NCIX Windows 8 Launch Party Booth Tours
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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8,121 words · ~40 min read
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here we are at the NC Windows 8 launch
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party so you can watch NC on YouTube
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join us on Facebook and Twitter and most importantly you can join us here at
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Aberdine mall to meet the new Windows we got lots of cool Windows 8 demos and I'm
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going to take you guys around for a tour of all the awesome boots that are here
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on display and I've taken over yet another Booth
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this is the Seagate Booth where they have all their products on display as
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well as yes the swag is available to be taken these are like the most amazing
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bouncy balls ever because they light up like this which is pretty awesome but
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obviously seate isn't all about bouncy balls they also
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make magnetized refrigerator Clips which
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are the best thing ever keep your chips fresh keep your documents fresh whatever
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it is you actually no C makes hard so let's have a look at what all they've
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got here this is the Backup Plus this is an external backup drive that has a Plus
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on it because it also backs up your social media
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Pho files such as photos off of your
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Facebook they've also got a number of other seate 3 and 1/2 in products here
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including their what did I say three ah yes their slim Drive okay hold on hold
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on hold on so we've got the Backup Plus 2 and 1/2 in form factor so these are
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basically the same thing except bigger capacities smaller capacities however
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this is still a 1 TB Drive in a very slim form factor if you don't want even
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that thick though you can go all the way down to the Seagate 2 and 1/2 in slim
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I'm going to do my classic iPhone four size comparison here this is an
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extremely thin 2 and 1/2 in external drive it is also part of their glex
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family which means you have a very flexible interface on the back this one
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on here is USB 3 right now but you can swap it out to other ones should you see
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fit that's the slim right there and then we've got a Backup Plus in another color
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yay colors okay moving on to the desktop products this isn't quite a desktop
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product but this is the momentus XT you've probably seen my tech tips video
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about it on the ncixcom channel before it's a hybrid Drive uses SLC flash as a
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cache and a 750 gig magnetic drive for
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BV storage everything is done on the Fly and you will never even be aware that
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anything's going on except that your system will be faster this is another
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momentus XT this is a barracuda drive this is your standard Power of One
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desktop drive that means one TB ladders
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as well as one simple skew so instead of
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confusing things by having a performance skew and a value skew and a mid-range
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one seate just built a fast drive and then they sell it at one price with one
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terab platters which means it's fast and efficient to everyone available in a
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number of capacities including 1 tby 2 terab and 3 tbte and that my friends is
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the Seagate Booth all right here I am at the Patriot booth Patriot you might know
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has memory in a lot of different colors
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see we got Christmas stealth and blue they also have U USB flash drives
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which are available in a variety of different colors and speeds and form
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factors and whatever you want but what you're probably not aware of is Patriots
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branching out into keychains so this is
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an all new project from p as know this is just swag this is just a bottle
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opener keychain check this out this is the Gauntlet and The Gauntlet node so
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the gauntlet basically just comes with a hard drive inside and The Gauntlet node
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just doesn't come with a hard drive inside but you can put in whatever you want you can even put in an SSD if you
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want and what this is is a wireless
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repository for all of the data you might want to use on your tablet such as your
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iPad so this Gauntlet right here actually has a 320 gig drive in it right
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now and instead of running is it cuz I like oh is it cuz I
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we'll be back technical difficulties and we're back there you go
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we've got cars running now so we're going to go ahead and Skip to wherever
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we want to go and of course we have all of the rights and approvals to display
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cars on our video here but don't worry about it the point is if you're on a
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long trip in the car you want to have enough videos to keep everyone
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entertained you can actually run multiple tablets and devices off of The
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Gauntlet at the same time so you know if you're a technologically inclined family
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every kid in the back's got got their own iPhone anyway then you can have all
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the entertainment everyone needs in one place and you could just plug it into
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like your car charger and make sure that it stays charged no big deal doesn't
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come with that accessory but you can find an adapter pretty easily so thank
