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there's no denying that the trend in mobile devices is towards making them

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thinner and lighter even if it means sacrificing features that we used to

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take for granted like user-swappable batteries extensive i o options or even

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something as basic as a headphone jack well as for panasonic their fz 55 takes

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that trend and friend chokes lands it i

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mean almost literally look at look at this freaking thing so panasonic

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sponsored this video and sent over not

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just the toughbook 55 but also this box

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of upgrade modules fingerprint reader rfid reader blu-ray drive

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is that a graphics card and all of these

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can be user upgraded if you have the

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inclination and the crazy part

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it's not even that thick

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oh my god it has a sim slot i love this thing

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now first and foremost the toughbook 55 is of course a laptop so it comes

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equipped with Intel's eighth generation codename whiskey lake processors up to

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64 gigs of RAM check this out

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as a touch screen model with stylus support and then it has some other stuff

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that most people might not really think of so one

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is backwards compatibility with both panasonic's previous generation desk

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docks and car docks you know just in

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case you need to dock your laptop in the car it's got a quad array microphone and

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get this they claim 92 decibel peak

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loudness speakers so i gotta hear these

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so it's all right the idea behind that is

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that it can both hear you and be heard even under challenging conditions like

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and get this this is right from their literature a police cruiser going down

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the highway with the Windows down and the sirens on very specific

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so each of these like little modular

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pieces right here can be removed from the laptop and then have additional

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components swapped into them and here's a really crazy one there's a quick

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release latch for the storage because you never know when you're gonna

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need to rip the SSD out of your drive

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put it in a paper shredder and like freaking hard bail right

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like what i don't know how much i'm like supposed

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to pick and prod at this thing um but i'm i'm like super curious what's

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under here too it's funny there's always like really cool technology in the

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consumer space and then there's really cool technology in the enterprise space

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and the kinds of solutions that they build are just things that you would have never considered that anybody

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needed and actually on that note it can be configured with raid 1 so that

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you have real time data mirroring with the optional SSD upgrade so it's just a

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standard m.2 drive and it's just got a little carrier pcb that adapts it to

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this hot pluggable interface here i actually don't know

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that it is strictly speaking hot plugable in fact it it probably isn't

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um hopefully this thing boots back up

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mercifully i was at least in sleep when i unplugged that so i'm gonna put it

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back in and see if this thing fires back up immediately

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okay we're in the BIOS i guess that's the perfect opportunity

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to bring up that this thing has a ton of security features including trusted

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platform module 2.0 v pro nist BIOS protection 256-bit aes wi-fi

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encryption optional opal encrypted drives and a variety of options for 2fa

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oh there we go okay rebooting got the SSD to pick back up again that was

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pretty dumb so that brings us perfectly into our first upgrade ability adventure

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so right over here on this side is a smart card reader and if you don't work

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in the enterprise space you might probably think that it's sort

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of pointless to have like you know smart card readers in your laptop

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but actually a lot of enterprises use these as a second factor for things like

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accessing confidential information like say a client's medical records that's

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not the only option though so let's go ahead and have a look at what else we've

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got here this is a fingerprint reader module

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okay pretty straightforward

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so from the bottom here

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nope

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there we go we go ahead and

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pop that out

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pop that in and there we go

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now we have a fingerprint sensor picked up just like that

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so let's go ahead and try it boom logged in i like this thing but let's

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say our organization doesn't like fingerprint readers for second factors

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now we've got oh an rfid reader

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so there it is right there

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flip this puppy over and now we have an rfid reader there

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then if you're not into rfid there's also the Windows hello infrared facial

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scanner so basically the idea here is that even though this is clearly not the

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most space efficient way to add something as simple

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as an rfid scanner to a laptop you're not stuck with any biometric

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security options that you don't want and

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you have only the ones that you do need now not everybody needs that stuff and

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that's where the modularity comes into play so this second bay here is actually

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identical there we go to the battery bay

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that's on the other side so this 6300 milliamp hour battery nets the toughbook

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productivity suite but this is where things get really cool you

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can actually chuck a second one into the other side

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now i will say this does increase the weight

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of the unit fairly substantially for a whopping

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40 hours and if for whatever reason your

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application doesn't allow you to power down at all you can even

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hot swap the batteries if you have spare ones on the side so you just never have

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to power the thing down don't remove both of them though that would that

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would cause it to turn off but as you guys can see we have only just scratched

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the surface of all of our upgrade modules here so why don't we go ahead

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and see what we can put in this slot

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so once again panasonic has adapted the standard interface on this thing which

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is presumably SATA to their own interface that

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i don't know what that would be it must be pci express in some form or

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another at any rate that just pops in like that

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wow this is like really easy it's almost too

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easy uh one thing that they did mention

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is that if you're like an administrator and you don't want your users just like

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accidentally popping their ssds out um there are locking screws that you can

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put in so that's the locking screw for the SSD

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if i recall correctly and i think this one is the locking screw so people don't

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accidentally like rip their optical drive out of the laptop so this is a

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blu-ray drive this is basically the same as the dvd drive except

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uh more blue so i don't really need to show you guys that i think what you guys

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want to see is the graphics card you want to see the graphics card

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i want to see the graphics card so this is the GPU pack and this is why i said

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that panasonic's modular interface here

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must be some sort of pci express because otherwise how on

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earth would you put what appears to be a gt551

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gt550 i guess i don't know we're going to find out what kind of graphics card

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it is in just a moment but the module looks pretty similar to our optical

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drive except of course there's a cooling fan that happens to correspond

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with the ventilation holes on the bottom of the laptop

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just like that it's a Radeon pro

