I'm going to be working from places with power anyway and the fact that you can actually fold this up and then this is just a normal, fairly thick but also fairly normal 15-inch laptop that will fit in my very normal-sized 15-inch laptop bag I think that all of those things don't really matter. It's just more about the fact that you can do all of those tasks that you want to do, maybe at home but do them everywhere. It was only really the fan noise that properly got on my nerves as well. It does a respectable job of cooling, but it was not only loud but it was just pretty wishy-washy with a tone that could be heard through headphones which was really really annoying.

You can adjust the fans with different preset profiles, but as both the CPU and GPU were hitting the high 80s during a game of Apex, we are very clearly near the limit of hardware power in such a well-proportioned case. The Neo does have very practical IO though, as well. We do quite a knowing loss Thunderbolt for USB C 3.1 Gen 1, but you get a full-size Ethernet jack on all models, an SD card reader, full-size HDMI 2, mini display ports, and then three USB ports. Quite a strong mix with a couple of holes, but the power jack is actually located on the rear of the laptop which is something I really love as it means that any cable mess is much more practical when you're using a mouse.

As you're not hitting the power cord when it's located on the right-hand side, touchpad navigation also works a treat thanks to the precision tracking. The keyboard is definitely a bit of a sticking point for me though, even after what is it two and a half three months I still can't quite get used to it. The Neo 15 uses optical mechanical switches under every key for snappy reaction times when gaming and to their credit, I do find that this machine really is great for gaming. The extra travel does have the benefit of stopping the keys getting especially hot when you're playing those extended gaming sessions.

But the problem for me though is that for everything else, it's just a little bit weird. Now I don't make that many mistakes on this keyboard so it's quite nice to type on, I guess, but then again in terms of feel, I wouldn't say it really feels that nice to type on. It's sort of mushy but not mushy; it's not a bad keyboard but it's not really a good keyboard either. It's just if you really is too strange and odd.

The only actual problem and the real sticking point I'll make that joke again, but I've had with this is that for some reason, the space bar for me does seem to stick every now and then, and I'm not sure whether it's just the design of it or whether there is actually like a slight problem with my unit. It's very hard to say. I will say that if I paid for this and if I was not going to return it anyway, probably would have actually got them to send a new one out just in case to see if it did but it is a little bit odd on the whole.

Then I have to be honest and say that to me, this feels almost as good as the Razor Blade Advanced. Don't have the 240 Hertz display, Windows Hello, or Thunderbolt support but you pretty much get the same performance and better customization with a two-year warranty as standard rather than one. And then full-size Ethernet and an SD card reader are pretty useful stuff right? But you want to know the real kicker of this price; it's far, far cheaper than the Blade stupidly 7 facts, and thus it's actually really really easy to recommend.

I do wish that it was a little bit quieter in operation and I think if you do buy this, you will start to get a little bit annoyed. Obviously with my unit, that spacebar did work a hundred percent of the time not 98 percent of the time or whatever it is but actually looking at this purely from would I buy a perspective, it actually is surprisingly enticing all of the performance that I would need from my day-to-day laptop but then at a far cheaper price than the Razor Blade in some ways I guess it really is a bit of a no-brainer.

