The WAN Show - Nintendo Switch & Razer Buys.. THX?? - October 21, 2016
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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14,456 words · ~72 min read
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hey guys Li is getting catchup so we're just going to start the show while that
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happens um there was a massive dos that
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happened in the last couple days I think basically just today but anyways it
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brought down Amazon Twitter Spotify bunch of different kind of huge stuff I
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couldn't tweet all day that was actually kind of frustrating cuz like I'm trying
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to tweet super badass pictures of compensator 2 and it's like nope nope
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failed to send tweet would you like to retry yes doesn't do anything no PNG GG
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nope PNG .0 available on all models cars
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including the model 3 once that comes out which is pretty nuts unveiled
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speaking of unveiled speaking of revealing Nintendo confused us all with
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the announcement of the Nintendo switch uh which I am super stoked on uh on
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chatting about later because I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to agree with
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you or I will agree with you but you're going to buy it anyway yep um and Razer
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purchased THX I still don't so so we'll be back I mean
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next next they're going to say that like Taylor Swift's on their board of directors in other news like Luke is
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dying so if he's not here when we come back from the intro you'll know what
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happened that happened last time too it
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was that's going to be the problem too cuz when I laugh that makes it
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happen and last went I was by myself so it was easier to
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that now you're here
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he's going do all right ma well cable
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mod I fixed it I I fixed it okay you got
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to do the eating cont yeah there you go lineus Tech tips eating
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contest have a bit done so I guess we're
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going to start with Nintendo switch so I can just talk about this no I want to
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talk about that too we don't need Linus's input on this at all yes we
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do so it's like it's a handheld that's
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also a console uh that you can put the
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controllers on or you can take the
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controllers off and you can use the controllers independently for two
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people or just one person and you can maybe do like local network play
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wirelessly maybe and there's Skyrim and there's the new Zelda game and there's a
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new Mario game and like there was tons of stuff that was more or less announced
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in this video but not like spelled out
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on screen which was really interesting like the new Mario game they showed it but they
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weren't like hey new Mario game which is kind of interesting so people weren't
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really paying attention they just be like oh yeah Mario he's everywhere they
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put him on everything but no it's a new Mario game pretty crazy um it's super
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weird with that said it's not exactly like a like a
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groundbreaking no you know revelatory
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sort of but it it would oh really wait hold on no no no you got to stop do a
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new Nintendo console and there's going to be a new
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Mario game for it no that's it enough internet
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no yeah it's a kind of a weird announcement um I'm back that was it we
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had heard for a while that there was going to be some kind of like console
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and handheld thing that was in the rumors for a long time even so I didn't
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really expect this cuz the dock doesn't really look like it does anything other
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than applying direct power and video
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pass through I think I don't think there's any compute happening there I
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don't think there's anything else happening there especially because when he when they go
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to pick it up and they go to switch or whatever you want to say it um when they
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pick it up out of the console if you already have the controller bits on it
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which you can just leave the controller sides on the console if you'd like uh
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because this switch bit right here this
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left controller and this right controller can come right off and then
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they rail in on the sides of this bit right in the middle of the like console
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box I so then that becomes kind of like
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the tablety part of the Wii U which like
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if it if it works the same way is actually pretty awesome but then
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like what uh it's a
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we Le gainst it in every way but it's was weird it's very weird so another
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announcement that came in parallel that for whatever reason isn't in our notes
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I'm actually not sure why that is but another announcement that came in
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parallel was from NVIDIA where they said they're going to be the ones providing
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Hardware yeah for the Nintendo switch so
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this is interesting for a couple of
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reasons is
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that and like okay so number one is that
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it means Nintendo's portable is actually going to have like programmable
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a programmable GPU in it for the first time ever instead of some like custom
