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I'm van Akron and we are here taking a look at the main gear pulse 14 this is another one of a reasonably long line of midsize gaming laptops that we've seen this year we've seen examples I'm alienware an origin and razor main gear is another boutique pc maker and it's really cool ever seen people making gaming laptops with 13 and 14 inch screens rather than just two big 17 or 18 inch monsters that were used to of course there are some trade-offs involved if you get a system from a boutique pc maker like main gear or origin these guys can't make their own custom bodies from scratch the way alienware which is owned by del does they basically is an off-the-shelf body which is what you see here and they customize it in this case they do actually very nice color back of the lid this has done an automotive paint and getting different colors it's got some really great kind of automotive sparkly detail to it otherwise it looks like a fairly standard chunky 14-inch laptop and the keyboard and touchpad are really not designed for gaming they're hoping that you're going to hook up an external mouse maybe plug the whole thing into a monitor and use your own keyboard with it as well now this guy configuration wise it's just under two thousand dollars where you can get it down to about 1250 and for the 1250 you still get the same core i7 CPU and Vidya 760 and graphics card that we have in our more expensive version which is great the big let down here however is the screen it is a 1600 x 900 screen it's not a full 1920 x 1080 screen which most of the other mid-size gaming laptops and all of the larger gaming laptops have you really do want to be able to play in full HD in order to do that here you'll have to do what i did a lot of time which is taking hdmi output to a larger monitor and then you hook up a mouse and a keyboard and you're basically just using the hardware here if this system had a better display it loses a lot of detail and with off axis viewing although I like that it's kind of a matte display not overly glossy if you can get past that display you can certainly save a couple bucks over some of these other systems and still got those high-end components the dense if you're going to plug it into a monitor all the time as a standalone gaming laptop I'd say the 1600 x 900 display really turn way off I'm Dan Akron and that is the main view pulse 14