here we are at the NC Windows 8 launch
party so you can watch NC on YouTube
join us on Facebook and Twitter and most importantly you can join us here at
Aberdine mall to meet the new Windows we got lots of cool Windows 8 demos and I'm
going to take you guys around for a tour of all the awesome boots that are here
on display and I've taken over yet another Booth
this is the Seagate Booth where they have all their products on display as
well as yes the swag is available to be taken these are like the most amazing
bouncy balls ever because they light up like this which is pretty awesome but
obviously seate isn't all about bouncy balls they also
make magnetized refrigerator Clips which
are the best thing ever keep your chips fresh keep your documents fresh whatever
it is you actually no C makes hard so let's have a look at what all they've
got here this is the Backup Plus this is an external backup drive that has a Plus
on it because it also backs up your social media
Pho files such as photos off of your
Facebook they've also got a number of other seate 3 and 1/2 in products here
including their what did I say three ah yes their slim Drive okay hold on hold
on hold on so we've got the Backup Plus 2 and 1/2 in form factor so these are
basically the same thing except bigger capacities smaller capacities however
this is still a 1 TB Drive in a very slim form factor if you don't want even
that thick though you can go all the way down to the Seagate 2 and 1/2 in slim
I'm going to do my classic iPhone four size comparison here this is an
extremely thin 2 and 1/2 in external drive it is also part of their glex
family which means you have a very flexible interface on the back this one
on here is USB 3 right now but you can swap it out to other ones should you see
fit that's the slim right there and then we've got a Backup Plus in another color
yay colors okay moving on to the desktop products this isn't quite a desktop
product but this is the momentus XT you've probably seen my tech tips video
about it on the ncixcom channel before it's a hybrid Drive uses SLC flash as a
cache and a 750 gig magnetic drive for
BV storage everything is done on the Fly and you will never even be aware that
anything's going on except that your system will be faster this is another
momentus XT this is a barracuda drive this is your standard Power of One
desktop drive that means one TB ladders
as well as one simple skew so instead of
confusing things by having a performance skew and a value skew and a mid-range
one seate just built a fast drive and then they sell it at one price with one
terab platters which means it's fast and efficient to everyone available in a
number of capacities including 1 tby 2 terab and 3 tbte and that my friends is
the Seagate Booth all right here I am at the Patriot booth Patriot you might know
has memory in a lot of different colors
see we got Christmas stealth and blue they also have U USB flash drives
which are available in a variety of different colors and speeds and form
factors and whatever you want but what you're probably not aware of is Patriots
branching out into keychains so this is
an all new project from p as know this is just swag this is just a bottle
opener keychain check this out this is the Gauntlet and The Gauntlet node so
the gauntlet basically just comes with a hard drive inside and The Gauntlet node
just doesn't come with a hard drive inside but you can put in whatever you want you can even put in an SSD if you
want and what this is is a wireless
repository for all of the data you might want to use on your tablet such as your
iPad so this Gauntlet right here actually has a 320 gig drive in it right
now and instead of running is it cuz I like oh is it cuz I
we'll be back technical difficulties and we're back there you go
we've got cars running now so we're going to go ahead and Skip to wherever
we want to go and of course we have all of the rights and approvals to display
cars on our video here but don't worry about it the point is if you're on a
long trip in the car you want to have enough videos to keep everyone
entertained you can actually run multiple tablets and devices off of The
Gauntlet at the same time so you know if you're a technologically inclined family
every kid in the back's got got their own iPhone anyway then you can have all
the entertainment everyone needs in one place and you could just plug it into
like your car charger and make sure that it stays charged no big deal doesn't
come with that accessory but you can find an adapter pretty easily so thank
you for checking out my overview of the Patriot booth and don't forget to stop
by and get a pen if you get a chance these are actually awesome
pens one thing I forgot to mention guys is it has support for Android iOS and
Kindle Fire and can stream to up to five devices simultaneously so I did say
multiple devices but I never said five one other Advantage it has over other
similar products is the fact that you can transfer data to and from it using