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random thing that they sort of stapled together out of like some ARM cores and
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whatever else they kind of found on you know bangood.com if you want to like
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dive more into that go look at like the technical diagrams for the Wii
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U some weird stuff it's part of the reason why people have such a hard time
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emulating those kind of games is just cuz it's it's just weird it's running on
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super weird Hardware uh sometimes um so
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the other thing this means is that we could be looking
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at kind of a tablet likee form factor um
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and and the whole concept seems kind of like uh like oh man how do
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I describe this like somewhere between the NVIDIA Shield tablet which is really
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confusingly named because now they have NVIDIA Shield Android TV and the NVIDIA
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Shield tablet is actually like discontinued they have the somewhere
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between the NVIDIA Shield tablet and that
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weird what was that thing called what I reviewed it um I don't remember the
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Razor Edge Pro this stupid thing what so it had this uh gam pad
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controll I work here when we made this doc thing I don't remember it was a long
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time ago okay I remember this whole there you go that thing okay yeah I know
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this so it's kind of like this thing this is which was uh it was like a it
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was like a 940m or something I it even says it's a tablet it's a mobile console
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yeah um text specs USB ports thank you
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for that razor um
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wow oh okay because it's the because I'm
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looking at the gam pad controller okay fine fine fine fine so it added more IO
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and blah blah blah okay what was it a 640 mle with Optimus technology so this
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this is back um until core i7 dual core
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with hyper threading doesn't even say what generation core i7 it was so okay
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apparently the audio quality is fine but it is apparently cutting out sometimes
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have it from a relatively reliable source okay um I'm not entirely sure how
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to solve that yeah I don't really know what to do cuz I'm not moving anything
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like I'm not touching it we still got a twitch Prime sub
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though hell yeah terrible audio still
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getting Subs wow um that's what's up
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we appreciate you so it's kind of like like that concept but what I said about
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that at the time was cool concept way
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too heavy like totally impractical from a battery life and a weight perspective
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okay then we got the NVIDIA Shield tablet which didn't really take off
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there was that battery recall that HT that hurt that product in a big way and
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then it just kind of disappeared and if we look back at the
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timing for when it disappeared I do wonder if what we're going to discover
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is that might have been around the time that NVIDIA locked in a deal pretty
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close with Nintendo looking at like console creation life life ranges and
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like how long there's been rumors about the NX coming out yeah I wouldn't be
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surprised if it was like six months later that rumors about the NX started
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kind of starting I mean I like I'm just trying to I'm trying to figure out like
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when did NVIDIA Shield tablet YouTube
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like let's find out when our video went up and see if it makes sense so actually
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no I don't think that's long enough cuz the tablet K1 unboxing no wait okay
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initial reviews went up in August
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2014 so if Nintendo saw that that was probably
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enough time for them to at least pivot the development of the Nintendo NX
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because you got to remember too Nintendo is developing their own first party AAA
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titles for it and they've got to make sure that those are going to run on
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whatever it is that they end up with yep
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so a couple a couple more interesting things here this is the first NVIDIA
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GPU uh win design win in a console since
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PlayStation 3 and actually one of the
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only two now that I think about it AMD has been the GPU powering pretty much
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everything for the last little bit Xbox One S Xbox making hits on that too um or
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like not making much at least so my understanding is that it's not like
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amazing ly lucrative like it was in the
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Xbox Xbox One PlayStation 3 generation
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yeah but that it's like Los no Xbox One not Xbox original I
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think Xbox original they ended up doing pretty well wait no Xbox original wasn't
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that NVIDIA as well GPU in Xbox in
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original Xbox I thought it was like equivalent to like a Pentium
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3 um like 733 MHz and then it says
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finding stuff on this is going to be kind of annoying uh code yeah the GPU
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was co-developed by Microsoft and NVIDIA so there you go there was that one as
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well sort of co-developed kind of um wow
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hey I got the CPU right 733 mehz Intel pendium 3 copper mine oh yeah go lus he
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remembers a thing that no one asked him about I actually liked that