A massive thank you to you guys for actually watching this video; I'll leave links to this down in the description below if you've enjoyed it, please hit the like button; it really does help me out a lot and obviously let me know your thoughts on this. Would you buy this over a Razor Blade? Do you think that the Razor Tax is worth it for actual extra performance maybe build quality things like that or are you just paying for the name? I'd be really interested in hearing your thoughts on this one, motor thank you to the guys over at xMG for actually sending out this review sample. Do you guys; watching this video; and if so, what do you think of it? Let me know in the comments below!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enearlier this year I had the pleasure of reviewing the razor blade a gaming notebook that wasn't perfect that really did strike the right balance between powerful gaming smarts and then just a great or when portable laptop but what if I told you that there was actually arguably something a little bit better out there maybe this the xmg neo 15 a 15-inch portable gaming computer there's actually far far cheaper now interestingly unlike the blade the neo is an example of something that's not entirely developed in-house and it's essentially the laptop equivalent of a pre-built PC that you might get from a system builder and this means that it's made with a lot more off-the-shelf parts than you'd probably expect from something from maybe HP or Razer though xmg have taken a chassis and then added their own sandblasted finish and then a couple of extra lighting features so it's not entirely off the shelf and it's something that I do have a few mixed feelings about I mean this is definitely not the perfect laptop make no mistake about that but it has a lot of things going for it that I think really do stand now and that people really will be interested in customizability is probably the ace up its sleeve as you can use the configurator to actually get the exact specification that meets your needs no mucking about with specs that have some things you want and some that you don't there's a total of two m2 SSD and RAM slots so you can populate these as you desire there's actually a choice of three different graphics cards as well so you can tailor this gaming performance to be exactly what you're after there is only one option for CPU and screen unfortunately but ultimately it's an excellent thin bezel IPS 144 host display and then a six core Intel i7 97 58 processor so it's probably what you'd want to go for anyway and thus isn't really something to be concerned with a large chunk on the laptop actually remains fully upgradable as well and very easily excess of all with just a few screws on the underside of the chassis so if you want to buy this and then upgrade the RAM or storage later it is going to be very easy to do so the specification that I'm rocking here has the RT X 2017 max Q insides and honestly I really cannot commend this specification enough you see when paired with 144 Hertz display it just breezes through ultra gaming and sure the ray-tracing features are very much headline hitters but they're probably not really worth the FPS here unless you're playing something like Minecraft or just something far less intensive but it really is about as uncompromised as it gets right now off the laptop gaming the power to play any game in a fast smoother state than even an Xbox one X you can take with you anywhere and everywhere something that does worry me a little bit and is a complaint I never thought I would have to make about a machine but there we go is actually if you look on the underside of this laptop you'll see that the mesh cooling here likely for the SSDs and things like that or maybe just to get better airflow in general does mean that you can actually see a fair bit of the PCB and a few of the different components and my worry with this is that because it is so portable and because you are likely to take this with you out and about and go and edit and upload videos and somewhere like Starbucks let's say it's something that I think would worry me a lot that you're gonna see some sort of water damage here and this might be again a weird thing to say and a lot of people will think this is the most ridiculous complaint he's ever had about it about device but it's something that I have been a little bit scared of when taking this out and about that it is a little bit more exposed to the elements shall we say the battery life is also a little bit hit-and-miss as while it is perfectly capable of running extended stints away from a charger it's just not as well suited to this as the blade was and I think that you'd be quite lucky to get more than a few hours of work out of this but then again having said that for the type of laptop that it is which is more of a very portable computer that you can use for high-end gaming and high-end workflows I think actually this is suited me down to a tee as I'm going to be working from places with power anyway and the fact that you can actually fold this up and then this is just a normal you know fairly thick but also fairly normal 15-inch laptop that will fit in my very normal sized 15-inch laptop bag I think that all of those things don't really matter it's just more about the but you can do all of those tasks that you want to do maybe at home but do them everywhere it was only really the fan noise that properly got on my nerves as well it does do a respectable job of cooling it was not only loud but it was just pretty wishy with a tone that could be heard through headphones which was really really annoying you can adjust the fans with different preset profiles but as both the CPU and GPU were hitting the high 80s during a game of Apex we are very clearly near the limit of hardware power in such a well-proportioned case the Neo does have very practical IO though as well we do quite a knowingly lose Thunderbolt for USB C 3.1 Gen 1 you get a full size Ethernet jack on all models an SD card reader full size HDMI 2 mini display ports and then three USB ports so quite a strong mix with a