And we're live. So, I promised a special guest, and I should
probably deliver the special guest a little bit earlier than I had
anticipated because it looks like he's starting to get a little bit cranky.
Come here, sweetheart. Come on. Oh, his
mom's handing him to me. There we go. So, for those of you who haven't been
following me on Twitter, so if you haven't seen uh my baby yet, because
I've posted quite a few videos of him, but I have them unlisted on YouTube, so
only really the uh the Twitter followers are seeing them for the most part when I
post the links. This is my baby boy. He is, what is the date today? He'll be six
months old in two days, and that makes
him five months. And
28 or 29 days old. So, this is what he
looks like. The only reason that he's joining us tonight is because he is a
brat. This is what he looks like and he was supposed to have gone to bed is because
he Yeah, you were supposed to have gone to bed. You want to tell me about why you're not in bed? Supposed to have gone
to bed. Oh, he's looking at the looking at the monitor here, which is
You want to tell me about Are you Are you transfixed by Twitter?
Is that going to be your favorite thing to do when you're older? You know what? They'll probably have a new thing. They
probably won't have Twitter anymore. Is that going to be your favorite thing to
do when you're older? You know what? His eyes are starting to get tired. Hopefully his mom can Yes. Oh, wait. I
have another tab open. What tab? Hold on. Hopefully his mom can What's the
problem? Oh, wait. I have another tab. What tab?
Hold on. Problem. Oh, wait.
There we go. Should be good. Nope. It's not echo. It's because the uh
the system still had sound on. I had to mute the sound.
No, it's not echo. Are we good? Because the uh the system there's such a delay on the on the
stream that it's hard for us to know if
it's good. No, it's not good.
Okay, hold on a minute.
Not fixed. Uhoh. Hold on a minute. Okay,
now we have a problem. Not
uh here. Can you take him for a second? Now we have a problem. Here you go.
Hold on. Let me just see. Is this still monitoring? Here you go.
Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Hello. Sounds off. Is this still monitoring?
Do I have multiple Hello. Hello. Hello.
Okay. Hold on. Hold on, guys. Hold on. Do I have multiple?
I moved everything around tonight. Okay. Hold on. Hold on, guys. Hold on.
Do I moved everything around tonight? How about now?
Hold on. Hold on, guys. Still have an echo. I moved everything around.
How about now? How about now? Are we good? No.
What do you mean it's worse? It's only left ear. Okay, that that
mean it's worse. It's only
worse. Uh, wait. Here's an idea. Hold on. We'll try
this. Uh, wait. How about now? Is there
still an echo? Still an echo. Hold on. I'm going to
switch the uh switch the sound back. So,
it should be both on input one.
Do we not have an echo anymore? We good? Okay. Six. Yes. Baby back.
Baby back. Baby back. Baby back. Baby back. There we go. So, do you want to
give the the uh the Twitch audience and maybe some YouTube people who are
watching and wherever else from all over the internet that uh that all these
people are are tuning in from? Maybe give them a nice big smile. Just wants
to stare at the screen. He's watching the Twitch chat, which quite frankly is
usually pretty inappropriate for babies
because of the kind of stuff you guys are putting in there. And he's starting
to get tired. So, for those of you who don't have babies already, when they
start to rub their eyes and their ears, that means they are starting to get
tired. Yes, he does have a big diaper. It is because he's wearing cloth
diapers. So, we have a diaper service that's uh actually cheaper than
disposables. And cloth diapers are pretty expensive to buy these days. So,
that's why we decided to go with that route because we don't know how many
babies we're having, and it's cheaper to rent them than to buy them. So, there
you go. Yeah, Eco Linus. No, more like practical Linus. Um,
let's see if there's anyone who's sending in any messages on Twitter. We
can just kind of see what's going on over there. I'm just going to change my
scene here. 26 new interactions. Holy
smokes. Hey, Linus. It's Flip. Okay. Hi,
Flip. I'm wondering how do you split your screen between the camera and your
computer screen in XSplit? Um, well, I
use XSplit to to add additional things
and then you just kind of resize them. They have a video about it. So, it's
pretty pretty straightforward. And what else we got? I was IP banned from Twitch
and I don't know why. Well, if you um if
you tweet John's well, his Twitter
handle is John's Fatcock. If you tweet him, you can probably ask uh Lionus for
gaming with games with amazing graphics like BF3 and Metro 2033 670 or 7950 with
the latest drivers from AMD. I don't know if you guys have seen this yet, but
AMD released new drivers that are just
balling. We're looking at 10 15% performance improvements in modern games
with their Southern Islands family of cards. So that's all the Radeon 7000
series cards. Now you can see what's got him transfixed now is the Microsoft
Surface. He loves phones and he
especially seems to like the Microsoft Surface right now. So this will be the
first footage on the internet of a baby
using Microsoft Surface. Sweetheart, that's not how it works. Okay, hold on.
Hold on. Hold on. It's pressure sensitive. You got to be careful.
Hold on. I got to put in the password for you. You know, parental locks and
all that. This is important. This is how he uses the Surface. I'm not saying that
you should use it the same way. Um, the pressure sensitive keyboard is uh
responding well to his gestures,
which basically amounts to mashing the keyboard. This is a very positive thing
already about the pressure sensitive keyboard on the surface because if uh if
this was a real keyboard Oh. Oh, I don't want you to eat that, sweetie. No, no,
babies are not surfaces are not for baby eating. So, well, nothing's for baby
eating. Nobody should be eating babies. But, uh, what I meant to say is that
it's not for babies to eat. That That's really what I meant to say. Okay. Yeah,
you're typing. See, look at him swiping in the uh the contextual menu there.
Here, try this. I want you to I want you to swipe in from the side like that. Can
you do that, sweetheart?
Okay. Well, he's going to mash the keyboard somewhere. There you go. Okay. Yeah, that's very
good. You're doing really well.
That might be the best we're going to get from him in terms of of using the
surface. Like I said, he's only six months old at this point, you guys. So,
uh, there you go. That's Yeah, he's he's
he's like he's all over that here. You know what? Here's an interesting test.
Okay, sweetie. Which one do you want?
Surface or iPad. So, let's grab the iPad. Let's put
something similar on the display. So, let's just uh let's find out if he's
going to be an Apple fanboy or if he's going to be more of a more of a
Microsoft home dog. Okay, here we go. Okay, here we go. So,
I'm going to put the baby between each one and let's see which one he goes for
here.
He wants both. Okay, now we know. So, it looks like
he's just going to be a general technophile just like his dad.
And I can't take Can't take his eye off that. Okay. So, I think I do want to get
going with the stream now. So, everyone say bye to our special guest. Can you
say bye? Can No, you're just going to stare at the surface. He's He's leaning
on me really hard. He's trying to get over there. Whoa. Yeah. What if we
dropped it? That would be not so good. Here you go. All
right, guys. So, thanks for bearing with me here. I know that was more of a
distraction than anything else, but uh hopefully you enjoyed it as much as I
did. He had a very good time, I think. What do you think, Mom? Yeah, I'm I'm
getting the I'm getting the nod over there. I think he enjoyed joining us on
the stream here. So, as you guys may or
may not have noticed, I'm in a new set this time. I have a completely new sort
of thing going on. And honestly, this was a total mess to set up. I'm just
going to go take over the camera for a second here. Flip it into uh auto mode
so I can show you guys what I've got going on in the middle of my living room
right now. It's not pretty, but uh if I can figure
I can't even figure out how to change this camera from like auto mode to
manual mode. It's so complicated. Okay, we're in auto mode now. So, that's me.
There's my mouse pad. Got the uh like the middle cushion folded down on the
couch. And then this is the monitor I've set up so that I can read tweets this
week. That was a big problem for me last week. I couldn't actually control the
computer that I was using to stream the video. So, here is that computer almost
directly under the camera in my Anttech P280 case. And it's is it zooming in?
Wow. the weight of the weight of the lens.
Ah, zoomed it in as IO moved it down there. That's not what I meant to do.
And that's my sweater. And then here's all the tablets that I have for us
tonight. So there's the ASUS TF700.
There's the iPad 2. Don't have an iPad
3. Not sold on the iPad 3 to be perfectly honest. There's a Surface. And
then the other one is hiding somewhere I think. Oh yeah. Yeah. It's on the floor
dome there behind the table. So, oh yes,
check this out. Check this out. You guys are going to love this. Darth Vader Pez.
I promise to bring that out later in the stream. And I hope I have this lined up
right because if I don't, my my wife
who's holding the baby as well is going to have to try and figure out how to uh
how to reimulate this at me. Yeah, it's not quite right. My head is cut off. And
my head is no longer cut off. Excellent. Thank you.
All right, let's do a little bit of Q&A before we get into what will be the bulk
of the setup or bulk of the live stream for tonight, which is going to be
Windows 8, Windows RT, and then with particular emphasis on this tablet
because cameraman and I actually spent I mean, we obviously haven't had a ton of
time with it yet, but we spent a couple hours with the Surface today. And
between the two of us, remember guys, cameraman. I'm talking the original
cameraman, not Slick, who's an Android aholic, and uh not Diesel, who's also an
Android kid. Um but the cameraman who's
the Apple nerd of our sort of rag tag
group of technopiles. Um he's sold. He's
like, "Oh yeah, no, this is really good." Um there's some stuff that's not
perfect. It needs apps. like it needs
apps. Um, it I mean, you could make an
argument for a higher resolution screen. I'm not sure I care that much. Um, but
the way it handles multitasking and the
productivity potential for this platform, for this device right now is
just absolutely outstanding because Office makes all the difference in the
world. I mean, here I'd love to hear from you guys in the Twitch chat or in
the uh or in the Twitter feed. Who here has ever tried to edit a Google doc
using an Android tablet or an iOS
device? It is the stupidest thing in the
world. You have to like click on the cell in order to edit it and then it
usually clicks on the cell to the right or above it or below it. It almost never
clicks on the cell you actually intend. It is so slow. Like it's the slowest
thing in the world. Working with an office document, working with a document
is just like you're trying to get something done. There's no reason you'd
be working with a spreadsheet and you're not trying to get something done. It
doesn't work that way. And it's the slowest thing in the world. This just
changes all that. It's smaller than any Ultrabook.
It is a great touch experience. And I
I'll talk more about how I feel about touch in general in Windows 8 later, but
the the touch experience on this is 100 times better than what I'd imagine you
can get on a desktop. And I'm like, I'm kind of sold. It's expensive. It's not
cheap. I mean, I'm not uh I'm not necessarily sold on that aspect of it,
but in fact, it's I wish it was $100
cheaper. Let's sort of put it that way.
