The WAN Show: Will.I.Am's Smartwatch, FreeSync Coming??, - April 11th, 2014
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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welcome to the WAN Show guys the show where I and my co-host uh Luke slick
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lafrenier talk to you about the latest in technology and gaming and all that
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good stuff you know what's funny is I do most of the talking on this show but it
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still feels really weird to have this
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thing next to me I was actually really hoping that Luke would be able to join
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me on the show this week but that is unfortunately not possible because I
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haven't heard from him he landed in Boston like uh yesterday early morning I
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think or the night before I don't even know but he flew out Thursday very early
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morning so must have landed in Boston Thursday night and other than getting a
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call from him that you know hey we landed safely um yo did you ever arrange
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a shuttle to which I said no um I haven't actually heard from either him
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or Brandon so they're going to be there doing all of our pack East coverage
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which you guys can look for to finding on the channel over the next few days
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here um they're going to have a lot of emphasis on the Indie Mega Booth because
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that's something that Luke is super passionate about but they are going to
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make the rounds to some of your favorite Hardware vendors like Cooler Master as
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well as I think they're going to swing by Kingston and there's at least a
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couple other ones oh yeah Intel for sure Intel is powering our trip to the show
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which I've mentioned on the last few van shows so between Intel and Corsair that
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is the entire reason that Luke and Brandon were able to go I'm going to try
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and do a little bit more audience interaction today just because I don't
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have I mean you know this guy is like
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you know I like interacting with uh no
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no not interacting like that I love I love interacting with my dummy right
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here but uh not having Luke here is uh
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just a little bit unfortunate people are asking me to go get Taran I would love
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to unfortunately because um my my human
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physiology requires me to sleep once in a while I wasn't able to get this Friday
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so today's fastest possible scripted yet
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um to film it Thursday evening before I
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went home so I had to film it when I got back from NC today which means that tan
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Taran is actually editing right now so Luke and Brandon are in Boston and uh
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edel is still at NC and then Taran is the only one who's here with me all
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right so let's uh let's go through some of the Fantastic topics that we've got
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today before we do our intro here so let me see Will I Am says he developed a
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smartwatch I personally would absolutely
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love to check it out um it's going to be
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coming in a little while he funded it used his own money to develop it so more
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on that a little bit later the word on the street is also that Vasa has
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accepted free sync as part of the upcoming extension to DisplayPort
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called 1.2a which could be very very good news
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for gamers Google is taking another crack at the living room with Android TV
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more on that later and the black magic Ursa okay maybe you guys don't maybe you
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don't think you care about camera technology but ridle me this have you
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noticed the dramatic change in the quality of our videos over the last year
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that is thanks to camera technology the reason wow looks so crisp compared to a
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lot of other streams is the Blackmagic camera that we use to power it that's
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their first camera the Blackmagic Cinema Camera it's a 2 and 1 12K camera now
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this one okay I'll tell you more about it later but anyway trust me it's like
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really freaking cool it's like this upgradable camera and then uh oh this
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one's really cool as well so there's a new battery technology potentially
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coming seems to the the researchers seem to be very confident about it that could
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allow your phone to be recharged in under 25 seconds and I don't know where
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I got the number 25 from I'm sorry under 30 seconds the demo was 26 seconds so 25
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I'm just there's a new technology that could allow your car to go from zero to
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500 Miles hour in 3 seconds I'm just making stuff up at this point but I'll
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tell you guys more about that later on in the show as
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well why is there no sound I'll just make the
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sound I'm gonna kill edel because he forgot to put the music
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I mean it would be possible to do anything I mean you could make uh a
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battery that recharges in 25 seconds or a car that goes from Zer to 500 no okay
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I'm just going to stop with that now it's not actually funny for me to make up things make up things and present
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them as news lightest Media Group that should be our tagline all right so will
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I am claims to have developed a smartwatch the article that we're going
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to be checking out here is from n Gadget but this was posted on the Forum by kuza
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thank you very very much we really do appreciate when people take the time
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make up things and present them as news for crying out loud stop that why you do
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that why you do that twitch why you make that the automatic automatic default
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setting there all right so we appreciate when people post in the new section of
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Linus Tech tips.com because we love how active The Forum is and how easy it is
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to find all the latest cool Cool Tech news there all right so the article from
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a gadget will I am there he is like he's
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actually wearing it this isn't like this isn't like Kanye coming up with hey I
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invented the white T-shirt and okay actually it is kind of it's kind of the
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same or at least it's not different in the way that I was presenting it I was going to say you know it's not like
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Kanye claiming to invent the white T-shirt but actually he didn't invent a
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t-shirt but he I mean he he did I guess he he did create this white t-shirt that
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you could buy and spend a lot of money on but this isn't like just some random
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claim he's actually wearing the thing
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and talking about it so he he started the company himself okay funded it used
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his own money to develop it it can apparently stream stored music via
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Bluetooth and make calls and access Twitter Facebook and Instagram without
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having to connect to a
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smartphone I'm really interested to see how this works a lot of this
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stuff does potentially make sense being able to stream music via Bluetooth so if
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it was like a like a Bluetooth player
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that you could then use like your your jbirds or something like that to to play
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music over then okay but if you're going to be able to make calls on it without
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having to connect to a smartphone hey uh maybe there's a reason that Intel named
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will I IM it's director of creative Innovation back in January 2011 so you
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know he's it it's not like it's not like
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he's just so far out there in imagination land that comp serious
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companies like Intel are ignoring him so
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it's rumored to be coming sometime in the next sort of little while and I will
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tell you what if you guys want to see it I will review this so apparently there's
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a spider behind you okay Aldi if we have
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any mods that's a Perma ban see you later all right actually maybe I can
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just do that Elie you're gone you're
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gone man Ben Perma baned never going to
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unban you there you go yeah woo all
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right so let's move on to our next topic here and that is this is oh this is such
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good news all right so um I was origin I
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originally had this brought to my attention from by an article on PC per
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so my my bud Ryan shrout's website that I guess he does Tech stuff or something
