 Hello, everybody. I usually start off by saying good morning. Good day, or it's a good day. Well, it's a day Not all days are as good as Others they're not all equally good. I guess we can call this a good day Getting a new computer today not by choice The good part is we're getting a new computer. The bad part is it's not by choice So I'm having issues with my computer. It's about seven years old six or seven years old and It's come to the point where I can't upgrade it any further It's got some other problems as well as other issues all of the USB ports are fried already all of them except for the type C USB So I have an adapter where I can plug my regular USB ports into that one But if that one goes I have no way of getting files on or off of the computer myself without bringing it in somewhere So I'm on to my last last legs of this computer It's it's old and now I've updated my editing software my adobe premiere and media encoder Photo shop everything else that I use and a bunch of other programs and software that I use alongside this And this new software needs an updated driver However, my computer is not compatible with the new drivers or these new updates that I need to install to run my software They're not compatible With my old laptop anymore. So that's combined with all the USB ports being fried already not known They they need to be fixed. I Brought them in to get fixed once and they literally told me they couldn't do it So this it served me well. It's paid for itself over and over already It's an old computer. It needs to be replaced. I need to upgrade, you know in technology terms having a six-year-old computer That's old. It's not like trucks where I believe the older trucks are better than the new trucks When it comes to computers and technology the new ones are better So I'm on my way into Winnipeg right now to get a new laptop So that I can keep editing these videos and getting them out to you because it's it's not letting me edit It's not letting me render It says I need a new driver and then when I go to install the driver It says your computer isn't compatible with the new driver So they weaseled me into it and twisted my arm into going in to buy a new one Oh Motorcycle seems to be doing a pretty good speed. I don't know why he's got his four ways on driving on the shoulder There we go to spend money we didn't want to spend One of those days again, you know these days happen a lot, you know life life happens life does not wait around till you're ready hit You just got to take it. It throws a punch at you You got a you got a duck and swing right back Whether you're ready or not you take a swing right back at it You want to try to shut me down life? I'll show you I was really hoping we'd be able to do this Way down the road in a few years Nope life has other plans Life says you're doing it right now Some other issues I've had with my laptop are The battery is dead. It needed to be replaced. I'm hoping that's all it was but the battery wouldn't hold a charge anymore So as soon as it got a bug, dude, just shut off. I'm starting to get nervous I get this way right before I spend a chunk of money I'm trying to go through all the options in my head Seeing if this is absolutely necessary or not can't think of any can't think of any reasons not to I Can't really argue with my wife She told me to go get a computer Just like if my truck was having problems, I wouldn't keep driving it. I'd get it fixed or get a new one Different truck and you can't just go get a new one Technology is different technology. You need you need new stuff constantly. Unfortunately trucks are more simple to me, you know Something breaks you can fix it. There are parts But with my laptop like I was saying They just stopped making the parts. They stopped making updates for it They do that on purpose and I understand their business strategy They do that to force you to get the new stuff, right so that you're always buying their stuff It's not a very good business model to design and make a computer That'll last forever. You need to make one where people will have to upgrade and Paid to upgrade. I get it. I would probably do the same thing if I was in that CEO's position, but Being in this position kind of sucks Rather be in his position There it is right over there. You see it already. I spy with my little eye best buy Here we go. Oh, it should be just over there Best buy Okay, I hope you have lots of computers in stock man. I want options. I want to see my options Better have some of that top shelf product in there somewhere Get out the step ladder. I'm gonna need to get that stuff down for me Get up behind myths mitzger mitzubishi Know how much I'm prepared to spend but I guess we're gonna find out Most people would go in there with a budget That would be smart too bad. I'm not smart I took the terrain because it uses less fuel to make myself feel better about spending money Just gonna walk in here like a boss. Oh, boy. There's lots in here. I want it all. I want everything Give me one of everything cameras Nope, we're here for a computer go pro accessories. Well, I left without a computer They didn't have a top shelf here apparently that's at the bigger central store in Winnipeg This one carries the majority of things that you know the everyday person would need but when you're looking for the top shelf You need to go to the st. James location apparently They can order them in here, but then I got to wait for him and I want to go home with it today So we're going to the other store best buy st. James Probably 15 minutes from here Not settling on this one always got to make everything in adventure. So this is the transcona Outlet of best buy there's one two or three in Winnipeg or something and the main one is in the center of the city and say James like I was saying and That's where they keep the majority of their stock I mean, I don't know if it was possible to buy it here and then go pick it up there Feel back as the guys here gave me a lot of help I sort of wanted it. I don't know if they go on commission or not at best by I don't think they do it best by but if they