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Hey Guys!

Shawn here.Welcome to PrayerLights.

If you are new, this channel is all about Christian tips to help the faith-filled millennial

mother raise her tiny tribe of humans.

And today's video is how to set yourself up for success when reading a daily devotional.

So you've made a New Year resolution to spend more time in God's Word but how do you succeed

at that while having children and babies? it's very difficult to set aside that time

every day to spend in God's Word.

Here are my three tips.

Tip number 1: Get out your calendar.

your google calendar or your paper planner and plan out your entire year.

Plan out your devotional time.

I'm sure a lot of us spend time planning out our vacations for the year or our school trips

that we have coming up or our doctor's visits.

Spending time with God's word is just as important and just as important to succeed at so we

need to plan.

Plan out when you are going to sit down and do the devotion, what you are going to be

reading if you are going to read multiple devotional books or you have one book you

want to read for the year.

A list of when you are going to do your daily devotion, what you are going to read, and

where you are going to do your daily devotion at.

And go ahead and stick it in your planner along with everything else so that you make

sure that it gets done.

Tip number 2: Pick a spot and show up!

Pick a spot that is comfortable or that will motivate you to do your daily devotional whether

that be at your kitchen table or at a comfy chair.

I have a specific comfy chair that i enjoy doing my daily devotional time at.

It has a nice little side table where I can keep my tea and drink my tea while I do my

devotion.

Have a daily devotional spot and show up.

Say you want to do your devotional before the baby wakes up.

For me that can be any time between 5AM and 7.

But I know that I need to get up before the baby gets up so that I have that time.

And this leads me into tip number 3: if you find that your baby or child has interrupted

your devotional time don't stop your devotional time read aloud to your child.

Just go ahead and read aloud.

Whatever you are reading read it aloud to you because we all know that whatever kids

see their parents doing then they are more likely to carry on that habit later on in

their life.

what better opportunity than to read aloud to your child.

So what am I reading this year?

I'm starting out with Emotionally Healthy Spirituality.

A 40 day journey with the daily office.

Here is that book a couple years ago.

It's probably been more than 4 years ago.I really enjoyed it.

It just had different opportunities throughout the day to pray.

If I miss something in the morning or I feel like I need some extra time with God then

it has that structured in.

But really just find something that you like.

I like to do a different study devotional series around Lent, around Advent, kind of

around the church seasons rather than doing a year long program.

For me that is more beneficial but you might like a year round program.

Pick something that catches your eye.

I am on the hunt for some good mother devotional books so if you have any that you would recommend.

Any kind of new mom or mother specific devotional books I would love to see those.

I am very interested.

Leave your suggestions down in the comments below.

Make sure to come back for next week's video.

I will be talking about how to schedule prayer into your life.

Making a prayer calendar and why that's important to your spiritual life and how you can be

most effective with doing a prayer calendar.

So stay tuned for that for next week.

Thank you guys so much for watching today's video on how to succeed in your daily devotion

for the year.

If you are new please consider hitting that subscribe button down below.

I post new content every week and I would love for you to join the PrayerLights community.

I will see you guys next week.

Thanks for watching.

Bye!

For more infomation >> How to Build a Daily Devotional Habit | For Busy Moms - Duration: 4:43.

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How To Build a Real Estate Team - Find a Handyman & Loan Officer - Duration: 15:21.

Are you ready for part two of how to build your real estate power team?

It's coming your way right now.

Okay. we are back. We're teaching you how to build your very own personal power

team and in our last video, we talked about how important it is to be rooted

to freedom for money, time, peace of mind, that can all come by doing real estate

successfully and so the five additional F's that you're going to need to build

your power team, we talked in the last video about finding the right kind of

realtors that can find these good deals and today, we're talking about the second

and third F which is fixed and fund. We need someone to fix these homes and we

need to make sure we're funding them the right way.

- Okay, now again, we're talking about building a power team so this is you getting

outside of putting on the tool belt yourself and swinging the hammer, you

want to find individuals who are competent and know what they're doing in

an investor's world. Now this is different, we oftentimes talk about

putting on the investor goggles and especially when it comes to fixing up

the property, you want to make sure that you're not wearing your consumer goggles.