usb3 which is a lot faster because
especially in that example I gave before of like a road trip you're on the way
out the door for a road trip you really want to wait another like 15 20 minutes
for USB 2 transfer speeds I think not welcome to the linkis booth where
they have linkis products on display
I bet I surprised you there so they've got everything from their super high-end
ea4500 this is a dual band N900
concurrent N900 rather app enabled router so what that means is you can run
well apps on it you can also use Cisco Cloud connect in order to control your
router remotely now there's also some routers here that are lower-end app
enabled routers such as the ea2700 and then some more basic stuff so
the EA 2500 is more like a last generation EA 2700 that does not have
have Cisco Cloud connect but it is otherwise quite similar and then we've
also got some lower-end stuff sois uh link this by Cisco has some value
oriented products including even their E900 for only 49 bucks you can tell that
it should be cheaper because it's smaller than an
ea4500 right something to note about the
ea4500 actually is we were shooting an episode of NC Tech tips not that long
ago and on a 2 megabit up 25 megabit
down connection we had multiple Torrens running we had FTP downloads going
someone was streaming on xsplit uh we had Netflix running and we had a Skype
call going and this thing barely even felt it compared to one of the other
routers that we were using that did not perform nearly as well so it's about
more than just how many gigabit ports and how many Wireless and antennas it
has in it the processing inside the software the firmware all actually makes
a difference don't forget linis also has other products like their Wireless and
range extender their media entertainment Bridge so this means you can use
Wireless connectivity to bridge it back to your network and connect up to four
devices such as around your HDTV and finally well you need wireless adapters
if you're going to have a wireless
network welcome to the WD Booth where the number of the day
is four because there are six golf te's in
here funny right uh four because there
are four hard drives on display here okay so let's have a look at what we we
got my passports are now available in a wide variety of different colors there's
also the new Edge line which I actually don't see here at the booth but those
are really really cool so they're super wo and I'm knocking everything over
super slim external hard drives that are very very very slim and you don't
actually lose any performance so that's kind of awesome but the big deal right
now for WD is their line of routers so
now they have wireless networking they have a whole line of routers from the
minet N600 to the 750 to the 900 to the
N900 Central so the only difference between the N900 and the central is that
the central has fewer gigabit ports fewer USB ports but it does have a hard
drive built inside it so it can operate like a time capsule for example the N900
also has a really cool feature called FastTrack Plus FasTrack plus analyzes
the kind of network traffic that you have on your network dynamically
automatically on the Fly and optimizes for the things that it deems to be most
important such as your Netflix stream your Skype call or your games and then
de prioritizes things like torrent downloads or whatever else other people
are doing on your network so it does all of that without actually any user input
whatsoever very cool stuff welcome to the AIO Booth where
they have like the coolest glowing sign
oh it doesn't actually glow it's a trick
there's an LED strip under it okay well I thought that I thought that I was
going to be able to like wave this thing around be okay no no it's okay they have
cool products at their booth and that makes up for my disappointment about the
glowing sign so check this out if you've been watching my unboxings for a while
you've probably already seen all this stuff well some of it because this is
their super D duper tricolor illuminated keyboard this thing's freaking awesome
because you can change the colors just like that and it has nice big letters
and numbers which is great for my mom so she actually has the one that I unboxed
she loves it because she can find all the keys in the dark which is what
illuminated keys are all about we've also got a Mech 5 so if you guys don't
remember what's cool about the mech 5 there's a good number of things so number one is the fact that it has all
mechanical Keys unlike some of their mechanical keyboard sort of gaming
keyboard competitors it has a detachable number pad and comes with an optional
accessory cable that allows you to even plug it into this side yeah I
forget that there it is plug it into this side you can plug it into this side
or you can just plug a USB cable into it and run it completely separately if you
want still mechanical key switches and
I'd love to get this off if I could Cherry MX black right there very solid
