ASUS ET2400 Series Core i5 All In One PC System Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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so today I'm going to be unboxing a pretty cool product that sort of arrived
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in the mail for NC use this is an ET 2400 series allinone PC from ASUS and
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I'm actually going to open this up and then we're going to throw it over on the
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test bench once I've got it all opened up so we can find out what the specs of
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this machine are because right now all I know is the series I don't know how much
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RAM it has I don't know how big the hard drive is all that good stuff like what
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kind of CPU is installed so just going to do what I do and that is uh I'm just
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going to break seals and show you guys the product and then we will go from
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there so I broke the seal and now I'm
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showing you guys uh oh here's a warranty card so they put that somewhere where
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you'll definitely find it there we go
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and why don't we find out what kind of warranty we have on this particular
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all-in-one PC from missuse well there you can fill that in there's your serial
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number that's handy uh warranty conditions 12 months oh okay no no for
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example 12 months means 24 12 months
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okay oh here we go so Aus will provide warranty service for any more than three
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bright dots or five dark dots so that is
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on the LCD so that's bright pixels or dead
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pixels um okay
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neat keep going and we've got some foam
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so give me a second I'm just going to unpack this and then we'll go from
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there okay accessory wise uh oh it comes
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packed in a nice closed cell foam so very very very durable shipping material
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this is one of my favorites personally uh let's see what we got for accessories
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so first things first we got this that
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appears to be an IR sensor okay plugs in
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via USB good next we have what appears
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to be a mouse yeah just your average wired Mount
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well not average I mean it's quite small I have small hands and this is a small
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Mouse see look look at that I mean these are
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my fingers look how short my fingers are okay so there's that next we have a
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power cord which is your standard notebook style power cord and then we
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have a power brick now for this one I'm going to whip out the iPhone yeah yeah
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cameraman's trying to give me his iPhone but I have an iPhone now too smart guy
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yeah okay fine we'll use your iPhone okay so that is how big it is compared
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to an iPhone okay and that is how thick
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it is compared to an iPhone this is a big old power brick be happy that this
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is not for your laptop because it weighs like 60 lb well no it doesn't weigh 60
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lb but it's heavy since this is a desktop PC though it's not really that
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big of a concern well it's not a big concern at all next we have some kind of
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a remote which if we put this on demo in the store someone will surely steal
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within a matter of minutes not that I'm saying that that's an invitation to
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steal it because it's really inconvenient when people do that by the
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way but it will happen and for whatever reason it takes three batteries three
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AAA batteries I mean who has three AAA batteries really I've never seen a media
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center remote that takes three batteries or AAA
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batteries I'm a big fan of double a batteries because they're common and
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cheap and I like things that are
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cheap there we go okay so it's got all your standard media oh it lights look at
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that whole thing is illuminated oh okay won went away yeah
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yeah press the button go there okay that's nice that's nice that maybe
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that's why it takes three batteries maybe that's what the extra battery is for power the light okay next we have a
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keyboard pretty run-of-the-mill keyboard I would probably recommend getting a
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different keyboard and mouse if you're going to use this for any sort of extended period of time throughout the
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day all right now let's do this a I'm
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ripping off plastic
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success lots of plastic this is the all-in-one PC itself
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and we now get our first hint as to what is the spec of this machine because
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there are stickers on the front that indicate to us some of those
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specifications so first of all we can see that it runs Windows 7 next we can
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see that it has an Intel Core i5 processor which basically means that it
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rocks okay okay and we have NVIDIA GeForce 310m 512 Meg Graphics which
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basically means that it is uh capable of playing like HD videos back which the
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core I 5 would anyway it is energy star compliant it comes with some kind of uh
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pre-installed trial of Office 2010 okay
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over here we have ooh Distortion free
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audio base enhancement immersive surround sound so they're calling this
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Sonic master that is for Crystal Pure surround reproduction it is fine-tuned
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for original recording production and then here there's a little bubble that
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has like some waves like real sound which is uh yellow and then before
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tuning which is green which clearly we off and then after tuning which is very
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close to the yellow so close to real sound excellent okay you can actually
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see the Soundbar here at the bottom of
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the screen so it's quite large actually look at that so the Soundbar goes all
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the way across the entire bottom of the all-in-one PC up here at the top we have
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a webcam okay we have a webcam and then
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over here we have an accurate multi-touch
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screen yeah I don't know what that's for we'll figure that out later uh okay so
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it has an accurate multi-touch screen HDMI in so you can play HD content from
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your notebook or other multimedia devices that's pretty neat that's something that I often feel is missing
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from notebooks or from all-in-one PCS is the ability to plug something else into
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it and use it as a monitor should you so desire you can easily upgrade the memory
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and it supports their performance uh 15% super Hybrid engine basically means you
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can turn the performance up it's kind of like overclocking okay let's look around
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at the back of the all-in-one PC where
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we find some ventilation so there's clearly an aluminum heat sink here as
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well as one over here on the other side I can't don't know if you can see where
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I'm pointing yes you can all right and that's where we have ventilation coming
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from here's our easy memory upgrade panel I'm just going to take the plastic
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off there very very very shiny finish overall on this all-in-one PC so if
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you're down with shiny you are down with
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this allinone PC very very shiny okay let's have a look at what we've got on
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the side in terms of inputs and outputs and all that kind of stuff we have our
