The RETURN of Intel - AORUS 15P Gaming Laptop
ShortCircuit
·ShortCircuit
·2022-05-05
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2,023 words · ~10 min read
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- Oh, we have got a sick laptop right here.
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And I can tell you that for sure, because this thing is from Aorus
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and they sponsored this video and if it sucks,
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I get to have an awkward conversation with them and you don't see this video.
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So here we go. Oh, let's just get straight into it here.
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[Jono] What's so cool about this laptop? - Well, we'll find out what's cool about this laptop, Jono.
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Just wait a second. First of all, we could see just how much power
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we're dealing with in here, 230 Watts. That means this thing's going to be pretty powerful
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which I already know, because I looked at the specs on the side of the box and it has a 3080 in it
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and also an 11th gen Intel processor. So yeah, she's fast.
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It looks like they also included a thermal pad.
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Maybe like a three millimeter one. It's kind of a thick, I guess your SSD is upgradable
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because why else would they include this?
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That's pretty cool though.
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And here we go.
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Very simple. I find sometimes Aorus can kind of get a bit
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too spaceshipy with their designs.
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This one right here. I think they nailed it kind of going between
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gigabytes arrow lineup, where it's pure class
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and race car, Ferrari spaceship.
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This is a good middle ground. For IO we've got full-sized HDMI DisplayPort
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or mini DisplayPort, full-sized USB type A,
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Ethernet, headphone, microphone. And on the other side we get, let's see here.
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It says it has Thunderbolt. Okay, double-check that. Thunderbolt four here.
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Doesn't have the little note Thunderbolt on it but we're all good there.
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Full-sized SD card reader. I really like this, for most people it doesn't matter,
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but if you ever use a real camera, these are awesome.
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And two more type A ports.
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This keyboard cover that they have feels very good.
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I'm guessing you could probably use it afterwards to clean your display and stuff.
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I always feel weird commenting on things
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like chassis rigidity and sponsored videos but this is exceptional.
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You can see me pushing on it. The total deflection you might see on camera is a bit much
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but the overall rigidity is very high.
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It would appear that it's kind of like you have a plastic chassis with an aluminum top plate
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but the overall feel of it is very good.
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How heavy is it? Let's find out.
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Not from the spec sheet, from an actual scale because sometimes spec sheets lie.
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4.8 pounds, okay. Which is 2.2 kilograms for civilized people.
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Yeah, that might not be the lightest laptop I've ever used
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but for something with 3080, that's damn impressive.
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Now my one complaint here it's not the worst thing in the world, but Gigabyte, please.
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Your displays, they've been so floppy for so long.
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I've been complaining about this since 2017.
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Wow, that's a lot of RGB.
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You can definitely tone it down but the default state is just pure unicorn vomit.
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Oh my God. I need to turn that down to tell you how good it is.
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Oh, wait, what? I didn't do anything, but it turned to white
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and now it's much more chill.
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I do kind of like that in these laptops where you have full RGB access to be able to just be like,
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"All right, I'm going over to my friend's house and we're going to have just pure seizure warning needed
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to turn this laptop on mode." And then you can go to a meeting with your professor
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at university and not feel like an idiot. What color do you guys want?
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- [Jono] Give me purple. - Purple? - [Emily] Purple for ShortCircuit
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- All right, purple. There we go.
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Also in here, we have our device settings. You will be able to get the absolute best performance
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if you come in and tune all of this yourself but they have their Microsoft AI first ever AI crap.
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And it actually kind of works. Basically, all it does is it selects a device profile
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based off of the game or application
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or whatever that you're using. Most of the time when I use these laptops I just let that do its thing.
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Wonder how loud it is. Turbo mode, can I just put the Phantom Aux?
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Oh wow, that's pretty good. It's not whiny.
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A lot of laptops, especially ones with this much power
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can be very much like (screams)
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whereas this one right here is more, it's more of a woosh, I like it.
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Gigabyte was able to pull that quietness off apparently
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by using two 71 blade fans and five heat pipes.
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We'll take a look at that in a bit but I'm actually pretty impressed by that.
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Now under the specs this is maybe the most interesting part of this laptop.
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So in here we have an i7-11800H.
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And is it good? I don't know.
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We'll find out pretty soon. Aside from the CPU, we got 16 gigabytes of RAM,
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3,200 megahertz, that's actually pretty good for a laptop.
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One terabyte SSD, Intel Wi-Fi 6.
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They said, put the logo on the screen while I mentioned that, editor do that, please.
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But at the same time that's just basically the best Wi-Fi card that you can get.
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I'm glad to see it on here. And finally, we get an RTX 3080.
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This right here is 130 watt version. So not the most wattage that we've seen
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but at the same time, that's a lot of power.
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We also have the eight Gigabyte version here. Apparently there's an 16 Gigabyte one.
