WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.000 Yeah, so if you hate Austin Evans, you will hate this. 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:06.000 Legally, we do have to be a little mean to it. 00:00:06.000 --> 00:00:09.000 I was going to say F tier just because Mark Zuckerberg. 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.000 Yeah. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 We got our S tier. We got our F tier. 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Don't know enough. I don't know if there's going to be a lot that's don't know enough. 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.000 Maybe the phones. I don't know anything about phones and smartwatches. 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:27.000 So this is like the stuff that's come out this year. 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:30.000 What is, what is, where does it rank? 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:33.000 So that's the Alienware QLED or OLED? 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:39.000 QD OLED. This is a QD OLED panel on an Alienware monitor, right? 00:00:39.000 --> 00:00:43.000 Alright, first we got the Alienware 3423DF and I know because I have this monitor. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.000 QD OLED's really good. I want to put it in S tier. 00:00:47.000 --> 00:00:50.000 I was kind of thinking that as well. Like that's the best monitor of the year, isn't it? 00:00:50.000 --> 00:00:58.000 Pretty much. You can argue about 4K and what not, but purely for gaming this is like the best monitor to buy, basically. 00:00:58.000 --> 00:01:02.000 This was a pretty category leading product when that first launched. 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:05.000 So I'm saying we should put it in A. What do you think? 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:10.000 Yeah, I mean I like it. I think the price is a little higher than I'd be willing to spend on it, 00:01:10.000 --> 00:01:15.000 but it's one of those things where a couple years down the road, and I'm going to say this for a lot of things, 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:20.000 a couple years down the road, if price is reduced and I can get it on the used market, it's going to be a buy. 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:24.000 Don't get me wrong, it's a good price and for me, color fringing is a big issue. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:27.000 Okay, we'll give you that. So for productivity, it's not a great solution. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:33.000 If you're only in gaming and content consumption and you don't care about super high refresh rates, go for it. 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:39.000 Listen, everyone was praising it. I'd probably put it in C tier, but when they're 2, there was a cheaper one that's better. 00:01:39.000 --> 00:01:43.000 Yeah, this one likes to have the white stand, so it's the more expensive model. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:47.000 If it was the cheaper model, I'd still put it towards like A to B. 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:54.000 The tech behind it is S tier quality, but the price is still so far out of reach. 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.000 I thought it's an amazing price. That's what he's saying. 00:01:57.000 --> 00:02:03.000 Well, in Canadian dollars, it's like what, I think four to five hundred dollars cheaper, which is substantial, 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:08.000 but we also have broke monies compared to America. Next, we have the, I'm guessing this is the 7900 XTX? 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:15.000 Yeah. You're the AMD guy. It's B tier. It's a good card. 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:24.000 Even B tier, it's a good card. It's better value than anything NVIDIA is offering, but it's still very expensive. 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:32.000 But on the other hand, it's where a high end, if you're talking about price, it's where a high end card should be. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:35.000 It's in the thousand dollar range. But I like ray tracing. 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.000 This has ray tracing. In theory. In theory. 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:41.000 Not even in theory. In theory, it has ray tracing cores. 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:45.000 They just don't have proprietary NVIDIA special magic. 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:49.000 But I want it to run well. Yeah, that's the hard part. 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:52.000 But the pricing is very competitive. I think B makes sense. Yeah. 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.000 For what it is. A tier? B. 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:02.000 B. It's still expensive. My expectations were S tier and then it launched and it was like... 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:07.000 They hyped it up and the performance, I was hoping for like just 10% better than what it was. 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:11.000 I was hoping for like 20, 25% more. 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:16.000 Like they normally hype their stuff up and then over deliver and this one they hyped it up and just... 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:20.000 And then under delivered. Yeah. Okay, I'm okay with B tier as well. 00:03:20.000 --> 00:03:25.000 The XTX, I mean, the GPUs are going to be so controversial. 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:33.000 Because the problem with GPUs right now, it's like even the one that's the best buy is still like a hard pill to swallow. 00:03:33.000 --> 00:03:36.000 I don't know. I'm saying somewhere between A and B. 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:39.000 What do you think? I'm thinking it's a B tier. 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.000 They've reinvigorated AMD's offerings. 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:47.000 I feel like we're starting to look at AMD more as... 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:50.000 We're not all team green all the time anymore. 00:03:50.000 --> 00:03:53.000 So that's real nice. 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:56.000 All right, let's chuck it in there for now. We'll see what else we come against. 00:03:56.000 --> 00:04:01.000 Maybe we'll have to move it. I don't know enough. Okay, so Hor says he doesn't know anything. 00:04:01.000 --> 00:04:04.000 Makes sense. What do you think of it? 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:09.000 I almost want to put it A just for telling NVIDIA to stop overpricing things. 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:15.000 It's more than enough performance than what you need unless you're like, I don't know. 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:18.000 You know what? We'll go B tier here as well because it's still really, really good. 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:22.000 I'm scared everything's going to get in the B tier. But like, it's the pricing. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:27.000 It could have been better for the price because like AMD thought they were going to be the savior, but then they weren't. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:30.000 The 7950 XT or whatever? Yeah. 00:04:30.000 --> 00:04:33.000 Okay. It's fast. It's fine. 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.000 It didn't like really get me going. Maybe B? 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.000 I'm okay with putting this in A only if we then put the 1300K there in S tier. 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:44.000 Because I still think that 13th gen is crazy. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.000 B then. B then? Okay. 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:54.000 That's fine. My question is what did the 7000 series really do that the 6000 series didn't eventually? 00:04:54.000 --> 00:04:58.000 DDR5. DDR5? Is that pretty much it? 00:04:58.000 --> 00:05:01.000 It definitely, it beat Alder Lake. 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:05.000 I think it beat the 5800X3D in many ways. 00:05:05.000 --> 00:05:08.000 Maybe not every way. 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:15.000 But then by the time Raptor Lake comes out, Raptor Lake is more compelling by in some ways as well. 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:21.000 So this is definitely not S tier. It didn't like crush everything, but it was good when it, A to B I would say. 