I Didn't Think I Would Like THIS! - HP ENVY All-in-One
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2023-05-05
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2,732 words · ~13 min read
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Why are we doing this?
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I am coming for you.
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Jono, what is this?
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Okay.
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Yeah, this box is like,
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there's holes in it.
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What happened to you?
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In order to get into a package with a screw,
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first, you just, you just give it a poke.
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Power cord, webcam, okay.
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Cable management clip, keyboard and mouse.
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This, ew, this weighs nothing.
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Is there anything in here?
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So there's the power cable.
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It feels like it was half the weight.
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So this, this box lied.
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We're supposed to have a keyboard and a mouse in here.
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Oh, some items may be in separate packaging.
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Okay.
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This actually feels like a hefty keyboard.
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Oh, nevermind.
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Wow, that's substantial for such a slim keyboard.
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They actually, yeah, they don't feel bad.
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Like I don't like this style of keys
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for a desktop keyboard anyway,
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but for what it is, it's not bad.
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Plus you've got brightness controls and stuff,
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basically like Apple.
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It looks nicer than the Apple Magic Keyboard.
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You think that this looks nicer than like aluminum?
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Yes.
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You think it, okay.
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I'm just gonna, just gonna grab it.
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Looks pretty nice,
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but I think the only reason it looks glossy
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is because I'm pretty sure there's a peel under here.
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How about the back?
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Okay, so we've got actually a fairly substantial amount
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of IO here.
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We've got, there's our power.
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Jono clarified that this is in fact, Gigabit Ethernet.
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Which makes sense.
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This should be HDMI 2.1 because I see here,
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there's a little sticker for GeForce RTX graphics
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along with, I believe that's 12th gen core.
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Let's, no?
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11th gen.
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But what are we doing reviewing this thing, Jono?
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Oh, right.
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We're unboxing it.
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Why are we unboxing last year's tech?
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So we got three super speed USB ports.
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Those are not colored correctly,
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but nobody cares anymore, apparently.
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Two Thunderbolt ports.
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That's pretty sweet.
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Have a Thunderbolt dock
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if your onboard graphics aren't enough.
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Plus we have a, I guess that's a headset jack.
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There's more.
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Look at this.
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There's actually IO on the stand.
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We got two more USB ports, another type C port.
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Not sure, I can't see from here
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if that's Thunderbolt or not.
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And also what looks like an SD card reader.
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That's really cool.
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I can't help but notice
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that there's another little thing down here.
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Now, normally what this kind of thing conceals is more IO.
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Maybe there's actually even more than we've already seen.
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So I'm just going to grab this and pull it off.
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That was entirely tool-less.
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It's actually magnetic a little bit, I think.
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It's like, yeah, it's magnetic.
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It stays up like that.
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Then you just clip it in on either side.
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It's going to make a liar out of me now.
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Yeah, just go ahead and yank on this.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, just give it a yank.
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Oh, that's fun.
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Oh wow, it's really easy.
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Yeah.
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Only 16 gigabytes.
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16.
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Well, I told you, this is last year's tech.
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Why are we unboxing last year's tech?
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We need 32 gigs at minimum
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and we need 12th gen core at minimum.
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And we also need all Thunderbolt 4 ports.
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Every one of the USB type A ports
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needs to be 10 gigabits per second.
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And we need to get 10 gigabit Ethernet as well on here.
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And if that HDMI port isn't 2.1 compliant,
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I am coming for you.
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I didn't know he actually, he ordered it.
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Really?
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Yeah, I did order it.
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Why?
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It looked cool.
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It's just too bad.
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Hey, at least you can upgrade the RAM.
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Yeah, you can upgrade the RAM.
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There are two NVMe ports on there, I think,
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or maybe one is NVMe and one is SATA.
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I'll have to take a look and see.
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I mean, it doesn't tilt or anything,
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but it does go up and down.
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Doesn't really do side to side.
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Apple could take notes like this one right here.
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Yeah, and in fact, Apple used to be pretty easy.
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There was a button you pushed.
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It opened a door.
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Apple, why can't you do this anymore?
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Why are we doing this?
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Why?
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Apple used to care.
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Oh yeah, the power cord.
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It came in a whole separate box, the power cord.
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Like it wasn't attached to the back of the monitor.
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I didn't have to like check whether or not I was sane
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looking at the back of the monitor.
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Like what is that on the back of the monitor?
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Could that possibly be a power cable?
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Where's the power cable?
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Oh, it is in fact on the back of the monitor.