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console um I liked the like terrible logo and do you remember the controllers
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that were way too big for anyone except for like my dad cool let's talk about
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controllers for a minute here let's go back to oh they're horrible let's go
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back to picture of the of the switch okay so this I think will be fine uhhuh
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I honestly think when you have them railed on the side yeah of the screen it
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will be fine because my favorite controller to use with the Wii U is the
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big tablet with the screen in the middle when I first saw it I was like I'm going
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to hate this and then it got to the point where if I was using anything else
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it was worse experience and my only like
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proper compromise in my opinion was a Pro Controller if I wanted to play
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something how much of that is the second
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screen experience and how much of it is just the uh the more comfortable spacing
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of your of your elbows it's comfortable so so like give me a percentage um
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probably almost entirely comfort of the elbows because I wouldn't really look at
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the second screen I meant like for playing Mario Kart yeah like I used to
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play Mario Kart all the time I us to stream it stuff I would use that
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controller even though I was never looking down cuz you could look down to
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see I think the mini map or you could look on the main screen for a way better
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view of seeing the mini map and still be able to see where the heck you're going
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so yeah I didn't really care about the second screen yeah second screen for gaming I'm really not that sold on it
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was kind of cool as a fifth player aspect in the Mario Platformers you
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could play like a Godlike kind of character and put down little platforms
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and stuff that only lasted for certain periods of time to like just kind of
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have some fun but like so many Nintendo things there's like one first party
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title and then yep yep yay y so it
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actually kind of feels like they're trying to get away from that which is I
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think it was Ubie I'm not entirely sure but it could be Ubisoft said not that
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long ago like oh we think Nintendo's going in the right direction with their
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new console blah blah blah blah blah blah blah so I think that's has a lot to
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do with the less things that I think are kind of
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cool but a little bit gimmicky deals now look at what I just noticed oh no never
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mind I thought this plus symbol was a plane and I was like whoa it has data
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but no that's just a little plus symbol so I mean I guess that's all fine and
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good for people like you whose forearms are about as big as my biceps but are
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you concerned at all about controller weight if you have to basically have the
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gaming console I mean okay okay so coup I don't
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really think so do you think the second screen makes a comeback so can you use
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the can you plug this like are you expected to wirelessly transmit no no no
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no no not at all okay so if you second screen dead do you think uh from what
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they've showed us in this trailer yeah they they didn't use it as a second
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screen at all not even once um what
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happened was if you like is this a screenshot or is this this is just a
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screenshot okay yeah yeah yeah if you go to a different part of the video he
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docks it actually with these controller arms still on it that's the way that I
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would use it because I'm going to lose lose these things just to be honest so
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I'd rather it stayed on the screen so that I don't lose it um and then the
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like box that you can put these on and use them as a controller so let's go
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back to that picture um oops oh no not that not that one
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let's go back to the other one okay yep go ahead yeah this looks right that
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thing looks horrible it is really ugly oh man I
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don't know I'm not interested in using that at all my plan
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is to take both the controller arms rail
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them onto the console and then just never take them off and not use this
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stupid thing and just use the the new Pro Controller that they've got which
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looks almost identical to the previous Pro Controller which is
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fine so there you go and like I don't
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know if you saw the other scenes but they'll like take these off and use them
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as singular controllers so like you can have just
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flip them flip them on their side yeah yeah so you could take see how this
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thing is actually slotted in use the yeah here slot so that's slott that's
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how you're supposed to play if you want it to be on the TV so it isn't a dual
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screen experience unless maybe you like have a second one but then again no
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except one weird third party or one
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weird first party is going to actually do it but anyways um so they like took
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the thing out brought it somewhere I don't remember where there's a little flip on the back of it so they can set
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it up as like a little stand mhm so you don't have to be holding it the whole