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:25.000 It's still good. It's good. I'd stick it in a B. 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:28.000 I want. Okay. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:31.000 We have to consider the stuff that's coming. We do. 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:34.000 Okay. We'll put it in B for now. Let's put A. 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:42.000 Sure. A lot of the issues in my opinion with the 7950X is it doesn't make sense to upgrade to the new platform. 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 If you're, unless you have to do a platform upgrade anyways. 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:54.000 If you're already on AM4 and say you're on like a 2600 or a 3000 series CPU, just upgrade to 5000 series. 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:59.000 But if you're going to upgrade your whole computer, this is a great, great option. 00:05:59.000 --> 00:06:02.000 It's not the best option, but it's cheaper than the 1300K. 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:07.000 And if you're doing productivity work, it beats the 1300K or matches it. 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:13.000 And with the price drops that they've put across the entire lineup, it ended up being, it's not a bad buy. 00:06:13.000 --> 00:06:18.000 I have a 13th gen Intel. So I'm not putting this in S tier because I want my investment to look stronger. 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:21.000 So yeah, we want to get that brand identity up for that value. 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:26.000 Are those bad? Like, I remember they were trying to do 4K gaming or something like that. 00:06:26.000 --> 00:06:29.000 The processor was just like killing everything. 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:33.000 Like, I remember Ploof being stuck here for days trying to deal with the processor. 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:36.000 F tier. Oh. Oh my God. 00:06:36.000 --> 00:06:40.000 Hello there. It might not even have been the same chip. 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:46.000 No. So I would say, I don't know, like it's still really, really good. 00:06:46.000 --> 00:06:49.000 Let's put it above A just to sort it out. 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:53.000 Oh, there you go. Something for you. The Apple Studio? 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:56.000 Is that what that is? Which one is this? I don't know. 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:59.000 Don't know enough. Do you know anything about Apple products? 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:02.000 I think it's like pretty good. I've heard it's good. 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:05.000 I just don't know. A water cooled one. How'd that go? 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:13.000 It went pretty well. Oh wait, but it doesn't, if the fans disconnect, it won't tell you and instead will just throttle itself. 00:07:13.000 --> 00:07:16.000 So let's put it in C tier. Oh, C tier. Yeah, 100%. 00:07:16.000 --> 00:07:21.000 Okay, so Apple Studio. I have an M2 MacBook Pro and, or sorry, M1 Max. 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:25.000 And I think the M series that they've kind of moved on to here is great. 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.000 Studio though? No, that's a C tier at best. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:31.000 Right? I feel like Apple does best at portable items. 00:07:31.000 --> 00:07:34.000 I don't know. It's overpriced. 00:07:34.000 --> 00:07:38.000 It's anti-consumer. Like it. 00:07:38.000 --> 00:07:41.000 These things are pretty damn expensive. 00:07:41.000 --> 00:07:45.000 A pretty boring form factor. Not like a very cool redesign. 00:07:45.000 --> 00:07:48.000 It doesn't even look like a cheese grater. I don't know. 00:07:48.000 --> 00:07:55.000 What do you think of this? So the Mac Studio is an interesting one to me because it's not something that I would buy now, 00:07:55.000 --> 00:08:02.000 but five years down the road, which is when I would buy Apple products five, six years after release. 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.000 I think this could be a really interesting unit. 00:08:05.000 --> 00:08:11.000 I think the Mac Studio has a lot of potential down the road for what has already been released. 00:08:11.000 --> 00:08:15.000 And maybe as a form factor, it's boring. 00:08:15.000 --> 00:08:20.000 Maybe there's not a whole lot you can do once you get inside of it. 00:08:20.000 --> 00:08:26.000 But if things continue to progress with it and eventually, I don't know, 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.000 a hacker space builds around it to some degree. Are you happy with B? 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:34.000 I think I'm happy with B. It's between C and F. 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:40.000 I would give it a C tier because it showed us that the Apple Silicon is great for laptops, 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:44.000 but they haven't figured out desktops. We figured that we learned that. 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:49.000 That's here. It doesn't come with a stand. It doesn't come with a stand and you can't take the cable out. 00:08:49.000 --> 00:08:55.000 Realistically, this is a really nice display. It's just really expensive, but those are valid complaints, so I'm okay with this. 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 We got the studio display. Oh, F tier. F. 00:08:58.000 --> 00:09:04.000 Yeah. It is a good display. It was nice, but it was a complete misfire in terms of features. 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:12.000 Again, anti-consumer. I heard the sound of things bending, and it did not come out. 00:09:12.000 --> 00:09:13.000 Okay. 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:21.000 It pulled out. I just had to give it a good two-hander. 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:25.000 And I felt the frame flexing while you did that, to be clear. 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:31.000 It's clearly not designed for that to happen. 00:09:31.000 --> 00:09:35.000 Terrible support. I believe it had some sort of weird driver issues. 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:38.000 It's a weird, not natural resolution. 00:09:38.000 --> 00:09:42.000 It's an unnatural resolution. 00:09:42.000 --> 00:09:46.000 You're not finding this in nature, so that's an F tier. No, and it's massively overpriced for what you can get. 00:09:46.000 --> 00:09:50.000 This thing was overpriced. That's studio display. 00:09:50.000 --> 00:09:56.000 When you bought the studio plus the studio display, that was just so much more expensive 00:09:56.000 --> 00:10:03.000 than the all-in-ones that they previously... It was like they split that product up just to charge you more. 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.000 It's a good product. Freaking cable. 00:10:06.000 --> 00:10:09.000 The power cable is not disconnectable. 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:13.000 I've never seen somebody purchase a studio display with their own money. 00:10:13.000 --> 00:10:16.000 I'm going to put them in the seat, but they're nice. 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:19.000 They're nice, and they're good at using it before you lose it. 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:22.000 Yeah. See? I can't see. 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:26.000 Okay, here's why. If you're going to get one, get a refurbished one. 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:30.000 That makes it a little bit more manageable in price. There's a lot now, I think, in the refurbished store. 00:10:30.000 --> 00:10:33.000 Oh, yeah. But not only that, but when this thing first came out, 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:38.000 we were watching the keynote, and we were sitting there, and there was four of us gathered around Horst's computer, 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.000 and it was right outside of Linus's office back in the day. 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:44.000 We're sitting there, and we were like, which one do we buy? 00:10:44.000 --> 00:10:50.000 Oh, yeah. We had to choose simply for the fact that there was Glossy and Matt. 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:53.000 There's three stand options in Glossy and Matt. 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:56.000 Yeah. We bought three. 00:10:56.000 --> 00:11:01.000 So we're sitting there, and we're like, okay, you could buy all the choices, or you have to limit yourself. 