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you for checking out my overview of the Patriot booth and don't forget to stop
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by and get a pen if you get a chance these are actually awesome
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pens one thing I forgot to mention guys is it has support for Android iOS and
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Kindle Fire and can stream to up to five devices simultaneously so I did say
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multiple devices but I never said five one other Advantage it has over other
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similar products is the fact that you can transfer data to and from it using
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usb3 which is a lot faster because
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especially in that example I gave before of like a road trip you're on the way
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out the door for a road trip you really want to wait another like 15 20 minutes
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for USB 2 transfer speeds I think not welcome to the linkis booth where
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they have linkis products on display
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I bet I surprised you there so they've got everything from their super high-end
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ea4500 this is a dual band N900
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concurrent N900 rather app enabled router so what that means is you can run
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well apps on it you can also use Cisco Cloud connect in order to control your
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router remotely now there's also some routers here that are lower-end app
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enabled routers such as the ea2700 and then some more basic stuff so
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the EA 2500 is more like a last generation EA 2700 that does not have
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have Cisco Cloud connect but it is otherwise quite similar and then we've
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also got some lower-end stuff sois uh link this by Cisco has some value
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oriented products including even their E900 for only 49 bucks you can tell that
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it should be cheaper because it's smaller than an
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ea4500 right something to note about the
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ea4500 actually is we were shooting an episode of NC Tech tips not that long
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ago and on a 2 megabit up 25 megabit
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down connection we had multiple Torrens running we had FTP downloads going
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someone was streaming on xsplit uh we had Netflix running and we had a Skype
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call going and this thing barely even felt it compared to one of the other
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routers that we were using that did not perform nearly as well so it's about
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more than just how many gigabit ports and how many Wireless and antennas it
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has in it the processing inside the software the firmware all actually makes
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a difference don't forget linis also has other products like their Wireless and
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range extender their media entertainment Bridge so this means you can use
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Wireless connectivity to bridge it back to your network and connect up to four
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devices such as around your HDTV and finally well you need wireless adapters
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if you're going to have a wireless
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network welcome to the WD Booth where the number of the day
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is four because there are six golf te's in
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here funny right uh four because there
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are four hard drives on display here okay so let's have a look at what we we
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got my passports are now available in a wide variety of different colors there's
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also the new Edge line which I actually don't see here at the booth but those
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are really really cool so they're super wo and I'm knocking everything over
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super slim external hard drives that are very very very slim and you don't
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actually lose any performance so that's kind of awesome but the big deal right
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now for WD is their line of routers so
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now they have wireless networking they have a whole line of routers from the
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minet N600 to the 750 to the 900 to the
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N900 Central so the only difference between the N900 and the central is that
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the central has fewer gigabit ports fewer USB ports but it does have a hard
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drive built inside it so it can operate like a time capsule for example the N900
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also has a really cool feature called FastTrack Plus FasTrack plus analyzes
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the kind of network traffic that you have on your network dynamically
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automatically on the Fly and optimizes for the things that it deems to be most
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important such as your Netflix stream your Skype call or your games and then
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de prioritizes things like torrent downloads or whatever else other people
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are doing on your network so it does all of that without actually any user input
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whatsoever very cool stuff welcome to the AIO Booth where
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they have like the coolest glowing sign
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oh it doesn't actually glow it's a trick
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there's an LED strip under it okay well I thought that I thought that I was
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going to be able to like wave this thing around be okay no no it's okay they have
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cool products at their booth and that makes up for my disappointment about the
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glowing sign so check this out if you've been watching my unboxings for a while
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you've probably already seen all this stuff well some of it because this is
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their super D duper tricolor illuminated keyboard this thing's freaking awesome
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because you can change the colors just like that and it has nice big letters
