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you open up this suitcase and their eyes light up with Wonder until they ask it's

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just a big laptop no way man it's a TV a

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it weighs like 30 lb well yeah cuz it's

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a home theater in a box how much is

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it how much does it

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cost the LG standby Migo spelled like I

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am claiming to have written the hit Eminem song El leave is a briefcase

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system designed for entertainment on the go inside this box is everything you

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need for movie night in the woods a

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bright 27-in smart display four speakers

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in Stereo configuration and a battery to

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power the whole thing but none of that is what made us want to talk about it

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it's rare that a device splits our team's opinions this cleanly on the one

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hand we've got the pragmatists who expect the most performance for their

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dollar they aren't thrilled with this thing but then we've got the gadget

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Geeks Who are always excited to see cool new ideas and the standby Migo is

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certainly that it's eye-catching it's different it's kind of cool but is it

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actual Hands-On with this thing and the real question is is it cool to have my

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own little home theater in the woods I got to say I kind of thought it was

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going to be stupid but immediately I'm looking at it going this would have come

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in handy so many times I mean it's more

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luggable than portable but the colors pop the anti- glare performs way better

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than I expected immediate Impressions kind of like it it's a little cold today

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thank I got my 3D downjacket LTD store.com but if I wanted to watch TV

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outside or play games it's probably

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Dumber Solutions got little rubber

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corners on it for ruggedness oh whoa

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hi oh yeah it does that oh yeah it does

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just in case you want that to happen

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given how close you're seemingly intended to sit to it 1080p does feel

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like a bit of a compromise but overall there's got to be Dumber Ways to solve

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this problem we pleasantly surprised to find that the display has pretty good

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color accuracy this is in spite of a bit of overemphasis on the Reds and a color

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temperature that pushed cool by default for a little boost in luminance bit more

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on that later we measured an average Delta of just 2.68 and in this Vivid

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mode and plugged in we also measured around 500 nits Peak brightness which is

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not amazing but certainly usable but

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wait says 250 when plugged in

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250 when you're on the beach you get 250

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nits

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450 okay a portable power

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station that kind of defeats the purpose of this thing don't you think so even

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though it's Dolby vision and hdr10 compatible it's on battery performance

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250 nits Peak with no local dimming

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means that the highest thing about your High dynamic range is probably going to

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be that fungus that you found behind a tree or who knows maybe I'll be

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pleasantly surprised all right magad gals how you going to look on this oh my

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God it switched into Dolly Vision mode and immediately it's like

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d it switches out of the Vivid mode so you can switch it back for a little

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color or we can plug you in it's not even broad daylight guys

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it's freaking overcast and foggy and this looks like I have my laptop screen

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in power saving mode this is on battery

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right now it's on battery let's plug it in shoot man that's not good I can't see

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right now swipe from the top see if the brightness is at Max it should be but

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swipe is this a touchcreen is a touch screen well there's good news and bad

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news the good news is the touchcreen works the bad news is that's it boss

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this is not HDR that's not a flame that's white this is not fire or lava or

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whatever the crap it's supposed to be it's yellow circles and that's what the

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low Peak brightness is going to do to you what are these speakers going to do

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to

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you what a disappointment they had this entire

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enclosure here and they put the speakers

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behind the screen hold on the speakers

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are in here yes

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why all they had to do was put some angled drivers in here so

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that they would actually hit you instead of bouncing off the back of the monitor

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not trying to be a jerk about it or anything but that's not how you do this

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nope if I do this and I sit here it

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sounds way better yeah you're right it's not impeded yeah yeah you're not wrong

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why you don't build a speaker and then put a thing in front of it Here's a

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thought though maybe that Dolby Atmos label is less about clear dialogue in

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your movie and more about pounding That Base when you're around the campfire

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let's see how she

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fares wow it doesn't sound good from back here either dude they had all this

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room in it and they didn't put in a sub yeah the

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next thing I've been asked to try is the ambient wall paper so I like healing why

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don't we fire up a cozy

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fireplace now my next challenge is to turn off the screen while my background

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music or audio plays in order to preserve battery

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life oh wow webos is a little laggy on this thing

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click okay I give up the only way is to use

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the voice controls that are disabled by

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default seriously yeah I see on a normal

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lgtv remote they have a button so that you can just talk at it when you want it

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to be listening but on this one I guess they cheaped out on the remote it

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doesn't have a button so it just has an always on threshold so it has to be

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disabled by default I see hi

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LG turn on off the

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display okay I'll turn off the screen

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thanks Tik Tok wow well there it

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is you can also use your LG phone app

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cuz you definitely have that installed video and music are just part of the

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pitch for the standby me go though it's got some basic onboard processing a

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touch display and it can rotate as I showed

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you guys before to portrait mode so you can mirror your phone's display to it as

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long as you twist it this way and it should be noted that we had somewhat

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mixed results with that but what you can also do is load in some of the apps that

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are built into LG's web OS or download new ones including games I'm going to

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play billi and marble oh it's Monopoly

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how about a Philippine City purchase uh okay how do I not this game

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it occurs to me now that I had asked for a particular game on Android cuz I

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forgot oh right web OS they don't have

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Android games necessarily okay can I can I Dodge or you can move what is this

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game a tank battle dude come on uh okay

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ah my notes say that we experienced some responsiveness

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issues take that Anakin I have The High

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Ground even at its best the web OS game library is going to make you wish you

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had anything else attached to this thing the good news is you can all right all

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right all right fine we'll go home go to HDMI oh oh it fell through the table oh

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that's not good I mean look if it couldn't survive that then it's not

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really suitable for camping

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anyway how's the motion Clarity for you being completely honest I wasn't even

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paying attention to the motion Clarity of this display not because it's good

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it's really bad but I just didn't really feel like

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that was the point of it uh here's a question what if I just unplugged the

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Ally and handed it to you which one do you think is going to

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be better oh wow is this ever a better

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display what's really embarrassing from my point of view is LG literally are the

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guys when it comes to

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IPS why is this the cheapest worst IPS

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panel why do you even still make these ones the thing is a lot of what I've

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said so far is evaluating it as a television but it's Unique so why don't

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we try something unique let's play a two-player game Let's Play The Chess the

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chess I'm a big fan of the chess do you

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chess not really cuz I don't really chess I think we're both about to

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embarrass ourselves then it's okay I'm going to bring out my Rook right away

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I'm going to be a pro bring out my king what okay I I don't think Pro works the

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way you think it works I'm going to bring out both Rooks it's the two Rook

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defense a country is only as strong as its king a country is only as powerful

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as its pawns it's loyal servants check

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no here we go you kill it no I don't want to you don't want to kill it I

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believe in peace if you guys want to see the whole chess game L mg. g/f flat

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plane we're going to have it up there why you run away you're falling for one of the

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classic

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blunders what what

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the

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what that I have no idea what happened

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in all seriousness though there are other aspects of the device that we

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should talk about battery life is advertised at around 3 hours we got four

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to five and that was streaming Disney plus and YouTube the io is both limited

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and good enough you've got a power in a

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battery on and off button an IR blaster

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Port just in in case you want to set up a relay a USB port which I could

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definitely see people using you bring along your little collection of videos

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to watch in the tent or whatever the case may be and a single HDMI port one

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thing that does feel a little conspicuously absent given that it's a

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smart TV is any kind of connectivity

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there's Wi-Fi obviously but there's no Ethernet Jack and maybe more importantly

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there's nowhere to put a SIM in it or anything like that so you're pretty much

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tethering to a phone if you want a connection and you'll need a connection

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ction because there's no internal accessible storage realistically though

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in spite of all of my complaints if you're the kind of person who wants a

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standby me go whether it's for Van life or giving presentations on the road you

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already know who you are and I'm honestly not here to argue that it's

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utterly unique so why don't we focus

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then on the ways that I feel LG could improve this experience for the people

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who need something like this losing almost half of our brightness when when

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we're away from power is a huge Downer when the whole point of this thing is to

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be away from power on top of that once

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the external juice is cut we saw some 240 HZ flickering remember this is a 60

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HZ display meaning that there were duplication artifacts in high motion

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scenes it's not a huge deal in most slow-moving video content but it's

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definitely distracting if you got your PS5 hooked up and you want a game or

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wait okay that's a bit of a problem too the standby Migo doesn't share power

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with external devices it's like saaron okay so you're going to need a power

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station for anything that is beefier than a USB drive with your MP4s on it

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and at that point compact portable monitors go up to 24 in now and pair

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very nicely with stereo ready Bluetooth speakers from the likes of JBL or sound

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core none of that is my biggest issue though my biggest problem is the cost

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you could buy a whole ass all-in-one computer with a built-in battery like

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the HP EnV move for much less than the

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standby Mig go and then you end up with a full fat Windows PC instead of this

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weak web OS machine we're going to have links to some alternative suggestions in

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the video description this thing was 400

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500 bucks it's a winner and even at

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6700 I still think it has a place but at

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$1200 look if you like it you like it

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it's not awful it's it's just it's hard not to compare it to existing less

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