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:05.000 So we went with, I think it was Glossy on a regular stand. 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:10.000 Glossy regular, Matt with a fancy stand, and then a Glossy base amount. 00:11:10.000 --> 00:11:14.000 Why? The annoying thing was they all had different delivery dates. 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:17.000 And that, too, they announced all of these different things, 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 and it's like, okay, you're only slapping it on a stand or not slapping it on a stand. 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:24.000 But I wanted to just say that they have been happily deployed 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:28.000 around the office to lucky users. 00:11:28.000 --> 00:11:31.000 All right. We got the Apple Watch Ultra. 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:37.000 I really like wearables. So I have a fossil HR, like, hybrid watch, 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:41.000 and I've had most of the Apple Watches. The battery life on this thing is nuts, 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:44.000 but it's way bigger than you think. Yeah, do you want it? 00:11:44.000 --> 00:11:50.000 It's huge, and it's not comfortable. If you're a diver or whatever, it's a good overall device, 00:11:50.000 --> 00:11:53.000 but it's not excellent at any of the things it does individually. 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:56.000 Yeah, that's what I was thinking, because they really pushed a lot of the, 00:11:56.000 --> 00:12:00.000 like, oh, it's like a life alert thing. Oh, it's like a diving computer. 00:12:00.000 --> 00:12:04.000 I was like, but is it better than just the diving computer 00:12:04.000 --> 00:12:09.000 or just an active health mode? So if you really do all of the things, this is probably a good option, 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:13.000 but if you do one of them. If you're planning on diving and or getting into a car crash, 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:17.000 this is the one for you. I'd still put B, though, because it is still very cool. 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:24.000 It's still the best smartwatch you can get. So it's just not the best active device you can get. 00:12:24.000 --> 00:12:27.000 It's marketed towards being able to do all these extreme activities, 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:30.000 but no one who does those extreme things is going to buy this watch. 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:35.000 They're going to buy the more niche specialty watch for that thing that they do. 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:41.000 Unless you're a total generalist and you're like, I dive and I trail run and I run in the desert and I mountaineer 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:47.000 and this can do it all. And I don't mind having this heavy thing on my wrist while I run for 20 hours, 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:52.000 which seems unlikely. Like, who the hell? This is really just a statement piece for people who have a lot of money. 00:12:52.000 --> 00:12:55.000 So I'm putting it on a C, I think. What do you think? 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:58.000 I know nothing about watches, smart or otherwise. 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.000 I don't like wearing jewelry in general on my wrists. 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:04.000 All right. Makes me feel weird. I think that's eight here. 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.000 Okay. I'm down high. It doesn't look sick. 00:13:07.000 --> 00:13:10.000 It's too expensive. It does look cool. Yeah. 00:13:10.000 --> 00:13:13.000 If you're willing to spend the money. I want to put it as an F. Really? 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:16.000 Because unlike most watches where, you know, 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:20.000 there's a nice little bezel underneath, like it perfectly fits to your wrist. 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:23.000 That... I don't know. I'm not wearing it. 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:30.000 This is just a... Oh, okay. I was going to say that monstrosity is so big that it plateaus across your wrist. 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:33.000 What? Do you want to put it in eight here? No, I wouldn't put it that high. 00:13:33.000 --> 00:13:35.000 It would be no higher than B. No higher than B. 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:39.000 You're doing great Apple. Okay. 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.000 There's no other Apple products here. There's some stuff that we could have covered, 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.000 but it's not in here. So, I just want to let you know this is by... 00:13:45.000 --> 00:13:51.000 Ianeo Air. I don't know a ton about this one. 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:54.000 I feel like a lot of the Ianeos have been really for, 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:58.000 like, easy to forget. You can forget an Ianeo, 00:13:58.000 --> 00:14:01.000 because they've had a couple releases this year, haven't they? 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:06.000 Well, they were really compelling product lines, same with their 1x players until the Steam.came out, 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:09.000 and the deck was just so much cheaper. How much does this thing cost? 00:14:09.000 --> 00:14:14.000 Yeah. Yeah. I think given its position in the marketplace now, 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:21.000 you've got to drop it down to, like, a C. Yeah, and that's something that I don't feel like it's going to get support long-term. 00:14:21.000 --> 00:14:24.000 I think Ianeo, or... Yeah, Ianeo is the actual company name, right? 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:27.000 No, it's just Aya. It's just Aya? Yeah. 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:34.000 I think Aya is going to eventually just quietly demote their support for it 00:14:34.000 --> 00:14:37.000 as time goes on, because they tend to release products. 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:41.000 I don't know anything about handheld PCs. I have a Steam Deck, and that's good enough. 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:45.000 I'm Mr. Short Circuits. I've watched a lot of these be filmed or Linus talk about them, 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:49.000 but I don't actually really know anything about them. My understanding is that it's more expensive... 00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:53.000 Well, that's an F, then. ...and less... and about similar in terms of power, 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:56.000 and it's Windows. 00:14:56.000 --> 00:15:00.000 Which is great in some ways, but doesn't have the level of support, 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:05.000 especially in both the community and from the developers, 00:15:05.000 --> 00:15:08.000 and, like, software support. Like, Valve is providing... 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.000 Valve provides so much software support, 00:15:11.000 --> 00:15:15.000 and there's a massive community around the Steam Deck that Ianeo just hasn't been able to get. 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:18.000 And there's so many Ianeos. Yeah, I don't even know which one this is. 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:22.000 I know it's an Aya, but a... And honestly, if I don't know what it is, it kind of scares me, 00:15:22.000 --> 00:15:24.000 so I'm going to have to put it in after. 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:29.000 The air. The air. See, we didn't even know that, so... 00:15:29.000 --> 00:15:34.000 Aftershare. I did the video for these. It's good, but it's not using the 6800U. 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:37.000 It's using the, like, 5600U or the 4800 even. 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:40.000 I can't remember it, but it's not as good as... 00:15:40.000 --> 00:15:43.000 Do you think C or B tier? 00:15:43.000 --> 00:15:47.000 For the... I'm torn. 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:51.000 I would like to put it in, like, a C+, so C tier, then, I guess. 00:15:51.000 --> 00:15:54.000 How much more is it than the Steam Deck? It's more expensive. 