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Digital Welcome to our best gaming notebooks of CES 2014 Adventure we're
kicking things off here at the Intel Booth where I've been given a challenge
or a quest or whatever you might want to call it either way I hope you guys will
join us for the adventure to find my personal favorite gaming notebooks here
at the show now there's no particular criteria it doesn't have to be the best
performance it doesn't have to be the thinnest or the lightest or a particular
color it's just the ones that really stood out to us as we journeyed Las
Vegas going into all the sweets and all over the show floor trying to find our
favorite gaming notebooks well this was unexpected it looks like we're going to
be one of the only ones able to bring you this news oh wait no this this is
one of MSI's workstation notebooks this is gaming systems best gaming
systems of CES ah yes this guy right
here I can't tell you guys the model I actually covered it as well in the video
of MSI Suite so you can go check that out for a few more details but the core
i7 quad core processor in here is paired with an undisclosed Graphics solution in
a completely unreal enclosure it is
phenomenally slim it feels faster than the gs7 in real world gaming and unlike
the gs70 about which I had one complaint and that was that it was dense it was
Heavy I mean the thing was made of metal so what were we going to expect this one
feels more like it's made of plastic but I know for a fact just from touching it
and looking at it it is definitely made of metal unfortunately I can't tell you
guys too much about this not even its name but it is definitely one of our
highlights of the show gaming notebooks just don't look like what they used to
look like anymore this is the orus X7 it is an extremely slim gaming notebook and
you might go okay well I've heard a lot of things called extremely slim gaming notebooks and usually they're just not
that powerful but this one is it has a core i7 quad core and it also has
GeForce GTX 765m Graphics not one but
two of them it has two graphics cards running in SLI to which you might reply
okay lonus well it probably runs really hot then the answer is no actually it
does not the keyboard does not get more than slightly warmed to the touch you're
not going to get sweaty hand syndrome or as I call it shs from using this
particular notebook and if you are curious about what the power of dual GTX
765m is like they've got a couple of demos running here one is Batman Arkham
Origins running at about normal settings and you can see that we're looking at
about 60 FPS average so since we have vsync on that actually only tells us
that we are able to run the game butter smooth at 60 FPS with only mild dips to
44 frames per second they also have it running a 4K gaming demo over in the
other corner so whether you are gaming on the display that's built in which is
a 1080p display not a TN panel just like
thumbs up or whether you want to plug in up to three external displays or one
high resolution one you will be pretty much good to go continuing our quest for
the hottest gaming notebooks here at CES we're in the ASUS Suite where we're
checking out the g750 JZ at features an upcoming NVIDIA
GeForce presumably GTX high-end graphics
card of some sort we can't even tell you what it is that's how new and exciting
it is as an Intel Core i7 quad core processor it features Thunderbolt
technology as well as four USB 3 ports but more importantly than any of that is
what's here in the back massive massive
heat sinks with dual fans for ventilation so no matter what you are
throwing at this sexy but a little bit
heavy which should give you some kind of clue as to what kind of powerful
Hardware is inside no matter what you throw at this sexy gaming Beast it will
stay cool and look good doing it now we're at the NVIDIA Booth we found
another awesome gaming notebook here at CES 2014 this is the Razer Blade 14 it's
actually one that we've looked at before but that doesn't really make it any less
exceptional you can see we're running Assassin's Creed 4 here this particular
notebook has a 14-in display it's got a gorgeous green LED back lit display it
has did I say display cuz I meant keyboard don't worry about it you guys I
got this i got this I'm pretty tired we're on like day three of the show here
it's in an extremely slim form factor and the most exceptional thing about it
has got to be the build quality in spite
of the core i7 quad core processor and GTX
765m uh graphics card in here it's got this super super slim beautiful aluminum
design that is as portable as it is
deadly so just cuz we've seen it before and just cuz it's not the newest thing
ever doesn't make it any less exceptional now I think it's somewhat
safe to say that if you're gamer particularly one who's been shopping for
a notebook in the last little while and you've been on the internet then you've
probably heard of the y500 series from Lenovo well this my friends is the Y 500
series evolved in pretty much every possible way that I can think of this is
the y50 this is a sort of a an example
unit it's going to be available in a variety of configurations all lenovo's
really said so far is that between this one and the 14-in model it's going to be
sort of starting at $9.99 but uh this is one very very
impressive notebook guys the first thing you might be thinking is well okay lonus
you're saying the y50 is better than the y500 that doesn't actually make much
sense no no it does because it's not about some kind of reduction in the
hardware spec it's about a reduction in the overall size this is one Sleek slim
beautiful gaming notebook it's actually it doesn't really look like a high
performance gaming notebook and while unfortunately we can't tell you exactly
what Gra graphics card is in this particular one suffice it to say there
will be some options coming in the future and there will be some more information and that will give you some
some great you know perspective on how impressive the feed is later on down the
line it also contains a quadcore Intel Core i7 processor it's got a red back
lit keyboard it's got a beautiful soft touch finish here on the uh on the
surface of the notebook but I kind of saved the best for last here a little
bit guys this display right here in addition to having great viewing angles
vibrant colors without looking oversaturated to be perfectly honest is
a 4K display now unfortunately they don't
all ship with 4K displays at $9.99 or anything like that but the fact that
it's even available as an option is unreal and to go along with you know
just just again to demonstrate that it's got the power to back it up we are
running two 4K videos this one's on the upcoming Dell 24in 4k monitor this one's
on the notebook itself and they are both running off the notebook right
now the end of our Quest is actually in the Intel Booth but it didn't really
have to be it's just that this particular demo with the alien Weare 18
is particularly impressive because it's one thing to have the Alienware 18 with
its quad core core i7 processor and dual GTX 780m running games on its own
display it is quite another to fire up a
60hz 4K display from pan Sonic and be
running Batman Arkham Origins in silky
smooth gorgeous detail so you guys can probably actually see that in spite of
Batman being dropping around and swinging around places it is running at
an incredibly smooth playable frame rate considering the fact that this is still
a portable machine while it might not have the same you know slim form factor
as some of the other ones we're looking at if it's raw horsepower you're after
well those options are still available as well thanks so much for checking out
our favorite gaming notebooks of CES 2014 guys like this video if you liked
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