The Coolest Laptop You’ve Never Heard Of...

this company reached out electronics and they claim to have the lightest 15 inch gaming laptop

and the lightest 17 inch gaming laptop we have 4.7 pounds on a 17 inch and we have under four

pounds 3.82 on the 15 inch and that's with dedicated graphics that's with an eight gigabyte

2080 super max q graphics card that's a pretty amazing claim to have a 3.8 pound 15 inch laptop

3.82 or to have a 4.71 pound 17 inch i mean i pay attention to this stuff so you don't see it come

across that often now let's see what it says i'm going to start with the 17 inch model over here

covert gamer thunderbolt technology which is huge for me i look for that on any laptop i'm going to

use that's thunderbolt 3 hdmi output also important for the tv or the external monitor

electro boost i assume that's uh some type of software there maybe for some increased performance

or something like that next gen hardware high refresh rate 240 hertz display on both of these

models actually that brings me to the only other difference between the two you have a slightly

larger battery on a 17 inch which is something you'd expect color calibrated display and thx

spatial audio now another thing that's important to note about this brand the builders of the brand

are are also the customer service people of the brand and they're located in the us so you're not

calling somewhere far away if you have any issues with your particular system lightest in its class

core i7 octa-core processor that is the 10 875 h eight core processor of course geforce rtx as i

mentioned previously 90 plus watt hour battery and the construction the way that they're able to get

this thing so lightweight is by using a full magnesium alloy construction this is a material

of life for a long time on the gadgets and electronics including you know the cameras and

things like this where you've seen it implemented strong but also lightweight

it's been a while since i have used a 17 inch laptop i do almost everything on a laptop so i

like having a big display and the problem or the main drawback especially if you want a powerful

laptop is that once you get up to 17 inches you get something big and clunky and heavy and this

is not it this is I can deal with that 4.7 there we go now you can see already

it's a very simple design oh this is gonna be quite a nice peel pay attention

here oh baby now as you can tell right away it a matte black finish

And it's no crazy branding. And I kind of like this. It's so low-key

Look at this. It's your own thing. It's not... You're not blasting out any other brand to the rest of the world

I think that's why they went with the covert name. It's very stealth-like

and since it's a matte finish you can see it's not a fingerprint magnet either but it's still

because it's that magnesium alloy it's still cool to the touch and it still feels quality

they do have a partnership with dbrand as well if you do want a little more personality

you can throw a dbrand skin on there so that's completely up to you but i like that out the gate

it's not overly branded so very thin for this type of horsepower we look around the outside here you

can see two usb type a ports on this side as well as a micro sd card slot very useful some ports on

the back which is nice for a laptop that can really replace any type of desktop you may want

to have some things permanently connected and i like having those ports on the back for power for

your ethernet connector for an hdmi as well as that thunderbolt port which is so useful for us

in this studio because we're moving large files around on a regular basis on external drives and

things like that and even editing off them and thunderbolt is the way when it comes to throughput

over on the other side we have one more usb type a port and then you're gonna have your mic and

your headphone jack so lots of port versatility here let me just look at the other items in the

box before i look at the deck you know i'm gonna evaluate i gotta look at the keyboard and things

as well a little bit of paperwork and last up is the power brick which you know to power up a 2080

It's gonna need to be fairly substantial as you'd expect extension cable and there's the power brick itself

Okay, let's go ahead and crack it open All right All right another nice peel going on in here. Let's go ahead and read for that

This is interesting the camera is down below low obviously they've done this to get the thinner bezel up along top and i don't mind i don't use

the front facing camera all that frequently i probably would prefer myself to not stare at it

and see the thin bezel on the side and the top and especially to have it you know the symmetry

on the important aspects top is kind of where your eyeline goes more frequently this again when it

comes to not having too much branding it's kind of refreshing i gotta say you see you take a look at

this and it's just laptop that's just my laptop it's not there's no stickers I've cracked open so

many of these things and it like it screaming at you this one is not it very subtle nice and subdued and that is a big display How about a quick brown fox real quick

Okay, so for me with the hunted pec, it's, there's actually quite a bit of travel there

