Overkill Laptops @ PAX East 2017
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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welcome to PAX East 2017 and welcome to
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the Intel Booth we are going to check out the top three laptops and we have
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some special ones here also thank you to Intel who brought us here to paxis 2017
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check out unlocked. newegg.com for some special deals on processors while
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supplies last first off we're going to check out the biggest heaviest most
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ridiculous laptop even though it probably shouldn't be allowed to be
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called that that I have personally ever seen it has a curved 2560 x 1080 screen
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it is IPS has 120 HZ display and it's
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just nuts below that display it has a full trmx Brown mechanical keyboard the
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same that you would have on a desktop and on the right hand side there's a
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touchpad where you can flip it over and get a number pad as well inside it has
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an Intel Core i7 7820 HK two GTX 1080s
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in SLI 64 gigs of RAM a 1 tbte raate
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zero of NVMe drives and a 1 tbte hard
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drive this is why it needs its five fans and nine internal heat pipes the cooling
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on this thing is insane and it follows that up with giant exhaust ports in the
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back between those exhaust ports in the back you have two power inss for two
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different Power bricks that are both 330 wats Thunderbolt 3 gbit Ethernet two
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DisplayPort 1.2 ports and HDMI 2.0 on
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the right hand side you have dual USB 3.0 and a Kensington lock and then on
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the left hand side you have another dual USB 3.0 a headphone and microphone Jack
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and an SD card reader and all of that will cost you only a
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meager $9,000 which is over four times the
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price of my first car which is just absolutely ridiculous uh they don't have
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any different spec levels for this laptop you can't get less RAM or lower
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storage to make it cheaper but as lonus has said in the past I wouldn't even
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expect them to if you're going to spend $99,000 on a laptop I wouldn't expect
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you to be super worried about going down to 85,000 in order to save a few bucks
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on a few extra specs this thing is ridiculous no one expects to buy it so
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the next laptop is going to be a little bit more reasonable next up we have an orus X7
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version 7 this one is still a blazing fast laptop with an Intel Core i7
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7820hk 16 gigs of RAM that can go up to
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64 if you want to do some upgrading and an NVIDIA GTX 1078 gig with g-sync it
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has two 256 GB NVMe drives one 1 TB hard
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drive and a 1440p screen running at 120
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HZ with a 5 millisecond delay below that you have a fully RGB
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keyboard with five macro keys on the left hand side and you have two 2W
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speakers and two two WT subwoofers also in the unit on the left hand side you
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have a headphone and microphone Jack USB 3.0 type a and a fullsize Ethernet port
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on the back you have USB 3.0 power in and a light up logo on the back of the
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screen and then on the right hand side you have an SD card reader a USB 3 2.0
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port a USB 3.1 type-c port HDMI 2.0 and
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a mini DisplayPort the fans in this unit pull air in from the top and then
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exhaust air out the back and out the sides of the unit so that they don't
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heat your hands up which is actually pretty cool and then to cap it off you
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have a 9424 w hour battery which should be able to keep you going for a fairly
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reasonable amount of time I think this laptop makes a little bit more sense
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it's really high performance but it's a little bit more reasonable in the weight
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department and a little bit more reasonable in the price Department although it is still very much a premium
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gaming laptop and last but not least we have the MSI gs43 VR Phantom Pro this is
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toted as the lightest VR ready laptop and VR ready actually makes sense here
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when they call like ssds VR ready and stuff it carries no weight but a laptop
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VR ready cool I'm down with that it weighs 1.8 kg which is slightly less
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than 4 lb and it is only 21.8 mm thick
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which is a fair amount less than 1 in thick on the inside you have an Intel
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Core i77700 HQ which boosts up to 3.8
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GHz and a GTX 1066 GB this version has
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16 GB of RAM but can expand up to 32 GB
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if you want to do that on your own and it has a 128 GB NVMe drive along with a
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1 TB hard drive you got a 1080p webcam two 2 W speakers and a 61w hour battery
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which is pretty all right especially for how thin and light this laptop is on the
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le- hand side you have a Kensington lock slot fulls siiz Ethernet an SD card slot
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3 USB 3.0 ports and a headphone and microphone Jack on the right hand side
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you have USB 3.0 Thunderbolt HDMI 2.0
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mini DisplayPort and Power in so we had
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the full range we had the Juggernaut really heavy really powerful really
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ridiculous really expensive then we have the one in the middle really fast very
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high refresh rate screen but a reasonable weight and a slightly more
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reasonable price then we went down a little bit more it's thinner it's really
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light doesn't weigh very much but still high enough performance to do VR and
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really easy to tote around hopefully you liked our top three at the Intel booth
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at paxis 2017 again be sure to go to
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unlock.new egg.com to see deals on Intel
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products right now I know at the very least they have processors on sale right
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