1 00:00:00,399 --> 00:00:07,040 welcome to Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is 2 00:00:04,640 --> 00:00:11,360 powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted 3 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:15,080 storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is 4 00:00:16,880 --> 00:00:22,600 linkis the quickfire is already cooler Master's most popular mechanical 5 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:26,679 keyboard but that doesn't mean they're going to stop changing things about it 6 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:30,199 and I don't mean changing things like randomly changing things that aren't 7 00:00:28,199 --> 00:00:34,280 necessarily good things I meaning changes that have been asked for so you 8 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:39,520 see this is an older version this has sort of CM Storm branding here it has CM 9 00:00:37,200 --> 00:00:42,840 Storm branding sort of over here on the right by the arrow keys it's got some CM 10 00:00:41,520 --> 00:00:47,600 Storm branding on the top of the keyboard the feedback from Gamers that 11 00:00:45,160 --> 00:00:51,160 Cooler Master received was look we like these premium mechanical keyboards 12 00:00:49,559 --> 00:00:56,120 they're awesome we love the quickfire but what we don't like is having branding all over it we want a cleaner 13 00:00:54,120 --> 00:01:02,519 look so they introduced sort of the newer revision which has a very very a 14 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:05,159 very very plain very clean look as well 15 00:01:02,519 --> 00:01:10,040 as just a small CM Storm logo up here at the top now this is an existing product 16 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:14,119 so this is this is nothing that new the quickfire stealth on the other hand 17 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:18,640 changes the quickfire making it again even cleaner so moving the writing to 18 00:01:16,799 --> 00:01:22,600 the side of the key like this does a couple of things number one is it makes 19 00:01:20,479 --> 00:01:26,600 the keyboard look extremely stealthy and very cool from the top and number two is 20 00:01:24,799 --> 00:01:30,720 it actually increases the durability of the keys themselves so even though 21 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:35,200 they're laser etched there is is still the the eventual chance that the writing 22 00:01:33,479 --> 00:01:38,799 can wear down or it can become less visible but because of the way that 23 00:01:37,159 --> 00:01:42,200 they've done this it is AB actually absolutely impossible so no matter how 24 00:01:40,479 --> 00:01:46,320 greasy or oily or Cheeto stained your fingers are you are not going to be able 25 00:01:44,240 --> 00:01:51,680 to affect the way the typing appears on the keyboard now this guy over here is 26 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:53,880 new this is basically a longer version 27 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:58,479 of the quickfire this is the XT which stands for extension or extended or 28 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:02,960 extreme tactile or whatever you want it to stand for basically this is full 104 29 00:02:00,960 --> 00:02:05,960 key layout so you get the number pad in addition to everything you already like 30 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:10,679 about the quickfire one thing that's missing from the quickfire is the cable 31 00:02:08,239 --> 00:02:15,760 routing here at the bottom so the reason for that is that they've actually 32 00:02:13,599 --> 00:02:20,120 decreased there you go they've decreased the profile of keyboard it is 28 millim 33 00:02:17,959 --> 00:02:24,560 at its thickest and 18 mm at its thinnest making it the thinnest 34 00:02:22,599 --> 00:02:28,319 mechanical keyboard using Cherry MX switches on the market they've also 35 00:02:26,519 --> 00:02:32,480 added and I believe oh shoot I think I missed something over here 36 00:02:30,920 --> 00:02:36,959 ah yes okay I missed something on both of these so they've added an 8X pulling 37 00:02:34,760 --> 00:02:41,959 rate option to both the stealth and the XT that makes it the fastest input 38 00:02:39,480 --> 00:02:45,480 available for a mechanical keyboard which is uh if you're looking for every 39 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:49,920 little Competitive Edge obviously a factor for you so right instead of the 40 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:53,640 cable routing on the bottom they've just gone with a full-size USB port although 41 00:02:52,280 --> 00:02:57,120 they are going to implement it a little bit differently I think on the final 42 00:02:55,840 --> 00:03:01,000 model where it'll be kind of coming out at an angle so it's a little bit easier 43 00:02:59,040 --> 00:03:04,400 to route while the four types of cherrymx 44 00:03:02,599 --> 00:03:09,040 switches that we're most familiar with are Blues Browns Reds and blacks there 45 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,239 are actually other kinds of switches from Cherry now some of the reasons that 46 00:03:11,120 --> 00:03:16,959 we haven't seen these as often is maybe