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and numbers which is great for my mom so she actually has the one that I unboxed
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she loves it because she can find all the keys in the dark which is what
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illuminated keys are all about we've also got a Mech 5 so if you guys don't
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remember what's cool about the mech 5 there's a good number of things so number one is the fact that it has all
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mechanical Keys unlike some of their mechanical keyboard sort of gaming
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keyboard competitors it has a detachable number pad and comes with an optional
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accessory cable that allows you to even plug it into this side yeah I
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forget that there it is plug it into this side you can plug it into this side
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or you can just plug a USB cable into it and run it completely separately if you
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want still mechanical key switches and
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I'd love to get this off if I could Cherry MX black right there very solid
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build quality you got your programmable Keys here you got more programmable Keys
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here that can be slid around and positioned wherever you want you can
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turn the Windows key on and off which is a good gaming keyboard feature and you
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got your built-in volume control knob and all of that good stuff just
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generally kind of an awesome keyboard it's also got optional rubberized top
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key caps here see so you got like perfect grip on your arrow keys your WD
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Keys AO also has some new products so while you might know their keyboards you
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probably don't know about their mice the A2000 is coming soon and they also have
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headsets that are coming very soon as well love the folding microphone on this
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one because you won't look like a total doofus if you actually wear it out and
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about like you would with a boom mic that folds up here so thank you for
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checking out the AO booth and I'll see you at the next one welcome in the
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Corsair Booth most of this you've probably seen before such as their
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Vengeance k90 mechanical keyboard their HX series power supplies the h100 the
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800d all of this is good stuff however I bet you haven't seen this before this is
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the new 2013 edition of the h60 it comes
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with an allnew Pump tubing water block
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unit as well as one of Corsair's static
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pressure optimized F so this is going to perform significantly better than the
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older ag60 and as you can see way better
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obviously than an Intel box cooler so that is part of their new line of liquid
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coolers and we're going to go ahead and move right over here where we have more
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Corsair stuff on demo in the NCI PC and
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more gigahertz thank you more gigahertz thanks to the Crazy Russian in the NCC
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3D Vision surround gaming setup are
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there guys that I can shoot are they like bad guys oh that's a bad guy he's
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right there there we go awesome so here we have the Corsair 500R we've also got
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a GTX 690 running in this case off of an ax850 power supply Dominator Platinum
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memory we've got their Corsair SP 2500
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speakers which are pretty much as far as computer speakers go in a 2.1
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configuration about as good as it gets these days we've got dual Corsair
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Neutron GTX ssds in raid zero and a
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Corsair h100 cooler running to top out this all Corsair sort of Awesome this
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machine finally an M60 a k90 keyboard
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and Corsair's allnew line of mouse pads
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is finally something that we can demo as well here we are at the general Windows
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8 Booth which is a Showcase of the wide
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variety of different devices you can run Windows 8 on so everything from a custom
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besta i1 PC which is a whoopsy uh Decked
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Out gaming machine all the way down to something like a tx600 tablet this is a
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super slim t running Windows RT and it
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is butter butter smooth it has a Egra 3 processor as well as an just an
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extremely thin form factor and an absolutely beautiful beautiful screen
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gaming notebooks fully enabled by Windows 8 also moving right along over
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here you've got updates from all the
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various manufacturers so Ultra books from HP as well as ASUS also more gaming
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notebooks such as the G7 5 have received the Windows 8 treatment so this is a
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very very high-end stuff this is GTX 660m with 2 gigs of memory and
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everything you've come to expect from isus g75 series including great
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performance great Cooling and now with Windows 8 in case you guys were wondering what
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size your TV has to be for me to be actually bigger on TV than I am in real
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life the answer is 75 in so here on
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display at the Windows 8 launch party we have Samsung 75 in 108
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super slim bizel slim bzel slim bezel
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with rose gold around the edges TV that
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is just like crazy like look how big this thing is look me standing next to
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it that's like kind of a DWF but like still it's
