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laptops but we'd never really encountered one that I looked at and I went holy crap we have to unbox that we
have to show that to everyone this all changes with the p34g this is the first
thing I've seen that I would consider to be a genuine competitor to the Razer
Blade 14 now the Razer Blade 14 has a
beautiful industrial design smoking
Hardware that is to say it runs a little on the hot side and it's amazingly fast
and one of the worst LCDs that I have seen on a laptop in the last 10
years the p34g takes that 1600x 900 horrible TN
panel LCD that's on the blade 14 and upgrades it to a 1920x 1080
VA panel all right so instead of TN
we're looking at an ahv panel which is going to mean better
color reproduction and compromising perhaps a
little bit on the response time from a gaming perspective now you might say
well lonus I'm never willing to compromise on response time to which I would reply oh come on response time's
important but when we're talking you know a panel that has color shift when
you move sort of 3 in to the right or the left left that's uh that's not
something that I'd consider to be acceptable so where do we compromise on
this one well number one is build quality okay so the bottom of the unit
is plastic what's good about it is we do have access to upgrade the components so
it comes with a single 8 gig module of memory in this particular configuration
but it can be upgraded to up to 16 gigs it comes with get this guys and this is
another advantage over the blade 14 it comes with an MSA slot for an SSD and a
2 and 1/2 in mounting point for a hard drive up to one tbte so you can have up
to 256 gigs of SSD goodness and one tbte
of storage for your OS and then all of your games and music and movies and all
that good stuff super cool so there's two heat pipes going to each the CPU and
the GPU you can actually kind of see them through that vent right there and they each exhaust separately from the
back of the system and other than that there's not much of note on the bottom we got some little rubber feet and stuff
like that okay all right another advantage against the blade 14 so
Kensington Lo boom G give it Ethernet port why is there a VGA port on this
laptop well in much the same way that the blade 14 is targeted to the
traveling gamer you know the businessman who likes to kick back and play some
games in the hotel room at the end of the day VGA is necessary it's necessary
for business meetings because all them projectors and all them boardrooms
support VGA only usb3 ports including
Apparently one boosted one for faster charging a a headphone microphone combo
Jack and then moving around to the other side we've got USB 2 then we've got
another USB 2 a card reader HDMI out and
wouldn't have minded seeing DisplayPort there and Power in all right so
disadvantage against the blade 14 um this is quite a large power brick this
isn't really something that I'd consider to be too awesome this is 6.15 amps 19.5
volts Razer really did a great job on their power brick making it truly as
portable as the laptop so you got to factor that into the size although the
size is very similar to the blade the top of the unit Metal finish so that is
not like the underside that's made of plas and then moving into the inside here ah
yes okay so we've got I can't quite tell what yeah that looks like more plastic
and then a metal finish on the inside so all the parts that you're actually going
to touch are made of metal now I you note I haven't even talked about specs
at all yet and that's because there's not really much to say it's about what
you'd expect out of a modern laptop that you know runs Modern Hardware so it's
got a core I 74700 that's a quad core processor so that runs from 2.4 GHz up
to 3.4 GHz turbo it has a GT x
760m with 2 gigs of gddr5 memory that
makes it a very respectable performer
when it comes to gaming especially compared to laptops other laptops that
are this thin so just like the blade 14 this is truly a portable gaming box it
has a 14in ahva 1920 x 1080 panel so
it's full HD all that good stuff it uses a matte screen rather than a glossy
screen so they're not faking things when it it comes to the uh the vibrant color
and the sharpness of the image by putting a glossy screen in front of it
it um it has a 47.7 wat six cell battery
it is 21 mm thick 1.67 kg and I'm just
trying to see if there's anything else I forgotten ah yes the El backlighting on
the keyboard so it has an auto sensing keyboard so we're going to go ahead and
cover what is presumably the light sensor here and see if we can get that
to kick in uh the last notebook that I checked out that had an e backlight was
actually the Acer Aspire s seven quite liked the implementation there I guess
we'll have to do b-roll to show this off but the overall keyboard layout is what
I'd consider to be pretty good full sizee shift Keys enter enter keys in
backspace so no cardinal sins committed although these these are a shame these
arrow keys really are a shame because if you were going to use it as a gaming
laptop and you were going to game using the arrow keys that would be a bit of an issue for you although I suspect most
people won't be doing that it also doesn't have a click pad so it has a
dedicated touch pad with dedicated buttons below it I personally prefer for
this implementation but I've seen other reviewers complain about it so I figured
it's something that's probably worth mentioning it comes with Windows 8 no
touchcreen though so if you do want touchcreen then I guess you'll probably
just go have to go buy something with a touch screen because neither this nor the blade which are the only two super
portable gaming notebooks I'm aware of come with a touchcreen so basically guys
the age-old can it run crisis the answer is yes we've spent a little bit more
time with the LCD and while it's not perfect it's not as good as a as you'd
expect from you know a really nice IPS or VA desktop display it is so much
better than what we've seen on other laptops over the past several years and
a lot better than what's on the blade that uh I give it I give it a pass it is
it is just quite nice now this is
something that's actually probably the most impressive thing to me about this laptop so far the keyboard is by the way
what I would classify as not just good but excellent there's a little bit of
flex to it but I hope you guys can hear the
sound the keys have quite a nice tactile
response even when you're typing the onboard sound is nothing special but
you'll probably want to use headphones on a laptop most of the time but this is
where things get really really impressive even compared to the blade
which was already in engineering Marvel we have put a thermal probe right here
on the wrist rest this is an important spot for us because this is where your
hand's going to rest when you're on WD it is running at under
26° on the palm rest that is
standing what that means is your hand is not going to sweat or get unnecessarily
hot when you're using this laptop like it did with the aluminum sheld razor
blade now if we take this and we put it somewhere like on the exhaust at the
back I think we're going to see a bit of a different story now the exhaust is angled down in kind of a clever way but
let's go ahead and take a spot where it might rest on your lap and look at what
kind of temperatures we're going to get there we're just going to paste that
down so I'm going to go ahead and reject that call got to love my Pebble so that
that's going to be running at you know into the 30s so there we go now that
we've put that down we've got it running you know anywhere between about 38 40°
so much like the blade it's not something that I would consider to be a
laptop in the same way that I wouldn't consider a fire to be suitable for
putting on your lap but but for the traveling business person who just wants
something that they can game with on the go this looks like an absolutely
outstanding choice so I think that concludes my video on the p34g from
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