build quality you got your programmable Keys here you got more programmable Keys
here that can be slid around and positioned wherever you want you can
turn the Windows key on and off which is a good gaming keyboard feature and you
got your built-in volume control knob and all of that good stuff just
generally kind of an awesome keyboard it's also got optional rubberized top
key caps here see so you got like perfect grip on your arrow keys your WD
Keys AO also has some new products so while you might know their keyboards you
probably don't know about their mice the A2000 is coming soon and they also have
headsets that are coming very soon as well love the folding microphone on this
one because you won't look like a total doofus if you actually wear it out and
about like you would with a boom mic that folds up here so thank you for
checking out the AO booth and I'll see you at the next one welcome in the
Corsair Booth most of this you've probably seen before such as their
Vengeance k90 mechanical keyboard their HX series power supplies the h100 the
800d all of this is good stuff however I bet you haven't seen this before this is
the new 2013 edition of the h60 it comes
with an allnew Pump tubing water block
unit as well as one of Corsair's static
pressure optimized F so this is going to perform significantly better than the
older ag60 and as you can see way better
obviously than an Intel box cooler so that is part of their new line of liquid
coolers and we're going to go ahead and move right over here where we have more
Corsair stuff on demo in the NCI PC and
more gigahertz thank you more gigahertz thanks to the Crazy Russian in the NCC
3D Vision surround gaming setup are
there guys that I can shoot are they like bad guys oh that's a bad guy he's
right there there we go awesome so here we have the Corsair 500R we've also got
a GTX 690 running in this case off of an ax850 power supply Dominator Platinum
memory we've got their Corsair SP 2500
speakers which are pretty much as far as computer speakers go in a 2.1
configuration about as good as it gets these days we've got dual Corsair
Neutron GTX ssds in raid zero and a
Corsair h100 cooler running to top out this all Corsair sort of Awesome this
machine finally an M60 a k90 keyboard
and Corsair's allnew line of mouse pads
is finally something that we can demo as well here we are at the general Windows
8 Booth which is a Showcase of the wide
variety of different devices you can run Windows 8 on so everything from a custom
besta i1 PC which is a whoopsy uh Decked
Out gaming machine all the way down to something like a tx600 tablet this is a
super slim t running Windows RT and it
is butter butter smooth it has a Egra 3 processor as well as an just an
extremely thin form factor and an absolutely beautiful beautiful screen
gaming notebooks fully enabled by Windows 8 also moving right along over
here you've got updates from all the
various manufacturers so Ultra books from HP as well as ASUS also more gaming
notebooks such as the G7 5 have received the Windows 8 treatment so this is a
very very high-end stuff this is GTX 660m with 2 gigs of memory and
everything you've come to expect from isus g75 series including great
performance great Cooling and now with Windows 8 in case you guys were wondering what
size your TV has to be for me to be actually bigger on TV than I am in real
life the answer is 75 in so here on
display at the Windows 8 launch party we have Samsung 75 in 108
super slim bizel slim bzel slim bezel
with rose gold around the edges TV that
is just like crazy like look how big this thing is look me standing next to
it that's like kind of a DWF but like still it's
huge now HP doesn't have a ton of devices on display here at the show but
these are a couple cool things that come with all HP consumer Windows 8 machines
so this is their getting started with Windows 8 little tutorial set Center uh
these are all hosted online so as long as you have an internet connection
you'll be able to access it it shows you a whole bunch of neat stuff including
how to make navigating Windows 8 simpler for you an overview of the new features
how to use apps how to use the store this is the kind of thing that is very
useful for people who aren't familiar with the OS already and need a bit of a
a bit of a primer before they can really get into it and make efficient use of it
so we're going to go ahead and uh close this one down let me just go to the
charm menu yeah see apparently I need a
tutorial on how to use Windows 8 myself because I can't figure out how to close
this there we
go start menu oh yeah start button that would have done it thanks slick okay
another cool thing is their connected music powered by a Meridian things so
what this is is it's a Cloud Server that doesn't actually store your music your
photos and your videos what it does do is it more like index system so if
you've got a bunch of music on your desktop and you've got you know your DRM
