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welcome to my unboxing of a pretty cool new notebook from MSI so let's talk about the key features which are light slim aesthetics so they're saying it's light they're saying it's slim and they're saying it has a good aesthetic that is actually an excellent three word summary okay here we go your notebook content on your TV oh it supports why'd I why display okay cool a visibly smart experience powered by the second generation Intel Core processor family excellent up to eight hours of battery life performance that won't weigh you down weighs two kilograms and a one inch super slim design very cool alright let's go into the side where it says absolutely nothing it's going on the other side where it says exactly the same thing and on the other side where we have the Box open so let's show you guys the note booking question here so this is the X 460 X right here this is a special one this notebook is an engineering sample not for selling the software an application installed are for test and evaluation only so this is definitely a testing and evaluation type of video so I am authorized to use it I have the power brick here I have the power cord here you can actually see in the packaging here where the manual and instructions and discs and stuff will go but that's not included with an engineering sample notebook and next we have the battery which is an it's little padded pink anti-static bubble wrap so let's go ahead and I guess the first thing we'll show you is how to install the battery so you go ahead flip the notebook over take the battery line it up line up the thing with the thing and then press the thing on to the other thing there we go go ahead close that up and let's have a look at this notebook here so first things first let's take off the plastic so we've got a nice brush tool brushed finish on the top I actually don't know what it's made of yep that seems to be made of aluminum it's nice and cold it's definitely metal so can you see that okay got like a shiny MSI logo on the top so that's like more of a metal kind of finish I wonder how they've built that in its sticker or what looks to be looks to be worked right into the aluminum top very very slim very stylish okay so speaking of slim there is the thickness of the display itself so I'm gonna go ahead the old iPhone comparison so you can see that's quite slick looking this uses a chiclet keyboard it's got a little em'ly side padded thing you'll probably want to hold on to that because it keeps the keyboard from imprinting itself on the screen above it when you close up the laptop let's go ahead take off the rest of the plastic here there we go so the X 460 DX actually comes in a variety of different specs depending on the region because this is an engineering sample one it is a little bit on the weaker side so it has a weaker CPU it's only got two gigs of RAM although I believe the retail SKUs will start at four gigs of RAM this one only has a 500 gig drive but depending on your region it could have different Drive characteristics it does feature USB 3 Bluetooth truestudio Pro hmm interesting okay it has turbo plus battery turbo battery plus rather so what they're saying is 8 hours of battery life and it does have a 1366 by 768 so that is a 720p ready HD display and that is an LED backlit display another thing that's cool about this particular notebook is that it does feature a dedicated graphics so it has a gt540 GPU so here you can see the thickness compared to an iPhone 4 and let's work our way around the notebook and show all of the different things it has so it has a Kensington lock it has a DVD drive it has a USB port an SD card reader it has a microphone and a headphone port moving around to the front we see not a whole lot other than some indicator lights so for hard drive Bluetooth wireless battery caps lock and number lock all indicated on there moving around to the other side we've got USB 3 2 ports Gigabit Ethernet VGA and HDMI I'm actually still happy to see VGA worked into modern notebooks because for something like this especially a more slick business style notebook having EGA is very handy because a lot of older projectors do not support HDMI so that gives you an option to output when you're doing a business presentation when you're on the road we've got a huge exhaust port here so that's taking care of the cooling for the CPU as well as the gt540 GPU and finally we have a DC in Port here to power the notebook let's go ahead and flip it over onto its back so you can see where all of the intake is coming in is right around here and then that will be pulled across the motherboard and then out the back of the aute rather across the motherboard and then out the side of the notebook over here so that's where you are bringing in all of your cooling you can also upgrade any components inside the notebook that you should see fit simply by unscrewing this this this this this this and that's it it screws you can take off this whole panel here you can upgrade your RAM I can actually see the RAM clips right there which is something you'd want to do if you've got a 2gig model like this one but like I said none of the retail ones will actually be two kegs so there's our power switch right up there at the top left and let's have a look at the chiclet style keyboard and do some quick evaluation of that guy well it boots up so I'm continuing system resume I'm a big fan of any keyboard that feels very solid this one's actually pretty good can you a system resume I think cuz I keep pressing buttons it's getting confused and I'm a big fan of any laptop keyboard that has appropriate spacing so you can see right here they have not cut the shift-key short which is in my opinion a cardinal sin they have not moved this shift key over to the right so you can see it's quite easily accessed and the backspace key has also not been shortened when it's been shortened you get a reach way over there in order to backspace and if you make anywhere near as many mistakes as I do when I'm typing that is not convenient the Enter key is also a full width Enter key which is very handy as well now let's have a look at the touchpad so the touchpad has a bit of a texture to it you can actually see it has kind of a concentric circle style design to the top of it so that gives you a little bit of texture feedback when you're using it seems quite accurate just based on my quick usage of it here although I will say that the circles cause your finger to be slightly redirected like if you're trying to move in a straight line I'll cross it here it might cause it to curve a little bit like that so you do have to be a little bit forceful when you're using it but like I said sensitivity accuracy seemed pretty good so far this piece right here is your left as well as your right click and it's kind of a chromed piece of what appears to be yeah I think that's plastic the metal I'm feeling is just right here okay I can't quite tell if that's made of metal or if it's not it's cool to the touch but it's interesting no I think that's plastic I wonder if the top is plastic too then no the top couldn't be nope okay so this piece is plastic though which I actually prefer to an aluminum brush finish here because what tends to happen to aluminum when it's positioned here is when you type for a long time the grease from your hands and your fingers will etch into the aluminum and will cause it to be worn away such that you can't and it'll ruin the finish such that you can't even clean it you can't even fix it so there's the turbo battery button and what else do we have in terms of interesting buttons and features your speakers are located here and a bar at the top of the notebook itself with a nice little chromed accent running through it that's quite nice and I think that's pretty much all there is to say at this time so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the x4 60 DX from MSI don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech 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