But it's also not nearly as bad as some
of the press are making it out to be where they're kind of going, "Oh yeah, if it doesn't have apps, then we might
as well just all jump off into a river." You know what? It's Microsoft. They will
get app support. Um, so there's that. And Okay. Okay. No, no, let's do a
little bit more Q&A and then I'll I'll get into sort of some of my some of my
rants for the night. Um, one of my rants tonight is going to be the inability for
people to accept the change that is coming with Windows with Windows 8 with
the UI. Let's have a look at what some of the Twitter some of the Twitter
people had to say about uh editing
documents using it. They had absolutely nothing to contribute about that topic.
Oh, I agree. It's a nightmare, says Melvin. Melvin is correct. It is a total
nightmare to make an office. Yes, it was the worst. Yes, you've done it. Okay. Um
yeah, you know what? At some point I'll try, but not right now. Um, Sean. Okay,
good question, Sean. No one's ever asked me this before, so I've never really brought it up before. I actually don't
drink. I might be the only Canadian, like north of the 49th parallel, which
is sort of where most Canadians are. Um, who who doesn't drink beer, so there you
go. Um, can I get that adjusted just slightly? It's kind of pointing down a
little bit and it's sort of awkward. Uh, okay, that's up pretty high. That's
good. Thank you. Uh, what's the highest overclock I'll get with an H100 and i7
3770K? Um,
realistically, anywhere from sort of 4.6 to 5.0 would be very happy. Uh, 4.6 4.8
is probably the most realistic. Hello Australia to Billy Cool over there. Do I
think Windows 8 is a good idea for desktop? You know what? That's going to be one of my main topics later on. Um,
so these are these are going to be my my topics. Uh, Windows 8 touch. How does
Windows 8 affect gamers? Drive spaces, which I think is very exciting. Surface
versus iPad versus Android.
Uh, for me personally, so I will cover that,
but it's going to be something that I'm going to dive a little bit more into depth into. Um, AMD's new drivers are
awesome. What's your opinion? They're awesome. I think we can all agree on
that. How does my wife put up with my mess? Um, it's not actually messy. It's
just Okay, she's giving me a look right now. You know what? It's probably better
if I do not answer that question because
no matter what I say, I will get in the
trouble and it will not be good for me. So, let's just leave that. Um, darn this
512 kilobit connection. I'm sorry to
Jason. Um, you can always watch later on YouTube. Paul wants to know if I can do
a backflip. All right. I've never been asked to do a stunt before.
Sorry, I'm still fighting a bit of a nagging cold here, but I'm going to ask
my lovely wife to operate the camera for me and I will show them the one trick
that I can do. Okay, here we go. And it will be across
the cluttered floor full of clutter. Not
mess. Mess is different from clutter. Mess is like Cheetos, cheesy bags, and
stuff. This is clutter. This is like necessary cables that I need and diapers
for my baby that he needs and a baby
which I obviously need. Isn't that right, sweetheart?
Isn't that right, sweetheart?
Okay, so I cannot do a back flip. I have never
done a back flip. But what I can do is I can walk on my hands. at least I could
last time I tried. So, I am either going to knock over the $1,500 lights and the
precarious table that's balanced on something or I'm going to succeed in
this trick for you all. And I'm not sure which is going to happen. And there goes
my keys. Okay. Okay. Hold on. Hold on. We're
going to take we're going to take one more crack at this without the uh not my
keys. What fell? Okay. One of my keys. Okay. Okay. We're going to try one more
time. I'm going to try to make it all the way over to the couch. So, here we
go. Up.
Uh oh, I'm slipping. Okay, the wires are not going to let me
pass. But there you go. That is the best I can do. I used to be able to do a
front handspring, but I can't anymore. And I'm not even going to try that cuz
it's been a very, very long time since I've made an attempt. A little bit more
zoomed out. Yep. And a little bit higher. There we go. Thank you.
All right. baby's starting to get cranky, so hopefully he lasts a little
bit longer here. Greetings from Indonesia.
It's Saturday afternoon right here. Perfect time for a live stream. Fantastic. Thank you for that story,
bro. All right,
MCL, I am sorry to hear that, man. Um,
as much as I'm glad that you're watching my live stream right now, I am sorry
that you no longer have a job. Um,
uh, the Hey, yes, I believe you can. I
wouldn't worry too much about that. Ty says, "Love your vids, Lionus." Um, what
else we got? Get mom in the camera. Mom does not want to go on camera. Remember,
guys, she had a baby not that long ago. And, uh, yeah, not to mention, she's in
her jammies, so I think she's not going to want. She's giving me another look.
You guys are getting me in all kinds of trouble tonight. I hate you guys. You
suck. All kinds of trouble.
Um, what is my rank at NCIX? I'm a category
manager. So, I manage categories and then product managers manage products
and then sales people sell them. So, kind of like that.
Uh, do you think we'll see reasonably t priced touchscreen monitors for
consumers now that Windows 8 has come out? Absolutely. I think we're going to see reasonably priced touchscreen
monitors. In fact, one of the ones that I'm really excited about is one that I
did a video on. This is Acer's touchscreen monitor. Acer Windows 8
MCIX. Let's try let's try that for a keyword. Ah, yes, the T23HL.
I smartly excited about your fingertips.
And I'm going to go ahead and it looks like not all of you are extremely
excited. this monitor.
This monitor, it has 10point multi-touch and it is just I'm super super stoked on
that monitor. Um because it comes in at a fairly reasonable price. So, uh yes,
and we'll see more and more as time goes on. Uh when do you think 790 will be
released? It's already released. Lotus Fantasy already released, man. Power
Cololor made a card. They made like 300 of them or something, so no one cares.
Um, there you go. Why didn't I review the
GTX 690? Because nobody sent me one. I
never had one, so I don't uh I mean I can't buy every video card and uh and
test it because as much as uh as much as you guys would love to believe that the
YouTubes is sort of made of money and that if you get like a 100,000 views on
the YouTubes that uh that that trouble
trouble, you know, doesn't come for you
and that everything is sort of hunky dory. Um, yeah, you don't you don't get
that much money for YouTube videos. So, yeah, I can't I can't actually afford
that. That That's all. That's all. Uh, let's have a look. 44 new
interactions on the Twitters. You know what? Let's go into our first topic for
tonight first. Um, so the first topic is
going to be how does Windows 8 affect gamers?
Now, this is kind of complicated because
there's a few different ways that we can go at this. So, number one is how does
it affect desktop gamers? So, gamers like your traditional gamers, your Quake
3 gamers, your Team Fortress 2 gamers, your your FPS's, your RTS's, your RPGs.
I would make the argument that not at all. So, number one is that Windows 7 is
going to be relevant for a very long time. Windows 7's adoption rate was
excellent compared to Vista. So what we will likely see is a similar shelf life
after the newer stuff is out for Windows 7 as we saw with Windows XP. Probably
not as long as that because remember Windows XP also ran for a much longer
period of time where it was the where it was the current OS. Um whereas Windows 7
only ran for around two years. But
you will see support for the new games coming out with Windows 7. If you're
already running Windows 7 for a very long time, like years before you'll even
by the time you would have to upgrade to Windows 8, you don't even Windows 8 will
be replaced by Windows 9 or Windows 10. Okay, so there's that. Does it affect
you if you don't even upgrade? Do you have to upgrade? The answer is no in
both cases. and Windows 7 will support current hardware for a very long time
because the way that Microsoft licenses a a software package is they license it
by physical CPU and Windows 7 is perfectly good for one or two CPUs
depending on uh which copy you have. So,
okay, physical we're not going to have less than one CPU in a system anytime
soon. We're probably not going to have more than one physical CPU in a system anytime soon. certainly not more than
two in a desktop or even a moderate workstation environment. Um, RAM isn't
going to be a problem for a very long time. There are additions of Windows 7
that I believe support up to 128 gigs or
even 256 gigs of RAM. And I apologize
for not remembering this correctly. Windows 7 uh Pro uh RAM limitation.
Let's have a look. Let's see what uh let's see what Windows has to Windows
Microsoft has to say for themselves because I can't remember. Uh, it looks
like non-page pool something something7 Pro
supports up to 192 gigs on Windows 7 as
does Enterprise as does ultimate with home premium being the only one where I
can imagine that users are going to run into a problem because it is limited to
16 gigs and we're not that far away from
being able to utilize 16 gigs or more if you do any sort of um video rendering or
if you do any kind of 3D rendering. ing or anything like that. Okay, so you
don't have to upgrade. That's number one. Number two is it's still built on
the same kernel as Windows Vista. This is something people don't seem to think
about when they go, "Oh, what will performance be like on Windows 8 and
games?" It's guys, it's going to be the same as Windows 7, which was the same as
Windows Vista in spite of all the complaints about Windows Vista. um to to
within sort of a a margin of error. It's going to be difficult to measure the
difference in performance between these platforms because ultimately it's based
on the same underlying platform. Now, Vista performed a little worse than
seven because there was additional bloat. The the OS was just it was
bloated. It was demanding on the hardware just running in the background.
If anything, as long as there isn't some kind of
dramatic driver incompatibility between the Windows 8 driver and the Windows 7
driver for your graphics card, or some kind of horrendous thing that happens,
in general, Windows 8 should, if anything, be faster than Windows 7 due
to how light it is on the hardware requirements. Remember, even a Tegra 3
running an allout Windows RTOS, which is
no less bloated than Windows 8 as far as I can tell is very responsive. So, if
your computer has that little overhead that it's dealing with on the OS side,
then I can't imagine any issues there. Okay.
So, number one, you don't have to upgrade. Number two, you
Yeah, there's no performance delta. Okay. Number three, and this is almost
the big one. How will Windows 8 affect
gamers who are not necessarily married to the
idea of the hardcore PC game? And I
would argue that Windows 8 is going to be Is this really not charged? That's
going to be a problem for me tonight. Try holding it down. Okay. Well, this is
this is my this is my showcase Android device. Ah, there it goes. Okay. So, my
Galaxy Tab 10.1 that I love. That's my favorite Android tablet in spite of um
in spite of there being faster Tiger 3 ones. It's just I just love it. The
screen is amazing. I love pls screens. Um so iPad 2. So it is going to
introduce to the Windows ecosystem the potential for games like uh let's see if
I can find sort of the stupidest lowest common denominator kind of game. Games
like Papy Jump where ultimately this is it. Will you have to run these? I mean,
we've already got these games, you know, flashbased browser games. Um, but we're
going to have easier access to them. So, you know, instead of going on
neopets.com, ultimately you'll go on, I don't know, the Windows Store. Okay, so
there's that. Um, and it'll be more
accessible. It'll also give us access to the newer things that we can do with
hardware on these kinds of mobile platforms with accelerometers and
gyroscopes. So, you have more mo more motion control and potentially more
things that that can be done with it. I'm really excited to see what game devs
can do with an API that they're used to such as DirectX with hardware that's
significantly more powerful than anything you'll see on an iPad anytime
soon or on an Android device where we've got Windows 8 running on tablet-like
devices or even larger devices with more
powerful hardware. the kind of I mean the kind of gaming opportunities that
this opens up um maybe not immediately
but in the near future are extremely exciting to me. I mean what if you could
play an RTS? Think of it like this like what this is just the kind of stuff to
to just to think about before you reject the idea outright. What if your surface
could have a display on it that is
that is like the mini map of an RTS that you're playing on the screen in front of
you like this. And think of it kind of like the Razer Switchblade. Is that is
that what they call it? Yeah, the Switchblade interface where they've got this touch sensitive interface. What if
instead of using a mouse for an RTS, you actually used a gigantic touch pad like
this? Is it doable? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. Maybe you still want a mouse.