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:57.000 Yeah, C tier. C. Okay. 00:15:57.000 --> 00:16:01.000 So this one is still a handheld gaming machine, and it's great for the feature set, 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:04.000 but the price is still too high because... How much is it? 00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:07.000 It's, like, probably another $1,000 over the Steam Deck, 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:10.000 depending on your config. A thousand dollars over? 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:16.000 Yeah, so, like, a Steam Deck starts, like, it's down there. It starts at, like, I think 499 American or 399, 00:16:16.000 --> 00:16:21.000 and then it goes 499 and then, like, 599. Like, it's no more than, like, $700 American for the Steam Deck. 00:16:21.000 --> 00:16:26.000 Whereas these things from I and Neo can be, like, upwards to, like, $1,700 USD. 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:29.000 But they do have full-size M2, which doesn't really matter, 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.000 because people like Sabrent are making M.2 in the 2230s. 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:38.000 You're going C because of the price. The Xenon Flex? 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:41.000 You did the video on that. 00:16:41.000 --> 00:16:44.000 I think it's stupid. 00:16:44.000 --> 00:16:50.000 It's a cool monitor with a party trick, but the party trick costs, like, $300. 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:53.000 I'm going to put B, because it's still a really nice display. 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:57.000 Sure. And it's only $300 more than, like, a similar monitor, 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:00.000 but it's still, like, $300 for that one ability to curve. 00:17:00.000 --> 00:17:04.000 It's so stupid. Well, I'm going to have to, we have to do C then, because I think this is very cool. 00:17:04.000 --> 00:17:08.000 Have you used it? Yes, I have. So I was in the B-roll shots for the video, 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:11.000 and we did a ShortCircuit on it before it released. I think it's rad. 00:17:11.000 --> 00:17:16.000 I would actually use this. What about it seems rad? 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.000 I don't know. You can bend it with your hands. 00:17:20.000 --> 00:17:23.000 That's cool. That's the only thing? 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:26.000 It also looks good. The IO in the front is cool. 00:17:26.000 --> 00:17:30.000 It has terrible, it's too big for the resolution it's at. 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:33.000 If it was a 4K display, I would entirely change my opinion. 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:37.000 Yeah, but can you flex other monitors? I don't need to flex another monitor. 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:40.000 Sorry, can you answer the question? Can you flex other monitors? No. 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:43.000 Well, I can, but they'll break. No, it's not C-tier. 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:47.000 It's a bad purchase. It's way too expensive. It has terrible pixel density. 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:54.000 B-tier. No. Listen, if you really want to, we need a D-tier, Arthur. 00:17:54.000 --> 00:17:57.000 Now picture this, okay? It's an OLED monitor. 00:17:57.000 --> 00:18:04.000 It's 45 inches across, and it can go flat or curved. 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.000 F. F. No, that's so cool. 00:18:07.000 --> 00:18:10.000 No, it looks ugly. But it's actual bends. This is not what I want for monitors. 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:15.000 If this is an A, then the studio displays an S. 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:18.000 Oh, that's the flex. Oh, this is any on flex? 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:22.000 I think this is pretty cool. It's a cool form factor. 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:28.000 It's innovative that you can move it. It's a cool entry from Corsair who doesn't have a lot in the monitor space. 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:31.000 I'm really glad it exists. I'm pretty sure it's high refresh rate, too. 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:39.000 It's a pretty good product. I know so little about this that I don't feel right commenting on it. 00:18:39.000 --> 00:18:42.000 The only thing that I really know about it is that whole flex mode, 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:45.000 because everybody does this motion when they're talking about it. 00:18:45.000 --> 00:18:48.000 Honestly, it's not a feature that excites me. I feel like I said it before. 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:52.000 No, no. It's going to be something where you're like, hey, want to see what my monitor can do? 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:56.000 Check this out. Oh, and then you're never going to move it when somebody's not watching. 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:59.000 It's a gimmick. It's a total gimmick. 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:03.000 Well, we'll see. I'm giving it A to B. 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:06.000 Okay, S22 Ultra. It brought back the S pen. 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:14.000 No. No. I mean, I'll give you an A maybe if you really want to be like that. 00:19:14.000 --> 00:19:19.000 It's still Samsung phones, no matter what, are still too damn wide. 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:22.000 Go the Sony route and go tall and thin. 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:25.000 No, just make small phones. Or just make small phones. 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:29.000 Even the S22, I'm holding it thinking of trying to upgrade for my S10, 00:19:29.000 --> 00:19:33.000 and I'm just like, I don't want to go wider than this thing, 00:19:33.000 --> 00:19:37.000 but I have to, and I hate that. I forgot it came out, F tier. 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:40.000 I agree. I don't know anything about it. Why'd you kill the notes? 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:45.000 The notes were my favorite Samsung phones for a while. I appreciate that they brought back the pencil as a pack-in. 00:19:45.000 --> 00:19:51.000 It is the fact that nobody has talked about this phone since it's come out, 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:54.000 says something about how where Samsung is right now. 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.000 They're not really pushing anything in an interesting way. I don't have one, so I don't know. 00:19:57.000 --> 00:20:01.000 Yeah, no clue. Don't know enough. S22 Ultra, I know nothing about this phone. 00:20:01.000 --> 00:20:04.000 I know nothing about it either down there. Yeah. 00:20:04.000 --> 00:20:07.000 Galaxy Watch 5. F tier. Why? 00:20:07.000 --> 00:20:12.000 Why? I don't know anything. Every wearable that's not an Apple Watch is garbage. 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:16.000 Isn't as good? Yeah, okay. They're pretty damn good. 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:22.000 I focused more on the Pixel Watch this year, and I would say this is probably just like, this is a standard, 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:25.000 it's a very good choice, 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:28.000 but I don't think it has a lot of wow factor this year, 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:32.000 but I don't know a lot about it. And this is just for both, right? 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.000 It can't be higher than an Apple Watch Ultra, 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:39.000 because it has... It's got Wear OS. 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:44.000 So F? Does that has Wear OS? Yeah, you can put it in C. 00:20:44.000 --> 00:20:48.000 Or remove them both up. What? 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:51.000 This is an interesting... Turn of events. 00:20:51.000 --> 00:20:56.000 Because like, it's great. There's actually a decent watch that can do Wear OS. 00:20:56.000 --> 00:20:59.000 Samsung, no more of your software. I hate it. 00:20:59.000 --> 00:21:03.000 Okay, so we put the 7900XT up in B tier. 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.000 So does that mean that the 3900K is A tier? I guess so. 00:21:06.000 --> 00:21:09.000 What would bring it to S tier? 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:12.000 Better price, I think. Fair. Yeah, that's fair. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:17.000 I don't know. It's still expensive. It's not as expensive as this, but it's still expensive. 