This isn't a home that you're going to move into, this isn't your dream home, you're

not fixing it up and making it to the nines and putting in the granite and the

gold fixtures and the, you know, the golden port, golden porcelain,

golden porcelain tub or whatever. You're not putting all the fancy

things in it, you're just putting in and fixing it up to a certain level so that

it is appropriate to go ahead and run out. - This is the opposite of the approach

of hiring an interior decorator who's going to look at the house and say, oh my

gosh, there's so much potential. I don't want that person setting foot in my

property because this is all about getting functional and tactical and so

we're looking, like Steven said, for a competent repair person but does

competent repair person actually go so far even as a licensed contractor that's

bonded? Friends, that stuff already gets really pricey and the reality is, you can

either pay $60 an hour for someone to swing a hammer and a nail or you can pay

someone $15 an hour and so in the game, understand that your margin for winning

and success in real estate comes down to getting good work done at a really good

fair price, not at that really high level $100 a foot mentality. - Yeah and I will

say, this is a place where you really want to get real. Don't go to Google

and just do a search. I'm sorry but Google does not tell you who the very

best, highest rated, most honest handy men are but

what you're looking for, that's what you want to find. So the question here I

think that probably is on everyone's mind when it comes to fixing a home is,

Kris, how do you identify those type of people? How do you find them and then how

do you kind of get them in your employ? - So this is really good. There's a

couple important things that I look for when I do this and the first one that I

look for is competence and then I look for price. Let's talk about

competence. Competence is getting the work done in a proper time frame, meaning

quality over time. Though that is what competency means and then the number two

is price so you could literally hit social media or the classifieds and just

go out and get a minimum of three bits so when you go in and you assess and you

know what work needs to be done, get three different eyeballs on it. Yes, it

does take extra time to get them and to meet with each one of them individually

or as a group and to spend time but what you're really doing is building a team

so as you find the person that you're going to work with long term, that means way

less time but still getting the job done. In the beginning, we've got to build the

team and that takes a little bit so what I want you to do is, I want you to look

for people that probably broadcast himself as handy men that have the

ability to do everything from roofing and flooring and cosmetic and things

like that, some plumbing and some electrical, that's generally what you're

going to look for in a home. There's someone that usually possesses all of those

abilities and have them come out and get three different bids.

The purpose of the three bids is to give them all the same projects and you just

have a chance to actually have them compete in price against each other and

what's going to happen is, you're probably going to have a front-runner that's going

to do it for less than the other two. When you find that person or you may

need to get more bids until you find that person, then you got to test their

competency which is, can you do the work at the quality I'm looking for in the

timeframe? Both of those are really really really important and I just want

to throw in a little bonus here.. When you pay these people, pay them half up front

and do not pay the other half until the job is completed and I'll sometimes go

one step further because handymen are notorious for mismanaging their time.

One week turns into four weeks astonishingly fast

so what I'll generally do is, if I agree that the project is $4,000

and I pay them $2,000 upfront to cover their materials then

they're very motivated to make the half of the money but what I let them

know is, I'll actually have them tell me how long it'll take it if they say two

weeks and if that fits my budget is reasonable, I'll say, great. What will

happen is, two weeks from now, on this day, I'll write you $2,000 check.

If you you'll get three days of leniency but three days after that, I will be

giving you an eighteen hundred dollar check or a fifteen hundred dollar check

which means that you actually get penalized for time because guess who

else is being penalized for time.. You. And I like to pass that right on to them,

it's actually create. Now this is a little bit of an aggressive stance but

of works for me. - I want to take that a little bit of a different angle because

I think the concept is amazing, what you're talking about here and giving

people some opportunities in learning how to really build that power team

appropriately. Most of this, when we're talking about handyman and and building

the fix-it side of this of this equation, you want to properly incentivize them,

right? That's what we're talking about, giving them a proper incentive to fix

the home in a timely manner and to do it in a certain way. Communication here is

key. If you're not appropriately communicating with them, everything that

you do want and everything that you don't want within the time frames that

you want it then you're doing them a disservice and yourself a disservice.

