all right ladies and gentlemen welcome to the W and everyone else too welcome
to the W show we are finally live um I
was helping Luke uh create is he what
the oh but I was helping Luke uh create
custom length Ethernet cables by um
basically looking at what he was doing going wow gee that looks too hard and
then going and getting some Ethernet cables I happened to buy a few months
ago that happened to be the length of the cables he was trying to make and
handing them to him so uh he should be wrapping that up pretty darn quickly and
then he'll be joining me here on the show we've got a great show for you guys today um going to be a lot of discussion
around Mobile World Congress obviously that was the big thing that happened
this week lots of you know you know news about the uh latest happenings in the
desktop computer world I need like a cricket sound effect
that I can play um so lot lots of stuff from the the biggest handset makers you
know your Samsung your LG your caterpillar um evidently that that's
that's a thing uh so we'll be talking a little bit more about that actually the caterpillar phone looks really
interesting I'm hoping to be able to get one for review um what else we got going
on Direct X12 explicit multi-GPU mode has been tested by PC World so we're
going to check that out um I don't know
I'm sure there was something else that's interesting Arrow Cool's DreamBox
chassis kit potentially a a more maker
friendly chassis than we've ever seen before and uh software piracy apparently
hurts Linux adoption a research uh study
find so uh more on that at
11
it's so funny I got a guy in the chat that's like sorry I'm late can you start
over like yeah I I wish that was a thing
that I could do all right so here we go we're starting
over welcome to the W show guys boom
let's roll the
intro oh boy all right so I think the
first topic today is gonna be uh let's
see what can I what can I handle without my my dynamic duo Ultimo sidekick here
I'm sure there's something you know what why don't we jump right into the Mobile
World Congress stuff if you have to go make Ethernet cables somewhere I think that's totally fine because basically
I'm going to be listing specs for the next 20 minutes um which I actually
won't and by the way the battery on your laptop's low Get Wrecked I love how Dell
says strike the F1 key to continue it's
like you have to be really sure they want you to to to not press not push not
even hit you got to strike you got to hit with Precision accuracy
intimidation I'm just stalling for time at this point all right so let's jump
into the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge unlike
last time it looks like we're going to be seeing an S7 and an S7 Edge that
aren't just complete equivalents of each other with one of them having a curved
screen so with the S6 and the S6 Edge they were they were actually kind of two
versions of both there was the um there was the the note which I sort of like a
Galaxy S6 larger and then there was The Edge Plus so this time around the S7 and
the S7 Edge are just totally different so the edge now is a larger phone so
it's actually got a 5 point I believe it's a 5.4 in display versus the 5.1 in
display of no excuse me 55 in display
compared to the 5.1 in display of the S7 Edge they're both running qu Quad HD
Super AMOLED displays and very going to be very similar to their predecessors in
that regard um the camera is a big change on going from the S6 series to
the S7 Series so they're going down from
a 16 megapixel camera to a 12 megapixel
camera this time around they are doing the whole uh HTC UltraPixel thing except
that there's a power bar there it's full no no the other
one um so they're so they're actually
reducing the pixel count in order to use larger pixels for better light capture
especially in low light conditions but hopefully um like apple they're doing it
right so they're doing it in a way that's not going to hurt the performance
of the camera in more normal shooting
scenarios something that many people complained about with the 1
M7 this is cool so we are getting back
the ip68 water and dust resistance so
they are saying that it's going to allow for submersion in up to 1 and 1/2 M of
water for 30 minutes at a time and we're getting some beefed up specs of course
so Snapdragon 820 exos processors in some regions of the world this is so
bizarre to me the way Samsung does this yes it's like this region this and that
region that these people want to process this way but then again and you know
what's funny is they get away with it like you look at how much crap Apple
took just over using two different foundaries for the same damn chip design
meanwhile Samsung's like yeah we're just completely different processor don't
worry about it um at least that is done by regen though with the apple one it
was like a gamble what one do I get who knows complete poop mix so to speak um
some other big changes so we are getting back micro SD expansion Samsung either
heard their customers loud and clear or
this is nothing that they didn't know already and they intentionally withheld
that from the last generation to hope for there to be some reason some reason
for people to upgrade from the S6 to the S7 there's also 4 gigs of RAM this time
around um actually oh I don't know if the I know I think there were three S6
I'm I'm see it's all blurring together because it's like yay new phone spec
bump really premium looking devices this time around with like Glass and Metal
and all that kind of stuff so that's again huge step in the right direction
love that from Samsung cuz they do it really well when they decide to do it
um no removable battery but the capacity on the S7 looks pretty good it's got a
3,000 milliamp battery and that combined
with Android 6.0 Marshmallow with any power saving features we gain there
should be enough for you to get great battery life even if you use the always
on display features so Samsung is claiming that you lose only about a half
a percent of battery per hour in its tests by having the display on all the
time so that's just displaying uh so critical information I mean this is
something that I've seen before you've probably seen before uh things like
SmartWatches that use AMOLED displays we'll have an always on display so that
oh it's funny I'm holding see there you go you can whatever you can barely see
it whatever here against the purple background no I don't do it do it do it
there see you can oh um and I've seen sort of uh ambient
display modes on phones before like the Droid Turbo that had that proximity
sensor that you could just kind of wave at it whenever you wanted to see it honestly
that worked really well but this seems pretty good and it won't necessarily be
on all the time it does have a proximity sensor as well it just uses it for the
opposite purpose so it'll actually turn off those pixels that it's Illuminating
