bit of ventilation uh constraints let's look at the temps

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here this is in Balance mode for the reference more like CPU package I mean

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it's all over the place as a game but getting up into

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75 and our package power is at like 37

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watts and it's this

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loud all that's left now is to take it apart hey I don't know how good it is to

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put a magnet near your computer but the LTT Cable Management Keyhole thingies that you

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usually use for Power Bars just barely fit in

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there it's it's not really in there but it's in there

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enough and now watch this your webcam can be mounted at a

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very convenient location yeah Jokes Aside you could you

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could stick this on the side of your computer or like if you have a metal

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wall or a fridge beside your computer

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this is the thing they keep doing minis for please God make the feet not get

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destroyed when you want to take the computer apart I don't understand this

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like there you go great I can take it apart by just destroying these little

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rubber feet because they're sticky usually you can stick them back on but

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like just don't put the screws to take the computer apart underneath the

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freaking feet hello sir can I get some open

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please whoa the ports are on a daughter board why would they do that how am I

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supposed to detach this that's a big cooling apparatus it's big fan explains

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why it's so noisy that's a lot of screws man I don't know if I'm trying to take this off right

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now damn look at them heat pipes woo

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that was Hefty why is this thing so loud we've got the two sodm slots where

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you can put up to 96 gigs of ddr5 memory

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you got a little graphine actually thick graphine

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pads what are these crucial 5600 cool

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and over here we can see the two M do2s this is the 2280 it comes with this a

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Gen 4 slot and then there's also a 2230 slot if you want to put a second SSD I

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am going to take this little board off because I want to see the back of the

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screen you're supposed to take the cooler off before you do this oh God

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yeah there we go look at that if you

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need to do this for whatever reason take the uh little been cable out of here and

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take the CPU Cooler off first because

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yep oh the camos battery it's on the back brother I mean they give you a

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reset button but if you need to get at that that's a pain in the and then

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there's the Wi-Fi card which also pain in to get it the screen definitely can

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just come out now that those screws are taken out this screen module has an SD

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card slot on it that's weird oh that ribbon C this ribbon cable is not for

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the screen this is for the camera it says right there well it's a mini

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computer with a screen on it it seems to perform as it should it's a little bit

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noisy the screen doesn't act as a desktop screen if you're hoping for that

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it's just those displays or a clock the webcam is pretty good and it's kind of

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expensive this is $669 Bare Bones that means no SSD and no

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RAM it's not cheap if you want it with 32 gigs of RAM a 1 TB SSD and with the

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egpu doc you're looking at 8.99 us as of right

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now I mean if you if you want this I

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don't think it's the worst thing in the world um but also you probably don't

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need this just buy like a790 or

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a890 it's cheaper and probably faster

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and less noisy and smaller so thanks for watching if you like this video maybe

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check out the time that I looked at that minis form that just had a webcam

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integrated into it it was strange then is still a bit strange but that one's

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webcam actually still works at the end of the video