The WORST demo at CES
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,040 words · ~5 min read
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our coverage of ces 2019 is brought to you by the dbrand grip and dbrand prism
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screen protector you can check them both out at the link in the video description
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we are here in gigabytes booth where they are showing off the latest
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iteration of their arrow 15 gaming laptop and this is
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actually an interesting one so it can be equipped with up to an rtx 2080 max q
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graphics card and up to a core i9 8950
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hk so yes my friends that is the unlocked six core hyper threaded
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processor and it's all in this tiny slim
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form factor how have they crammed this amount of hardware in here well
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conveniently the unit that i picked up actually had the bottom of it fall off
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while i was standing here getting ready to shoot so you can go ahead and take a
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peek inside with me see look it has no screws in it hold on wait for it
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honestly i did not i did not remove those screws the battery just started
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like like popping out in my hand and i was like what's going on here so here's
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our GPU here's our CPU here's the cooling for the vrm we've got a dual fan
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design like we've seen in previous generation arrow 15s couple memory slots
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we've got NVMe storage just a single one of those no two and a half inch storage
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but that's okay i wouldn't have expected it there's only so much they can do for something like that but if you really
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wanted to add more storage look at that you've got another easily accessible
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NVMe slot but here's the thing
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Gigabyte's main selling point for this is not actually just that they've taken
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a very impressive spec and put it in a compact laptop as you guys might have
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seen if you were paying really close attention there this
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is the world's first ai laptop
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so what exactly does ai laptop mean well they partnered with microsoft azure and
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so they're kind of working together to share the cost of development here but
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the idea is that they've got this demo here with this appears to be pubg
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running 50 45 50-ish FPS without ai and high 50s
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low 60s with ai now i had some uh
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questions about how exactly it would be that ai would make a game run at a
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higher FPS and i'm going to have to consult my notes here for a second
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so i asked what exactly does ai do
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in a laptop and they said it allocates CPU and GPU power according
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to the workload then i pointed out that normally while gaming neither the CPU
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nor the GPU is power constrained and asked what benefit there would be then
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the answer was well you don't have to turn it on if you don't want to but it's
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designed to make life a little bit easier for the average end user
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my next question why exactly are you running these as
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pre-recorded videos rather than having the actual games running to show the FPS
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difference okay they had a pretty good answer for that these are rtx graphics cards and
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NVIDIA's not letting anyone run actual games on them fair enough
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and then i asked okay what about other stuff and they were
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like okay well here's the thing it's designed to be able to predict what a
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particular application needs based on a machine learning data set and i went
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okay cool so what other demos do you have
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allow me so here we have an ai laptop versus a
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non-ai laptop and they actually got rid of their
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their pre-recorded videos and fired up adobe premiere for me so that i could do
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a side-by-side test now it's adobe premiere cs5 and i asked why it was cs5
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which is about 10 year old software at this point and i said well that was what we had time for and i kind of went uh
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okay and we went ahead and ran our demo um as
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i expected i'm not sure if i was the only one here but as i expected the ai
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and non-ai ones finished the encode at exactly the same
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time um so
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really this whole experience has raised more questions than answers i asked um
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why they finished at the same time they said well it's pre-production
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and um i guess we're gonna have to follow up
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and take a closer look at the ai laptop
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in the future uh once it's had a little bit more time to
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train its ai to do something
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speaking of doing something i'm going to show you
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my phone with a dbrand grip on it dbrand sponsored our content here at ces 2019.
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their grip case is super grippy it's got clicky buttons thank you Colton i felt
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smarter while i was wearing those um yeah super clicky buttons uh it's
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drop it's drop resistant like basically Linus proof what else is there to say
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about it oh right you can customize it with a dbrand skin of course also
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they're showing off their new prism screen protectors they've got this great applicator that makes it easy to put on
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it feels nice and glassy from the front but the impact protection that is where
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the prism really shines so you could literally take your phone hammer a nail
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into a piece of wood not that i'm recommending it and peel off your screen
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protector which is of course dented to hell but your screen huh the screen
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still looks good really nice check them both out at the link in the video description
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so thanks for watching guys if you disliked this video you can go ahead and do that but if you liked it and you love
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