to tell you the time or notifications or whatever else and whenever it's in your
pocket or face down on a table or whatever else although if you're the kind of person who puts your phone face
down on a table feel bad feel bad about
that because there can be small like
micr fragments of actually surprisingly
hard minerals like I don't know if people know this but like sand is not
necessarily all made of sand Stone okay
there's all kinds of minerals and elements and deposits and junk in just
regular ordinary sand to the point where my iPhone 6s is scratched to crap just
from going in and out of my pocket from getting bits of dust and debris and sand
in my pocket because I didn't put a phantom glass protector on it I know I
even have one I have two I have a normal one and a privacy one and I was just
like you YOLO YOLO I'm going be back on
the 6s cuz I did so well with the Droid
Turbo which doesn't have a phantom glass protector for it so I never even had the
option and I'd like had it for over a year and I was like oh this thing's still doing really good I'm like getting
good at this like taking care of my phone thing with that said not all glass
or not all scratch resistant glass is made equal even from Gorilla Glass like
I swear with exactly the same treatment I
have encountered phones that scratch very easily that are using the same kind
of glass as ones that just seem to be completely bulletproof like that Droid
Turbo um and seem to be nearly impossible to scratch I think there's a
there's a binning process that goes on that Corning seems to not talk about
where there are different grades of even every type of Gorilla Glass and it might
be a little little touch of the old luck of the draw as to whether you get a good
one or one that is not as good uh we can
briefly go over the S7 Edge so larger display like I said 5 1 12 in the back
of the device now has a curve to it as well making it more comfortable to hold
um has a 3600 mamp hour battery and
other than that looks like pretty much the same darn thing so I'm doing way
fewer phone reviews this day these days there's a couple of reasons for it
number one is I just don't think they're that different from each other
anymore yeah and number two is that
um I I I was getting it was really wearing on me be because not all
reviewers do this but I actually switch to the phone outright that I am
reviewing I take my sim out of my normal phone and while these days because I use
Google authenticator for pretty much everything I do still need to carry
around my daily driver phone cuz switching over all that stuff is a real
bear um I I only use the other phone for
everything else and it has just been wearing on me to be switching phones all
the time like that so um I only plan to review one of uh the Galaxy S7 and the
S7 Edge
so I'm going to do a straw pull here guys I want you to let me know which one
you want to see here we
go straw pull man they make it easy
to do polls Boop there you go so I want to see
what you guys want to see I mean I want to know what you guys want to just okay
whatever I'm going to click results now um some more interesting phones so the
LG G5 seems to have kind of uh jumped out
in front of everyone else on the whole uh modular phone concept certainly not
to the same degree as someone really
guys the edge it's a 5 1/2 in device I can practically
write that review right now the phone's really nice it's really fast Samsung
continues to make improvements to touch wi uh but it's too big for my
hands I actually I'm personally a lot more interested in the S7 than I am in
the edge apparently very few of you are interested in it at all though this is
one of the lowest percentage voter turnouts I've ever seen we've got 4,700
people watching and like a thousand of you voted okay okay there we go that's a
little better, 1500 um looks like the S7 is making up
some CR here but uh wow you guys are with me on the whole phone's just not
really being that interesting anymore thing it looks like uh the G5 does look
legitimately interesting though so not modular to the same degree as something
like the phone blocks concept where the idea was you'd actually have like almost
like a bread board with like a screen in front of it and then you just have like
these modules that you can modularly plug in or take out and well even
claiming to be able to do things like a hot swap a battery module while the
phone is running that's not out yet that's something that's in a lab
somewhere that probably will see the light of day in the future um but for
now the G5 does offer some modularity so
the original article here uh this is posted by nin shadow on the Forum the
last one was Chris row 996 and our original article here is from Android
authorita
um so they've got basically most of the
phone is not modular so phone blocks was like yeah you could like put in a new
processor and RAM and storage and blah blah blah this one most of it is not
modular it is pretty much a phone uh they've still got the power button on
the back although thankfully for me I I prefer this they've moved the volume
rocker to the side of the phone then um
it's got I think it's a 2800 milliamp B
battery it's got some dude holding it up
here design and build quality oh yeah they're going for a much much uh more
like premium feeling design to it it's got this actually kind of reminds me of
um oh what was it Nexus S original Nexus
this actually looks like this rounded
business here it feels like kind of a dated design language but um yeah Nexus
uh s yeah the white one that I had yeah really reminds me of that with the with
like sort of the curved look to the bump um but I mean as long as it feels good
in the hand then I'm not going to give them I'm not going to give them too much
Flack over that um but there's a few unique features to this one that
actually make it really interesting to me so Snapdragon 820 adreno 530 4 gigs
of RAM don't worry none of that was unique yes it is 2,800 milliamp hours
for the battery I did just uh check on that no support for wireless charging oh
yeah the last thing that's a total bummer and a missed opportunity about
the S7 and the S7 Edge um micro micr USB
connector hey it's 2016 if it's not type c I don't want to
see it anymore get it I don't want to see anything else it's not a joke it's
just Dum um anyway so the G5 supports Quick Charge 3.0 but no wireless
charging it has a dual camera setup this is where we're starting to get into the
cool stuff so it has a normal that's funny my notes say normal Ang angle dang
it Colton so it just has a more standard
16 megap camera then this is cool it has
a wideangle 8 megapixel camera and the phone can actually Stitch inputs from
the two cameras into one image and it also allows you to switch between the
135° wide angle and the regular camera manually within the app with an instant
transition this is one of those it is so
difficult to get the best of both worlds unless you just put two cameras on it
