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well hello good people I'm Dimitri and you know what in this video I want to challenge myself because I change cases way too often so reconfigure my system into another enclosure depending on what is the latest and greatest that I enjoy and it is kind of like part of my space it's there it's and videos I enjoy looking at it but I want to challenge myself what happens if I don't use my main workstation desktop PC for a week and instead we're gonna use a laptop computer the MSI p65 creator edition it is a pretty decked out computer but I wonder in terms of what I'll be missing you know from a traditional desktop PC and what will be the advantages so let's begin the unboxing so just look at that thing it is amazing at how thin it is I've never actually used the noble computer for my main workstation PC I've always had desktop PCs that are gigantic that the like towering and powering but what happens if you just kind of switch to something like that well let's discuss right after this oh come on what are you doing don't sit on the keyboard sorry I didn't realize it's so low profile did you bring the stuff I sure did it's so compact it's a good tool trust me this brushed aluminum plate floating 1/2 high keycaps MX cherry low profile switches a type c connection and comes in different sizes to the cooler master sk series careful not to miss links below alright people so my experience with the msi p65 creator edition has been surprisingly satisfactory from a gaming perspective from a Productivity perspective from portability so you know perspective and I feel like this is a nice complete package so first I travel with this thing to Vegas for our CES coverage so all the videos were made on it absolutely no issues in terms of rendering performance I didn't have an issue with the the cooler so this is a replacement and bringing it back to the desktop it's a significant downgrade in hardware versus what I had on my desktop PC with a 2080 ti in the 9900 K but here the 8750 H CPU plus the gtx 1070 max-q hardware wise is perfectly capable to you know deliver what I needed to deliver for my daily workload but the main advantage for me with this type of setup is being able to just unplug everything put this thing in my backpack and work remotely and so for a lot of people who do that office work homework and something in-between that whole travel section this is a really good machine I shot a wedding in Toronto and edited all my photos on battery life while traveling to Montreal on a train for six hours and I arrived with some battery left over and this is with me rendering all the photos and editing all the photos as well so battery life without this thing being plugged in is actually a really good productivity obviously you'd not want to be gaming on it because the performer completely tanks but from a Productivity standpoint battery life on this thing is actually quite good now I will say the build quality here is just okay it's not superb in any way especially compared to like the razor blade or the MacBook for example here we have multiple points of flexibility on a chassis both on the interior and on the exterior and so I would be careful now I feel like this whole creator edition of notebooks is going to become a lot more popular and mainstream in 2019 because the p65 is just the GS 65 in the skies so a white color scheme we have an added fingerprint sensor and no longer the SteelSeries keyboard that everybody loves on the GS 65 so if you're not fan on that gold and black color scheme then the white limited edition is you know your choice now to get this thing ready for a true desktop replacement I first needed to get a notebook stand for appropriate elevation and nice angle for the keyboard I'm not a fan of the wobbling situation when I'm typing on the keyboard but I do have an external one connected so that kind of solves that issue I also got the USB hub from anger and I velcro that to the bottom of the stand so I can remove that if I need to bring it with me on the go and just gives me additional USB ports but in terms of the port selection on the notebook itself I am surprised at how well equipped it is to be in exist exactly have plenty of USB ports we have a full size Ethernet jack we have plenty of display connectivity so a full size HDMI we have a mini DisplayPort and a Thunderbolt 3 this is how empowering this secondary display with a Type C cable although for notebook that is targeted for creators the lack of an SD card is kind of disappointing the screen on here is fantastic 144 Hertz which is awesome for general productivity but especially great for gaming and although this is not the true IPS display because of that high refresh rate color accuracy for my work has been satisfactory the bezels are super thin and the screen can fold all the way back not exactly sure why you would use that but it has that extra mobility also a positive is that I've experienced no scaling issues in Windows like I was expecting for some reason so if I drag my window from a 4k display to the footage you display you know everything still stays sharp there is no glory text and since I moved away from the dual screen configuration with my desktops I'm actually quite liking what's happening here with a smaller screen onto which I can play like some YouTube videos and on the main display I can have email open that can be doing editing