license content or whatever that can be played wherever you want what it does is
it takes that and enables you to sort of
Link back to it and play it back on even iOS or Android devices with the enabled
apps that are available for those so it's cool because you don't have to buy
a bunch of multiple copies of things so what it is is it's kind of like a media
location aggregator software uh that's
all stored in the cloud without actually having any of that data stored on the
cloud so you don't have to pay for it of the storage very cool
stuff welcome to the Lenovo Booth where we have one of the coolest all-in-one
machines that I've seen in quite a while so all of the hardware for this guy is
housed in this tiny little aluminum enclosure here on the bottom it's just
absolutely beautifully crafted it uses a unibody structure you can see the base
screws on from here on the bottom it's got rubber feet so it's not going to go
anywhere it's just move this around to the back you can see uh where your power
is where your IO ports are and then here we've got another beautiful aluminum
piece right here that holds up the gigantic 27 inch oh yeah cooling check
that out more iio HDMI out HDMI in this is handy I like to see this because it
means you can repurpose it once the machine gets Obsolete and then a huge
fat copper heat sink inside just very
well constructed quite heavy full edgo Edge glass on the front and again this
is unibody aluminum all on the back here no seams here nothing like that so it's
actually assembled from the front now what's cool about this is you can use it
as a normal all-in-one here I am using my
touchscreen Windows 8 computer and I'm using my start menu and I'm multitasking
like a boss then you can go okay I want
to use this as like more like a tabletop machine now you can use it like that
very cool stuff so here we are at the Acer Booth
where there's some cool stuff we actually stole one of their cooler demos
that's the uh the 23in 10p point multi-touch IPS monitor up there with
the demo that I'm going to be doing in a couple minutes on the stage but there's
a couple other really cool things here as well so this is not a Windows RT
tablet I don't know if it's actually charged I think the charger got lost in
transit or something but don't worry about it this is a full Windows 8 tablet
it is extremely thin I'm going to do my classic iPhone 4 thickness comparison
here got all all your usual sort of suspects for Io you got your power your
micro SD your sim card your HDMI your USB headphone power all that good stuff
and a docking station which turns it into a full Windows 8 notebook
essentially with a USB port just in case you wanted to you know use something
like that so I think this is incredibly cool because unlike Windows RT devices
you are not limited to only installing applications from the Windows store now
the other that I think is incredibly cool it's the Aspire S7 again with the
uh with the iPhone 4 thickness comparison this is an extremely slim
extremely well-built little Ultra Book
actually I don't know if it's an Ultra Book cuz I don't know if it has the Intel branding on it but it's a very
slim notebook it has an aluminum top that has a very gorgeous finish on it
it's got the full set of I/O that you'd expect from a notebook including micro
HDMI USB 3 another USB 3 power button
as well as your headphone microphone Jack and micro SD
expansion and it is a touchscreen device
which basically just means it is totally
balling out given this tiny little form caor I me look how small this thing
is one more cool machine at the Acer booth that we missed in order to enable
Slimmer and Slimmer form factors they've had to get a little bit creative to the
point where it's like futuristic type ridiculous stuff so there's a button on
the top where a little motorized panel comes out fullsize HDMI two USB 3.0
ports and a Thunderbolt Port are all concealed by this button right
here that slides the ports in and out like that pretty cool
hey welcome to the MSI Booth where they have the usual complement of Windows 8
ready devices such as performance graphics cards less performance graphics
cards but still pretty freaking sweet and then even less performance graphics
cards as well as a bunch of cool motherboards including their big bang
z77 M Power which I think is freaking
awesome because they do a 24hour prime
95 burn in test under overclocked settings before shipping out any of
those boards they've also got a lot of value Thunderbolt options available this
particular one right here with a Thunderbolt Port is the
gd65 board I think hold on what is this
hold on I'm going to CL sorry guys this is the z77a gd45 Thunderbolt so this is
a very value oriented Thunderbolt option
and their gd65 board which has been around for a while as well as this is
sort of a weird form factor check this out this is the h61m e33 W8 this is
technically an matx board because of the height of it but this is probably the
