inside this box is the main gear element
it's a laptop that is thin
it's light and
oh my god at this thing
it's powerful and also really easy to unbox
wow they really simplify things for you don't they
talk about your no frills thanks man gear for sponsoring this video
let's take a look at it shall we
starting on the outside the element has a surprisingly understated look given
the performance that it's got on the inside so you've just got a silk
screened main gear logo here a little bit of i o at the back got your HDMI got
your gigabit Ethernet got your Thunderbolt a handful of usb 3 type a's
and an sd card reader and then a whack a
ventilation on the bottom along with all those stickers that used to be on the
palm rests but now thankfully they're hiding away where we don't have to see
them the hinge is a one finger lift design which is really nice it stays
exactly where you say and there's a little bit of flex on the display up
here but given how thin it is i don't know what else they would have done
because overall for an rtx 2070 max cubase machine this
thing is pretty darn felt and actually surprisingly light we asked them what
the material was made out of was because we couldn't really put our finger on it
and it turns out it's not actually plastic it's a magnesium alloy that's
part of what keeps the weight of the machine down on the inside still
understated but if you're into that RGB you have the
option of lighting up the keyboard even though the rest of the machine just looks
like perfectly at home in a board room oh actually there's the light bar here
as well but like the keyboard you can turn that off
with it fired up some of the other features are immediately obvious so the
bezels are nice and slim and this is cool they've managed to keep the top
bezel from getting super thick while still including a top mounted webcam and
Windows hello facial recognition with the ir camera that is a really
really nice inclusion and something that honestly i think should be on basically
every laptop over a thousand dollars it's so cool just opening up hey it's
you and off you go the display is 15.6
inch and runs at 144 hertz which as we showed in our recent video has a
competitive advantage over 60 hertz it's actually
surprising how much of a difference it makes and
actually the viewing angles well you guys can see them for yourselves man i
am so glad that we are done with trash tier tn
displays on these gaming monitors now we get to have the best of both worlds
as for the RGB backlighting on the keyboard it's all controlled using this
app what's it called node control center
so you can set up a bunch of different colors if you want you can set up
effects and you can control the brightness if you're just on one of the
more simple profiles just using the hotkey so there's five brightness
settings including off so i guess that's four brightness settings and one
darkness setting surprisingly the node control center is
the only quote-unquote bloatware that was pre-installed on this thing
other than the keyboard it controls the RGB settings for the light bar
some overclocking profiles quick settings for things like the display
color profile mode and it's got a little system monitor in it it did not suck up
a ton of resources which was really nice to see and even then if you don't feel
like opening it for the performance profiles they've actually got a dedicated button right here next to the
power button that will cycle those for you aside from the RGB lighting the
keyboard has some other interesting features too it's actually got optical
key switches which if you want to learn more about we've got a Techquickie here
but basically it's a different way of actuating the keys and you can actually
probably hear them they've got a nice long stroke and a
pretty clicky feel i do think that the keycap stabilization could be better but
there is minimal to no deck flex on this thing which is absolutely not a given as
for the track pad thankfully it's a Windows precision model and it tracks as
you would expect for one of those which is to say it feels nice
and so even if it's not a macbook this is about as good as it gets on
Windows and as a bonus it's glass topped well that's not bad
we're getting well in excess of 100 FPS running at 1080p all high presets on
tomb raider you turn the motion blur off right nicolas good good now you can hear the fans
kicking in a little bit of course we are running in
red line mode but like come on you were gonna put
headphones on anyway right yeah i can still hear the fans over the
speakers so yeah headphones
no problem good stereo separation though
it always surprises me how different the implementations tend to be
sometimes you get speakers that are right up here forward firing and the
stereo separation sucks and other times you get side firing and downward firing
ones that actually really sound like there's bird noises coming at you from over here
yeah that's not bad actually where is he though well there he is that's actually
pretty impressive did you try that
there's that sound blaster logo on the bottom so they're using sound blaster
cinema 5 which i hadn't really given any thought to because i've never tried it
before but
it's pretty cool actually now after running for a while it looks
like we are up against some thermal constraints so we're down to closer to
90 to 100 FPS but that is still
extremely respectable in this game we're also getting a little bit toasty
although it's mostly concentrated up near the top of the keyboard and doesn't
make its way down past the maybe the top of the w key toasty like this wonderful
LTT sweater LTT Store.com all right i got this i got this ladies and gentlemen
oh yeah i hit a guy wait what happened i swear i hit him
ah yes okay well that's what happened there oh enemy uavs those sound bad oh and
we're dead oh wow look at that we both wow our bodies hit the ground at the
same time once again the lesson is oh there's land mines cool
well i'm just to go under here what do i care
about yeah take that loser
well all right well i got two kills um
so yeah it's not going to turn you into an epic gamer overnight
but it felt real smooth actually felt really good and this is on all high
details right i don't think i mentioned this already but it's got a core i7
9750h so it's a six core 12 thread processor and i fired up the blender
benchmark to see how its turbo responds now it boosts up to four
four plus gigahertz when you're just hitting it with something really really
short but you can see it's falling down a little bit so we're at about 3.8
gigahertz right now and i'm expecting after a minute or two it's going to come
even lower than that that's expected on mobile chips and actually so far it's
doing very respectably and there it is our steady state is around 3.4 high
gigahertz which i mean compared to like a super thick
gaming laptop maybe not that impressive but for something this thin
pretty darn respectable making this unit even more interesting is the fact that
NVIDIA's studio drivers now exist for the rtx 2070 max q that's inside making
it actually feasible as a mobile workstation especially because thanks to
Thunderbolt 3 which i know a lot of people don't feel as strongly about as i
do means that you can actually expand it with external cards like if you needed
10 gigabit networking for example um
now it's time to open it up check this out my new office
swamp just like that oh good the patient is asleep wow
they're like not even trying to get keep me out of this thing hey 10 screws and
oh where is it hey there we go pippity pop off the bottom comes
now it's still a laptop so you're not going to be doing a ton of upgrading but
you've got access to your dim slots both of which are populated that takes care
of the 32 gigs of RAM that's pre-installed running in dual channel
and this is nice you've got an empty m.2
if you wanted to add more storage down the line so the one they're using in
here is uh an Intel 660p series
cool dominating the internals though is actually this massive battery so this is
rated at 91.2 watt hours which maingear
says will give you about 10 hours of use now to be clear that is not while you
are gaming that is why you are looking like a bees in this professional with
your RGB keyboard turned off but it's
still nice to have because i don't know turn back on whoops i don't know about
you but i think it's good to be able to use a laptop for more than just games
i love that we put it back together our render is going again it's a fast laptop
it's thin it's light it's easily
cleanable you can make a couple of choice upgrades and you can get your very own at the link below thank you to
maingear for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching it if
you're looking for something else to watch right now we've actually got uh
what do we have oh we've got a gaming monitor buyer's guide that you guys are
going to want to check out we'll have that linked down below