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any Apple diehard will tell you that some things just cannot be expressed on a spec sheet these you shouldna say Kwas of usability or industrial design can elevate the experience of using an object be it a phone or a pair of premium toenail clippers from merely practical to ethereal but at what cost well it turns out the answer is $2,500 introducing the book one from Porsche design a laptop designed to get your motor running and I'll tell you about it right after we keep the LTTE motor running with this message from ZOTAC so tacks ZBOX pcs are great for applications like streaming and gaming they feature Intel seventh generation core processors in tiny form factors check them out at the link below okay so the industrial design is pretty impressive it's got a matte anodized aluminum chassis with soft campers and polished edges and all 1580 grams of it looks and feels amazing when closed with a hinge design that is subjectively anyway among the best that we've seen on a 2 in 1 it's got just the right amount of resistance and goes all the way around without requiring you to take the screen off first or leaving a weird gap like the Microsoft Surface book does by the way Porsche designs claims that the hinge design was inspired by the gearbox of a sports car but I think it's just as likely that the marketing department thought of that after the fact anywho that's not the only trick up its sleeve like the surface book and incidentally the Starship Enterprise book one can also be separated from its base entirely and used as a tablet by holding down the eject button on the side and pulling it apart a process that is slightly less jank than the surface book the 13.3 inch 16 by 9 screen is actually pretty nice with a 3200 by 1800 qhd+ resolution and 10-point multi-touch along with support for the 4096 pressure level book one pen by Wacom that looks as cool as the rest of the product and that can apparently run for eight months off of its fun sized quadruple a battery the IO is probably best described as thoughtful I mean there isn't a ton of it but it's really well placed the base has a USB C port that lets the book one charge in just two hours then two more USB 3.0 ports for regular stuff and a microSD slot for expansion then the tablet portion has a very welcome Thunderbolt 3 port a 5 megapixel camera with IR 4 windows hello and a headphone jack that doesn't leave the cord floating in the air like Microsoft's design so as advertised it's all pretty in premium right well not so fast we did find a few skid marks on this road while the keyboard is easy to type on the key caps are smaller than the keys on the surface book because the gaps between the keys aren't as finely milled meaning that you actually have a little bit less keyboard in the same footprint the keys themselves also seem to have a bit of a resistance right at the top of the stroke that puts the typing experience a bit on the fatiguing side if you have dainty fingers like I do as for the Microsoft precision certified touch pad well it's big works beautifully and actually handles very similarly to the one on the surface book except that on the posh designs it makes this noise that well I don't know let us know what you guys think finally the suspension is a little looser than I'd prefer the screen has enough bezel that you'd think it has like an extra touch bar on it or something and because of the way the hinge is designed the detached tablet has asymmetrical corners now this stuff may sound pretty nitpicky but this is the kind of scrutiny that you expose yourself to when you charge a premium for your premium design so should you buy this notebook maybe but not before we take a pit stop to talk about the internals the book one had really good specs when it launched but that was back in April and yes I know we're like way late on this thing but we wanted to check it out anyway because it's cool the point though is that that was before rise in mobile mobile or coffee lake were things that existed as it is today everything but the dual-core CPU holds up pretty well and thermals are pretty good as a half hour of stress testing in i-264 never made her throttle and noise wise she never stood out against our offices HVAC but you might have noticed that I never specified what graphics card is inside and that is because there's no discreet graphics so no you won't be able to play mankind divided at 1080p even on low settings making it kind of hard to recommend the book one since the new surface book 2 has an eighth gen core i7 processor and a gtx 1050 for about the same price back to whether to buy them I'm the kind of person who would prefer a graphics card to a sexy hinge and a sexy design but Porsche designs clearly believes that there is more to the device experience than raw horsepower and we'd love to hear from you guys in the comments below which one would you lean towards III's modular tma-2 headphone system is going Wireless they're launching the ho5 their new wireless bluetooth pair of headphones now the tma-2 features more than a thousand possible configurations meaning that you can create your own personalized product that fits your specific needs while being able to change individual parts along the way now existing tma-2 users you guys are actually gonna really love this because you are not left out in the cold you can upgrade to wireless while keeping your original sound preferences so check it out now through the link in the video description say goodbye to headphone obsolescence so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can hit that button but if you liked it hit like get subscribed maybe consider checking out where to buy the stuff we featured at the link in the video description also down there we've got our merch store which has cool shirts like this one as well as our community forum which you should totally join