Intel Booth Pt2 Featuring Maingear Pulse 14 - PAX Prime 2013
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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lonus Tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel
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and steel Series so we're here in the Intel booth at Pax 2013 there is a ton
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of stuff on display here gaming desktops
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tablets all kinds of great stuff they're giving away over $40,000 worth of
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processors throughout the show but behind me here I have the main gear
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pulse 14 this is a bit of a unique
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notebook because it takes what you would call a more traditional DIY approach
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because obviously main Gear's roots are from sort of the custom desktop
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background that they started up with and they've taken a lot of those principles
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and applied them to this notebook right here so let's go through the general
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specs it's got a quadcore 4702 processor
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so that's about as good as you can get within a 35 wat TDP it's got a GTX
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760m which from a Pure Performance standpoint it should give you about
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double what you're going to get with a 66 6m so it's a huge generational
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Improvement it still maintains a very
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slim overall form factor doesn't compromise on iO so on the left hand
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side here you got your power in you got your ventilation HDMI VGA aha yes still
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hardwired gigabit Ethernet two super speed USB 3 ports then on the other side
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you find another USB 2.0 port card reader headphone and microphone Jack the
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screen runs at 1,600 by 900 although a little bird told me it might be
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available in even higher resolutions moving forward the keyboard is a
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chicklet type unfortunately not backlit but this is where things start to get
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really interesting the pricing is extremely aggressive starting at 12249
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and check this out on the back unfortunately the base model doesn't
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include the sexy paint job for the back of the notebook so you can see that is a
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premium automotive finish main gear figures their own shop is better than
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most of the shops in the Jersey area and
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it is dedicated to to painting not only your PC but also potentially the
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accessories that you acquire with it so check this out here's a Logitech gaming
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mouse that has also had the same finish applied to it now that DIY spirit is
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back guys because the storage configuration of this notebook is extremely flexible in spite of its small
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size so 14 in and very slim it can accept a 2 and 1/2 in drive so whether
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it's an SSD or hard drive doesn't really seem to matter and two MSA ssds all at
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the same time so you could actually run two ssds for boot and then throw a 2 and
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1/2 in hard drive in there for storage giving you an extremely flexible little
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system guys don't miss any of our PS 2013 coverage remember we're powered
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here at the show by Intel Western Digital and steel series