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I think he makes videos too anyway um Vasa May so this is allegedly may have
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accepted AMD's free sync this is so cool
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so I made an awful lot of noise about
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NVIDIA's gsync back when they first showed it off since then my enthusiasm
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has naturally somewhat dwindled to the point where it's like are we ever going
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to actually get to use this thing because it's a great technology what
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gsync basically does does is instead of
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refreshing your screen at a fixed interval okay and this is particularly
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important when gaming instead it waits for your GPU to render a frame and then
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refreshes whenever it's ready and I've had people message me and say oh well
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that'll be laggier no actually it'll be less laggy because the problem with this
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this constant refreshing is either you're gonna slow down your your GPU
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either you're going to have to kind of sit around and and wait for things and
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then have them be displayed or you are going to have to see partial frames one
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on top of the other and you're going to get tearing what g-sync does is it makes
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sure that the frames are delivered as quickly as possible once they're ready
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and that you only get one frame at a time rather than like you know the top
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of L's body here and the bottom like over here and you're just like okay so I
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could enjoy the bottom or the top separately but not the whole package
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right so not that people play games just to you know scantily clad female lead
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character shame on you anyway
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um I forget what I was talking about now right so AMD came along and at CES they
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showed off what they were cheekily calling free sync now free sync was
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basically exactly the same thing and that was the ability for the display to
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only refresh when the GPU was ready or when something on the screen changed
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because free prync was using something that was developed for power saving in
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laptops so NVIDIA's response at the time
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was well freesync there's the the scalers that are being used for this a
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they're only in notebooks and B they're not designed for the type of use case
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that would have it being used constantly I mean with gsync we developed this
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robust piece of Hardware that's really future proof and really designed for
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that kind of a workload well free sync
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yes was a bit of a Frankenstein experiment at the time and I see NVIDIA's point but if it becomes part of
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the DisplayPort 1.2a standard which
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allegedly it will we could all of a sudden see basically every display have
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this GPU triggered refreshing enabled on
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it holy crap DisplayPort you just won
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like you just one not only are you ahead
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of HDMI because HDMI 2.0 is still not
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existent you can't actually buy anything with it and DisplayPort 1.2 has been
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available forever and already supports 4K at 60 HZ now you are going to be in
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every gaming machine anywhere and rightly so like I
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it's just such a shame that the Xbox and Playstation 4 couldn't have something
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like this and I'm not even I'm not even poking fun at the console Gamers right
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now I'm just legitimately I'm legitimately sad for them because
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I'm sad for the entire industry because as long as you have to keep trying to
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design games to run at like a fixed frame rate which you have to because
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frame rate fluctuations will cause either leg or tearing on consoles where
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we're stuck with these constant um where these constant refresh rate monitors so
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as long as the games industry has to account for that we can't see them move
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forward and push for a little bit more
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you know visual quality and so what if it dips down to 48 frames per second or
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53 frames per second cuz it still look really good and really smooth cuz that
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is something that g-sync and by extension I suppose free sync will do
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very very well so fantastic news right
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there next up is Android TV so The Verge
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got an exclusive scoop here where they
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are showing off what appears to be the interface of Android TV and what I
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thought was one of the most interesting things about this article
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was how little information it actually
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seemed to contain so we've got quotes
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from Google saying things like uh here let me just track this
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down Android TV is an entertainment
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interface not a Computing platform it's
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all about finding and enjoying content with the least amount of
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friction what does that mean
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I mean we saw Google TV in the past I mean that was a that was a total
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disaster um just because I mean I think they made claims this is in The Verge
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article as well so they made claims like the majority of TVs in 2012 would ship
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with Google TV but what was the difference like I
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understand some of the things they're saying here so they want the interface to be cinematic fun fluid and fast and
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they want no no no more than I think they're saying three clicks in order to
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go from turning it on to actually watching content which I think is really
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cool but beyond that what is the actual
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difference between a set toop box that plugs into your TV that is an
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entertainment interface and a set toop box that plugs into your TV that is a
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Computing platform if anything I would say if you're going to call something an
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entertainment interface it would be something more like chomecast where
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you'll have specific apps developed for it but really it's more about the
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experience and not about the chomecast actually being a Computing platform a
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powerful piece of hardware and right now it's not clear how Android TV is going
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to slot into the whole ecosystem or how chomecast is going to slot into the
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whole ecosystem but what we do know for now is that chomecast will continue to
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exist so screenshots are now showing Google's own apps like Play Movies and
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YouTube and hangouts but there are also third party apps being shown like Vivo
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Netflix Hulu Pandora and games so to me
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on the surface anyway what this looks like is just developers having to make
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multiple different interfaces for different Google products because there
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are plenty of set toop boxes um Amazon's recent Fire TV that use Android although
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Amazon is a bad example I guess because it doesn't run stock Android by any
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stretch but there are Android-based players from even small manufacturers
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like posos so you're GNA have to have an interface for Android that hopefully
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looks somewhat good on a TV you're going to have to have an interface for chomecast that looks somewhat good on a
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TV you're GNA have to design an interface for Android TV that looks good
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on a TV and it just seems like an awful
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lot of hassle but maybe they have a better plan
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this time and maybe uh all that I'm saying right now is going to have
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nothing to do with anything I see a lot of people complaining about mods in the
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twitch chat sorry there's not a whole lot I can do about it right now but we
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do have plans to work out a different system that's a little bit easier for us
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to moderate so stay tuned for that all right guys
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this this is something that I'm getting pretty tired of this next topic here now
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NVIDIA released a new driver and they
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came out with all kinds of claims with
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respect to Performance so they're basically saying look we're going to
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have directx12 on all of our gpus that
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supported directx11 AMD and we're going to release a directx11 driver that