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I don't know that you should spring for that. You'll probably be fine with eight.
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Okay, okay. This keyboard seems quite good actually.
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I'm not surprised Aorus, well Gigabyte, but Aorus was kind of the first one
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to start putting really good keyboards in their gaming laptops.
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The Aorus 15 was kind of the first slim gaming laptop
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that had things like a good keyboard and a track pad
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that also doesn't suck. This one right here is pretty good.
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I wished that it was a little bit bigger but it is glass topped.
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The tracking's really good. And you're not going to have any problems with it.
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[Jono] What game do you wanna play? - I'm playing Valheim. I am sorry everyone that thinks it's a bad benchmark,
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but I like it as a game. So too bad. (chuckles)
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Editor, please don't sign into my Steam account.
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Okay, let's see here. I kind of built a castle
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and it got a bit out of hand. Yeah, so I play this on a GTX 1080
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and ever since I built this big old castle here, it's struggled hard.
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It's still under construction, as you can see but my computer with a 1080 and a 5960 X,
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we're looking at rate around 18 FPS.
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Right now, I am getting 30 which might not sound too good.
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But in this situation, in this game is very impressive.
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- [Jono] I think you just wanna show off your house. - Yeah, I also just wanna show off my house.
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Now we'll hop into good old do maternal.
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This is where we get to show off the display. See what we've got here.
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240 Hertz as well as full SRGB coverage.
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Okay, we're in doom here.
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It seems I'm getting a bit of hitching. I wonder what's up with that. Oh, okay.
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That's a little bit better. I adjusted some of the settings, resolution.
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Everything was wrong. We're looking now at,
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it's going between 160 and 180 FPS.
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That's about what I would expect for a laptop like this.
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Oh, this is such a hard game to talk and play at the same time.
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What was I talking about? Oh, damn. GPU is currently at 65 degrees.
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That's after a little bit of gaming. That is really good.
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What I am intrigued about though is this processor.
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Now, Intel will absolutely hate that I'm doing this,
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but at the same time you kind of just gotta,
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I wanna run cinebench and see what happens. Now for an eight core laptop,
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4,000 is a score that I would accept if it hits 5,000
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that's like, whoa, wow. 4626, all right.
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So that lands us good bit above last gen.
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That is very promising.
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I'm sorry Intel that I did that, but good job.
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Oh, it has a webcam. There's a little webcam down here.
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They have these super small bezels around the whole thing.
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That's nice, webcam down here.
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It's not great, but at least they have one.
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It is very much freed up to know that I don't look all the way down here.
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I still look kind of weird but at the same time.
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You at least get a webcam for somehow that's a plus.
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And with that, I really want to see how this thing is cool
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because well, apparently it's cool. All right, let's look at, what's on the go in here.
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Now first thing, 99 watt hour battery, awesome.
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So Aorus says that it'll get you eight hours
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but I have done no battery testing on 11th gen Intel processors
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but eight hours does check out. And also in here you get two SSD slots.
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So this right here is the one that's empty. This one already is full.
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It also has two sodium slots that are easily accessible.
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There you go. Now you have your RAM. You can upgrade it just like that.
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As for cooling. It's kind of interesting how they did this. Normally you would expect to see kind of
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more heat pipes going to smaller heat sinks.
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Whereas here they've gone and given you much bigger heat sinks
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apparently they're all copper and also these nice big fans
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with 71 fins on each one of them.
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I was kind of confused because I couldn't tell if this was a vapor chamber or not,
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but it seems like that instead that they've integrated
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a heat pipe kind of rate in here to cool the GPU
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and the VRMs. Jono, we forgot something. - [Jono] What?
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- We didn't do Crab Rave. - [Jono] oh, yeah. - Okay, well,
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we'll put it back together real quick for you guys. (upbeat music)
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Okay, I was really confused there because I thought that it was pretty good.
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And then suddenly got really bad
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when I turned up the volume, but it turns out that your hand position
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on this thing actually makes quite a big difference. So I think that they have some speakers up here
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but there's also some rate down in here
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that they're bouncing off of the table. (upbeat music)
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This sounds pretty good.
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Put your hands there, it sounds bad.
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Overall, I would say those speakers are quite good although it goes a little bit louder
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than it probably should. At full volume, it's like a bit distorted, but once you take it down to 70%,
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it still is plenty loud and sounds quite good.
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A huge thanks to Aorus for sponsoring this video.
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Now I think this is what, 2,399?
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Yeah, link down in below the description there for new link.
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That's what, half a 3080 if you're getting a desktop.
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Not too bad. So yeah, I'm really excited to properly put this thing
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through its paces on LTT. Oh, shut up Crab Rave
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So yeah, hit like, get subscribed and just have a fantastical day, so long.