problems and LG ran out and solved it by
putting two cameras on it because one of the things that I liked so much about
the S6 was the relatively wide angle lens particularly on the selfie camera
which made it so that you didn't have to have that you know that selfie look like
the you got the one ARM out and you're like trying to make your face Square to
the shot and trying to look natural but you can't get it out far enough to get a
decent picture well with a nice wide angle lens you don't have to you can be
very comfortable you can be very square and the phone can be very close to you so having the ability to take uh to take
sorry to take wider shots of close-up subjects or and this is the problem with
that or or to be able to get a reason reasonable Clarity on a shot of
something like you're you know you're at a hockey game or a basketball game or something and you know you're that
person because everyone does it when it's like oh this picture of this player
is special because I took it um
then you're actually able to do that in a way that you otherwise can't all right
aluminum unibody power button built into the rear fingerprint sensor fingerprint
sensors are a great thing especially when they're well implemented I am such
a huge fan of that I really wish it was better on the Z5 compact um it it's it's
a funny thing about this phone it was um it was something that I that I was not
able to really tackle properly in my review but that I can follow up with now
no matter how many times I re reset my fingerprint in the settings it works
great for a bit and then stops working great and while you could say well lus
it's obvious the answer is that you're a morphling and your fingerprints change
over time I really don't think that's it because the iPhone 6s that I reviewed
before that and I'm now using now after that review works like instantly just
fine anyway um so let's get into the modules so what they're allowing you to
to do is swap a it looks like a single module so
you have to kind of pick okay what's my specialty so they're allowing you to
remove the bottom cap of the phone and swap in these modules so you uh this
allows access to a replaceable battery or you could add something like a camera
grip which gives you manual control for
shutter and zoom as well as um as well
as an increase in the battery capacity so another 12 1200 milliamp hours so
that's brings it up to 4,000 milliamp hours if you have that grip on it
they've also got one called the LG high-fi plus so that's an audio module
from bang and Olson which features a 32bit as if that means anything uh DAC
as well as a dedicated 3 half mm headphone port and there are apparently
more modules to come I can't think of too many modules
that I would particularly want to add to a phone
so I guess I'd like to take this opportunity to hand off to you guys and
ask you what exactly would you add to a phone so let's let's let's do Twitter
Blitz here um I want to hear from you guys at linch on Twitter what module
would you like to see from LG let's go
ahead and put that right there PC building a fridge does it work come on
let's bring on those tweets bring on those tweets as many battery modules as
I can get who does an hourlong podcast
all by himself not this guy yeah and not
this guy yeah I love your timing we've actually yeah we've actually both done
that before we have both done that before yeah all right come on guys come
on that thing that I'm working on is pretty much as far as it can go until I
need to make large amounts of noise so okay cool yeah we could talk about that
actually here why don't we talk about a couple of the videos we've got coming I
mean YOLO right um let you do yours
first do it background so do it in the back or do it
in the background maybe both oh in the background so we talk about that one
twitch allow that yeah sure so basically essentially uh I live in a rented place
like a lot of people and when you live in a rented Place usually you know they
don't want you to drill like giant holes in the wall because that can suck um
sometimes you can get away with it by just not telling them but that's not really an option with my landlord so um
I'm instead of putting my networking on a wall I'm putting it on a board which I
can just lean against the wall because up until now all of my networking kit my
access point my router my modem my giant switch all of it was just in like a pile
and all the cables were just going everywhere and it was disgusting and
horrible and I hated it back to the pile so uh so instead I'm mounting it on a
board that's what I'm doing over there so when I was off screen I was like velcroing stuff down and routing cables
and doing stuff like that it's not perfect but I'm doing it
really fast so I bought $1,000 HDMI cable today
no i i people on Twitter are freaking out they're like M us to waste of money
I'm like I I know I know I know trust me I know you guys you guys who watch The W
show you guys are the inner circle okay so I'm not going to Tweet out I know
because if people have been watching people have been watching long enough to
follow on Twitter and they don't know that I'm aware of the issues that's kind
of czy with $1,000 HDMI cable then they
can just wait for the piece of content they don't get to be Inner Circle okay
so I know the point of the video is that
someone but remember that I'm not buying an HDMI cable to own an HDMI cable I am
buying an HDMI cable to make a piece of
content about a forementioned HDMI cable
and the issue with the high-end cable
industry is that you've either got the
people who I can't figure out why but they they they either buy into the snake
oil and because they get given the cables maybe I'm guessing or they buy
into the snake oil because they bought the cables they can't return them and
they can't admit that they got fleeced
and I think that's where a lot of this defending purchasing decisions yeah I
think that's where a lot of this these myths get perpetuated because the
only people willing the only people who have them to talk about them fall into
one of those two camps for the most part so everyone else all the other people
who know better are too smart to buy one
so what I'm doing here effectively is I am taking it for the team yeah I just
spent ,000 oh on an yeah that's so much worse
on an all silver we are talking silver
wires okay the premium of the premium
one meter cable and then I am
legitimately going to Benchmark it in a
way that should actually be meaningful oh yeah see that's the part you didn't
know I bet no because thought you're just going to rag on it yeah well I'm
going to do that too um that is unless it actually turns out to perform better
because in my Benchmark there is a chance in fact my Benchmark will give it
every Advantage because while watching a video
um or listening to audio over a forementioned HDMI cable
