Best laptop of 2022

 this is corsair's first-ever gaming laptop and there's really nothing quite like this on the market so corsair is a company that's probably best known for their pc hardware they make cases 

1.2rem;">like power supplies keyboards mice but a few years back they picked up a streaming peripheral company called Elgato you might know them from making like capture cards and stream decksuh and this product here feels like a combination of their efforts this is the corsair voyager it's a premium thin and light full AMD laptop that's designed for gaming and for streaming now  by origin pc they are a company that customizes pcs and laptops they're also owned by corsair but for this laptop, they can tweak it to have like a faster CPU more ram more storage and they can even do a custom paint joblike this one if you want to so if you're interested in something a little bit over the topuh be sure to check them out so that's origin pc now for this review i'm gonna be focusing on the retail unit not like the upgraded version but the basic corsair versions so when i first heard that corsair was going to do something like this the first thing that came to mind was like this is hard like so many companies have tried recently to get into that gaming laptop space like Samsung comes to mind LG comes to mind they've tried and quite frankly, they've failed because it's difficult in the space it's competitive but right out of the box they're off to a good start because the build quality on this laptop is excellent it's on par with some of the best stuff out there this has a very untraditional hinge design like the hinge operates on arms that go on the outside of the device instead of the inside and in the past there have been many companies that have built something like this that have had terrible hinge issues so when i saw press photos of this thing like before they launched i was concerned haven't gotten it in this is a very solid hinge it feels sturdy it's one hand openable and it opens smoothly and it holds its angle or position really well it opens back maybe 150 m60 degrees I think they did this hinge really well also the paneling is quite good especially for a thin and light device like this like there's no flex on the keyboard deck like even in this grill area where a lot of devices, you can just tell when you press down on it it's not as sturdy as this is like rock solid the whole way across it is a very fingerprint-prone finish but that's just the nature of metal laptops with a black anodized finish now at the top of the keyboard deck, you're going to see this s key macro bar it's a series of capacitive touch buttons that you can customize extensively in the software so you can adjust the RGB the lighting you can make it run macros you can run double macros so if you're streaming and you want to change the look at your room if you've set it up you can hit the s3 button and it'll go to like said it's like a purple light for s5 but like you can adjust whatever you want and just return to do not just lighting but also audio or video settings like if you want to switch to a different camera angle or if you want to mute your mic because you're eating it can all be done with just a single button press it's very convenient for certain types of users, now it's not as good as a physical Elgato stream deck like if you have the full console with buttons with like different changing icons and everything that's going to be more useful than this but this is built into the system and it's a tilted display so you can easily see what's on the screen and also in the middle of this macro bar there's a display and you can have it show your battery percentage uh the time and there's also this cpu load monitor it's kind of neat i do wish that the wholething was a screen where you could like adjust the icons and stuff on the actual macro bar itself but it's just the middle that is a screen now the keyboard is a mechanical keyboard it uses the Cherry MX low profile switches and I don't know what they're doing differently in this implementation of it but it sounds and types differently from other cherry MX low-profile devices that i've used so the one that comes to mind is like one of the original uh companies that have done it was Alienware so they use the same kind of mechanical switch and this device has this this like ring when you type on it and every iteration i've seen of this keyboard in other laptops has had this ring it's not like the most annoying thing in the world but if you typen really fast that ring is there this device no ring it's like right it sounds like a regular keyboard but it is the same switch my guess is

they use some kind of like

padding or some kind of

material to dampen that sound

but it does feel different to type on

the corsair keyboard it doesn't feel as

snappy to me as the Alienware it still

has that clicky mechanical feel with a

distinct bump but it doesn't feel as

snappy of a keyboard as the alienware

iteration of it at least not to me

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one thing to note is that the function keys up

top like the smaller keys as well as the

arrow keys like both the side keys and

the up down are not mechanical switches

they're just regular membrane switches i

think they just you can tell they just

feel different uh than the regular keys

the trackpad's nice and big it's got a

nice glass surface but the click

mechanic isn't perfect to me it could be

a little bit tighter there's also a

fingerprint sensor at the top right and

because it's corsair you get full

control of the rgbs in their software

and get very bright and vibrant colors

on this keyboard now there is a very

interesting uh feature that is on this

device that has never existed on any

other gaming laptop before so when you

have a wireless accessory like wireless

mouse or headset or keyboards you

normally have these receivers these usb

receivers need to stick into the usb

port of your laptop it's about to get

these devices to work

this device has a built-in wireless

receiver four corsair accessories built

into the motherboard itself and so i

have a corsair mouse that is

is working yeah it's connected to this

device not through bluetooth but through

the wireless receiver but there is no

receiver plugged up to this device

because it's built in so

this slipstream technology is what

corsair is calling it is only compatible

with other corsair accessories that have

this slipstream tech and it allows you

to connect multiple peripherals to this

device without a single dongle there are

a couple things to keep in mind though

number one it again only works with

corsair devices so it kind of locks you

into that ecosystem if you want to

utilize it but secondly on that initial

setup all of these peripherals need to

be connected to the laptop at once and

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do not connect to this device properly