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:20.000 It's A tier though, in my opinion. It's really solid. 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:24.000 Overclock's really well. It's very fun. Memory controllers suck though. 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:27.000 I think that's what makes it not S tier for me. Yeah, that's fair. 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.000 Now we got Intel My Investment. 3900K. 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.000 I think it's going to go up in the A tier as well, but I'd be put it higher in the A tier than Ryzen. 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:38.000 Yeah, it goes actually here. Yeah, because it's a better CPU, but it's still, 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.000 it's still part of this whole computer price creep that we've been in. 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:45.000 Yeah, we can't be too nice to Intel. Like, legally, we do have to be a little mean to Intel. 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:52.000 Yeah. Seeing the i3 and i5s being able to, 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:58.000 in a much lower power, actually outperform Xeons of just a few years ago 00:21:58.000 --> 00:22:02.000 is really neat. And then we've got the i9, which is not bad by any stretch, 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:06.000 but it's still like that higher TDP. 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:09.000 And I don't know, it hasn't really grown on me yet. 00:22:09.000 --> 00:22:13.000 I think the most fair thing to do is put it on the same tier as the 7950X. 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:16.000 It's all I need a watch to do. 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:21.000 Aren't those good? Wasn't that a surprise that they're efficient in new Intel chips? 00:22:21.000 --> 00:22:24.000 Oh, yeah, they're efficient. They're actually cool. 00:22:24.000 --> 00:22:27.000 They're not boiling over. Wait a minute. 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:31.000 How did the AMD processor get to A tier? 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:35.000 I don't know. I thought it was based on price because it is still a little cheaper. 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:40.000 But it's not very efficient. No, they're still. And when you try to do AK gaming, it's a nightmare. 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:43.000 Okay, so we will go like this. 00:22:43.000 --> 00:22:47.000 Yeah, yeah. Switcheroo. Oh, the A770. 00:22:47.000 --> 00:22:50.000 Half tier. You can't buy them. 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:54.000 They're garbage. You can't buy them? No, they don't exist. 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:59.000 Oh, my God. They're always sold out and you can't run Halo on it. 00:22:59.000 --> 00:23:03.000 Yeah, that's pretty rough. 00:23:03.000 --> 00:23:07.000 F, wow. I mean, what do you think? 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:10.000 I think it's a pretty competitively priced product. 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:14.000 It's new. There's growing pains, but I'd put it in C. 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:19.000 It's about as good. It's, listen, the launch of it went about as good as I could have ever hoped. 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:22.000 Did you watch our live stream? Yeah, I know it was garbage. 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:27.000 It was terrible. Like it went so much better and things have already improved massively. 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:31.000 It's still not perfect, but Intel's still pretty young. 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:36.000 Oh, this is rough. This might be F tier. It's F or C. 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.000 A770. They really bungled the launch. 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:42.000 The whole future of the enterprise is cast in doubt. 00:23:42.000 --> 00:23:47.000 We don't know if there's going to be Celestial or if they're going to stop with Battle Mage. 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:51.000 They did that big update with the DirectX9 stuff, so like it is working better now, 00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:54.000 but it's still not anything you can recommend to a mainstream gamer. 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:58.000 This is like you better be ready to tinker. It's not really anything you can recommend. 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.000 Yeah. So you don't know enough. 00:24:01.000 --> 00:24:04.000 That's fair. Isn't it bad? 00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:07.000 It's not bad. It's great for what it is. 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:10.000 What about for the price? It's like $300 bucks US. 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:14.000 It's so cheap compared to these thousand dollar cards that it's like... 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:17.000 It gets people in the door. Picture this. 00:24:17.000 --> 00:24:20.000 You're like a mom and you're trying to buy something for your kid for like Christmas. 00:24:20.000 --> 00:24:24.000 So you get them in Intel Arc. You could at least get them in Intel Arc. 00:24:24.000 --> 00:24:27.000 In years of pain trying to get the games to work. 00:24:27.000 --> 00:24:30.000 I didn't say you had to like the kid. 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:34.000 Oh. What's this? An iPhone 14 Pro? 00:24:34.000 --> 00:24:38.000 Pretty iterative. 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:41.000 Let's have a look. Yup. 00:24:41.000 --> 00:24:45.000 I am an island boy. I think it's a B tier. 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:50.000 There's so much time talking about the dynamic island in the presentation and there's no good features for it. 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:53.000 And some of the stuff is really stupid. Like the fact that... 00:24:53.000 --> 00:24:56.000 It has a 14 Pro. Yeah. I've been using it lately. 00:24:56.000 --> 00:24:59.000 It's like, oh cool. It's showing like it plays stuff, right? 00:24:59.000 --> 00:25:03.000 When you tap it, it opens the app. But if I long press it, then it's the widget. 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:08.000 That's what I want it to do all the time. I want it to be quick tap, then the widget. 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:11.000 If I want to open the app, I'll just open the goddamn app. 00:25:11.000 --> 00:25:15.000 Either way, I think it's a good phone. It's a 13 and I actually don't think it's much better. 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.000 I actually might agree with you. The island's cool, but I can see it being a C. 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:22.000 Ooh. Here's your iPhone. That's a 14 Pro. 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:25.000 Yeah. It's got the dynamic island. S tier just for the island. 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:28.000 No, no. I wouldn't put an S tier. Just for the island. 00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:35.000 Probably A though. A or B. Because like, I like the feature of the dynamic island. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:39.000 I just don't know why it had to be reserved for a pro. Why couldn't they just do that from the start? 00:25:39.000 --> 00:25:44.000 Why is that not across the internet? You're telling me. It's always, it's pretty depressing. 00:25:44.000 --> 00:25:52.000 I've heard it's good. I did the launch video on this. I think we can put it in B tier because they didn't screw anything up, but they also improved 00:25:52.000 --> 00:25:55.000 it in ways that just make it better for you. Okay. 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:58.000 Sure. I think we can put it in B. All right. 00:25:58.000 --> 00:26:03.000 Logitech G Cloud. I don't really know enough about it. 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:06.000 It's kind of different from the other handhelds being a streaming device. 00:26:06.000 --> 00:26:09.000 I don't know anything about it other than the fact that I don't think it makes sense for 00:26:09.000 --> 00:26:13.000 the price. Logitech G Cloud. 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:17.000 Surprise some people. I'm going to say that's a C too. 00:26:17.000 --> 00:26:20.000 And then is this the Logitech G Cloud? Yeah. 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:25.000 Okay. Linus didn't end up hating this as much as he thought he would, but that's all I know. 