literally cannot at least on this Earth
be affected by the silver wires I believe that it is possible if
the design of their cable is truly Superior that I will be able to
overclock a monitor further with it oh
because monitor overclocking is dependent on the cleanliness of the
signal as well as the Headroom that's
left in the scaler of the monitor so my
intention is to take a high refresh rate
high resolution free sync monitor so
it's got a high powerered scaler in it and then using HDMI
1.4 I am going to over clock as high as
I can with the silver cable and overclock as high as I can with a $4
cable from mono price if it performs better in a
repeatable consistent fashion then the cable is superior but that won't change
anything about it won't make it worth ,000 it won't make it worth $1,000 in
any meaningful way because you could just get a DisplayPort cable yeah um
and you're not overclocking your home theater because all the content you're
watching on that runs at 24 to maximum
60 frames per second the chat brought up
um a point saying overclock your monitor but you just spent $1,000 on a cable so
why didn't you just buy the better monitor um that's not the point because
you can overclock better than the best monitor yeah huh yeah all right yeah to
which you could reply the point is just is the C does is the cable better in any
possible way at all yes and so we are going to we are going
to do our best to answer that question
that no one cared about because no one was going to buy that cable who watches
our videos definitively um so yeah I I
don't know it should be uh it should be cool I'm looking forward to it because that's the kind of stuff that's that's
really fun for me is that sounds fun is like taking the the the general wisdom
and actually testing it which I guarantee you I guarantee you almost
every single person who says expensive HDMI cables are a waste has has never
used one which doesn't mean that they're wrong it doesn't mean they're wrong okay
I'm I'm not going to it just means they
haven't used one they're taking what someone else said as the truth you're
not wrong with me I have not used one I have not used one yep so I'm going to
use one for the first time claims that's what the workshop's all about do you
want to try it too sure okay we'll both try it we'll try it together we'll have
like an we'll audition the cable you know we'll have like a listening party
check out how dancable it is ooh
ooh what if anyone's ever going to get that reference uh I oh I think so I
think that's pretty I think that's pretty famous okay the the dancable
cables yeah um expensive cables you
should oh oh no no Heavens no all right
so um let's uh let's jump into oh this
is great this is posted by good bites on the Forum I I swear I I think he would
actually curl up into a ball and die if someone else beat him to the punch on
some like positive Microsoft
news and this is some pretty positive Microsoft news the H the HP Elite X3 um
we we talked about the leaks last week but obviously there are more details is
announced and it is designed to be your Windows Phone laptop and desktop to
which my reply would be sorry good bites
and everyone else who who thinks this is relevant this is not relevant we're not
there yet it's running a Snapdragon 820 it is running 4 gigs of RAM it's got uh
hold on I'm going to have to it's being slow to switch between scenes four gigs
of RAM is not nearly enough well amount
of tabs that I run on casual desktop experience okay it's not nearly enough
for me no it's not nearly enough for you but it's also a phone I need like 32
gigs of RAM for my tabs bro me too sadly
enough I run out of the 16 gigs of RAM on my computer upstairs infected me I
used to be great I'd have like five tabs open at a time every of tabs is great
and then I used to laugh at you because you'd have way too many tabs open and
now I have like four Windows of the same browser and they're they all have too
many you want to hear the truth what you got busier yeah it's true and it's not
about being too busy to close a tab it's
about that you're legitimately working on every single thing that's open in a
tab and and and when you get that busy
you you start to you start to think about your time very differently the 3
seconds that it takes to type in a URL is not worth the organization of not
just having that tab open already and when you're really busy and you work on
the same tasks repeatedly you actually
you learn you remember where it is yeah tab number one is my is my work Gmail
tab number two is usually my second work Gmail for when I need to reply to
something tab number three is going to be my personal Gmail well no not my
personal my YouTube my YouTube like personal Gmail tab number four is this
tab number and and you actually and so it's like this chunk is usually like
something I was working on a while ago and that I need to get back to this chunk is what I'm working on right now
it's not that hard to find things it's faster than opening up a new tab I have
a whole window for Forum management which has like the tiered system that
you're just talking about y I have a whole window for uh like like emails and
like so like work email I have work email inbox and then I have work email
like working on whatever this is so like yeah yeah yeah social land like
whatever music is currently going on all that kind of stuff's in that window then
I have like working on video a and then working on video B yeah man yeah tab tab
life all those have stacked yeah tab life um ridiculous all right so back to
the elite X3 which crashes like four times a day well that's cuz it's Firefox
Chrome has its own issues though my Chrome at home is just brain explosion
like total brain explosion my Chrome on my laptop has another has an issue too
like whenever I VNC into our servers i
chrome it's the one computer it doesn't work perfectly on um
it's just ridiculous I remember the
whole idea behind Chrome remember the commercials apparently
you no I'm going to get back to that I have not forgotten it's sitting there
with the new notifications waiting for me to hit that the light yeah yeah it's
not y um okay so let's talk about the elite X3 though um the most powerful
Windows 10 mobile device you can get 4150 Milah battery that I like 5.96 in
AMOLED uh Quad HD display uh quad core
qualcom blah blah blah 64 gigs of storage expandable to two terabytes with
micro SD although if you're storing two terabytes of data on a micr SB card um
you need to re-evaluate your strategy that's a really terrible idea
think that could be to be terab but that
could be unimportant to put on a Micro SD card I could be wrong it's got a 16
megapixel uh rear camera 8 megapixel front camera Windows hello Iris and
fingerprint scanners that's pretty darn cool IP67 rating for DUS and waterproof
mil military standard 810 rating 1 M drop very nice Chi and PMA wireless
charging holy freaking crap bit lock ER encryption image