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Stomps all over mantle anyway so here check this out so screen sharing here
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this was posted originally on the Forum by actually a couple of different folks
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I'll credit them later but the 33750 beta driver was claiming that it
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would deliver up to 64% faster single
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GPU performance and up to 71% faster SLI
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performance just through optimizing the
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directx11 driver that's available now
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now I have heard members of the press
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muttering under their breath talking to each other not going to name any names
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about every time AMD or NVIDIA releases
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a Big Driver update that claims to completely turn the world Inside Out by
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delivering amazing new performance to the existing gpus that they produce and
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the comments go a little something like this maybe maybe they'll actually have
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uh changed something a lot this time but uh I doubt it and I even heard one of
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them talking directly to either AMD or NVIDIA not going to name any names here
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saying look if I spend the time to Benchmark this thing am I actually going
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to find this number you're claiming or is it just a waste of my time again so
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the press in general is a little bit sick of the whole claims that don't
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really seem to add up thing and unfortunately it looks like this is
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maybe more of the okay there are improvements but there might be a little
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bit more of the same going on here so we referenced articles from two of my
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favorite sites we actually didn't have the time just didn't have the bandwidth
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to run the benchmarks ourselves but these are both very trustworthy sources
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trust me that they're good for it I guess so Aon and PC Pur so they both did
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pretty darn good articles on the new NVIDIA driver and the conclusions from
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both of them basically amounted to this um a Onex test indicated about a 10%
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Improvement in performance in BioShock Infinite and Metro last Light SLI
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performance increased 10% for Grid 2 and 76% for Total War Rome 2
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although Total War Rome 2 you know was
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yeah pretty far back in terms of optimization so anyway a 76% that means
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they did achieve it so 76% performance Improvement in in a particular game is
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good um NVIDIA boasts huge performance gains in older games so you know Call of
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Duty Black Ops is getting 20% I guess and you know um SLI has seen slight
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performance increases and NVIDIA has been working on you know some mantal
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optimized games and all this kind of stuff but the the basic conclusion was
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that performance was only really increased in some pretty specific games
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and for the most part the sensationalist headline performance improvements were
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pretty difficult to find um and I guess
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for me this it turns into a bit of a can I
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trust you issue like I don't mind when
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NVIDIA provides us with reference benchmarks when they release a new GPU
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in general they've done a pretty good job of it where they say okay if you
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take our card and and this AMD card and you run them side by side here's about
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the performance Improvement you can expect we're still going to run our own benchmarks anyway we're not just going
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to take that at face value but it's nice
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when they at least give us a reference so that when we run something and it's
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like totally not the same we can go back and go oh crap did we screw something up
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this is it just seems like a headline
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grab and I and I find it frustrating because I had another similar experience
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with NVIDIA not that long ago where I was reviewing a gaming notebook that had
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NVIDIA's latest GTX 860m graphics card
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in it and they've got a new feature that they're calling battery boost where
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they're claiming up to two times the battery performance and I mentioned this
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in my notebook review where I said said I got about an extra 2 minutes of
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performance not two times performance although I did admit at the time that I
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do need to do a followup but I mean I don't think there was too much to go
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wrong with my test because the way there's the technology is supposed to work is that instead of allowing The
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Notebook GPU to work as hard as it can to deliver you know 60 or 70 frames per
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second you can limit the frame rate at like 30 if you're okay with that gaming
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experience on battery life in order to preserve some power so I just found a
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part of Crisis that normally would run at like 55 frames per second with
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battery or 45 frames per second I think with with battery and then I turned the
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limiter on to 30 frames per second and I just left it there with a time-lapse
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camera on it and the battery died and it shut off and it only was about 2 minutes
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different
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so I don't know I don't know what else there is for me to really say about it
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other than I just find that pretty frustrating so I'm going to go ahead and
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add at least one mod here there we go boom I have added a moderator so I don't
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think one mod is going to be enough and like I said we're working on a solution
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but there you go all right now this next
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thing is something that is pretty pretty
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close to to me because I do make videos
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for a living now this is from NAB 2014
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and it is the Blackmagic Ursa upgradable
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4k digital film camera now you guys might ask yourselves for those of you
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who aren't that familiar with you know film equipment why do we still call it a
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film camera like what what does that actually mean that means that they are
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trying to achieve a more film-like look
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which many content creators still agree
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is better than that digital camcorder
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feel that you get with a lot of digital Solutions so products like the Ari Alexa
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which actually isn't even a 4k camera so
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I'm going to let that sink in but gets used for video production for for
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feature films it's not even a 4k digital camera what they've achieved with that
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is a film look and a color and and and a
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feel to it that is closer to film while
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avoiding the pitfalls of film which are mostly that is cumbersome to work with
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and that it is extremely expensive that's number one so what Blackmagic is
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trying to do here is create a 4k camera
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that is kind of EG size so like you know those ones for like newscaster news
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crews that they carry around on the on the shoulder Mount so it's about EG size
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and not just big but also incredibly
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featur so they are allowing upgradable
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sensors upgradable lens mounts it has a
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10in display built into one side of it
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it has two additional displays so aside from being used for EG use it could be
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used on like a a multi you know with a
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multi person crew on a video production set for commercials or even feature
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films with like one person monitoring scopes on one side and one person
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monitoring what the lens is actually looking at on the other side like up to
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three people working per camera it's got all these screens on it it's got
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professional quality inputs and outputs so it has 12g SDI which means that you
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can basically output directly with one cable 4K it supports internal dual raw
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and prores Recorders so it's using the upcoming cfast standard that's kind of
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like an extension of compact flash so unlike the cinema camera it doesn't use
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ssds but at least this is a standard media as opposed to a lot of recording
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solutions that use proprietary media in fact the one that we use for our Sony