do I wanted the commission to go to the guys who helped me the most, right? Oh shoot. I can't even turn left here Okay, you turn I don't know where I'm going or what I'm doing Just because I'm a professional driver doesn't mean I know where I'm going Honestly, the guys here they there's about three or four guys helping me because I had specific questions of what I needed and They went and got all the experts here, which they were very helpful. I was very thankful for that But it turns out the laptops that I need aren't here So I'm just like Kate if the laptops aren't here. I'm sorry, but I've got a bail I've got to get out of here and go pick it up. It's all we can order it to you and like have it delivered. I Need it today. I'm sorry. I need it today. I need it right now Right now people are crazy man Everyone's in a hurry Me too Yeah, it looks like they're pretty much dumb that new high-rise. It's the one on the left the taller one on the left there I don't know. That's a condo bill. It looks like condos because they got balconies, right the newest addition of the Winnipeg Skyline love to go inside and see what it actually looks like in there I wonder how much it costs to build a building like that You know, we're looking at a building our house, right? And we're looking at the costs of building our house on a shop on our land in a garage and stuff And we're like whoo. All right, things cost money. Can you imagine building that like that's what a 40 30? 40-story building. It's not the tallest in the world. Not by far, but for Winnipeg, it's pretty pretty cool pretty tall Wonder how much money you'd have to have that how much money would you make off it? Like if they're all condos and you sell every condo, how much money are you like how much profits in there? It's got to be a lot. I mean a lot of money in real estate The only problem is in order to make a lot of money. You have to have a lot of money to start Takes a lot of money to make a lot of money There it is right there that one on the left there New building I wonder what the condos are being sold for in there I got so many questions Because everything is crazy right now, right? I Bet you it costs several hundred thousand dollars. Oh, I bet anything or if they're renting it I bet your rent is like five thousand dollars a month I'm just like spitball and you're just throwing something out there and see does anybody know Maybe I should Google it and see what they're selling for I don't think the interior is done yet But you know, maybe I should call in act like a Perspective condo buyer. Oh, this is Josh. Yes, I have I have a Swimming pool filled with money that I don't know what to do with. Can you help me? How much for one of your fancy condos downtown Winnipeg? Yes, I've got money. Why are you talking to me like that? Hello They probably just hang up on me. I was just gonna say I've never had that many green lights in a row in Winnipeg Wow, we almost made it all the way through downtown Okay, same store same city Different location I hear they have the top shelf stuff we'll find out Get out your stepladders Hope they got some tall employees Reach those top shelves for me. Oh This this store is much bigger much bigger We want to go to the back here. Let's see what they got Looking for the aces section. This is a sir looking for aces We're here Ta-da, so we went with we went to the top shelf Went all the way up to the top and one down like I usually do This is in another aces laptop. I'll maybe do an unboxing video at home It's called the ROG Strix and the ROG Strix. I don't know how you pronounce it. It is Second only to the the number one And they assured me that this will do everything I needed to do and more Good news is I spent less than I thought I would Because I was shooting for the top shelf, but I like to rain myself back just a little bit usually I like to go for the best of the best but One step down is always okay too the best of this this one was about a thousand dollars more than a thousand I was fifteen hundred dollars cheaper than the the top top shelf one. This one was still on the top shelf. It was just Just underneath the top one fifteen hundred dollars cheaper So this way this one will do everything I needed to do because I'm not a big gamer I don't need to play fortnight. I don't play fortnight But this will handle fortnight. No problem. They assured me. I was like that's great information to know I Hate fortnight there. I said it. I shouldn't say that. I don't know anything about fortnight I don't hate fortnight cake fortnight guys forgive me forgive me I don't hate fortnight, but if I wanted to play it. I can play it no problem now But it will do everything I needed to do has all the latest drivers installed in it already It'll do all my editing for me It is another aces gaming laptop. I like that just because they have More technology in there to keep it cool. They're built to work hard and when I'm rendering videos The computer does work really hard. So anyways, let's go home and I'll show you once I get there There it is. Oh I'm gonna knock at the door Who goes there? There's one to come in see my computer. I've got a new computer Well, let's check it out Cut off all the seals already You see this So this here's the old laptop. I'm trying to get it to work to render my videos. I've been trying all day But it's not gonna work because I've this is like the sixth time I'm trying doesn't have the right drivers But this computer will still be good for like tasks here at home Once we get it all cleaned up and dust it off Here's the new one another aces. I really like this aces. So it's done very well with me So I went and got another one and you get this plastic off of it here Here's the first time that I'm opening it If you do this one hand, I don't really want oh There's a little protection on there very nice very nice. You can go over there and cover up all that dirt and dust Okay, so I went with a 17.3 inch screen or is it a 17 and a half And you can tell it's already quite a bit thinner Then this one that I've got here Very thin that's another computer underneath there. It's