encryption yes and here's where we get into the really interesting stuff
because it has continum it allows you to either wired
Le or W oh yeah USB 3.0 type-c way to go
wired wired Le shut up wirly or wirelessly you're so
mean connect to a couple of accessories
that HP has so one is this doc that I
forget what it's called it has a stupid name HP really needs to learn from Apple
have a cool name pencil have a pretentious name because
For Better or For Worse it helps me remember it um that allow that gives you
a DisplayPort which by the way can be adapted to HDMI two full size powered
usb3 ports with Device charging capability One USB type-c connector and
a Kensington lock um and then there's actually a laptop that has no actual
system in it um it has a 12 and 1 12 in screen keyboard touchpad speakers
headphone jack Ethernet port two fullsize usb3 connectors One USB 3.0
type-c connector and a 48w hour battery that does not feature its own CPU the
phone actually transmits to the laptop wirelessly so you can keep it in your
pocket once it is connected to the laptop very very cool so hold on a
second lus that sounds awesome and it sounds like you're amped on this great
Point except the reason I'm not amped is
because it needs two more generations and this is not hp's fault this is
Intel's fault for not getting their head in the game on their mobile x86
processors tell me about this when it runs
x86 because the beauty of Windows is the
application compatibility the Achilles heel of Windows mobile is the
application compatibility I mean I was I was just I was browsing aimlessly on the
internet and I came across um an article that The Verge did on the apps that are
not only not developing for Windows mobile but pulling their apps and it was like
terrible it was like American Airlines like Pinterest like it was just like
devastating devastating apps that are discontinuing development or flat out
pulling their apps from the platform citing a lack of users as the reason for
it um so until you can tell me about
x86 Intel powered phones I'm really not
that interested but when you can wow am
I ever excited about this like as someone who carries around a
supremely op laptop um I also have recognized that
other than my Chrome hungry hungry hipping um I don't need that much power
when I'm out and about so something like this could be
fantastic if it has compatibility for all the stupid junk I needed to run and
is maybe a little bit more powerful and is maybe a little bit more powerful because give it to two more Generations
we're going to have 8 or 16 gigs of RAM in it um we're going to have a more
powerful CPU we're going to have everything that I can imagine today
wanting although my needs might change in the next year and year or two right
so it might get even worse uh Razer has confirmed they're sending over a blade
stealth um we're really late on that I actually looked back at my emails and
they were like let me get back to you tomorrow on availability it was like 5
weeks ago so today I was like I'm getting requests to review the blade
stealth like do other people have reviews up and there people with reviews that are like almost a month old at this
point I'm like Oh my yo are you guys sending one they're like oh oh yeah so
so they're sending it um I'm hoping to get my hands on their core as early as
possible and I'm going to cut yeah the uh the external GPU box so I'm going to
kind of dig a knife into their side and be like yeah you guys got me the blade
stealth super late so I really think I should be the first with the core oh
this is this is the kind of stuff that goes on goes on behind the scenes um I I
don't know how much they like me though to be perfectly honest like Razer like
that's the thing is like I'll I'll play those games but like ultimately when the
device arrives I'm just going to say whatever um like Razer razer's gotten
some pretty bad reviews here over the years um they've also gotten good ones
they've gotten good ones they've gotten really good ones do a better job get a
better review they also with that said they also at least you know like I don't
think they intentionally snubbed me on the blade stealth or like were laid on
the blade stealth I think it was probably just a thing they missed forgot it or whatever they have a pretty mature
attitude about it when we say something negative about their products like
that's something that a lot of um a lot of people I think worry about because we
have relationships with pretty much every company whose products we review
like there's people that we're going to have to talk to when we publish a really
negative review and say yep well we we didn't like it sorry that's that's the
reality of it we've done that we've got some pretty inflammatory stuff back
sometimes uh the mounting thing are we still talking about that which one is
that the cooler the cooler remember it was really hard
to install and we were like what the hell oh yeah the um who made that be
quiet yeah yeah yeah yeah so so stuff like that like yeah they they weren't
happy about that but actually it's not like they stopped supplying us with review samples and that's something that
I think viewers I hope viewers should recognize and understand is that even if
we say something negative and even if they don't like it the mature companies
the guys like a Corsair or a Razer are going to continue to deal with us
regardless which I think is better for them better for us and better for the
consumer because ultimately if the company tries to control what we say we
will make the decision to either buy the products ourselves if we think they
really need to be covered or we just won't work with them anymore and Astro
is a perfect example of that um I actually covered that in a video that I
don't believe is released yet oh um but they they straight up never replied to
an email from me um after I released a negative review of the A50 which quite
frankly is everything I said it was it's just plain not very good it was not as
good as any of the other wireless head headsets I tested it
against like I'm sorry I don't make the rules 420 and it's it's one of those
things where I think it comes down to the the pedigree of the company as well
like I like to bring up Corsair because they do a really good job of being big
boys about it when we don't like something um with Corsair we like yeah
we don't like it they're like okay what can we do better yeah that's a good
point or no we don't agree this is why uh because their pedigree is enthusiasts
they actually care if you look back at Astro and you know I'm not going to like
I'm not going to make disparaging remarks or anything like that but if you
just read their company history they are literally a branding firm that is
literally their Core Business that they did and I believe still do that they
just kind of went oh well we're really good at this I'm assuming making
