The Most Unique Laptops You Can Buy...#Helpful Post

hey guys this is Austin we take a look

at normal-looking laptops all day long

but when Intel reached out and want to

sponsor a video on some slightly more

unique designs well it didn't take long

for me to say yes first up we have the

HP Pavilion x360 and this might look

like a normal laptop but in fact it's

going to be a full twin one you can tell

it's a two-in-one because well we can do

pretty much anything you want including

sending it all the way backward so it's

cool about this is that you can really

use it as sort of the best of both

worlds so we want to use it as a

standard looking laptop I can set it

here I've got my touch pad I've got my

keyboard I've got the touchscreen but we

also do have the additional modes of the

two and one allows so say you're on a

plane and you don't want to have a giant

15-inch laptop in your little tray table

well you can flip it around like this

and get tent mode to say watch some

Netflix or some super cool YouTube

videos and of course you're also going

to have the flexibility of just flipping

around like this if you want to like a

presentation or again watch some video

and of course there's going to be a wide

range of - ones available most of what

you're actually going to be smaller than

this pavilion so especially if some of

them that are in the 11 to 13 inch range

feel much better especially on the

tablet side but what you're getting here

is something that can do everything and

one of the most important parts with

this HP it does it without compromising

on performance inside you're going to be

getting an eighth generation Core i7

8550 you now with these new Intel chips

what you're getting is an upgrade from

dual core 2 quad core processors and

that is a big deal on something that's

going to be fairly thin and light

essentially what it means is you're

going to be getting the most performance

possible out of such a thin like form

factor and specifically with this

pavilion you're also going to be getting

the dedicated Radeon graphics you're

going to be getting Intel octane tech

there's really a lot to like with a form

factor like this especially considering

that is not even the weirdest laptop

they were going to take a look at in

fact it's downright practical normal not

even slightly weird if portability is

really what you're after though you

might want to take a look at this Villa

Lenovo yoga book very possibly the

smallest the legit laptop that I've ever

actually taken a look at now this isn't

actually a brand new product it

originally came out in 2016 and back

then I did do a video on the Android

version of this however I now have a

Windows version I've got to say this is

well it's unusual at first glance you're

getting a tiny 10.1 inch laptop but

because it's got that signature Lenovo

hinge you also are going to be getting a

full two-in-one the advantage here

really is in portability this is so thin

and so light this easy to just toss it

in a bag and forget about it

because it is going to be so small

actually makes a pretty decent little

tablet especially considering the

keyboard well a little bit different so

this is what Lenovo calls their halo

keyboard and as you might have imagined

this actually doesn't have any physical

press so essentially you can imagine it

as a giant touchpad so it feels like

typing on tablet and it's maybe not the

greatest experience but it does allow

some really cool functionality you can

use the include stylus with the

touchscreen like most other laptops but

what's interesting about this is if you

go to the keyboard and you press the

little pen button that's going to

disable all keyboard presses except for

what you're going to be getting from the

stylus essentially what this is going to

turn it into is something very similar

to a Wacom tablet you use this to nollie

navigate windows more importantly it's

going to be available and stuff like

OneNote to actually allow you to sketch

without sort of blocking the whole

screen while you do it look this isn't

going to be the most practical

two-in-one in the world not only is it

not going to be incredibly powerful it

is using an Intel Atom chip as opposed

to a core and on top of that the ports

are going to be pretty minimal it even

uses micro USB for charging and you only

get a micro HDMI out as well as a

headphone jack but especially

considering how much the prices come

down if you're looking for something

that's going to be just a little bit

different vehicle book definitely

qualifies next we have something that is

quite possibly one of the most unique

laptops that you'll ever find this is

the brand-new GPD pocket 2 as you can

see well doesn't get much smaller than

this with a 7-inch display yeah this is

going to be tiny

no there are definitely going to be

sacrifices with something like this the

keyboard in particular even though it's

actually going to be a lot better than

the original pocket it's still going to

be very small and the layout is going to

be a little bit unusual but again

consider lookup tiny this thing is it's

legitimately pocketable and this is

going to be a full Windows PC now inside

this guy you're going to find a full

Intel Core m3 processor no no it's not

going to be some crazy powerhouse but

what you're getting here is actually a

pretty surprising level performance and

something that's going to be so thin and

small you know it's not going to be a

full gaming PC but considering how tiny

it is so I should go to be more than

powerful enough for well pretty much

anything that I would ever do with it

except video editing I guess but I don't

think whoa dude we actually configurated

on this oh we should have thought about

that earlier this actually would totally

be able to video edit so it does only

have 4 gigs of RAM which is not going to

be a ton but with a full core processor

inside it actually might not be that

and when the cool things about it is in

addition to the nice aluminum design

you've got to stall it amount of ports

so you got to full-size USB a ports as

well as a USB see and a micro SD the GPD

pocket 2 is definitely not going to be

for everyone so this is really going to

be for someone who wants something

that's going to be super pocketable

legitimately actually pocketable but

it's still going to give you the full

Windows PC experience so if you want to

do a little bit of web browsing you need

some specific windows apps you just want

do a little bit of tiny gaming on the go

bunk it's actually not bad at all next

we've got the big guy the Microsoft

Surface book - then this takes a lot of

what made some of the other systems cool

and just adds the whole tablet aspects

there are a ton of different ways that

you can use the surface book and the

first is the most obvious of which is

going to be using it as a tablet so it's

not every day that you get to try a

15-inch core i7 powered tablet but wants

you to detach it from the keyboard dock

that's pretty much what you're getting

here this is going to house almost all

the internals of the laptop including

its own battery the core i7 8650 you the

memory the SSD pretty much the only

things you're going to be losing here

are going to be some of the ports

however as soon as you drop it onto the

dock you're going to be getting all of

that back and then some if I can line it

up correctly so once you drop it on not

only are you of course going to be

getting the keyboard the trackpad as

well as a fair few USB ports SD cards

that kind of stuff this is also going to

contain a much larger battery and a

dedicated NVIDIA GTX 1060 GPU a lot of

this is thanks to the hinge there's a

little bit of unusual design so as I

close it it almost looks like a vertebra

and one of the only real issues here is

that it actually does leave the laptop

slightly exposed to stuff like dust and

whatnot but it allows this whole form

factor to actually work and when you use

it as a laptop the fundamentals are

absolutely there you're getting a super

high-resolution 15 inch display with

Windows hello support the keyboards

backlit it feels great the touch pads

they're really you're not going to be

giving up anything besides a fair bit of

money when you pick up the surface book

there's also going to be a 30 inch

variety if you want something that's

going to be a little bit smaller but

who's really cool it's just how much

engineering has gone into making

something like this work no no it's not

going to be completely perfect again I

wish it would actually close just a

little bit more but if you've got a

price tag if you've got a budget if you

want to get something that's going to

give you a ton of power and a ton of

flexibility it's hard to go wrong with

the surface book too

what gets me excited is just

how many different designs there are out

there now don't get me wrong you might

want to use a standards laptop and that

might be best for you but as far as I'm

concerned the weirder the cooler the

more interesting the better