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ah good month eh right I haven't charged
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my laptop in days couldn't care less I
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didn't charge mine for an entire week
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have not had a single problem me neither
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but there has been one thing stressing
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me
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out I just want to get my work
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done I was worried we might not have
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enough content to talk about but now
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that's solved too sponsor Segways
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Ridge they're doing a massive sweep
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Stakes now until September 13th with
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prizes like a Hennessy Velociraptor not
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the dinosaur a goldplated cyber truck or
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$100,000 in cash enter for free and get
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one entry per dollar spent using the
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link in the
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description the first sign that this ch
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all was going to be a little different
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than the previous ones was the number of
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people who wanted to participate Arc GPU
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challenge anyone want to use Intel Arc
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for a
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month come on Snapdragon challenge
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anyone want to use one of these for a
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month oh my
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God and it's easy to see why people want
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it in my entire mindset has changed to
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the point where I used to see a sliver
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of battery and I would drop everything
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that I was doing and dash to the outlet
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whereas
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now I think hm interesting I guess I'll
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finish up a few things and then maybe
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I'll plug in at some point right on one
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of my first days okay I got a
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notification that I was at 10% battery
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and it was in critical mode I then
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proceeded to finish up a team's voice
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call including screen sharing on that
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call I made some edits to a script I
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then wrote a couple of emails did some
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notes checked my battery life and hm
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casual ual 6% no problem however it's
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worth noting that in the last month I've
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used my laptop the way that I use my
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laptop which is to say I've installed
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basically nothing on it we don't even
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use word in the writing Department
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anymore so almost everything I do is in
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a browser or a browser based program
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I've used it for video conferencing
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Discord OBS screen cap okay that's not
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in a browser but all of those things
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worked perfectly now
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I have had some slightly weird stuff
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happen with bong Jour always um but it
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hasn't really bothered me enough to go
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back to worrying about my battery life
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yeah for me the experience has been even
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better than I expected in a month I have
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charge my laptop a total of five times
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and if you look at the dates there is an
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entire week where I did not plug it in
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once obviously during that week I was
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not using it a ton typically two 3 hours
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a day day something like that but with
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every other laptop that I've ever used
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Windows Apple you just cannot do that
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that's actually really good point
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because lots of Windows laptops are
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rated for eight plus hours of battery
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life yeah that's not the issue the issue
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is when I go to use it the next day on
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any other laptop 20% battery end of the
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day you have to plug it in on this it's
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like okay 20% I'll use it for 4 hours
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tomorrow great the heaviest program I
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use regularly is solid works and for
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occasional use like what I do on the Go
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performance is
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usable for me it is fine because any
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large assemblies I need to tackle I just
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do on my desktop and I only run solid
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works on my laptop to make small
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adjustments to Parts in the shop but it
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is emulated and the raw performance is
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very similar to my old laptop which has
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a low powerered 2p cor CPU that was slow
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when it was released 2 years ago right
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what I was afraid would be a deal
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breaker for me was car audio but it's
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actually just totally fine our
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calibrated measurement microphones just
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worked allowing me to get these
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measurements right here for MX5 review
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watch it on short circuit and then came
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the much bigger challenge doing a new
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tune on my car no way this involved
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Niche DSP drivers a bunch of random
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Windows run times and direct lives
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licensing server all to cooperate which
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is not even a guarantee on regular x86
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Windows machine maches but it just did
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it and now I have a 2C tune of my car it
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sounds absolutely fantastic so
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unfortunately uh my work can't be really
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done on the pen and paper what are you
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saying about what I do is also work well
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my work is you know more video editing
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and uh I can't really Video Edit on like
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you know a pen and
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paper and as a recent graduate uh I
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decided to take a perspective of a
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university student because I feel like
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University students are the people who
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really buy these laptops so I just like
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oh it'd be a cool way to determine if
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this is actually good for you know
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people school yeah exactly yeah cuz
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you're not going to have another
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computer exactly yeah the first and
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simplest thing I try to do was watch
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YouTube videos but instead I got audio
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render issues saying I need to reset my
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computer fortunately I had this great
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LTT laptop bag LTT store.com man this
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thing is freaking awesome it's got all
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the room opens up so big
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oh yeah baby stores everything sorry
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sorry sorry what were you saying well
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fortunately the computer was one step
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ahead of me there because for the first
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couple of days I had a load of crashes
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that restarted the computer for me next
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I want to edit some flow plan exclusives
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which I thought be fine because qualcom
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did say that they're going to support