assumption okay that it seems like what they did is they went oh we're really
good at just like taking something and building a brand around it so why don't
we do that with our own stuff and so do
I necessarily think that they approached it with the same level of enthusiasm and
Engineering um adeptness skill um knowledge that
someone else might my perception based on that the product was straight up not
as good as what Corsair and steel series both brought to the table is no so there
you go that's what I have to say about that I don't know how I got on that
topic wait I aimed let's jump into that Twitter Blitz
that I had uh that I had promised to do with you guys before so what would you
guys want to see a Good Vibration motor it's such a Good Vibration
motor um anyway PCI Express I can't say
I agree with that one what was this question uh what modules do you want to
see oh that would be I forgot the question but turnup you're
correct uh maybe an anten upgrade that's
an interesting thought although I don't think we're antenna limited the same way
we were when we had to pull up the little thing before we could make a call
more storage I could you know okay like if
you don't want MicroSD storage like if you want SSD storage then I could kind
of see that 3D scan a giant add-on
module yeah seems like you wouldn't be but you
could go okay I want more storage and battery or maybe not micro use full size
and you get like two of them oh no if it had like an SSD sorry SSD I know but
that would be huge no no not like 2 and a half in SSD like like like apple did
with the iPhone 6 where it's like you want a little compact SSD I could see
that um desktop grade GPU everything you
guys want is terrible I'm sorry better internet audio module an awesome camera
okay it doesn't really work that way it's just a module that kind of like slides into the bottom but um to Ali
here like when phone block when and if phone blocks becomes a thing
that's the kind of stuff that that'll do uh Yono jono wants the audio module a
physical keyboard Galaxy S7 uses micro USB
because of the gear VR yep that makes perfect sense thank you for pointing that out that doesn't mean I have to be
happy about it they could release a new um decent front-facing speakers okay
it's a little module that slides into the bottom so I don't know how well
that's going to work I love you guys but I think um maybe we should should have
shown a better picture of um the thing
that we were doing thank you for
that $1,000 HDMI you should better phone
all Linus videos all the time stylus module Windows in VM with Bluetooth
mouse and keyboard
h okay infrared two micro SD two more
micro SDs um hanging in there
Tony read the reviews off Amazon oh people everyone's talking okay so that
was one of our less successful Twitter Blitz Blitz is usually you guys have a
lot of like really really great suggestions but it probably would have
helped if I'd shown better someone in the chat said Ty C module a type- c
module uh doesn't the G5 use type- C
already let me check I'm not sure I missed that part
uh that's a lot of notes not in my notes
so I if it's already got a USB connector
and quite frankly if it supports wireless charging it's less the the
crappy durability of the micro b is less of an issue for me it could be kind of
cool though if the charger for the phone was
modular just in case you screw the charger up by like having it in your
pocket and having it torque or whatever if you be like oh well right yeah it's
like yeah I'm eating you know 60 bucks or whatever overpriced price tag they
want to put on at least I don't have to buy a whole new pH at least I don't have to buy a whole new one uh before we jump
into our next topic now's a perfect opportunity to talk about
freshbook people in the chat are saying it's type c okay it is Type C thank you
for that then I thought so but it wasn't in my notes so I couldn't double check
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successful is uh and it's it's it's kind of a funny thing because I there's got
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therefore he or she must overcharge by 2
and a half% in order to compensate for the credit card fee there's probably
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beautiful good job that's difficult not
for me for you that's difficult it's when my brain's working faster I'm not
having a fast brain day today when my brain's working faster I can handle it a
lot better hopefully you speed up before the uh on the shoot tonight yeah that's
going to be rough yeah all right so um
we've got a video coming on this you filmed this right uh the valve VR
performance test okay so the O op is not filled out here original article here is
from kit Guru um but valve released their VR performance test it's there at
that portal based uh demo that I got an
opportunity to do at CES um and the point of it is basically to determine if
you have the horses to run in VR with
the conclusion being that the odds are excellent that you indeed do not um
Luke's got a video coming out where he talks about this Benchmark as as well as
I think you're going to encourage people to create a database of yeah so you
should still watch the video but what it really kind of boils down to is that we
have a fantastic cinebench community on the Forum I think it's made by jumper
118 hopefully I remember that correctly
um and it's awesome there's over 500 submissions everyone submits their
cinebench codes I actually look at that every once in a while just to check
where things are sitting it's pretty cool and I want to create the same kind
of thing based around uh steam VR performance
test results to figure out how ready the
actual Enthusiast Community is because there's problems and I go over it in the
video y because as as interesting as the steam Hardware survey is I have a lot of
machines personally yeah a big part of the video talks about not gaming
machines yeah junk data that's in the hardware server which isn't necessarily
junk data for game developers that aren't developing for VR but how many
machines do you have that you actually intend to play VR games on probably one
or zero and I have like seven machines
in the hardware survey at least Y so
like yeah I don't know I mean with the number of test benches that I set up
I've got to have dozens in there to be perfectly honest yeah all right the
unthinkable has happened radon and
GeForce together in direct
X12 so this is the dx12 explicit
multi-GPU mode and the way that it
supposedly works is that it takes any
direct X12 compliant device and utilizes
its resources in the best way possible
um oh wow we need to go pretty soon um
in the best way possible for performance boost that is not Reliant in any way on
SLI or Crossfire and can indeed work
across mixed vendor multi-GPU setups so
PC World tested it out and uh this
