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HyperX. All right, so before we were so rudely interrupted there, we were trying
to start a video here in the Intel PR
suite. Now, this is the first time I've ever actually managed to get in touch
with Intel's PR folks. a uh an error that both sides are we're sort of quick
to hug it out over and uh you know make up and we're going to work together
moving forward in the future. But the whole point of what they're showing here
is the importance of benchmarks and not just benchmarks but benchmarks that can
be validated and that can be trusted. So there's three basic types of benchmarks
in the world. There's going to be your consortium benchmarks where there's a
group of large companies that all work together to keep each other in check and
make sure that everything is fair and balanced in the results. There's going to be your open- source benchmarks that
are going to have communities behind them that are going to I mean sometimes maybe you got to pay 20 bucks like the
one that's over to my right there in order to have a peek at the source code, make sure there's no tom foolery. We'll
talk about that one in a minute. Then there's your closed benchmarks which often you'll have to pay an exorbitant
fee in order to get access to the source code and poke at it. So really there's
no community moderation. So the point of all this was they're showing off Tablet
Mark. Why do they care about Tablet Mark? Well, Tablet Mark's from Bapco.
And the reason they care about it is because for the first time in a while,
Intel has what they feel is a clear and
solid lead in the tablet. Excuse me. Sorry, did I say tablet? I meant PC
space. Uh PCs that are extremely thin,
have screens on one side, backings on the other, not a ton of IO. Okay, I'm
just going to call them tablets. I'm sorry guys. So they have a the a
position in the tablet space that puts them in a well a very very strong
position moving forward. So here they're showing off some pretty crazy stuff.
This right here is a CoreM5y70. This is a Broadwell based chip that turbos up to
2.6 GHz. So the kinds of use cases that
they want to show off with tablet Mark are going to be your typical tablet things. So adding filters to a photo,
web browsing, video playback, stuff like that. And this one in particular is a
consortium benchmark. So there's a group a large group of companies very large
companies that are trying to make it so that well it's in it's important for
them to validate on their side but also so that consumers know what to look for
when they're shopping for a tablet. Now, moving over here, we've got an example
of this is a this is just an open completely open benchmark. And this
one's really different from that one in that it's called CR Expert. And unlike
that one, which is actually Android, iOS, and Windows crossplatform, allowing
us to finally actually know how the iPad
compares to an Android tablet compared to a Windows table. Excuse me, PC.
Sorry, did I say tablet again? compared to a very slim Windows PC with a screen
on one side. This one only runs on Chrome OS. It does the same kind of
stuff. So, it's going to run through your, you know, your typical web
browsing, look up your stock portfolio, whatever else the case may be. But the
reason this one came about was because we didn't really have a way of knowing
aside from, I don't know, like click refresh with like a stopwatch and see if
you can figure out like how fast the page loaded. We didn't really have a way
to quantify, well, who makes the best Chromebook? And here they've got some
solutions from, you know, Intel and
brand N or brand A. Actually, they did.
They put labels right on it. I guess it's cuz this is a press suite and not necessarily meant to have people running
around in here videoing. But the idea was to quantify, well, which Chromebook
actually is the best and gives you the best battery life after all. And it's
not an Intel benchmark. This is an open benchmark. So, so the point of working
with these guys is it's going to enable a new types of projects that we not
couldn't necessarily tackle in the past. So, you guys have loved seeing stuff
like our whole room liquid cooling thing. Well, we've had a lot of people
ask us for stuff like, "Hey, it's back to school. I got to buy a notebook. How
do I determine which one's the best one?" Well, with with some assistance on
streamlining the process, we want to hear from you guys what type of content
you want to see from us in terms of stuff that's more roundup oriented
because we don't have a team of, you know, 16 people to run around and, you
know, benchmark Chromebooks all day. So if these guys are pointing us in the right direction, providing us with a
bunch of stuff from Intel, we go and we find stuff from competitors. We get some
feedback from those guys as well. Make sure we're presenting the most balanced suite possible. That gives us way a way
more authoritative voice on this kind of what should you buy type content. So
leave comments on this video. I will be checking them out. Let us know what you
want us to benchmark particularly on the mobile side. So guys, thanks for
watching this video uh in the Intel like
PR suite that I've never been present for before. They have so much cool stuff
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