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camera uses proprietary ssds so it's a firmware lock that doesn't allow us to
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use other things and then it's got you know XLR input it's got so the two 5-in
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touchscreens that are on both sides of the camera so you can put your settings
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controls monitoring tools there and then the big one is the upgradable sensor so
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it comes in at only $6,000 which sounds like a lot of money to you guys but to
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put this in perspective the Sony fs700 is was around that price when we
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bought it I think around $7,000 when we bought it has a 4K sensor in it but it's
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only capable of recording directly to 1080p without an expensive firmware
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upgrade and an expensive external recorder so our camera has actually cost
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us well over $10,000 by the time we're actually shooting 4K with it which we
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aren't even able to yet cuz we're still waiting for another firmware update for our recorder but that's a whole other
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story so this is only $6,000 records to
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4K immediately you can upgrade the sensor to Future standards like 6K 8K or
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whatever you can upgrade the mount to put different lenses on it and it just
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freaking blew my mind and the fact that it uses Open Standards and comes in at
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only $6,000 is just un real I'm going to
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head over to Twitch chat and see if uh things have sort of gotten gotten a
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little bit less uh out of control yes indeed they have in fact all right let's
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move on to our next topic here I think this is going to be a pretty short show
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just because there's not a whole lot of room for discussion between me and Luke
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over here so this is a cool demo now one of the things that I have criticized
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Thunderbolt for is that it just isn't
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Ethernet it doesn't allow the same kind of flexibility that Ethernet does in a
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multi user scenario so having 10 GB
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Ethernet on my PC to me is more important than paying a premium for a
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Thunderbolt enabled PC and then paying another premium for a Thunderbolt
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enabled storage enclosure well now Thunderbolt 2 has been shown off
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enabling a 10 gbit per second Ethernet connection between not only from Mac to
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Mac but between a Mac and a PC so now
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your Mac Pro with its six Thunderbolt 2 connections and uh you know Gigabyte for
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example so your PC motherboard with dual
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Thunderbolt connections now all of a sudden you can create a super fast
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Network that can connect to Thunderbolt enabled expansion devices such as
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storage this makes Thunderbolt a much more feasible option to me because a lot
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of what we do is in a multi-user working
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environment where everyone needs to access the same resources at the same
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time and for thaton reason Thunderbolt has just made no sense to me and the Mac
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Pro in particular has made no sense to me because it cannot be expanded to 10
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gig Ethernet without buying a Thunderbolt enclosure Thunderbolt to PCI
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Express enclosure and then putting a 10 gig Ethernet card in there now you're
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adapting this to that to that to that in order to just access a network resource
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because it only has one gigabit Ethernet built into it well now Thunderbolt looks
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a little bit more feasible now I do see some negative comments about this Tech
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technology and I one person put it pretty well and said well this is
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ridiculous we're moving away from centralized switching and we're going
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back to what like token ring so so you actually have to network each computer
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on a network you have to like kind of daisy chain them all together which
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feels kind of stupid but and I see that
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point but I also see this as a pretty good intermediary solution for folks
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that don't want to drop you know 300 to 500 bucks per adapter on 10 GB Ethernet
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cards and then build themselves a Nas or
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whatever else so now you can just buy a Thunderbolt enclosure and go ahead and
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and do that so they showed off transfer speeds of 150 megabytes per second which
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um not actually that impressive we'd be looking at we would want uh wait a
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minute hold on yeah we we'd want to see quite a bit higher than that for 10
28:18
gigabit but at least it's handled or at
28:21
least it's working um now uh in line
28:25
with the whole Thunderbolt expansion versus internal expansion conversation
28:29
that inevitably comes up whenever we talk about Mac these days we actually
28:33
have a Hackintosh build guide coming very soon and I'm going to cover this in
28:38
quite a bit more depth in that video but um in that build guide I guess I you
28:43
know what I I have notes in here that I wanted to talk about that but I guess I kind of talked about it already because
28:47
I talk about the merits of Thunderbolt expansion versus PCI Express expansion
28:53
and how one can be beneficial or the other can be beneficial but I guess I'll
28:57
just do this then I'll tease our upcoming Hackintosh video it's scripted
29:01
and shot and sitting in editing now so you should be expecting to see that
29:05
sometime about mid next week editing takes so long these days I mean it's
29:10
great that we're able to that we're able to deliver so much better production
29:14
values than we used to but it is so expensive you guys and it is so time
29:19
consuming to make videos like the uh like the HTC1 M8 video that we released
29:24
last night where that's like I was uh I was talking to Jack from NC today and he
29:30
was saying that um you know blah blah
29:34
blah video production this video production that is we were just kind of
29:37
talking about it and I was I was I was telling him why I'm not planning to do a
29:42
Galaxy S5 review um Samsung reached out
29:46
to me they said they have a loner unit that I can borrow for I think 13 days or
29:52
15 days or something like that and then it needs to by by that time be in the
29:56
hands of the next reviewer and I basically went you know what I'm not
30:00
going to bother um they can send it to me and I'll try it but if it's not a
30:04
unit that I can actually set up as if
30:07
I'm going to use this as my daily driver for the next six months then I just
30:11
don't feel that incentivized to bother with it and frankly I find it kind of
30:15
insulting because doing a review like the M8
30:19
review is is a bit of a different
30:22
approach for us I try to use the devices
30:26
as if I'm planning to use it forever I try to switch to every device that I use
30:32
because I think that that's the only way to review it properly that's the only
30:35
way that you can incentivize yourself to work through the problems and that's the
30:39
only way that you can avoid convincing yourself that this lock button isn't
30:44
going to bother me in the long term you have to actually think about it if I'm
30:47
going to be using this for six months then will it be good enough for me and
30:51
you could kind of sit there and go oh well lonus you just want you just want
30:54
free phones and it's not that because
30:59
for the cost of me making this video I
31:02
was telling Jack this it cost me about 20 labor hours which when you have
31:08
employees that make a decent living wage and you give them benefits and you pay
31:12
into their pension plan and you do all this stuff costs me well over $500 to
31:17
make that video I could literally just not make a video and I could go buy an
31:22
S5 and that would work out just fine for me because that $500 doesn't even Factor
31:28
and the time that I spent using the device and tinkering with it and
31:32
compiling my notes and scripting my review all right so I basically went
31:37
okay yeah you guys can send one to me but I'm not going to make a review because if I'm not worth the effort or
31:43
worth the resources to send a phone then quite frankly you're not worth me
31:47
spending $500 to make a video about it and let's just kind of leave it at that
31:53
so I don't even remember where I was going with this Hackintosh preview how
31:58
did I end up talking about this Hackintosh preview
32:03
wow speaking of Samsung
32:08
phones this is really cool so the BBC
32:11
has this article talking about a battery
32:15
that right now is not miniaturized enough for cell phone use but is about
32:20
the size of a cigarette package but can
32:23
be charged in under 30 seconds so they
32:28
charged up a Samsung Galaxy S4 that's
32:31
Frankenstein hooked up to this thing in
32:34
26 seconds at a demo holy crap and the
32:40
craziest thing about this technology is that we're actually not that far away
32:45
from it being a product that can be commercialized so this bioorganic
32:49
battery uses a self assembling uses tiny
32:52
self assembly Nano crystals that were first identified in research that was
32:56
actually being done into Alzheimer's back at Tel Aviv 10 years ago and the
33:01
team is using these nanoc crystals in order to create batteries or even other
33:06
technological devices such as a replacement to um flash storage chips so
33:11
they're even showing off these these organic chips or whatever you want to
33:16
call them in battery applications in chip applications storage applications
33:21
and they're showing off that they can achieve right speeds up to three times
33:24
what we can do with current Nan Flash the batteries so back to the batteries
33:28
are likely to be 30 to 40% more expensive to manufacture and the final
33:32
product will likely be about twice as expensive as those on the market today
33:36
but what would you guys give would you
33:40
pay like I I mean okay let's say just for a second I just bought a replacement
33:45
battery for a Droid DNA and I think it cost me about 50 bucks so let's say it
33:49
added $100 to the price of a Topline
33:52
smartphone or even 150 would you pay the
33:55
extra $150 for a phone
33:58
and I'd love to hear from you guys on Twitter actually let's let's Twitter Blitz this Linus Tech would you pay an
34:02
extra $150 for your phone the one you own right now if it had wireless
34:07
charging that you could basically put up against a pad for 30 seconds and fully
34:13
recharge it let's say for a second that the pads
34:19