feature is going to is still in beta by the way but it will make its debut in
ashes of the singularity which is launching next month and so Gordon M PC
World benchmarked with a resolution of 2560 x600 with the crazy presets uh two
GTX 980s with SLI a single gtx980 a
single Fury X and gtx980 plus
Fury X which will be the really interesting one got the results here so
the gtx980 plus Fury X actually
performed the best at 56.3 frames per
second with the 980 plus 980 SLI off
multi-GPU on outperforming 980 plus 980
SLI on now with that said this is just
like an FPS graph FPS average not like
yeah we need PC per yeah we need we need
Captain Shrout to to have a look at the frame times
tell us if there's stuttering or micro
stuttering or any kind of other anomaly
in in this data that is not evident
unless you're using a frame a capture device and uh and NVIDIA's Tool in order
to see yeah like something like this
where it's a technology there's a new technology yeah we we need a much deeper
dive to figure out what's actually going on and if
NVIDIA could just go okay balls to the
wall here we go we're going to use all the processing power of the gpus I
suspect they would but they've been really focused like all their messaging
about SLI since the launch of the 980 has been about smoothness butter smooth
consistency of the frame delivery not necessarily about the frame rate they
deliver good frame rates there's no doubt of that but that's not what
they're talking about and not what they're focused on when it comes to driver and Hardware development right
now so it's possible that that frame rate is not
meaningful it's also possible that this is like bananas and the coolest thing
ever sort of because there is one big
caveat and that is that the developer has to specifically implement this
feature oh and based on how many
developers even today are still not
working with NVIDIA and AMD on CrossFire or SLI support never let alone at launch
like at all um I don't have much hope
for this being like the way forward for gaming and building your system based
around the idea that whatever game
you're going to play has this enabled is crazy unless you only plan to play games
that are already out yeah so yeah uh
this was posted on the Forum by uh cloaked and the original article here is
from business insight Ider a 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has
appealed $3 million in parking tickets in the UK pretty cool so sure the
government's super stoked about this kid's robot yeah
so that's awesome so hiring a lawyer for a parking ticket appeal um is not only a
headache but can cost more than just paying the ticket which is one of the
things that they rely on it's it's way
less hassle to just pay the ticket than is to try and fight it um however with
the help of this robot created by Joshua Browder who is 19 years old all you have
to do is give the robot some information
and it asks you these questions and generates an appeal letter which you
then mail to the court without ever
requiring a lawyer to draft the letter that's awesome um it can also help with
delayed or cancelled flights or or uh on
P payment protection insurance claims and he's working to program US city laws
into the bot starting with New York uh
for everything I know right Browder doesn't think that robots will be
dealing in the US Supreme Court anytime soon but he says fewer lawyers will do
mundane tasks and people will save money on stupid little disputes which I
absolutely love not only that aw but it
learns oh that's cool yeah so the more people use the robot the more
intelligent it becomes so I guess anytime it fails at something I might
analyze why I'm not sure exactly how it learns but entrepreneurs are already
talking to Browder about implementing the bot into
cars so I'm not sure exactly why you
would need to be able to dispute your ticket directly from the uh while you I
guess people that want to deal with it immediately I guess so or maybe if
there's new cars where they don't just have to put a ticket on your dash where
they can like give your car the ticket
and then you can dispute it completely
automatically I don't know man I can't see you know I can't see impark being
that stoked on that um uh I don't care
if imp Park is stoked on anything though yeah me neither I hate those guys
they're so freaking annoying I've never even gotten a ticket from them and I
hate them uh this kind of sucked uh you were actually in the middle of working
on something that used um oh my God
Linux last week uh so this was posted by pandol on the Forum and the the mint
Linux um iso download was compromised so
if you installed mint off of that ISO it
actually had a back door in it um can you explain how the crap something like
that happens uh it wouldn't even actually be that hard if they had access
to the server where people are downloading the isos from and they just
replace the iso with one of theirs that has extra stuff on
it that's kind of all they need and I
mean even the most conscientious downloader who's checking the md5 check
sums I mean if they can just replace the md5 check sum on the download server
then you have no way of no way of checking um that the iso you downloaded
is actually compromised so I was using mint it doesn't actually matter I could
use a a huge array of other things but it's
just frustrating because I had to start
not quite from scratch but I had to redownload other things and reset up my
whatever and things sucked that video is not going to be coming for a while doc
swag posted this one on the Forum the original article here is from wccf Tech
dang it
Brandon uh okay hold on I think our stream
computer is running off of the UPS right
now uh what just happened no no no we're
not we do have power why doesn't that have power it's
pluged okay and that's not working anymore just take a
second okay cuz it's not on at all you know that it's it's not even glowing
slightly this looks kind of cool yeah it's like uh when show Noir Halloween
edition sorry we need a I kind of I kind of like it we should do like a really my
phone yeah I want to do like a spooky story thing we should do like a really serious WAN Show um I don't know where
your phone is anyway so PlayStation VR effectively
60% more powerful than an equally speced
PC apparently very very interesting the way
that they're achieving this is the usual
console Advantage so with the lower level access to the hardware um with the
fact that game developers can program for a specific set of Hardware so so all
those things that we're used to seeing but there is also some unexpected Secret
Sauce as well so let's go ahead and uh
and pull this up so this is so Sony's Richard Marx held a presentation during
the AR VR Vision Summit February 10th to
11th and the Pres presentation provided an overview of PlayStation VR and the basic
development process apparently thanks to
the fixed Hardware the latency is extremely low we're talking less than 18