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huge now HP doesn't have a ton of devices on display here at the show but
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these are a couple cool things that come with all HP consumer Windows 8 machines
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so this is their getting started with Windows 8 little tutorial set Center uh
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these are all hosted online so as long as you have an internet connection
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you'll be able to access it it shows you a whole bunch of neat stuff including
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how to make navigating Windows 8 simpler for you an overview of the new features
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how to use apps how to use the store this is the kind of thing that is very
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useful for people who aren't familiar with the OS already and need a bit of a
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a bit of a primer before they can really get into it and make efficient use of it
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so we're going to go ahead and uh close this one down let me just go to the
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charm menu yeah see apparently I need a
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tutorial on how to use Windows 8 myself because I can't figure out how to close
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this there we
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go start menu oh yeah start button that would have done it thanks slick okay
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another cool thing is their connected music powered by a Meridian things so
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what this is is it's a Cloud Server that doesn't actually store your music your
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photos and your videos what it does do is it more like index system so if
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you've got a bunch of music on your desktop and you've got you know your DRM
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license content or whatever that can be played wherever you want what it does is
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it takes that and enables you to sort of
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Link back to it and play it back on even iOS or Android devices with the enabled
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apps that are available for those so it's cool because you don't have to buy
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a bunch of multiple copies of things so what it is is it's kind of like a media
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location aggregator software uh that's
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all stored in the cloud without actually having any of that data stored on the
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cloud so you don't have to pay for it of the storage very cool
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stuff welcome to the Lenovo Booth where we have one of the coolest all-in-one
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machines that I've seen in quite a while so all of the hardware for this guy is
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housed in this tiny little aluminum enclosure here on the bottom it's just
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absolutely beautifully crafted it uses a unibody structure you can see the base
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screws on from here on the bottom it's got rubber feet so it's not going to go
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anywhere it's just move this around to the back you can see uh where your power
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is where your IO ports are and then here we've got another beautiful aluminum
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piece right here that holds up the gigantic 27 inch oh yeah cooling check
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that out more iio HDMI out HDMI in this is handy I like to see this because it
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means you can repurpose it once the machine gets Obsolete and then a huge
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fat copper heat sink inside just very
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well constructed quite heavy full edgo Edge glass on the front and again this
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is unibody aluminum all on the back here no seams here nothing like that so it's
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actually assembled from the front now what's cool about this is you can use it
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as a normal all-in-one here I am using my
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touchscreen Windows 8 computer and I'm using my start menu and I'm multitasking
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like a boss then you can go okay I want
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to use this as like more like a tabletop machine now you can use it like that
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very cool stuff so here we are at the Acer Booth
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where there's some cool stuff we actually stole one of their cooler demos
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that's the uh the 23in 10p point multi-touch IPS monitor up there with
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the demo that I'm going to be doing in a couple minutes on the stage but there's
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a couple other really cool things here as well so this is not a Windows RT
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tablet I don't know if it's actually charged I think the charger got lost in
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transit or something but don't worry about it this is a full Windows 8 tablet
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it is extremely thin I'm going to do my classic iPhone 4 thickness comparison
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here got all all your usual sort of suspects for Io you got your power your
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micro SD your sim card your HDMI your USB headphone power all that good stuff
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and a docking station which turns it into a full Windows 8 notebook
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essentially with a USB port just in case you wanted to you know use something
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like that so I think this is incredibly cool because unlike Windows RT devices
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you are not limited to only installing applications from the Windows store now
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the other that I think is incredibly cool it's the Aspire S7 again with the
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uh with the iPhone 4 thickness comparison this is an extremely slim
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extremely well-built little Ultra Book
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actually I don't know if it's an Ultra Book cuz I don't know if it has the Intel branding on it but it's a very
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slim notebook it has an aluminum top that has a very gorgeous finish on it
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it's got the full set of I/O that you'd expect from a notebook including micro
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HDMI USB 3 another USB 3 power button
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as well as your headphone microphone Jack and micro SD