One of the things that I was going to mention here that you can do and

add in is, you can give them a bonus. You know, you can work this into your budget

so this doesn't have to be negotiated after the fact or it doesn't

have to eat into your profits necessarily but you can you can say, look,

I'm looking to get this job done, for example, for $3,500 but if you get it done

in the two week time frame, I'll give you an additional $500 so that

just takes a little bit of different angle, it's kind of the same process, same

concept but if you will do that, they're going to be way more likely to go to work

for you, to work harder faster, to make it better and give you

their best and this is what you're really looking for. - And you're going to really find

out a lot about you and you're going to find out a lot about them. When it comes

to finding a handyman and really doing the whole fix-it part of the fix-it F in

the whole system, is it starts with assessing then it goes to interviewing

the right person and then it goes to management. Now the management means

they're the ones doing the work but you've got to look over their shoulder

and make sure that you're checking up on the progress, make sure they look they

know that you care about the project and that it's going accordingly. Down the

road, when you have a trusted handyman, I call it people today and there is

one conversation or even my manager has it and right now, everything's being done,

no questions asked and they know exactly what to do. So really, this

is a rapport building period of time and let them know, I'm going to be doing a lot

more projects, there's future projects on the line, this is really important for

these people so I'm really looking for a good trusted relationship and trust for

me comes down to honesty, it comes down to quality and it comes down to

timeframe. So Steven is absolutely right, you can incentivize them with the carrot

at the end but I also like to let them know what might happen if we go over

that time frame and if you're ever going to enforce a deadline, make sure they

help create the deadline, that's another one of the big secrets when it comes to

fixing. - Alright, the second part of this video today is about funding and funding

obviously is one of those really important parts of the process. If you

want to do real estate, you need the appropriate funding. If you want to even

fix the home in the right way, you need the appropriate funding so this is a

great great segue. - And I just want to pause for a second because there's three

ways you could have funded this deal. You could have taken Steven in my Lease

Option course where we were training you or we have trained you and you're now

part of our community and we're teaching how to find deals with no money and no

credit and it's already funded. You might have taken our partner profits course

and in that one we showed you how to line up on partner who put their money

up and and now that's how you funded the deal. Let's assume for this video that

we're using traditional funding which means we need to work with a loan

officer, whether it's for a partner's sake or for your own, generally with

investment real estate, somebody needs to put down a 20% down payment that can be

funded from a 401k an IRA, from equity and another property which on an

average-size deal, you might be needing $30,000 or $40,000 or $50,000

to do a real estate transaction and you need to have the proper funding

team which in the world of real estate means you got to have a really gifted

loan officer. Now let's talk about loan officers cause again, loan officers quite a

lot like realtors are a dime a dozen, they're all over the place and there are

so many different mortgage lenders and mortgage brokerages and banks that are

vying for your business, one of the biggest things I think, this is the

hugest, I think the biggest takeaway that you can have here in the world of

funding is make sure that you find a lender or you find a mortgage or loan

officer who does the majority of their work with

investors. Now if you're going around and you're trying to get a loan, most places

do have primary residence financing, they're loading on people's

first home or their primary residence. That loan world is a lot different than

investment financing, it really just is. - And for those of you that don't actually

even know what we mean when we say loan officer, right now if you bank a

chase or whatever you go to bank or if it's a local credit union, that's you

interfacing directly with a bank. A loan officer is an individual who interfaces

with many banks and what they do is they understand that all banks have different

lending programs, they're all a little bit different, they're all a little

unique, they all offer slightly different rates and not all loan officers are

created equal. Some have done so much investment portfolio lending, they work

with so many banks and they do so many deals that they they get these

incredible volume rates. What that means is, they do every month, they're known for

doing pushing so many new loans through successfully and that they're

successfully marketing and finding investors and people that need loans and

they actually get them all done that they start getting preferential

treatment with the bank which means that those loan officers will have their

banks give you the investor even better rates and even better deals so

really the question is, how do you find a good loan officer? Part of it is knowing

what you want. You're going to want to pull out your pen and paper and you're going to

want to take some notes on what you need when finding the right loan officer for

your power team. - Awesome. So most people when they get in started in real estate,

they're super rate conscious - Rate is everything - and most loan officers are

super rate conscious. - But Steven, let me ask you, how much do you care about the rate?