also cost twice as much so right now you can get a CH pad for about 20 bucks so
34:23
let's say the pad costs 50 bucks so you're spending almost $200 extra out of
34:28
pocket to have that solution I'd love to hear if you guys think that's worth it
34:32
because I totally do I am tired of
34:36
batteries just running out of life and
34:39
being frustrating all right now I have
34:43
received a ton of requests to review
34:46
this bad boy this is the g502 Proteus
34:50
core tunable gaming mouse from Logitech
34:53
it is available at a very reasonable $79.99
34:57
when you consider all of the features it has so it's got weight controls it's got
35:02
11 programmable buttons it's got DPI shifting it's got upgraded ergonomics
35:08
it's got their dual mode scroll wheel which is actually really cool so it can
35:12
either be clicky or you can just flick it into free Spin mode it's great for
35:15
things like working on Excel documents and this is the big one it's got a 32bit
35:21
microcontroller with the most accurate sensor on the market is what log Tech is
35:28
saying what they're saying is that the resolution of the sensor is
35:32
1,200 DPI without any tricks without any
35:36
Tom Foolery fascinating now we've actually
35:40
got a sample of the mouse already so yes a video about this mouse will be coming
35:45
but I haven't actually tried it personally yet edel is actually kind of
35:50
our Mouse expert these days I swear he's like is like constantly reading up on
35:55
Mouse sensors and firmwares and like he's bought a about three or four mice
35:59
in the last little while just he's talking about switching out the the
36:02
clicky switches on a zoi mouse in order to swap out the ones they're using for
36:07
Omron switches like he's turning into a total like Mouse geek but it's great
36:10
because I was able to give the mouse to him and I've got his initial Impressions
36:14
already that I am just going to tease you guys with now where he said it is a
36:18
little bit on the heavy side but that the tracking is actually very very
36:23
accurate so I have his initial Impressions and we will be providing you with that but this worked out really
36:27
well because um I don't remember where I was going with that this is the problem
36:31
with not having him to keep me grounded as I just kind of like go but uh very
36:35
very very exciting and definitely a first in the industry and I mean it's
36:39
Logitech so their software is going to be stable um they've got a three-year
36:44
warranty that is legendary I've had to use it a couple times myself and it's
36:48
been a satisfying experience every single time and uh I guess that's pretty
36:53
much all I have to say about it Luke will have a chance to check out the ergonomics of this mouse at packs I
36:58
think he did plan to swing by the Logitech Booth so maybe you guys can uh
37:03
expect to hear his Impressions on it even if you haven't heard mine yet because all I've held is the box I
37:08
handed it to Ed and I was like yo you're
37:11
into mice these days man check this out is it good is it not I got to know all
37:17
right speaking of things are they good and are they not I am I don't know I
37:24
guess maybe I'm just like jaded and tired and oh no I want to do my Twitter
37:28
Blitz yay Twitter Blitz before lonus gets all jaded and tired of things yay
37:35
okay Twitter boom there should be a rule
37:38
that people should have at least 100 posts because there's so many fake
37:41
accounts on the giveaway nope we're not going to create a rule but what we can
37:46
do is audit by IP and we actually have a
37:50
couple of other fancy tricks as well so don't worry we'll know if people have
37:53
duplicate entries all right uh Marco says yes definitely
37:59
worthwhile on that new battery idea
38:03
Tyler says not in the first gen wouldn't
38:06
pay $150 for it so maybe second or third gen they can have my money Casey says
38:12
yes even if it was thicker and produced more heat all the yes John says hell
38:18
yeah that's a bargain in my opinion I would love to charge a note three in 26
38:22
seconds Anthony says hell's yeah solar
38:25
TR hell yes hell yeah yeah yes I would
38:29
pay that is a bad word Danny Luke says I would totally pay $200 for a phone that
38:34
charges in 30 seconds look at this wow
38:37
wow yes yes yes yes no doubt no doubt
38:42
ever yes yes yes yes well there you go it's
38:47
basically unanimous if we could get batteries that maybe aren't higher
38:52
capacity but give us more flexibility in terms of how we use them in our daily
38:57
lives like if you had a you know a charging pad in your car so you could just kind of Chuck your phone on there
39:02
when you get in the car and then it's like completely done you take it off
39:05
like 30 seconds later set it up with your nav and you're ready to go like if
39:08
it changes the way that you use your device people are definitely still
39:12
willing to pay a lot for phones which is something that I meant to discuss more
39:17
in my M8 review was is there still room
39:21
for 600 700 $800 Flagship devices in a
39:26
world where the NEX 5 exists at300 or
39:29
$350 depending on the capacity and you
39:34
know what before I had my hands on the M8 I
39:39
probably would have said No and when I
39:43
get my hands on some of the new stuff that's coming like the OnePlus One um I
39:48
might say no again but the experience of using the M8 really does justify maybe
39:54
not as a discreet handset purchase like if I was someone who bought my phones
39:58
outright so I'm spending twice as much on it maybe it doesn't justify it for me
40:02
but it does justify the additional expense if I'm someone who buys on a
40:06
carrier contract with a subsidized phone so I'm only paying another couple
40:10
hundred dollars for it I think there is still room for premium phones with
40:14
premium features that really do feel different from plastic phones with
40:19
plastic features for Samsung on the other hand not sure that I feel the same
40:23
way where it's just like oh you like wave at the phone in order to to enable
40:27
more features but like I said I haven't actually been Hands-On with the S5 I
40:31
haven't heard back from them yet so I'm not sure if they're going to be sending me one I did say that I would talk about
40:35
it on Wow even if I don't do a dedicated review of it and that I would use the
40:39
device even if it's not some right I remember where I was going with that
40:43
whole Spiel before is the reason that I
40:46
ask for a keeper unit is because I don't
40:49
feel like setting it up and actually using it if I'm not going to actually
40:54
use it and if I'm just going to have to wipe all my pictures and wipe all of my
40:57
settings off of it shortly and then go and you know resync my actual daily
41:03
driver back to it I mean it's one thing if I end up doing that anyway because I
41:07
don't end up liking the device but that's that's comes with the territory
41:11
it's another thing if I end up liking the device and it becomes my favorite
41:15
device which hasn't yet happened with a Samsung device so it hasn't really been
41:18
that big of an issue but if it becomes my favorite device and then I I send it
41:22
away I go back to using something else new devices roll in and I want to
41:26
compare them against something that I really like and I don't even have it in my hands anymore I believe that this is
41:31
where I was trying to go with this I believe that comparative analysis needs
41:35
to be done side by side and not from memory that was my whole point with that
41:40
thing jeez all right so let's go back aside
41:46
from being a waste of time and money for me to make a video about it when you're
41:49
not even willing to invest you know just well here's the product that you're
41:53
doing us a favor by generating exposure for or not doing a favor favor if I end
41:57
up giving a negative review but that comes with the territory that's any
42:00
reviewer all right speaking of any
42:04
reviewer there are any number of different reviews on the radon R9
42:10
295x2 except one from yours truly
42:14
because we didn't get seated a unit I've had quite a few few people complain
42:18
about the fact that we've been uploading speaker videos as opposed to a an R9
42:23
295x2 video and all I could really say
42:27
is there's nothing I can do because AMD didn't see this one we were included in
42:32
their viral marketing campaign where they sent pictures uh or they sent a
42:37
picture they sent Pringles and then they sent like this disc that had this like
42:42
video on it that I didn't look at and then had a slide deck that actually told
42:45
me everything I needed to know about the GPU and then I only found out a few days
42:48
prior to launch when I was like hey are you guys going to follow up with a card
42:52
at some point here that I wasn't getting one so I didn't get one that's why I
42:57
didn't bring you guys a review of it unfortunately I I don't think I am going
43:00
to get one from AMD I sent a I sent a yo
43:04
what's going on followup and uh I got a
43:07
response that there may not be any more sample units or there might be but I
43:11
haven't heard anything further yet so we'll see what happens but the good news
43:15
actually I have two pieces of good news so good news number one is that there are plenty of reviews out there from
43:20
sites that I consider extremely credible and so we can definitely check those out
43:25
and the other good news is that it's a dual GPU card
43:29
so people people always do this they kind of go hey lonus how do you think
43:34
the new rumored upcoming duel whatever
43:37
is going to perform and I say hey it's going to perform just like two of those
43:42
because that's all it is it's two of those AMD has done some Innovative
43:46
things here but I didn't even need to Benchmark a 295x2 to get a pretty good
43:52
idea of where it was going to land I can throw two 290 XS in a system I can throw
43:57
water cooling on them like not great water cooling but water cooling or like
44:01
a great air cooler or like go outside in the cold or whatever and I can tell you
44:05
how 295x2 is going to perform so that's the other piece of good news and then
44:09
good news number three is that good guy Austin Evans has packed up his 295x2 and
44:15
put it in the mail today for me so you might see a full review you might just
44:21
see some Impressions once we get it on a bench or you might not because we're
44:25
pretty late to the party at this point anyway but let's get into how the
44:29
credible you know sources of information have evaluated this card since we
44:33
haven't tested it ourselves so from bitte they say in nearly every way the
44:38
R9 295x2 is dual GPU done right in every
44:43
situation it simply works and damn well too as its scaling is seriously
44:48
impressive so it's got a pair of overclocked albeit very moderately
44:52
overclocked r9290 X's um and performs
44:57
about like what you would expect however you can again expect some separate PCB
45:03
r9290 XS to give you similar if not
45:06
better performance because they have their own dedicated vrm circuitry that
45:10
has more room to breathe and you can potentially squeeze more overclocking
45:13
out of them for that reason so just like any dual GPU card ever before um Tom's
45:20
Hardware actually made a really interesting point and that was that you will be able to buy two for the same
45:25
price as the dual gk110 based Battleship
45:30
the Titan Z clearly though that comparison leaves one super dreadn
45:34
smoldering that's a quote from Tom's Hardware because the Titan Z costs
45:39
$3,000 or twice the price and is probably going to perform similarly if
45:43
not actually a little bit worse with the key difference being that is air cooled
45:47
but would you really pay twice as much
45:51
for air cooling versus water cooling or would you rather buy two 295 x2s if you
45:56
can figure out out where to put both of those radiators in fact there are some
46:00
cases that will support that so there's the overall impressions of the 295 X2 I
46:05
don't think I have too much else to really say about it other than that I
46:11
do appreciate what AMD has done with
46:15
their last two dual GPU cards so with
46:18
the um shoot I can't even remember their
46:21
bloody branding for the thing the 7990 there we go with the 79 they change it
46:26
every generation they've done it again it's like is it a 3870 X2 or is it a
46:30
4870 X2 or is it a
46:33
5990 or whatever they called that thing they change it every generation so with
46:37
the 7990 they introduced an openair cooler
46:42
and this was because they had to in order to keep the bloody thing cool so
46:45
