So today's laptop is kind of interesting because it comes from a company that usually focuses
on these crazy PC builds MAINGEAR makes these custom water loops with like dual GPUs, powerful
CPUs and sells it to whoever wants a crazy PC.
This caught my attention because it's totally the opposite direction of this is a laptop.
That has a very clean aesthetic.
There's no RGB at least on the case itself and it's lighter than a MacBook Pro.
Everything is black.
It's just a stealthy-looking machine with the MAINGEAR logo in the middle.
It has tons of ports on the left-hand side you have a RJ45, you have a USB 3.1, your
audio ports and then on the right-hand side, you have a full-size SD card slot and two
more USB ports.
Plus, on the back of the laptop you have a USB type-c port, this is not Thunderbolt 3,
your power connector, HDMI and two mini display ports.
Now, I'm not sure why they went with two mini display ports.
I think I would have rather have like one mini display port and another USB type-c Thunderbolt
3 port, but for whatever reason if you need two mini display ports, this is the laptop
that has it.
So getting inside to upgrade is super easy and what you have is two slots for SSDs one
available if you want to add in a second one.
And the bottom one is an NVME drive, two slots for RAM.
Right now, you have two eight gigabytes sticks for dual channel memory, but unfortunately,
you only have a 62 watt hour battery and this does not have good battery life.
I'm only getting about two hours and 30 minutes before needing to charge.
And you have two speakers on the bottom which don't have the best sound quality.
So the display is 15-inches, 144 Hertz, IPS, good color accuracy, fantastic for gaming
and I feel comfortable doing some content creation on this.
But the only thing I do not like about it is the placement of the webcam.
If you rely on your webcam to do streaming or conference calling it's not the most flattering
position because it’s going to be staring up your nose.
This keyboard is very familiar you guys probably seen it on a lot of MSI laptops the ones that
partner with steel series same sort of layout you have the numpad on the right-hand side
doesn't feel cramped.
Rubberized key so it feels nice and smooth.
Good key travel, so there's a nice force when you're clicking on it.
Touchpad is a little small.
It's fairly accurate it’s using Windows Precision drivers, but it's not the best touchpad
I’ve used.
But again this is a gaming laptop, so I imagine most people will be connecting a mouse.
Now, if you want to buy this there's basically one option to choose from 1500 bucks, that'll
net you a 9750H, 16 gigabytes of RAM and a GTX 1660 TI.
Gameplay performance is actually really good.
One of the better 1660 TI's in a mobile laptop that I've tested in the last little while.
However, the way heat works on this is a bit different.
If you're just pushing the CPU to 100%, this laptop, does an insanely good job of keeping
the thermals cool.
However, once you start utilizing the GPU and CPU together like when you're doing gaming
it gets way too hot.
Temperatures are over 94 degrees Celsius and because the air is blowing out of the sides
of the laptop, if you're using the mouse and your hand is too close to it your hand will
start to feel hot.
So just make sure if you're buying this keep your hand a good distance from the laptop.
Fan noise, it gets loud.
I mean, like every gaming laptop gets loud when it's under full load, like you're expecting
over 50 decibels.
So here are my closing thoughts.
The MAINGEAR Vector is a really powerful laptop in a small and thin form factor but it sometimes
doesn't have the best cooling.
Battery life is not the greatest and on top of that it's priced really high.
Fifteen hundred dollars puts it right above a similarly spec’d predator helios three
hundred.
Y540 or even an HP Omen fifteen for four hundred dollars less, you can get another laptop with
very similar specs.
I think if MAINGEAR dropped the price on this laptop, this would be very appealing to a
lot of people because the size and weight of this is a lot lighter than the other laptops
I just mentioned.
Anyways that wraps up my video on the MAINGEAR Vector, let me know your thoughts in the comments
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