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time if you don't want to for the ARM fatigue thing that you're talking about and and then he handed one of these half
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controllers to someone beside him who turned it to the side and started using
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it as like a sideways weote kind of deal and then he used the other what
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infuriates me about that is that they're
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different yeah ergonomically that's a mess they're not the same yeah so one
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person is going to be flipping it down this way and the other person's going to
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be flipping this up this way and this person's thumb stick is in the middle
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and that one's on the end and these like
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w yikes even like on screen telling you
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what to do this one's arrows that
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one's abxy so tell me this though I mean
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this is okay I'm actually I I'm going to
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present an argument counter to yours right now okay so tell me this though as
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the owner of a Nintendo switch okay when your buddies come over and you use your
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Pro Controller and you guys are just playing some stupid like platformer
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where four buttons and a joyad is enough are you going to invest in two more Pro
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controllers for your buddies or you going to make them use the controllers knowing Nintendo their
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previous controllers probably work do you think they will okay we saw we saw I
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honestly think weot are going to work on this like Wii to Wi U I can see the
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logic in their in their mind of going
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okay like a Wii controller should work on a Wii console
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I wouldn't be surprised if we don't have compatibility because it's not like
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Nintendo it's quite different it's not like Nintendo has never been known to
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kill interoperability for no apparent reason mhm I mean they are still a
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Japanese company um okay I
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think I think I have a feeling motion is
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dead you think so I think so but I I
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don't think that inter
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play as de so like I think you'll be able to use a wiot sideways for
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Platformers and stuff I don't think I
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don't know but I don't think that motion is going to be around and I think
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they're completely ditching the VR aspect although I have seen some people
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talking about like the cloth headset ideal or idea not ideal where you have
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like uh what is it called Daydream you know the Daydream headset thing where
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they could just release that and then it's like oh Nintendo VR I just hope
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they don't to be completely honest um
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and then yeah I think I think motion is gone and Nintendo's going back and just
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deciding that they want to kind of bring their mobile and their console together
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a little bit and there you go so this is NVIDIA's wet dream oh yeah this whole
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this is this is what NVIDIA has been trumpeting from the rooftops for years
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since since the first Tegra I guess it's been a while yeah since the first Tegra
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which is probably like you got Nintendo walked up to NVIDIA and we're
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like oh you're doing some cool stuff you want to work with yes please like yes
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this is what we've been trying to do with our with our portable Graphics
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technology we haven't been able to get anyone to get on board so we've had to
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make our own products which we like totally didn't want to do and we like
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totally screwed it up and and this sucks
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um we just want to make gpus and compute things we just want to make like really
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really cool gpus that are like super power efficient we want someone else to
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put it in something and support it and make games like lordy
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um so okay okay motion is heavily rumored
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by trustworthy leakers apparently so maybe these little things are motion
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control but then I kind of think that's going to suck well yeah but the original
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weote sucks so like is that yeah but weote plus Som surprising yeah okay
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still like you know selling selling the Wii or even
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we of like you can have lightsaber duels
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is is falls under somewhere between very
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deceptive and like litigation worthy
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yeah so yeah I don't know man someone
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said I wouldn't say motion is gone it's just not a focus I definitely don't
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think it's a focus unless they yeah no for have like another trailer in the
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future where they show like different things but they they didn't show any
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focus and there's plenty of time for that oh there is there's quite a while
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till this is going to be launched I still have so many questions as to like
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like what's this like what's this little Notch yeah there's a little notch in the
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back they can't see what is it's okay oh I didn't realize we weren screen sharing
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there's a little notch in the back of the controller what exactly does the
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dock do is it only video pass through
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and power or like is there more to it I
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doubt there's more to it I doubt there is too yeah again that's like they just
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didn't answer that question like this to me looks like a beefed up
