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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?
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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.