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so last ces razer showed off a concept
notebook shell that allowed you to take their gaming phone and put it in as like
a touchpad and then like a a larger
Android experience and i was kind of going hey this has kind of been done before so
this is a little lackluster compared to your previous concept products and b why
the hell would anybody want a full-size Android experience it's terrible
so MSI apparently saw an opportunity here
and they are showing off a much better
solution because why would you want to run
a desktop experience or laptop experience on underpowered mobile
hardware when you can run a mobile
software experience on totally op gaming
laptop hardware so i don't normally cover like
some software crap that comes bundled with a gaming notebook but the MSI app
player is actually pretty freaking cool
so it's not a new concept running an Android emulator on a computer in fact
they even got a sticker right here it is based on the bluestacks Android emulator
but what effectively they've done here is packaged this into something that is
very usable and very practical for
gamers so what you're looking at right here is the full fat google play store
where we can get any normal Android apps any normal Android games and yes my
friends you should see where we're going with that so using this software you can
use a mouse and wasd
or a game controller to control Android
games giving you a distinct advantage compared to people who are playing on
mobile with their like touch screen joysticks and all that stuff so the
better the system the better the experience it'll take advantage of your
CPU your GPU and even things like high
refresh rate displays and there are other intrinsic advantages
as well you don't have to worry about battery life constraints you get to use
your full sized notebook great audio solution and if you plug into a wired
network connection you don't have to worry about any mobile network leg
bullcrap or anything like that now they're mostly focused on gaming but you
can run any app from the play store there's a bunch of great functionality
built in here as well so you can see there's hotkeys for pretty much anything
and MSI steel series keyboards built into their laptops will allow you to
remap any of that let's just go ahead and make this full screen and you guys
might have noticed that i'm running this on an MSI desktop now so they are not
limiting it to just their notebooks in fact it's not even limited to just their
gaming products so their motherboards their video cards even their new
prestige series non-gaming notebooks are going to have support for this app and
this is a huge boon for streamers for example some people do stream Android
games so now all you got to do is hook up a secondary monitor run your regular
obs and xsplit and then you just run this in a window and you can do all of
your gaming and streaming from one machine
this is a seriously unfair advantage that's not my
problem though one last point is that if you suck at games like me so this is
some like weird pub g clone or something you can actually run multiple games at
the same time so if you're like waiting around for a respawn you can just flip
over into another tab here play another play angry birds or
whatever while you're waiting and then just flip back over and you're ready to
continue one last point cliff from MSI said if i
don't talk about his prestige series he's not gonna send me a gigantic
life-size MSI dragon so this is their
new thin and light prestige series it's got like a metal chassis uh 8th gen core
i7 so up to quad core uh HDMI a couple
type c's a couple type a's you got your uh sd card 1080p ip looks like ips yep
not too bad and uh so the point here is basically that MSI is finally doing
something other than gaming notebooks
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