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Jul 12, 2025
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So we got a limited edition laptop. What a fancy unboxing experience. I can tell you that already
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This side of the box, limited edition. Here's the laptop. Actually, quite slender. The system is now
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engaged. Oh, out of ammo. It's actually a collaboration. It's another one of these
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studio-style laptops. It's for creators. This is a hot segment right now in the laptop category
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It's a collaboration between MSI and Hiroshi Fujiwara. If you don't know who he is, I mean, they call him the godfather of streetwear in Japan
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They say that he was responsible for bringing rap and hip-hop to Japan
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After a trip to New York, he was into music. It's a, I was on the Wikipedia page
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He's a Japanese musician, producer, and designer, born in 1964. This guy's done a lot
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What you're going to see in a moment here is that we have a very unique aesthetic
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which is exclusive and limited in this particular case. And it's also probably why this box is a little larger than usual
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I think we might have some special goodies on the inside. Now, as far as horsepower is concerned, since it is a creator laptop
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it's going to have to have some RTX stuff. It's also going to have the latest Intel chips inside
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Check his logo. How cool is that? It's like two lightning bolts
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What a fancy unboxing experience. I can tell you that already looking at this
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Look at the color, black, black, black, black. Quadruple black. 16 inch QHD plus, 165 hertz display
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Oh yeah, the display is also mini LED in here. It creates a very OLED-like experience
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Intel i7-11800H, 2.3 gigahertz. It's an RTX 3060, six gigs of video memory
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1TB SSD, 16GB of DDR4. It's also got, of course, Wi-Fi 6 and all the latest stuff that you're going to want
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This is an understated box, but you can kind of tell that something lurks beneath the Creator Z16
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And you can see on this side of the box, limited edition. So there's only a certain number of these units that are going to be available
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Nice. to pursue the ultimate aesthetics MSI meets Hiroshi Fujiwara godfather of streetwear
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I wasn't wrong. The Creator Z16 Hiroshi Fujiwara limited edition out of 3,000. Only a total of
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3,000 units. So here's the laptop. Actually quite slender. What have we been able to achieve over
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here? That is thin. Okay let's put it to the side just for a moment and see what else we have in a
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box. Ah, an exclusive sleeve. Handle up top and then entry from this side. This is like a soft
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almost microfiber-like feeling and it's padded so it's a little bit of protection there as well
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Here is your power extension cable. This is your power brick. Since we have RTX
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We have to have some decent power. We have 180 watts, fairly slender, 480 watts
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We have an MSI padded envelope. Oh, look at this. It comes with a wireless mouse part of the limited edition kit And look at that with your branding your limited edition logo Lastly we have a mouse mat
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again, with the branding limited edition. Okay, let's get to the main attraction here, the laptop
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The first thing I notice is just how thin it is. This is strikingly thin
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It has the logo on the top, but it's subtle here with just like a two-tone effect
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So it's not like overwhelming branding, which is cool. Blends in there
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MSI logo above that. It's tapered in the front as well for this really slim edge on the front side
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Trying to get an idea of how slim it is. Look at the power connector here. You've also got a USB-A port
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This is a Thunderbolt port. There's a headphone jack. And again, in order to determine how thin it is, this is a great demonstration
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The body starts to wrap around within the width of the headphone jack
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And then over on this side, another USB-A port, another Thunderbolt port, and a micro SD card reader
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Okay, let's crack it open. True Pixel QHD+, 100% DCI-P3. So this is another area of focus on these studio laptops
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is this idea of having an accurate display because of the type of work that they expect people to be doing on here
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whether it's inside of a photo editor, video editor, things like this
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We have a very wide screen looking trackpad fingerprint scanner over here and chiclet style keyboard
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Of course, indication of the GeForce RTX that's inside. For some reason, there's a SteelSeries logo
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Did they work together on the keyboard? Maybe. And look at that golden ratio 16 by 10 gives you a little bit more height, obviously, when compared to 16 by 9 and can be the choice for some users as far as productivity is concerned
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Some people prefer that. I myself also do like a 16 by 10 display
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Oh, look at that. Also, the hinge, this is something I recognize on a number of laptops
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Sometimes this doesn't come back as far as you would like. If you're working on the couch, you might want to have some sort of aggressive angle
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This will go all the way to completely flat. The system is now engaged
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It's been set up, which is, uh... That's the magic of television
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When's the last time anybody watched television? That's what YouTube is for. It's the magic of YouTube
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Look at this display and that funky background. Kirk must have set this up
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That is a nice looking display though, I gotta be honest. Now this system has RTX in it so we can of course play games
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Even though the system is targeted at the creative type with this understated design
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you're still gonna want to have that capability. And I kinda like it because actually it can do double duty
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You can take it in the executive mode, you can take it in the work mode, but you can
