Best Gaming Notebooks of CES 2014
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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Linus Tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by nc.com your source for
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital Welcome to our best gaming notebooks of CES 2014 Adventure we're
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kicking things off here at the Intel Booth where I've been given a challenge
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or a quest or whatever you might want to call it either way I hope you guys will
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join us for the adventure to find my personal favorite gaming notebooks here
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at the show now there's no particular criteria it doesn't have to be the best
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performance it doesn't have to be the thinnest or the lightest or a particular
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color it's just the ones that really stood out to us as we journeyed Las
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Vegas going into all the sweets and all over the show floor trying to find our
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favorite gaming notebooks well this was unexpected it looks like we're going to
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be one of the only ones able to bring you this news oh wait no this this is
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one of MSI's workstation notebooks this is gaming systems best gaming
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systems of CES ah yes this guy right
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here I can't tell you guys the model I actually covered it as well in the video
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of MSI Suite so you can go check that out for a few more details but the core
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i7 quad core processor in here is paired with an undisclosed Graphics solution in
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a completely unreal enclosure it is
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phenomenally slim it feels faster than the gs7 in real world gaming and unlike
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the gs70 about which I had one complaint and that was that it was dense it was
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Heavy I mean the thing was made of metal so what were we going to expect this one
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feels more like it's made of plastic but I know for a fact just from touching it
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and looking at it it is definitely made of metal unfortunately I can't tell you
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guys too much about this not even its name but it is definitely one of our
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highlights of the show gaming notebooks just don't look like what they used to
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look like anymore this is the orus X7 it is an extremely slim gaming notebook and
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you might go okay well I've heard a lot of things called extremely slim gaming notebooks and usually they're just not
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that powerful but this one is it has a core i7 quad core and it also has
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GeForce GTX 765m Graphics not one but
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two of them it has two graphics cards running in SLI to which you might reply
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okay lonus well it probably runs really hot then the answer is no actually it
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does not the keyboard does not get more than slightly warmed to the touch you're
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not going to get sweaty hand syndrome or as I call it shs from using this
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particular notebook and if you are curious about what the power of dual GTX
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765m is like they've got a couple of demos running here one is Batman Arkham
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Origins running at about normal settings and you can see that we're looking at
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about 60 FPS average so since we have vsync on that actually only tells us
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that we are able to run the game butter smooth at 60 FPS with only mild dips to
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44 frames per second they also have it running a 4K gaming demo over in the
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other corner so whether you are gaming on the display that's built in which is
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a 1080p display not a TN panel just like
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thumbs up or whether you want to plug in up to three external displays or one
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high resolution one you will be pretty much good to go continuing our quest for
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the hottest gaming notebooks here at CES we're in the ASUS Suite where we're
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checking out the g750 JZ at features an upcoming NVIDIA
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GeForce presumably GTX high-end graphics
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card of some sort we can't even tell you what it is that's how new and exciting
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it is as an Intel Core i7 quad core processor it features Thunderbolt
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technology as well as four USB 3 ports but more importantly than any of that is
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what's here in the back massive massive
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heat sinks with dual fans for ventilation so no matter what you are
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throwing at this sexy but a little bit
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heavy which should give you some kind of clue as to what kind of powerful
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Hardware is inside no matter what you throw at this sexy gaming Beast it will
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stay cool and look good doing it now we're at the NVIDIA Booth we found
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another awesome gaming notebook here at CES 2014 this is the Razer Blade 14 it's
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actually one that we've looked at before but that doesn't really make it any less
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exceptional you can see we're running Assassin's Creed 4 here this particular
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notebook has a 14-in display it's got a gorgeous green LED back lit display it
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has did I say display cuz I meant keyboard don't worry about it you guys I
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got this i got this I'm pretty tired we're on like day three of the show here
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it's in an extremely slim form factor and the most exceptional thing about it
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has got to be the build quality in spite
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of the core i7 quad core processor and GTX
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765m uh graphics card in here it's got this super super slim beautiful aluminum
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design that is as portable as it is
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deadly so just cuz we've seen it before and just cuz it's not the newest thing
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ever doesn't make it any less exceptional now I think it's somewhat
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safe to say that if you're gamer particularly one who's been shopping for
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a notebook in the last little while and you've been on the internet then you've
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probably heard of the y500 series from Lenovo well this my friends is the Y 500
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series evolved in pretty much every possible way that I can think of this is
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the y50 this is a sort of a an example
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unit it's going to be available in a variety of configurations all lenovo's
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really said so far is that between this one and the 14-in model it's going to be
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sort of starting at $9.99 but uh this is one very very
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impressive notebook guys the first thing you might be thinking is well okay lonus
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you're saying the y50 is better than the y500 that doesn't actually make much
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sense no no it does because it's not about some kind of reduction in the
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hardware spec it's about a reduction in the overall size this is one Sleek slim
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beautiful gaming notebook it's actually it doesn't really look like a high
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performance gaming notebook and while unfortunately we can't tell you exactly
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what Gra graphics card is in this particular one suffice it to say there
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will be some options coming in the future and there will be some more information and that will give you some
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some great you know perspective on how impressive the feed is later on down the
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line it also contains a quadcore Intel Core i7 processor it's got a red back
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lit keyboard it's got a beautiful soft touch finish here on the uh on the
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surface of the notebook but I kind of saved the best for last here a little
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bit guys this display right here in addition to having great viewing angles
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vibrant colors without looking oversaturated to be perfectly honest is
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a 4K display now unfortunately they don't
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all ship with 4K displays at $9.99 or anything like that but the fact that
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it's even available as an option is unreal and to go along with you know
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just just again to demonstrate that it's got the power to back it up we are
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running two 4K videos this one's on the upcoming Dell 24in 4k monitor this one's
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on the notebook itself and they are both running off the notebook right
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now the end of our Quest is actually in the Intel Booth but it didn't really
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have to be it's just that this particular demo with the alien Weare 18
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is particularly impressive because it's one thing to have the Alienware 18 with
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its quad core core i7 processor and dual GTX 780m running games on its own
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display it is quite another to fire up a
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60hz 4K display from pan Sonic and be
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running Batman Arkham Origins in silky
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smooth gorgeous detail so you guys can probably actually see that in spite of
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Batman being dropping around and swinging around places it is running at
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an incredibly smooth playable frame rate considering the fact that this is still
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a portable machine while it might not have the same you know slim form factor
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as some of the other ones we're looking at if it's raw horsepower you're after
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well those options are still available as well thanks so much for checking out
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our favorite gaming notebooks of CES 2014 guys like this video if you liked
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it dislike it if you disliked it leave a comment and let me know which one was
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your favorite gaming notebook and more importantly why and then last but not
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