they aren't as ideal so you know maybe 47 00:03:15,159 --> 00:03:20,200 people don't like them as much or maybe they're more expensive and companies 48 00:03:18,840 --> 00:03:25,200 haven't wanted to implement them now Cooler Master is taking almost every model they have and throwing a whole 49 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:29,439 bunch of different switch types had it because their idea is that look we're 50 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:32,959 not going to say okay you're a typist you want Blues you're a gamer you want 51 00:03:31,360 --> 00:03:40,360 Reds we're going to say you're a whoever you are and you want whatever you want and go for it so this is the trigger 52 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:42,519 green this is the first fully MX green 53 00:03:40,360 --> 00:03:48,319 keyboard that I have ever encountered and both slick and I are in perfect 54 00:03:44,640 --> 00:03:50,439 agreement that it is without a doubt 55 00:03:48,319 --> 00:03:55,239 pretty much as good as it gets it feels like a heavier blue so it has an 80 g 56 00:03:52,799 --> 00:03:59,159 spring in it and what that means is as you push down two things it eliminates a 57 00:03:57,720 --> 00:04:04,120 bit of the double tap issue that you have with Blues where the actuation point is actually a little bit before 58 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,040 the click so you don't have that that audible feedback for the actuation point 59 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:13,560 on a blue here they line up much more closely and it also gives you more well 60 00:04:11,079 --> 00:04:17,600 more resistance and more push back so it feels more like a buckling spring if 61 00:04:15,519 --> 00:04:22,440 you've ever used a model M this is as close as it gets with a Cherry MX key 62 00:04:19,799 --> 00:04:26,800 switch um without you having to sort of find an old model M on eBay or something 63 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:30,400 along those lines now it's got some of the customizability that we've seen with 64 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:34,080 other Cooler Master keyboards so you can change the mode of the keys you got 65 00:04:32,039 --> 00:04:37,560 breathing you've got a gaming mode that lights up your arrow keys you can adjust 66 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:41,240 the brightness you can turn the LEDs off out right but what I think is the 67 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:45,960 coolest feature about it is the fact that you can fully program any key so if 68 00:04:43,680 --> 00:04:49,320 you decide okay I want a Windows key over here I don't want a storm key you 69 00:04:47,479 --> 00:04:54,440 reprogram that to a Windows key it has a few macro profiles as well profile keys 70 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:58,240 and if you decide okay I want my delete key here then you can do that the only 71 00:04:56,720 --> 00:05:02,160 key on the keyboard that cannot be reprogrammed is the one right here I 72 00:05:00,520 --> 00:05:07,240 also really like the implementation of the wrist rest here I know that large 73 00:05:04,280 --> 00:05:10,639 wrist rests sometimes don't look as sexy as a very small compact wrist rest but I 74 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,560 can tell you guys right now that for some people my wife being one of them 75 00:05:12,520 --> 00:05:17,639 she refuses to type on anything that doesn't have a wrist rest a belt this 76 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:21,280 big so the only keyboard out there for her is a steel series 7g as soon as I 77 00:05:20,199 --> 00:05:25,919 get my hands on one of these I'm going to get her to try and see what she thinks because she's a much faster type 78 00:05:23,880 --> 00:05:30,600 of than me she does about 145 words per minute and uh she's kind of one of my 79 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:34,120 one of my go-to people but slick is the only one I have here you'll you'll have 80 00:05:32,039 --> 00:05:39,039 to do for today's slick and he says sounds great I love it too these 81 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:43,840 products don't actually exist yet there code name Lux or something like that and 82 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:48,880 they're sort of referred to as The Cooler Master CM Storm aluminum series 83 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:52,720 or something what they are is they're kind of a concept that they're working 84 00:05:50,319 --> 00:05:57,319 on right now for customizable keyboards now you might have seen back in the day 85 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:00,319 uh I think there was I forget who it was but they were custom painting Logitech 86 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:05,680 G50 I can tell you guys right now the Finish you're going to get painting something 87 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:09,199 like made of plastic is never going to be as good as you can do with something 88 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:12,880 metal also the fact that you can't take