smallest matx board I think I have ever
ever seen here we are at the Samsung booth
where they've actually got some of the most exciting stuff step we've seen at
the show uh number one here is their Series 5 touchscreen Ultrabook so this
guy is fully Windows 8 ready touchscreen
multi-touch all that good stuff all the zooming and whatever else that you could
possibly want to do I've already done an NC Tech tips about this one though so I'm not going to go into too much depth
the other really cool stuff I have here is the aeve S so this is kind of think
of it in terms of compared to an Android
phone this is kind of like a Galaxy S3 but running Windows 8 so there's not too
much in terms of customized Samsung software yet because it's not really
that finalized but in terms of the hardware this thing is absolutely beautiful so it has a faux brushed metal
backing on it it has an 8 megapixel camera on the back 2 megapixel camera on
the front the there we go the screen is
absolutely beautiful I don't know if you guys are going to be able to see this but the viewing angles on this thing are
ridiculous you can read it from like
yeah probably legitimately 178° we've seen a lot of devices rated for 178°
viewing angles I've very rarely seen one that is actually legitimately readable
from there um so that is just outstanding it's very responsive very
Snappy probably the one killer app on it right now like I said this isn't
finalized software yet is family story so it's kind of like um a private
Facebook if you have a Samsung device you can use that you get a gig of cloud
storage free of charge comes with your Samsung device very very cool stuff nice
big screen so I'll do haha I'm going to do my usual iPhone size comparison so
there's my iPhone 4 so it's quite a bit bigger again more like a Galaxy S3 sort
of form factor but not running Android running
Windows what happened and next we've got a really cool tablet from Samsung so
this guy's basically got all the same stuff as the smart PC Pro and you can
actually see there's some uh there's some pictures on the desktop here of
what will be the replacement for this guy hold on where'd it go and of course
I'm looking at the wrong thing here is this it yeah there we go so this one's
going to have like a whack load of USB port it's going to have uh hopefully we
can get that to rotate there I think we I think auto rotate is off right now
auto rotate is on there we go folks so we can scroll it's got like yeah whack
loaded USB ports it has a magnetic dock uh really really cool stuff so this one
right here actually was the reference design and was given out to thousands of
developers so pretty much anything that was developed for this kind of a platform was developed on this device it
has a core i5 processor which means this is not running Windows RT this is
running a full-fledged Windows 88 which means you can install
desktop applications you can do pretty much whatever you want on it that you'd
be able to do on a desktop except that it can be converted into a tablet using
the dot connector right here let's go back to
uh where was the stylus
at it's external the sty SL on the new
model okay on the new model it's slides in but this one it's external you can
actually use the stylus to use aha see that we've got our usual Suite of
Samsung applications which you can find right there so you got your S Note your
s camera your s player all that branding you're familiar with S Note is kind of
cool because there's a ton of different stuff you can do with it so we were
playing around with this a little bit before you can see you can actually turn
it on so you can use your hand to write on it which didn't work cuz I had the
hold on give me a sec here guys I'll figure
out what's going on here live demos right so we turned auto rotate off we
turn it back on we we close the app we open the app now it's working fine you
can switch to pan only mode now my finger does nothing but what's cool
about this is now I can actually write on this thing as if it's an actual
writing surface so I can say hello and
you know how normally just the screen will go nuts cuz your palm is all over
it and it's designed for it's designed for touch this just turns off that
capacitive layer and then now I can switch back I can write with my finger
or I can write with the pen and I have all the options in the world you can actually switch between different pen
tips so if you go for something like a felt tip it has I think it was something
stupid like a thousand okay let's go with a different one let's go with uh
this guy right here it has something like a thousand different uh levels of
pressure so you can draw something really fine like this or you can draw
something really dark like this and anything in between depending on how
hard you're pressing on the screen if we go to one of the other notes we were
playing around with this before while I was learning how to do the demo and uh