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expansion and it is a touchscreen device
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which basically just means it is totally
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balling out given this tiny little form caor I me look how small this thing
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is one more cool machine at the Acer booth that we missed in order to enable
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Slimmer and Slimmer form factors they've had to get a little bit creative to the
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point where it's like futuristic type ridiculous stuff so there's a button on
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the top where a little motorized panel comes out fullsize HDMI two USB 3.0
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ports and a Thunderbolt Port are all concealed by this button right
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here that slides the ports in and out like that pretty cool
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hey welcome to the MSI Booth where they have the usual complement of Windows 8
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ready devices such as performance graphics cards less performance graphics
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cards but still pretty freaking sweet and then even less performance graphics
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cards as well as a bunch of cool motherboards including their big bang
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z77 M Power which I think is freaking
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awesome because they do a 24hour prime
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95 burn in test under overclocked settings before shipping out any of
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those boards they've also got a lot of value Thunderbolt options available this
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particular one right here with a Thunderbolt Port is the
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gd65 board I think hold on what is this
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hold on I'm going to CL sorry guys this is the z77a gd45 Thunderbolt so this is
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a very value oriented Thunderbolt option
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and their gd65 board which has been around for a while as well as this is
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sort of a weird form factor check this out this is the h61m e33 W8 this is
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technically an matx board because of the height of it but this is probably the
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smallest matx board I think I have ever
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ever seen here we are at the Samsung booth
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where they've actually got some of the most exciting stuff step we've seen at
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the show uh number one here is their Series 5 touchscreen Ultrabook so this
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guy is fully Windows 8 ready touchscreen
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multi-touch all that good stuff all the zooming and whatever else that you could
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possibly want to do I've already done an NC Tech tips about this one though so I'm not going to go into too much depth
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the other really cool stuff I have here is the aeve S so this is kind of think
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of it in terms of compared to an Android
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phone this is kind of like a Galaxy S3 but running Windows 8 so there's not too
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much in terms of customized Samsung software yet because it's not really
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that finalized but in terms of the hardware this thing is absolutely beautiful so it has a faux brushed metal
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backing on it it has an 8 megapixel camera on the back 2 megapixel camera on
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the front the there we go the screen is
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absolutely beautiful I don't know if you guys are going to be able to see this but the viewing angles on this thing are
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ridiculous you can read it from like
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yeah probably legitimately 178° we've seen a lot of devices rated for 178°
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viewing angles I've very rarely seen one that is actually legitimately readable
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from there um so that is just outstanding it's very responsive very
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Snappy probably the one killer app on it right now like I said this isn't
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finalized software yet is family story so it's kind of like um a private
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Facebook if you have a Samsung device you can use that you get a gig of cloud
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storage free of charge comes with your Samsung device very very cool stuff nice
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big screen so I'll do haha I'm going to do my usual iPhone size comparison so
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there's my iPhone 4 so it's quite a bit bigger again more like a Galaxy S3 sort
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of form factor but not running Android running
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Windows what happened and next we've got a really cool tablet from Samsung so
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this guy's basically got all the same stuff as the smart PC Pro and you can
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actually see there's some uh there's some pictures on the desktop here of
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what will be the replacement for this guy hold on where'd it go and of course
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I'm looking at the wrong thing here is this it yeah there we go so this one's
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going to have like a whack load of USB port it's going to have uh hopefully we
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can get that to rotate there I think we I think auto rotate is off right now
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auto rotate is on there we go folks so we can scroll it's got like yeah whack
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loaded USB ports it has a magnetic dock uh really really cool stuff so this one
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right here actually was the reference design and was given out to thousands of
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developers so pretty much anything that was developed for this kind of a platform was developed on this device it
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has a core i5 processor which means this is not running Windows RT this is
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running a full-fledged Windows 88 which means you can install
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desktop applications you can do pretty much whatever you want on it that you'd
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be able to do on a desktop except that it can be converted into a tablet using
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the dot connector right here let's go back to