couple of holes then but the power jack is actually located on the rear of the laptop which is something I really love as it means that any cable mess is much more practical when you're using a mouse as you're not hitting it when it's located on the right hand side touchpad navigation also works a treat thanks to the precision tracking the keyboard is definitely a bit of a quite literal sticking point for me though as even after what is it two and a half three months I still can't quite get used to it the neo 15 uses optical mechanical switches under every key for snappy reaction times when gaming and to their credit I do find that this machine really is great for gaming the extra travel even has the benefit of stopping the keys getting especially hot when you're playing those extended gaming sessions but the problem for me though is that for everything else it's just a little bit weird now I don't make that many mistakes on this keyboard so it's quite nice to type on I guess but then again in terms of feel I wouldn't say it really feels that nice to type on it's sort of mushy but not mushy it's not a bad keyboard but it's not really a good keyboard either it's just if really is too strange and odd the only actual problem and the real sticking point I'll make that joke again but I've had with this is that for some reason the space bar for me does seem to stick every now and then and I'm not sure whether this is just the design of it or whether there is actually like a slight problem with my unit it is very hard to say I will say that if I paid for this and if I was not going to return it anyway I probably would have actually got them to send a new one out just in case to see if it did but it is a little bit odd on the whole then I have to be honest and say that to me this feels almost as good as the razor blade advanced you don't have the 240 Hertz display windows hello or Thunderbolt support but you pretty much get the same performance and better customization with a two-year warranty as standard rather than one and then full size Ethernet and an SD card reader pretty useful stuff right but you want to know the real kicker of this price this is a far far cheaper than the blade stupidly 7 facts and thus it's actually really really easy to recommend I do wish that it was a little bit quieter in operation and I think if you do buy this you will start to get a little bit annoyed and obviously with my unit that that spacebar did work a hundred percent of the time not 98 percent of the time or whatever it is but actually looking at this purely from would I buy a perspective it actually is surprisingly enticing all of the performance that I would need from my day-to-day laptop but then at a far cheaper price than the razor blade in some ways I guess it really is a bit of a no-brainer a massive thank you to you guys for actually watching this video I'll leave links to this down in the description below if you've enjoyed it please hit the like button it really does help me out a lot and obviously let me know your thoughts on this would you buy this over a razor blades do you think that the razor tax is worth it for actual extra performance maybe build quality things like that or are you just paying for the name I'd be really interested hear your thoughts on this one motor thank you to the guys over at xmg for actually sending out this review sample do you guys for watching and I will see you in the nextearlier this year I had the pleasure of reviewing the razor blade a gaming notebook that wasn't perfect that really did strike the right balance between powerful gaming smarts and then just a great or when portable laptop but what if I told you that there was actually arguably something a little bit better out there maybe this the xmg neo 15 a 15-inch portable gaming computer there's actually far far cheaper now interestingly unlike the blade the neo is an example of something that's not entirely developed in-house and it's essentially the laptop equivalent of a pre-built PC that you might get from a system builder and this means that it's made with a lot more off-the-shelf parts than you'd probably expect from something from maybe HP or Razer though xmg have taken a chassis and then added their own sandblasted finish and then a couple of extra lighting features so it's not entirely off the shelf and it's something that I do have a few mixed feelings about I mean this is definitely not the perfect laptop make no mistake about that but it has a lot of things going for it that I think really do stand now and that people really will be interested in customizability is probably the ace up its sleeve as you can use the configurator to actually get the exact specification that meets your needs no mucking about with specs that have some things you want and some that you don't there's a total of two m2 SSD and RAM slots so you can populate these as you desire there's actually a choice of three different graphics cards as well so you can tailor this gaming performance to be exactly what you're after there is only one option for CPU and screen unfortunately but ultimately it's an excellent thin bezel IPS 144 host display and then a six core Intel i7 97 58 processor so it's probably what you'd want to go for anyway and thus isn't really something to be concerned with a large chunk on the laptop actually remains fully upgradable as well and very easily excess of all with just a few screws on the underside of the chassis so if you want to buy this and then upgrade the RAM or storage later it is going to be very easy to do so the specification that I'm rocking here has the RT X 2017 max Q insides and honestly I really cannot commend this specification enough you see when paired with 144 Hertz display it just breezes through ultra gaming and sure the ray-tracing features are very much headline hitters but they're probably not really worth the FPS here unless you're playing something like Minecraft or just something far less intensive but it really is about as uncompromised as it gets right now off the laptop gaming the power to play any game in a fast smoother state than even an