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DVD multi recorder we have a power
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button uh volume up menu and volume down
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going to go ahead and turn this
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around okay and then on the other side we have two USB ports headphones
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microphone and a multicard reader here
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on the back under the easy memory slot
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which I'm just going to oh is that even the easy memory slot well how the devil
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does this work hold on a
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minute that doesn't seem very easy at
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all okay guys feel free to post comments and let me know how oh I think I get it
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I get it there's a screw here so you undo this screw and then you pull out
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this tab and then you have access to the memory cuz this seems too easy for a
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toddler curious toddler to come along take this off and like and like eat your
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memory if it if there wasn't another metal plate there so I get it now okay
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and down here we've got four more USB ports a Kensington lock antenna
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VGA okay HDMI in uh gigabit Ethernet as
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well as power in so let's go plug this baby in and see what it's all
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about all right so we're finally booted up to the desktop it did take a little
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while but it got itself all initialized up and all that good stuff so let's have
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a look at what comes pre-installed on
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the ASUS all-in-one PC that we're looking at today so there's the super
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Hybrid engine so that's our oh UAC is
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kicking in here we go super Hybrid engine is okay we got some more UAC
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going on something about easy update uh
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let's do that later cancel okay yeah I want to exit the program okay super
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Hybrid engine here we go after press okay system will be rebooted to make
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your change okay no I don't want to reboot right now okay we've also got Trend Micro titanium assus Sonic Master
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which is something to do with the uh sound evidently okay you can either use
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the internal laptop speakers or probably something else if you plug
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it in but right now you can't so vocal Clarity surround base adaptive volume
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lower high okay interesting okay next we have the vibe Fun Center ooh actually
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let's get back to that later because that sounds fun okay we got web storage we got Triple E cam so that's our webcam
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Triple E Cinema which is evidently some kind of media player software okay so
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videos okay you can add stuff to your library movies music o you memo and
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there's a little smiley face cool oh yeah right okay so I can write a
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memo yeah yeah okay so can oh hold on
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select the memo pad background sure let's go with pink okay oh and then I
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can select this kind of marker oh open the cover open okay I can select uh okay
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let's go with this kind of marker okay
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ra
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man
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ma yeah okay so I can clear all or I can
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erase oh yeah erasing doesn't work very well I highly recommend not using that
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eraser because it works like a real eraser which is not very effective oh
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you can choose all kinds of different colors though for your markers which is kind of neat even gray and black you can
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use like a this kind of thing okay so let's exit that so there's our memo pad
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okay we have E paint which is probably again some kind of touchscreen based
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thing ooh this looks fun so I can put in a truck no yeah there we go and then I
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can like color it and stuff I got my crayon I got my green so I'm going to
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make a green truck yeah if you have kids I'm sure this will be
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like a big hit and then they can print it out and waste all your toner and ink
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and then you'll be really happy but still come on that's pretty cool pretty
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cool okay so I made myself a green and red truck no I don't think I want to
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save those changes yeah we're not going to be saving those changes okay game
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partk console sorry we're just I'm just looking at all of the stuff that comes
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pre-installed here guys so why don't why don't I talk to you about the overall
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spec of the machine a little bit as well let's find out what the overall spec is
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oh I don't know how to right click with the uh tou pad so let's just go ahead and do this okay so this is a core i5
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650 so it's at 3.2 GHz that is a dual
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core Core i5 so we have 4 gigs of RAM uh
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in terms of our video card I think we already mentioned this before but is a
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GeForce 310 M 512 Meg and so we've got
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our uh NVIDIA control panel here that's pretty much your basic specs what do we
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have in terms of storage yeah don't worry I'll have a look at that in a
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minute uh oh right wrong thing let's go
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computer so in terms of storage we have a 500 gig Drive in here by the look of
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things what's this okay so we got e sharing fun touch e experience e tools
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why don't we do e sharing what's E share web storage okay emuse okay so this is
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basically just quick links to the stuff that we've already been having a look at
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here so the paint Journal Sonic Master
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Okay cool so you can pretty much get rid of all those desktop shortcuts and just
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use this so game Park okay let's not worry too much about game park right now
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now I want to go back to this one I am all about the vibe Fun Center because
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that sounds pretty good A okay back in a
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sec all right so this is what we find so
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there's something about music you you know local artist Carrie Underwood I
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really don't think she's a local artist where I'm from but that's okay uh we got
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games we got radio so I can listen to like local top 40 stations and all that
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kind of stuff okay learning Dr Chinese
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Elementary Chinese one Aya oh okay I'm probably pronouncing
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that wrong okay there's lots of Chinese lessons here why don't we try action
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chicken Invaders 3 let's try playing this game okay give me a sec I'll see
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how long it loads okay so far the sound seems pretty
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good here I'm just in the uh demo mode so this is chicken Invaders revenge of
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the Yol why don't we go with uh start new Mission here okay and there's a fork
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there's a fork for the pointer so
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oh nice nice okay so this is just a a 60-minute demo basically but you use
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your mouse to you know do this so basically this is a way for your
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kids to download stuff on your
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computer and that you'll have to remove later for the most
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part oh you can eat all like the burgers and like chicken wings I don't know why
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Burgers come out of the chicken when you blow it up but
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uh okay you can tap the fire button for single shots or hold it for continuous
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fire that is a death star with a
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Yol and that is some good taunting going on okay I think we're done um so thank
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