MSI Systems Suite Ultrabook & Gaming Notebook Display - Linus Tech Tips CES 2013
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welcome to Linus 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 now we're in the MSI system Suite where we've got a few different
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notebooks on display there's a gt70 here which has the steel series uh zoned lit
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back lit keyboard you know it's a just generally a better keyboard than you
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will usually find on a typical notebook right here though this one is gorgeous
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so this has an Intel quad core processor it has a GeForce 68m actually just like
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the other two that are on the table in front of me it has a killer Nick 16 gigs
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of RAM a 128 gig SSD plus a 128 Gs are
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you for are you for real yes crazy okay tell tell us about this storage
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configuration actually it's got our super raid system actually it's got two
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ssds running in a raid zero configuration so your primary plus a
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hard drive plus a hard drive so your primary drives are as fast as possible
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you could load um Minecraft in in like
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really the the fastest possible speed oh good thank you I was concerned about how
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quickly I could load Minecraft here we've got the gt60 which is basically a
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15-in version also has the steel series keyboard also has a 68m and is also a
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quad core now I'd like to move over to this little number right over here this
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is the gx60 so what's special about this Alex I mean we can clearly see you've
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got a bunch of monitors on the table but why have you done that the gx60 is
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special because it's got the AMD radio on HD 7970m and using this mobile
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processor mobile graphics processor you could actually run ifinity on a notebook
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and this is something that's uh you know usually ifinity or any multi-display
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gaming is usually reserved for desktop you know graphic cards and desktop
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systems but this is the a first for mobile system now you're probably not
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going to be running Far Cry 3 at full detail on something like this but from a
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productivity standpoint it would be great to be able to plug in at home fire
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up two additional monitors and so you can game on the notebook you can use
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three displays for your office applications yeah but I mean if you were
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running like a dx9 game uh that's a little bit less as far as the graphics
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is concerned and even if you limit down the resolution of the the the secondary
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monitors you can actually play at a you know pretty decent frame ratees very
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cool stuff finishing up the MSI system Suite we have a couple of really cool
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notebooks you might notice that they look very similar to the gaming
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notebooks that we just saw before but the key difference is that these include
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Quadro graphics cards so this guy is the k1000 and the guy on your right is the
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k2000 what that means is when you're accelerating professional applications
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you are going to be able to take advantage of not only the performance
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acceleration you get from Cuda but also some of the quadro optimizations that
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are made in the driver and in the GPU so Alex can you tell us why these look like
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the gaming models the biggest the biggest reason why these are the uh look
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like the gaming models is because the quadril GPU itself actually looks very
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it's not sorry not looks it's h very similar to the desktop gForce very
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version and the gaming notebooks have the proper thermal in place design wise
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to vent the heat uh from the quadro chips themselves now I would like to uh
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you know pull off a little magic trick and I'm going to pull the coolest thing in the MSI system Suite out of my
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proverbial buttocks and show you guys
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this freaking cool Ultrabook so it looks
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like a tablet but they're calling it Ultrabook why is it called an Ultrabook
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because bam not only that but you can
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adjust the angle you want to use it at it's a little bit stiff so that you can
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basically put it wherever you want so this is a core i5 what are you guys
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calling this guy this is called the this is called the s20 slider it's obviously
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uh sliding and and uh you can actually use it as a tablet you can use it for
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for multiple things you know and uh you can also download all of the apps off of
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the the Xbox Live store I think whatever
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they call their Market whatever they call it I'm not I haven't used the used this this this particular setup yet so
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so guys it's got an IPS screen 10-point multitouch and unlike a lot of tablets
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check this out you've actually got things like Ethernet connectivity you've
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got here we go again H mini HDMI you've
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got two USB 3.0 ports so this really is
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an Ultra Book cuz you have to build those into your specification to get
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that Ultrabook stamp of approval from Intel but you can use it as a tablet and
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what kind of battery life are you getting out of this guy uh it's got pretty good battery life it's good it's
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a good five or six hours if not longer I I actually have not tested the entire
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you know thing to its full extent you know but you can extrapolate based on
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how long it's lasting here at the show while you're showing it to it one one
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charge will basically last us practically an entire day's worth of you
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know regular just messing around on Ms paint or
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whatever all right guys so don't miss any of our CES 2013 coverage and as
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always don't forget to subscribe to lonus Tech tips and uh big thanks to MSI
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for showing us around the
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suite thanks for watching Linus Tech tips at CES 2013 powered by Corsair
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