Everki EKP120 Titan Checkpoint Notebook Backpack Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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today we're going to be unboxing the AY Titan ekp 120 and this is a
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larger a larger notebook carrying bag
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for good for up to 18.5 in notebooks or something like that
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if I recall correctly 18.4 in sorry my
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bad although I'm sure if you you know forced it you could probably get an 18.5
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in bag in uh laptop in there so I've actually recently switched over to using
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an a bag this is the last one that I unboxed which has the carrying strap
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here the huge compartment here the furlin console carrying case that I use
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to actually store my camera and accessories in because it's nice and
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soft and padded um so overall very
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satisfied the straps are extremely durable and you can see they're just
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like totally overbuilt but we're not going to focus on that bag for this
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video we're going to focus on this one so starting with their
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documentation let's see they number all the features checkpoint friendly this is
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this is kind of hilarious because checkpoint friendly evidently means you
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can take the whole bag zip it down to the very bottom past
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the very bottom like this H yes checkpoint
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friendly oh I see what they mean by checkpoint friendly they mean like
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airport friendly okay so you take the whole bag and you go like this which
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means that you're laptop is now in a
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completely segregated pocket so when you're going through airport security
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they can scan just the laptop cuz they always ask you to have that in a
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separate in a separate bin and then you can leave all the rest of the stuff here
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so that's actually a really cool feature that now that I figured out what it's
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for on camera when I was trying to figure it out for like 2 minutes before
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this makes a ton of sense so that's very very cool so there's that um and then
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you can also strap in your notebook just like that so it holds up to an 18.4 in
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laptop this is a 15.6 in laptop so you can clearly see there's quite a bit of
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extra space but because of the padded nature of the pocket quite thick padding
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as well as the faux fur lining it's not going to scratch it's not going to
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bounce around in a way that's going to be harmful you've got a fair bit of
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padding on the bottom probably about this much padding on the bottom so as long as you don't like throw your bag
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anywhere you're not going to be running into too much trouble with that so let's
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go ahead and close this pocket back actually no let's not close this pocket
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so the whole point of this is the checkpoint friendliness right so let's keep going here so the next thing we've
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got is a dedicated media player pouch
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right there once again faux fur line so nothing's going to get scratched or
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anything like that got enough space for whatever you want to put in there let's say maybe your iPhone or whatever else
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okay then you've got one of those uh one of those headphone cord holes which is a
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slightly water resistant cuz it's rubberized and you can see they all come
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together but I wouldn't rely on that for a completely waterproof seal just
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throwing that out there guys do be careful what are
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these oh okay so we got like some clippy
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things going on here let's get let's get to those after these are covered in neoprene which is once again a high
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quality material that's one of the things that really impresses me about these a bags so far I've only seen two
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of them the one that I'm using in this one but that the overall materials that
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they choose seem to be of very very high
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quality all right okay so we will take those off now let's open up the next
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pouch one of the few complaints I have about the bag that I have now is not
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enough segmentation inside it to really organize your things so looking at this
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one this seems to address all of the problems that I have with the current
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bag just by using a slightly bigger one so this guy has tons of little
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compartments you got little compartment here little compartment here you've got
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another bigger compartment here you've got ones that zipper off oh this is neat
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what's this oh this is the B that uh oh check
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this out this is like way bigger than it looked oh that's like the most amazing
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thing I've ever seen okay check this out check this out guys hold on hold on okay
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so it looks this big but then oh where can I find some like junk
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to Pile in it hold on here let's let's uncp it okay here here so we can put
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like a gaming mouse in it we put like another gaming mouse in it and then we
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could like roll up a gaming mouse pad
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and we could like put that in it and then because it expands in the back
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due to the way they've done the seams it actually gets significantly bigger than
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it initially looked so that's kind of cool yet another way and this once again
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addresses my one issue with the one that I'm using now not enough segmentation
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all of a sudden this is my tool bag and then I can throw my tool bag into the
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bottom of the bag where there's a little space for it see that and not worry
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about any of that stuff scratching up any of my other stuff these guys also
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have these smart seams look at this I'm going to call them smart seams seems even though Iver doesn't have a name for
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them so they make the pockets slightly bigger than they actually
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appear okay so that's neat we got a cat I wonder if you can put a cat in the
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bag there you go he likes
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it we're testing the durability and
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ruggedness of the a bag okay so moving
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on here at the front of the bag we have yet another compartmentalized thing
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going on here lots and lots of different
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Pockets love bags with lots of pockets that's like a personal thing that that I
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like quite a lot especially bags that you can hold a cat in although the cat's