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Why?
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I don't know.
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Hey, let's try taking it off.
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You can't?
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Oh, watch this.
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There you go.
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Watch that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And you know what?
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If I, oh, there's actually a little tab here
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and I'm not sure why.
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Cause it's gonna have to come this way, right?
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Wait, what?
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It's not a full peel.
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Is this just glossy?
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It's really glossy.
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It needs a wipe.
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Oh, I didn't even notice this.
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Is that a wireless charging dock?
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How useful.
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So you just throw your phone there,
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which you're probably gonna do anyway, let's be honest.
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And it'll charge.
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Oh man, there's no way I can make this thing look good.
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Like even if, like, just look.
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Looking at it.
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Every time I look at it, there's another streak.
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And it's like, where are these coming from?
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I don't understand.
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I have yet to see a power button.
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Maybe that's where the key,
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like maybe it's the keyboard that does that?
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Computer on.
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Can you see where we can turn, how to turn this on?
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Oh, I love a challenge.
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Well, if I can't turn this on, I guess I'm screwed.
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How could there not be an obvious power button?
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This is insane.
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Maybe, okay, maybe there's something under,
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like on the underside of it, like if we tip it over.
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You know what, we're getting desperate, so.
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No.
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It took me a while to find it.
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No, I touched, I touched there.
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I don't feel anything there.
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It's the tiniest button ever.
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They could have it pulse light or something,
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so you'd know.
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The dongle does appear to be built in,
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so I don't need these.
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Okay, so what is this?
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It's.
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It's mad at you.
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It doesn't like your phone.
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Clearly.
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Yeah, okay, so I guess it doesn't wanna charge my phone.
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Why?
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Yeah, let me try my phone.
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It's smaller.
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Oh, and the webcam, right.
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How could I forget the webcam?
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Whoa, what?
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Yeah, that's a thing.
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Now, why are you unboxing things?
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Because I don't really get this privilege
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being kind of stuck in my corner full of Apple products.
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It's probably at least partially magnetic, isn't it?
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Yeah, it is magnetic, but it's.
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Yeah.
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Why would you do that?
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Tell me what you think.
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I like a chunky webcam.
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There's something substantial about it.
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I would prefer a chunky webcam that looks good
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to a sling webcam that doesn't.
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Yes, yes.
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Also, here's something we can do about that.
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Hey, hold on, let me add this, add this.
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Just goes right into these holes,
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and once it's all the way in,
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it is held together with those magnets.
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Yeah, this is a 4K ultra wide, is what this is.
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It's 2160p tall, 5120 pixels wide.
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Let's see.
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HDR compliant.
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It doesn't look like it is.
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God, why would you maximize a window
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across an ultra wide like this?
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So they call this a 5K panel.
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Not true.
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This is anti-glare.
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They definitely failed on the anti-glare.
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I don't really see any effort put into anti-glare here.
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No?
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Like I don't really see any like frosting
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or anything like that.
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No.
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In some cases, if you've got a lot of ambient light,
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but not a lot of direct light,
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a glossy screen can be more readable than a matte screen.
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But if you do have direct light,
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like a window or studio lighting coming in at you,
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then you're going to see shadows
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and all sorts of other stuff.
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But get out of here.
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What was this used for?
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Get out of here.
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You're adding nothing.
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Welcome to today's episode of Pack Address,
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where we talk about Hewlett Packard devices.
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So this, okay, straight away, laptop GPU.
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So they definitely do not have a desktop class GPU in here.
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The CPU, yes.
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But it checks out.
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I mean, the display in this lighting, it's difficult to tell,
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but it looks pretty good to me.
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So far from what I've heard of the little Windows chimes,
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the speakers are rather nice.
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They are by Bang & Olufsen.
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I see we've got McAfee LiveSafe pre-installed.
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What else do we have here?
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Adobe Offers, MyHP.
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Okay, so MyHP is probably fine.
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Dropbox promotion, why?
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Anyway, they got Duet Display, which is interesting,
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which means you could use Duet Display to use a tablet
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or some other machine to extend your display,
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your desktop onto.
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This mouse is actually a problem.
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Like I'm sitting here trying to set up OBS
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so I can screen record for you guys.
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And like the tracking sensitivity is not good enough.
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Basically, I went down, hit apply or okay, and I hit cancel,
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just because like the tracking is so weird.
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Yeah, it's really good.
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I don't think it has local dimming,
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but the contrast ratio and the brightness
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is actually pretty good.
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It gives a fake effect of HDR just looking at it like this
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as a result of that.