Maybe you can still use a mouse. Maybe by then we have mice that are optimized
for use on top of a tablet. So you got your mini map here. You've got a bunch
of interesting information here. You've got your screen in front of you. And all of a sudden you have that much that much
more that you can do. Maybe you go as maybe it's as maybe it's as cool as like
something like where you're like, "Oh crap, freak out time. Everyone retreat."
And they build in code into the game. So you can go like this with your entire
tablet and everyone disengages and retreats. I mean, that's the kind of
thing that that more motion control and more potential for interface and more
integration between all these different platforms can do. You look at sort of no
one's close. Android can integrate with your phone. It can integrate with your
browser, but Google is not going to have
a desktop OS anytime soon. Apple, you can integrate with your desktop OS. You
can integrate with your phone. You can integrate with some of your apps, but
let's face it, they don't have that much on the app side that anyone would care
about integrating with. And I mean, do
you really use an Apple desktop? Even if you have an iPhone, I have an iPhone.
There's nothing special about like like
this Apple experience that's like, oh, I have to have that. I have to have
through my desktop. Like, no, I'm not sold on the whole on the whole Apple
desktop platform. So that will never be
an option for me. Whereas for me as a Windows user, this whole paradigm is
very, very exciting. I've heard of a Wii U. Geez, the Twitch chat, these guys.
So yes, it opens up the potential for casual games on the Windows platform,
which I mean, come on. I you you can poo
poo casual games all you want. You can go, "Oh, if it ain't Counterstrike,
uh, then it ain't nothing." But let's face it, have you ever played Plants and
Zombies? It's awesome. Um, and what
about Chrome OS? Chrome OS is just a browser. Get over it. Um, and honestly,
I'm just not It's kind of what Smart Glass is. So, Smart Glass is another
example of where we're already there. I'm not that sold on Smart Glass right
now, just because it there's some latency. It's not perfect. Once we get
uh a truly perfect wireless HDMI interface that's
that's fast enough and responsive enough. I mean, I'm all about
responsive. I'm the kind of person who queued up to buy a dual core on day one
X2 4400 plus because it was so much more
responsive. I was all over SSD because I
want to increase the responsiveness. I have a very hard time moving away from
the responsiveness that I get with a desktop to something like a cloud
enabled service. I have a hard time using something wirelessly when I could
just plug it in with a wire and I could get a way better experience. I'm not
ready to move away from that yet. So, I'm going to have to wait for myself
until that maturity level has been reached so that I can use it the way I
would normally use a desktop PC even now.
Wow, there's like no viewers tonight. I
did the uh Did the YouTube thing never go live?
I actually I actually don't know. I sort of I sort of hope it went live. I hope
you guys will pardon me for a second here while I just find out if the
YouTube live stream starting now never
went up. Oops. Let's go ahead and change
that there. So, uh yeah, you know what?
Those of you who are here already though, you guys are awesome because
that means you guys either follow me on Twitter, follow me on Twitch, or you uh
what's the other option? Or you just memorized the schedule and
you don't follow me on Twitter and you don't follow me on Twitch. Either way,
you're awesome. So, it's good. I can't believe I did not announce this on my
YouTube channel. You know what? I don't think I promised that um that topic of
why gamers care or why they don't care
um on the YouTube channel. So, we'll just You know what? I'm just gonna here
here. Watch Watch this. Watch this. Those of you Oops. Sorry. Those of you who are here already, see, I'm just
going to delete it. I'm going to pretend that never existed and that never
happened. Just like that. See?
Gone. Um there we go.
So, let's go ahead and do a little bit
more Q&A. Chris asks, "Sandy bridge or
Ivy Bridge?" To which I would rely I would rely upon you to ask me the
question in which case um I will give an
answer and the answer will be I still prefer Ivy Bridge. Okay. Ivy Bridge
better IPC so more instructions per clock. It's a faster architecture. Sandy
Bridge can overclock more or it can overclock not at all. So, in terms of
what you're getting as a guarantee, then Ivy Bridge is better. You could make the
argument that most Sandy Bridge chips are going to overclock pretty well, but
I've also seen extreme editions. In fact, John Fatcock from Twitch, John,
what is his last name? How I think something like that. He has an extreme
edition that didn't overclock worth anything. So, it's never a guarantee.
IvoryBridge has faster video transcode, which for me is relevant. I do use it.
It's awesome for transcoding video to mobile ready formats. Although, again,
that's another thing I'm really excited about with Windows being like the thing
to use because we won't have to worry about, you know, converting to some
stupid format just to play something back on my iPad. Um, so I would
personally go Ivy Bridge. Does it run a little hotter? Maybe. Does it matter?
Probably not. Ah, Jenopi, building a new
PC, Windows 7 or eight for gaming at the same price, just get Windows 8. Uh,
it'll have a longer support cycle. I always recommend people buy the latest
OS. You will have to use it at some point. You will encounter it somewhere,
so it's better to just figure out how to use it. Any reason you don't have an
Android or Windows phone? Uh, because I'm not really a phone nerd. I I
honestly I'm not. Um, when I got my phone, I had like an ancient BlackBerry,
you know, something that had like, you know, a keyboard and it like had a
scroll wheel. It didn't have a touch screen. There was nothing fancy. And the iPhone 4 was already out, guys. So,
that's how that's how far into better smartphones we we were um or we were at
the time. So, the choices for me were Galaxy S and iPhone. That was about it.
And out of those two, my wife ended up going with the Galaxy S Vibrant and I
went with the iPhone. Based on our experiences owning these platforms over
longer periods of time, I would make the argument that I made a way better
choice. Her her Android device is still
running Gingerbread, which is Um there is absolutely no reason other
than you know Android devices not getting the
support that they really should that that device should not be running on a
newer OS. Okay. Whereas I get iOS 6 which I haven't upgraded to mind you
because I'm worried about not having maps. Um yes I do.
Um I do see the chat but I don't always really I don't really reply to questions
from Twitch chat mostly from Twitter. um at Linus Techch if you're not already
following me on Twitter. So, I probably made the right choice. Both of our
phones still work. Um except that my dock connector is still durable and
still charges my phone reliably and her stupid micro USB connector is so broken
that I have to like go in there with a needle and like bend it really hard just
to get it to charge once in a while. And it lasts for a while. Um her phone has
crashed numerous times more than mine has. So, when it's time for me to get a
new phone, basically when my iPhone 4 dies, because I'm not a phone nerd.
iPhone 4 does absolutely everything I could possibly need a phone to do
already. It's fast enough for me. Um,
when it dies, then I'll reevaluate and I'll look at I'll look at what's
available. Although, I'm not I'm not much of an Android guy. I'm just really
not. I mean, I use it when I have to, but if I could switch to Windows RT
tomorrow and Windows Phone tomorrow, that would probably be the way I'd go
based on my experience so far today. So,
um, yeah, there you go. Lionus, is it a good idea to wait for Black Friday sales
to get a totally new system? Yes, Black Friday sales are amazing. Why are TN
panels so bad? Well, they're just bad.
They have bad viewing angles and bad color. They're just bad. Don't get them.
They're fast. So, if you need 3D, you have to get TN. But there you go. Uh,
Lionus, how would you convince someone on Windows 7 to upgrade to Windows 8? I
would tell them if they don't have a compelling need for Windows 8, then uh
they probably don't need to. But I'm going to talk about storage spaces,
which if you're a storage nerd, you guys are going to want to check out. Storage
spaces on Windows 8 is amazing, and I will be talking more about that later.
Shady Skull says, "First time in the live stream." Shout out to Sweden. Hi,
Sweden. And that is a very expensive new computer, Shady Skull. Ah, Chromium OS,
whatever. If your personal rig is on hold, what rig are you using for personal use? Believe it or not, I'm
using a laptop as my daily driver right now. Isn't that crazy? I'm using my MSI
uh quadcore gaming laptop, which actually isn't that bad.
U Mitch says, "I'm not the only Canadian in the world who doesn't drink." Thank
you, Mitch. Is Nexus 7 a good choice? Yes. Um, I'm I I don't know how sold I
am on this whole iPad mini thing. Uh, it's like Christmas for Muslims, but you
still spared one and a half hours for the live stream. Thank you. I appreciate
that. You are awesome. Uh, Logitech G710
Plus unboxing is coming soon, but tonight and today I had to do my Vivo
Tab RT and I have to do the uh the
Surface and so Yeah. There's Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. What keyboard am I using right now? I am
using a Filco Cherry MX Blue uh 10
keyless keyboard right now. Cherry MX Blues are the best. They're amazing. I
love them. Uh Linus, quit answering questions about
your wife or she's going to ground you. You are 100% right. That is exactly what
would happen. Any updates on the Prodigy Hackintosh build? I finally have a
motherboard. However, I've had no time. Things have been so crazy. FX8350 is
about 15% faster than an 8150. 10 15%
faster. Total War gamers. I love Total War. Although the only one I ever played
was uh Rome Total War. Um CW asks, "How
was the learning curve on Windows 8?" I haven't spent as much time with Windows
8 as I'd like. Um although when I finally finish my personal rig, I will
be installing Windows 8 on it as the first thing that I do. Um, but if you
tweet um at Slickp
knows better than me, if you tweet him, he's been using Windows 8 pretty much
since the developer preview came out and he really likes it. He's using it on on
a laptop without um without a touchcreen. Lionus, do you even lift?
No, I do. I do not lift. Um I I play
badminton. So those of you who think badminton is a wussy sport, to you I
would go like this. Badminton. That's it. Nothing else.
Badminton. Um, hi. I'm from France. I've gone
swimming a few times in the last little bit, but this is from badinton. And I
haven't even played in a couple months. These were way better. Way better.
Um, Paul asked, "Can I beat ASUS's JJ in
a straight up fist fight?" You know what? He's got enough of, and I don't
don't take this the wrong way. He's got enough of a weight advantage that I
think I'd be in trouble. Um,
so I I think I'm going to I think I'm
going to And someone suggested that it was from a lack of eating. You know
what? I'm going to show you my dinner.
