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inside this box is the main gear element

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it's a laptop that is thin

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it's light and

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oh my god at this thing

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it's powerful and also really easy to unbox

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wow they really simplify things for you don't they

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talk about your no frills thanks man gear for sponsoring this video

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let's take a look at it shall we

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starting on the outside the element has a surprisingly understated look given

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the performance that it's got on the inside so you've just got a silk

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screened main gear logo here a little bit of i o at the back got your HDMI got

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your gigabit Ethernet got your Thunderbolt a handful of usb 3 type a's

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and an sd card reader and then a whack a

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ventilation on the bottom along with all those stickers that used to be on the

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palm rests but now thankfully they're hiding away where we don't have to see

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them the hinge is a one finger lift design which is really nice it stays

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exactly where you say and there's a little bit of flex on the display up

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here but given how thin it is i don't know what else they would have done

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because overall for an rtx 2070 max cubase machine this

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thing is pretty darn felt and actually surprisingly light we asked them what

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the material was made out of was because we couldn't really put our finger on it

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and it turns out it's not actually plastic it's a magnesium alloy that's

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part of what keeps the weight of the machine down on the inside still

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understated but if you're into that RGB you have the

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option of lighting up the keyboard even though the rest of the machine just looks

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like perfectly at home in a board room oh actually there's the light bar here

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as well but like the keyboard you can turn that off

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with it fired up some of the other features are immediately obvious so the

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bezels are nice and slim and this is cool they've managed to keep the top

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bezel from getting super thick while still including a top mounted webcam and

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Windows hello facial recognition with the ir camera that is a really

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really nice inclusion and something that honestly i think should be on basically

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every laptop over a thousand dollars it's so cool just opening up hey it's

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you and off you go the display is 15.6

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inch and runs at 144 hertz which as we showed in our recent video has a

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competitive advantage over 60 hertz it's actually

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surprising how much of a difference it makes and

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actually the viewing angles well you guys can see them for yourselves man i

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am so glad that we are done with trash tier tn

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displays on these gaming monitors now we get to have the best of both worlds

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as for the RGB backlighting on the keyboard it's all controlled using this

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app what's it called node control center

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so you can set up a bunch of different colors if you want you can set up

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effects and you can control the brightness if you're just on one of the

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more simple profiles just using the hotkey so there's five brightness

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settings including off so i guess that's four brightness settings and one

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darkness setting surprisingly the node control center is

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the only quote-unquote bloatware that was pre-installed on this thing

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other than the keyboard it controls the RGB settings for the light bar

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some overclocking profiles quick settings for things like the display

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color profile mode and it's got a little system monitor in it it did not suck up

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a ton of resources which was really nice to see and even then if you don't feel

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like opening it for the performance profiles they've actually got a dedicated button right here next to the

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power button that will cycle those for you aside from the RGB lighting the

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keyboard has some other interesting features too it's actually got optical

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key switches which if you want to learn more about we've got a Techquickie here

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but basically it's a different way of actuating the keys and you can actually

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probably hear them they've got a nice long stroke and a

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pretty clicky feel i do think that the keycap stabilization could be better but

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there is minimal to no deck flex on this thing which is absolutely not a given as

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for the track pad thankfully it's a Windows precision model and it tracks as

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you would expect for one of those which is to say it feels nice

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and so even if it's not a macbook this is about as good as it gets on

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Windows and as a bonus it's glass topped well that's not bad

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we're getting well in excess of 100 FPS running at 1080p all high presets on

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tomb raider you turn the motion blur off right nicolas good good now you can hear the fans

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kicking in a little bit of course we are running in

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red line mode but like come on you were gonna put

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headphones on anyway right yeah i can still hear the fans over the

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speakers so yeah headphones

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no problem good stereo separation though

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it always surprises me how different the implementations tend to be

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sometimes you get speakers that are right up here forward firing and the

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stereo separation sucks and other times you get side firing and downward firing

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ones that actually really sound like there's bird noises coming at you from over here

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yeah that's not bad actually where is he though well there he is that's actually

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pretty impressive did you try that

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there's that sound blaster logo on the bottom so they're using sound blaster

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cinema 5 which i hadn't really given any thought to because i've never tried it

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before but

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it's pretty cool actually now after running for a while it looks

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like we are up against some thermal constraints so we're down to closer to

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90 to 100 FPS but that is still

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extremely respectable in this game we're also getting a little bit toasty

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although it's mostly concentrated up near the top of the keyboard and doesn't

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make its way down past the maybe the top of the w key toasty like this wonderful

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LTT sweater LTT Store.com all right i got this i got this ladies and gentlemen

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oh yeah i hit a guy wait what happened i swear i hit him

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ah yes okay well that's what happened there oh enemy uavs those sound bad oh and

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we're dead oh wow look at that we both wow our bodies hit the ground at the

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same time once again the lesson is oh there's land mines cool

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well i'm just to go under here what do i care

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about yeah take that loser

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well all right well i got two kills um

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so yeah it's not going to turn you into an epic gamer overnight

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but it felt real smooth actually felt really good and this is on all high

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details right i don't think i mentioned this already but it's got a core i7

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9750h so it's a six core 12 thread processor and i fired up the blender

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benchmark to see how its turbo responds now it boosts up to four

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four plus gigahertz when you're just hitting it with something really really

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short but you can see it's falling down a little bit so we're at about 3.8

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gigahertz right now and i'm expecting after a minute or two it's going to come

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even lower than that that's expected on mobile chips and actually so far it's

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doing very respectably and there it is our steady state is around 3.4 high

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gigahertz which i mean compared to like a super thick

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gaming laptop maybe not that impressive but for something this thin

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pretty darn respectable making this unit even more interesting is the fact that

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NVIDIA's studio drivers now exist for the rtx 2070 max q that's inside making

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it actually feasible as a mobile workstation especially because thanks to

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Thunderbolt 3 which i know a lot of people don't feel as strongly about as i

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do means that you can actually expand it with external cards like if you needed

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10 gigabit networking for example um

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now it's time to open it up check this out my new office

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swamp just like that oh good the patient is asleep wow

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they're like not even trying to get keep me out of this thing hey 10 screws and

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oh where is it hey there we go pippity pop off the bottom comes

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now it's still a laptop so you're not going to be doing a ton of upgrading but

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you've got access to your dim slots both of which are populated that takes care

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of the 32 gigs of RAM that's pre-installed running in dual channel

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and this is nice you've got an empty m.2

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if you wanted to add more storage down the line so the one they're using in

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here is uh an Intel 660p series

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cool dominating the internals though is actually this massive battery so this is

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rated at 91.2 watt hours which maingear

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says will give you about 10 hours of use now to be clear that is not while you

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are gaming that is why you are looking like a bees in this professional with

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your RGB keyboard turned off but it's

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still nice to have because i don't know turn back on whoops i don't know about

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you but i think it's good to be able to use a laptop for more than just games

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i love that we put it back together our render is going again it's a fast laptop

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it's thin it's light it's easily

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cleanable you can make a couple of choice upgrades and you can get your very own at the link below thank you to

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maingear for sponsoring this video thanks to you guys for watching it if

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