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as well as hyperx so I've got my lovely Vanna White

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here who thought he was going to hide throughout the video but of course I'm

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not going to not going to let him get away with that showing off the gt80

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Titan SLI

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-009 this has been all over the internet

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as the world's first maybe for a reason

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gaming notebook with a builtin Cherry MX

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mechanical keyboard so MSI has uh has

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was quick to pull out the keycap puller and show off that these are not just any

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mechanical key switches these are genuine cherrymx key switches they also

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pointed out that they went to Great Lengths to find exactly the right red

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LEDs these are not just the standard provided ones for red LED illuminated

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switches so that the keyboard itself is extremely vibrant even in a bright

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situation like the suite that we're standing in right next to a window right

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now now some compromises have to be made

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if you're going to make a gaming notebook with a full thickness

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mechanical keyboard so number one is that you're not going to want to Stack

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any components under the section of the notebook where the mechanical keyboard

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is here can you turn it to the side so they can see the profile there we go so

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this thickness right here is pure keyboard along the side all the

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components for the notebook itself including the optical drive the quad

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core CPU and two gtx980m graphics cards have to be in

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this position right here now the other compromise you have to make is that you

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don't end up with much of a wrist rest then in this scenario and I talked to

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MSI about this and they kind of went well you know ho hum you know

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engineering is hard and all that kind of stuff and I and they made some very good

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points so I kind of said well I'd love to have the keyboard here and they kind

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of went well then you're going to have heat from the components on your wrist

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then you're not necessarily going to get that exact profile that people are used

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to with mechanical keyboard because the way that they're shipping this is with a wrist rest so it's designed to be used

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from here now I kind of went well then I'm a little bit far away from the screen and the response was okay well

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hold on a second it's a 1080p screen and this is an 18 whatever 18.4 in screen so

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you're going to want to sit a little bit further away from it anyway and I kind of went okay Touche on that again and I

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kind of went well okay I still think it's huge and it's still not necessarily

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made for me and they went well hold on but wait line is there's more we throw

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in a backpack that actually fits this monstrosity so people can use it and

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with their new upgrade program that they introduced last Friday this is I'm not

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going to say world's worst worst excuse me world's first upgradable notebook

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because there have been notebooks that have been upgradeable before but this is

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the first one I'm aware of where there is actually a plan for an upgrade path

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so their upgrade program promises that for two product Generations on gpus MSI

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will have available new mxm modules and

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new cooling modules that you can install to move to the next two generations of

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high-end graphics cards in here which I think is a very unique and B pretty

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freaking cool they also made it easily accessible to get at most of the other

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upgrades you might want to do so it's two screws to pull off this panel U I

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had them take them off before the video It Doesn't just slide off like that don't worry it's okay and you can get at

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the optical drive you can get at all four of the m.2 M SATA SS D so you can

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run quad raid you can get at the 2 and 1/2 in hard drive you can get at two of

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the four memory slots the other two are at the bottom and I guess that's pretty

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much all you would really want to get at Wireless module is that accessible from

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the bottom yes okay well there you go so you can get at the wireless module from

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the bottom so the idea sorry I'll let you I'll let you stop being actually can

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you turn around and we can look at the back um so the idea here is that someone

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paying what was it $3,600 for a gaming notebook is probably

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going to want to get more than one typical notebook life cycle out of it so

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they wanted to make it highly upgradeable in terms of IO you're going

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to have that massive this power brick is hilarious what is this a 300 watt power

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brick 350 350 watt power brick all right and it uses a four pin connector here at

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the back so you've got Ethernet dual mini DisplayPort and HDMI back here on

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this side you got a couple usb3 super speed and then over on this side you've

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got three more usb3 Super Speed Optical out Kensington lock SD card reader and a

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couple audio jack now the last thing that I haven't talked about yet is the

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unique shape of the touchpad thank you

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very much you're being an excellent Vana so in order to make room for the

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mechanical keyboard here uh they didn't have a whole lot of space for an

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additional touchpad and while I looked at this initially and I kind of went

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yeah you guys you guys done goofed because the screen is shaped this way

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and the touchpad is shaped this way it's actually surprisingly not bad I found

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that using it one-handed with my thumb on the click and my finger on the rest

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of the touchpad was actually not a bad use case scenario for it and another

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really cool thing is there's actually a numlock button up in the corner that you can press that brings up a I mean

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there's no tactile feel other than a frankly fairly delayed haptic feedback

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but it does at least give you a touchpad or a number pad if you so desire so um

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as usual the keyboard is in conjunction with steel Series so I'm assuming it

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supports steel series engine okay so it's only red backlighting so you won't

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be doing like fancy Rainbow Lighting like on this uh GT series right here but

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you will be able to fully reprogram all the keys just like you would be able to

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on a normal MSI gaming notebook very cool stuff so that's the gt80 Titan SLI

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pretty much impossible from my experience to get an air bubble in them

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