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what am I using I'm using the the extreme x1 extreme x1 carbon it's so much fun I'm exploring the universe of Windows laptop that's what brought me here today this is the 17 inch gram 2.9 5 pounds in a 17 inch laptop now to put that in perspective that says heavy as a 13 inch MacBook Air or as light I should say granted it's not like a crazy powerhouse or anything like that it's got the Intel graphics inside of it so keep that in mind if you're a gamer the display is qHD so it's 2560 by 1600 an IPS display also let's see how it stacks up I'm curious about the keyboard I'm trying a lot of them and I'm curious oh my goodness gracious that is crazy light weight wow it feels like a dummy laptop you know you're walking through IKEA and in the setup there feels like a dummy like a fake that's how light this thing is not a huge power brick either that's pretty portable Type C 2 wired Ethernet it doesn't even make sense how light this laptop is boom I thought 17 inch laptops were dead I had a 17 inch MacBook Pro once upon a time that thing was a tank Toshiba laptop before any of this all started I thought it was the coolest guy fans were going off I had an external monitor I thought it was the coolest guy I wasn't it there was nothing cool about it look at us now look at today things have changed SD card slot headphone jack to traditional USB ports as a Kensington lock your power port I wish it was Type C though there is a Type C port and HDMI out and another USB port under three pounds still got a wide array of poor availability okay we crack it open the cover and there it is look how slim the bezel is a pretty typical layout on the deck chiclet style keyboard it opens to this extent go ahead and boot this up okay little bit of flex in the deck I notice that right away you see that jacked off the deck he's not like a solid piece of aluminum so you're starting to figure out they're getting the weight of this thing down so much you know you're carrying this thing around frequently the difference between three and five or six pounds even that's substantial the key travel is probably somewhere above the low profile butterfly switch on the MacBook Pro you get a little bit of travel but it ain't much it ain't ThinkPad territory they've also squished in the number pad over here now I don't use that at all typing you're kind of you're off-center now the trackpad is glass taking my first glance at to display and I have to say it's probably the best part it's just a lot of screen I don't feel like the hardware experience is on par with some of the stuff I've been using let's go ahead and load up some video here on YouTube and see what we're working with sound wise this trackpad it's so you see that jacket travels maybe in this case too much but this one is more supercharged it's called the Thunder puck they're firing down onto the desk you get a certain harshness to the sound sometimes we get some speakers on the deck like facing me resonates the sound and depending on there's just a pretty harsh experience but it's a bit of a shame because that's a good-looking video right there look at this Jack it's a great place to watch something if you want to call the thing the Gramm you got to get down sub three pounds that's what this laptop is right here and it's like can you really do that and maintain the caliber of the various components at the same time another thing I just noticed is that because of the number pad the trackpad has to be offset a little bit to the left so that's one thing I would definitely change it's really about the display with this unit in the lightest package possible we'll get in here for a second oh he brought his MacBook Pro which is definitely heavier than this check it out oh yeah this almost feels like plastic you don't with the gray sweatshirt today yeah in a black hat yes yeah I don't like this oh my god this feels heavy now I mean I can barely fit this thang man it's hard to be super lightweight and give the impression of quality this kind of brings back memories of like the iPhone 4 when I first came out it was just so different from the Samsung Galaxy line because the Samsung phones were plastic at the time the iPhone just had like a premium feel you know and it's because of the wait are you having a moment right now ladies and gentlemen will he do it's gonna be in a backpack all day there's a student yo there's a DJ the difference between three pounds and four pounds and five pounds and six pounds it's not the laptop for me though but it's pretty amazing I agree