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have you ever looked at something immediately wanted it and then found out

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that for some reason you can't have it

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well that was the experience that i had with this

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the lg ultra pc on the surface it looks

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kind of like an lg gram which i love

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but with a little bit more weight and a lot more performance

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only one small problem it turns out that you can't get this thing outside of

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korea the south korea to be precise

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and i mean look at this look at this amazing promotional video

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that's

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only six seconds long for some reason anyway

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fortunately if you are annoying enough and persistent enough i've often found

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that you can get what you want eventually

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and it works for more than just wedding proposals this

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is the lg ultra pc

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a laptop that has never before been seen

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outside of its homeland

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and the video about it is brought to you by mac weldon mack weldon makes high

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quality clothing be it t-shirts underwear

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see that right there mac weldon underwear my cat scratched me mac weldon

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can do nothing to protect you from cat scratches if it's not you know actually

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where the underwear is anyway my talking points are not actually on there so uh

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they make underwear t-shirts socks wallets and more and you can check them

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out using offer code tech tips to save 20 at the link in the video description

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i mean realistically if there were instructions for how to open the box they weren't going to be in english so

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let's open this baby up

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instructions unclear got bag stuck on head of a baby

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um all right

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okay so if you're into that sort of thing lg includes a nice little

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man satchel it's probably cooler in korea than it is

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here

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yep all right

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so aside from the actually pretty good feeling and presumably stylish carry bag

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and a power adapter pretty much the only thing in the box

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is the ultra pc itself

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and it looks pretty much exactly like i expected

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it's a big fat gram

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overall it's not that heavy for a 15 inch model it's about two centimeters

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thick at its thickest point so again not unreasonably thick and in

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terms of build quality like

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it's kind of honestly it's kind of hard to describe it because it's like it does

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feel in some places

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pretty nice um but then

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that's definitely more keyboard flex than we'd like to see and this is

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something that has been an ongoing critique of ours about lg's notebooks

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i o wise it's reasonable but not exceptional so you got your HDMI

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headphone micro sd usb

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a couple usb 3s a type c usb3 not Thunderbolt and gigabit Ethernet

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let's fire this thing up shall we

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is that their slogan in korea

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hi there i'm cortana and i'm here to help

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a little sign in here a touch of wi-fi there and we'll have your pc ready for

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all you plan to do and if you'd like me to stay quiet you can just mute your pc

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if you need an assistive screen reader press the

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why is this in english why does it take so long like what is the point of

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pre-loading all of this stuff so it asks me what region but it asks me

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in english it's weird this looks like a

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bog standard us layout keyboard just with

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alternate korean characters on it

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no i don't want to make cortana my personal assistant under the hood there's a couple of

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things about the specs that stood out to us it's got an 8550 u so that's a quad

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core low power processor 8 gigs of RAM though it depends what sku

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you get as always 240 gig SSD 500 gig

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hard drive and the big one was that it comes with a GeForce gtx 1050 so what we

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were hoping for was with that low power processor but a discrete graphics card

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in a larger clam shell was a nice balance of battery life

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performance and even the ability to game

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a little bit hopefully at a decent price

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let's start let's do that okay so first step is to

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jump on nine night and get all our stuff set up

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and we will be right back even lg's own software on here is like

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in english mind you i didn't install english Windows cortana i already i told you no

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i just told you no so these are just control and alt

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so instead of just labeling both of them twice they just hedged their bets they figured

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well they'll infer from this control and alt that that's also control and alt and

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vice versa the only korean only software on here is

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their support number so we've got all our software loaded up

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now and one of the first things that we do anytime a notebook hits our lab is

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slap it with a stress test so stress fpu

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hit that and almost immediately we noticed

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something really interesting about this particular model

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it detects that it is thermal throttling

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and in fact its clock speed does get reduced

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but the CPU is only sitting at about 60

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high to 70 low degrees on each of the individual cores so it would appear as

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though the t-junction temperature was

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misconfigured by the manufacturer now

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their intent may have been to allow the CPU to burst up during light loads

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but still not pass a bunch of heat through to the user

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when it's under a long strenuous load but this does seem like a fairly extreme

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approach if that was their intent

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you know overall it really is a testament to how far entry-level

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slash mainstream graphics cards have come that you can play doom on a machine

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like this with a gtx 1050 and have not a

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bad experience like i'm running it at high and i'm seeing dips down to below

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30 FPS but like it's very playable

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especially considering the fairly assy

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speakers on the gram the speakers are not bad and i still

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maintain that at laptop screen sizes 1080p resolution is

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adequately sufficient though it would be nice if it was a touch screen enough of

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that let's take it apart so poking around in here there are a

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couple of takeaways number one is that i'm a little confused as to why

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lg felt the need to have the CPU thermal throttle

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which supports our hypothesis that that was

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sort of an accident because the two heat pipes connected to the CPU actually go

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to both of these heat exchangers here

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you can see our GPU over here upgradable RAM so we've got two sodium

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slots uh one of which is empty on our eight gig model but that would be a nice

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and easy upgrade and actually overall upgradability of this device is pretty

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good you've got an m.2 slot here that one is populated and then you've also

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got room for a two and a half inch hard drive which is also populated but you

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could swap those out for something else should you desire moving on to the

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battery we've got a respectable 60 watt

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hours that did give us about four hours in our standard battery test but i did

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feel a little disappointed by this just because lg has built such a brand

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identity for themselves on the ground side of things around having these

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massive capacity batteries in these thin and light devices and this one

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just didn't meet my expectations there and there are a handful of other

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complaints that i have about it as well

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first of all the keyboard is

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crap there are two major problems with it one

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there's a nice tactile bump but the actuation point is pretty much at the

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bottom of the stroke and two the chassis just isn't stiff

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enough around my right hand like it's noticeably more flexible compared to my

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left causing me to regularly miss keystrokes in like this whole half of

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the keyboard here now to be clear it's not the worst

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keyboard i've ever used but i would put it below say a dell inspiron

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the trackpad is good enough no issues but it also didn't wow me and

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it's pretty small by today's standards so it gets a

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fine out of amazing and honestly that's not a bad summary of

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this device as a whole everything from the performance

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to the bezels to the webcam is

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fine except for one big problem the pricing

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so if you're part of the 0.3

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of our audience that is in south korea it's actually not a terrible option but

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if like us you were hoping that this would be something like the xiaomi

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notebook pro which wasn't the best laptop we'd ever seen but was priced

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well enough to be worth the hassle of getting it here from china

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then you're in for a rude awakening due to south korea's fairly harsh import

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regulations and taxes samsung and lg

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don't need to be quite as competitive in their home market

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so this laptop at sixteen hundred

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dollars would be up against much more premium competitors

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outside of south korea another example of this is the samsung galaxy s8

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a phone that may have actually been made in south korea but that costs a hundred

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and thirty dollars more to buy there

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hooray for oligopolies but

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it's not a huge loss because even if lg was to bring the ultra pc to the rest of

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the world which they've said they have no plans to do

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the value proposition wouldn't be amazing

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with a couple more generations of improvement particularly to the

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stiffness of the chassis and to the keyboard

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lg may be in a position where with the right pricing they could expand their

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notebook line internationally though so

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let's see if they do it

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