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welcome to my unboxing of a pretty cool

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new notebook from MSI so let's talk about the key features which are light

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slim Aesthetics so they're saying it's light they're saying it's slim and

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they're saying it has a good aesthetic that is actually an excellent 3word

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summary okay here we go your notebook

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content on your TV oh it supports uh wi eyye y display okay cool a visibly smart

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experience powered by the second generation Intel Core processor family

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excellent up to 8 hours of battery life performance that won't weigh you down

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weighs 2 kg and a 1 in super slim design

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very cool all right let's go around to the side where it says absolutely

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nothing let's go around to the other side where it says exactly the same

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thing and on the other side where we have the Box open so let's show you guys

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the notebook in question here so this is the X4

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460x right here this is a special one this notebook is an engineering sample

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not for selling the software and application installed are for test and

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evaluation only so this is definitely a

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testing and evaluation type of video so

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I am authorized to use it I have the power brick here I have the power cord

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here you can actually see in the packaging here where the manual and uh

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instructions and discs and stuff will go but that's not included with an

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engineering sample notebook and next we have the battery which is in its little

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padded pink anti-static bubble wrap so

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let's go ahead and I guess the first thing we'll show you is how to install

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the battery so you go ahead flip the

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notebook over take the battery line it

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up line up the thing with the thing and then press the thing onto the other

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thing there we go go ahead close that up

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and let's have a look at this notebook here so first things first let's take

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off the plastic so we've got a nice

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brush brushed finish on the top I actually don't know what it's made of

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yep that seems to be made of aluminum it's nice and cold it's definitely metal

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so uh can you see that okay got like a shiny MSI logo on the top so that's like

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a more of a metal kind of finish I wonder how they've built that in is that

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a sticker or what oh it looks to be looks to be worked right into the

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aluminum top very very slim very stylish

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okay so speaking of slim there is the thickness of the display itself so I'm

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going to go ahead and do the old iPhone

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comparison so you can see that's quite slick looking this uses a chicklet

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keyboard it's got a little MSI padded

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thing you'll probably want to hold on to that because it keeps the keyboard from

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imprinting itself on the screen above it when you close up the laptop so let's go

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ahead take off the rest of the plastic here there we go so the x460 DX actually

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comes in a variety of different specs depending on the region because this is

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an engineering sample one it is a little bit on the weaker side so it has a

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weaker CPU it's only got 2 gigs of RAM although I believe the retail SKS will

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start at 4 gigs of RAM this one only has a 500 gig drive but uh depending on your

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region it could have different Drive characteristics it does feature USB 3

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Bluetooth true Studio Pro H interesting

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okay um it has turbo Plus Battery turbo

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Battery Plus rather so what they're saying is 8 hours of battery life and it

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does have a 1366 X 768 so that is a 720p

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ready HD display and that is an LED

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backlit display another thing that's cool about this particular notebook is

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that it does feature dedicated graphics so it has a gt540 GPU so here you can

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see the thickness compared to an iPhone 4 and let's work our way around the

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notebook and show all of the different

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things it has so it has a Kensington lock it has a uh DVD drive it has a USB

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port an SD card reader it has a microphone and a headphone Port moving

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around to the front we see not a whole lot other than some indicator lights so

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for hard drive Bluetooth wireless battery uh caps lock and number lock all

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indicated on there moving around to the other side we've got USB 3 two ports

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gigabit Ethernet VGA and HDMI I'm actually still happy to see VGA worked

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into modern notebooks because for something like this especially a more

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slick uh business style notebook having egga is very handy because a lot of

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older projectors do not support HDMI so that gives you an option to Output when

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you're doing a business presentation when you're on the road we've got a huge

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exhaust Port here so that's taking care of the cooling for the CPU as well as

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the gt540 GPU and finally we have a DC

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in import here to power The Notebook let's go ahead and flip it over onto its

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back so you can see where all of the intake is coming in is right around here

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and then that will be pulled across the motherboard and then out the back of the

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oh rather across the motherboard and then out the side of the notebook over

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here so that's where you are bringing in all of your cooling you can also upgrade

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any components inside the notebook that you should see fit simply by unscrewing

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this this this this this this and that's

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it screws you can take off this whole panel here you can upgrade your RAM I

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can actually see the RAM Clips right there which is something you'd want to do if you got a 2 gig model like this

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one but like I said none of the retail ones will actually be two gigs

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so there's our power switch right up there at the top left and let's have a

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look at the chicklet style keyboard and do some quick evaluation of that guy

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while it boots up so I'm oh continue with system resume I'm a big fan of uh

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any keyboard that feels very solid this one's actually pretty good oh continuous

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system resume I think because I keep pressing buttons it's getting confused

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and I'm a big fan of any laptop keyboard that has appropriate spacing so you can

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see right here they have not cut the shift key short which is in my opinion a

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cardinal sin they have not moved this shift key over to the right so you can

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see it's quite easily accessed and the backspace key has also not been

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shortened when it's been shortened you got to reach way over there in order to

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backspace and if you make anywhere near as many mistakes as I do when I'm typing

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that is not convenient the enter key is also a full width Enter key which is

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very handy as well now let's have a look at the touchpad so the touchpad has a

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bit of a texture to it you can actually see it has kind of a concentric Circle

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Style design to the top of it so that gives you a little bit of um texture

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feedback when you're using it seems quite accurate just based on my quick

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usage of it here although I will say that the circles cause your finger to be

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slightly redirected like if you're trying to move in a straight line across

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it here it might cause it to curve a little bit like that so you do have to be a little bit forceful when you're

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using it but like I said sensitivity accuracy seem pretty good so far far

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this piece right here is your left as well as your right click and it's kind

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of a chromed piece of what appears to

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be yeah I think that's plastic the metal I'm feeling is just right here actually

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I can't I can't quite tell if that's made of metal or if it's not it's cool

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to the touch but it's um hm interesting

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no I think that's plastic I wonder if the top is plastic too

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then no the top couldn't be nope okay so

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this piece is PL though which I actually prefer to an aluminum brush finish here

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because what tends to happen to aluminum when it's positioned here is when you

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type for a long time um the grease from your hands and your fingers will etch

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into the aluminum and will cause it to be worn away such that you can't and

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it'll ruin the finish that such that you can't even clean it you can't even fix

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it so there's the turbo battery button and uh what else do we have in terms of

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interesting buttons and features your speakers are located here in a bar at

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the top of the notebook itself with a nice little chromed accent running

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through it looks quite nice and I think that's pretty much all there is to say

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at this time so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the x460 DX from MSI

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