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:30.400 C tier maybe. Okay. I think it's still too expensive, but I kind of want basically this exact thing just for 00:26:30.400 --> 00:26:39.960 like a hundred dollars less. I want it in F tier quite simply because I am angry about like gaming, streaming, server 00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:49.600 services, and that whole idea. I think it's absurd. I am too, but at the same time I pay for Game Pass Ultimate, so I already have access 00:26:49.600 --> 00:26:52.600 to those games. Fine. Great. 00:26:52.600 --> 00:26:56.760 The thing I hate about this is that you have to stream all of the time. 00:26:56.760 --> 00:27:04.720 You can't look at it. What's the point? Like, there's this sort of weird thing with like the way our internet or like our technology 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:11.840 is developed, or it like requires the internet to do things that are like so simple and fundamental. 00:27:11.840 --> 00:27:17.280 And gaming streaming is like the most egregious example of that where they've gone just too 00:27:17.280 --> 00:27:22.480 far thinking like, yeah, everyone's got an internet connection enough to stream a, you 00:27:22.480 --> 00:27:31.200 know, a video stream constantly. This is an efficient use of resources, like it's just so, but like, it's like you have 00:27:31.200 --> 00:27:35.760 this portable device, right, that you can only stream games on. 00:27:35.760 --> 00:27:40.000 So it's tethered to the internet, so it immediately reduces the portability of it. 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:43.520 Quest Pro. What's the Quest Pro? I don't know enough about VR. 00:27:43.520 --> 00:27:48.560 It's the new, but this is the expensive one, right? They out the price by like $1,000 or something. 00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:54.320 I want to put it in F tier just because of the price hike. I was going to say F tier just because Mark Zuckerberg. 00:27:54.320 --> 00:27:57.320 Yeah. That's it. MetaQuest Pro. 00:27:57.320 --> 00:28:00.480 Isn't that an F? Isn't it like, has the worst software in the world? 00:28:00.840 --> 00:28:06.320 No, the software gives avatars legs now. So you can go to your work meeting with legs. 00:28:06.320 --> 00:28:09.640 Like it's just F, F, F. 00:28:09.640 --> 00:28:13.040 F for all things meta except for whenever the Quest 3 comes out. 00:28:13.040 --> 00:28:16.120 F, F. It's not a mass market product. 00:28:16.120 --> 00:28:19.760 I haven't used it myself. You might understand it's pretty impressive. 00:28:19.760 --> 00:28:24.720 And usually people hating are kind of like, they're hating on the whole concept of Metaverse. 00:28:24.720 --> 00:28:30.040 I would, I think I call this a B. I think it's a good product on its own. 00:28:30.080 --> 00:28:35.320 I can't wear VR glasses for whatever reason, like between. 00:28:35.320 --> 00:28:42.000 Don't have a forehead. Well, I mean, I've got, I've got some forehead happening, but it's like, I can never get 00:28:42.000 --> 00:28:47.160 it right so that I can wear it without my glasses on and then just pushes my glasses 00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:54.680 against my face. So it's never really been a thing for me. But yeah, if I was going to docket points for anything, it would be the whole concept 00:28:54.680 --> 00:29:03.480 of Meta and the internal Facebook idea of projects being MMH for Make Mark Happy. 00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:06.720 I don't want to defend Facebook. This thing is pretty darn cool though. 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:10.160 I love, love, love VR. I've had almost every VR headset. 00:29:10.160 --> 00:29:13.360 This looks great. Like when you put it on, it feels great. 00:29:13.360 --> 00:29:18.160 The operation's great. It'll be like, hey, you need to adjust your headset because we can just tell like you're 00:29:18.160 --> 00:29:21.560 not getting the sharpest like picture because it uses the inner camera. 00:29:21.560 --> 00:29:24.560 So like see the IPDs you should have. Very cool. 00:29:24.560 --> 00:29:28.760 Compared to our battery life, $1,500. 00:29:28.760 --> 00:29:32.640 The battery life is nuts. 00:29:32.640 --> 00:29:40.840 For me, I want to just give a shout out to Meta for using the pro moniker in a actually 00:29:40.840 --> 00:29:46.960 correct way. It's a, they specifically targeted professionals. 00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:50.040 It's actually a pro device. 00:29:50.040 --> 00:29:53.680 And the price reflects that because it's supposed to be bought by your business who wants you 00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:57.000 to, I don't know, have a $1,500 desk. 00:29:57.000 --> 00:30:01.360 Because like when you compare the price to like the Valve index, that was like $1,200, 00:30:01.360 --> 00:30:04.360 wasn't it? Yeah. So like $300 more. 00:30:04.360 --> 00:30:08.040 And this does a lot more than that headset. Except for stay on. Yeah. 00:30:08.040 --> 00:30:12.040 Well, I mean, just. It's the battery. Oh no, the index is not wired. 00:30:12.040 --> 00:30:17.560 No, it's wired. So really, this is. Can you, and this one can just be plugged in the whole time? 00:30:17.560 --> 00:30:23.200 I think it's a CRB. I think it took a lot of flak when it came out. 00:30:23.200 --> 00:30:26.880 I'm going to put it in B because like the sound quality, the mic quality, if you've 00:30:26.880 --> 00:30:30.040 actually used it and like VR, it is very good. 00:30:30.040 --> 00:30:33.040 It's just. It's really comfortable. It is. 00:30:33.040 --> 00:30:36.040 Oh, the nothing phone. Bell really liked it. I think. 00:30:36.040 --> 00:30:44.800 I don't know anything about it. I know nothing about it. I bought the earbuds and I have two of them, both of them I've had to repair with tape 00:30:44.800 --> 00:30:50.880 and CA glue. So I think we can just put an F tier based on my experience with the brand. 00:30:50.880 --> 00:30:54.520 How long have you had those headphones? Six months. 00:30:54.520 --> 00:30:57.520 Oh, that's bad. You should not have to put them in that quickly. Yeah. 00:30:57.520 --> 00:31:00.520 And they price-hiked them too. Oh my God. Okay. 00:31:00.520 --> 00:31:05.960 I haven't gotten to use the nothing phone, not because I haven't wanted to. I just didn't win that at the company Christmas party. 00:31:05.960 --> 00:31:09.480 I really wanted to. It seems like it does some interesting stuff. 00:31:09.480 --> 00:31:12.600 I really just can't really comment. I think I want to put it down here. 00:31:12.600 --> 00:31:17.280 Yeah. Otherwise, I'd probably be putting it in a CRB because it's at least compelling enough 00:31:17.280 --> 00:31:24.020 to make me want to buy it like now. It's such a height-beasted device that I want to hate it more, but it's... 00:31:24.020 --> 00:31:27.740 I've used it. Yeah. So I took it for like a week and used it because I really liked it. 00:31:27.740 --> 00:31:33.940 I was going to buy it. I'm all about just the look of the phone. The RGB, the lighting I should say, not RGB, looks great. 00:31:33.940 --> 00:31:40.180 Using the phone is not great. It's like too simple. I'm an iPhone person, so maybe it's just part of it because of Android, but I found stuff 00:31:40.180 --> 00:31:44.100 like hitched a little bit because it's only a mid-range CPU. 00:31:44.100 --> 00:31:47.540 And like because there's just so much lacking in the phone, there's sometimes where you 00:31:47.540 --> 00:31:51.740 just go to do something that just doesn't really happen. It's also way bigger than you think. 00:31:51.740 --> 00:31:56.540 It's like a plus-size phone, which I'm not a huge fan of. 00:31:56.540 --> 00:32:00.060 And I don't know. It looks really cool, though, and people would ask me about it all the time. 00:32:00.060 --> 00:32:04.300 So I'm really excited for their second one, but this one's kind of like okay. 00:32:04.300 --> 00:32:08.660 Yeah. I think I'm really looking forward to a nothing flagship type device. 00:32:08.660 --> 00:32:11.660 Yeah. Because I'm going to give it a B because it looks great. Yeah. 00:32:11.660 --> 00:32:14.660 We're going to give it a S. Sure. That's a... 00:32:14.660 --> 00:32:17.780 Oh, nothing phone. That's the nothing phone. B. 00:32:18.780 --> 00:32:22.020 Almost A. It's right in there. If there was an A minus... 00:32:22.020 --> 00:32:25.540 It's really cool. It's like the designer's phone. It is. 00:32:25.540 --> 00:32:28.540 It's like I actually care about what I... You know what? A because of how... 00:32:28.540 --> 00:32:34.460 Because it's the designer's phone. It's also an A because it's like it's finally something different than just a boring glass 00:32:34.460 --> 00:32:39.020 bag. I want notification LEDs back, and this is the closest we're getting. 