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uh where was the stylus
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at it's external the sty SL on the new
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model okay on the new model it's slides in but this one it's external you can
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actually use the stylus to use aha see that we've got our usual Suite of
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Samsung applications which you can find right there so you got your S Note your
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s camera your s player all that branding you're familiar with S Note is kind of
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cool because there's a ton of different stuff you can do with it so we were
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playing around with this a little bit before you can see you can actually turn
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it on so you can use your hand to write on it which didn't work cuz I had the
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hold on give me a sec here guys I'll figure
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out what's going on here live demos right so we turned auto rotate off we
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turn it back on we we close the app we open the app now it's working fine you
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can switch to pan only mode now my finger does nothing but what's cool
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about this is now I can actually write on this thing as if it's an actual
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writing surface so I can say hello and
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you know how normally just the screen will go nuts cuz your palm is all over
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it and it's designed for it's designed for touch this just turns off that
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capacitive layer and then now I can switch back I can write with my finger
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or I can write with the pen and I have all the options in the world you can actually switch between different pen
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tips so if you go for something like a felt tip it has I think it was something
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stupid like a thousand okay let's go with a different one let's go with uh
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this guy right here it has something like a thousand different uh levels of
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pressure so you can draw something really fine like this or you can draw
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something really dark like this and anything in between depending on how
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hard you're pressing on the screen if we go to one of the other notes we were
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playing around with this before while I was learning how to do the demo and uh
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there's handwriting recognition which is in here some oh yeah you can hold on
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give me a sec guys I'll find where the handwriting recognition is I nubbed out
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on the uh the on the handwriting recognition so you just switch to this
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mode right here and all you got to do is write something like slick is
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lame and does not
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wash wow I got almost it almost got it
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it almost got it right up to the very end as so considering that I'm just
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riding like super super messily and not really worrying too much about being
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tidy about it that's pretty darn cool and then if you want you can also just
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of course draw all over it and draw a little happy face there's a bunch of
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other cool stuff you can do so you can actually add pictures you can take a
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picture using the uh the camera built into the device you can kind of go yeah
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okay there's a chair that chair is really important to my uh to my
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presentation so I can go ahead and resize that down and uh reposition it go
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yeah that chair is really important we're going to go ahead and scroll down this is
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this is the chair there you go and you can also add
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things like audio clips as well which is pretty darn cool so thank you for
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checking out our little preview in the Samsung booth and we're going to move right along who says Windows 8 is not
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great for gaming we've got an ASUS 144
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HZ monitor here we're moving right along we've got another very premium ASUS
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machine gaming machine mindu and it's running in an ITX form factor so this is
26:57
a pretty cool little be right here it's got a GTX 660 Ti direct cu2 it's got an
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Intel Core i7 in there it's got like 8 gigs of RAM see this daughter board
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that's sticking off the bottom of that z77 ITX motherboard that's the power
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delivery so this thing is a very very capable little machine and in a tiny
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tiny form factor yeah it's not actually this big it's it's only this big that's
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just the outer housing also we've got the all new sensation so this is again a
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Windows 8 machine touchcreen actually gorgeous panel on this it's
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probably readable up to about here before the uh the uh the glass layers
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start to obscure things a littleit that's outstanding this is an all-in-one
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that has the bulk of the computer built into the bottom here so you got tons of
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IO USB 3 Audio probably USB 2 could be
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USB 3 USB 3 two USB 3s right there on
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the other side check this out two USB 3s power EA dual Thunderbolt and SD as well
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as a Kensington lock and a slot load optical drive okay so hold on a second
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here here back this up four USB 3 ports
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power EA and dual Thunderbolt what are you hooking up to
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this thing anything apparently on the
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back you've got HDMI in and HDMI out which is great because it means when
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this computer's obsolete even though that won't be for a while you can
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continue to use it as a beautiful glass touchscreen monitor so thumbs up for