what that meant was worse case temperatures but better GPU temperatures
46:50
and we I looked at that and I went that's great why are we relying on the
46:55
on on the GPU card manufacturers to give
46:58
us these non-reference cooler designs that keep the GPU cooler I understand
47:03
that blower designs are better for certain builds but when we're talking
47:06
dual GPU cards I think we're talking about systems that better have some air
47:10
flow through them anyway so I appreciated that and I appreciate once
47:13
again that AMD has made this card water cooling out of the box so yeah it's only
47:20
a single 120 mm radiator and yeah it's
47:23
an ace attack all-in-one solution so it's not the greatest performing thing in the world but what I think a lot of
47:28
people were surprised to discover is that on a graphics card you don't need
47:32
the greatest thing in the world in order to still get really really impressive
47:37
thermals like I've seen reports around the web of these cards running as low as
47:41
you know 60 to 70 degrees under load
47:45
that's running at full speed because people look at their CPU and the
47:51
temperatures a CPU runs at and they look at their GPU and they look at the
47:55
temperatures a GPU runs at and I think the assumption is that there's some kind
47:59
of correlation between something's temperature and the amount of heat that
48:04
it is outputting but there isn't your CPU has a much more optimized cooler on
48:10
it because it has a lot more space so just because they both run at 80°
48:14
doesn't mean that a GPU actually kicks out that much heat compared to a CPU so
48:19
just because you could throw an overclocked CPU on a slim 120 mm
48:23
radiator design and you still get like you know 80 90° on it it's it's like
48:28
yeah why did I even do that when you throw that on two gpus you can get great
48:33
results because now you're taking that cooling out of that horrible form factor
48:38
that dual slot form factor that's just totally inadequate and you're moving it
48:42
to a nice big 120 mm fan that's getting
48:45
the heat from those gpus carried to it by water which is much more efficient
48:49
than air so I think that's a really Innovative really cool thing that AMD
48:53
has done with the what's what's someone saying what's incorrect hold on I'm
48:59
curious now twitch chat someone's saying I'm incorrect about
49:06
something no no idea what you're talking about anymore oh someone says that's
49:10
incorrect I am pretty sure that nothing I said there was actually
49:14
incorrect um yeah okay anyway someone
49:19
asks where's Luke he's at PX so there I did some twitch chat interaction
49:23
especially now that it's uh now that it's not a total disaster in there you
49:28
know what speaking of total disasters this isn't a total disaster at all but
49:31
let's go ahead and get into our sponsor break here so our first sponsor of the
49:35
show today is ASUS this my friends is the g750 JZ and
49:42
what I really wanted to be able to do on our first spot for ASUS's new Ultimate
49:47
performance gaming notebook was have used it a fair bit and tell you a little
49:52
bit about the gaming performance and a little bit about what it's like to use
49:56
it but unfortunately Luke took the one
49:59
that I started setting up so I was able to use a couple of things I definitely
50:03
appreciate their new keyboard implementation with nice long travel time and I was able to set up a couple
50:08
of things I definitely appreciate the looks and the fact that it actually runs
50:11
cool enough that I'm running this thing on my lap right now which you can't
50:15
always say about gaming grade notebooks Luke took it from me and was like oh hey
50:21
that's our editing machine for PAX East bye so I was like okay I was actually
50:26
going to use that so uh we do have two of them so each of us will be using them
50:30
for about the next eight weeks which will give you guys by the end of it a
50:34
pretty good idea of what it's like for us to use them we'll definitely talk about our Impressions on the show here
50:39
um but it just means that the one that I had set up wasn't set up and I had to
50:42
like pull it out of the box now at the last minute get everything installed on
50:45
it in order to just do the show at all today but what it also means is it gives
50:50
me a way to talk about the ways that these high performance notebooks can be
50:55
used it's not always is just about gaming Luke first thing that went
50:59
through his mind was holy crap Thunderbolt Port cor i7 quad core with
51:05
hyperthreading so nice high performance CPU and
51:09
880m graphics card which can be used for
51:13
Cuda acceleration in Premiere and he was like mobile workstation yoink it's
51:18
because normally when we travel we would take a shuttle or um or a Silverstone
51:23
Sugo machine that has like a full size
51:27
desktop CPU in it so actually we use six cores for almost all of our editing
51:31
machines and normally we take that when we travel but because Luke and Brandon
51:35
are traveling to PAX East on their own this time they were really excited about
51:39
the opportunity to take a notebook that is fully like high quality video editing
51:44
capable so Brandon doesn't have to Lug his ancient heavy thing that's like
51:48
super super slow and they don't have to take a desktop so there you go guys the
51:52
workstation usage model is another valid one for stuff like this and of course
51:56
you play games on the go if you want as well so let's move into our next one
52:01
this is another I'm trying to talk about our
52:05
sponsors here right Dollar Shave Club so normally I would have my little bin that
52:10
has all of the different Dollar Shave Club handles they're shave butter as
52:15
well as the one wipe Charlie that's the one thing that these guys left for me
52:18
and I would be able to hold them up and talk about how Dollar Shave Club is a
52:23
great way to save money and save time by
52:26
not dealing with the hassle of going to the store and finding a salesperson to
52:31
you know unlock the cabinet for you and give you new razors and then pay a bunch
52:36
of money for them and then go home and just B waste time waste money so I would
52:40
be able to talk about how it's great and I'd be able to like hold up the razors and show you but the razors are so good
52:46
that my staff has absconded with all of them so I did offer Luke to try before
52:54
blade one so I gave him both the uh the
52:57
package of cartridges that comes with your monthly subscription to Dollar
53:00
Shave Club and the handle which he promptly took with him to packs so um
53:06
and those of you who were saying in the last Dollar Shave Club ad that we did um
53:10
within our video that Luke doesn't shave yes he does people with beards still
53:13
shave you guys they have to like shape them and clean them up and stuff anyway
53:17
so Luke took that away with them so I don't have anything to show you there and then Taran the new guy was like oh
53:23
those look pretty good he's like picking it up he's like oh can I uh can I try
53:28
this I'm like yeah sure whatever because we got like our our pack was enough for
53:33
uh for for everyone to like well not everyone it was enough for me to have
53:37
enough to use for a month because they provide a handle with your first order
53:41
and then four cartridges or four blades each month so that you can use a fresh
53:45
one every week so you're getting a nice clean shave so I was like okay well I've
53:49
got a one-month Supply I guess I could ask Dollar Shave Club to send me a a
53:52
renewal sooner and then everyone else can kind of try try one head so we're
53:56
not sharing shaving heads cuz that's disgusting so he took off with it so I
54:01
don't have that either he's like he just completely absconded with it he's got
54:04
the handle and uh the entire thing of uh
54:08
six blade cartridges so I don't have anything to show you guys except the one
54:13
wipe Charlies so one wipe Charlies are
54:16
the uh are butt wipes for men they're peppermint scented they are moistened so
54:20
that you do a good job you do have it here awesome how is it by the way I
54:26
tried it yet you haven't even tried it yet here I am all upset that everyone's
54:30
stealing my things and they haven't even done it yet okay well there you go guys
54:33
there's the uh see we've cleverly labeled this one's luses this one's Tern
54:38
and there's the nice highquality grippy metal handle that's included with the uh
54:42
with the six blade version I'm going to go ahead and bring up their website because I spent this entire uh I spent
54:48
this entire thing complaining about everyone stealing the stuff cuz it looks
54:52
so good and it turns out that only one of my employees is stealing everything
54:56
thing so I'll go ahead and fire it up so
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the whole point of Dollar Shave Club since I haven't actually managed to talk
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about that a whole lot is that they have a warehouse where they ship to you
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founder of Dollar Shave club. sorry about that guys where they ship to you
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once a month four new razors for your
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handle that they provide to you on your first subscription they do it at a cost
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that is lower than buying them from the you know Shopping Center or wherever
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else you get them you can see that uh Mike here has put it so well our blades
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are you know bleeping great he's got a whole actually very funny commercial
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that you guys should definitely check out just if you search for dollarshaveclub.com on YouTube you guys
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can check that out and uh all of that
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they do for very very reasonable prices so the four blade one the one that Luke
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is actually using is only $6 a month and that's with shipping and handling
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included in the US and the service is also available in Canada and Australia
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this is one of the most disjointed integration I think that I've ever
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actually done but I really hope you guys get the point save time save money
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Dollar Shave Club check this out and this is really cool because I think this
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might be new because when I was first looking at them their Canadian prices I
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think were higher or like shipping and handling wasn't included but check this
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out this is the first time that I've seen a company that's us in Canada that
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has very competitive pricing on their
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Canadian service with shipping included that's really cool it's 50 cents more
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expensive in Canadian dollars for the four blade razor versus in the US now
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when you factor in that the Canadian dollar is about 10% behind the US dollar
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I think it's like 5 to 10% right now I haven't looked at it in a couple weeks
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they're basically just doing a currency conversion when you factor in that
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shipping is so much more expensive in Canada that's freaking impressive and
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like a plus doll shave club for doing that in fact I think the
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$9.50 executive one is less than the
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difference in currency more expensive because it's only 50 cents more
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expensive as well so kudos to them for that all right so with our sponsor
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messages out of the way did I ever even actually switch to the Dollar Shave Club