- I don't care. Well, that's not true, we care a little bit

but I only care in terms of, is it going to help me to get my next deal? This is

the difference between finding a loan officer whose rate conscious as

opposed to one that is more portfolio minded and I want to talk about what

that means here for just a second, alright. The rate on the home, what

we're talking about is the percentage rate, right. How much you're actually

paying to borrow that money and that percentage rate is what we pay

out in interest in the home so in any mortgage payment, you're paying a

portion of it to the principal or actually paying down the loan on the

home and the other portion is being paid towards the interest or that's what the

bank or the lender is making. Now so many people are rate conscious because that

rate consciousness is what's going to allow you to either pay more or pay less

out over the life of that loan. The problem with being so rate conscious is

sometimes it gets you into this rut of you might bypass your next deal in order

to get a lower rate now but that might stop your investment possibilities.

If I'm going to get home number three or four or five or whatever and I

did home number one or two a certain way, that may completely close the doors for

more opportunity and so I'm looking for a loan officer that's going to open

those doors for me. - So when Steven talks about a loan

officer instead of being rate conscious that's portfolio minded, what that means

is, imagine that a loan officer is working with ten banks and it's like one

big jigsaw puzzle and we've got to figure out which banks to use in which

order for which properties that are being bought and you're looking for an

experienced loan officer that can help you maximize your credit because once

you've used it all up then we need to go maximize somebody else's credit and

we're always looking for maximizing credit and doing it the most intelligent

way so here are the three things that you're looking for when it comes to

finding a loan officer.. Number one, they need to specialize in investment lending

instead of primary residence. Write that down,

investment lending expertise. Number two, portfolio minded means that they work

with it probably at least five to ten banks on a regular basis and you'll find

that most loan officers do not work for a number of different banks because

they're not doing enough volume which leads us to number three. We're looking

for a loan officer that pushes lots of volume, they should be able to brag and

say things like, "Oh yeah, last year I lend it and helped put together tens of

millions or hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mortgages together on

properties that we've done." Okay, that kind of volume, working with that many

different banks specialize in investment is a winner for you, that's who you're

looking for on your team to be your loan officer, to help you figure out how to

secure the long term with banks as you're going from deal to

deal to deal. So let's summarize real quick. In our first video, we talked about

the power of freedom and we talked about how you find the realtor that's going to

help you find the deals, now we're talking about fixing and funding and

today, we've talked about what you need to do as far as vetting and finding the

right kind of handyman to help do the work on the business we also talked

about what you need to look for when finding the right loan officer that's

going to help you fund the deal and that takes us through finding, fixing and

funding. In our next video, we're going to hit two very key elements, we're going to

talk about how you fill the home with the right property manager and then how

you follow up on the home so that you get it to continue building and

maximizing your portfolio with time and again, friends, this whole series is all

about how you build a portfolio and how you build a power team and I want to

just say something.. Steven was the first person that I brought on to my personal

power team when I got started. Steven has served in a variety of capacities and

now he helps me run our entire massive real estate empire. We've got you, our

Limitless Wealth YouTube nation on the line watching our videos and reaching

out to us and now what we're doing is, we're building your real estate power

portfolios and if you want to know how to tap into more than just watching

these videos, if you want to know how to pop tap into our power team then go

ahead and click the link up here and click the option where you get a chance

to talk with Steven, myself or a member of our team who can lay out all the

details, show you our deals where we're investing how, we'll introduce you to our

power team and we'll show you how you can leverage our power, our entire power

team to build your portfolio. This is exactly how I built my original real

estate power team that has now led to a system of nearly a billion dollars worth

of real estate. So excited tomorrow to bring you the next and final concluding

segment on how you build your very own real estate power team.

