The most POWERFUL laptop we have unboxed!!! - XMG Neo
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2021-05-05
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2,403 words · ~12 min read
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- So I'm not 100% sure if this is true but as far as I can tell in this very nondescript box
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right here is the most powerful laptop in the world.
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So we're talking eight cores from AMD and an RTX 3080 Max-P.
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So that's, you know, she's got lots of power and it's also a 16 Gigabyte version
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which is more than you even get on the desktop card. So, let's open her up and see what it's like.
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It should be noted that this is a pre-production unit.
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I'm guessing that there would be some kind of branding on here on the final one.
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The only writing is just our little asset tag here
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and that's for our internal system that didn't come on.
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What, oh, that's upside down.
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- [Male voice] Nice. - Yeah. This is my job.
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And I do it good. Power brick, 230 Watts.
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Now, compared to laptops of yesteryear, this might not seem
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like all that much power. The new AMD processors are just so power efficient that like
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you don't need to pump 200 Watts into them.
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They run real fast at like 50.
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We also get a year of power plug, which is not
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exactly useful for us, but I brought one of these
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and that's about it in here besides the laptop.
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Which again is about as black and nondescript as possible.
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We got, I guess the serial number from Clevo and that's about it.
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So this one right here is for XMG and it's for Germany
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which I guess I can just open it up right now and show you.
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Means the keyboard's not all that useful if you are me and don't know German.
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So there's a couple things here that
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are slightly inconvenient for using it. So for one it's Q-W-E-R-T-Z, normally Y would be there.
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These are all different and all of this stuff up here is just wrong.
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We're getting a bit ahead of ourselves here though. So for IO on the side, just single USB Type-A
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headphone microphone on the back you get USB Type-C so
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no Thunderbolt because it's AMD technically can get that
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but practically you don't. And also full-size HDMI, it should be noted that both
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of these go directly to the GPU. So you have like hard wire between your external monitor
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and GPU in here. No Going through the IGP (indistinct)
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- [Jono] Is that HDMI 2.1? - 2.1 with HDCP 2.3.
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So awesome. Yeah, this guy right here. Real good one.
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You also get 2.5 Gigabit LAN, which is another good job.
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And then you also get full sized SD card and two more Type-As' overall.
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That's really good for laptop. Nice what else do we have to say?
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It's shockingly light. So this is 2.1 kilograms.
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And for context, the Dell XPS 15 here is 2.05 kilograms.
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Now you do get a mostly aluminum construction.
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So like back here is aluminum. The top up here is also aluminum.
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Although the bottom is all plastic, the actual chassis
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stiffness though. And if you look here is very good
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actually I'll take it off of, people always complain when I do it on the mat.
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Very, very rigid. Quite well-built.
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Clavos really like stepped It up lately.
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I feel like a couple of years ago everything that they made was just you could tell that it was not designed.
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Great.
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All right. Let's power over this guy up. I've actually been using it a fair bit lately.
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I got this in to compare to the Zephyrus G15.
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- [Jono] It's a big boi! - Yeah. It's pretty good.
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(upbeat music) (indistinct) Brandon.
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- [Brandon] That was not my fault! - This is your fault. - [Brandon] No it's not; I did not set this background!
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- I gave you this laptop for B roll - [Brandon] Yup, and it was already there when I got it.
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- Who added this then? - [Brandon] Probably Jake or something?IDK
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- Maybe Madison. - [Brandon] It's Madison's fault. Blaming Madison.
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- How do I turn on keyboard brightness?
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Oh, that's not what I want. Oh, no.
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How do I turn this off? - [Jono] Oh, what the heck?
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- So this is one of those things where knowing what your function buttons actually do
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comes in pretty handy.
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I'm not totally sure how to stop this. Oh, magnifier.
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Okay. We got it.
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So that's not what that button is supposed to do. Let's see if I can get the keyboard lights on here, though.
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There we go. And you have a lot of options of how to customize it.
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Customizing is kind of the main draw of this laptop.
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So various Clevo, you can kinda do different things
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with different ones and XMG's whole thing is basically
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once you buy it, you can do whatever you want to it.
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They don't really care. So, memory overclocking, that's a thing that you can do
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in the BIOS actual overclocking of the CPU and the GPU.
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It's this really, really new age type of overclocking.
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That's called dragging every slider over to the right as far as it goes.
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Can you turn on the castle module, it's over there.
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Here we go. Boop. 80 Watts on the CPU.
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Boom, done a dynamic boost.
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Let's turn that all the way up, 15 Watts. Unlock configurable TDP, I think we should hundred 35 Watts.
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So you gotta be thinking 135 Watts for the GPU.
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That's not 150, but that's where the dynamic boost comes in.
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So you can steal 15 Watts from the CPU give to the GPU, boom, it's 150 Watts.
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So there are situations where you might not want to just take every slider all the way over.
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So kind of depending on how much GPU
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or CPU you're using in a specific given task
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it's nice to be able to just tune it how you want and what games do we have?
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We're going to install and play Valheim cause that's what I want to do.
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They there's only 500 Gigabytes, but like we have an Intel Wi-Fi, six chip in here, which is
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basically the best thing that Intel makes right now.
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And the C is going to be 6969696969.
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Done. (laughs)
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Now one of the really beautiful things about this laptop is the screen.
