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have you ever gone to a computer website cranked every dial in the configurator

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until you've got the most over-the-top expensive machine possible and then

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imagine what it'd be like to actually have it well today we don't have to

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imagine oh she's a heavy boy

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coming in at just under 13

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000 oh this absolute mother of a machine has

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enough compute to make you go whoa

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enough GPU to make you go damn and

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enough RAM to make you go why would anybody need that much RAM in a laptop

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introducing the dell precision 7750

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at roughly double the thickness of the xps 15 and nearly three and a half

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kilograms well there's no way to sugarcoat it she's a chunker compared to

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the xps we do get way more ports

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including Ethernet a total of four display outputs and a smart card reader

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for verifying user credentials but to put it lightly this is not the kind of

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machine that you want to carry around in your backpack all day unless

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this is your backpack now dell has more reasonable machines in the precision

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lineup that are basically the xps 15 or

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17 but with a zeon and a quadro as for

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the 7750 here it's a completely different beast

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if the 240 watt power brick didn't tip you off

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we have got some serious processing on the inside

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for CPU our unit is equipped with a xeon

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m an 8 core processor that can turbo up to 5.3 gigahertz but has difficulty

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actually sustaining speeds like that on mortal laptops hopefully with the 7750s

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large and heavy cooler we'll be seeing it get well at least close

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graphics are handled by NVIDIA quadro rtx 5000 which has the same tu-104 chip

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as the rtx 2080 gaming graphics card

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except with 128 more shaders enabled and

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a cool 16 gigs of video memory which

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means this is not only a beast workstation it could actually be faster

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in games than the fastest gaming laptop that we have in the studio so then how

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does it game i mean i guess we better play some games yeah

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yeah all right let's fire up shadow of the tomb raider one of our favorite benchmarks we're gonna run it on

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basically all maxed 4k except motion blur because motion blur

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is bad and if you use it you should feel bad well it's not a smooth 60 FPS we're

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actually running around 40 but i am screen recording at the moment and

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remember that this is running at 4k absolutely cranked absolutely maxed

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screen space contact shadows do not go to high even in the most extreme

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preset doesn't even hurt performance that much interesting

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whoa don't hit a rock sheet of rock as good

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an experienced as that was though when we tested it against the alienware area

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51m the fastest gaming laptop we have

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here well the area 51m did win which isn't really

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surprising given that it's got a desktop processor game optimized drivers and

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also happens to be water cooled now but i was still hoping for the precision to

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somehow eco to win and maybe it would have if dell had pulled the same stunt

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as ASUS with their studio book one the only laptop with a quadro rtx

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6000 inside it although they did have to pull off some pretty funky ventilation

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tricks in order to make that work all right so it's not quite the fastest

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but just because you're not the fastest doesn't mean you're terrible second

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fastest ain't half bad and having that kind of grunt makes a huge difference in

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applications that are able to take advantage of it so let's give it a go in

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mark bench a video encoding benchmark

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that was created by one of our video editors mark that's basically an

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identical timeline in both adobe premiere pro and apple final cut pro the

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goal here is twofold to show how much GPU can help with video encoding and to

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tease the apple fanboys about how badly their precious final cut gets destroyed

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well i hope while these are running i want to talk about some of the comments

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you guys left on our review of the dell xps 15. some of you said that we went

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pretty light on dell compared to apple for the mediocre thermals and power

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delivery in the xps 15 and there is a reason for this

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dell is not marketing the xps 15 as the

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be all and end-all for professionals

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i mean sure with a machine like this you can edit

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videos or work on cad models but if you're doing it professionally

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dell is going to advise you to go with their business focused and more

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expensive precision lineup so we're definitely going to hold it to a

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different standard which means hopefully you're keeping your thermals under

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control here buddy there it is boys

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and what are we at on the macbook so it is twice

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as fast as our kitted out macbook pro

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which i guess is sort of an indication you don't really need a computer like

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this to edit videos maybe a lower spec version with less RAM because the thing

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that makes this machine particularly special compared to other laptops

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is the crazy 128

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gigabytes of ddr4 memory so

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to answer our earlier question why would anybody need that much RAM in a laptop

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simon he's an engineering student who reached out to us the other day because his flow

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simulation gosh darn it just wouldn't run on his

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personal machine due to you guessed it a lack of system memory

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let's see how it does on this we'll let the mat keep chugging away yeah

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okay this is showing just how much you can get done on this computer

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well you know the peasants keep on exporting oh ouch so

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on simon's computer he without like the

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big honeycomb thing on the front it took him an hour

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and with the honeycomb thing it just crashed

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20 i don't even know what kind of computer he has like 20 minutes half a second half a second half a second what

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kind of machine is he running he machines like

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i don't know he does only have four gigs of RAM so that's definitely a problem

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ouch this used like over a hundred when creating the mesh can we like see

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anything yeah just a second i want to see the simulation i'm turning it on

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right now we're living in the simulation there

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that's what we did oh that's pretty cool you can cut it

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and so how long did it take to run the whole thing with the mesh

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uh with the mesh it took about 50