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Introduction to Building a VIDEO EDITING COMPUTER in 2018 - Duration: 11:38.

Jordy here for cinecom.net and welcome to creative Tuesday.

In this episode we're taking a look at all the details...

...on how to build your own 4K video editing computer.

Before we start, I'd first like to thank MSI for sponsoring this video.

They have provided us a system with the latest hardware...

...that suits perfect for video editing tasks.

We'll use this hardware as a reference, however the goal of this video...

...is to inform you about what to look for in the different components for video editing.

And that way you can make your own choices...

...that will fit within your budget or preferred brand.

At all times you can visit the first link in the description below...

...to learn more about this system.

They have put up a nice webpage with extra videos....

...and in-depth information about each component.

Now, building a computer for video editing is a little different from a gaming pc.

You wanna spread your budget correctly over the components,

so that you can take the maximum performance out of your machine...

for the tasks that you do.

One of the biggest misconceptions is the graphics card.

It plays an important role, though, but it's not the most important.

That is the processor.

Modern video editing tools like Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects,

Sony Vegas, Resolve, etcetera, are designed to utilize the cores of a processor.

Having an 8-core processor means Premiere Pro, for example,

can perform multiple calculations at the same time.

And that's also why the processor speed is less important than it's amount of cores.

You'll get much better performance from an 8-core running at 2.5 GHz

than a quad-core running at 4 GHz.

So I would always suggest to get as many cores as you can.

It's even possible to install two processors in the right motherboard,

which could give you easily up to 20 cores or even more.

Do however check your video editing software first

to see if it's compatible with a dual CPU...

...and the amount of cores you're about to install.

Always remember that the software is the weakest link in your setup.

Our system came with the Intel i9-7900X,

which is a 10-core CPU running at 3.3 clock speed.

This is a beast of a CPU and it's giving us extreme performances...

...inside Premiere Pro...

...and when exporting a project.

You can see it very good in the task manager how Premiere Pro is utilizing each core.

Of course, this is a more expensive CPU.

The great benefit of it now is that the CPU is future proof.

But an Intel i7 will definitely work superb too for 4K editing,

and there are even a few i5 processors that I could recommend that have 6 cores inside.

I would not go below 4 cores, unless you're not planning to edit 4K footage any time soon.

Ideally you wanna sit around 6 to 8 cores.

Now, having a large multi-core processor in your system comes with a flip side,

which is heat.

Make sure to keep some money over for a decent CPU cooler.

For high-end processors I would even recommend to go for a liquid cooler.

Cooler master is a very popular brand for these,

basically they have their fans up in the case blowing the hot air directly out.

And this hot air comes through the liquid,

which is being pumped from the processor to the fans.

Speaking of cooling, your case is an important factor here too.

MSI Send us a very awesome looking case,

with big LED fans on the front which you can even change the colors of...

...and a glass cover on the side.

This one also came from Cooler Master,

but of course a fancy case will not help you to get better performance.

The number one reason that you should choose a case is for the air flow,

the second reason could be the looks.

To find out if a case has a good air flow, look at the fans it comes with.

Ideally you wanna have a fan on the back and on the front.

One of them should suck the air in and the other one blowing it out.

Only then you have good air flow.

The larger the fans are and the more you have,

the better your air flow will be.

And of course a last point to pay attention to...

...is that all your other hardware will fit in it.

Alright, next on the list is the graphics card.

Modern editing software is able to utilize the graphics card more...

...and better these days,

but still is a fraction of what a GPU is capable of.

In Premiere Pro you can actually see a symbol next to the effects...

...that can be accelerated through the graphics card.

This means that you can apply and even stack effects...

...on a clip which can be played back in real time.

The same thing goes for Color Grading inside Premiere.

But all the rest of the effects will use 100% of the processor to render.

When searching for a graphics card, one of the first things you'll notice...

...is the memory it comes with.

And for video editing, don't mind this too much.