This is homemade sweet and sour sauce on
like with like chicken balls and rice and it's like full of carbs and full of
like meat and uh and like breaded
chicken and it's delicious and awesome and I know I'm a food guy. Trust me,
food guy. All right. Uh you talked about
the FT3 Mini, but what is my opinion of the FTO3? It's it's it's great. It's the
MATX version. I'd get the mini personally because I don't need the expansion for a computer like that. But
awesome. Hey, hey, Dan's joining us. Hi,
Dan. Uh, went to a nude beach around the
UBC area. It was a nightmare. Uh, yeah,
that was must have been Wreck Beach. So, I'm sorry to hear that you went to Wreck
Beach. But uh see that's the thing about nude beaches is just it's like
nude beaches are all about people who might go okay they're either about
people who don't care and I guess you know if you got if you know you're kind
of a hippie and you don't care then then that's cool but if you're a hippie and
you don't care about sort of showing off your goods then um my suggestion would
be that never at any point in your life would you have been through a time when
people sort augling your goods or staring at you would have made you
uncomfortable like because if you'd grown up with that kind of an experience
so let's say hot people this is just
sort of my imagination of how this might work. Um, so if you're as long as you're
not one of that people, one of those people, that's probably how you end up with that kind of a mentality. And so
you end up at a nude beach. And then the other people who might go to nude beaches would be people who want to see
other hot people. And those people like
sort of, you know, your your bushes creepers might not necessarily be the
hottest people either. So for the most part, especially here in Vancouver,
although it might be different in other cultures, I know Europeans have very
different cultures with respect to things like nudity. Um,
here in North America, it's not as much the norm. And it's one of those things
where it's like more like the weird people go there. Um, and I'm not I'm not
saying that they're all weird. These are generalizations. And generalizations,
while they may be generally true, are never 100% true. So, don't take this the
wrong way. Any of you who are into nude beaches and you're super hot. Although,
I mean, um, you know, tweet me a pic as
long as you're not a dude. Although, who am I kidding? 90. Uh, for the live
streams, the numbers are even more hilarious than on most of my videos.
Most of my videos, it's around 97% male. The people who actually tune in and
watch the live streams are 98 point something high percent male. Almost 99%
male. So, actually, do not send me any pictures. Thank you.
Um, I have no idea why Twitch doesn't work
on Google. Um, I have Twitch open in Google. It is here.
See, this is my Google, this is my Twitch, and that's my stream. So, yeah.
Uh, Pepk. Who here doesn't know what Pepk means? If you don't know what Pepk
means, it's kind of an English play on words. It means problem exists between
chair and keyboard, which is the way of saying user error that a lot of users
won't understand you. All right, so I
want to do another topic here. We've got over a thousand viewers now that I
remembered to uh to send out the YouTube notification. So, let's talk. What do
you guys want to see? You know what? I'll let uh I'll let the Twitch chat
vote because I never really let them do anything.
You guys want to see Windows 8 touch and my take on that on the various
platforms? Do you want to hear about drive spaces for Windows 8? or do you
want to hear my thoughts on Surface versus iPad versus Android for me
personally with an emphasis on Windows RT and Surface? So, Twitch chat, what do
you guys got for me? Here we go. Let's see what they say. They all want to hear
about Drivespaces. Okay, drives spaces is so exciting. So, I want to start with
how much I loved Windows Home Server.
Windows Home Server was the best project
that Microsoft ever completely abandoned or at least it looked like they
abandoned. So, Windows Home Server had two revisions. The first revision had
the most amazing feature ever called the drive pool. The drive poolool was
awesome because it allowed me a totally
cheap bastard to take well in some ways.
Okay, so cheap bastard to take a 24 bay
4U case. So, I could fit as many like 24
uh three and a half inch drives in, as many as I wanted. Total mish mash of
capacities, total mishmash of brands.
Some of them were reertified, some of them were new. It was just like it would
be a nightmare to any kind of a storage engineer. They'd just be like,
"What are you doing?" Um, but it allowed me to run that for years without losing
any data in spite of the fact that I lost somewhere between six and a dozen
drives in that time because drive poolool or store drive extender or
whatever the heck they called it. Yeah, storage pool. Storage drive pool, whatever. drive pool um allowed you to
create like a pseudo fake RAID one where if you inserted for example two 320 gig
drives and one 640 gig drive the software would be constantly pinging
those drives going what do you have what do you have what do you have what do you have and then if you set up duplication
every 10 minutes 15 minutes hour or so it would just kind of check anything
changed anything changed and it would check all those drives and say okay do
any of these drives have something on them that is not replicated somewhere
else and then it would do
it would do the equivalent of if you manually copied the folder or the file
from one drive to another. So it was a filebased replication. So you're not
relying on a RAID card. You're not relying on a chipset. It's just SATA
SATA. And then you can take the drive out, you can put it in another computer,
you can read all that data off it, you can restore things. It was brilliant in
its simplicity. Um, so it would make
sure that there all the data on your system was present on at least two drives at any given time. So it didn't
have the advantages of RAID five or RAID six where you can glean a lot more
storage out of your drives, but it had the advantage where you don't have to buy a bunch of matching drives all at
the same time, which come on, who has money for that and like expensive RAID
cards to run RAID 6. Um, so, so that was
why that appealed to me and, uh, I used it for a long time, really liked it. But
the problem was that advanced format drives, 4K sector drives are not
compatible with the way that drive poolool was written, the way it was
designed. So, they were going to try to implement something and there's third
party implementations for Windows Home Server 2011. I don't trust a third party
implementation. I inherently like, you know, am I a Microsoft fanboy? Maybe
not. But I tend to, you know, hold them a little bit closer to my heart than
some random software deb that I'm going to trust with all of my like 15
terabytes of archived video and all my photos and like no, I just don't trust
it. Um, so the only other option was to go
proper raid because they were going to implement it and they cut out drive
poolool and I was like that's the craziest thing I ever heard. I had no
idea storage spaces was coming. So, storage spaces is going to allow users
running Windows 8, whether it is on a
server type of system that you run separately from everything else. Okay?
So, you can just create like a little Windows 8 storage server and stick it in a closet or whether it's on your PC
itself. It will allow you to take again
mix and match drives and run fake RAID
one or even fake RAID five which is very
very cool because computers are so fast now like I mean come on who's been doing
this a while who remembers back when you used to read a motherboard review and
they would round up five different motherboards and tell you which one had
the lowest CPU utilization while you were transferring files at 10100 100
speeds or even gigabit speeds over a network. Now, we don't even care. When
was the last time you saw anyone talk about that? It's totally irrelevant
because you could take one hyperthreaded
of one of your cores, set that aside, and that could handle, excuse me, any By
the way, this is a G9, not a RAT 7, for those of you who seem to think I have a
RAT 7. Um,
where was I going with that? something something something. Oh crap, now I've
totally lost track. Blah blah blah blah blah. Right. You could set aside a small
fraction of your processing power and
you can do all the gigabit you want and you can do all the sound processing you
want. These are things people used to care about. You can do all the RAID you
want even. I mean, you'd have to have a pretty big pretty badass array by the
time you actually run into some kind of a computational limitation. So now your
OS can just handle it. And the great thing about it is again you have that
ability to um to to mix and match
capacities and manufacturers and just not even care about it at all. And I
personally think that that is amazing. I think it's one of the best things about
Windows 8 and uh because it will enable
real people and this is the problem. This is the problem with storage over
the years. real people can't afford it. We can afford hard drives. Sure, we can
afford like, you know, your cheapo green drives or your cheapo consumer drives,
but by the time you start getting into enterprisegrade drives, which are the
ones that actually won't fail, um you when used in a storage application, by
the time you get into those, they're really expensive. And then you tell an
average user, "No, no, you have to buy twice as many of them."
They're like, "What? What? I have to I have to buy twice as many of them before
it's even remotely safe." I mean, that's crazy talk. Whereas now, Microsoft with
the storage spaces is building in RAID 5, which means you don't have to have
twice as much. You can have one parody bit for the entire thing. Okay? Not to
mention, you can also mix and match everything. And as you need more space,
you can continue to add drives. Whereas you have to have a pretty high-end RAID
controller like an LSI, Adapt um
yeah, like an LSI or an Adapt RAID controller in order to have that kind of
functionality and that's really expensive. So you tell people first you
tell people, oh, you have to have twice as many drives. And if you don't want to have twice as many drives, you have to
spend a few hundred bucks on a RAID card. And that's a very entry-level RAID card. Realistically, you want to run any
decent number of drives, you're spending 800 bucks or more on a RAID card. Um,
you know, okay, they start at maybe sort of 450 for high-end RAID cards that have
fast processors. Well, now you don't care because you're using your CPU to
deal with it. So, that's where I'm at on storage spaces. If anyone has any
additional questions on storage spaces, I will let the Twitch chat see if they
want to contribute anything about storage spaces. You bought a 926016i for
only 400 bucks. Wow, that's a good deal.
Someone says they got a very high-end RAID card for only 400 bucks.
Um, I like storage. Windows 8 is pointless without more touchscreen
monitors. I'm not that sold on the whole touchscreen monitor thing with Windows 8
to be perfectly honest. How do you enable storage spaces? Actually, not
having done it yet, I uh I don't want to
I don't want to sort of speculate. Um,
do you something something I will have an episode coming about storage spaces
soon. So, yes, I'm very excited.
Yeah, you guys don't really seem to have much to contribute here. Sorry, guys. No, my house is not paid off. I'm like
26, you guys. Do I look like I have my house paid off? Um, all right. So, I
want to move right into my next topic here, which is going to be Windows 8 and
touch. So, we'll finish up with the surface. Windows 8 and touch.
For this part, it would actually be useful if I could move the camera around, but I'll have to just kind of
mime it out for you guys as best I can. Or maybe I can move this monitor so you
can Yeah, this will help you guys. Wh Oh, that was close. This will help you
guys visualize. Windows 8 is probably one of the
broadest operating systems we've seen in a long time because there will be a
server adaptation, there's a desktop adaptation, it is meant for use for
professional use, there's a professional skew. Um, there's a tablet adaptation,
and the OS itself, the home OS, just
flat out runs on tablets. So, and not to
mention there will be a phone adaptation which will use many of the same
elements. So, with all of that sort of
in mind, Windows 8 is also extremely touch optimized. So, yeah, it's fast,
it's lightweight, that allows it to run all these devices, but I am super sold
on touch from a phone perspective. I think that right now it would be
impossible for me to go back to like a tactile interface phone that actually
uses like arrow keys and a menu. Impossible. Impossible. Um, for as a
tablet experience, touch is Oh, I got my
screen filter app on here. So, I'm just gonna turn that. Oh, no. I didn't.
