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Geekvape Aegis X Kit
I am now at that point in my life where denial is no longer a viable option. Try as I might, to continue playing video games, watch cartoons and insist on being breastfed, it is becoming more and more apparent that I am indeed losing the battle.... tis a sad and grounding realisation.... yet the crux of the matter is simply this....I am almost half a century old.
And this startling and seemingly unjustified reality is something that I have tried my utmost to postpone for as long as humanly possible, losing my immaturity almost as quickly as I am my own teeth....okay, that might be a slight exaggeration, as I am sure my own children can testify as they look up to me for guidance and wisdom....only to be confronted....by a fucking idiot..
But I know it's there, I can feel it, I can especially feel it every morning as I slowly open my eyes to feel what was once a relaxing and positively refreshed experience...become one of complete confusion and horror as your body goes through a 572 point checklist of what works, and what still needs a good hour to warm up to what can be considered as even slightly functional...all the while making the same face I make when my other half asks me the seemingly unreasonable request of..."shall we go again"..
'Life begins at 40' they said.......but what they failed to add was....that it only lasts for a couple of days.
Music becomes weirder, and louder, invites to social gatherings become completely dependent on physical ability coupled with the mathematical probability of whether you may...or may not...shit your pants in public should you attend, and your slightly younger peers and siblings usher you away from anything even slightly technological....no matter how 'tech savvy' you consider yourself......through fear of you plunging your entire town back into the dark ages, or accidently deleting their entire digital lives...
But for me personally....all that stuff pales in comparison to the increasingly frustrating fact that my arms are simply not long enough anymore....for me to see my own fucking phone.
No sir, other than considerably cheaper car insurance, there is no joy to be had from becoming old....thankfully however, there are people out there...kind, caring, considerate people, who understand the plight of the elders, even if it may well be unintentional...I don't care, I'll take it, because these people stop me from looking like Mr Magoo in public as I appear to be taking a selfie with a large group of invisible people, when in fact I'm just trying to see who the fuck it is that's phoning me, with a device that lends itself perfectly...to the 'optically challenged'.
Shall we...
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Welcome once again my fellow decrepit and rheumatic ridden vape veterans, back again with more of the same, yet seldom do I receive a device with quite as much Vapingdom 'buzz' surrounding it, as the device I have for you today. I dare say my aging bladder may well have released more than a few millilitres of its own capacity since hearing this thing was announced....exciting...warm...and moist times.
SO....lots to talk about....(“Isn't there always with you?”)....HEY....I resemble that remark, I can't help it if I like the sound of my own...erm...typing (?) but let's get balls deep in this thing because, as I have already stated....not all of us have the time to spare.
Courtesy of my original gangsters over at Heavengifts , there's no need to adorn your reading glasses this time as I present to you, the much anticipated Geekvape Aegis X Kit....
The Lowdown
The Geekvape Aegis X Kit consists of the Cerberus sub-ohm tank (again)...more on that in a little while, and the Aegix X Mod. The mod is a 200w, dual 18650 powered device that is all kept in check by the brand spanking new AS 2.0 chipset, a chip that boasts to be twice as accurate as its predecessor, with a much faster response time to boot. To be perfectly honest, I found nothing wrong with the original chip so I'm assuming most of these improvements can be found within the TC functionality....I say 'assuming'...because try as I might, I couldn't find a solitary fuck to give anywhere upon my person regarding that....so let's say it is....and call it a day.
Size wise it's exactly the same as the Aegis Legend, it has the same hand grip....to a degree....the same appearance, and the same overall design.....
Apart from the front that is...
Gone is the...in my opinion...rather ugly flat fascia front, which in its previous form doubled up as an aquarium from time to time, and instead we have a more refined front plate whose design perfectly lends itself to the angular cut of the newly designed function buttons, and that infamous Aegis fire button.....love that shit.
Up on the top, it's business as usual with the unibody 510 connector and the rubber plugged USB connector for 2a balanced quick charging (don't take mine...or their word for it) and firmware updates.....
And underneath also stays largely unchanged, with the super firm and sealed battery door...
The AS 2.0 chipset has the usual array of Geekvape functions, with your run of the mill variable wattage, and also variable power curve, bypass, TC modes for SS, Ni & Ti, TCR adjustment, 4 memory modes and the newly added 3 power modes; soft, standard and powerful. It's also super safe, with just about every safety precaution you can think of.....but let's be perfectly honest here....at this point I feel like I've written that exact paragraph at least twenty times this year alone - it's exactly what you would expect AT THE VERY LEAST....from every modern day regulated device, if it doesn't have all that?....Then it's outa date...simple as.
What sets the Aegis range apart from the vast majority of the crowd though, is of course...how fucking nails it is.
Now...if say, you didn't know about the Aegis and what it represents, firstly...where the fuck have you been for the last couple of years??.....And secondly....you should know that this mod has been subject to some of the most worrying displays of dubious and psychopathic torture related testing to date. From being thrown out of a fourth story window, having a truck wheelspin straight over it, being frozen in a bucket of water, being launched into a brick wall, to being strapped into a chair and forced to watch back to back episodes of Love Island......this thing has been through it all....and lived to tell the tale. It's built with one thing in mind, to do away with those moments when you 'accidently' have a head on collision with a Jumbo Jet, and still have the need to vape straight afterwards, knowing full well that even though you have no arms and legs left, and your skull is basically a bag of sand and now where your arse used to be....your mod will still work perfectly well...because let's be honest, if your already dead, the last thing you need is a broken mod. That shit will just ruin your day.
So...the Aegis has always been shock proof, dust proof, waterproof and......inconceivably cringey reality TV show proof..
However.......as you slowly...and somewhat dramatically rotate the Aegis X.....
You will soon be confronted...by something no other Aegis has had before...
Did you hear that?.....That was my degrading, age related, blind as fuck eyesight punching the air with a "FUCK YEAH"...it has no idea who to....it just knows that someone was there a moment ago...by the sound...
More than likely the first time in history that 2.4 inches has brought this much joy to anyone, even my other half was caught drooling whilst muttering under her breath..."that 2.4 inches is all I need in my life".....and she doesn't even vape anymore.....I'm actually not 100% sure she was looking at my mod though...
Regardless....it would seem that the fans of the original Aegis Legend, and their calls for a bigger, brighter, and easier to read screen were heard by the powers that be at Geekvape, although....I'm pretty sure no one expected that the team over at Geekvape, when told to design a bigger screen....would stroll into the R&D lab with something quite so ridiculous...
The only mod I currently own with a screen this size is the Laisimo L3 Touch, although that has the added feature of it being a touchscreen, and is a much higher resolution...and is also a couple of mm bigger....BUT....after using the L3 for a couple of years now, I can tell you that having it as a touchscreen is probably it's biggest con. Yes you can lock it, but I have unlocked it in my pocket sooo many times and taken a 200w hit off something that had no business being in that power range, so I'd much rather it wasn't. What the Aegis X concentrates on is clarity...PLUS...you do get a choice of themes, and within these themes, you also get quite a wide choice of colours..
But the truth of the matter is, what means more to me than any of that, is the fact that I can read this thing without wearing my glasses, shit...the display is so damned big, and so damned clear, that I could read this thing from across the room, I shit you not.
It's a nice upgrade for sure 
