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guys welcome back to justin tech tips

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finally after a lot of testing we've got

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our review of the all new alienware

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x17 r1 gaming laptop

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is it time to throw away my alienware

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m17 and replace it with this one

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the x-17 is great and all but i do feel

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a little lied to and there's a few

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reasons for that that we'll talk about a

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little later if you do purchase this

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before watching the whole video

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make sure you do not update the bios and

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we'll explain why here in a sec now

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we've already created a fun unboxing of

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this beast but in this video we're going

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to break down every single thing that

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you're going to need to know before

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spending this kind of money on a laptop

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is it really worth it we're going to be

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revealing performance and gaming

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benchmarks

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advertised features versus reality fan

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noise tests

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design and build quality review of the

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internals heat tests

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battery tests a few cool tips and tricks

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that nobody else is talking about and

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near the end our overall take on this

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machine listing out the top pros and

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cons that you need to be aware of and

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weighing them against each other so that

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you can make the best possible decision

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for your budget i've also read through

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over a thousand youtube comments on

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other review videos

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to make sure that i addressed every

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unanswered question that you guys had

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this is the

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800h 8-core processor capable of speeds

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of up to 4.6 gigahertz with turbo boost

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we got the rtx 3080 gpu with 16

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gigabytes of video ram this is the 4k

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uhd screen with 500 nits brightness and

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hertz refresh rate but you can get up to

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360 hertz with an

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fhd display it's also worth noting that

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advanced optimus is only available with

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that version we also got 32 gigabytes of

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the fastest 3466 megahertz xmp ram but

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did they actually give us the ability to

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achieve that

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design and build quality when it comes

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to design some of you may say that i'm a

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little biased because i've always held

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alienware up as the gold standard of

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great looking laptops

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no they don't sponsor me that's just my

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opinion but i would like to thank the

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actual sponsors of this video ipvanish

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it's a simple solution for taking back

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control of your online privacy ipvanish

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is a vpn which acts like a secure tunnel

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creating a layer of protection between

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your device and the rest of the internet

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ipvanish's network

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is secured with high-grade encryption

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and by hiding your ip address it will

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eliminate connection records it stops

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tracking prevents hacking and bypasses

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censorship

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see below for my link in the description

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for more information now this x-17 has

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set that bar for design

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even higher than before i was overjoyed

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when i found out they brought back the

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rgb backlit touchpad this time with an

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even broader spectrum of colors and

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animations and the size

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is a little smaller than the previous

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17-inch models they also updated the led

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tron bar in the back to a full spectrum

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version with a hundred leds and more

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beautiful animations

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the per key rgb mechanical keyboard

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looks great but here's one of those

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disappointments where they misled us

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do you remember that exciting reveal

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video for these new x-series laptops

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in that video they falsely portrayed

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that all of the secondary keys glowed

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like they used to this unfortunately is

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not the case as they definitely do not

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light up this is pretty frustrating for

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someone like me that does a lot of work

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at nighttime in the dark and i can see

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how that'd be pretty frustrating for

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gamers at night time as well

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however this is a great thing to bring

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up if you just have buyer's remorse and

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you want to return this laptop there's

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no way they're going to charge you a

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restocking fee if you bring up that

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borderline false advertisement for a

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while alienware had given us the option

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between a dark and light version of

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their laptops

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until this one this time around they

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only gave us one option

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combining both versions with white on

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the outside and black on the inside

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hardcore fans of one or the other may be

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a little disappointed but honestly for

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i really like it overall the laptop is

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pretty solid and feels like it's made

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out of quality materials

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the lid is pretty thick despite how thin

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this gave it a lot of strength and

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resulted in very little screen flex the

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hinge felt very smooth and sturdy as

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but for screen wobble that was just

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about average and keyboard flex was very

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minimal as well

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they've decreased the amount of

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ventilation on the back but increased

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the amount of ventilation on the sides

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and moved most of the ports to the rear

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our tests showed the track pad to be

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very accurate and the keyboard had great

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typing accuracy as well

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alright the mechanical keyboard i

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love this mechanical keyboard definitely

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feels so much more firm and confident

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than before and you definitely notice

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that extra key travel it is a bit louder

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than before but it's actually a pretty

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soothing sound this is what it sounds

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like compared to the alienware

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the stainless steel switches are

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engineered in a way that allows for

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smooth key travel straight down no

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matter what part of the key is hit i am

