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this video is brought to you by Coolermaster mobile featuring the jazz pro notebook stand check it out at mobile Coolermaster usa.com welcome to my unboxing and first look at the pelican urban elite u-100 now we're all familiar with Pelican cases in fact if you watch our videos you should probably be quite familiar with them because we unboxed one that we use to transport our camera to CES but now they have backpacks that have integrated Pelican cases so basically dust proof waterproof with a purge valve just generally BS proof if something bad happens you're going to hope that your device was inside something like this when the bad thing happened so let's go ahead and start with the Pelican style features of the backpack and then we'll move on to the slightly less interesting stuff so in here we've got places to put pens and post-it notes and school supplies and all that kind of stuff and then we've got an armored tablet pouch right in the very front of the backpack now you're not going to fit any huge tablets in here in fact it's probably mostly optimized for like your iPad or your transformer or whatever else sort of those sizes of things but you can go ahead check that in there and it's going to sit in there very comfortably in fact it looks like it sized perfectly for an iPad there's a soft surface here at the front if you don't keep your iPad in a case so you don't have to worry about the screen getting damaged and there's yet another pouch right here where you can keep sort of stuff that you want to keep there alright moving on to the next Pelican II feature so they're calling this the S shape back or something like that s-curve comfort back so there's like a ton of padding here here and here but you can see this isn't flat at all like you see the contour there it sticks into the small of your back and then curves around your shoulder blades so there's actually a way to take this apart and there's kind of like a little hidden pocket here in the top where you can put more stuff and then down here you can see the dense foam that they're using to make the s-curve because the back here is actually the Pelican case itself that makes up the main laptop compartment that is where your stuff will be safe in this particular I wanted to call it a chassis but it's a backpack since we're here at the back we might as well check out the comfort features so these are kind of they feel kind of like a gel strap so they rebound fairly quickly and they're pretty firm they're not soft like a memory foam or anything like that but honestly that's probably better for a backpack because any foam that compresses too much or too consistently is basically like no foam at all you're better off to have a gel so there is a chest strap goes right here there you go and the overall build quality is very solid like these buckles are metal as opposed to being made out of plastic fully adjustable and all that stuff that you'd expect stitching looks extremely high-quality I mean if you yeah I mean yeah I like Pelican products already so you don't really have to sell me on them but yeah I like Pelican products because they do tend to be just sort of stupidly rugged all right so the inside they're calling this a check point sort of ready laptop pouch so it's top loading which means it's going to be easy to get out in the event that you do have to show it to someone at the airport they include little spacers here so depending on whether you have a thicker notebook or a thinner one you're supposed to install these spacers inside the main pouch here so that it holds the laptop in place without jiggling around so if you had something like an ultrabook obviously there'd be quite a bit of space in there where it could move around if you don't install something like that so that's what it's for and you can take these off simply by threading them through here I believe not melt there it is so there's a Velcro piece here and you can out not take those off okay apparently I was wrong about that never mind so it is intended to be loaded like that is this it does not look like it intends for you to open it up all the way although I really really hope I'm not wrong about that because should be a way to open that hmm okay yeah no does not does not look like it so there you go that's what the inside looks like the purge valve is on one of the sides there there you go so that keeps the pressure equalized in the event that it does drop in water it's rated for 30 minutes under three feet of water so as long as nothing totally disastrous happens and it should be should be all good in the hood as far as your notebooks concerned the waterproof seal is all around the can't see that in the camera at all but it's all around the outside here and the latts closes with a very rugged sturdy looking sort of OneTouch latch here the handle on the top again it feels very industrial and Pelican so it's got a rubberized grip on not even rubberized it's a rubber grip on the bottom so it's extremely grippy and then the top is a textured plastic the hinges are again kind of ridiculous like instead of just having one hinge there like why have one interlocking piece when you can have five so there you go because we're Pelican because we can the sides expand a little bit so you can either tighten these up to have it not sit as far away from your back or you can loosen them to have them expand so you can fill it up a fair bit even outside of the laptop compartment although the laptop compartment does take up a good half of the overall capacity of the backpack itself then we get into all the stuff here so we can unclip these ones and this yes okay good this is the one where you can undo the velcro here and you can open it up all the way should you so desire so you'll just undo that and it opens up completely so this is your main compartment this is where you put you know your lunch or your textbook or whatever else that is not critical and doesn't need to be stored inside the waterproof compartment I think that pretty much wraps it up for the oat note there we go the bottom here is a really nice rubberized thing going on so it's not going to sort of slip or otherwise do bad things more expansion spots here to open up that compartment a little bit more and last but not least I almost forgot a hidden drink holder so you can throw a drink in there and have it hang off the side or you can tuck it away and have it not hang off the side thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at the pelican u-100 backpack don't forget to subscribe to - tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos