{"video_id":"w5HSirKRHmU","title":"Fractal Design Booth Featuring JOSH!! Arc XL, Arc Mini R2 - Computex 2013","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2014-05-07T14:53:29Z","duration_s":392,"segments":[{"start_s":0.16,"end_s":6.799,"text":"Linus TechTips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital. Our","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.88,"end_s":12.2,"text":"trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.88,"end_s":12.2,"text":"is ncx.com.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":14.32,"end_s":21.199,"text":"So Fractals's booth is has this augmented reality type of concept going","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.279,"end_s":26.16,"text":"on here. So I'm holding what appears to be some kind of tablet-like device.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.359,"end_s":30.8,"text":"Johan, tell me how this works. Okay. So what we realized is that we want to come","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":28.4,"end_s":34.48,"text":"closer to the end users and end user customers you know want to see our","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":32.399,"end_s":39.52,"text":"products. So the first thing is like a standard mobile app where you can","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":36.64,"end_s":43.84,"text":"actually see product pictures, product sheets and stuff like that. But we also","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":41.36,"end_s":47.36,"text":"added this augmented reality face. I think you have to hold it really still","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":45.28,"end_s":56.079,"text":"like there. which means I have a trigger image here and when I move my","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":52.32,"end_s":58.719,"text":"my tablet or my phone with Android or","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":56.079,"end_s":63.68,"text":"iOS, I can actually in real time see the products and make them rotate and zoom","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":60.96,"end_s":68.799,"text":"in and zoom out. Here I change in our new Arc XL model and it makes it a","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":67.119,"end_s":73.04,"text":"little bit more fun to actually go through our product range. Very cool. So","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":71.6,"end_s":79.84,"text":"we're going to go through these products. Do you have any of these here in person? 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I mean, can you do","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":317.12,"end_s":324.16,"text":"that at the same time? It's called multitasking. Excellent.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":322.08,"end_s":327.12,"text":"Like, I'm not moving the mic over to you to say stuff like that. You can't say","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":325.44,"end_s":332.08,"text":"stuff like that. Look, let's focus on the case, man. Look, it's got a removable top. It's got a fan filter.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":330.4,"end_s":335.28,"text":"You didn't even tell me that. Because you should have already known that. How","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":334.0,"end_s":339.12,"text":"am I supposed to know that? You didn't send me one of these. You know everything. Come on. You know","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":337.759,"end_s":344.08,"text":"everything. I think you're the last person in the world to believe anything like that. I didn't say I believed it. 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Yeah, way way up there in terms of how full of themselves","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":372.8,"end_s":378.88,"text":"they are. Oh, it's very compact in this one. It's","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":376.0,"end_s":385.52,"text":"very dense right here. I'm not dense. Is that what you're implying? No, the self-","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":381.12,"end_s":388.319,"text":"assuredness is dense. It's very dense.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":385.52,"end_s":392.639,"text":"I still have less gravity than you. Okay, I'll give you that. I'll give you","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":389.919,"end_s":392.639,"text":"that.","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0}],"full_text":"Linus TechTips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital. Our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is ncx.com. So Fractals's booth is has this augmented reality type of concept going on here. So I'm holding what appears to be some kind of tablet-like device. Johan, tell me how this works. Okay. So what we realized is that we want to come closer to the end users and end user customers you know want to see our products. So the first thing is like a standard mobile app where you can actually see product pictures, product sheets and stuff like that. But we also added this augmented reality face. I think you have to hold it really still like there. which means I have a trigger image here and when I move my my tablet or my phone with Android or iOS, I can actually in real time see the products and make them rotate and zoom in and zoom out. Here I change in our new Arc XL model and it makes it a little bit more fun to actually go through our product range. Very cool. So we're going to go through these products. Do you have any of these here in person? Definitely step in and we can take a quick