there's handwriting recognition which is in here some oh yeah you can hold on
give me a sec guys I'll find where the handwriting recognition is I nubbed out
on the uh the on the handwriting recognition so you just switch to this
mode right here and all you got to do is write something like slick is
lame and does not
wash wow I got almost it almost got it
it almost got it right up to the very end as so considering that I'm just
riding like super super messily and not really worrying too much about being
tidy about it that's pretty darn cool and then if you want you can also just
of course draw all over it and draw a little happy face there's a bunch of
other cool stuff you can do so you can actually add pictures you can take a
picture using the uh the camera built into the device you can kind of go yeah
okay there's a chair that chair is really important to my uh to my
presentation so I can go ahead and resize that down and uh reposition it go
yeah that chair is really important we're going to go ahead and scroll down this is
this is the chair there you go and you can also add
things like audio clips as well which is pretty darn cool so thank you for
checking out our little preview in the Samsung booth and we're going to move right along who says Windows 8 is not
great for gaming we've got an ASUS 144
HZ monitor here we're moving right along we've got another very premium ASUS
machine gaming machine mindu and it's running in an ITX form factor so this is
a pretty cool little be right here it's got a GTX 660 Ti direct cu2 it's got an
Intel Core i7 in there it's got like 8 gigs of RAM see this daughter board
that's sticking off the bottom of that z77 ITX motherboard that's the power
delivery so this thing is a very very capable little machine and in a tiny
tiny form factor yeah it's not actually this big it's it's only this big that's
just the outer housing also we've got the all new sensation so this is again a
Windows 8 machine touchcreen actually gorgeous panel on this it's
probably readable up to about here before the uh the uh the glass layers
start to obscure things a littleit that's outstanding this is an all-in-one
that has the bulk of the computer built into the bottom here so you got tons of
IO USB 3 Audio probably USB 2 could be
USB 3 USB 3 two USB 3s right there on
the other side check this out two USB 3s power EA dual Thunderbolt and SD as well
as a Kensington lock and a slot load optical drive okay so hold on a second
here here back this up four USB 3 ports
power EA and dual Thunderbolt what are you hooking up to
this thing anything apparently on the
back you've got HDMI in and HDMI out which is great because it means when
this computer's obsolete even though that won't be for a while you can
continue to use it as a beautiful glass touchscreen monitor so thumbs up for
that now I'm going to have my lovely assistant from ASUS demonstrate how it
folds wow now you can use it like this
as more of like a tabletop computer he's going to show me something
compelling no way all right bring it on Bring It
On yeah French Canadians don't know how to play hockey anyway
Francis oh
no now for ASUS on the system side we've got a couple cool notebooks here this
one an I3 comes in at a very attractive price point this is the
s56c and consider the following guys
very good screen considering the price okay chicklet keyboard aluminum panel
here solid construction extremely slim so you got your VGA your HDMI your gigb
Ethernet your super speed USB 3 two USB 2 ports look at that it's only about the
thickness of an optical drive and a screen so it doesn't get much Slimmer
than that it is an Ultrabook and it comes in it between $600 and $700 for
this particular configuration so you got 6 gigs of RAM obviously you got Windows
8 a 500 gig hard drive and 24 gigs of
SSD storage as a hybrid Drive giving you
that those quick response times so if you put it into sleep mode you'll see
that it'll actually wake up in only a couple seconds which is one of the
requirements from Intel for any Ultra Book give it a sec actually we might
have to press something oh now it's in sleep okay
there now we'll see how fast it wake there we go all right fast wake up from
sleep next we've got the x202 so this is a very similar ID where you've got the
aluminum panels here this however is a touchscreen notebook unlike the other
one so hold on a second oh oh oh wants
us to activate Windows we've only got a demo version of Windows on here right
now so you guys are going to have to forgive me but this is a touchscreen
model 4 gigs RAM 500 gig hard drive 8
Hour battery life and again very very very slim profile so what You' come to
expect from an ultra portable notebook so you got your SD reader your USB your
VGA on the side you got your HDMI super speed USB 3 this is a very popular
design these days and I love it because it allows you to get a fullsize gigabit
Ethernet port into a small device like this which I still think is important