them apart makes it much more difficult 89 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:17,160 to do you have to have more specialized equipment and it's just it's never going 90 00:06:15,080 --> 00:06:22,440 to look as good so what they've done is they've integrated aluminum metal 91 00:06:19,919 --> 00:06:27,039 aspects into a full range of gaming Pur here so we've got a headset that has two 92 00:06:24,639 --> 00:06:31,080 removable plates one on each side that allow you to take it off you can paint 93 00:06:28,599 --> 00:06:34,560 it you can color it you can take it off completely if you want it to look kind 94 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:39,599 of goofy but that's totally up to you is sort of the point there's also a 95 00:06:36,199 --> 00:06:41,160 keyboard that has the entire top plate 96 00:06:39,599 --> 00:06:44,520 removable so you want to put your favorite game graphic let's say you're 97 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:48,639 let's say you're a partner of cooler Masters you want to release uh you know 98 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,039 a game branded keyboard or even you want to do like a cool giveaway so you grab a 99 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:57,160 few of these you send them to a sweet paint shop you get some really cool airbrushing done on them boom you're 100 00:06:55,080 --> 00:07:01,080 done so it's the pretty much the meant to be a template for the easiest to 101 00:06:59,039 --> 00:07:04,759 customize peripherals there's also a mouse and a mouse pad so you can see 102 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:07,919 here's the aluminum plate on this guy this is full aluminum and while I 103 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:11,840 probably don't think I'd recommend painting a mouse pad I guess you'd have 104 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,039 the option if you really want to the last thing I missed here before was the 105 00:07:14,039 --> 00:07:21,360 control RX and what's cool about this guy is it's uh sorry polyurethane back 106 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:25,319 correct polyurethane back and it's very very thick so this is great for land 107 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:28,840 parties where you don't always get your own table and sometimes you're stuck on 108 00:07:27,440 --> 00:07:33,800 sort of the butt crack between the tables so what you could do is you take 109 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:37,759 this and at least as long as you don't have a huge lip you're going to have a 110 00:07:35,319 --> 00:07:41,759 reasonably smooth surface bridging that Gap because it's so thick and because 111 00:07:39,639 --> 00:07:46,840 the back is so stiff it's also extremely sticky probably the most grippy back 112 00:07:44,919 --> 00:07:49,800 I've ever felt on a mouse pad and I think that pretty much wraps it up for 113 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:54,039 CM Storm so they've got a lot of exciting stuff going on don't miss any 114 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:58,840 of our CES 2013 coverage by making sure you're subscribed to lonus Tech tips not 115 00:07:56,759 --> 00:08:03,639 content to just make PC cases anymore Cooler Master has on display at CES a 116 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:08,680 fairly wide range of Apple accessories so I want to start with the rock 117 00:08:05,560 --> 00:08:10,680 basically it's a sort of No Frills nice 118 00:08:08,680 --> 00:08:14,280 heavy I mean the name is appropriate cuz it feels and looks about like a rock 119 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:18,520 except like a more of a glossy elegant Rock and the idea is you take your iPad 120 00:08:16,919 --> 00:08:21,639 or I don't know presumably you could even check an iPhone there if you felt 121 00:08:20,039 --> 00:08:26,599 like it there you go you could do that or you take your MacBook you put it in 122 00:08:24,639 --> 00:08:30,120 there it slides in pretty nicely it's got a nice rubberized finish on the 123 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:34,120 inside so it's not going to slip out or go anywhere you put that next to your 124 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:38,159 computer if you use an external display and it's sort of a stand it's just a 125 00:08:36,159 --> 00:08:43,399 stand speaking of just a stand this is the Jazz Pro which does not stand for 126 00:08:40,880 --> 00:08:48,480 just a stand Pro but what this guy does is it allows you to put your Mac next to 127 00:08:46,200 --> 00:08:52,040 an external display it's probably not that practical from a sitting there 128 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:57,600 using the computer perspective and I just hit the power button I'm very sorry about that but if you're going to put it 129 00:08:55,640 --> 00:09:00,320 next to a display then and use actually an external keyboard and mouse then 130 00:08:59,240 --> 00:09:05,600 something something like that could work very well for you moving right along 131 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:09,519 over here we have the ren so