Video memory is needed for animations and 3D modeling,

for video editing I wouldn't spend extra money on just some more VRAM.

What is important, though, is the amount of cores in your graphics card.

Nvidia calls these CUDA cores and AMD Radeon cards have stream processors.

They are essentially the same but are built upon a different technology.

AMD cards use OpenCL and Nvidia have their own CUDA technology.

The more of these cores you have,

the better performance you will see in both playback and rendering.

I would suggest to get at least 1000 cores...

...if you're looking into editing 4K footage.

And then there are the different technologies that the graphics cards comes with.

For example, if you would like to edit in virtual reality,

then you have to make sure that your card supports that.

MSI provided the GTX1080 to us.

It's a beast of a card but, honestly,

we're not seeing much difference between the 1070 or even the 1060...

...we also have at the office.

That again proves that the processor is the most important part within the chain,

which we do notice a big difference from

between the various processors we have.

When you're searching for a graphics card,

you'd probably find various brands providing the same Nvidia card.

The architecture is always the same,

but the difference sits within the cooling of the card, LED lighting,

factory overclocking, etcetera.

What makes the MSI card stand out is their cooling design,

which they also won a price for.

You can find out more again by following that first link in the description.

Next up comes the memory.

There's this general rule of having at least 16 GBs for full HD and 32 GBs for 4K editing.

Now, does having more RAM means rendering will go faster?

Not really. To a point there is,

but that threshold sits around 8 GBs of memory, maybe.

Further up, the performance is barely noticeable.

And if you wanna see a full test of that,

I'll leave a link to Max's video in the description below.

He even found out that having too much RAM in your system...

...could slow down rendering time.

But then, why do I recommend to have so much memory?

Well, usually you're not solely working in your video editing application.

You might be going back and forward between After Effects, Photoshop,

your web browser, Premiere Pro and a bunch of other applications.

Well, every single one of those applications...

...is going to need some working memory.

And this memory is being used to write temporary actions to

that are needed by the program.

You could essentially use a portion of your hard drive as memory,

but that will go super slow.

And that is why the speed of the memory is an important factor.

These are the megahertz displayed on the dimms.

The MSI build came with the HyperX Predator memory.

These are DDR4 dimms, which is the latest technology,

and offer great speeds.

If your budget allows that, definitely go for DDR4 memory,

DDR3 is definitely not bad, below that I wouldn't go.

That brings us to the next component, which is storage.

It's pretty straight forward,

the more you have, the more video you can store.

So that's something that you have to decide for yourself.

But knowing that there are many different storage options,

it's worth to talk about.

There're mainly 3 categories:

you have the normal hard drives,

the SSD's and finally the M.2 SSD's.

And the difference lays within the speed of the storage.

Does that mean we have to look for fast storage?

Well, not exactly.

It's not going to help much with the performance while editing or rendering.

And that's why I would even suggest to go only for a traditional hard drive...

...if you're on a small budget.

When you do have some more money to spend,

look at a combination of a traditional hard drive and an SSD.

SSD's are super fast, which means that your computer will startup much faster,

programs will open up a lot faster...

...and you can drag media around a lot faster.

But it comes with a price tag and as a video editor...

...you probably need a lot of storage.

And this is why I would recommend to install your windows and applications...

...on a fast SSD.

And your media on a hard drive.

For an even faster experience you can go for an M.2 SSD.

These are chips which install directly onto your motherboard...

...and have tremendous speed performance.

Our system came with the Intel 600P M.2 SSD,

of 256 GB storage,

which is enough for our operating system and all the applications.

It's a beast of a storage with read speeds up to 1.5 GBs per second.

As for the media drive, we got the Seagate Barracuda Pro.

It's a 10 terabyte drive designed for creative tasks.

It runs at 7200 rpm, which eliminates any delay during rendering.

But you could also go for a 5400 rpm drive,

if that fits better within your budget.

But, again, remember that you don't need an SSD.

It's a luxury,

once your Windows is booted and you have started up your editing programs,

you won't notice much of having an SSD at all anymore.

