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as well as hyperx so I've got my lovely Vanna White
here who thought he was going to hide throughout the video but of course I'm
not going to not going to let him get away with that showing off the gt80
Titan SLI
-009 this has been all over the internet
as the world's first maybe for a reason
gaming notebook with a builtin Cherry MX
mechanical keyboard so MSI has uh has
was quick to pull out the keycap puller and show off that these are not just any
mechanical key switches these are genuine cherrymx key switches they also
pointed out that they went to Great Lengths to find exactly the right red
LEDs these are not just the standard provided ones for red LED illuminated
switches so that the keyboard itself is extremely vibrant even in a bright
situation like the suite that we're standing in right next to a window right
now now some compromises have to be made
if you're going to make a gaming notebook with a full thickness
mechanical keyboard so number one is that you're not going to want to Stack
any components under the section of the notebook where the mechanical keyboard
is here can you turn it to the side so they can see the profile there we go so
this thickness right here is pure keyboard along the side all the
components for the notebook itself including the optical drive the quad
core CPU and two gtx980m graphics cards have to be in
this position right here now the other compromise you have to make is that you
don't end up with much of a wrist rest then in this scenario and I talked to
MSI about this and they kind of went well you know ho hum you know
engineering is hard and all that kind of stuff and I and they made some very good
points so I kind of said well I'd love to have the keyboard here and they kind
of went well then you're going to have heat from the components on your wrist
then you're not necessarily going to get that exact profile that people are used
to with mechanical keyboard because the way that they're shipping this is with a wrist rest so it's designed to be used
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
hold on a second it's a 1080p screen and this is an 18 whatever 18.4 in screen so
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
kind of went well okay I still think it's huge and it's still not necessarily
made for me and they went well hold on but wait line is there's more we throw
in a backpack that actually fits this monstrosity so people can use it and
with their new upgrade program that they introduced last Friday this is I'm not
going to say world's worst worst excuse me world's first upgradable notebook
because there have been notebooks that have been upgradeable before but this is
the first one I'm aware of where there is actually a plan for an upgrade path
so their upgrade program promises that for two product Generations on gpus MSI
will have available new mxm modules and
new cooling modules that you can install to move to the next two generations of
high-end graphics cards in here which I think is a very unique and B pretty
freaking cool they also made it easily accessible to get at most of the other
upgrades you might want to do so it's two screws to pull off this panel U I
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
the optical drive you can get at all four of the m.2 M SATA SS D so you can
run quad raid you can get at the 2 and 1/2 in hard drive you can get at two of
the four memory slots the other two are at the bottom and I guess that's pretty
much all you would really want to get at Wireless module is that accessible from
the bottom yes okay well there you go so you can get at the wireless module from
the bottom so the idea sorry I'll let you I'll let you stop being actually can
you turn around and we can look at the back um so the idea here is that someone
paying what was it $3,600 for a gaming notebook is probably
going to want to get more than one typical notebook life cycle out of it so
they wanted to make it highly upgradeable in terms of IO you're going
to have that massive this power brick is hilarious what is this a 300 watt power
brick 350 350 watt power brick all right and it uses a four pin connector here at
the back so you've got Ethernet dual mini DisplayPort and HDMI back here on
this side you got a couple usb3 super speed and then over on this side you've
got three more usb3 Super Speed Optical out Kensington lock SD card reader and a
couple audio jack now the last thing that I haven't talked about yet is the
unique shape of the touchpad thank you
very much you're being an excellent Vana so in order to make room for the
mechanical keyboard here uh they didn't have a whole lot of space for an
additional touchpad and while I looked at this initially and I kind of went
yeah you guys you guys done goofed because the screen is shaped this way
and the touchpad is shaped this way it's actually surprisingly not bad I found
that using it one-handed with my thumb on the click and my finger on the rest
of the touchpad was actually not a bad use case scenario for it and another
really cool thing is there's actually a numlock button up in the corner that you can press that brings up a I mean
there's no tactile feel other than a frankly fairly delayed haptic feedback
but it does at least give you a touchpad or a number pad if you so desire so um
as usual the keyboard is in conjunction with steel Series so I'm assuming it
supports steel series engine okay so it's only red backlighting so you won't
be doing like fancy Rainbow Lighting like on this uh GT series right here but
you will be able to fully reprogram all the keys just like you would be able to
on a normal MSI gaming notebook very cool stuff so that's the gt80 Titan SLI
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