the backup This is now the backup and that's the backup for the backup and this is the primary computer so The one thing I like better about that computer already is that all of these outlets like for the internet the wired internet the HDMI cable everything else this This is the only USB that worked remember that so I had everything plugged in through here All of these USB ports didn't work anymore, but instead of having all of these on the side has a few USBs on the side here but the main ones Are all here on the back the internet the HDMI Everything's at the back of the computer and out of the way of my my dealings You're just gonna have to excuse the mess today was my day to clean everything up in here and alas I Had to go and run into the city for an emergency laptop purchase Yay Well, you see this it paused itself already. I didn't pause you Weird stuff like this. Now see I'll tell it to continue It's old it's almost time for an upgrade. Let's get this whole area cleaned up. This is driving me nuts It's got a multicolored keyboard that changes color a little underglow here. That's pretty cool So, yeah, this is my My new ASUS laptop. It's got the Ryzen 5000 series 7 or the Ryzen 7 5000 series however you want to say that And that GE Force RTX graphics card and it's nothing too crazy It actually doesn't have as much storage as my old one here This old one had 1.2 terabytes of storage in there. This only has 512 gigabytes Which is a little disappointing They did tell me that when I was there, but I didn't realize how much space I use up with all my footage and my vlogs But that's fine Like I said, I have an external hard drive that I put all of my stuff onto anyways I just have to be a little bit more diligent at getting it off of the computer and putting it onto the external hard drive And we can do that. This is way faster Here's all my like my clips from today and I can play them at full Apparently that's at the bigger central store in Winnipeg See this one carries and there's no No skipping or no lagging for the top shelf. You need to go to the st. james location apparently And that was at full quality Uh in the preview on my old computer full quality would not be able to uh Play like that. It wouldn't be smooth It is a lot faster and I like it. It's a little bit more compact a little bit easier to Pull around with me. It doesn't have a Wi-Fi camera built in and I like that this one does it always makes me nervous Having a camera look at me. I usually have a piece of tape over it I have an external One right here. Actually, I want to pull that out because I want to take it with me on the road Just in case we want to do some live streaming Where is it here? Oh here it is I don't want to show you my drawer. It's a bit a bit of chaos. All right, this is my Wi-Fi. It's uh razor It's got the light ring light built right into it and it just hooks right in there and There you go That should work fine. Uh, I believe it hooks on there like To figure this out with you guys here I believe it goes on like No, I couldn't go on like that. That wouldn't that wouldn't be right. Oh like Like this there you go there And it's not touching the screen not touching the screen good. So then it just uh Sits there like that top of the screen while I'm live streaming Or I can put it on its own stand wherever I want I don't see how that works. I'll give that a test another day. I'm tired. I need to get to bed I need to be up early tomorrow. We got to go and pick up a load in Winkler And head back to Lang Banks's sketch one There comes the yawns already and I got to get all my stuff ready to go. I got my bag behind me here I'm packing it up for the week It's gonna be good time. That was a fun day today. Uh spending money Didn't really want to spend but I did spend less than I thought I would And um, uh, hopefully I I didn't go too low I wanted the top shelf, but yes Quite a bit more expensive. I think I'll be happy with this. It'll serve my purpose well judging by my system information on the computer here Uh I can sort of tell you what the computer is It will serve my purpose It's an asus tech computer. Uh, the system model is the rog Strix System type is an x64 base pc. It's got a for the processor It's got an amd ryzen 7 5800 h with radian graphics 32 01 mhz. Does that make it hurt? Uh eight cores and 16 logical processor I hope this means something to some of you because it means nothing to me I go clicky clicky and it goes and it makes videos. It's all I know Uh, what else can I say it's got yeah 512 gigs of storage on the The drive itself I'm guessing it's probably made in china Uh, what else would you like to know about it? That's it's got microsoft windows 10 on it right now, but apparently I can upgrade to windows 11 Uh right away And so far I mean it's it's been working well for me. I'm sorry. I can't really I sort of sound ignorant when I talk about computers because because I am and I can admit that I don't know a lot About how they work, but I like using them. They serve a good purpose It's just if it breaks I'm lost Thanks for watching today everybody. I really appreciate it tomorrow. We're back on the road I'm actually picking up a load together with my father-in-law. It's his first trip at keystone And I'm going out with him. We're picking up two loads One for me one for him in winkler and headed out to line bank together That way if he has any questions, I'm right there I can explain the e-log to him because uh, he's an old school trucker as well. He doesn't Uh, know the whole e-log system that well. I mean, he he just got out of training. So he knows He knows how it works, but if there's any problems, I'll be right there. I can help him out And uh, you know just to get the ball rolling Get him used to everything make sure that everything goes good and uh, I can show him how to uh How we Collect the paperwork and we send it in after we're done delivering it stuff like that. It'll be a lot of fun So I gotta be up early and meet him at work at like 6 a.m It's time to go to bed I'll talk to you later guys. Thanks for hanging out with me today. It's been a weird day