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minutes and how long did his machine take to run

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it with the mesh it didn't it it just couldn't even mesh

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it huh so this shows like meters per second like air velocity

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through uh through a thing what's the purpose of the honeycomb mesh there's

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probably a fan right here and when you have the fan it would create a whole

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bunch of turbulence like everything would be all

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flippity-floppity-ing so we go through this mesh so it's all kind of like

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going through the funny thing though is that while during our gaming testing our

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CPU got as high as 100 degrees and actually thermal throttled

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while running a simulation like this and using all 128 gigs of our memory it

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turned out that CPU thermals weren't a problem at all our CPU was able to

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maintain 4.3 gigahertz across all eight cores while running at about 75 degrees

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celsius and consuming a consistent 60 watts of power with spikes up to 100

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watts and it did it just fine in a laptop now

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we're still a little disappointed that a combined load that actually hits both

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CPU and GPU completely can overwhelm the cooling solution

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but at least in situations like this one it holds its own nicely

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as for the screen well

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it's fine it's 16x9 when the rest of the precision

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lineup has switched over to 16x10 there's no touch option even and it

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lacks the succulent visuals of the xps

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lineup but it isn't all bad i mean dell could

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have made the panel more vivid but the anti-reflective coating is awesome if

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you're working under fluorescent lights and the 4k 17 inch panel is big enough

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to make this really feel like a workstation replacement

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for inputs oh this is a bit of a contentious area the new dell precision

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lineup is the first that they've done to drop the pointing stick aka the nipple

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mouse and then increase the trackpad size and i'd wait sorry this is

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contentious in my opinion the only thing that should

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be contentious about this is that they didn't go far enough i mean

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this is a usable sized track pad

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but yeah you know i might actually be upset that they took away my nipple

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mouse and didn't give me the track pad off the xps 15. look at the size of this

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by comparison they should have just taken that it's

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contentious but not for the reasons that i think you probably meant in the script

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as for the keyboard it is unsurprisingly

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excellent it's not quite as snappy as the one on the xps 15 but it's the kind

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of keyboard that you could easily sit down at all day and write up reports on

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how the radiographic testing shows the

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contractors that they need to redo all the welding for free or

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whatever report someone who uses this needs to write up like like how they

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should be allowed to expense a new water bottle from ltteststore.com so they can

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stay hydrated at work or whatever oh hey the macbook finished

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it's good good for you budget

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kids budget real men rip laptops apart with their

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bare hands oh yeah

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well that explains why it's so heavy

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is this a single cnc piece bottom amanda they xps it oh damn they did they

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did look at that it's beautiful

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oh like sometimes they try to get it really smooth even on the inside just oh just

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leave the milling marks on i love it oh my god

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this thing has four m.2 slots

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that is so cool there's i think one one terabyte and two

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two terabytes this is a two terabyte unit

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this is a really weird m.2 like hold

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down mechanism oh i think i get it

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there um oh shoot

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oh shoot oh wow that magnet is so strong it grabs

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the screw from there oh did they cheap out on us you hold them

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out on us dell you hold them out there's an empty one

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send it back i'm done i'm out no forget it i'm out

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no i still want to play with it i'm back okay so the battery which is pretty

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close to the maximum allowed on a commercial flight 95 watt hours is

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expected to give you about eight hours of

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screen time but if you do any real work

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that's gonna quickly drop down to more like an hour now i've got a note in here

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to mention why vapor chambers kick butt we have a video coming up about that you

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want to make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss it but basically what

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makes the cooling possible on this puppy is these right here so it uses a

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combination of vapor chambers and these large heat exchangers back here to get

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rid of all that flipping heat from the GPU as well as the CPU what is this does

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this have a cellular card in it oh it does yeah oh nice

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wow it's got all the trimmings for the low low price of what 13 13 grand

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now there are people that require this kind of power but the thing is most of

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them will either use massive servers that are on site at their work or

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compute clusters to actually crunch the crazy numbers

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that doesn't mean though that this is completely without a use case the main

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one i can think of is offshore oil and gas for example so in a scenario like

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that the engineer might be flown in so carrying their server in their backpack

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is a pretty nice quality of life improvement and while they're on site

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they might be required to run complex flow simulations and of course an oil

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and gas firm well under normal conditions anyway won't blink an eye at

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a 13 000 laptop if it's going to help them pump 55 million dollars of oil a

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day out of the ground or the sea or wherever it is they get oil from another

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feasible use case is of course you know the usual suspects for desktop

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replacements or as we like to call them semi-mobile workstations so you know a

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work from home architectural engineer civil engineer researcher etc

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so if you're one of those and trying to figure out what to spend the rest of

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your 2020 budget on so that it doesn't get cut next year maybe consider this

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instead of the macbook pro because you know it's actually for pros well

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pros with like jacked arms anyway i'll give the macbook that it's a lot lighter

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if you guys enjoyed this video and you want to check out another crazy laptop

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maybe uh have a look at alex's ShortCircuit video on the uh yes that the

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studio book pro it's crazy it's got an rtx 6000 like

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what