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hey guys this is Austin we take a look at normal-looking laptops all day long but when Intel reached out and want to sponsor a video on some slightly more unique designs well it didn't take long for me to say yes first up we have the HP Pavilion x360 and this might look like a normal laptop but in fact it's going to be a full twin one you can tell it's a two-in-one because well we can do pretty much anything you want including sending it all the way backward so it's cool about this is that you can really use it as sort of the best of both worlds so we want to use it as a standard looking laptop I can set it here I've got my touch pad I've got my keyboard I've got the touchscreen but we also do have the additional modes of the two and one allows so say you're on a plane and you don't want to have a giant 15-inch laptop in your little tray table well you can flip it around like this and get tent mode to say watch some Netflix or some super cool YouTube videos and of course you're also going to have the flexibility of just flipping around like this if you want to like a presentation or again watch some video and of course there's going to be a wide range of - ones available most of what you're actually going to be smaller than this pavilion so especially if some of them that are in the 11 to 13 inch range feel much better especially on the tablet side but what you're getting here is something that can do everything and one of the most important parts with this HP it does it without compromising on performance inside you're going to be getting an eighth generation Core i7 8550 you now with these new Intel chips what you're getting is an upgrade from dual core 2 quad core processors and that is a big deal on something that's going to be fairly thin and light essentially what it means is you're going to be getting the most performance possible out of such a thin like form factor and specifically with this pavilion you're also going to be getting the dedicated Radeon graphics you're going to be getting Intel octane tech there's really a lot to like with a form factor like this especially considering that is not even the weirdest laptop they were going to take a look at in fact it's downright practical normal not even slightly weird if portability is really what you're after though you might want to take a look at this Villa Lenovo yoga book very possibly the smallest the legit laptop that I've ever actually taken a look at now this isn't actually a brand new product it originally came out in 2016 and back then I did do a video on the Android version of this however I now have a Windows version I've got to say this is well it's unusual at first glance you're getting a tiny 10.1 inch laptop but because it's got that signature Lenovo hinge you also are going to be getting a full two-in-one the advantage here really is in portability this is so thin and so light this easy to just toss it in a bag and forget about it because it is going to be so small actually makes a pretty decent little tablet especially considering the keyboard well a little bit different so this is what Lenovo calls their halo keyboard and as you might have imagined this actually doesn't have any physical press so essentially you can imagine it as a giant touchpad so it feels like typing on tablet and it's maybe not the greatest experience but it does allow some really cool functionality you can use the include stylus with the touchscreen like most other laptops but what's interesting about this is if you go to the keyboard and you press the little pen button that's going to disable all keyboard presses except for what you're going to be getting from the stylus essentially what this is going to turn it into is something very similar to a Wacom tablet you use this to nollie navigate windows more importantly it's going to be available and stuff like OneNote to actually allow you to sketch without sort of blocking the whole screen while you do it look this isn't going to be the most practical two-in-one in the world not only is it not going to be incredibly powerful it is using an Intel Atom chip as opposed to a core and on top of that the ports are going to be pretty minimal it even uses micro USB for charging and you only get a micro HDMI out as well as a headphone jack but especially considering how much the prices come down if you're looking for something that's going to be just a little bit different vehicle book definitely qualifies next we have something that is quite possibly one of the most unique laptops that you'll ever find this is the brand-new GPD pocket 2 as you can see well doesn't get much smaller than this with a 7-inch display yeah this is going to be tiny no there are definitely going to be sacrifices with something like this the keyboard in particular even though it's actually going to be a lot better than the original pocket it's still going to be very small and the layout is going to be a little bit unusual but again consider lookup tiny this thing is it's legitimately pocketable and this is going to be a full Windows PC now inside this guy you're going to find a full Intel Core m3 processor no no it's not going to be some crazy powerhouse but what you're getting here is actually a pretty surprising level performance and something that's going to be so thin and small you know it's not going to be a full gaming PC but considering how tiny it is so I should go to be more than powerful enough for well pretty much anything that I would ever do with it except video editing I guess but I don't think whoa dude we actually configurated on this oh we should have thought about that earlier this actually would totally be able to video edit so it does only have 4 gigs of RAM which is not going to be a ton but with a full core processor inside it actually might not be that and when the cool things about it is in addition to the nice aluminum design you've got to stall it amount of ports so you got to full-size USB a ports as well as a USB see and a micro SD the GPD pocket 2 is definitely not going to be for everyone so this is really going to be for someone who wants something that's going to be super pocketable legitimately actually pocketable but it's still going to give you the full Windows PC experience so if you want to do a little bit of web browsing you need some specific windows apps you just want do a little bit of tiny gaming on the go bunk it's actually not bad at all next we've got the big guy the Microsoft Surface book - then this takes a lot of what made some of the other systems cool and just adds the whole tablet aspects there are a ton of different ways that you can use the surface book and the first is the most obvious of which is going to be using it as a tablet so it's not every day that you get to try a 15-inch core i7 powered tablet but wants you to detach it from the keyboard dock that's pretty much what you're getting here this is going to house almost all the internals of the laptop including its own battery the core i7 8650 you the memory the SSD pretty much the only things you're going to be losing here are going to be some of the ports however as soon as you drop it onto the dock you're going to be getting all of that back and then some if I can line it up correctly so once you drop it on not only are you of course going to be getting the keyboard the trackpad as well as a fair few USB ports SD cards that kind of stuff this is also going to contain a much larger battery and a dedicated NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPU a lot of this is thanks to the hinge there's a little bit of unusual design so as I close it it almost looks like a vertebra and one of the only real issues here is that it actually does leave the laptop slightly exposed to stuff like dust and whatnot but it allows this whole form factor to actually work and when you use it as a laptop the fundamentals are absolutely there you're getting a super high-resolution 15 inch display with Windows hello support the keyboards backlit it feels great the touch pads they're really you're not going to be giving up anything besides a fair bit of money when you pick up the surface book there's also going to be a 30 inch variety if you want something that's going to be a little bit smaller but who's really cool it's just how much engineering has gone into making something like this work no no it's not going to be completely perfect again I wish it would actually close just a little bit more but if you've got a price tag if you've got a budget if you want to get something that's going to give you a ton of power and a ton of flexibility it's hard to go wrong with the surface book too what gets me excited is just how many different designs there are out there now don't get me wrong you might want to use a standards laptop and that might be best for you but as far as I'm concerned the weirder the cooler the more interesting the better