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there you go dollarshaveclub.com Linus make sure you use my referral link when you guys sign
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up we've actually had a lot of people sign up and leave really positive
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feedback about the products already on my Twitter so do sign up do use the uh
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the offer code so that we can keep uh having Dollar Shave Club sponsor the W
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show and all of our other great content hopefully you guys enjoy and I think now
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we're pretty much done all right so let's move on to our next topic here
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which is the heart bed bug this is a big
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problem I I was actually tempted to just do a dedicated video about this during
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the week not because I'm a total expert
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on you know SSL encryption and secure
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web access I have a basic fundamental understanding of how it works and why
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it's important to encrypt certain data that's sent over the Internet so for
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example when you interface with a website like Linus tips.com it's
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important for us to encrypt your user name and password but it is not
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important for us to encrypt the post that you're about to post publicly so
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that's that's the that's the fundamental thing that's going on here SSL
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encryption exists to protect
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inlight private data as it's being transmitted so things like credit card
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numbers passwords and the like what the heart bed bug is is it is a problem with
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up to an estimated
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23 of the sites on the internet including some very frequently used very
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very big sites it is a bug that would allow stealing allow theft of the
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information that is being transmitted so there's all kinds of of different things
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that use SSL so for example web email
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instant messaging and some VPN Solutions
58:53
are using SSL in order to secure your data and harley.com was actually able to
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prove this this problem existed by stealing from themselves the secret Keys
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used for their x509 certificates usernames passwords instant messages
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emails and business critical documents and communication the bug has actually
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existed for around two years and aess a successful attack would leave no Trace
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so if your VPN solution for example is has not done anything about heart bleed
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you might want to cool it on using it for the time being until they've proven
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that they have fixed any of the vulnerabilities because that is pretty
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much the only way to even know that you haven't been compromised is to just not
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transmit any any secure data over the
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internet in the meantime which is kind of terrible it's been a a while since
59:46
there's been something that uh that devastating all right let's move on to
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our next topic here this was originally posted online tech tips.com by Ashley
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thank you very much and that is that Netflix is now streaming in 4k starting
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with House of Cards this is a bit of a mixed bag for me so here's the article
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on the verge I'm just going to go ahead and flip back to uh back to me here this
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is my show this is a bit of a mix bag for me because as much as I appreciate
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4K content for some things um I
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appreciate that when we are going to switch to 4K which we are for our videos
60:23
it is going to enable a higher bit rate playback mode on YouTube that will allow
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even 1080p viewers to experience better quality I appreciate that I appreciate
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that as part of the 4K production workflow we have the flexibility to take
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a 4K frame that's this big and punch in
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this small on it and get still a 1080p
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full HD image so we don't have to necessarily switch lenses if we want to
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get a closeup that's really cool right so we could just take a bigger image and
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then punch in in order to do really fantastic close-ups using a digital Zoom
60:58
I appreciate that about it but what I don't really much care for is the fact
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that it's going to have an impact on bandwidth for Netflix streaming users
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something that is a concern if you have a provider that limits your bandwidth I
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don't appreciate that it's already um a
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concern for Netflix to be able to stream 1080p with any reasonable level of
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quality like I don't know if you guys know this should be a topic for an
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upcoming fastest possible I don't know if you guys know the mechanisms behind
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it but there's more to the quality of a
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video stream than just resolution a lot more I mean I could I could give you
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guys a video stream that's just 1,80 by
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1,920 black pixels that just refresh and
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that's not that's not quality that's that's just that's so just because
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something has a resolution doesn't mean it's a quality video feed so bit rate
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and color depth which is largely affected by the bit rate of the media
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actually to me has a very very noticeable impact on the viewing
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experience and when I'm watching videos on Netflix I just uh it's really ugly
62:09
sometimes the way that their Dynamic throttling will scale back the bit rate
62:13
so that you get these blocky chunks of of low color depth and that's at 1080p
62:18
already so if you were to tell me okay lonus I want you to give up some more
62:23
color depth so that we can throw more resolution at you you might not even
62:26
appreciate from so far away from your TV I'd go
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eh maybe sure no probably not um
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so they're saying right now look guys don't expect a mass roll out of this
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right off the bat so they're realistic about it I me okay and on top of all of
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this is that it's going to use more bandwidth and Netflix is already having trouble dealing with all the all the uh
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service providers to get their service you know actually provided to their
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customers that are reasonable degree of quality and that sentence didn't
62:58
actually make any sense but I hope you guys get the point so they're saying don't expect a mass roll out and even by
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the end of the year the 4K selection will be very small but uh there you go
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they've got it so if you were to buy an
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inexpensive 4K TV from Seiki or check
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this out this is a review that's coming soon an inexpensive 4k monitor from the
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likes of Samsung so yes guys I have gotten myself the ud 590 from Samsung 4K
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28 in TN monitor available for $700 Holy
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balls um then you would be able to map a
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pixel to every pixel and enjoy that content natively but I'm just not
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necessarily convinced especially from what I've seen of that monitor so far I
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did have one open at NCI today that I was able to check out not convinced that
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it's really worth it all right direct X12 will double Xbox One performance so
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this was originally posted by top war gamer on the lest Tech tips Forum thank
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you very much for posting that and the original article is from bgr.com so they
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have a gamechanging update that will double Xbox One performance
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now my problem with this is comes back
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to the whole NVIDIA discussion earlier where it's are you really going to be
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providing double the performance or is it going to be like double the performance in one game that was already
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fairly well optimized anyway and it's not really going to make a difference to
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most people um and other than that is it just going to be a marginal incremental Improvement
64:30
um and and I don't know yet there's still a lot of room for Microsoft to
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improve things about the Xbox one but a lot of the benefits of direct X12 seem
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to have to do at least from what Microsoft said maybe they're keeping
64:43
some of their cards close to their chest but a lot of the benefits seem to have
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to do with allowing more low-level programming for the GPU from the game
64:51
makers but that's something that we've already had on consoles for quite some
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time and it's something that Sony could just as easily enable on their platform
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whether they're using directx11 or directx12 and from what I've heard like
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word on the street is that we're not that far away from bare metal on these
65:06
consoles already anyway so that to me kind of goes okay well if we've unlocked
65:11
a lot of the potential of the hardware is this just going to be software Tom
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Foolery and and smoke and mirrors in