The final thing I wanna talk about is the motherboard.

Although it just seems like a large connector for all your components,

compatibility is one thing, but...

...utilizing the capabilities of your components is a different story.

If you would purchase fast RAM memory,

but your motherboard doesn't support the speeds,

then you might only be using half of the speed...

...of what your memory is capable of.

So, in terms of budgeting, this is important to know.

If you don't have the money to go for a high-end motherboard,

then also don't spend extra money on a fast memory.

And the same goes for your processor.

If you would look into the specifications of a processor,

you will find the maximum RAM speed it can handle.

Furthermore, you wanna double check that your motherboard...

...has all the connectors that you need,

and that it is compatible with all your components.

If you bought an M.2 SSD,

you're going to need a socket for that on the motherboard.

What I would always suggest is to work together with an IT store.

Let them check your wish list and let them build your PC.

If anything wouldn't work, you can always go back under warranty.

Trust me, it's worth the extra 50 bucks you're paying for that.

Now I have a list to all of the components from our PC...

...in a blog post in the description below.

This is a build that MSI has put together and tested for creative tasks.

We've been working with the system for a month now...

...and it actually runs super stable.

The reason I'm saying this is because some hardware components might work,

but overtime they don't seem to be stable with each other.

They only have a few configurations that are strongly tested...

...and built specifically to work well with their apps and operating system.

Windows machines have a bad reputation because...

...you can put together anything you want,

which, of course, could bring issues.

But having a Windows system that is tested and configured for a specific task

could run just as fine.

Our beast machine was a total cost of $2500,

which is considered to be a high-end system.

In our blog we have also put together a mid-budget and a low-budget system,

which, again, you can find a link to in the description below.

Thank you all so much for watching, if you have any questions whatsoever,

leave them below and I'll try my best to help you further.

Stay creative!

-Hey guys!

You know, I do the most work around here.

So, it's only fair I get the coolest computer.

-Coolest computer?

Does your computer have a door, Yannick?

Look at this, I have a door!

And your computer just breaks apart!

For more infomation >> Introduction to Building a VIDEO EDITING COMPUTER in 2018 - Duration: 11:38.

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Roblox Build a Boat | My new boat! | w/ Blade - Duration: 12:44.

To be continued...

For more infomation >> Roblox Build a Boat | My new boat! | w/ Blade - Duration: 12:44.

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GM races to build a formula for profitable electric cars - Duration: 10:38.

GM races to build a formula for profitable electric cars

What Barra has not explained in detail is how GM intends to do what, so far, no major automaker has done.

The answer is a big bet on combining proprietary battery technology, a low-cost, flexible vehicle design and high-volume production mainly in China, according to six current and former GM and supplier executives and six industry experts interviewed by Reuters.

If GM can meet Barra's ambitious profitability target, then it will house two different businesses by the mid-2020s: A traditional focus in North America on trucks, sport utility vehicles and cars fueled with petroleum, and a global electric car company centered in China, branching into pay-per-use services such as robotaxis.

Barra's promise to turn a profit is a bold claim in a market segment that has been driven more by government policy than consumer demand, and where Tesla Inc - the world's largest electric-vehicle manufacturer - is burning through more than $1 billion in cash each quarter selling premium-priced vehicles.

Barra and GM have invested heavily in the electrification strategy, and worked during the past year to persuade investors that GM can compete with Tesla by building on the success of the automaker's latest electric vehicle, the Chevrolet Bolt EV, and cutting costs along the way.

A key element of the plan, according to two people familiar with the company's strategy, is slashing the amount of cobalt in GM's new EMC 10 battery system.

The price of cobalt – the single most costly ingredient in current lithium-ion battery cells - has soared in the past two years in expectation of a surge in demand from automakers.

Cobalt prices hit a record high this month on the London Metal Exchange.

GM's new battery design increases the amount of nickel, which enables batteries to store and produce more energy, these people told Reuters.

GM engineers are also working on other design and technological advances, according to executives and company patent filings, including more efficient packaging of batteries in vehicles and improved systems for managing energy flow and cooling the battery cells.