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So we get 1440P at 165 Hertz
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which currently is basically the best that you can do for gaming on a laptop.
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Don't go for 4K, it's dumb. Well, it is a slight let down
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with this one right here is it has a 95% coverage
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of the sRGB spectrum, which is not great right now.
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It's not the most exciting game at the start. We're just gonna punch some trees and then probably leave.
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This is very, very good.
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I am not surprised at all, but we have absolute all
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of the graphics up as high as they'll go. I will turn off motion blur though.
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This thing is really loud. Let's find someone to punch.
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Hey Mr. Grayling, bam! Oh my God this guy is not powerful at all.
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Looks like 80 to 90 FPS.
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Sometimes dropping into the mid seventies. This on much lower settings on my computer
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which has a GTX 1080 is sitting around like 40, 50 FPS.
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I don't know how much else we need to do. Although I do really want to try and sneak attack a deer.
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It's actually almost more difficult because I have so much less vegetation on my computer.
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I'm going to turn down some of those dials custom profiles.
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We don't need 80 Watts in the processor right now.
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So let's just try turning that down a bit to 50 Watts.
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Okay, deer, where are you? Wow. It really did not quiet down.
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So the GPU is currently wow. It's 85 degrees, I guess that we do have it
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like going as fast as I can. Like we're sitting around 1600 Megahertz right now.
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And my testing though, this thing was able to do between 10 to up to 30% faster
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than the Zephyrus G15, so like that extra sound
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is netting you a bunch of power. It should be pretty easy.
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If you wanted to do the tuning that way to turn everything
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down just a little bit, it can be what you want it to be.
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Oh, there's a deer. Okay. Sneak attack time.
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They rUn. All right, I'm calling it, no deer sneak attack.
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I'm sorry everyone involved. But this is basically a total weapon.
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As far as it comes to gaming the combination of this GPU and this screen, it's frigging wicked.
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Now I do have some light complaints
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about the keyboard here. It has two millimeters of actuation
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and it does have quite a nice little stamp to it but I have a lot of trouble with it.
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Yeah, I think that the problem is just that the actual stabilization of the various keys is not amazing.
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So like you can see here, like A, it kind of just moves all around.
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Well, they all kind of just move around. So it's kinda hard to tell when you have this much slop
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in a key, what they did get really good though is this track pad for a gaming laptop.
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It's large, it tracks well, and there's no Palm rejection issues.
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So we have an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX.
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Right now it's reporting an H, but it is an HX.
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I am told it's just wrong in the BIOS.
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We also have 32 Gigabytes of memory on this one. You can't upgrade it to 64.
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Let's see here. 500 Gigabyte SSD. I would like to have a bit more than that.
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Given how OP everything else is and the good old 3080 Max-P.
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Even though it's not called Max-P anymore but it's powerful one that has 16 gigabytes of RAM.
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Oh, speakers. When you do the speakers, YouTube.
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I'm going to say underwhelming. (upbeat music)
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That's actually not bad though. Okay. I'm gonna open up the XPS 15 here and see how it compares.
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This is the XMG. (upbeat music)
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Oh, wow. Not even a competition.
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That's a... So yeah, speakers are mediocre.
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Given the size of this thing, you'd think they could have fit like a suburb or two in there.
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This is what I'm excited to do though. I actually have not taken this thing apart yet
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even though I have done a fair bit of testing on it.
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So I know that it's fast but I don't know why it's fast yet.
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And there's was kind of one of two options. The first is that, Clevo has done an excellent job
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of designing it. And a second is that AMD has done an excellent job
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with their new processors. And this assembly seems very easy so far.
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And I'm guessing if you're the kind of person that buys this
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you're also the kind of person that upgrades your laptop. Wow. That's a lot less cooling than I was expecting.
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If you had this much cooling on an Intel processor that had eight cores
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and was a high spec one, it would die.
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Now we have four heat pipes in total. So four of them are going to the GPU and going
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across to right over here, we do have massive heat things.
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They're really thick. So that's probably where the majority of the heat is going out.
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But I'm pretty surprised that like I was expecting you to have like nine
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heat pipes that are snaking all across the whole thing but I guess you just don't need it.
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It looks like upgradability overall is excellent.
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So we have our single SSD here and then another one fits in right there.
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You have two 2 SODIMM slots, so you want more RAM slotted in.
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Wi-Fi cards right there And we've got this massive battery, 93 Watt hours.
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And I honestly don't know what that will get you.
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Hey Jono? Can I just battery test this thing? And then we can put the thing right here.
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So if it's like seven hours, that's pretty good, I guess.
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But chances are, if you turn on anything 3d, it dies.
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Whereas if it's like 10 hours the number that's right here, then we're very impressed.
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Good job.
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Wow, I am genuinely shocked
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that this thing is able to keep it cool. Down here we've got those underwhelming subwoofers
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and I think that's about it. I don't know if I'd recommend buying it.
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If you're the kind of person that really loves tweaking dials,
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it's pretty fricking awesome. And for the kind of person that likes just really, really powerful laptops
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I might recommend getting it, you know with a keyboard that matches your region.
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But, aside from that, this thing frigging awesome.
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If you guys enjoy this video and want to see more, super-duper powerful laptops.
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I don't know, hit a like there and have a great old day.
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See you later.