Thanks to Razer for sending us to PAX West 2016. They just released a new
Blade Stealth. Check it out in the description down below. So, I am now
sick and that is a bad thing, but this is also sick and that's a good thing.
It's a massive ROG G800 laptop from
ASUS. It has a 6820 HQ i7 processor, a
GTX 1080 desktop glass graphics card, an
18.4 4 inch 4K IPS screen, 64 gigs of
DDR4 memory, and 1 terabte of NVMe PCIe
SSD storage. Damn. Now, literally on top
of almost all of that is one of their main key features, and that is their
Mech Tag mechanical keyboard. Now, they will tell me almost nothing about it.
They won't tell me its response time. They won't tell me its total travel
distance. They won't tell me when it actuates. Nothing. What I do know is
that while you're pressing down, partway through, there is a tactile bump. That
is all I can tell you. Near the top of the keyboard, you will notice an ROG
button that will open up the Republic of Gamers Gaming Center where you can set
up the M1, M2, and M3 keys to change the
functionality of your F keys to custom macros depending on what game you're
playing. On the lefth hand side, you have a headphone and microphone jack,
one USB 3 type A port, two USB type-C
connectors, a mini DisplayPort, HDMI and Ethernet jacks, and a big power
connector that requires you to squeeze it kind of like a DisplayPort in order
to disconnect it. And above that, a Kensington lock. On the right hand side,
they have a much lower selection of things. There are two USB 3 ports and
one SD card reader. On the front, there's just a couple speaker ports. And
then on the back, things get a little funky. There's four passroughs for water
cooling and one pass through for power. This will be for the large water cooler
add-on if you get the GX model. It is
not clear at this time if they will be selling the water cooler add-on by
itself for people that don't buy the GX model and want to upgrade down the line.
So, I'll have to wait till later to try to figure that out. On the bottom,
there's four metallic connecting points. Those are for connecting to the dock,
which is not actually the water cooler. Those are two different things and two
of them are just for extending off of the dock. There's also this mysterious
glass panel which may or may not have something to do with the water cooling.
I'm really not sure. They like won't really tell me and I I don't know. But
I'm getting a G800 GX to review in
office in a little while. So hopefully I'll be able to know then. So stay tuned
for that video. In terms of all the juicy performance numbers and stuff like
that, you'll just have to wait until I get it in Office. They have Doom set up
here right now, but they're running VSSync, so I'm not entirely sure how
fast it's actually able to run the game. I'll have extensive numbers both with
and without the water cooler once I get this guy to personally test. Anyways,
thank you to Razer for sending us here this year. We have recently passed three
million subscribers and Razer is helping us celebrate by giving away a Blade
Stealth with some custom art on it designed by Ed Zilyago in-house back at
the Linus Media Group Studios in Canada. So check that out. Link video
description down below. Enter to win. I'll see you next time.