Apparently, I just have the screen brightness turned way down on this thing. I usually use it at night. So,
um, touchscreen on a tablet. I think we can all agree that anything other than
touchscreen on a tablet would be redonkulous at this point. Touchscreen
on a notebook I am very excited about.
I'm going to be using the Surface or uh the Surface here for Microsoft to
simulate what touchscreen on a notebook might look like if you were using it at
a desk or at your lap. Touch is awesome because you can be Oh, just a sec, guys.
Sorry. Uh
okay. And my baby was using this last time, so it's kind of borked up right
now. But uh so touch on on a device like this is outstanding because you can go
uh task switcher apparently I'm going to try and use that. It's not going to work
for me right now of course. So you can be typing on a document and then a
second later you can be like oh okay I want to read more about that. So I'll go
back to Windows and I want to go to I don't know whatever internet explorer.
And then for me at this point it is very natural
to browse websites like this to Oh,
what's that? Oh, that's kind of cool. That switches to the mobile version of the website. Neat. Okay. It's very
natural for me to swipe like this when I'm reading. I find it easier to manage
than page up, page down, arrow keys, or like scrolling over here and finding the
little bar and moving it down. Like I'm just I'm not sold on those ways of
interacting anymore. So
yes, for reading, casual reading, for for video, it's again very natural for
me to sit and watch video like this and then just kind of, you know, touch it or
scroll around like this rather than reaching over for the mouse. I'm much more comfortable. So yes, I'm super sold
on touch for notebook. And the reason for this comes down to distance. I am
close enough to a notebook that I can type on it comfortably like this. See,
shoulders relaxed, back straight. How do you type on a notebook? Then I can reach
my screen by moving this much. If you're any further away than that, it's not
going to happen. This is the same kind of thing that causes problems for people
who have, say, for example, two-handed passwords where you have to take your
hand off your mouse, physically move it over this much, type your password, and
go back to your mouse. It's obnoxious. If I'm using the internet like this, and
I kind of go, "Oh, I want to enter a URL." Doom, there's my keyboard. I go
there, and then boom, I'm going to scroll around. I'm not actually
connected to Wi-Fi right now, guys. Sorry. So, this isn't going to work. But, um, but that's very natural because
it's so close. You're not moving very far. You're moving like three inches
away or for my uh, you know, for all my fellow Canadians, you're moving like 8
cm away, 9 cm away, and it's very
natural. On the desktop, touch poses
some problems for me. And I've done videos about it. I've spent time with
Windows 8 on the desktop. And I have a
big problem for one reason. This is how I use a desktop. This is a 27in monitor
right here, guys. Okay, it's big. I don't sit this close to it. I don't have
my keyboard here to the point where this is how I'm using my computer with my
keyboard right against it so that it would be quick to touch. I use my
desktop computer more from a distance of
let's say about
Oh, I just Oh my goodness. I just closed the iPad in there. Oops, there it is.
It's all good. I would have never found that. Okay, here's how I use my desktop.
I want to be at a comfortable distance, which for a 27 inch 1080p monitor is
about here. So, I got my I got my mouse in my hand here. I got my keyboard in
front of me here. This is how I type. This is comfortable. This is where I'd
need my touchcreen to be. This is where my touch screen is.
How? Like, try this. Okay, guys. Try this. Remember, touchscreen is for
casual use, casual interaction. You go like this, you scroll around, you zoom.
Touchscreen is meant to be very relaxed. If your shoulders aren't relaxed, if
you're not comfortable, it's not going to work. Okay?
Do this. Do this. Everyone watching, hold your ARM out like this, fully
extended with your shoulder forward. Like, reach out to your computer. If
you're on a computer right now, reach out to your screen. Now, hold your ARM there for the next sort of um I don't
know, two minutes of the live stream. just hold your ARM there and kind of go
like this a little bit. I guarantee you get tired. So touchscreen to me is
almost like um it's almost like
a go one way or go completely the other way
experience on the desktop. So, you either have a computer sitting in your
kitchen that doesn't even have a mouse and a keyboard at it and is just a touch
computer where you're running um modern UI or Metro UI
uh and that's it and that's the way you're using it and maybe you have like
a keyboard in a drawer somewhere nearby that's wireless
or you use Windows 8 with a mouse and a keyboard like a normal human being and
that's where we're at. So yeah,
touchscreen not sold on the desktop, very sold on mobile and very sold on
notebook. I think notebook is almost going to be or or you know something
like Surface where it's bridging that gap between tablet and notebook is going
to be the magic device where all of a sudden mouse, keyboard, touch, all of
these things make awesome sense and you can do whatever is most convenient. I
mean, I'd be lying if I said I haven't been sitting at a notebook before with a
glossy screen and think, "Oh, yeah, I'll just uh I'll scroll this." And I kind of
go, "Oh, right. It's not touchscreen." I've never done that with a desktop
because when you're at a desktop, you have a proper keyboard. Half the problem
is when you're at a notebook, you're hunting for a stupid function key and
then you're trying to remember which function key is like page up and page
down. Is it the arrows up?
Is it something up in the top right? You don't know where it is. So that's why
instead of uh thinking about it, I might reach and try to go like this. At a
desktop, I know where my page up and my page down is. Unless I bought like a
like a ridiculous keyboard that doesn't have them here, then that's where they
are. That's where they are. It's end of the story. That's where they are. And
you've also got arrow keys. And you've also got a mouse wheel. Mouse wheel
makes all the difference in the world. You don't have a mouse wheel. This is
almost like this is almost the replacement for mouse wheel for me in
terms of what I would actually use touch for on. And yes, this is a Playboy mouse
pad. You guys get over it. Twitch chat's going crazy about the Playboy mouse pad.
Um, but that's what I would actually use touch for on a on a on a notebook style
device. So, there you go. That is my
take on that. Um, let's do a little bit
more in terms of Twitter Twitter questions here before we move on to my
last topic. And I want to talk about Surface a lot prior to the unboxing that
I will be adding later uh later tonight.
So, 196 new interactions. I hate touchscreen because there's always
fingerprints. Yeah, I don't know. I'm used to it. I used to It used to drive
me crazy, but um hi Linus in stream. You
say get a Soundcore because it's better. Yes, you will notice a difference.
Can we get Windows 8 for 15? If you have a system with Windows 7, you can get a
Windows 8 upgrade for only 15 bucks. Yes. And you just buy it online. Um, is
that a shiny monitor? Yes, the one I have here is shiny. My ARM is in pain
and when I touch my monitor sitting next to me, it's like lifting. Okay, good.
Uh, touchpad or a trackpad would be a good idea for Windows 8. Absolutely. And
and then this is another part of like it's See, okay, one more thing about
touch. One more thing about touch is people treat touch and keyboard mouse as
if they're these diametrically opposed things, but they're not. It's turning
into this interface spectrum where you've got your traditional keyboard and
mouse and then you've got things like touchpads and tablets, not not like not
these tablets, but you've got like um Wacom tablets, so like art input
devices. And then on the other side, you've got like this these pure
touchscreen interfaces where everything is done with a virtual keyboard and
everything is navigated through touching. But there's no reason why we
can't do all of these things.
Okay. Uh I want to build a desktop server with
at least six SATA 3 hard drives and RAID. Yeah, buy a RAID card. Uh if
you're running six drives and they're all matching, get a real RAID card. Um I
saw Logan rant about Windows 8 a while ago. I still don't think it's optimized for mice and more importantly
multitasking. How do you optimize an OS for multitasking? I mean, they're pretty
multitasking friendly these days. I would argue that Windows uh Windows
Vista and Windows 7 aren't really very well optimized for multitasking to be
perfectly honest. I mean, come on. Are you guys serious? This Oh, wait. No,
it's it's not screen sharing. Do I not Oh, I don't have Sorry, guys. I don't
have glass enabled right now, but that stupid that stupid flip thing that they
introduced with Vista. I mean, come on. That's not multitasking. When you
compare that to something like Expose on OS 10, it's ridiculous. Um, I'm only 16,
so it's pretty weird for me to wi witness a major change in the PC
experience. The mouse and keyboard is sort of old. Oh, this is a topic I
wanted to talk about. The change in the PC interface and usage experience.
People think that Okay, here. This is
going to turn into like a Kids Today rant because
let me just make sure I got the right thing going on here. Kids today think that the start menu is
the be all and end all. Okay, the start
menu sucks. The start menu is slow. Why
do you think Microsoft added the jump
bar or jump lists down here so that you can put a ton of stuff down here that
you'll have easy access to? Because the start menu is stupid. This is why the
start menu is stupid. And this is coming from someone who went through the
Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 change. Start.
Okay. So, this has out of all of the things I might want to do with my
computer, this has like eight of them. Thanks for that. Um, all programs I have
to scroll. Are you serious? Older
implementations were better than this where they had just a bigger one if
there was more stuff. Are Are you kidding me? I have to scroll if I want
to find Winar. Yeah, I can search for stuff, but you know what? I could search
for stuff 10 years ago, too. So, it's not like that's the be all and end all.
It's just controlr or not controlrlf or
whatever it is. See, it doesn't even work anymore. But, okay. So, I have to
scroll then. I mean, heaven forbid that
I actually go to something like accessories and then I want to reach
system tools and then I want to find something in there and then that's not
the right thing and I want to go back and it's like how does this even work?
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. I don't like the start menu.
I thought the start menu was stupid. Windows 3.1 had it right. All you had
was you had your Okay, so picture like this whole thing that you're seeing now
is your Windows desktop. So you had your applications box here and then under it
you had your games and you could scroll the wheel on either side there and then
next to it you had your screen savers because back then screen savers were the
end thing and then you up here you have like your um I don't know you couldn't
do a whole lot with computers in those days but the point is you had everything
segmented almost like
almost like
this where everything was sorted by the
utility of it and you could rearrange things as you see fit and then you could
whoopsy daisies and then you could move things around however you wanted and
arrange them and have some of them be bigger than others. You could take you
could actually take all of those uh all of those segmented Windows and you could
resize them. You could make your game ones games one you know this big and
then you could have your like you know your mom's music still well okay music
wasn't multimedia wasn't really around yet but you whatever your screen savers
could be this big you know sort of in a small corner here and you could rearrange it however you wanted so met
modern UI to me almost feels like an
extension of that where now instead of being limited to this static space that
I have on my desktop which back then resolutions were very low now I can
easily and smoothly scroll between all the different stuff that I have and how
I have it compartmentalized. I can scroll right out and I can zoom in on
the part that's important to me. This to me is a faster way to access
things than start menu. Especially the
pre Windows Vista Windows 7, I don't remember when they changed it, but the
one when you used to have to mouse over and then wait for the next thing to pop
out. I I mean to me start menu was such a step backwards. And you guys can agree
or disagree. And that's sort of what half the fun of this is, is not
everyone's going to agree with me. But
how many things do you guys actually use on your computer anymore? I would argue
too many for Sorry, I'm going to put that away. I would argue too many for
this to be it. And I would argue maybe
too many for the bottom ones here to be
enough, but not so much that you have to have a
start menu. I mean, try and try try and figure it out, guys. When you more
clicks is bad. This is UI 101. The more
clicks you have, the way worse the way worse it is. So,
modern UI, and I'm going to bring back up my XSplit here so I can see what I'm
talking about. Modern UI will allow you to have far more available at your
fingertips than either jump lists or
start menu in its current implementation. And I am I am so not I'm
so not excited to go back to start menu because I personally have probably about
25 to 30 things. Most of my games are in Steam now. I mean, it's not like I open
individual games anymore. Um, so I only
have like low double digits things I actually do on my computer. So how much
space would I actually need on a modern UI thing here in order to have
everything I need to do right at the tip of my fingers? Well, I'd need one block
like this, another block like this, and another block like this. So what's
faster? Clicking the start menu and then Whoops. Sorry. You know what? The great
thing about Windows is you can actually still use it this way if you want. So
what's faster? clicking a start menu and then clicking here and then clicking
here or going like this and then tapping
something whether it's with a mouse or whether it's with your hands.
So that is my take on it. And for those
of you who are saying the search is the only thing I use in the start menu, you
are exactly you are exactly the reason
why the start menu is going away because you can still search. It doesn't matter
where you are in the modern UI. You can go like this. Um,
control panel. So, the way the search works is
outstanding. Forget start menu.
Um, as for being compact and organized for start menu, that's a comment on
Twitch. Um, yeah, but you can also make Metro organized. You can also organize
things uh with your with your I forget.
Do they call them whatever? Pinning things to the taskbar. You can have a
lot of frequently used apps there. You can still add desktop shortcuts. So,
there's still a lot of ways that things can be used the same way you're used to.
I think start menu um Samsung implemented a start menu on their
Windows 8 PCs and I think it just feels clunky and out of place in the Windows 8
environment. I'm I'm not sold on Start Menu.
Okay, so
let's keep going. Looks like a lot of
people disagree with me, but I mean, you know what? Five years, 10 years from
now, you'll be using a you'll be using a touch friendly interface, whether you
guys like it or not. Do you know how many people said they'd never use the
start menu in Windows 95 because it was so crap?
Guess how many people use a start menu now? Bam. So, there you go. Uh, let's
take a couple more Twitter questions and then I'm going to talk about Surface
because I'm super excited about Surface.
Ah, and I have to hit the scroll bar. Are you kidding me? Exactly. Exactly.
My friend wants to buy two GTX 670s and he's barely even a casual gamer. Could
you briefly explain to him that it's stupid? I'd love to explain to him that it's stupid, but I have a GTX 590 and
I'm Yeah, a casual gamer. Um, Logan says
we should wait until at least Service Pack 1 because it has way too many issues. What do you think? I think
waiting for Service Pack 1 on any Windows OS has never been a bad idea.
Windows XP sucked at launch. Windows Vista. Nobody liked at launch. I liked
it, but uh Windows 7 actually was great at launch. Um
but it's rarely rarely a bad idea. Lionus, do you like Linux? Never used
it. Um when I'm not using touch Well, okay, I've used it, but I've never used
it like for my own personal computer. Uh when I'm not using touchscreen, I have
to scroll to the side with my mouse. It's a pain. I don't like Windows 8 for
non-touchcreen desktop computer. Once you memorize the shortcut keys in Windows 8, it will be the best
experience ever. That's another thing is people need to we're talking about a new
generation of computer users here. We're not talking about old people who
actually this is this is a great this is a great anecdote. Uh a friend of mine at
work um was like a like a nerd back when
being a nerd was like pretty pretty rare. Uh back when the mouse was
invented he was like an Uber geek and figuring out like how to build networks
at uh at the local university. So, buddy
of mine was talking about how he put together, get this, he put together at
UBC, a class where they taught the the
professors, and this was like a $149 course or something, and it was packed.
He put together a curriculum to teach people how to use a mouse. And he was
like, "You wouldn't believe the stuff I saw. People were taking the mouse and
they'd get to the edge edge of the mouse pad and they'd go like this down the
table or they'd bring it they'd bring it off to the edge and they'd go like this
over it or they'd like they'd go over the edge and they wouldn't know what to
do or they'd be holding it like this.
That's yesterday. That's not that long ago. Whereas now we take a mouse for
granted. We take control ctrl +v for granted. If you don't know how to copy
paste without like some, you know, it
used to be people copy and paste it by going up to edit and going down to copy.
That's slow. That's stupid. The modern computer user has no patience and
they've grown up with this stuff. They are going to figure out the shortcuts
that Microsoft has built in. They're going to take advantage of this OS and
it's going to be a significantly better experience. Just for you guys wait, you
guys wait and see. I will be right. Uh, Twitter, I really like the start menu
and the something something. Tips on making energy efficient rig. Um, buy
energy efficient parts. Underclock them.
Um, nope. I don't think the mouse and keyboard is going anywhere. Nowhere at
all. Especially on the desktop. And anyone who thinks the desktop is dead is
a because the desktop is not dead. The desktop will always, well, not
always, but will for the foreseeable future, potentially my lifetime, be a
better platform than anything else for any kind of real computer use, whether
it's spreadsheets or whether it's video editing or whether it's you you will
always need the computing power of a desktop. And you'll always need the form
factor of a desktop. No one's going to use a computer for eight hours a day
like this. No one's going to do that because that's stupid. This is stupid. I
mean, someone will do it because they have to because they're a road warrior or whatever else, but in an office
environment, you're going to have desktops. And anyone who says, "Oh,
well, look, sales of desktops are declining, so the desktop is dead."
You're wrong. The reason sales of desktops are declining are very simple.
It's because the desktop you built 5 years ago is still fast enough for the
internet. Five years before that, it wasn't the case. You couldn't play back
HD video on that computer. You couldn't run the internet on that computer. or
well you could but it would suck. It would be terrible experience. So the
reason is that people's upgrade cycles are getting longer just like with a
fridge or a dishwasher or any other appliance like that. That is why the
desktop sales are slowing down. Not because the desktop is dead as a platform.
All right, back to Twitter for a little bit. I'm not going to have much time for
Surface. You guys have like got me going here tonight
ranting about stuff because you guys are killing me here. Should my next hard
drive be SSD or hard drive? Money isn't a problem. However, more space is
better. I don't know what you mean by hard drive array. Um, you should have an
SSD for boot and then you should store everything else on hard drives. My
recommendations for FPS games, get a G9X. Um, if you have a claw grip, I
really like G9 series. Um, how many Why
are people keep asking me if I lift tonight? I already said I don't lift and then I um Yeah, I said like eight times
I don't lift. Mind you, that might have been before I invited the YouTube people. Nice couch you got there. I got
it from a local furniture store. You know, nothing fancy. Lionus, do you know
what A+ certified is? Nick, you win the
award. You win this piece of carpet lint
for asking what must be the most phenomenally obvious question that I've
ever had on one of my live streams. Of course, I know what A+ is. Uh I am not
A+ certified, however. I never did take the course.
Um, I'm thinking about getting just one touch monitor for touch in the modern
UI, having a second one as a main one. What do you think, Jordan? I'm not sold.
I I don't think that the way that they've implemented Windows 8 now is
going to be conducive to having like one monitor for using with your keyboard and
mouse and one for touch. Um, although it's something I'd love to see them
think about more with the next iteration of the OS.
Um, okay. You know what? Let's uh let's
let's cut it for now. I'm going to get through Surface as fast as I can and
then I want to do a little bit more Q&A. So, Surface, why do I like this? Why do
I think that this is amazing? Because it is amazing. Uh where's my iPad? Here we
go. All right. Number one, thickness.
Once you put here, I'm going to I'm just going to operate the camera myself here.
Once you put a cover on an iPad 2, and
let's face it, you're putting a cover on your iPad. Um, because if you're not,
then you clearly don't take very good care of your very expensive electronics.
Once you put a cover on it, this is the difference in thickness. My iPad 2 is
actually slightly thicker than my Surface. So, I could even get a nice
slim cover on the back and they'd be very, very similar. So, there's that.
Okay. here.
When I am watching a video on my iPad,
okay, so I'm watching some video. I don't know what video this is. My wife
was using it. I'm watching some video and I go, "Oh, my brightness isn't very
good." How do I change that? I go like this. I shut down my video. I go to
settings. Then I go to brightness and
wallpaper. Remember guys, clicks are bad. Did I say it was too low or too
high? It doesn't matter. The point is I'm adjusting it. Then I'm going out
here. I'm going back to my video. How many clicks was that? That's ridiculous.
Microsoft has thought about this. They've gone, "What do people want out
of a mobile experience? What can we bring to the table?" If I was watching a
video on the Surface,
I hope the battery didn't die. I haven't actually charged it yet. I just got it
today. Uh oh. I didn't even I didn't
even check the battery charge level. This is going to be a problem.
Uh oh. Lionus is in trouble on his live
stream now. Hold on. Maybe I'm just doing it wrong.
I hope I'm doing it wrong.
How am I going to do my surface segment if my surface is not charged?
Oh, my surface isn't charged. Well, oh, wait. Hold on. It's turning on now. I
wonder where's the uh where's the charger for it so I could plug it in. So, it's not going to run out of
battery. Yeah, it turned on for a sec there and then it uh and then it petered
out on me. So, it looks like the Okay, fine. I'll simulate this for you. So,
here's how you Okay, so I'm going to lose the Surface thing. If you guys want
to hear my thoughts on Surface, then I guess what you'll have to do is watch my unboxing, which will come up later. Um,
so what you do on the surface is you'd have your video going, you swipe in from
the side, you touch the volume or the brightness rocker, either one, and you
just go like this or just go like this. It is so fast and so easy and so
intuitive that I am just absolutely blown away by how awesome it is. And
apparently the battery is okay. I'm just going to turn the camera for a second while I enter my password. Sorry guys.
As much as I want to share all of my passwords with y'all.
Okay.
All right. So, we're going to go to the, you know, the Xbox video store, whatever
else. I don't need I don't know if this is the right one. Actually,
cameraman was playing around with it. Oh, right. We can't connect. Okay. So,
you swipe in, you go settings. I need to connect to a wireless network. It's my
wireless network. And same thing, as much as I'd love to share my
my wireless network with you guys.
Who knows? Maybe some of you are my neighbors. You want to steal my Wi-Fi.
Uh yes, turn on sharing and connect and all that good stuff. Connected.
Okay, so let's go back. So,
uh, let's try to, uh, close this down and then we'll open
up Xbox Video again.
So, movie store, television store. Let's just click on something and see what
happens. Okay. I hope the uh I hope the wireless is
working now. Yeah, it looks like it's connected. Okay, so here we go. So, I
want to see um some trailer for
something. Actually, this probably this probably won't have TV stuff. probably
won't have a uh a trailer. So, television store. Here we go. Madagascar
3. So, I want to play a trailer. This is how I do it on Windows RT. So, I
go to my full screen. I go, "Oh, my brightness isn't right. Settings. Screen
down. Screen up. Play around with it. I'm
done." That that my friends is the magic of
Windows 8 because they have actually thought about this. Not only that, but
Windows RT is a practical
office device. Now, I've seen a lot of mixed impressions of the of the pressure
sensitive touch cover. Um I also have uh
the other one. I grabbed the uh the type cover as well just so that I could try
them both out and see what I thought of them. So, the touch cover, is it
perfect? No. Would I type, you know, would I write Moby Dick on it? No.
However, is it usable? The answer is
yes. And I can actually type not bad on
it. Oh, see, I missed one. Not badly on it. Okay. Bad demo considering I've
logged about five minutes on it. So
on it so far. So that is how terrible
this super thin touch cover is. And the
type cover is again significantly better. Can you get used to it?
Absolutely. So is this thing useful as an entertainment platform? Yes. Does it
allow you to quickly and easily change between the things that you're doing?
Yes. Is it useful as a productivity device? Absolutely. This is smaller than
any laptop you're going to encounter. It is more versatile than any laptop you're
going to encounter. It has better battery life than any laptop you're going to encounter, and it has all of
the things that are nice about a tablet as well.
Are the apps there yet? The answer is no. Um, the answer is a definite no, and
you probably didn't need me to tell you that. But will the apps get there? Um,
in my mind, yes, they will. However, if
I was going to be throwing my hard dollars at it or not throwing my
hard-earned dollars at it, I would probably lean towards waiting for a
Surface Pro. Um,
but that doesn't mean that I don't believe in this and that I wouldn't
necessarily get this. So, and yes, Android can do whatever it wants, but
I'm really not that sold on Android. Even with jelly bean, even with project
butter, to me, again, I talked about snappiness earlier on in the live chat
where I said snappiness to me is everything. This is a uniformly snappy
experience. It doesn't matter what you do. Whoops. Okay. Well, matters somewhat
what you do. You have to at least hold it correctly. Um, you want to change
your orientation. It feels good. It animates well. It
feels like a device that you just spent a bunch of money on as opposed to
something where you go like this and it's like E E
um okay. So there's that. Multitasking on
it is awesome because you just go like this. You can pick whatever you want to
do. You can also bring things in.
Actually, you can't do it with desktop. So hold on. Um I don't have anything
open on it right now, which is sort of the problem we're having right now. So there's the store. Just going to wait
for that to open. Then I'm going to show you something else.
Um okay, let's go back. open IE and the
modern UI. I've seen a lot of complaints about application launch times and
honestly I'm not really I'm not really feeling it here here to the other uh
reviewers out there. So this is another cool thing if I'm like okay I want to
have Internet Explorer open here reset connection and then I want to have uh
something else going on. Maybe I'm browsing the store like this on the left
or whether it's something like Skype or something like an instant messenger
client. How many of you guys have been using something like an iPad and kind of
gone, "Oh, why do people keep messaging
me on Facebook or whatever else?" Because it is such a bear to close down
whatever you're doing, go to your messaging app,
type your response, go out of what that is, go back to what
you were doing. It's stupid. Whereas now you can have that open in the side all
you want. You can have something else going on and you can actually change
this split so that it goes this way as well. So you could browse the store and
then you could have like I don't know you could be monitoring the NCIX forums
at the same time. And the oh the UI is so smooth here. I'm
going to bring this closer so you guys can actually see what I'm talking about.
Hold on. Let me just switch the camera back to manual mode. Uh or auto mode
rather. There we go. auto mode. I hope you guys can see this. There we go. It's
just very smooth even when you're navigating like multiple things at a
time. And it's not the power of the Tegra 3 processor. Let's let's be very
clear about that because Tegra 3 is nothing special these days. It's just
the way that they've optimized the OS which means that much better even better
things are going to be coming in the future. And this is the first time we've
actually seen anything approaching true multitasking on a mobile platform. So,
is Windows 8 perfect? No. Is Windows RT
perfect? No. People are asking me to double tap the
home button. Why on earth are they asking me to do that? Yeah, who cares about that? You don't have to double tap
the home button. If you want this functionality, then you can just go like
this. That's faster to me. You can switch
between things like that. Or you can go like this and you can switch between all the things. This is not actually faster.
I don't like um I don't like buttons around the outside. If anything, I'd
prefer if they didn't have one at all. So, uh, okay.
No cat in the live chat sucks. Well, I can ask for a cat to come come visit us,
Rumble. Rumble, do you want to join us?
Rumble, where are you?
You going to come join us for the last little bit here?
All right, we only got a couple minutes left, so let's go back to some Twitter
questions and uh finish off the evening here.
Oh, double tap the iPad. Oh,
oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I know what you guys are talking about. No, no,
no. Double tap the iPad is a terrible multitasking experience. Oh, but yes,
you can change brightness in there. You're right. So, you have these options down here. Double tap doesn't even work
right half the time, though. Come on. especially once you have a wellused iOS
device. My phone properly detects a
double tap maybe maybe half the time. So
there you go. Okay. Yes, double tap can
be used for some of those as well. But for actual multitasking, like if you go
back to my other example, which was the one where you're running a Messenger app in the background, yes, you can double
tap and you can switch to that app. I would argue it's not actually that much
faster, especially if you're trying to do sort of anything else. And it's just
I'm you know what, as an iOS user who
actually likes iOS, I'm just not sold on iOS anymore. The Windows 8 experience
feels smoother. It does feel better. And guys, I bought this today.
Nobody sent me one of these. All of my Android tablets are samples. I would not
buy an Android tablet. based on the experience I've had with it so far. I
bought this and I bought this. I'm comparing two
things I bought. I am a fanboy of neither. I am just telling you guys
these are the experiences I'm having.
And apparently Rumble's not going to join us. But let's do some more. Let's do some more Twitter stuff. Okay, here
we go. Try multigenerational with four
fingers. Um, haven't played around with that yet. Like I said, I haven't spent
much time with Windows 8 or Windows RT yet, guys. You should use the TSN app on
Windows 8. I would, but I don't have any sports to uh read about because there's
no hockey. Best PC speakers in your opinion? Probably the Corsair SP2500's.
How do you do a print screen on the Surface? I have no idea. Uh control Ps.
Would imagine that. Uh snipping tool is there. So, there you go. Uh shouldn't be
rocket science. I mean, that's another thing that's nice is if you know how to
use a Windows device, you kind of already know how to uh you already kind
of know how to use Windows 8. So, or wait, did I say control P? It should be
No, there should be a print screen button. Um, no, I'd probably just use
snipping tool, I guess. Sniping
tool. And then I could just create a new
snip.
Oh, hold on. Oh. Oh, this won't be a very good demo if I can't figure out how
to do it. Sniping tool. Yeah. And new.
There we go. I can create my screenshot. Oh, you guys can't even see what I'm
doing here. There we go. See? Snipping tool. So, you just search for SNIP and
then you're good. Um,
okay. Loving the new set. Nice and casual. This is my living room, not a
set, just so you know. That's why it's nice and casual and I shouldn't be
working here. Um, anything wrong with the something
something? 2,000 RPM fans at 20 dB. Yeah, that's what's wrong with them.
There's no way that they're that quiet. Would I ever dye my hair blonde again? I
don't know. I've done it before. I use four fingers and move them up to
access multitasking on the iPad. That's right. I forgot about that. Um, eh.
What? 7.1 something. Are the things you unbox sponsored? Some of them. Some of
them not. Which 660 Ti card would you recommend in terms of performance, heat,
and sound? Um, I was a big proponent of the power edition, but uh the power
edition sort of went away, so I don't know what to tell you anymore. Can you
recommend a mouse like the G9X, but not from Logitech? No. The G9X is from
Logitech. Um, that's sort of how it is.
Um, when you have a blackout, how do you cope with it? I use my phone.
Uh, yes. I have a UPS for the main computers. Mine and my wife's in the
server. Have I been sent a Hazel CPU yet? Not
even close, guys. That platform is not even close.
I know you mentioned the touch experience on desktop. Have you heard about the Leap Motion? I have heard
about the Leap Motion. Not sold. Um,
I'll be sold when I actually have a chance to try it and it's amazing, but
otherwise I think there's a lot of potential for sort of accidental
misinterpretations. I think um if it's amazing then great. If there's no
latency, then great. But again, it's this is
only as good as the leg. So, I haven't tried it yet, so I don't want to say too
much. Best high performance case fans I want to upgrade. Get Noctuas. They don't
move a ton of air. I guess they move pretty good air when they're at full voltage, but they're really quiet. Do I
like rice? Yes, I do. And thank you. I
like this chair, too. I'm using an ASUS Zonar DX sound card. I'm thinking of
upgrading to an STX while I see a big improvement. Well, you won't see a big
improvement, that's for sure. You might hear an improvement. Um, once you go
from onboard to a sound card, the difference is night and day. No matter
what sort of speakers or headphones you're using, when you go from one sound card to another sound card, make sure
you have the make sure you have the audio equipment to deal with it.
Um, what's better, the Vengeance 1300 or the 5HV2? They're both kind of not
great. Um, 1300's more comfortable than 5HB, too, so I guess I'd go that route,
but get 7H if you can afford it? I think Windows 8 looks awesome on the Surface,
but will programs for video editing be okay, right? Something a lot of people
are not sure about with Surface. This is an ARM architecture. This CPU is not
even capable of running your existing x86 or x64 applications. Not even
capable, even remotely capable. They have to be completely recompiled. Some
of them completely rewritten. an a Windows RT device can only use
applications that are downloaded from the Microsoft Store. That's it. When we
see Windows uh Microsoft Surface Pro with an x86 processor inside, then we're
going to start talking about using desktop applications on it. This one,
the desktop is more of a formality. It's
um it's great for using Office 2013, which is on here, but other than that,
there's not a whole lot going on for desktop applications.