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a little disappointed that the number

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pad was removed but i do love these

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dedicated media keys

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and i'm sure this extra ventilation they

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put in place of the number pad was

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i did discover a couple solutions for

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the number pad though that made me not

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miss it anymore and i'll show you what

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those were here in a sec but first

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let's talk about the macro keys a lot of

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people all over the internet are

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complaining about the removal of the

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macro keys but good news for you guys

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they're not actually gone if you look

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here on the first few f keys where the

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media keys used to be you can see we've

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now got five

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macro keys versus the four from before

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and this keyboard now has a function

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locking ability that allows you to

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enable and disable the function key

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without entering the bios

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most people i know only use their f keys

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for their secondary functions so all you

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need to do is hit function escape to

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allow all your f keys

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secondary functions to work by

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themselves without the function key

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moving on to the ports on the left side

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we've got just one headphone and

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microphone jack with some ventilation

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then on the right side we've got just a

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power port with some more exhaust

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the large majority of all the ports are

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on the back which i've got some mixed

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feelings about i like that there's no

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cables coming out towards my hands but i

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would have at least like one usb

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port on one of the sides we do have a

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great selection of ports on the back

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though it has a usb

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3.2 gen 2 type c thunderbolt 4 port with

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power delivery

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capable of 4k with speeds of up to 40

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a usb 3.2 gen1 type a port with

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usb-a port a killer e

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3100 rj45 ethernet jack which by the way

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is not available on the x15 model

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a usb 3.2 gen 2 type c port with power

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delivery an hdmi 2.1 port which

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technically has the ability to push 10k

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content at 120 hertz that's pretty crazy

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extremely future proof and then a micro

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sd card slot and a mini displayport 1.4

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now moving on to the internals you can

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see now at the top we've got

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four fans then we've got two upgradable

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ram slots right here by the way the ram

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on the x15 is soldered on so you can't

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upgrade it later so keep that in mind

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then we've got two

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ssd card slots one a pcie four and the

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other a pcie three

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and then at the bottom two elongated

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speakers and in between that are 87 watt

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hour battery so how well did this

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battery perform we got four hours and 45

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minutes of hd streaming and then web

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surfing at 50

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brightness and battery saver mode the

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computer lasted for nine

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hours that's pretty good and then it

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only took about one hour to recharge

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back to 100

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display quality the 500 nits display was

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extremely bright even in direct sunlight

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and the colors were very rich and

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probably due to the fact that it has a

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gamut equivalent to a 100

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rate on a 4k

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screen was definitely a welcome upgrade

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as i've become very used to only

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60 hertz on 4k displays this made motion

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and gaming

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extra smooth especially in racing and

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so thermals this new cryotech cooling

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technology how was it did that with four

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fans actually keep this thin machine

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from getting too hot and throttling here

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are the cpu and gpu temperatures of

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each of these games at their highest

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preset settings i was actually pretty

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impressed that a machine that's this

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thin running an rtx 3080 gpu at 165

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could get rid of heat that well this is

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one of the coolest high performing

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machines that i've ever used and the

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and keyboard was cooler than previous

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models as well as far as the fan noise

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you would think with four fans that that

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would make the fan noise extra loud

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in quiet idle fan mode we got only 41

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in performance mode we got 48 decibels

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and in full speed mode we got 54

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but by default in performance mode the

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fans never actually pushed themselves

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that hard and it didn't seem like there

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was that much of an improvement from

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performance to full speed so even with

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doubling the amount of fans

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the noise that it created was actually

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about average so the fun part everyone's

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for 3dmark we got an overall score of

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eleven thousand

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seven sixty nine a graphic score of

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twelve thousand forty three and a cpu

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score of ten 10429 for cinebench r23 we

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got a cpu multi-core score of 13880 and

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a cpu single core score of 1504

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and for geekbench 5 we got a single core

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score of 1505 a multi-core score of 9133

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and a cuda score of a hundred and forty

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thousand four eighty eight and here's a

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few puget benchmark tests for all you

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creatives out there for davinci resolve

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we got 1180 for photoshop

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987 and premier 825 these are fantastic

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numbers and absolutely

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dwarf what we got for the razer blade 14

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and the gigabyte arrow 15 laptops

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definitely a great computer for

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creatives i've also just recently

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created a google spreadsheet that

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compares all my past laptop benchmarks

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and fps against each other i put a link

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to that google doc in the description