Xbox one X you can take with you anywhere and everywhere something that does worry me a little bit and is a complaint I never thought I would have to make about a machine but there we go is actually if you look on the underside of this laptop you'll see that the mesh cooling here likely for the SSDs and things like that or maybe just to get better airflow in general does mean that you can actually see a fair bit of the PCB and a few of the different components and my worry with this is that because it is so portable and because you are likely to take this with you out and about and go and edit and upload videos and somewhere like Starbucks let's say it's something that I think would worry me a lot that you're gonna see some sort of water damage here and this might be again a weird thing to say and a lot of people will think this is the most ridiculous complaint he's ever had about it about device but it's something that I have been a little bit scared of when taking this out and about that it is a little bit more exposed to the elements shall we say the battery life is also a little bit hit-and-miss as while it is perfectly capable of running extended stints away from a charger it's just not as well suited to this as the blade was and I think that you'd be quite lucky to get more than a few hours of work out of this but then again having said that for the type of laptop that it is which is more of a very portable computer that you can use for high-end gaming and high-end workflows I think actually this is suited me down to a tee as I'm going to be working from places with power anyway and the fact that you can actually fold this up and then this is just a normal you know fairly thick but also fairly normal 15-inch laptop that will fit in my very normal sized 15-inch laptop bag I think that all of those things don't really matter it's just more about the but you can do all of those tasks that you want to do maybe at home but do them everywhere it was only really the fan noise that properly got on my nerves as well it does do a respectable job of cooling it was not only loud but it was just pretty wishy with a tone that could be heard through headphones which was really really annoying you can adjust the fans with different preset profiles but as both the CPU and GPU were hitting the high 80s during a game of Apex we are very clearly near the limit of hardware power in such a well-proportioned case the Neo does have very practical IO though as well we do quite a knowingly lose Thunderbolt for USB C 3.1 Gen 1 you get a full size Ethernet jack on all models an SD card reader full size HDMI 2 mini display ports and then three USB ports so quite a strong mix with a couple of holes then but the power jack is actually located on the rear of the laptop which is something I really love as it means that any cable mess is much more practical when you're using a mouse as you're not hitting it when it's located on the right hand side touchpad navigation also works a treat thanks to the precision tracking the keyboard is definitely a bit of a quite literal sticking point for me though as even after what is it two and a half three months I still can't quite get used to it the neo 15 uses optical mechanical switches under every key for snappy reaction times when gaming and to their credit I do find that this machine really is great for gaming the extra travel even has the benefit of stopping the keys getting especially hot when you're playing those extended gaming sessions but the problem for me though is that for everything else it's just a little bit weird now I don't make that many mistakes on this keyboard so it's quite nice to type on I guess but then again in terms of feel I wouldn't say it really feels that nice to type on it's sort of mushy but not mushy it's not a bad keyboard but it's not really a good keyboard either it's just if really is too strange and odd the only actual problem and the real sticking point I'll make that joke again but I've had with this is that for some reason the space bar for me does seem to stick every now and then and I'm not sure whether this is just the design of it or whether there is actually like a slight problem with my unit it is very hard to say I will say that if I paid for this and if I was not going to return it anyway I probably would have actually got them to send a new one out just in case to see if it did but it is a little bit odd on the whole then I have to be honest and say that to me this feels almost as good as the razor blade advanced you don't have the 240 Hertz display windows hello or Thunderbolt support but you pretty much get the same performance and better customization with a two-year warranty as standard rather than one and then full size Ethernet and an SD card reader pretty useful stuff right but you want to know the real kicker of this price this is a far far cheaper than the blade stupidly 7 facts and thus it's actually really really easy to recommend I do wish that it was a little bit quieter in operation and I think if you do buy this you will start to get a little bit annoyed and obviously with my unit that that spacebar did work a hundred percent of the time not 98 percent of the time or whatever it is but actually looking at this purely from would I buy a perspective it actually is surprisingly enticing all of the performance that I would need from my day-to-day laptop but then at a far cheaper price than the razor blade in some ways I guess it really is a bit of a no-brainer a massive thank you to you guys for actually watching this video I'll leave links to this down in the description below if you've enjoyed it please hit the like button it really does help me out a lot and obviously let me know your thoughts on this would you buy this over a razor blades do you think that the razor tax is worth it for actual extra performance maybe build quality things like that or are you just paying for the name I'd be really interested hear your thoughts on this one motor thank you to the guys over at xmg for actually sending out this review sample do you guys for watching and I will see you in the next\n"