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that now I'm going to have my lovely assistant from ASUS demonstrate how it
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folds wow now you can use it like this
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as more of like a tabletop computer he's going to show me something
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compelling no way all right bring it on Bring It
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On yeah French Canadians don't know how to play hockey anyway
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Francis oh
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no now for ASUS on the system side we've got a couple cool notebooks here this
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one an I3 comes in at a very attractive price point this is the
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s56c and consider the following guys
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very good screen considering the price okay chicklet keyboard aluminum panel
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here solid construction extremely slim so you got your VGA your HDMI your gigb
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Ethernet your super speed USB 3 two USB 2 ports look at that it's only about the
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thickness of an optical drive and a screen so it doesn't get much Slimmer
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than that it is an Ultrabook and it comes in it between $600 and $700 for
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this particular configuration so you got 6 gigs of RAM obviously you got Windows
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8 a 500 gig hard drive and 24 gigs of
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SSD storage as a hybrid Drive giving you
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that those quick response times so if you put it into sleep mode you'll see
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that it'll actually wake up in only a couple seconds which is one of the
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requirements from Intel for any Ultra Book give it a sec actually we might
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have to press something oh now it's in sleep okay
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there now we'll see how fast it wake there we go all right fast wake up from
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sleep next we've got the x202 so this is a very similar ID where you've got the
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aluminum panels here this however is a touchscreen notebook unlike the other
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one so hold on a second oh oh oh wants
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us to activate Windows we've only got a demo version of Windows on here right
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now so you guys are going to have to forgive me but this is a touchscreen
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model 4 gigs RAM 500 gig hard drive 8
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Hour battery life and again very very very slim profile so what You' come to
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expect from an ultra portable notebook so you got your SD reader your USB your
30:26
VGA on the side you got your HDMI super speed USB 3 this is a very popular
30:32
design these days and I love it because it allows you to get a fullsize gigabit
30:35
Ethernet port into a small device like this which I still think is important
30:38
more USB 2 and a Kensington log and then this one right here is kind of the star
30:42
of the show this is the tf600 so as is
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typical for an ASUS transformer branded product it is available as a standalone
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tablet so in this case we can where is
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it yeah there we go
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we can disengage it from the base station just like this and it is all of
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a sudden a super slim Windows RT tablet
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then in order to get more battery life a touchpad and a keyboard all you got to
31:11
do is stick it into a dock the dock also gives you a USB port as well as a what
31:18
the heck is that okay just a sec guys yeah I derped there that's the uh
31:23
that's the dock power connector so that you can actually charge the base and so
31:26
that you can charge the entire device once it's plugged in together because obviously you won't have access to that
31:31
one once they are connected together so on the tablet itself you got your power
31:35
button you've got your micro H micro
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HDMI you've got your aha here we go uh
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your rock volume rocker as well as where's the micro SD slot it's around
31:49
here somewhere HDMI is it in there oh yeah there you go
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so there's your micro micro uh micro SD
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so Windows RT what's great about this it's powered by Tigra 3 it's super light
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so it's a quad core processor it's got a super IPS Plus panel which basically is
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kind of like the TF700 where it's probably the most readable tablet out
32:10
there I mean obviously other than ASUS's own competing IPS plus tablets when
32:15
you're Outdoors when there's a lot of ambient light around you so all you got
32:19
to do is switch it into IPS plus mode in order to get access to that if you're
32:23
not familiar already with Windows RT it's basically like Windows 8 with the
32:27
only disadvantage being so you can turn volume up and down
32:31
but the only disadvantage being that you can't install desktop applications that
32:35
said it comes with Office 2013
32:39
pre-loaded so you can actually use this as a fullscale productivity device
32:44
unlike what we've seen in the past with Android and iOS devices where you've
32:48
actually got a proper computer once you connect it to the doc including being
32:53
able to work on spreadsheets Word documents and even PowerPoint presentations and it comes with one note
32:57
as as well and of course the Crazy Russian
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wouldn't be a crazy Russian if he didn't build a crazy gaming setup like this so
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this is three 55 in Samsung TVs running
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off of a tiny mini ITX computer in the back that's sitting in a b strategy
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we'll make our way over there we' got a play seat with a Logitech G27 racing
33:19
wheel on it as well as a pretty sweet uh
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speaker setup let's go around to the other side over
33:25
here so for like racing games this kind
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of surround setup is just redonkulous
33:32
there's the computer that powers the whole thing so you can use either a
33:37
modern NVIDIA card or the last couple generations of AMD cards to run a
33:40
surround gaming setup like this very very very cool stuff now we're at the
33:45
Xbox Booth with Clinton from Microsoft who thank you who's going to show us is
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Surface tablet running XBox smart glass with an Xbox bear in mind this is all
33:56
running off of his phone you guys so
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it's like 3G and 3G and tethered and
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just terrible networking experience so don't judge it too much based on the