milliseconds which doesn't sound that low to me there's some problems with
this it's got a 100 degree field of view I I do wonder if that's a typo in our
notes though that is possible
um super low latency of less than 18
milliseconds mind you if that's end to end if that's end to end that's pretty
damn impressive it's probably end to end okay um 100° field of view which
is yeah okay like that's that's not too
shabby I haven't tried Project Morpheus so um now the 60% more powerful than
same speec PC point was apparently reported by middleware providers not son
and has also been confirmed by a VR developer on Reddit Brandon I really
don't think that light is on
okay um who said psvr is extremely close
to being on par with Vive and the rift
with a GTX 970 based on the tests that
I've done wow so if your app runs at 90
HZ on a PS on a PC with a GTX 970 then
you should be very close to 60 on the PS4 and with the 120 HZ reproduction
applied it is glassy smooth so psvr only required about one
quar of the render Target size that Vive requires the PS4 has hardly any driver
overhead compared to Windows the draw calls on the PS4 are faster than with
directx11 on a PC I noticed that direct X12 is being conveniently ignored here
um there's also a 20% buffer for
classified techniques that further reduce the
render Target size so the Vive render Target is 457 million pixels per second
so that's 1512 X 1680 * 2 * 90 Herz
whereas the psvr is approximately a million 1920 x 1080 by 60 um minus
approximately 20% but we don't know what that 20% is yeah
um if I'mma just wait till they come out
yeah I mean to say that a 60 to 120 htz
upsampling or what what what what are they what are they
callu uh reproduction works
well we'll see yeah we'll see I mean
even for video playback I have found
that those kinds of you know clear motion uh Technologies are are are very
um they're great as long long as the motion is predictable and the processor
which by the way doesn't operate at 18 milliseconds as long as you give that
TV's processor a lot of time and as long as the motion is predictable can
actually be like wow I didn't know that
there weren't actually more frames in the original content like very
believable but something as unpredictable as a game an interactive
medium we'll see yeah I mean I want to try it that would be cool might sound a
little bit weird coming for me but that would be absolutely fantastic because
right now what VR needs mostly is just wided option so if a huge amount of
PlayStation players get behind it and then VR becomes a super normal thing
sick yeah great yeah that's awesome bring on Bring it on to the mainstream
I'll believe it more when I see it but
awesome the op here is Mr Troll and the
Gears of War Ultimate Edition PC gets
screenshots file sized and requirements
apparently the ideal specs are 16 gig
RAM with a 980 TI or an R9
390x to be fair though the minimum specs go down to a 650 TI and a 260x which is
exactly how PC games should be yeah they
should scale all the way down for people who don't have the horses and they
should scale all the way up for the people who are investing all this money
into a gaming experience that they want to have that games refuse to deliver
because of the console cuz the ideal specs are like a chunk above the
recommended specs yes which is sick
super down with that yeah so minimum is
650 TI with like an AMD fx6 core or a
core i5 at 2.7 GHz recommended is a
gtx970 um which is uh actually the highest percentage graphics card on the
steam Hardware server yeah yep so like sure so like I get it okay I'm stoked
cuz I've never played Gears of War I played one of them very possibly
the first one well I'm stoked I'm I'm going to
play it I haven't actually played a game in the last little while so I'm going to play that that's my that's my objective
um really interesting article this one was posted by Patrick 3027 on the Forum
original article here is from torrent freak software piracy hurts Linux
adoption research finds most of the
research sometimes it's research um into
piracy is focused on determining how it
hurts paid software options like Microsoft Office or like uh you know uh
Adobe um wow I can't remember why can't
I remember what Premiere I was trying to figure out for so long how this would
even be possible but now I totally get it yeah so the this this new research
suggests that software piracy has a detrimental effect on the adoption of
the Linux desktop operating systems and I would go as far as to say that a that
makes total sense oh yeah and B that you
could say the same thing about any free software and free software is is driven
by user base they benefit from whether it's ad supported or whether it's
donation supported the more people who use it the better and if people run out
and just pirate paid software then what they're effectively doing is they are
taking the wind out of the sales of
open-source or uh free- to use software
developers which is a really interesting new way to think about that so the way
that they tackled it was they looked at um actually the notes for this one are
not very good um but they looked at it on a regional basis so they went okay
this country has an estimated piracy rate of this they accounted for factors
such as the GDP of the country um and
local anti-piracy efforts and estimated
that the number of Linux users would increase by 50% if all piracy
disappeared I'm surprised it's that
low I think that a lot of people pirate simply because they can not because they
can't afford the software so I think that's why they're trying to factor in
things like the country's GDP and average income when I did I'll admit to
that it was completely because I couldn't afford the software right like
100% I there was was no way um there was
it was a mix for me when I did um like
there was there was definitely some I ease of use things I straight up can't
afford this and then there was other like you know what actually you know
what I did pay for Vista um I was going to say stuff like Windows
Vista where it's like yeah I'm going to use this for like a bit and I'm probably
going to go back to XP so um I've pired
to test things I I diday I did playay for Vista though yeah I liked Vista it
was fun CU you had a super op computer yes I did I don't want to get into that
conversation and that's the other thing too is I think that's where the piracy
because I can't afford it argument gets really inexcusable is like if you went
and spent a bunch of money on your computer and you can't afford $100 for a Windows license then
then I don't know how your computer budgeting worked um and all of
that um are we done do we need to go yeah I think that's pretty much it we
should probably uh should probably get CRA aacan thank you guys for tuning into
to the WAN Show we will see you guys again next week same bat Time same bat
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