more USB 2 and a Kensington log and then this one right here is kind of the star
of the show this is the tf600 so as is
typical for an ASUS transformer branded product it is available as a standalone
tablet so in this case we can where is
it yeah there we go
we can disengage it from the base station just like this and it is all of
a sudden a super slim Windows RT tablet
then in order to get more battery life a touchpad and a keyboard all you got to
do is stick it into a dock the dock also gives you a USB port as well as a what
the heck is that okay just a sec guys yeah I derped there that's the uh
that's the dock power connector so that you can actually charge the base and so
that you can charge the entire device once it's plugged in together because obviously you won't have access to that
one once they are connected together so on the tablet itself you got your power
button you've got your micro H micro
HDMI you've got your aha here we go uh
your rock volume rocker as well as where's the micro SD slot it's around
here somewhere HDMI is it in there oh yeah there you go
so there's your micro micro uh micro SD
so Windows RT what's great about this it's powered by Tigra 3 it's super light
so it's a quad core processor it's got a super IPS Plus panel which basically is
kind of like the TF700 where it's probably the most readable tablet out
there I mean obviously other than ASUS's own competing IPS plus tablets when
you're Outdoors when there's a lot of ambient light around you so all you got
to do is switch it into IPS plus mode in order to get access to that if you're
not familiar already with Windows RT it's basically like Windows 8 with the
only disadvantage being so you can turn volume up and down
but the only disadvantage being that you can't install desktop applications that
said it comes with Office 2013
pre-loaded so you can actually use this as a fullscale productivity device
unlike what we've seen in the past with Android and iOS devices where you've
actually got a proper computer once you connect it to the doc including being
able to work on spreadsheets Word documents and even PowerPoint presentations and it comes with one note
as as well and of course the Crazy Russian
wouldn't be a crazy Russian if he didn't build a crazy gaming setup like this so
this is three 55 in Samsung TVs running
off of a tiny mini ITX computer in the back that's sitting in a b strategy
we'll make our way over there we' got a play seat with a Logitech G27 racing
wheel on it as well as a pretty sweet uh
speaker setup let's go around to the other side over
here so for like racing games this kind
of surround setup is just redonkulous
there's the computer that powers the whole thing so you can use either a
modern NVIDIA card or the last couple generations of AMD cards to run a
surround gaming setup like this very very very cool stuff now we're at the
Xbox Booth with Clinton from Microsoft who thank you who's going to show us is
Surface tablet running XBox smart glass with an Xbox bear in mind this is all
running off of his phone you guys so
it's like 3G and 3G and tethered and
just terrible networking experience so don't judge it too much based on the
responsiveness here okay go for it all righty so right now we're just at a
blank sort of Xbox Live starting station
now from here we can actually launch any apps that are available here so for
instance I'll play this on my Xbox this
MSN app here so now it's going to bring up on the TV
directly from the smart
glass again guys don't judge the speed
right so from here instead of using your full controller we can then just go from
the smart glass and flick around I find smaller flicks for
individual boxes and then bigger swipes for
should be able to see that just move back a bit oh you
jumped there we go very cool stuff click
on a video and now it's going to play that
video now you were explaining that with some content you can actually take it
with you on the go and continue to play it on your tablet if you have to go to
the can or something absolutely we have a small button down here
there's small button down here when that lights up you're able to take the content playing on your screen bring it
onto this screen and then continue on maybe going to the kitchen to grab some
snack or answer the door and piay the pizza all right want to show us the game
yes yeah so this is exciting here so what what happens here is if we go into
switch with go Xbox guide oh you want to see that too so we
got we'll go into the guide okay yeah we're going to play a
game
so now with some games and some content like videos and stuff like that what
will happen is the actual producers of the content will allow you to have extra
content so for instance we got Forza here they've created extra content
for the smart
glass okay give us a second we'll show you that in a minute all right so now
we're in the race here on this main screen what the smart glass allows us to
do is have secondary content on here so there's GPS you guys we can see he's a