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i even did an 8k test in premiere and it

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played and scrubbed through the timeline

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like butter but how well did it do in

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games

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here are the frames per second we got

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with each of these games at their

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highest preset settings at 1080p

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and these are the results we got at the

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highest preset settings at 4k

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so you can see these are great numbers

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and the highest scores that we've ever

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seen on this channel but it really isn't

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miles ahead of the competition like they

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try to make you think

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for a thin laptop yeah it's incredible i

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haven't reviewed the msi ge76 yet i will

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pretty soon but from some of the

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benchmarks i've seen on that one it

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actually

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outperforms this x17 one thing to keep

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in mind though is i was only able to

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utilize

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3200 megahertz of my 3466 megahertz xmp

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ram when i updated the bios it capped

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off my 3466 megahertz ram back down to

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3200 megahertz and after doing a bunch

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of research i found out that there's no

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ability to roll it back

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for security reasons this was pretty

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disappointing and is the main reason why

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i advise you not to update the bios when

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you get this machine wait until they at

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least have an update that fixes this

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if you pay for 34.66 megahertz ram you

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should be able to use 3466 megahertz for

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the speakers we have openings on the

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front and on the bottom and as far as

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sound quality i'd say it's about average

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we got a reading of about 85 decibels at

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maximum volume

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as far as the webcam goes we did do a

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few tests with that and here's an indoor

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sample of that audio and video quality

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you can see it's kind of on the lower

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end of webcam quality and here's an

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outdoor sample with a little bit more

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light looks a little bit more crisp but

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still

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not that great of quality not too great

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but what laptop is

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and here's our experience with the

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alienware command center not too much

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changed here here's our overclock

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settings over clock 1 over clock 2

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thermal settings then you've got your

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power settings and then for our lighting

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effects

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so we got the per key rgb right now we

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have it set on rainbow wave just to show

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you all the colors but this is

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customizable per key

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so not too many animations or

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customization options

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but one thing you can customize now is

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this touch pad which can also

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be rainbow wave or pulse spectrum and

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apparently the backside tron bar now has

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a hundred leds

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so this can actually cycle and morph

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between different colors as well

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and then under fusion you can monitor

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your cpu and gpu temperatures

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and then inside advanced view you can

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actually set your power limits and your

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thermal limits for your gpu and then in

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our thermal profiles we've actually got

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settings for four fans now which is

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pretty awesome two fans for the gpu and

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two fans for the cpu both customizable

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individually and then just your power

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profiles and what those do and then some

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customizable audio profile settings

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so pros and cons these are my top

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reasons some of you might want to pass

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on this machine

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number one it's very expensive the very

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lowest base model

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one costs dollars with the maxed out

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version costing a whopping forty six

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hundred dollars the configuration we got

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for this review was thirty four hundred

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dollars and number two

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was no secondary key backlighting this

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is something i needed to reiterate

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because a lot of you might have a

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problem with this we need to see

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secondary keys at night i mean

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technically from the glow on the letters

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and the bounce light on the screen you

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can still see them but it would have

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been much better for them to glow as

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well

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and then number three was the removal of

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the number pad this became just mildly

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inconvenient though because i found a

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really cool app that let me use my phone

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as the number pad and i'll put a link to

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that app in the description

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you could also get a very inexpensive

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portable external number pad as well

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so my overall top reasons you do want to

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get this computer

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number one is the speed this is

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definitely one of the fastest gaming

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laptops there are out there and it would

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be a dream machine for both gamers and

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creatives

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if you're gonna be doing some creative

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work though i recommend that you get the

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32 gigabytes of ram and number two

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is the design man this really is a

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beautiful laptop

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very sleek and well built and the

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lighting effects upgrades are just the

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cherry on top

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and i love that they stuck with that

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sci-fi hexagon theme you might have

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noticed i kinda like hexagons

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and number three was the thermals well

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done alienware

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you've finally figured out how to bring

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those temps down i'm gonna give the

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credit to that new cryotech cooling

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technology

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and the additional fans so aside from a

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few nitpicking dislikes this is an

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amazing laptop that i definitely

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recommend if you've got the money

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because it is on the pricey side but

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it's also a super future-proof machine

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i'm predicting even better speeds later

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down the road after a few bios

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updates guys remember every friday i do

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a giveaway that randomly selects

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[Applause]

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gh thanks for watching guys i love you

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guys

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god bless