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Adobe crater Suites which turns out it
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was only Photoshop and graphic design
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stuff no Premiere great no I thought
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Premiere works when I first got it the
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my first thing was to try installing it
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and it was wasn't there I was like
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what's up with that it just
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works fortunately after a week of daily
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driving it it was there but there was a
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catch After Effects still missing so I
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couldn't do any of the fun Graphics
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Premiere was emulated andoss it just
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sucked honestly using premiere on this
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thing was not a good experience there is
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one more thing to say it's in the script
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he's doing his best but only the 2023
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version is supported like 2024 is three
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qus over and they're only supporting
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2023 I had to convert most of my
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projects to the 2023 versions just so I
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can start editing I tried editing three
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videos the first one was fine until I
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started adding screen caps to it which
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then it pooped itself the second one was
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a YouTube sh at 1080p which was mostly
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fine but I ended up switching to a real
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computer for animations at the end and
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the third one was a 4K multicam sequence
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and oh
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yeah it died I think it loaded it in and
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then it just didn't work there's not a
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chance
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honestly I think the most telling part
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of all of that is the way that you
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referred to a normal x86 computer as a
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real computer so in a month you didn't
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manage to completely edit a single video
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on it even though Premiere is supported
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yeah like the worst part is parsik
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didn't work that great either so I
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didn't really get to remote into my
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desktop and edit it so I was like this I
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determined that the speed I was going to
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go at parcing in versus editing on my
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computer wasn't going to justify it so I
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ended up just moving back to my computer
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yeah I didn't try to use Parc and that's
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the thing right is when an application
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doesn't work you're basically stuck if
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this is your only computer there's
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there's no backup plan the emulation all
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runs automatically so it's not like you
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can install an emulator and maybe it'll
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work now it just doesn't work I actually
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had my first near showstopper just
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yesterday talk about a buzzer beater I
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was using channelizer for the how much
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Wi-Fi is too much video and I started
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getting random crashes at first I
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thought okay it's probably a license
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issue since I haven't checked in with
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metageek for 2 years and then I realized
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oh hold on a second it's always crashing
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after a little while when I go inside
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the chamber maybe it needs an always on
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connection but obviously I wouldn't have
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any Wi-Fi in an RF isolation chamber
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then it turned out that the emulation
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was bad oh wow yeah so nothing to do
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with the license and I had another
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bizarre issue yesterday too I got a
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notification that I was running out of
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battery which was fine I hadn't charged
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it in like 6 days or something like that
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but when the speaker went off I didn't
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think about this until you mentioned
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your audio rendering issues but it
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started
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like like buzzing at me really weird
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which makes me wonder if maybe it's
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something to do with the platform you
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guys haven't actually seen this yet but
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I'm going to show you this is super
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weird
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oh what what the it's like a spaceship
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it just didn't
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stop overall I've been happy with the
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machine though especially the keyboard
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and like I said to you I never use my
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laptop outside so the screen total
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non-issue but I noticed right at the end
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that HP cheaped out on the Wi-Fi I only
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got Wi-Fi 6E instead of Wi-Fi 7 well my
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Surface laptop 7 does have Wi-Fi 7 but I
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would much rather have your 6E chip in
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there if that meant my experience was
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good in areas where my Wi-Fi strength
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wasn't great like you just know that
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spot in your house it just wouldn't work
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sometimes I would load in YouTube video
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and then halfway through it would just
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disconnect from Wi-Fi and it was super
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annoying both of you guys had good Wi-Fi
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right yeah yeah mine was mine was
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perfect actually it was really good yeah
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I used that thing for a week making the
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review I also didn't have an issue so
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that was great I think it's Microsoft
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and their antenna design wait I wonder
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if HP knows something I don't know and
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use the 60 for a reason wh which one's
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yours Wi-Fi 7 must just be the antenna
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design then yeah could also just be a
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bunk unit
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but another area that's been pretty good
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for me is gaming now in our live stream
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half of the games we tested didn't work
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but real world use is a little little
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bit different than just having you guys
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send games to us and US running whatever
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you ask like for me from the time that I
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spent with the steam deck my mentality
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shifted a little bit from I want to game
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I want to play this game and nothing
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else is acceptable to I'm in the mood to
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game I'm willing to find something that
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works with the device that's in front of
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me so obviously it's not the best but I
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actually kind of found that I was okay
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with it yeah if you treat like a second
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computer I think it's okay but I tried
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playing a lot the games that are popular
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with the youth like
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me okay 27 uh like League of Legends
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valerant fortnite and Minecraft the
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first three didn't work like it just it
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would not boot I could download it
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but uh and Minecraft was just too laggy