34:07
responsiveness here okay go for it all righty so right now we're just at a
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blank sort of Xbox Live starting station
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now from here we can actually launch any apps that are available here so for
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instance I'll play this on my Xbox this
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MSN app here so now it's going to bring up on the TV
34:28
directly from the smart
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glass again guys don't judge the speed
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right so from here instead of using your full controller we can then just go from
34:47
the smart glass and flick around I find smaller flicks for
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individual boxes and then bigger swipes for
34:58
should be able to see that just move back a bit oh you
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jumped there we go very cool stuff click
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on a video and now it's going to play that
35:13
video now you were explaining that with some content you can actually take it
35:17
with you on the go and continue to play it on your tablet if you have to go to
35:21
the can or something absolutely we have a small button down here
35:28
there's small button down here when that lights up you're able to take the content playing on your screen bring it
35:33
onto this screen and then continue on maybe going to the kitchen to grab some
35:36
snack or answer the door and piay the pizza all right want to show us the game
35:41
yes yeah so this is exciting here so what what happens here is if we go into
35:45
switch with go Xbox guide oh you want to see that too so we
35:50
got we'll go into the guide okay yeah we're going to play a
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game
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so now with some games and some content like videos and stuff like that what
36:06
will happen is the actual producers of the content will allow you to have extra
36:11
content so for instance we got Forza here they've created extra content
36:17
for the smart
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glass okay give us a second we'll show you that in a minute all right so now
36:28
we're in the race here on this main screen what the smart glass allows us to
36:33
do is have secondary content on here so there's GPS you guys we can see he's a
36:37
terrible driver look at this guy he's all over the road I'd never take a ride
36:41
from a Microsoft guy don't drink a drive yeah very cool
36:47
stuff though so thanks for checking out our Xbox Connect Booth here at the show
36:51
and moving right along welcome to the Windows 8 launch
36:57
party here at aine mall where I am
37:01
experiencing wow that's some pretty good parkour we got going on here where I'm
37:06
experiencing the NC PC Booth which is created by the one and only crazy
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Russian itself crazy Russian tell us about this
37:14
computer so this is our first out of the
37:17
gate AMD FX New Generation based machine
37:21
the best fxn one the whole concept behind it was to jam as much performance
37:26
and value into one actively priced package so this thing comes with an 84
37:30
processor 7870 graphics card which you can see is pretty comfortable running
37:35
triple HD IP setup in one of the latest
37:38
games nevertheless as well and uh this is
37:42
a one of the machines I'm actually pretty proud of because never before
37:46
could you get an 84 performance together with a performance class Graphics some
37:51
is actually capable of running an I feel to setup for a price point like this
37:55
because I mean the three monitors like 400 bucks X is in right so the whole
37:58
setup is like 1.5k never before but ENT to the X
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that's what we do so I've temporarily taken over the
38:07
Kingston Booth where they have on display any huge variety number of
38:13
Kingston products that they have they actually used to have one of their
38:16
hyperx USB drives but I kind of took it cuz I needed it for a demo that thing
38:20
writes at over 100 mbes per second in USB 3 mode they've also got their latest
38:24
ssds on display from their hyperx as well as their C now line uh they've got
38:29
their hyperx memory as well as their more normal memory this is hyperx as
38:33
well but this is red they now have red hyperx memory which is something that we
38:37
haven't seen before from Kingston also featured at the Kingston Booth is the
38:40
legendary Rex himself so who knows maybe if you were to stop by you would have a
38:45
chance to get a Rex yeah you got a few of them down there so don't for yeah you
38:50
know what this reminds me of a face what do you guys think he's kind of
38:55
got the nose for it welcome to the antec booth where we are
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very focused on their new line of products and antech mobile product so
39:05
I've actually already done unboxings and overviews of their S1 speaker so this is
39:12
sort of like uh sort of like a jam boox by Jawbone except it doesn't disport
39:17
disport distort in high volume so uh personally I prefer it in a very big way
39:22
compared to the jam boox we've also got their wireless headphone guy right here
39:27
so this is a battery powered uh it's a
39:30
little wireless receiver here so you can kind of clip this to your ARM or
39:34
wherever you want to clip it you can run your headphones up here it uses
39:37
Bluetooth to get uh music data off of something like an MP3 player or whatever
39:42
else you've also got built-in controls so there's your pairing button your
39:45
forward and back buttons as well as uh volume control on this side so that's
39:49
pretty cool as well and then just sort of your low cost but also feature Rich
39:56
headphones so these are these inear these inear headphones actually come
40:00
with three little tips here which is pretty standard and then they've got a tanglefree cord which means that if you
40:04
take them and like put them in your pocket like I usually do with my
40:07
headphones in fact I probably have no I don't have my headphones in my pocket
40:10
then you'll be able to easily untangle them which hopefully I can do aha yes
40:16
without any hassle and finally we've got
40:19
a couple of mobile batteries so these are awesome because you can use them to
40:23
charge your phone or run any other USB powered devices and you just charge them
40:28
up take them with you I actually keep one in my bag I know slick keeps one in
40:31
his bag and then this guy right here is wow really four ports and is capable of
40:37
charging High current devices such as an iPad so you can actually see one in
40:41
action right over
40:46
here so it's powered so it's very convenient compared to having wall warts
40:51
that all of your devices run off of I mean how many times you run into that
40:54
where your bedside table has one Outlet next to it and you got like your iPad
40:59
one and then you got like your Galaxy one and then there's no room for
41:02
anything else now you can just use the USB cables you got up to two amps of
41:06
charging power off of each one and then it just runs off of a single cord and of
41:10
course they've got some ITX enclosures which are cool and everything as well as
41:15
a gig I haven't even seen this before are you guys serious no it's just for
41:20
decoration oh this is just for decoration okay that's good Taiwan I
41:23
packed that stream from taiwwan from HQ
41:27
all right well there's a one-of-a-kind ante desk fan here as well but don't
41:31
worry that's not something that anyone's going to be asking you to buy anytime
41:34
soon so thank you for checking out the antech bo with the featured Showcase of
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