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also obviously do a little bit of gaming as well. I boot up a game to see what that's like let's just move around the laptop a little bit the reason
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for that steel series indicator little logo on there is because this keyboard has backlighting
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it customizable yeah MSI per key RGB keyboard and the current configuration is rainbow split but of course there others aqua roulette and so forth and you be looking at this right now with the lights off it very
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configurable on a per key basis if you want to lock certain keys on a static color you can do
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that some people might want to have keys that are specific to like in a game let's say or shortcuts
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in a productivity app that are highlighted in a different color when you're working
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in dimly lit light but you can also get those animations just for cool looks whoa
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what's that christmas disco it's got this like funky party aspect in the keyboard area
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underneath the hood but then it's also got the stealth look on the outside so it can really go
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either way. So it's a chiclet style. It's got a fairly slim travel but this is kind of the
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direction for thin and light laptops. I mean just look at how thin this thing is to begin with
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With the lid up it's even more impressive how thin it is. Now it says Dynaudio at the top so I presume we have some speakers in here
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Oh wow. I just found this audio configurator inside of the MSI settings. Check this out
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It has presets for music, movies, communication, gaming, so it can do some sort of surround sound
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emulation. There's also a feature in here for voices where you can kind of like enhance the
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frequency that voices would live in so there's some different audio settings now let's watch a
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little bit of video on this display too let me bring up some blue later real quick so it's going
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to be comparable to OLED with the mini LED tech so you can see how dark the blacks are capable of
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getting so the other thing with this true pixel display gives you a lot of control actually over
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the color temperature and brightness and of course also color representation you can choose
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between srgb adobe rgb dci p3 display p3 anti blue which is going to be like a low fatigue mode
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there's a productivity mode called office which this is a pretty cool color temperature but i
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kind of like it it goes more towards blue and then of course there's a complete custom setting
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where you can go in and distinguish whatever color space you want native rec 709 which is what we use
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which is what this video is probably in. Again, this is more into the productivity side of things
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where you would have features like this. Because if you were working in some sort of a creative application
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you might want control over elements like this. Play a game now. Rip a game
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Play a game. Ooh. Actually, I find the sound to be a little bit more invigorating in game here
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It's like a variety. Is this your profile? That's right. Demon Nord
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Like my skin? I just got that skin. The Ancient Gods won
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Oh, that's a dude? Whoa, we got dude. Good lord
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Whoa! Out of ammo? Out of fuel? oh there fuel he dead the big who dead or is he Oh he partially dead Part of his body is dead
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He's gotten faster. He lost his legs. Somehow he's more... He's tougher now
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Even though he's partial. Can I chainsaw big dude or no? No
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Only little dude. These dudes go forever? Yeah, I killed the big dude
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Big dude is dead. Alright. Yes, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, we can game
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That game is just... Why don't we learn a little bit more about this specific collaboration
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Oh, by the way, the fans are there ever so slightly now. Kind of makes sense
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A couple of frames were served up. So let's learn a little bit more about Hiroshi Fujiwara
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who was the collaborator on this particular design. He's got a tremendous fan base himself
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Been doing it for a little while. He's a Japanese musician, producer, and designer, born in 1964
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Fujiwara was born in Issei-mi. He moved to Tokyo at 18 and became a standout in the Harajuku street fashion scene
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During a trip to New York in the early 1980s, he was introduced to hip-hop
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Taking American records back to Tokyo, he became one of Japan's first hip-hop DJs
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and is credited with popularizing the genre in Japan. He subsequently went into music producing, specializing in remixes
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He is known as a godfather of Ura Harajuku fashion, or Yura Harajuku fashion
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and is a globally influential streetwear designer, including being the pioneer for Nike's HTM line and the Phenom line for Levi's
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He launched his first brand, Good Enough, in the late 1980s. Good Enough eventually gave way to new project, Fragment Design
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the brand which Fujiwara dedicates most of his time to as a creative
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In 2003, he appeared in the film Lost in Translation. As a musician, he has collaborated with many artists
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In 2003, he designed a guitar for Clapton, which was custom-made by Martin Guitars
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For some performances in Japan, after an initial run of eight, Martin built a total of 476 of these ornate black guitars
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Another Fujiwara Clapton guitar followed in 2006. In 2008, Fujiwara made a rare public appearance in the U.S
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and participated in the Imprint Culture Lab's Cult of Collaboration panel. So we're talking Japanese streetwear is what we're talking
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and we're talking about the godfather of Japanese streetwear or a godfather at least
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dating back to the 1980s, the late 1980s. And all these years later, we're talking 2021
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We're here with an MSI collaboration and a stealth laptop
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