Razer Tactical Bag - "Intense Gamer Gear!" or Sensible Backpack?
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2015-05-07
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1,761 words · ~8 min read
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a backpack really Linus a razor backpack do they even make backpacks is this
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video even gonna be good these are all great questions but if i didn't think it
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was going to be good would i make a video about it
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this graphics card for 80 dollars makes absolutely no sense and nobody should
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buy it a product that sucks and is cheap this magnetic box is really nice it
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probably costs about as much to make as the headphones themselves inside you get
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some stickers a certificate of gullibility or excuse me sorry i screwed
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that up paying 200 for half baked products like nemo wow a
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whole three pack for only 20 however will you make a profit on that
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or is it the worst kind of snake oil nonsense that i've seen in quite some
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time better than useless fry the existing logo off go to town with a
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reinforced cutting disc i think it's safe to call this an instant masterpiece
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500 to maintain seven days of recorded video a product that is supposed to
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reduce bulk has me carrying fuel cells a
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reactor a recharge station and then something to power the recharge station
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with brilliant anyway
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never mind that actually uh let's just get started
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Intel's new 750 series ssds utilize the NVMe standard providing speeds never
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seen before on consumer storage drives click my face or this bag to learn more
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all right so it's not often that we tackle the backpack category and every
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time we do i like to think that there's some kind of a fresh
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reason for it there was the one with an integrated battery bank the one with a
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pelican grade laptop compartment and before that a couple of averkey bags
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that were just plain great value for the dollar but today's video is not about
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any of those things at 160 the razer
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tactical bag is not going to win any performance per dollar awards especially
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when you consider that the primary performance metric for a bag is
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literally just carrying stuff so we could pretty easily create something
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with a better price to performance ratio
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but the reason i'm making this video is because whatever you guys might think
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about this fact as Linus it's pretty darn easy for me to get a keeper unit of
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any product i want from a high margin category like backpacks and for eight
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years i have faithfully stood by my Windows vista ogio bag due to its
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quality comfort timeless style and did i
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mention quality that thing has been a tank and i had no intention of replacing
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it until it just kind of happened by accident when i booked my dinner with
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min tan from razer in march he congratulated me on my new blade 14 and
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asked me if i had one of their backpacks to go with it to which i replied no
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and before i could say and i'm really not interested in one
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since that's just another stupid thing to carry all over asia with me for the
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next two and a half weeks he said oh okay cool i'll bring one to dinner for
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you so he handed it to me when i arrived and it was actually kind of love at
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first sight i moved all my gear over and haven't looked back for a moment so then
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what's so special about it frankly not that much it's just a really
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well executed bag with lots of versatile pockets and rugged enough construction
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that it looks like it'll last me another 10 years or more just like my ogio not
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to mention it's much more comfortable than my old bag so let's take a tour of
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it shall we all backpacks start for me
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at the contact point with your back and the tactical bag excels here it's
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designed to be worn properly it features a chest strap that makes you look like a
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dorcas but is totally worth it when you have a lot of weight in your bag and
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with the shoulder straps snug but not tight and restrictive there are decent
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pads positioned on either side of my spine and in the small of my back i
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think i'd pay an extra 10 bucks for these to be a denser foam but solid
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placement of it made this backpack comfortable even during long days
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walking around bird sanctuary zoos and the like in asia the same can be said of
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the padding on the shoulder straps i do wish it was thicker but the
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functionality of it is still a strong point moving around to the side we've
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got a buckle whose purpose is unclear and a large side pocket that i generally
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use for stuff i don't want to get lost in the main compartment but that i don't
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really need to get to all the time like my toiletries and medications while
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traveling a great feature of these is that even though they're held down by
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velcro nature's untimely point of
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failure you can optionally run a strap through the cover to lock it in place
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on the bottom is a rain cover that thanks to the water resistance of the
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bag's ballistic nylon construction you'll only need in very wet conditions
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then at the front there's this whoa that's a lot of velcro isn't it this
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velcro loop system allows any front mounted pockets to be modularly
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rearranged and allows you to put the included razor stickers on it wherever
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you want or more importantly allows you to just take them right off
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if you don't need quite as many logos all over your backpack these pockets are
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the perfect size for a mouse which is nice but i think razer missed an
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opportunity to put a clever water bottle holder here
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next we'll open up the organizer compartment by opening the two really
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nice smooth feeling zippers to reveal a scratch proof tablet pouch and four main
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organization zones one is for business cards or other little random things i
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wish these were deeper by the way then below that is a neoprene pocket that's
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perfect for my 10 000 milliamp hour battery bank and a couple of dedicated
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usb drive holders on the other side is a mesh pocket random stuff you need easily
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goes here and then below that a similar pocket but with a zipper this time for
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sd cards small adapters and other stuff that you really don't want to be fishing
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around for when you need them razer missed the boat on not including
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anywhere to put a writing implement but the good news is the rest of the bottom
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of this pouch is big enough that i can easily throw all my mini screwdrivers in
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and a pen if i so desire the top pouches
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are accessed by undoing the clips that hold down the zipper cover and inside
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the main compartment you'll find not a whole heck of a lot there's a
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protective divider in here that'll allow books or documents to be stored safely a
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little loop at the top for hanging something and then once you remove the
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for most people bulky and not super useful headphone container thing it's
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just straight up cargo space exactly the way i like it which leads us finally to
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the last pouch for your laptop or notebook it can hold up to a 17.3 inch
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monstrosity features a little bit of padding at the bottom but other than
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that no extra gimmicks just a laptop pouch which is surprising because i
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would have expected no offense someone like razer to try and have some of those
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geek backpack features like headphone wiring cable management holes and stuff
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like that but instead they stuck with a practical no-nonsense design as though
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the person in charge of the product has actually had the experience of ripping
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their earbuds out when they forgot they had their discman cable managed in their
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backpack in high school not that i speak from experience
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speaking of speaking i'm speaking to you now about ting.com they're the mobile
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carrier that is focused on customer service and customer satisfaction first
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whoa you call them and you don't speak to a
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robot you speak directly to a person whoa
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you pay only for what you use and that's at a reasonable rate the average ting
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bill is only 24 dollars a month per device
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and if you're stuck in a contract and switch to ting they will cover 25 of
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your cancellation fee up to 75 bucks so head over to ting.com and try out their
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savings calculator to find out how much you'll save and when you sign up at our
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link in the video description by the way you'll also get twenty five dollars in
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service credit or twenty five dollars towards a new device whoa
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i wonder if they're gonna adopt that as their new slogan ting.com
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probably not anyway that's the razer tactical bag did
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you guys enjoy this look at a product from an unusual category for us do you
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have a favorite bag that you'd like to see me put up against the razor tactical
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do you want me to rub it around on it a little bit for you
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this is getting weird even for me all right guys thanks for watching like this
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worry too much about these little details though thank you again for watching and as always right subscribe
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and follow i already said that whatever i'm a little rusty i've been
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traveling
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