Maybe more than I expected when I first looked at the keyboard, chiclet style, but it's embedded

It's a little deeper inside the chassis. So you actually get some fairly decent travel out of it

Let's go ahead and boot it up. Some other specs while this is booting up

240 Hertz IPS display. It has glass protection on the touch pad

IR camera with Windows Hello for face unlock to get into it

Wi-Fi 6, 4 terabytes of PCIe SSD, 64 gigs of RAM. Okay, cool

So we are booted up now. Oh, nice little feature here. You can lock the trackpad, which is something you especially might want to do if you're doing a lot of keyboard work

Or if you're not using it because you have an external mouse, which of course a lot of people are going to have with a dedicated gaming laptop

You double tap up here. Green light comes on to let you know that your touchpad is locked

Double tap again and the touchpad comes to life. And it's also quite smooth and satisfying

A little update here. I took this laptop home with me. I, uh, you know, I packed it up, I took it home because I wanted to game on it a little bit, use it a little bit

That dude's dead. Oh, I was being overly impressed there. I gotta say, just, I'm kind of into it

I played a little bit of the new COD. What is it, Cold War

Who hit me there? Woo! Come on! Nice 17-inch display. It's not crazy high resolution

Keyboard surprised me a little bit as well. There we go. The most striking thing to me is the fact that it is so plain and smooth and light

I've seen so much of the opposite, which is a lot of branding and stickers and vents

particularly on gaming laptops, anything that is that they're telling you you're supposed to game

on it. This one on the other hand, you're full out stealth mode. You could be doing whatever you

want on here and it keeps up like a champ. This is even thinner and lighter than the 17 inch. I

think it comes in like 3.8 pounds for a 15 inch with a 2080 and a crazy spec sheet matching the

17 inch. Now you probably noticed a little bit of branding here. There's a partnership that

electronics has with dbrand if you did want a more custom look they can ship it to you with a

pre dbrand skin this is like a honeycomb pattern on this one i thought it was kind of funny because the laptop is so unbranded to begin with and then you slap a skin on it and now you have

your brand but either way it's up to you whatever suits your taste you can hook it up like that now

this one is also a different color so you have this kind of gun metal maybe you want to call it

space gray if you're familiar with the color on the macbooks and this kind of has a nice little

what would you say contrast with the black keyboard i'm not sure which one i'm partial to

but uh it's nice to have a couple of different options i'm gonna peel off all this wonderful

plastic here here we go and then this piece here now construction is the same it's cool to the touch

it's a magnesium alloy that's how they can get these things to be so light yet so powerful as

as ports are concerned i believe it's the same setup as well yes i believe these two are identical

other than the color and the scale so now the display is 1080p this is not a huge deal for

gamers but for me is a bit of an adjustment i do have some other higher resolution displays

on laptops of this scale however this one since it's targeted at gamers it's more important to

to have the high refresh rate, which this one does at 240 hertz. They're fun

Man, games can be fun too, though. Like, gaming is kind of fun

Dead. It gets the job done, as for certain, with a 2080

I'm not surprised. I'm playing a game with high settings, plenty of FPS

You can, of course, tweak it to get whatever it is that you're looking for. The fans do kick up, so keep that in mind

You're going to hear them. You get the idea. I don't know which one I would pick of the 15 or 17, to be honest

because I do like a really portable laptop. But this still is, even with the 17-inch size

Either way, I would say it's a pleasant surprise here to look at a product from a brand that I was previously unfamiliar with

and be this impressed. Often, we bring our expectations in when it's a brand that you've heard of

and then you're a little bit more curious when you haven't. However, the fit and finish here, the materials, the magnesium, the thinness, and so forth, it's pretty impressive

So there you have it. It's the Electronics Max 17. Meet the game changer, why don't you

It comes in a 15-inch size as well. Covert gamer, which makes sense

Again, the lack of branding. I think it's going to be a popular choice for people who like to keep it minimal

you could just pop this into some games play high performance and then the rest of the time

get the business and the work done and no one even needs to know about it you're the covert gamer, that's you