and just a little bit more real estate and then when I have to you know go to a coffee shop to do some work unplug everything take it with me it's it's quite nice the keyboard on this thing feels great nice tactile actuations fast rebounds however the illumination is quite disappointing it is uneven between characters there is likely behind the keycaps and also if you have anything white on the screen it is completely invisible you cannot actually see what the keys are whenever they're illuminated so I tend to just turn off the illumination in the evenings because the light from the screen spills onto the white keys and the white illumination and you cannot see the actual characters the trackpad on here I feel like is the weakest point for portable needs so the surface is not as smooth as I was expecting it is not using Windows precision drivers or it is but it's got synapse drivers on top of that so it's not exactly precise and also there is a fingerprint scanner built into the top left side which means that that whole area cannot be used for tracking but you have to really press your finger inside for it to actually you know recognize the fingerprint otherwise it won't notice that there is a finger on top the speakers are located at the bottom so in my configuration I actually don't mind that at all it bounces that Audion Eisley from you know a table surface now as for performance obviously my 2080 Ti and the 9900 K system is going to be much better but for games this thing is killer with a gtx 1070 max-q I'm getting respectable frame rates something that you know I play around with medium to ultra settings and I'm pretty happy with frame rates depending on the title but more importantly I've been very happy with rendering performance in Adobe Premiere with the cooler acceleration without the GTX 970 max-q and that I 78750 H has integrated graphics the UHD 630 which is the same you know graphics that we find on 9900 K the 8700 K so that quick sync acceleration with a dual premiere is absolutely it just flies through things but the major limitation here with the internal storage I only have 256 gigabytes inside this machine which is nothing for content creators this video is gonna occupy a hundred gigabytes alone so you have to rely on the external storage either nass solutions or just external USB sticks and stuff and this is kind of what I'm how I'm working from here so that I can you know transfer all my gaming library all my productivity work folders from one computer to the other I also only have 16 gigabytes of memory it here which is a single channel so that's also a slowdown for Adobe Premiere and gaming too so you could upgrade this to 32 gigabytes but the second spot is I think it's below the keyboard so it's not super accessible also another annoying issue that I've encountered on this machine and then the first one our driver issues so in the first machine my Intel graphics drivers were crashing constantly whereas here the Nvidia drivers are constantly crashing until I reinstall them they were not detected I had to revert back to the original drivers from MSI and which are outdated and some games freaked out they're like hey your drivers are outdated I finally was able to update everything and so far haven't experienced any crashes like I have in the past but that's something that I wasn't expecting to encounter and certainly don't have this issue on my you know desktop PC and my takeaway from this entire experience is that no books are getting so good and so powerful that they have this beautiful balance of being totally appropriate as a desktop replacement while also having this entire portability factor built in because this thing is super light it's thin I can just collapse it bring a mouse with me and pair of headphones and be totally satisfied with the performance and everything that's that's kind of revolves around the notebook the power brick is also pretty small you know for cable management for example you could also argue that it gives you slightly cleaner space if you were to use something like this as a desktop replacement overall I'm quite happy with how this creator edition of the P 65 has you know delivered I think that is all I have to say about my experience using this thing as a desktop replacement and I think it has and you know met my expectations on an overall level I would say be careful with the build quality I don't like the trackpad the keyboard illumination could be better because otherwise you can't really see the keys when something bright is on the screen and it just spills onto white keys but in general it's a fantastic laptop and it's a good disguise to target not only gamers with their GS 65 but you know everyone else who doesn't want a black and red notebook but has the exact same specs and everything else to be the same as well this is why the creator edition exists so everything will be linked description below check it out and if you've been using a notebook as your main PC for the desktop what's your experience been like and would you consider going the desktop route or you kind of like settled within your ways you know this has definitely spoiled me now in terms of being able to have everything on one machine that I can take away when I work but everything is on my USB hard drives anyways because the capacity on this thing is not that good but yeah thanks much for watching I'm gonna meetry I'll talk to you next video