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NVIDIA Egra BAS tablet with some rails
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on the side for controllers with some rails on the side for a controller and
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with Nintendo's first party IP ultimately driving the
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sales because it's Zelda so everyone's going to buy it is this an attempt to
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lower software development
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costs by consolidating the two the two platforms now they don't have to have a
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separate develop development team working on like mobile games mobile
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Zelda versus uh fullsize console Zelda
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they can just kind of go like could they could they double their output to their
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install base of sellable games by just
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doing twice as many zeldas twice as many Marios and doing them all for the same
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platform now does it just me kind of spitballing like the business decision
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that goes into trying to make a one size fitall solution my girlfriend had some
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interesting kind of ideas for this I'm just going to bring it back up since
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there's like which was like one of them was optional side quests that make you
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bring it into portable mode so like if you're if they mix like
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the the like vague concept of the go
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games like Pokémon go um and make it so
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like oh okay there's an optional side quest for you to like go do something
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that's 500 M that way so you have to like get up off your butt have to get up
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rail the controllers on the side walk away with the console go over there do
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something while you're over there or like go up this much elevation or down
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this much elevation or whatever oh that's I guess that's hard in some areas
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here it's not um I thought that would be interesting I
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seriously doubt anyone will do that ever but I thought that could be kind of
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fun there's there's a lot they could still do with this but it does simplify
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things one like I'm sure there's people in the chat where there's like more or
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less confirmed rumors or whatever but I've been trying to stay away from rumors as much as I can at one point in
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time only once did I see him put anything or her whatever the different
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people that were in the trailer put anything into
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itard sized thing so it looked like a Game Boy
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game so one game boy game compatibility
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maybe two is that the new
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media right maybe full games are sold on
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this like small size thing because we've seen SD cards in huge capacities yeah
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for a long time SD cards you could put any game on
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an SD card today any game yep so so like
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are they changing the media format is it no longer going to be a disc I don't
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know I don't know man it's pretty interesting I wouldn't mind saying
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goodbye to discs that's for sure I was actually playing a game on my SNES on
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the weekend I was like wow no loading that's
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cool I remember that I would be cool
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with getting away from discs I do still like physical media right I just I don't
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know yeah yeah yeah cuz I I hate the idea of like like this thing doesn't
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look very big wonder how much storage it has probably not
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enough who's been screwed over by the Nintendo store before probably everyone
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that owns one of their consoles like I'd rather own the physical media just so I
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know that it's going to work next time I plug it in yeah I um I have two Wiis
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long story um do
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you two Wiis long story and uh one of
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them has all of my Nintendo store purchases on
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it broken disc
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drive and it turns out and this this again is like like Hardware revision
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cons this weekend I actually had to go on eBay and buy a refurbed optical drive
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for it because if I bought a new one I
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would lose because I have an rv001 one which
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has GameCube ports on the side so I have to buy from some cheesy eBay store some
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refurbed optical drive that's like it's a known bad part they fail all the time
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so like the fact that that one still works today means absolutely nothing
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about two weeks from now yep and uh
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that's the only way to solve that problem y so I will be doing that when
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it arrives um like you said have oh I guess I could
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have just swapped the optical drives yeah isn't no I bought one well
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whatever well does that one have the right optical drive uh yeah they were
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both launch units okay I I literally camped out multiple times for the
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Nintendo wiii it was the one and only time that I have ever camped out for
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anything all right
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we've got people upset about trying the other
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end trying the other end trying the other end of the cable I don't think
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that's it though I yeah it's definitely not the a
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side USB a is pretty much always
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fine okay well that's