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so getting one of these laptops for
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school means you probably aren't playing
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games with your friends don't do that
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parents I'm kind of split on this one
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the three games that I play the most
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just straight up do not work on this
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laptop but also they straight up do not
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work on the last laptop that I used
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either so right you used to thin and
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light with old onboard Graphics anyway
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so I'm pretty flexible like I'm going on
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a long flight tomorrow I installed
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animal well on this it works great I do
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not care if I don't get to do 3D games
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on this and at the same time 120 HZ
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display this thing is awesome to game on
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I just I just want to highlight how good
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this screen is Sami screen as well
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fantastic 3x2 Quad HD 12 HZ bright
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enough to use outdoors and the most
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incredible thing is that this display
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did not even stand out in our last video
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typically the two biggest power draws on
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a laptop are the CPU and the display and
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previously I was willing to live with a
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mediocre display because the OLED scream
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option was just not worth it for battery
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life but when the CPU is this efficient
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you can just give up 4 hours of battery
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life and it will be totally fine it
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really is the closest thing that we have
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to the MacBook experience and while game
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compatibility sucks compared to normal
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windows it's still a lot better than
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mac dang sick burn one final thing about
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the surface is that the webcam is
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fantastic in the very first video call
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that I had on it I got compliments of
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just how great it looks yeah I also got
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compliments on it mic was good and
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webcam was good now here's something I'd
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like to compliment you guys you've
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lasted a long time here at lius Media
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Group being on Microsoft and Samsung's
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payroll respectively you guys what okay
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no you know what they are right they're
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right the webcam is actually a standout
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feature however I want to change the
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topic a little bit this is 2024 we got
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to talk about
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AI we love AI does it make me a boomer
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that I completely forgot about the
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co-pilot button except for the one time
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I pressed it by accident wa really I'm
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actually a big fan of co-pilot and just
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like chat ch BT like llms in general and
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I like how accessible it was to you know
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just one click button I can just look it
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up it's way more convenient than open my
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browser typing in chat GPT you kids know
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about bookmarks right do you know about
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doing up more than half of the buttons
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on your shirt it's it's it's a style
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it's
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a uh he knows style I know
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style and my Footwear is cringe my
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Footwear
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is Yo okay well you guys vote vote in
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the comments leave a like for mine and
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leave a comment for Samy's subscribe to
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Flo plane if you just want
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Runners and I do use chat GPD sometimes
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just to help with polishing my wordings
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and and just general research because
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ghou sucks we have a whole video about
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that I used co-pilot a couple times when
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I accidentally tried to lock my laptop
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went like
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that I just want to mentioned before
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people think I completely hate this
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laptop I think the like the physical
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appearance of the laptop was great great
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like you said the keyboard's great you
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know the webcam is great the mic's great
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it's extremely light i l the Samsung
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laptop with my personal heavy laptop and
00:14:39
it was so light and thin I didn't notice
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a weight difference in my backpack nor
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did I feel like I had any space issues
00:14:45
the fan also I don't know if you guys
00:14:47
have any comments about it but mine was
00:14:49
so quiet I totally forgot to comment
00:14:51
about it because I didn't notice it once
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it's just that like quiet and I feel
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like you know if you're in like a
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lecture I feel like you always you
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always hear one two people that have
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like the whole time right like their
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their alien wear and that's especially
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true if they're trying to actually like
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record anything like especially with
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video like man I don't know what it is
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every Windows laptop I've ever owned all
00:15:12
I got to do is get on a teams
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call it sounds like it's trying to take
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off from the desk I mean I don't blame
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it those calls are boring anyway what
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are we feeling overall guys I've had a
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great time with mine only running into a
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major issue at day 29 out of 30 that's
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pretty darn good I love it I don't think
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I'm going back to x86 I'm not sure that
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I will for now I don't feel like this
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can be your primary computer maybe not
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even your own laptop but personally I
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would highly recommend this as a
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secondary computer or tertiary by that
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point since you've got a desktop and a
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laptop already and this is just your
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Mobility focused computer but that's
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fair enough depending on what you're
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doing now one thing to remember is that
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AMD just released a lineup of CPU that
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is much more competitive battery
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LifeWise but they aren't competitive
00:16:04
pricewise these come in at a lower cost
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than AMD and presumably Intel's upcoming
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latest gen mobile CPUs meaning that you
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can't really compare them directly like
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maybe by going Qualcomm you give up some
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program compatibility but you get more
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RAM or you get a better screen which
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could make things even more compelling
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if you can actually work on it though
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well yeah that that is a major issue and
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I think we're in agreement then Qualcomm
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Snapdragon X laptops excellent if
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everything you do is in a browser or if
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you already have another computer for
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