look. Here we go. Welcome to the Fractal Design booth where everyone's best friend Josh is pretending that he's tall again. It's all a trick of the box. It's a trick of the camera. It's just a total Well, dude, what's your He's check us out. All right. So, speaking of checking things out, the first thing we have right here is the Arxel. Can you tell me about the arxel? Well, there's a space. So, it' be the Ark XL. Yeah. You want a little bit closer? I got confused because uh you know when you said that you were developing a new product. You were there was some kind of potty language. So, I assume you were developing like the Arsol and so I thought maybe you changed the name slightly and that's why we ended up with this. But, but this is actually another addition of the Ark. Exactly. So, it's basically the big brother to the Arc Midi R2. Uh what you're looking at is a full tower case as compared to a midtower case in the Arc Midi. And all the features you love in the Ark Mid R2 are available here as well as redesigned SSD mounts in the back. Okay, so basically guys, it's taller, which is not necessarily always better and doesn't really indicate anything else about its physique. It has hard drive cages down here that are removable in addition to four 3 and 1/2 in or 2 and 1/2 in cages that go right about here. So you don't have to compromise all of your hard drive expandability if you want to put in a nice thick radiator. Just like that. Full support for a triple radiator up here in the top. You can see there's no interference with the motherboard itself. So you don't have to worry about the size of the VRM heat sinks or the size of your RAM heat sinks or anything along those lines. It has nine expansion slots. Means you can do pretty much whatever you want in terms of motherboard size. Again though, size is not always the thing that is most important about this stuff. But let's go ahead and have Josh tell us about a more sensibly sized case. Josh, can you even reach this case from all the way up there? Yeah. Well, this is our Linus model as compared to the Josh model back there. So, what we're looking at is the Arc Mini R2. It's a mini tower case. And what you have right here is a full custom customization. Basically, we have a real fat 360m radiator in the top. Uh if you notice that, it's almost as long as the case itself. We can also support fat radiators in the front. Both uh drive cages are removable as well as the optical drive cages being removable in this one. So if you want to have an optical drive, you can. If you want to go high rads, you can do that as well. And if you go around to the back, you can check out our new SSD mounting system. So come on back here. So the new SSD mounting system does not require the motherboard to be removed from the case because all you have to do is undo these screws and then you can pop the whole thing off and then you can mount the SSDs or unmount them to the case just the way you want to. And check this out. enough room for cable management. That is a 24 pin cable right there bundled with a whole bunch of other stuff. And this side panel, by my estimation, looks like it does indeed close. So, what this really indicates to me is that the Arc Mini R2 is more like the the functional model that doesn't really feel like it's compensating for anything by sort of, you know, going over the top and, you know, just doing things for the sake of, you know, not necessarily the experience of of using this device. so to speak, but more to do with the the the functionality. Uh so here, I don't know if you ever got a good view of that, but that radiator on there is about this thick. Okay, so that is a push configuration right now. Now, one thing you got to watch out for, guys, is if you go crazy on this, you're going to make want to make sure you have compatibility with low profile DIMs as well as a motherboard that doesn't have like massive heat sinks coming out the top. But the reality of it is this is a lot of computer in a very small case and it can uh it can run every bit as fast as the uh Excel over there. Thank you Josh. Oh, thank you. You guys don't know what we're thanking each other for yet. Yeah, we're just thanking each other for being awesome or you're thanking me for being awesome. I'm thanking you for just being here next to my awesomeness. I I'm bathing in it. Basking. Basking and bathing. I mean, can you do that at the same time? It's called multitasking. Excellent. Like, I'm not moving the mic over to you to say stuff like that. You can't say stuff like that. Look, let's focus on the case, man. Look, it's got a removable top. It's got a fan filter. You didn't even tell me that. Because you should have already known that. How am I supposed to know that? You didn't send me one of these. You know everything. Come on. You know everything. I think you're the last person in the world to believe anything like that. I didn't say I believed it. I was just saying it. I mean, didn't you invent the tree? Um, I think we're done here. Don't miss Oh, are you are you still rolling? Oh, man. Don't miss any of our Computex 2013 coverage, guys. We're powered by WD here at the show this year. We are also powered by Corsair Vengeance gaming peripherals and ncx.com. As always, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos. Hopefully up here. Yeah, way way up there in terms of how full of themselves they are. Oh, it's very compact in this one. It's very dense right here. I'm not dense. Is that what you're implying? No, the self- assuredness is dense. It's very dense. I still have less gravity than you. Okay, I'll give you that. I'll give you that."}