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and steel Series so we're here in the Intel booth at Pax 2013 there is a ton
of stuff on display here gaming desktops
tablets all kinds of great stuff they're giving away over $40,000 worth of
processors throughout the show but behind me here I have the main gear
pulse 14 this is a bit of a unique
notebook because it takes what you would call a more traditional DIY approach
because obviously main Gear's roots are from sort of the custom desktop
background that they started up with and they've taken a lot of those principles
and applied them to this notebook right here so let's go through the general
specs it's got a quadcore 4702 processor
so that's about as good as you can get within a 35 wat TDP it's got a GTX
760m which from a Pure Performance standpoint it should give you about
double what you're going to get with a 66 6m so it's a huge generational
Improvement it still maintains a very
slim overall form factor doesn't compromise on iO so on the left hand
side here you got your power in you got your ventilation HDMI VGA aha yes still
hardwired gigabit Ethernet two super speed USB 3 ports then on the other side
you find another USB 2.0 port card reader headphone and microphone Jack the
screen runs at 1,600 by 900 although a little bird told me it might be
available in even higher resolutions moving forward the keyboard is a
chicklet type unfortunately not backlit but this is where things start to get
really interesting the pricing is extremely aggressive starting at 12249
and check this out on the back unfortunately the base model doesn't
include the sexy paint job for the back of the notebook so you can see that is a
premium automotive finish main gear figures their own shop is better than
most of the shops in the Jersey area and
it is dedicated to to painting not only your PC but also potentially the
accessories that you acquire with it so check this out here's a Logitech gaming
mouse that has also had the same finish applied to it now that DIY spirit is
back guys because the storage configuration of this notebook is extremely flexible in spite of its small
size so 14 in and very slim it can accept a 2 and 1/2 in drive so whether
it's an SSD or hard drive doesn't really seem to matter and two MSA ssds all at
the same time so you could actually run two ssds for boot and then throw a 2 and
1/2 in hard drive in there for storage giving you an extremely flexible little
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