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Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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2,273 words · ~11 min read
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welcome to lonus Tech tips at CES 2013 our trip to the show this year is
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powered by Corsair maker of quality PC components and peripherals our trusted
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storage partner is Seagate technology and our trusted networking partner is
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linkis guys I'm here at the thermal te Booth checking out their Chow series
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headsets I'm going to pass you guys off to Kitty right here hey guys um I'm
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going to say that I lost my voice so that's why I sound funny like maybe like
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a 12-year-old boy but ignore that hope you guys can ignore that um so I want to
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show you guys a new headset that we have from the Chow series it's our new Chow
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Draco captain and this headset is actually with white Ro uh this is our
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first headset with him we did a mouse with him if you guys um know our products we did a safira mouse so this
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headset well this series let me tell you a little about the series first so our child series is geared more towards
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music lovers and lifestyle we you know we obviously have headsets geared
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towards Gamers but this specific line the Chow series is really about you know
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DJs and music enthusiast so what's really cool about this headset it kind
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of like Blends and combines the world of
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music lovers and Gamers so these are 50
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m 50 mm drivers they're really big ear um ear cups as you can see so they're
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really great for long-term use um I was
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going to test it on you but I don't know if you want to if you want to wear it
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cuz on me I have a tiny head so it's not really a great comparison actually makes
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the headset look huge okay so for you I
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can't see okay here okay we got it we got it almost
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there we go there we go yeah so the ear the ear cups are really big theyit
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comfortable they're great for longterm longterm use and um if you know a little
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bit of chow series Chow series don't really have mics you know they're like I
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said it's for music lovers so um they're really focusing on just you know
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long-term music so it's our first Chow headset with actually a mic attached so
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it's really cool yes mik but another thing that the Chow series does is that
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the ear cups they actually flip so for people who are like DJs or listening to
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music you can actually flip it and one you don't have to like move it to the side you can flip one side so you can
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hear people so you know your friends can't talk anything bad about you they
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know and then this side you can listen so you can actually do that with the Chow uh captains too so um the Chow
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headsets are these ones are $79.99 which
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is our the regular Chows and then our Chow signatures are kind of the premiums
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you know they have the goldplated and the cable is removable so with the new
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child Captain headset it actually has pretty much all the features of both the
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headsets and it's priced at $79.99 so it's really kind of competitive price
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the only thing it doesn't have is kind of like the gold plate but I'm a bigger fan of that kind of sleek Sleek matte
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look and it actually matches the safira mouse if you're familiar with that too
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so yeah that's pretty much our new headset it's very interesting yeah guess
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we can go on and see other stuff so first of all as you can see um when we
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start first started we have all these these different colors of the sephira
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mice so really all this is is um we've expanded on the sehir series because
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everybody really liked that Mouse you know it was a favorite for a lot of people it's a favorite of mine so we're
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really offering more colors this year and you know a different finish the
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original Mouse is black with the matte finish and these ones are gloss so we
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have it in red the combat green white uh
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yellow camouflage blue orange just a ton of colors just because um we want to
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offer more you know personalization with this mouth so pretty much that's it you
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know all the all the features are the same um nothing too new but uh we
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definitely want to EXP band Upon A lot of the products that people really like
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and give them more options this is our
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gallero I feel like I'm uh I'm like just
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playing with it already I stop okay this is the gallero and this is a mouse
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bungee so basically really simple idea
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um you know you have a bunch of cables in the back of the computer and sometimes you're playing with the mouse
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and it'll get snagged on like your monitor or the side of your keyboard or
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it'll just get tangled in the back of all the other wires so what it really
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does is it just manages that and makes sure that it doesn't get snagged on
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anything yeah and it's you can actually collapse it's it's a magnet so you just
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pop it into place and it's really easy to bring with you if you're gaming
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anywhere else but um you just put it here and you can choose however much
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slack you need if you're one of those people who are crazy and they go all
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over the M you just yeah you put in there it doesn't come out unless of
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course you know you try to throw it but um so you can choose how much slack you
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need you know some people need a lot like this or some people have a little
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but that's it's just basically cable management for your mouse MSRP is
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$4.99 nothing more frustrating than getting Mouse tug right before you kill
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someone I get really pissed and sometimes I'm like just like like Mouse
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and I pull it and it'll just snap out of the back which just really bad never a
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good thing so that'll solve that problem all right I guess we can move on over to