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order to try to get games to run at 108p cuz that's one of the claims that
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they're making or is this a total Game
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Changer as you say and it remains to be seen this and also remains to be seen oh
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yeah I remember where I was going with this sorry guys again like my train of thoughts just like run away I haven't
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slept a lot this week um right Microsoft
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still has a lot of room to improve things whether this update improves
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anything or not because their whole cloud-based compute thing where they can
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use that for physics effects or simulation stuff where it's not terribly
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important that you know the waves of the ocean react with the same split-second
65:53
precision as an opponent um so there's a lot of room for Xbox One to improve its
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performance I just don't know that this is going to be the difference between
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50% performance and 100% performance but
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it will bring multi-core processing to the Xbox One something that you know I
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am kind of baffled that it didn't have in the first place but I you look at how
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long Microsoft's been working on Direct X12 I guess they're just kind of waiting
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it out they're going to wait till it's done they're going to release it when
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it's actually ready so because I think they said what they've been working on it for four years now
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all right uh seate has announced a 6
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terabyte hard drive it spins at 7200 RPM
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so this is not your this is not your you know Grandpa's cheesy high-capacity hard
66:40
drive that spins at lower RPMs in order to make it reliable enough to deliver
66:44
that kind of capacity it speeds at 7200 RPM it's available in 2 3 4 5 and six
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terabyte capacity points it has 128 megabytes of cache it can feature a SATA
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6 GB per second interface and up to a SAS 12 GB per second interface it does
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not rely on being helium filled like
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Tachi 6 tbte drive and Seagate is using
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what they're calling their eighth generation perpendicular magnetic
67:11
Recording Technology and what the register is has figured is five platters
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to achieve this Milestone
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um great I guess I mean it's going to be
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really cool for for people who want to have lots of storage I think that for
67:28
quite a while it was stagnant to the point where I kind of went okay what is
67:33
what is the upgrade path for someone who has a dual Bay Nas because we've only
67:37
gone from like one terabyte to three terabytes in the last little while and
67:41
like it's gotten to the point now where you don't look at that and go okay
67:45
that's triple the capacity you look at that and go like oh that's only 2
67:48
terabytes more and I'm I'm accumulating data at such a rate that it's not
67:52
necessarily enough I mean to me this is exciting because it is a legitimate
67:56
upgrade for someone who bought sweet spot you know two terabyte drives quite
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some time ago where now they can triple their capacity and that means adding a
68:04
full eight more terabytes of storage to their setup um but other than that I got
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don't know I guess it's another hard drive it's going to support you know
68:14
encryption it's um it's oh okay what's cool is they are
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going to have one available right off the Hop that is rated for 24/7 operation
68:23
and some ludicrous number RS per year I think it was something like
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500 uh hold on I don't want to I don't want to quote this wrong because I've
68:31
made up enough things on this show 550 terabytes per year so that's Enterprise
68:36
class types of workloads right there so that's that's exciting I guess but those
68:40
drives will continue to be more expensive than most consumers will be
68:43
willing to spend I guess for me it's just I guess it's a shot in the ARM for
68:48
mechanical storage because especially now that we're getting one terabyte ssds
68:52
in that dangerous $500 price range it's
68:56
starting to look pretty tough to justify a hard drive as your boot drive if
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you're someone who's you know buying a reasonably high performance computer now
69:05
our next topic this was originally posted on the Forum by querty Warrior
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thank you very much and the original article is from next PowerUp beta is
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Project Ara some more details emerge
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Project Ara um has received a module
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developer kit 1.0 release that has outed
69:26
some of the guidelines so it does a couple of things here is it shows off
69:30
what we can expect a project R smartphone to look like so we've got a
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side view where they show what the screen and in this case looks like
69:38
speaker and front camera module will look like and how it will be sandwiched
69:42
sandwiched with the rear modules which can be sizes like this so 1X two 2x two
69:48
or 1 by one which will contain things like uh processors batteries and all
69:53
kinds of cool stuff like that and more importantly than anything else this um
69:59
MDK 1.0 news reveals that an aura phone if
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you have a couple of batteries on it will actually be capable of staying
70:09
powered on not only while you swap a battery like right now that's the phone
70:13
feature to have and that's like why Samsung keeps building plastic phones is
70:18
uh a user replaceable battery so that if you run out you could switch it out well
70:22
Project Ara phones I should probably stop stop calling it Project R so while
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an ARA phone will allow you to hot swap
70:30
a battery so you will actually be able to leave the phone on while you replace
70:35
your battery with something else or or like if you got like a couple batteries
70:39
on you just be like yeah I'll pop this one off and put a replacement on there
70:42
run off this one in the meantime that is really really cool there are some more
70:46
guidelines so they're saying that the module should have a smooth flat Pebble
70:49
form and they are saying that we can expect to see three different form
70:53
factors mini medium and large which will presumably be some kind of a fablet and
70:57
is coming later after mini and medium
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size our next topic and this will actually be our last topic this has been
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a fairly concise show I've gotten through everything that I really had uh
71:10
planned fairly quickly here this was posted by Alex Goes high on the Forum
71:13
and the original article is from The Verge and Google will for one day let
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anyone in the US by glass it will come
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with a free um shade in addition to the
71:24
Google Glass itself and it will be available for we are let me have a look
71:31
Google is about to make okay I don't see any confirmation here includes of
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Explorer Program expansion on April 15th yep there we go so it will include a
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free frame or shade with the purchase and it will cost $1,500 just like it has
71:45
for everyone who's joined the Explorer Program now I actually bought a Google
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Glass not that long ago um and so if
71:52
there's anyone in Canada or outside of the US who wants to buy mine off me
71:56
because quite frankly I didn't end up using it pretty much at all it's
72:00
extremely uncomfortable for me I'll be willing to sell mine for500 and I'll
72:04
throw in I have uh I have a clear lens and I have a shaded lens and it's in
72:10
basically prisin condition I've hardly touched the thing so there you go Google
72:14
I'm one uping you by allowing someone anywhere in the world on the 11th not
72:19
the 15th to pay $1,500 for a Google glass instead I'm just trying to recoup
72:25
my my money on it cuz I just found it too uncomfortable to use the problem
72:28
that a lot of people don't have but for me is a big issue is the way that it
72:32
sits on your ears because my ears are not level on my head so when I hold my
72:37
head uppr right my ears are wonky it's hard to tell unless I'm wearing glasses
72:41
but all glasses sit on me like this and what happens with Google Glass is that
72:45
that puts the Display Way outside of where I can actually read the things so
72:49
I just I was going to do a review on it but I was just like you know what screw
72:53
it this is so uncomfortable it hurts after after like half an hour I'm not
72:57
finding it useful cuz I can't even see the thing so forget it and I intended to
73:01
flip it like ages ago and then I never got around to it so this is as good an
73:04
opportunity as any so I'll be doing that uh on the garage sale after wow
73:09
here and I think wow I think that might
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be pretty much it I planned to have Luke join me um to call into the show for you
73:20
know packs East First Impressions or something like that but uh
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I
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haven't
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okay please just big favor oh okay so
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there's that nope nope I don't have a reply from Luke so it looks like he
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won't be joining us thank you guys very
73:42
much for joining me on the show people are asking for a Pebble Steel review in
73:47
twitch chat yes that's coming I ordered one still not here so that's going to be
73:52
part of my review that's for sure and uh
73:55
or are they just asking for a pebble review I've done a pebble review my
73:59
Pebble review has like 200,000 views you guys someone's like call Luke
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I won't be calling Luke he's roaming right now so that would be uh that would
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be that would be a big uh that'd be a big problem thank you very much guys for
74:11
tuning in all 4100 of you I am always
74:15
just so overwhelmed that so many of you give up your Friday afternoon or Friday
74:20
evening to spend it with me and hear about the latest technology um stay
74:24
tuned tuned for all the pack EAS content that's coming this weekend so that is
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brought to you by Intel and Corsair and
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a huge thanks to Luke and Brandon for giving up their sleep and their weekend
74:37
and in Luke's case his health he's actually sick and he's still doing the
74:41
trip so like rock on brother huge thanks to them for bringing us a bunch of cool
74:45
content from the show and I will see you guys next week on The W show same bat
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Time same bat Channel