00:32:39.020 --> 00:32:43.220 RIP Blackbird. The 4090. 00:32:43.220 --> 00:32:46.300 It is. 00:32:46.300 --> 00:32:49.340 To me, it's a C at best. A C at best. 00:32:49.340 --> 00:33:03.740 I think between the QC issues with starting fires and the size and the insane power usage, 00:33:03.740 --> 00:33:07.900 it could be the most powerful graphics card on the market, and it is, and that doesn't 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:14.660 make up for those things. The only time I can see anybody really even needing this right now... 00:33:14.660 --> 00:33:17.980 Okay, needing. Getting it. Go ahead. 00:33:17.980 --> 00:33:21.460 Is if they're doing rendering, because right now it is the best rendering graphics card. 00:33:21.460 --> 00:33:25.980 Even the Quadros can't touch it, which kind of makes you wonder why are we even making 00:33:25.980 --> 00:33:30.460 Quadros, but... I feel like we should put it as a B. 00:33:30.460 --> 00:33:36.980 All right. It's like, in some ways it's an S, in some ways it's like a D. 00:33:36.980 --> 00:33:43.820 It's the most expensive thing, but it's also kind of the best thing, and I guess we've included 00:33:43.820 --> 00:33:47.700 prices in our judgments. But... 00:33:47.700 --> 00:33:55.780 Is it better than an XTX7900XS? Like by numerically, yes, unless you're playing Call of Duty. 00:33:55.780 --> 00:34:00.260 It's the only, like, I put in the S tier. 00:34:00.260 --> 00:34:03.420 S tier. It's like the... Wow. 00:34:03.420 --> 00:34:10.260 S tier. Wow. It's zero compromises, and it doesn't compromise on price. 00:34:10.260 --> 00:34:13.420 And it can rage race. 00:34:13.420 --> 00:34:18.500 I don't know, it's a crazy piece of engineering with a ridiculous price, but one of the things 00:34:18.500 --> 00:34:26.820 that I've been so annoyed about hearing is people being like, how dare NVIDIA not let 00:34:26.820 --> 00:34:30.340 me buy their stuff or, like, make something that's too expensive for me. 00:34:30.340 --> 00:34:33.740 It's like no one's getting mad at Lamborghini. Why are you calling me out like this, man, you know? 00:34:33.740 --> 00:34:37.580 Like, Lamborghini sold a $100,000 vehicle. 00:34:37.580 --> 00:34:41.700 I can't buy that. What is a driver supposed to do? 00:34:41.700 --> 00:34:47.660 It's like, don't buy it. Common section, just know I don't have the same feelings when you're putting angry comments. 00:34:47.660 --> 00:34:50.780 It's just Adam. It's just Adam making fun of people. Just buy it. 00:34:50.780 --> 00:34:53.780 Just buy the graphics card you can afford. S tier just for the price. I hate NVIDIA. 00:34:53.780 --> 00:34:58.740 And I hate NVIDIA. I hate them so much. They suck to work with. 00:34:58.740 --> 00:35:07.340 That's a tough one. It's really fast. It's only, okay, everyone hates the price, but the $30.90 was only $100 less at MSRP two 00:35:07.340 --> 00:35:14.820 years ago. So that's about inflation. I also don't hate how expensive it is. 00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:19.940 It's the Halo flagship product. Yeah, I'm okay with Halo cards being stupid. 00:35:19.940 --> 00:35:25.660 But I really hate that the $40.80 isn't almost as fast for $800. 00:35:25.660 --> 00:35:28.660 That's the problem. A tier? A tier? 00:35:28.660 --> 00:35:35.180 Yeah. Yeah. If it was like $200 cheaper, I'd be tempted to put an S tier. 00:35:35.180 --> 00:35:38.460 If the $40.80 was better, it would be S tier. 00:35:38.460 --> 00:35:43.140 Well speaking of can't afford this, Samsung Odyssey Arc. What a miserable fail. 00:35:43.140 --> 00:35:46.140 What? This thing is cool. No, it's not. 00:35:46.140 --> 00:35:51.380 It isn't a picture-in-picture with the HDMI-Z plug-in, though. It's terrible with everything it's supposed to do. 00:35:51.380 --> 00:35:57.900 It fails at being a good TV. It fails at being a good monitor because it doesn't like, it like fails at being picture-in-picture 00:35:57.900 --> 00:36:02.540 because you can't actually have, it doesn't actually do proper dual displays. 00:36:02.540 --> 00:36:07.740 My Samsung Odyssey G9 does that properly, where it acts as like two separate monitors. 00:36:08.020 --> 00:36:11.460 So we're saying it's worse than the Flex. Yeah. 00:36:11.460 --> 00:36:16.420 Wow. I don't know a lot about it, but it just kind of seems big and gimmicky. 00:36:16.420 --> 00:36:21.340 It's huge. I don't think they're going to sell that many of them. It's kind of oppressive, I guess. 00:36:21.340 --> 00:36:25.140 It has smart monitor features too, didn't it? 00:36:25.140 --> 00:36:28.140 I think so. 00:36:28.140 --> 00:36:34.020 But I can't really remember. We're going to drop it down here just because it's like, it's just kind of irrelevant. 00:36:34.020 --> 00:36:40.340 It's kind of like the watch ultra. It's like, it's cool, but people probably shouldn't buy it. 00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:45.020 That one's cool, but it's just too cumbersome for me. Maybe beef just because it's funny. 00:36:45.020 --> 00:36:49.700 I'm sorry. Otherwise it's an F. 00:36:49.700 --> 00:36:54.340 It's just egregious. Actually, maybe C then. Because of just its egregiousness. 00:36:54.340 --> 00:36:58.060 It's so stupid, but it's funny. It's overpriced. It's oversized. 00:36:58.060 --> 00:37:02.860 It's over-curved, but it's damn hilarious, especially that one frame where Linus is like... 00:37:02.860 --> 00:37:07.940 Yeah, it's ridiculous. I honestly want to, okay. 00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:13.300 If it could do picture-in-picture or picture-by-picture on the one connect box that it has with the 00:37:13.300 --> 00:37:20.220 four HDMI 2.1 inputs, I would say this is S tier, but it can't. 00:37:20.220 --> 00:37:25.460 The only way it does the alternate pictures in the mode is with using the different apps. 00:37:25.460 --> 00:37:30.920 So you can't plug in three computers to it or whatever. Yeah, but who uses that, realistically? 00:37:30.920 --> 00:37:36.020 This is the monitor to use it on. It's enormous. 00:37:36.020 --> 00:37:40.860 The product photos of it just being over someone, it's amazing. 00:37:40.860 --> 00:37:44.660 I think that might take it to S tier. I'm okay with that. 00:37:44.660 --> 00:37:48.500 This thing was unique and it's very cool, so I'm okay with putting it up there with 00:37:48.500 --> 00:37:52.740 the Alienware. That's the sort of thing where in 10 years people will make a video being like, oh my 00:37:52.740 --> 00:37:55.940 god, I got the all the CR. Totally, totally. 00:37:55.940 --> 00:38:00.900 Pixel 7 Pro. Well, the Pixel 7 did really good in Marquez's test. 00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:07.260 So it got... With the camera? Well, no camera, yes, but they actually got what, phone of the year, MVP of the year for 00:38:07.260 --> 00:38:10.260 phone test? What? Nice. 00:38:10.260 --> 00:38:13.260 So, but that's not the pro. The pro adds money. It's a fun story. 00:38:13.260 --> 00:38:21.340 When I was writing about the Apple, sorry, the iPhone 14 Plus, it costs the same as the 00:38:21.340 --> 00:38:24.500 Pixel 7 Pro, so that was the camera I compared it again. 00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:29.380 I put it B tier because I want them to bring back actual physical fingerprint readers 00:38:29.380 --> 00:38:32.820 on the pixels. I hate underscreen fingerprint readers. 00:38:32.820 --> 00:38:37.100 I actually just had a conversation with David about this and apparently the 6a has the 00:38:37.100 --> 00:38:43.980 better camera. Oh, yeah. Marquez did a video and like everyone liked the 6a's camera more. 00:38:43.980 --> 00:38:47.380 Not the selfie camera, but... 00:38:47.380 --> 00:38:50.900 I feel like we should put it in B just beside the iPhone. 00:38:50.900 --> 00:38:53.900 That's fair. Yeah. Hey. 00:38:53.900 --> 00:38:57.340 Yeah, man. Don't they have like backlash shattering issues that just came out? 00:38:57.340 --> 00:39:01.900 Yeah, that happened this morning. And there's like buggy stuff with the software on every Google phone. 00:39:01.900 --> 00:39:05.140 It's always Android and Google though, so I guess how much do we excuse that? 00:39:05.140 --> 00:39:09.380 And if you want to move the iPhone up to BL, I think that's fair. 00:39:09.380 --> 00:39:12.900 Okay. Are we going to move to Samsung? No. 00:39:12.900 --> 00:39:15.900 Yeah. I think Samsung maybe should move up. Let's see. 00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:19.100 I legitimately know nothing about the Pixel phones. I know quite a bit about it. 00:39:19.100 --> 00:39:25.620 It's kind of iterative. I think it has the same camera sensors last year. 00:39:25.620 --> 00:39:31.180 It might have a slightly better tensor chip than last year, so it's like better at talking 00:39:31.180 --> 00:39:37.020 to it and transcribing in real time and stuff. I think I'd call it a B. 00:39:37.020 --> 00:39:41.020 Pixel watch? G-Cloud is what I don't know enough. 