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keyboards over here actually Sur surise one more thing surprise Mouse the mouse
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that we were actually playing I was I was looking at that I noticed the side
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there it's a new mouse No it's it's just um it's colors different colors so you
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can remember if you if you know instead of numbers we use colors and letters
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like you know if we had the triangles and the circles it'd be like PS3 okay
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that's not that's not what we're talking about here today okay so the Volos Mouse really is um more for people who are MMO
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Gamers or people who need a lot of like macros or hot keys this one has up to 14
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macro Keys adjustable weights as usual uh profiles that you can store inside
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the mouse we have memory inside and of course the weights of course I show you
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uh um can take out the weights there's
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weights in here so everybody likes that you know I'm actually a type of person
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who likes heavier mouses yeah me too I usually put all the weight I possibly
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can people complain though some people like it's too heavy I can't move it I
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love heavy mice awesome great for accurate this mouse is actually a little
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bit bigger than most of our other mouses if you want to rip it yeah mice mice
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mice that's very cool I claw grip but I claw grip with really big mice because I
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have a really big hand so that's actually really cool cuz I can still go all around with a CLA grip you want to
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be like graceful move it is that really how you play yeah does the side have a
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grip the side does have grip right along here um and the buttons are nice because
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you can easily feel where each one is and they are colorcoded so if you have to glance what's interesting is I never
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really did this before I was playing with this SME actually is the buttons
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right here there's actually two right here and um I kind of grip this way so I
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don't you know it's like kind of perfect for where I have it but I use actually
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like the middle part of my thumb and it works really well like I can hit here
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and I usually use the buttons on side like for FPS gaming like when I prone or
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when I like Melee so those are kind of really good buttons I might even actually playay it with FPS but it's
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definitely we offer a lot more buttons this is the most we offered on a mouse
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and MSRP is $79.99 and we're expecting
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for it to come out in the spring we're really pushing towards mechanical
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keyboards this year it's getting really popular yeah for sure I I have multiple
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mechanical keyboards see I I wasn't gaming with mechanical keyboards at
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first but it really has become really popular in the last couple years I I I
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use mechanical and I can't turn back now yeah once you try it
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Yeah so basically what we're trying to do is offer more options for gamers uh
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nothing too crazy not like you know a bajillion macros but you know we're
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starting slow seeing what people like and then building upon a good base so
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our original Mecca and meca G units our original Mecha G1 just had it's a pretty
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standard layout um and it the default was black switches so now what we're
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trying to do is offer more switches give people more choices of what they like
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some people like Reds some people like blues uh Browns so we're actually
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picking those up this year here so we actually got our red switches on the
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Mecha G Unit which is back here if you want to play with it it might actually
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be loud it's just like TI T that's not too bad like Reds yeah yeah red Reds are
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usually quite quiet actually we have Reds and the One keyboard I think
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everyone's been waiting for at least me cuz I've been a lot of people been asking me especially when I go to esport
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tournaments you know they're like waiting for the our new um Prime
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keyboard so this is our new Mecha G1 Prime that's what I've been looking at yeah exactly this is our keyboard made
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by team so everything you see here the colors
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that they chose and the layout is customized by them and how they play the
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game so it's in Korean too Obviously good thing they have English too cuz I
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wouldn't be able to read it yeah but as you can see it has their logo Prime
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Escape key yeah so anytime you try to escape you know it's like oh you're
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hitting the prime gate don't escape don't escape fight the battle very cool
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looking keyboard awesome c yeah these ones are actually Brown switches by I
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really like the Browns um they're definitely ones that I think if you're a
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gamer who likes a keyboard with you know that that feedback but nothing like
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super loud I think Brown's a good medium in the middle to have but you know like
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we said we have Reds we're going to get Blues um and we still have our blacks a
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lot of people do like the blacks so what we did too is for the Mecha G1 this is a
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mecha1 illuminated so now we're offering options like backlighting a lot of
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people like back yeah people have been asking for back lighting right now it's just red LED but maybe in the future we
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we'll have more if if people want it you know yeah yeah it's good so the m SRP
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for both of these are actually $149.99 USD right and as you can see on this
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white one back here they've got lighting zones that you can set up show how we do
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that so these this one actually is it's not fully lit um it it's just the
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special keys you know like the WD for FPS Gamers and then the arrows um it's
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not all lit it's just you know certain areas I think some people they don't
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really like a fully lit keyboard y they just want you know the keys that they
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matter yeah they main gaming Keys all yeah so so this one is actually just
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certain keys but um this one is priced at $139.99
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USD