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i'm dan ackerman and we are here taking a look at the main gear e x el 15 this is something that you don't see terribly often it's a 15 inch gaming laptop now of course you see from boutique PC makers like origin and alienware and obviously main gear to be gaming desktops big desktop replacement 17 inch gaming laptops not as often to see people the 15 inch ones but what you get in this case is something that I think Miz potentially valuable depending on what your circumstances are it's basically desktop replacement power boiled down to a mid-sized laptop they wouldn't exactly call portable but at least you can pick it up and carry it around with you you know maybe once a week if you're going to somebody's house or going from you know home to work or something like that it's a little bit plain looking and that's because unlike alienware which can have a very customized laptop bonding with the alien head and the grills and the lights smaller companies like main gear in origin they get off the shelf laptop bodies often from a company called clevo and then they customize them by adding in this case is a little Maingear logo panel on the back and they put their name right here on the speaker grill but more importantly they customize the inside what we've got in this particular model which starts at about 14 99 this configuration is about 2300 is the latest and greatest laptop parts it's got one of the new core i7 quad-core intel cpus the third generation of those which we sometimes use the coding Ivy Bridge to describe it's also got the very latest in nvidia graphics and when you put those together you get a pretty powerful gaming system that's offset by the fact that even though it's very expensive doesn't particularly look like a premium product looks a little bit generic the keyboard is kind of an older style not not the widely spaced island style keys were used to i also found that with the number pad here the keyboard kind of got pushed off a little bit too far to the side i made a lot of mistakes while typing on it and the touchpad it's got the buttons below it it's not a big click pad it doesn't have special surface same services the rest of the wrist rest just not a very premium feel therefore the touchpad as well you do get what you look for in a gaming laptop which is a full 1080p screen 1920 x 1080 illusion when I fired up the hablo free on here I actually got tired of playing on a smaller 15-inch screen so I just took the hdmi output and plugged into a big 24 inch monitor and was able to take advantage of all the components while moving it on to a bigger screen that is actually one of the one of the nice extras here you get not just HDMI but also display port and DVI outputs and a whole bunch of audio ins and outs as well this is definitely a good system if you're a multimedia junkie and have a lot of things you want to hook up to i'm dan ackerman and that is the main gear es el 15