terrible driver look at this guy he's all over the road I'd never take a ride
from a Microsoft guy don't drink a drive yeah very cool
stuff though so thanks for checking out our Xbox Connect Booth here at the show
and moving right along welcome to the Windows 8 launch
party here at aine mall where I am
experiencing wow that's some pretty good parkour we got going on here where I'm
experiencing the NC PC Booth which is created by the one and only crazy
Russian itself crazy Russian tell us about this
computer so this is our first out of the
gate AMD FX New Generation based machine
the best fxn one the whole concept behind it was to jam as much performance
and value into one actively priced package so this thing comes with an 84
processor 7870 graphics card which you can see is pretty comfortable running
triple HD IP setup in one of the latest
games nevertheless as well and uh this is
a one of the machines I'm actually pretty proud of because never before
could you get an 84 performance together with a performance class Graphics some
is actually capable of running an I feel to setup for a price point like this
because I mean the three monitors like 400 bucks X is in right so the whole
setup is like 1.5k never before but ENT to the X
that's what we do so I've temporarily taken over the
Kingston Booth where they have on display any huge variety number of
Kingston products that they have they actually used to have one of their
hyperx USB drives but I kind of took it cuz I needed it for a demo that thing
writes at over 100 mbes per second in USB 3 mode they've also got their latest
ssds on display from their hyperx as well as their C now line uh they've got
their hyperx memory as well as their more normal memory this is hyperx as
well but this is red they now have red hyperx memory which is something that we
haven't seen before from Kingston also featured at the Kingston Booth is the
legendary Rex himself so who knows maybe if you were to stop by you would have a
chance to get a Rex yeah you got a few of them down there so don't for yeah you
know what this reminds me of a face what do you guys think he's kind of
got the nose for it welcome to the antec booth where we are
very focused on their new line of products and antech mobile product so
I've actually already done unboxings and overviews of their S1 speaker so this is
sort of like uh sort of like a jam boox by Jawbone except it doesn't disport
disport distort in high volume so uh personally I prefer it in a very big way
compared to the jam boox we've also got their wireless headphone guy right here
so this is a battery powered uh it's a
little wireless receiver here so you can kind of clip this to your ARM or
wherever you want to clip it you can run your headphones up here it uses
Bluetooth to get uh music data off of something like an MP3 player or whatever
else you've also got built-in controls so there's your pairing button your
forward and back buttons as well as uh volume control on this side so that's
pretty cool as well and then just sort of your low cost but also feature Rich
headphones so these are these inear these inear headphones actually come
with three little tips here which is pretty standard and then they've got a tanglefree cord which means that if you
take them and like put them in your pocket like I usually do with my
headphones in fact I probably have no I don't have my headphones in my pocket
then you'll be able to easily untangle them which hopefully I can do aha yes
without any hassle and finally we've got
a couple of mobile batteries so these are awesome because you can use them to
charge your phone or run any other USB powered devices and you just charge them
up take them with you I actually keep one in my bag I know slick keeps one in
his bag and then this guy right here is wow really four ports and is capable of
charging High current devices such as an iPad so you can actually see one in
action right over
here so it's powered so it's very convenient compared to having wall warts
that all of your devices run off of I mean how many times you run into that
where your bedside table has one Outlet next to it and you got like your iPad
one and then you got like your Galaxy one and then there's no room for
anything else now you can just use the USB cables you got up to two amps of
charging power off of each one and then it just runs off of a single cord and of
course they've got some ITX enclosures which are cool and everything as well as
a gig I haven't even seen this before are you guys serious no it's just for
decoration oh this is just for decoration okay that's good Taiwan I
packed that stream from taiwwan from HQ
all right well there's a one-of-a-kind ante desk fan here as well but don't
worry that's not something that anyone's going to be asking you to buy anytime
soon so thank you for checking out the antech bo with the featured Showcase of
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