MSI Systems - Undisclosed Secret Notebook with Secret Next Gen GTX Graphics - CES 2014
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·2014-05-07
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great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western
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Digital we're here in the MSI Suite this is their systems and this is the system
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this I mean they showed me a bunch of other stuff and I was like okay yeah I can make video about this this this and
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they showed me this thing I'm like yeah yeah okay we're we're going to get started on that right away now I can't
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tell you guys the model number I can't tell you guys what graphics cards in it
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I can tell you guys it has a core i7 quad core processor I can't even tell
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you guys what this thing is made out of but what I can tell you is that it is
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incredibly slim just like the gx70 it
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has a 15.6 in non-tn display that'll be
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available in up to a 3K resolution it has their Dine Audio better onboard
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sound it has a steel series multicolor back lit keyboard with the steel series
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engine meaning you can reprogram the keys to whatever you want it supports
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two external displays at the same time over mini DP and HDMI and I fired up a
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game on it and I can tell you guys that while I can't say anything about the
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graphics because I can't say anything yet this one right here the gs70 it
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feels a touch faster than that and that
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has a 765 m in it so why don't you guys
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take away from that whatever you will but this looks like I mean it is so
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light that's why I can't tell you guys what it's made of it is incredibly light
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and it actually doesn't even seem to run that loud now this is a pre-production
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model this is not even finished yet but I am really excited and I am going to
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basically tell these guys that if I don't get one of these for us to do a
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full proper review of when the time comes I will be sorely disappointed now
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just because that was the one that I got really amped up about doesn't mean that
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there isn't other exciting stuff here guys this is their GT series which okay
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it kind of looks like MSI gaming notebooks have looked like for the last little while but what's the difference
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ah yes this here on the screen so I talked about the steel series keyboard
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on that last one full steel series engine support now that means that
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rather than oh you know we have five macro Keys here or you know two macro
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keys there this one in addition to supporting um 16.8 million color RGB
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backlighting on the keyboard with waves and breathing and all that stuff you can
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now rebind any key on the entire
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keyboard to whatever you want whether it's a simple remap or whether it's
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binding as a macro you can set up an unlimited number of profiles and you can
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do it all within the steel series engine software that runs right on your
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notebook it is a steel series keyboard in effect now that might not be that
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exciting because that's a pretty high-end model but what about this right here this is the GE series which has now
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also been updated with the fully backlit steel series keyboard so at this point
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with uh MSI's Next Generation gaming notebooks you are pretty much no matter
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how you slice it going to get an awesome keyboard to go along with the powerful
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Graphics powerful CPU and all the other good stuff in here and we're going to
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close things out here with the first that I've ever seen uh gaming aiio so
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this one right here has an 8970m graphics card in it it's got a
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core i7 quad core it's got all the stuff that you might expect an AIO to have
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well okay except for that powerful graphics card so it's a 27in 1080p
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display and you can see they've actually got Battlefield running on here right
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now although this particular game is not not very uh not very touchcreen
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optimized it does happen to have a 10-point multi- touchcreen but of course
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it comes with a keyboard and mouse that you could use as well one unique thing
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about this from an AO perspective is it has a matte display so MSI has stuck
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with this with their gaming series products whether it's on the notebook side or now the AO side and they've
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received positive feedback from their customers so there you go it's back now
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this one over here this is the AG 240 is actually a little bit different does not
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have the matte display but what it does have is a small form factor so this is
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only using a 24in display oh crap is it
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24 in bollocks see I doubted myself but I shouldn't have it is a 24-in display
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this one right here also has a core i7 processor and what's interesting about
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this one is it has a Next Generation NVIDIA GPU so presumably this will be a
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mobile graphics card because this is actually pretty darn slim but uh I think
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we can expect to see some interesting performance so again Guys these are
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gaming aiio so they have things like the killer Network prioritization that you
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would find on MSI gaming motherboards as well as notebooks but just in an
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all-in-one form factor guys don't miss any of our CES 2014 coverage our trip to
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