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Western Digital. Hey guys, we're here in the Venetian ballroom checking out Stagger Dynamics. I know you guys have
seen them before. They've been in some of our contests before. I know a lot of you are familiar with them, but you're
also familiar with the crazy price point. So, there's two really cool
things that they've brought here to CES. The first one is the Maven. It's a
cheaper version of the Elite that used to be around. It's a little bit uh
costed down, but it's also a little bit featured down. But I think a lot of you will really appreciate that because you
can still get the build quality and really really nice finish and quality
components that you could in the Elite, but it's just a little bit costed down. So, it's a lot more uh affordable and
easier for people to get at. It's it's still a premium product and it still has
a premium price tag, just not quite as expensive it used to be. So, it's
actually quite interesting. Also, they now have other options for platforms.
So, if you're into AMD, they have configurable options for you to be able
to get AMD platforms in there and you can still change everything else and
that's really interesting to see. I know a lot of you guys are really interested in Steam Machine and really excited for
Steam OS to become fully released and not beta anymore, but this is something
you can look into. We see a lot of stuff around CES and before CES about
different companies releasing Steam machines. This isn't necessarily a Steam
machine, but if you're into it, I would look into this because a lot of the other Steam machines, you might as well
just build them yourselves. With a Ster Dynamics system, you're getting that
amazingly beautifully finished case that you can't really get anywhere else. So,
I see more value in this than another system that I would rather just build
myself. Next, at Ster Dynamics, we have the Couchmaster Pro. As for features and
build and all that kind of stuff, there isn't a ton of changes. They've moved from a wooden top to a plastic top,
which will reduce weight for shipping costs and will just reduce weight in
general because that wooden top did actually weigh quite a bit. Other than that, there hasn't been a ton of
changes. There's some minor cable routing stuff that's changed, and that's about it. But there's another really
cool announcement here is that Ster Dynamics is distributing it. So you can
get it from an American distributor now instead of trying to get it shipped in from Germany all the time, which was
really expensive back in the day. So it's a lot easier for you to get it get it now. Thanks for watching our video on
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