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out of the bag now I was wai waiting to make that joke Okay so we've got a
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little uh little pocket thing here that doesn't look all that safe I probably
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wouldn't keep anything too important in there but you know something you want to
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be able to access really easily that's maybe oh you know what I think they
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thought of this because as long as it's something that can be held in by this
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strap oh this is oh I know what it is this is the tablet thing cuz I read the
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features but I didn't know where any of them were so you can keep your tablet
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here I don't know that that's the best idea if you're not using like some kind
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of a protective case like my iPad I have a protective case on
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but oops there goes my zero punctuation
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that I was watching on my uh on my Galaxy Tab because it doesn't work on
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the iPad because The Escapist doesn't support iPad right now so yeah
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everything's very soft and uh non-scratchy there so there you go I
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found the tablet bag container thing
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let's see what's in here ah the weatherproof well not weatherproof the
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weather resistant cover so I'm not going to take the whole thing out cuz it's
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kind of well okay I'll Pi the whole thing up so basically you just take this
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thing and you cover the bag with it when you're going to be riding in the rain or
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walking in the rain and it should keep everything inside reasonably safer than
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it would be if you didn't use it at all more
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Pockets more segmentation and that is uh
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here here
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here pens other random stuff see these
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kinds of Pockets I don't find as useful the other one has more of these uh just
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because you can't really put that much in them whereas the ones in here are
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awesome because they're like huge and like awesome okay so now I think that
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leaves us just with the ones on the
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side where once again we find more segmentation so we got here we got here
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and then let's flip it around so to answer the question how
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much Tech crap there we go some pens some other pockets and one more mesh
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pocket in there how much Tech crap can you hold in here I think we can all
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agree that the answer is a heck of a lot and Slick is pointing something out to
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me that I don't really know what it's for so we're just going to cut for a
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second here oh it's to hold a water bottle there you go so that's what this
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is for it holds a water bottle if it sticks out of the top oh that's actually
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kind of neat and smart okay let's see if we missed anything so we're going to go
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through their documentation and see what they think of it now okay oh we haven't
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talked about the straps at all yet although I did show you guys the straps
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on my other verki bag which I'm quite pleased with so my assumption is that
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they're going to be quite similar but I will show you guys before we wrap this up
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here lifetime warranty that's always
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good to have Brand Story Innovation is the result of challenging the mind to
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overcome the obstacles so the design to use this mentality to constantly employ
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new and unique ideas in the creation of our products they really do actually
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because I've had a lot of backpacks in my life cuz I'm more of a backpack guy
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than a briefcase guy and uh okay I don't know that this
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documentation is particularly useful but whatever um but they're good at the
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making the backpack in the first place even if their little brochure isn't that
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fantastic so the water resistant weather cover the clever Buckle system provides
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additional support when the backpack is fully loaded we'll show you that it's a fivepoint system soft F felt line
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checkpoint friendly fivepoint balance DRP evenly distributes weight yep okay
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Arrow flow padded back and shoulder straps okay so let's show you that show
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you the padding and the shoulder straps so oh wow it has very very thick padding
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so this is probably about this much padding actually between the notebook
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itself between the notebook padding that's on this side and the back padding
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that's on this side and that's at the bottom and on both sides as well as on
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the straps themselves so it's very very padded we've also got not only the uh oh
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yeah okay so here let's see where this strap goes so I'm going to have to do this up
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a little bit here guys sorry got my tablet got my notebook
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since I'm actually loading it up with a fair amount of weight I should be able to give you guys some idea uh how it
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does in terms of support oops okay it's a little bit tough to uh
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to reassemble once you uncheck point it but still less work than taking your
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notebook out of your bag entirely so I think mission accomplished on that
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one there we go okay so let's go ahead and throw it on oh this is ah right so
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this is for extra support so that it distributes the weight more more evenly
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because when you have something out here that hangs off the top of your shoulders
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that's where the weight's going to hang so what they've done here is they've allowed you to tighten it in so that it
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hangs off of the small of your back instead of directly off your shoulders
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that's actually really smart and would have made a huge difference on one of
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the uh one of the trips I went on recently to CES where I was carrying
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around a backpack with my notebook in it all day okay so where have they
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positioned the Trap so they've got the chest strap going on
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here not bad actually it's a little on the big side cuz I only have a 15-in
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notebook and I'm quite short I'm only about 5 six but if you're a little bit
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taller than me it probably won't look quite as big on you so you go I guess
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I'll do my little turn on the
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catwalk uh and I think that's pretty much it thank you for checking out my
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