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wx4150 i've never even heard of that graphics card but we're gonna fire up

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some rocket league on it nonetheless anyway this update was downloading

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really slow so uh i thought hey wouldn't it be great if we had an Ethernet jack

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now's a good time to have a look at the i o of this thing so we've got a usb 3 type a usb 3 type c

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there it is we've got an Ethernet jack over here

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we've got micro sdxc headphone microphone combo jack of course these

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have splash resistant covers just in case you you know get water on your

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laptop it is ip53 rated although panasonic was very clear to me that i

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was not to leave it out in the rain

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i'm very clear about that and the modularity continues doesn't it

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my friends there is of course the io pack if you'd like to add some

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additional i o to your laptop uh unfortunately this pack looks oh wait

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where does this pack go oh no way

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it goes at the back okay so at the back we've got another

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usb 3 type a HDMI 2.0

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and then this that brings our total number of

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bays up to 1 two

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seven wait a minute even this back usb 3 has screws in it

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what even is that this is like an access hatch to the CPU cooling heatsink

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there it is another freaking upload slot so what do

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we have here vga and serial just in case you need

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that or like not if you don't

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and then whatever the hell that is

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okay it's kind of a clever approach the whole dual battery pack because it gives you

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that hot swap ability and it means you can take the thing on a plane even

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though it has more capacity than you would be allowed to bring on if it was a

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single battery okay i'm still waiting for my game to

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download and i'm just curious like everything on this thing goes together

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with screws which is so weird in this day and age when

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everything is done with like clips and stuff so i was just

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wondering what this is so that's the antenna

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that's the main antenna it just has oh that makes sense as a plastic cover

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because otherwise how would it work but you want as much of this thing as

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possible to be made out of this uh magnesium alloy that actually it

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contributes to it being quite a lot lighter than you'd expect

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i mean it's got two batteries in it now so it's a little on the heavy side now but with just one in it's

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it's deceivingly light now i remember having that same experience the first

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time i saw a tough book actually back in the early 2000s it blew me away because

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it was like this tiny i forget it was like an 11 or a 12 inch model which was

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really small at the time and i was like whoa this thing weighs

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like nothing this is so cool how much is it and the sales guy at london drugs is

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like oh it's like 3 500 i was like oh cool

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i'm a high school student yeah

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oh actually now's a good time to look at the privacy mode for the keyboard you

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know you don't need to rip your SSD out but you don't want anybody looking at your screen

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it's actually still on but the brightness is so low that no one

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could conceivably actually see what's on it and then they've also got a night

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color shift thing that you can set up to either manually enable or you can set a

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timer or you can use the light sensor or whatever the case may be and you can

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apply different screen effects like you know a reading mode or can configure

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your night mode maybe you prefer this for your night mode most people probably

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won't use that green night mode oh oh actually oh right i could see

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never mind i could see someone using like the green or the red one depending

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on what environment they're in this is another cool thing so the keyboard

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actually feels pretty darn good to me but if you didn't like it or more

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realistically if the layout wasn't ideal for what you're doing or you know your

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language or you have a specialized application it's also modular

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three screws right here and you can pop off the keyboard

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all right well i'm not saying that this is gonna be like you know your primary

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gaming device anytime soon but 60fps all high quality in rocket league

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1080p it's not unusable that's for sure

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boom that sucked

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no stop so that was the craziest one now i've

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just got a couple more things so first is the smart card reader and you guys

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might be a little confused because you thought we already saw the smart

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card reader this is the smart card reader that goes in the other side

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hold on a second we haven't even looked

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under this door oh oh it's just like a RAM door okay well

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that's that's fairly straightforward and then finally

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the SSD pack so this goes where the graphics card

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went and inside it is presumably a similar

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model of SSD to the one that goes in the more SSD specific

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uh door over here now i want to know what's under the security torx of this

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one now too oh okay so this is upgradable components

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but not necessarily panasonic's you know modular ones so in here we've got our

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wi-fi so you could swap that out for like a

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wi-fi six ax module if you wanted and then i'm actually not it's hard to

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say because this has like a thermal pad on it i'm not 100 sure what this is but

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it's also wireless oh

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you know what this laptop has cellular

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so it's probably something to do with that there's just a couple more things i'm

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curious about there was another security torx covering this door so i want to know

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what it does what do we got

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oh so that's the connector for the display

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now panasonic says that the display is not a user upgradable modular thing but

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like you can clearly see how it's assembled so my guess is that if you

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could get your hands on one you could probably do it even if that's not

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something that they support and i also wanted to pop the keyboard off and see

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how that works it's not something that i would do for switch quality these are

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fine okay so that's glued down

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i wonder if panasonic had intended for me to do this

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i'm kind of guessing no well they should have known what they were

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getting themselves into

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oh okay so there you go it's just some adhesive strips and then like a pretty

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standard ribbon interface down here so you guys can check out the toughbook 55

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at the link in the video description but i want to hear from you guys in the comments

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what would your loadout be personally i would go with two battery

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packs because i am really careless sometimes and i forget to recharge my

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battery and that would be really really nice for me when i'm traveling i would i

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think i'd throw in the GPU just because that way i don't have to

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carry around any GPU if i just want to play some you know filthy casual games

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i'd definitely throw the extra i o pack on there i didn't need any of the other

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stuff but having vga would be really nice when that comes up and then i'd

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probably throw in another stick of RAM and then stick with the regular standard

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SSD and then upgrade my wi-fi to wi-fi six

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it's mind-blowing to me that i even have those kinds of options i think this

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thing is really cool so like i said again thanks to panasonic for sponsoring

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this video and if you guys want to check this thing out it's going to be linked in the video description