this guy is 132 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:11,160 an iPad iPad Mini holder and I actually 133 00:09:09,519 --> 00:09:14,040 didn't get briefed on how it oh look there's a button there you go I didn't 134 00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:17,920 get briefed on how it works but what it does is it locks into several different 135 00:09:16,079 --> 00:09:22,800 positions depending on whether you want to be in portrait mode with a full-size 136 00:09:19,880 --> 00:09:27,640 iPad landscape mode with a fullsize iPad or in portrait mode with an iPad Mini it 137 00:09:25,760 --> 00:09:31,480 rotates like this so it allows you to kind of take your tablet and prop it up 138 00:09:29,519 --> 00:09:34,920 like this take your tablet prop it up like this it also comes with a couple of 139 00:09:32,920 --> 00:09:38,320 accessories so this guy allows you to hang it off of sort of a horizontal 140 00:09:36,760 --> 00:09:42,480 surface this is a very thick table so that's not going to work for me but if you're going to hang it off a bookshelf 141 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:48,079 or something like that then you just slot this into the back 142 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:51,040 here there you go hang it off something sort of rotate it wherever you want it 143 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:55,200 to go and then it also comes with another optional one right here which 144 00:09:52,880 --> 00:10:00,200 allows you to clip it to a vertical surface so then you could sort of rotate 145 00:09:57,839 --> 00:10:03,480 it out and around this way and sort of I I figured my my pitch to them was you 146 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:07,760 should can you should sell them as a 10 pack so that the customers can actually 147 00:10:05,800 --> 00:10:10,880 put them all over their house and then just carry the tablet around with them 148 00:10:09,240 --> 00:10:15,160 and have it kind of you know like hanging up here above the shower and 149 00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:18,920 sort of in the kitchen and wherever else it happens to be this right here is not 150 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:22,560 actually available yet this is The Cooler Master MacBook Air they are going 151 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:26,200 directly up against apple with this no I'm just kidding um it's actually the 152 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:32,240 stand underneath of it so this is an evolutionary step forward from the Jazz 153 00:10:29,839 --> 00:10:35,880 Pro where not only can you adjust the height but you can actually also adjust 154 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,920 the angle so I don't know you're a DJ you're someone who wants to use their 155 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:43,519 computer and have it sit on a nice solid aluminum stand with a rubberized base 156 00:10:41,560 --> 00:10:46,519 and rubberized grips it has a very very nice feel to it I mean look how thick 157 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:50,639 the aluminum is here this most of this stuff is available on the Apple Store so 158 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:54,120 it's all Apple approved Apple authorized accessories so if you're into Apple then 159 00:10:52,160 --> 00:10:58,880 you might care about that sort of thing last but not least we have the duo so 160 00:10:56,399 --> 00:11:02,920 this guy right here slides together like this so you can use it as an iPad Mini 161 00:11:00,839 --> 00:11:06,360 stand or presumably a full-size iPad stand although I haven't tested that 162 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:08,920 personally on the bottom you see a couple of different things so you have a 163 00:11:07,560 --> 00:11:12,639 pass through for headphones you have a pass through for I don't know what the 164 00:11:11,200 --> 00:11:19,959 difference between battery and battery is here I guess they allow you to run two cables into it um either way when 165 00:11:16,519 --> 00:11:21,519 you pop it out here you can see you can 166 00:11:19,959 --> 00:11:24,800 there we go you can actually plug because of the iPhone 5 has the 167 00:11:23,519 --> 00:11:28,040 headphone jack on the bottom you can plug your audio cable in there and you 168 00:11:26,639 --> 00:11:32,120 can just kind of have it sitting in the dock next to this one you can kind of 169 00:11:30,079 --> 00:11:35,800 hide it a little bit inside this one you can put it completely inside this one 170 00:11:33,959 --> 00:11:39,240 and it's got like a nice rubberized feel to it and this is a solid piece of 171 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:44,000 aluminum all down here so that pretty much wraps up the Apple accessories 172 00:11:41,600 --> 00:11:48,399 don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage and don't forget to subscribe to lus 173 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:51,440 Tech tips there are bucket loads of new desktop products at The Cooler Master 174 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:57,680 Suite we're going to start with the Centurion 