00:39:41.020 --> 00:39:45.020 C or F? It's a C. The battery life, the cracking. 00:39:45.020 --> 00:39:51.740 Yeah. It's just... But it's redeemed by being the second-best experience for a smart device that isn't 00:39:51.740 --> 00:39:54.900 an iPhone. The bezels? Because I was going to say it looks good, but... 00:39:54.900 --> 00:39:59.620 It's the second-best Wear OS experience behind the Samsung. 00:39:59.620 --> 00:40:08.420 And then it's like... But if we're doing just smart watch tier lists, it's like every iPhone, every Apple watch, 00:40:08.420 --> 00:40:13.220 and then Android. F tier. If it's not Apple. 00:40:13.220 --> 00:40:18.740 Good first entry, old SoC, resulting in not great battery life. 00:40:18.740 --> 00:40:22.060 I'm going to call that a B. 00:40:22.060 --> 00:40:25.060 I don't know. I've never tried it. I'm going, don't know. 00:40:25.060 --> 00:40:28.060 It's a good size. I'd have to put it with the other one. Yeah. 00:40:29.020 --> 00:40:32.020 It doesn't have like some things that you can't do on it because it's limited. 00:40:32.020 --> 00:40:39.340 Some things you can't do on it. It's only limited to the one size. The one size is kind of small for like the average male, honestly. 00:40:39.340 --> 00:40:42.860 There needs to be a pro version. Oh, the flip. I... 00:40:42.860 --> 00:40:47.540 Okay. I want to put this in like A or B at least because I really love flip phones still, even 00:40:47.540 --> 00:40:50.540 though it's like dumb. Yeah. It's cool. 00:40:50.540 --> 00:40:54.980 I mean, it's the sort of thing where like I would never buy one because it's too expensive. 00:40:54.980 --> 00:40:59.180 Yes. If I was given one, I would absolutely love it. 00:40:59.180 --> 00:41:02.180 I think A tier is good. Yeah. I'm down with A tier. 00:41:02.180 --> 00:41:05.180 Yeah. Then what's this guy, the fold? B tier maybe. 00:41:05.180 --> 00:41:08.180 Sure. It folds the wrong way. It folds. 00:41:08.180 --> 00:41:11.180 Yeah. It's not like the flip. Yeah. 00:41:11.180 --> 00:41:20.540 I hope that they release something with a bigger cover screen. I think that this is like, this was kind of a quiet year for foldables, at least from 00:41:20.540 --> 00:41:24.700 Samsung. The Z Flip 3 and the Flip 3 were both like really big improvements. 00:41:24.700 --> 00:41:33.020 Yeah. I mean, I think it and the Z Fold 4 were both kind of iterative and I don't think they 00:41:33.020 --> 00:41:38.820 changed much. So I'm kind of tempted to just like put them there. This is Austin Evans' favorite phone of life. 00:41:38.820 --> 00:41:41.820 Wow. Congratulations, Austin. Yeah. 00:41:41.820 --> 00:41:44.820 So if you hate Austin Evans, you will hate this. What's your choice? 00:41:44.820 --> 00:41:48.820 No. Just kidding. 00:41:48.820 --> 00:41:52.540 I think flip phones are cool. I think flip's are better than fold. That's probably... 00:41:52.540 --> 00:41:55.540 Oh, really? I think flip's are better than fold. 00:41:55.540 --> 00:41:58.540 I don't know. 00:41:58.540 --> 00:42:04.820 I feel like it depends on who you are, because the next one is the fold, so we're gonna have 00:42:04.820 --> 00:42:11.140 to discuss that anyway, but like the idea of the fold, the fold is more dynamic and 00:42:11.140 --> 00:42:19.740 more flexible. You have two devices and two levels of capability, whereas with the flip, it's more about compact 00:42:19.740 --> 00:42:27.980 and portability and a little bit of like a throwback to the old flip phones of your. 00:42:27.980 --> 00:42:32.420 Which were great. They were great, yeah. 00:42:32.420 --> 00:42:38.060 But like if you want to think about the future versus the past, I feel like the fold represents 00:42:38.060 --> 00:42:42.020 the future, whereas the flip is more... So what? 00:42:42.020 --> 00:42:46.260 That would be considered... I like getting concerned that that might be the S tier, one of our choices. 00:42:46.260 --> 00:42:52.060 I don't think it is. The reason why is because the Xiaomi one is way better, because it's actually as thin 00:42:52.060 --> 00:42:55.060 as a regular phone. Okay, fine. Put it in. 00:42:55.060 --> 00:43:00.380 Okay. And then the Steam Deck. That's gotta be up here. 00:43:00.380 --> 00:43:04.740 So I feel like the Steam Deck's not quite an S, and I want to make an argument for this. 00:43:04.740 --> 00:43:12.380 Let's hear it. Using the hardware that they did to keep costs low, the Nintendo model of making hardware 00:43:12.380 --> 00:43:15.460 essentially is great. 00:43:15.460 --> 00:43:25.980 I don't hate that, but it's kind of lacking in staying power. 00:43:25.980 --> 00:43:32.860 The hardware on it is weak enough where in a year's time, games that are coming out won't 00:43:32.860 --> 00:43:39.740 be running as good. In two years time... But the resolution's so low. 00:43:39.740 --> 00:43:43.540 You don't think it'll be able to run for a few years at least? 00:43:43.540 --> 00:43:49.380 It might have a couple of years. It depends on how long we're waiting for the next one to come out. 00:43:49.380 --> 00:43:52.380 Okay, here's an argument for being S tier though. 00:43:52.380 --> 00:44:00.620 Is it so disruptive? This is definitely the biggest, like, C changer in this whole group, I would say. 00:44:00.620 --> 00:44:06.420 Like, it's kind of just negating other products like the Ionio. 00:44:06.420 --> 00:44:12.940 It's kind of changing everything. It's even impacting how games are designed, like it's got that whole like Linux aspect 00:44:12.940 --> 00:44:17.540 to it. Yep. I do like it for that. 00:44:17.540 --> 00:44:23.580 I do like that it's finally moving Linux gaming forward at such a fast rate. 00:44:23.580 --> 00:44:27.820 Not that it wasn't moving forward before, but just... 00:44:27.820 --> 00:44:30.820 It's night and day. Yeah. I feel like... 00:44:30.820 --> 00:44:33.940 I also just feel like we gotta put something up there. Yeah. 00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:38.060 And if it's gonna be between that and the Alienware, I guess it's gonna be the Steam Deck. 00:44:38.060 --> 00:44:41.060 And now the Steam Deck. S tier. 100%. 00:44:41.060 --> 00:44:46.100 I have one. I love it. It is a fantastic device. 00:44:46.100 --> 00:44:51.940 It made me start playing games again. Yeah. I was like, oh, gaming, I'm getting a little burnt out, but once you get this and like 00:44:51.940 --> 00:44:57.700 the portability, I was playing Fallout 4 on like really high settings on the plane with 00:44:57.700 --> 00:45:02.020 mods and I was with a controller attached to it and I was like, this is awesome. 00:45:02.020 --> 00:45:09.860 Like an actual console experience wherever I go. It's an absolutely like paradigm shift and I think how people are looking at gaming. 00:45:09.860 --> 00:45:16.900 It's something that's come up in so many discussions. I listen to a lot of like gaming podcasts and stuff like that. 00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:20.660 And there's this whole category of people being like, it's a great Steam Deck game. 00:45:20.660 --> 00:45:26.180 And it's people taking a new look at portable gaming, which is a section that kind of was 00:45:26.180 --> 00:45:33.420 killed by the phone because your phone became as powerful as your like DS and stuff like 00:45:33.420 --> 00:45:41.900 that and then it didn't really matter anymore. But now it's changing it and it's giving us this access to this wealth is absolute insane 00:45:41.900 --> 00:45:47.140 amount of games. I think it's really right. And I think it's at the very least A tier. 00:45:47.140 --> 00:45:52.220 I don't think it's S just because like, I don't know, man, the battery life. 00:45:52.220 --> 00:45:56.780 I don't know. I might be willing to give it S tier because think about how much optimization there has 00:45:56.780 --> 00:45:59.940 been for Linux gaming because of this. That's actually true. 00:45:59.940 --> 00:46:03.540 It has really pioneered a lot in the Linux space as well as the handheld space. 00:46:03.540 --> 00:46:06.740 Like a lot of people are really trying to compete with the Steam Deck now. 00:46:06.740 --> 00:46:11.740 So just for the competition's sake, I yeah, okay, I'm down because the Steam Deck probably 00:46:11.740 --> 00:46:17.900 is S tier. I would say is the S tier one because yes, it's huge. 00:46:17.900 --> 00:46:21.220 But what are you getting with it? You're getting so much value in it for its price. 00:46:21.220 --> 00:46:24.620 You know, you're either paying for a Switch OLED or paying for this. 00:46:24.620 --> 00:46:27.620 Yeah. Sure. It doesn't come with the dock. 00:46:27.620 --> 00:46:34.900 Like the switch does it. Can I play beam ng on that? I will play, but like it's like 30 to 60 on the medium, but you could play it. 00:46:34.900 --> 00:46:46.460 You'll be on the page. Tell me if you can play beam ng. 00:46:46.460 --> 00:46:50.580 Just for fun. 00:46:50.580 --> 00:46:50.700 Yeah.