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in I don't think that's going to solve it oh oh
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I yeah but I think that's like I yeah
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it's delayed yeah I don't think that's anyway all
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right that work so moving on to have we only done
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one topic we only done one topic we were
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like it is kind of an important topic um but let's move on so orig you
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interested final thoughts final thoughts Nintendo NX or what are they calling it
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now Swit name oh my God it sounds so much this looks a little trashy I'm
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going to put that there there we go um I only
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noticed that now hello yes um we're
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twitch streamers yeah oh oh dang um I I hate that name it it
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super sounds like an accessory which like sucks because the
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Wii U sounded like an add-on for the Wii and now the Nintendo switch sounds like
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and the Wii sounded like a penis so they're like they're like 0 for three
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yeah in like the last 10 years yeah how
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can you how can you do it wrong Nintendo switch doesn't it's not it's not a sexy
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name Nintendo NX was pretty cool I could
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have even played with that like n is in docked mode and then X you put the
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controllers on the side the Nintendo NX is cool Nintendo
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switch is just like it's like they don't have focus groups yeah or something like
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it's probably you know what it's probably one of those things where like the Japanese name is super cool or
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something and like super awesome and makes a ton of sense M and then they
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just like ask that dude in accounting who speaks English like hey yo what
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should we call it and he's like oh uh
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hold on a second I just got to I just got to switch my uh thing to speaker
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phone sorry what was that
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switch I don't know man apparently the audio is borked again yeah I I don't
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know what we're supposed to do about that
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so okay mic problems are like okay
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what's worse mic problems are printer problems uh wow it depends do I need to
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print something right now yeah and you're also live on a show
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um I don't I don't know I think they're both
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terrible
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um let's see we've got people saying
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printer problems I mean that means it's working
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right that was kind of a trick to see if people were going to answer the question
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I guess so this show face palm I know right okay
28:11
let's move on to our next topic yeah with rage this is
28:15
interesting uh so the original article here is from no film school with razer's
28:20
purchase of THX we're one step closer to Ultimate
28:27
calibration what
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what um
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what I don't really necessarily think
28:39
that that is going to have anything to do with anything I mean this is oh I
28:42
mean this is great okay so wouldn't it be nice if we had a laptop with image
28:47
quality that looked reasonably close to that of its broadcast
28:51
monitor I really doubt that razer's
28:55
acquisition of THX has anything to do do
29:00
with having their laptops be broadcast
29:04
monitor quality have broadcast monitor quality displays like the cost of
29:10
putting a broadcast monitor quality display in one of these
29:15
like I I love the razor blade and I think it's a great laptop but already
29:21
they could have put a better display in the razor blade and that could have been
29:25
done fairly easily based on what's available in the market it and they
29:29
didn't so I I don't think they're going to run out and buy THX so that they
29:32
could certify their their displays to
29:35
sort something okay hold on so anyway in 1983 George Lucas created THX to make
29:40
sure Return of the Jedi felt right in theaters THX has been certifying audio
29:45
visual systems ever since um Panasonic TVs enio AV receivers
29:51
Lincoln cars kind of Etc so Razer CEO
29:55
mlan and THX CEO taod Taylor said not neither brand will be going away and the
29:59
two companies will continue to they're going to have their own
30:03
Direction their own customer base and they're going to be operating their own management with their own vision and so
30:08
forth so Razer plans to retain all of thx's existing 50 person staff and will
30:13
hire 10 to 15 more people to expand their core certification business so
30:17
they want to sell more CTS so you shouldn't see any THX by Razer or other
30:22
such cross branding um they see a lot of potential
30:26
to have the expertise of THX supplies in new categories like virtual reality and
30:30
spatial surround sound and Razer CEO added that thx's patents in those areas
30:35
might be valuable
30:38
um this is just weird M ltan also said
30:41
that while they are one of the biggest when it comes to headsets they haven't
30:45
really expend having the best out there which
30:51
as Min knows I most assuredly do not
30:55
agree kind have a funny quote at all from
30:58
the guy that makes razor headsets um they haven't expanded their
31:03
audio line because they're just so focused on having really good stuff no
31:07
no themselves Razer oh seriously yeah
31:10
cuz they're intended okay we killed
31:18
Luc so I I I get a lot of people asking
31:23
me XY or Z and the reason for it is that
31:28
the conclusion for every razor headset review that I can do is always the same
31:33
we also don't review Turtle Beach headsets it's always like yeah it's okay
31:38
I guess for the price but the sound signature is awful it's a mess or Astro
31:42
headsets um yeah Astro they don't like us Astro doesn't like us at all um boy
31:48
that was a terrible product I reviewed and they sure didn't like
31:52
my least Razer is still willing to talk to us
31:58
reviews of their products from time to time y um so basically I if if I had to
32:03
interpret this somehow um Razer with
32:07
data investment money needs to grow
32:10
their business and The Business of
32:14
certification is something they've already indicated that they're
32:17
interested in so things like the Razer co-branded cases from NZXT and antech uh
32:23
things like razor Edition systems from the likes of main gear um so they've
32:27
already demonstrated that this is something that they're actively working on so now they have a dedicated
32:33
subdivision of the company sort of like a sister company like an owned company
32:37
and a a child company is it called it's a parent company a child compy I don't
32:41
know anyway the point is they own THX
32:44
and so we can expect to probably see uh given that they're expanding TI's staff
32:49