So, yeah, that's a big drawback. Um,
Minecraft is not going to be on Windows 8. Okay. Do I lift? No. Can you explain
dual pumps in a serial loop? Um, yeah,
more more more pressure. Um, which is good. More pressure is good. Also,
redundancy. Um, running pumps in parallel is basically stupid because you
get more flow rate, but uh you don't get more pressure. And since most of the
limitations in a water cooling loop are due to pressure drop and not due to
needing like a higher maximum flow rate, um, serial is great. And then if one of
your pumps dies, it won't matter because your system will still work. What Z77
motherboard would you recommend for under 200 bucks? I don't know. Get an M power or Sabertooth. Are those under 200
bucks? I don't know. What's the history with the Playboy Matt
thing? I covered this in a previous live stream, but it was a gift sort of. Are
you ever going to have some special guests to do some live streaming with you? Hopefully at some point, but uh
this is at like nine o'clock my time, so it's not like many people will want to
hang out with me at this time. Did you know that Windows 8 has a taskbar for
each screen natively if you use multimonitors? I did not know that, but that sounds awesome. I have I like I
said, I haven't used Windows 8 much yet. Uh it's a G9, not a G9X. I love it.
Double tap, blah blah. Yeah, that's lame multitasking though, compared to what
we're seeing on Windows. I need iOS lessons. No, I knew all this stuff at
some point. Like I've used all these all these gestures and things that people
are showing me, but it's just something that I never really found that practical
because I wasn't because I wasn't able to multitask effectively and actually
use two applications at the same time, which you can't. iOS forces you to focus
one app. Um, it just faded from memory and I never really thought about it too
much. Personal rig updates anytime soon?
No. What camera are you using currently?
I'm using an8 $8,500 camera, so there
you go. It better be smooth. Uh, it's an
FS700 from Sony. What do you recommend
for a big hand gaming mouse that's cheap? Uh, maybe a MionX NOS 3200,
something like that. Please make a video about the new AMD drivers and
performance gains in Battlefield 3. Do you really need me to do that? I can just tweet that. Um, AMD has that.
Dig himself in a hole in regards to Windows 8. I am not digging myself in a
hole. You will see. Uh, do you think tablets will be around for another
decade or will they die out as our phones continue to grow in size and function? Well, no. We will always need
bigger screens. Um, especially older people. And the people who are
techsavvy, nerdy, geeky people are going to continue to get older. Um, so what
that's going to mean is their eyesight's going to start sucking, which means they're going to need bigger screens.
So, no, tablet's never going to disappear. And phones, I think, are
already as big as they need to be. Um, iPhone 4, iPhone 5 is as big as I ever
need my phone to be because I want to actually hold my phone like this, like a
phone. Um, Esther has a Galaxy Note, and
it's the most ridiculous thing in the world because you're like,
you know, basically like, yes, hello. And we see
spoofs about stuff like that, but come on. That's the direction you're heading
at a certain point. So, no, it's not going to happen. Um, how will the
Surface play games? Not not at all yet as far as I know other than like casual
games and I haven't like I said I haven't had much time with it. I played with it a little bit at work today.
Cameraman played with it more than I did and then I came home. I set up my live
stream and I'm doing my live stream. So that's what I got. I'm the guy with the
AGP video card. Found a 9600 GT at the dump. That's awesome. But no, don't get
a second one. Um what do I do if all my hard drives have been reformatted? My
main one stopped working on Windows control panel.
Looks like you're looking at data recovery software at the very least. Um,
yeah, I'm sorry to hear that. Do I prefer Surface or other manufacturers RT
tablet? Um, I've only played with the Vivo Tab so far and very little. It
depends what you're after. I love kickstand. Kickstand is amazing. Um,
kickstand is like what turns uh Surface
from a tablet into more like a notebook replacement to me.
Surface is a little bit um a little bit
heavy. It's a little bit on the heavier side for what I would sort of like to
see for a tablet. Um so the Vivo the Vivo Tab is very light. Just awesome
form factor. Rounded edges. Although I'm not sure I'm sold on rounded edges anymore now that I've felt these beveled
edges. It feels very natural to hold. It depends what you want. If you want if
you want something lighter, if you want something you're going to use only as a tablet or if you don't mind having like
a click in dock. I mean, I love the way
that the covers attach to Surface. This is just amazing. You just kind of hold
them like sort of remotely close to each other and it just clicks into place. You
don't even have to even try to line it up. It's just like done. Um whereas
ASUS's uh like docking stations, docking
keyboard stations are a little bit different than that.
Um dear Linus Tech Tips, can you please look at WD keyboards? Uh yeah, I there's
so many keyboard brands and people are only so interested in them. Jacob asks
if I think iPad is dead because of the Surface. Uh no.
Apple has so much momentum. Um I am a college dropout or flunk out, whichever
you prefer. What are my thoughts on the upcoming Surface Pro? I'm super excited,
especially based on what I've seen from Surface.
And now I've broken everything. Oh, he has 11 followers. Look at that. Uh, I
love Windows 8, but it's really nothing for me on my desktop PC with touchscreen
because it's like a thousand feet away. Exactly. Um, I don't I'm not going to be
telling people to upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 8 on their desktops anytime
soon. I know you love cats. What do you think about dogs? I think they smell,
but otherwise, I love them. Love their attitude. Great attitude, champ. But you
smell bad. Go outside. That's my sort of take on dogs. They're also way too much
work. When we got the cats, we were kind of like neither of us were home very
much. We both work a lot, so it was like having a dog wouldn't be fair. Um, I'll
probably do the dog thing once the kids demand it. That would be that would be
the threshold for me. Although, I regret putting this up on the internet now
because they're going to find this stream and they're going to remind me that I told my my internet viewers that
I was going to get a dog at some point and they're going to make me do it. But we'll see. Uh, what do I think of Linux
as a gaming platform? Absolutely nothing. I think it'll be 20 years
before Linux even makes headroom. Okay, maybe 10 years. But yeah. Um, do I
know anywhere blah blah custom laptop? Don't get a custom laptop. Get a real
laptop. Um, what do you think about Surface as a controller for media on
your desktop? I think that um convincing people that they have to have a tablet.
Until tablets reach the same kind of price points as something like an Nexus
7 where it's like at or under $200, then it's very hard to convince me to do that
because I don't carry a tablet around with me, which means that either that
tablet would live near my TV and it would live on my coffee table to be used
for that or to be used here and it would like its charging station would be like
here in the corner or it would be my tablet and it would be like wherever I
left it around my house. And come on, let's face it. TV watchers, even
compared to PC gamers, are like the laziest guys ever. Um, are they going to
go upstairs to get the remote or are they just going to watch TV? They're
going to watch TV. So, no, I'm not sold on that. Uh, really want one of those
changed to blah blah blah blah blah. Is there going to be any future with socket
1155? No, there won't be. You are stuck at 3770K.
So,
here will be the grand actually. Okay, I'll do one more Twitter question. I'm
going to do whatever is the top when I refresh it here. 115 120 new
interactions. You guys are killing me here. When you watch TV, what shows do
you watch minus? Um I I watch pretty
much anything Seth McFarland works on. So your family guys, your American dads.
Um particularly American Dad would be my favorite out of his stable these days.
Uh love South Park. South Park is my favorite show by a long shot. Um, love
Futurama, although I thought the most recent season started off kind of weak
or the the comeback season started off kind of weak, but then got a lot
stronger as things went on. Um, most
yeah, mostly animated stuff. I've watched all the way through House. I
love Seinfeld, but these aren't things that I watch over and over again. I
don't watch much TV because what I discover is that um, every time I start
a show, if I don't enjoy it, then I'm wasting my time. And if I do enjoy it,
then I don't sleep. Like it's like
books. Like I love reading. Last time I was on vacation on my honeymoon, I
burned through something like 28 novels in the two weeks, two and a
half weeks I was gone. And uh like because once I pick it up, I can't put
it down. So if I have other responsibilities like filming videos or
going to work, then it's very very difficult for me to watch TV or read
books because I they consume my life very quickly. Um, actually Elliot asked
a good question. What do you think about Microsoft Smart Glass? I think that Gen
One is kind of neat. Um, and that it's really going to be more like Gen Two or
once we see some more software revisions before that kind of thing is really,
really cool. So, live unboxing of the
Darth Vader PEZ dispenser.
Okay, here I'm going to get a little bit closer here for you guys so you can
collect them all. So, there is Emperor
Palpatine, Darth Maul, Darth Vader, R2-D23, C3PO, and Yoda. Although, I wish
they'd just take Darth Maul off there because he's the only thing that's uh
keeping this from being entirely original trilogy, which would make it
better. There's instructions for loading in the candy. There's also nutritional
facts about Pez candy in general. I suspect uh for nutrition, they should
just put something along the lines of none and leave it at that. I mean, PEZ
isn't going to kill you, but it's not going to do anything positive for you either. Let's go ahead and open this bad
boy up. A comes with two
PEZ packets. And do they come pre-loaded? No, they do not. I don't
know. It's been a long time since I've had PEZ. So, to load a PEZ dispenser,
you open it up. Look, Darth Vader has a long neck. Oh, and it closed. Okay, so
let's open up a PEZ packet here. And uh
not labeled for individual sale. Fascinating. What do you wait? What do
you think, guys? Lemon candy or strawberry candy? So, we got strawberry.
See if that focuses. I don't think it's gonna Oh, no. It's not in manual. All right. It's not auto mode. Let's go auto
mode. This is probably been out of focus the whole time. Okay, there we go.
Strawberry. Still not going to focus for me. Whatever. Screw you, camera. Or
lemon. You can tell from the colors. Okay, I got votes for strawberry. I got
votes for lemon. Oh, I think I see more lemon votes in the Twitch chat. So,
there we go. I'm gonna open up the lemon here.
All right. See, we're having fun. We have fun on this live stream. All right.
I got my I got my uh got my lemon candies here. Although, some of the
paper clung to the candy, and I'm having a little bit of troubles kind of loading
this in. It's been a long time since I've done this, you guys. I'm like 26
now, so PEZ hasn't exactly been a part of my life for uh for a number of years.
Um let's go ahead and put that in there.
I mean, not that I'm saying you can outgrow PEZ because that's not what I'm saying at all. I was excited as excited
to get my new Darth Vader Pez dispenser as I was to ever get any PEZ dispenser
ever before in my life as well. So, let's just go ahead and try to put that
in there. You can save strawberry for later, says
one of the Twitch Twitch contributors tonight. Yes, I can. Thank you. I will
save the strawberry for later. So, I'm finishing up the lemon. And that
pretty much wraps up the live stream for tonight. Darth Vader has been loaded.
This is my Darth Vader Pez dispenser. And let's see if I can get it to
actually focus here. It could be that like manual focus isn't on. Focus auto.
Yeah, no, autofocus is on. I don't know. Whatever. This is the Darth Vader Pez
dispenser. That will be the prize, crown jewel of my Pez dispenser collection of
one because I only have one. And
that wraps up this live stream. Now I'm going to like make out with Darth Vader.
Get some candy, get some sugar. Thank you for tuning in. May the force be with
you all and good night.