Without providing details, GM has said it expects these changes to cut the cost of battery cells by more than 30 percent, from $145 per kilowatt-hour to less than $100 by 2021.

Battery experts said the full cost of a GM battery pack, such as the one used now in the Bolt EV, is $10,000-$12,000, or nearly one-third of the car's $36,000 sticker price.

By 2021, however, that price could drop to $6,000, according to consultant Jon Bereisa, a former GM engineering director who helped develop the Chevrolet Volt hybrid and spearheaded much of the automaker's early lithium-ion battery development.

With improvements in battery chemistry and packaging, Bereisa said, the next-generation Bolt "could deliver a 45-percent increase in range for about the same (battery) pack cost, or the same range at 45 percent less pack cost.

Pam Fletcher, vice president in charge of GM's global electric vehicle programs, and other GM executives would not comment on specifics of the new battery system, which is slated to be introduced in 2020-2021.

To be sure, electric vehicles account for only a small fraction of global auto sales.

Like other manufacturers, GM is banking not only on reducing its own costs and improving vehicle performance, but also on increased demand driven by higher government-mandated electric vehicle quotas in China that are intended to help reduce pollution and the country's dependence on petroleum.

In addition to improving battery and vehicle design and performance, GM is working with Chinese partner SAIC to reduce the cost of assembling electric cars.

Sources said GM and SAIC are designing dedicated electric vehicle factories in China that are far smaller, less complex and more efficient than a conventional car plant.GM has more capital for electric vehicle development because of Barra's decisions to sell money-losing European operations, exit other unprofitable markets and invest in a new generation of highly profitable, petroleum-fueled large pickup trucks, launching later in 2018.

The automaker now has more than 1,700 engineers, designers and researchers working on batteries and electric vehicles, many of them at the GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, where the company opened a dedicated battery research center in 2009, a week after it filed for bankruptcy reorganization.

Automotive experts say GM's battery and EV group is one of the largest in the world, rivaled only by Toyota Motor Corp in Japan and Daimler AG in Germany.

Toyota has patented more battery technology in recent years than GM, although its focus has been mainly the Prius family of hybrid gasoline-electric vehicles, rather than on pure battery-powered cars like GM's Bolt EV.

GM was issued 661 U.S.

patents on battery technology from 2010 through 2015, the latest that such data is available from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, trailing only Toyota's 762 battery patents among global automakers.

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In addition to the battery work, GM engineers are developing a new dedicated "plug and play" structure for its next-generation electric vehicles that is flexible and modular, meaning it will be able to accommodate battery systems of different sizes, as well as hydrogen fuel cells, one of the sources said.

In an interview, Mark Reuss, head of global product development, said GM's strategy to reduce battery cost is not tied to a single improvement such as a change in battery chemistry, but rather a series of continuous enhancements in battery technology and packaging.

"There are no silver bullets here," Reuss said.

GM also has not solved all the problems required to achieve its goal, he said.

"It's called 'product development' for a reason," he said.

The most recent developments and enhancements in battery technology have not been made public, according to GM's Fletcher.

"There's a lot of stuff that we choose not to patent because we don't want to make it visible" before the new technology goes into production, Fletcher told Reuters.

LESSONS OF BOLT.

GM's patent history since 2010 shows a focus on improvements in battery technology, packaging and processing, some of them designed to help boost the battery's energy and extend vehicle range between charges, according to company filings.

GM jointly developed its current battery know-how with Korea's LG Group, which makes batteries and electronic components for the Bolt.

Introduced in October 2016, Bolt was the first mass-produced electric vehicle to go more than 200 miles between charges, and sell at a sticker price of under $40,000.

GM sold 23,297 Bolts in 2017.

Tesla reported producing just 1,770 of its $35,000 Model 3 sedans in 2017, well short of the company's original targets.

The launch of the Bolt and its warm reception by reviewers, customers and investors was a watershed event for Barra and GM's top management.

"It was a 'holy shit' moment that made us rethink what might be possible," said one GM insider.

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