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Because it has that 500 nit peak brightness,
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it's the same as the Apple Studio display.
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So it looks really good,
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but it doesn't have that HDR tone mapping, you know?
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Just as Alex walks in.
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Oh, wow.
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It doesn't get as loud as I thought it would,
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but the top end is pretty sharp.
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It's not terrible.
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High is really good, mid's really good.
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The sound, like the bass is, it's good,
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but it's like, it doesn't go too far down.
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Like, you know?
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Yeah.
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It's, it doesn't have...
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It's not rumbling your butt.
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Yeah, well, they got the,
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oh, they got a bang on the Olsen sound control.
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Oh, the bass is cranked a little bit.
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It's at 69%.
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Nice.
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So what if I were to turn all of this off?
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What does it sound like now?
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Oh.
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Turn it back on.
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The stock setting is actually pretty good.
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Oh, nice.
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They do have it.
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The display control.
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That's what I wanted.
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What I really like is that you can do the auto color,
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because then you can go from like Lightroom
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to your websites and stuff,
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and it'll automatically switch like SRGB and Adobe RGB.
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All right, let us try out that webcam.
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Okay.
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Oh, hey, it's got facial recognition.
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It knows when people are in frame.
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It looks like it's doing autofocus a lot,
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which is kind of weird.
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And there's Jono.
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Oh, I can set the autofocus.
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Set where it should be.
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Oh, I see.
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So it actually has like kind of a built-in ring light.
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That's interesting.
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I'm not sure how actually useful it is,
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but I guess it's better than nothing.
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What do we have here?
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Oh, okay.
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So I can adjust the aperture of it.
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I can adjust the temperature of it.
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So that's warm.
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And that's cool.
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That actually does make a difference.
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It auto rotated.
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What?
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Whoa.
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Is that built into Windows?
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Yeah, you can just have,
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you can straight up just have it down there.
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In fact, there's a reason why it's a little bit,
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a little bit halo-y.
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And we forgot to do a peel.
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You're gonna get to see a peel from the other side.
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You are the peel this time.
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Oh, here it comes.
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Whoa, it's so much sharper.
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I thought it was just a bad webcam.
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So yeah, I guess we are hearing presumably
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the speed of the microphone array
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that is built into this display.
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And wow, that actually, yeah, that looks really good.
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Let us play some games.
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Yeah, it's hovering around 60 FPS.
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I'm wondering if I have V-Sync on.
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It doesn't seem to be when I'm in the menu.
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V-Sync is off. Okay.
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So it only does about 60 FPS max at these settings,
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which is 1440p wide, ultra quality.
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This thing's got a really, really quiet little fan in it.
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This thing is clearly struggling right now
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because the CPU is gonna be hit pretty hard
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in a game like Doom.
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And the GPU is obviously struggling
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because it's got a whole bunch of stuff going on right now.
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But if I mute the audio while the game is running,
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I don't, I don't hear anything.
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Like.
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I think I hear our server even better.
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Ooh, oh, it is pumping out a lot of heat up here.
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I had to say, despite the fact that I went into this,
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like kind of crapping on the specs,
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it's really good overall.
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Like it's a good all-rounder.
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Long story short, it's got a good display.
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It's not the best display, but it's a good display.
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It's got a good webcam.
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It's not the best webcam, but it's actually pretty strong.
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It's got good speakers,
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if only because it has the good software.
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Okay, well, this is not so good, but it works sometimes.
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It's got pretty good IO.
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I don't have any major complaints, to be honest,
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aside from all the complaints that I've been doing.
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I've been complaining this whole time
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about like bloatware and stuff.
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Would you buy this?
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Oh, should you wait until this is the 12th?
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I would say, wait for the 12th gen model.
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That being said, if you get this on special in the meantime,
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because the 12th gen model is gonna come, then sure.
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Like this is the kind of computer
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that I would buy for my grandparents.
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For somebody who doesn't, you know,
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need to upgrade their computer super much,
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like maybe they just need to upgrade the RAM later on,
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or they need to add more storage, then yeah.
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This is actually super easy to get into.
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And so for somebody who's not technically minded,
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you could walk them through doing that very easily.
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I came into this kind of not being impressed with the specs
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and not being impressed with, you know,
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some other aspects of it,
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but it's actually really good overall.
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I like it.
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And I like you and the fact that you like ShortCircuit.
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So get subscribed and I don't know,
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maybe comment down below
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what other machines or otherwise
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that we should take a look at.