6 this brings back sort of the 175 00:11:54,920 --> 00:12:02,839 uh the metal accent and the that that that feel of sort of metal quality that 176 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:05,920 I think has been missing a little bit from the $ 69.99 price point because 177 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:10,040 that's where they're going to be positioned this strip down here on both 178 00:12:08,399 --> 00:12:14,600 the silver accented version and the black accented version is aluminum and 179 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:19,160 check this out guys these are not plastic meshes we are done with plastic 180 00:12:16,880 --> 00:12:23,480 meshes on $70 cases these are actually metal meshes which gives I I hope you 181 00:12:21,440 --> 00:12:27,560 can see this in the video but in person it gives it a better look and it gives 182 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:31,079 it a better overall feel to the chassis other than that it's a pretty something 183 00:12:29,519 --> 00:12:35,920 we're pretty used to seeing on the inside so it has support for dual 120 mm 184 00:12:33,360 --> 00:12:39,680 RADS in the top and it has a removable cage here so you can put in as long a 185 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:44,639 graphics card as you could possibly want to have this guy right here is a little 186 00:12:42,079 --> 00:12:49,959 bit unique this is the elite 241 it's a very very small chassis and the idea is 187 00:12:47,480 --> 00:12:55,079 it fits an ATX motherboard and it's at a very very low cost and it's small and 188 00:12:52,320 --> 00:13:00,399 narrow so there you go next up here this is kind of a 189 00:12:58,399 --> 00:13:06,440 concept ch right now this actually repositions the water cooling radiator 190 00:13:02,839 --> 00:13:08,480 to the side so check this out dual 120 191 00:13:06,440 --> 00:13:13,079 mm rat on the side what this allows you to do is save on the height of the case 192 00:13:11,360 --> 00:13:17,199 so if you had for example a little all clove you wanted to chuck your water 193 00:13:14,639 --> 00:13:21,519 cooled system into this would allow you to save at least a couple inches on the 194 00:13:19,680 --> 00:13:26,959 top of the case in order to make that fit so the radiator is it's slipping the 195 00:13:24,639 --> 00:13:31,519 radiator is right here which gives you not as ideal of an air flow situation as 196 00:13:29,320 --> 00:13:34,560 if you had it in the top of the case but it allows this case to come in at a 197 00:13:32,839 --> 00:13:39,839 lower price point because it has a top power supply and it doesn't have to have 198 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:43,360 that extra height last but not least we've got the n200 and this is sort of 199 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:48,000 Representative of what will be a bit of a new look for some Cooler Master cases 200 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:51,920 so it's got this is a plastic mesh again but it's just sort of a a cleaner look 201 00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:55,040 so the half line has been has done really well and that aesthetic has been 202 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:58,440 great and it's going to continue but they're also experimenting with a few 203 00:13:56,600 --> 00:14:02,279 different things as well so the idea behind this guy 204 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:07,480 is that you can have check this out a a dual 120 mm rad and up to another 120 mm 205 00:14:05,480 --> 00:14:10,600 rad in the back can throw a couple hard drives in there and there's lots of 206 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:14,560 space so it's an idea the idea is it's an matx chassis that gives you options 207 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:18,399 so you're not going to be able to put in a ton of hard drives and a long graphics 208 00:14:16,639 --> 00:14:24,199 card and a bunch of water cooling but you can do kind of any two of the three 209 00:14:20,920 --> 00:14:25,959 without sacrificing very much at all 210 00:14:24,199 --> 00:14:29,519 this is the Scout 2 ghost white so they've got a couple different colors on 211 00:14:27,560 --> 00:14:34,040 display you can check out the inside it's just basically showcasing all the 212 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:37,240 really cool stuff that Cooler Master has going on in terms of their technology so 213 00:14:35,639 --> 00:14:40,800 they've got their Iceberg cooler in there you got your removable cages 214 00:14:39,160 --> 00:14:44,360 you've got your support for liquid cooling I really love the handles on the 215 00:14:42,920 --> 00:14:48,560 top of this case they're extremely robust they're extremely strong this is 216 00:14:46,480 --> 00:14:53,240 the case that I actually took in my video where I unboxed it lifted it up by 217 00:14:51,079 --> 00:14:57,360 the by the handle alone on the top over my head shook it around and it didn't 218 00:14:55,240 --> 00:15:02,000 have any Flex to it whatsoever thank you for checking out 219 00:14:59,759 --> 00:15:07,399 our coverage 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