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my unboxing and first look at the Pelican Urban Elite u00 now we're all
familiar with pelican cases in fact if you watch our videos you should probably
be quite familiar with them cuz we unboxed one that we used to transport
our camera to CES but now they have backpacks that have integrated pelican
cases so basically dust proof waterproof with a purge valve uh just generally BS
proof If something bad happens you're going to hope that your device was
inside something like this when the bad thing happened so let's go ahead and
start with the Pelican style features of the backpack and then we'll move on to
the slightly less interesting stuff so in here we've got places to put pens and
Post-it notes and school supplies and all that kind of stuff and then we've
got an armored tablet pouch right in the very
front of the backpack now you're not going to fit any huge tablets in here in
fact it's probably mostly optimized for like your iPad or your Transformer or
whatever else sort of those sizes of things but you can go ahead check that
in there and it's going to sit in there very comfortably in fact it looks like
it sized perfectly for an iPad there's a soft surface here at the front if you
don't keep your iPad in a case so you don't have to worry about the screen
getting damaged and there's yet another pouch right here where you can keep sort
of stuff that you want to keep there all right moving on to the next Pelican
feature so they are calling this the S
shape back or something like that
scurve Comfort back so there's like a
ton of padding here here and here but you can see this isn't flat at all like
you see the Contour there it sticks into the small of your back and then curves
around your shoulder blades so there's actually a way to take this apart and
there's kind of like a little uh hidden Pocket here in the top where you can put
more stuff and then down here you can see the dense foam that they're using to
make the S curve because the back here is actually the Pelican
case itself that makes up the main laptop compartment that is where your
stuff will be safe in this particular I wanted to call it a chassis but it's a
backpack since we're here at the back we might as well check out the other comfort features so these are kind of
they feel kind of like a gel strap so they rebound fairly quickly and they're
pretty firm they're not soft like a memory foam or anything like that but
honestly that's probably better for a backpack because any foam that
compresses too much or too consistent is basically like no foam at all you're
better off to have a gel so there is a chest strap uh goes right here there you
go and the overall build quality is very solid like these buckles are metal as
opposed to being made out of plastic fully adjustable and all that stuff that
you'd expect stitching looks extremely high quality I mean if yeah I mean I I
like Pelican Products already so you don't really have to sell me on them but
uh yeah I like Pelican Products because they do tend to be just sort of stupidly
r good all right so the inside they're calling this a checkpoint sort of ready
uh laptop pouch so it's top loading
which means it's going to be easy to get out in the event that you do have to show it to someone at the airport they
include little spacers here so depending on whether you have a thicker notebook
or a thinner one you're supposed to install these spacers inside the main
pouch here so that it holds the laptop in place without jiggling around so if
you had something like an Ultra Book obviously there'd be quite a bit of
space in there it could move around if you don't install something like that so
that's what it's for and you can take
these off simply by threading them through here I believe no no there it is
so there's a velcro piece here and you can oh not take those off okay
apparently I was wrong about that never mind so it is intended to be loaded like
that is this it does not look like it intends for you to open it up all the
way although I really really hope I'm not wrong about that because there
should be a way to open that uh okay yeah no does not does not look
like it so there you go that's what the inside looks like the purge valve is on
one of the sides there there you go so that keeps the pressure equalized in the
event that it does drop in water it's rated for 30 minutes under 3 ft of water
so as long as nothing totally disastrous happens then it should be should be all
good in the hood as far as your notebook's concerned the waterproof seal
is all around the uh you can't see that in the camera at all but it's all around
the outside here and the latch closes with a very rugged sturdy looking sort
of OneTouch latch here the handle on the top again it feels very industrial and
Pelican so it's got a rubberized grip on not even rubberized it's a rubber grip
on the bottom so it's extremely grippy and then the top is a textured plastic
the hinges are again kind of ridiculous like instead of just having one hinge
they're like why have one interlocking piece when you can have five so there
you go because we're Pelican because we can
um the side expand a little bit so you can either tighten these up to have it
not sit as far away from your back or you can loosen them to have them expand
so you can fill it up a fair bit even outside of the laptop compartment
although the laptop compartment does take up a good half of the overall
capacity of the backpack itself then we get
into all the stuff here so we can uncp
these ones and this ah yes okay good this is the one where you can undo the
velcro here and you can open it up all the way you so desire so there you go
we'll just undo that and it opens up completely so this is your main
compartment this is where you put you know your lunch or your textbook or
whatever else that is not critical and doesn't need to be stored inside the
waterproof compartment I think that pretty much wraps it up for oh no there
we go the bottom here is a really nice rubberized thing going on so it's not
going to sort of slip or otherwise do
bad things more expansion spots here to
open up that compartment a little bit more and last but not least I almost
forgot a hidden drink
holder so you can throw a drink in there and have it hang off the side or you can
tuck it away and have it not hang off the side thank you for checking out my
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