you're gonna have to supply your own

cables and i'll explain why in a second

because this

device the port selection on it is very

limited so there's three usbc ports one

sd slot but only one USB port and on a

gaming laptop of this caliber it is

really limiting to only have a single

usb a port because you just have

peripherals that you connect to a device

especially a streaming capable device

that are usb a including corsair's own

peripherals so if you're going to use

this i think you're gonna have to set up

dongles or get separate cables that will

connect up to the usbc ports okay so the

display this is a very nice display it's

16 by 10 aspect ratio it's a 16 inch qhd

panel it's fast it's bright it's got amd

freesync premium it's got great colors

but corsair is claiming that you can hit

up to 625 nits of brightness on this

panel but from my measurements i'm only

getting like 500 and change so i'm not

sure where that extra brightness is

supposed to be coming from but i can't

seem to hit it but 500 is still very

bright for a gaming laptop

now the webcam so at the top of this

display is a 1080p webcam with a sliding

privacy cover on it so you can close it

off when you want to but the image

quality is not good now there's software

built into this that allows you to tweak

the image you can adjust like color and

brightness and a few other settings but

no matter what i did the image was just

way worse than what i would expect it to

be now i normally don't go ham on

like the webcam of a gaming laptop right

i just normally skip over it but on this

device like this is a streaming capable

device

more than streaming capable it's like a

streaming

focused device it should be a good

webcam because even if most people use

an external the one that's built into

this streaming gaming laptop should look

better than most other gaming laptops

but it doesn't and i hope that it's

something they can fix with software or

some kind of firmware update in the

future okay now performance on this

device is perfect it's a amd 6900 hs

on this unit with the radeon 6800 mgpu

very strong performance solid frame

rates and games all the perks of amd

advantage shine here so smart shift uh

smart access memory smart access

graphics which is their mux switch it's

a solid performer the gpu that's in here

the 6800m is similar in performance to

like an rtx 3070 ti so in some cases

it's better in some cases it's worse but

it's in that region but i also tested

this system out when it comes to

streaming so the idea is that you're

playing a game but you're also capturing

that image and feeding it out onto a

stream and it handles it pretty well

considering it's a you know eight core

cpu and it's all done in one unit but it

pushes the system hard and the fans will

kick in quite audibly so if you're doing

a live stream and you're mic'd up you're

gonna need some kind of noise

suppression to deal with that fan noise

because you're like inches away from the

fans of this device that's just the

nature of streaming on a laptop the fan

noise is actually very low in the quiet

and balanced modes i think they've done

a good job tuning this device for light

to moderate use it's just that in

extreme fan mode for like the best

performance it's like any other gaming

laptop it's loud but not like crazy loud

or anything now inside you can see the

fans along with the vapor chamber and

you also have access to the wi-fi card

to ram sticks and storage it's all very

fast stuff the speakers are quite

average they're not great but the

battery is big it's 99.9-watt hours it's

a solid eight hours and a bit of light

use but that's with the screen at 250

nits and with all of the rgb turned off

if you want to have bright lights while

you're doing this stuff it's going to

significantly reduce your battery life

on this system okay I'm going to wrap up

this conversation on the topic of price

because when it comes to tech

the overall evaluation that I have on

our device heavily hinges on its price

and this device is extremely expensive

it starts at 2700 that's for the 6800 hs

a model with the 6800

m gpu

I mean it's a powerful system at the

base but it's just

shockingly expensive see the thing is in

In this day and age, there are

really good gaming laptops that offer

comparable performance for significantly

less like if you look at some of the

established players out there asus has

like the m16 it's like five six hundred

dollars cheaper than this they even have

devices that are like half the price of

this that is

very similar in performance okay

but all of those devices like the good

ones out there they don't have metal

builds they don't have the stream bar

they don't have the mechanical keyboard

they don't have that slipstream like the

wireless receiving thing that's built

into the device, there's so much stuff

that's unique to this system that nobody

else has and the thing I've said this

before in other videos if you have a

the truly unique product

technically you can charge whatever you

want whether or not people buy it as

something else but you can charge

whatever you want because no one else

has something like this but at 2 700

this sits on the shelf with the most

expensive gaming laptops like the razer

blades the alienware x15s like the

lenovo legion sevens like literally top

tier stuff the most expensive gaming

laptops you can think of this is in that

the price point does it sit alongside them

in terms of like overall product quality

I want to say yes but this is new like

this is the first laptop they've made

like I feel like to get to that

the point where you're charging that kind of

the money you got to earn it you got to have

years of kind of reputation of building

up this rapport that yeah you can make

good laptops with good support that

don't bust like all of that stuff

because you need that history to be able

to charge that kind of money at least

that's my take on it uh but one thing to

keep in mind this is the launch price it

could go on sale they could come with

cheaper configurations it's a really

good system and if you can get it for a

cheap enough price it's a great pickup

but until then it's a very expensive system

it does come with this cloth case though

and it's got a zipper it is a waterproof zipper I think it's like taped that alone is worth like 700 bucks right you