by 20 plus perc
32:52
so so we're going to see a lot more like
32:56
you know ASUS Rog Swift monitor
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certified by THX or maybe like um you
33:03
know it's something razer's never really done in the past so you'll
33:07
see while HP do is Harmon Carden Harman card
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Harman Cardon Altech Lancing like
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designed that used to be like every every laptop that happened to be silver
33:21
I don't know why this no this was a thing for like 2 years every laptop that
33:26
was silver colored would have an Al Landing
33:29
bad it was a thing um is called is that
33:33
a pro or a non-pro FP look at the bottom
33:36
look at the bottom is there an XLR input no that is not a pro we will not be able
33:41
to hot swap it but thank you uh if you can get a pro that would be
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see right here it's actually really good it's a lot better than the last 10 screwdriver this could stand to be
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longer and Slimmer so that you can get into deeper things a little bit better
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sometimes so so leave the neurl there and then turning the nurl would turn the
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sometimes I put bits in in order to make them a little bit longer so I used that
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I used my small my midsize triwing
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and I think that was pretty much it there triwing on the Wii uh yeah
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interesting yeah because Nintendo is a bunch of bunch of jerks yeah apparently
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they just want you to not be able to take things apart but that's okay because I fix it doesn't give any spits
37:40
about uh companies not wanting you to take your stuff apart yeah actually no I
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used a couple more things I used my tweezers and I used my metal spudger in
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order to remove some things so basically the Protech tool kit includes the 64-bit
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driver kit it includes suction cups for taking off displays and anti-static
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wrist strap some of their pry tools um
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anti-static safe uh tweezers as well as
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reverse tweezers those can be pretty handy uh their metal spatula thing their
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spudgers as well as one of these littley
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tools do you improperly use the most oh all of them yeah I mean I think that's
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the point of a versatile tool is that you just kind of like attack the problem
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there we go give me that one give me that you
38:40
guys do I don't know if this is going to work doing this swap in real time the
38:44
like I think I think xplit might might like get confused and it's and it's more
38:50
likely that it's the cable than the mic anyway which is just sort of a sort of
38:54
an interesting you want to try it anyways I don't know no because it you
38:58
want to do the sponsor spot first yeah we chance destroying the show if we do
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that so cable
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mod yay I used cable cables in compensator today yep so that was good I
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use their custom cables whenever I need to do like a really really compact build
39:15
what is this even what did he hand me open it up all right I'm going to open
39:20
so cable mod cables are made to order their notable features include but are
39:24
not limited to their mod Flex sleeving which is softer than traditional nylon
39:29
sleeving and thinner than cloth braiding it actually looks sick you'll notice
39:32
cable mod cables in use on like most of our case reviews many of our build blogs
39:37
uh they are 100% heat shrink free which means that the sleeved portion of the
39:41
cable what is he doing goes all the way
39:44
into the housing so you don't have any of the heat shrink stuff that plastic
39:48
stuff sticking up around the end of the connector they're invisible wires
39:53
feature means that you cannot see through the braiding so the wire inside
39:57
could be any color and you would actually have no way of knowing that although I believe they are black don't
40:02
quote me on that I've never actually had one of them Fray to the point where I could see through it and then I'm going
40:08
to have to yell at Colton about my talking points because this is great easily Bend and flex your liking superb
40:13
flexibility that is the same thing as modflex sleeving softer than traditional
40:17
sleeving thinner than cloth braing more flexible yeah Colton is Colton is just
40:22
he's dying he's actually fallen down he has died so he he and Luke are both dead
40:26
so we are down to 13 people here at lus Media Group um they also the probably
40:32
the best thing about cable mod though is their configurator so you can go over to
40:36
their
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website I use this thing all the
40:42
time so whenever I'm doing any kind of
40:46
uh oops Global store configurator oh I
40:49
opened up that have you seen these go to Global store okay cool custom PSU
40:55
cables so basically you go in you put in
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your your power supply you put in what kind you want blah blah blah let's say I
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got one of these and I got one of those they've got pretty much everything which
41:06
is pretty cool and then you pick whatever things you want and then you
41:09
specify the length that you want and then you can even which is really cool
41:14
here let's continue the next step check this out you can individually select the
41:19
colors of every wire so you kind of like paint it you just go blah blah blah you
41:23
know I want like a you know dank ass
41:26
like whatever this would be kind of thing going on here you can do that
41:31
cable mod might advise against it but they will definitely ship that to you if
41:36
you so desire so the configurator is really cool and this is a relatively
41:39
recent addition to their portfolio they actually have their sleeved external
41:43
cables now too so this is an Ethernet cable and then I think Luke is also
41:48
running out to grab uh a power cable wow that one's really
41:53
vibrant so this one uses the cloth
41:56
braiding this one uses is a nylon braiding but basically they're like
42:00
really clean power cables Ethernet cables all kinds of external cables so
42:04
your desk cable management can look as good as your systems Cable Management
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you take that too thank you and for some reason my cable mod
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lower third wasn't there so let's go ahead and bring that up so head over to
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on all cable mod products over at I think that's performance PCS and I'm
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getting the nod from Colton who's supervising me cuz he's not sure if I'm going to do all this stuff right I think
42:31
he no I think he knows we're going to do it wrong if the discount isn't active
42:34
yet check back later that that will be up so cool
42:40
stuff should we move on and actually like do some topics maybe are we going
42:44
to try to hot swap the mic uh oh man I'm
42:47
super sketched on that um cuz like
42:51
levels will need to be adjusted and like
42:55
I don't uh
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temporar okay I'm just gonna I'm just going to leave it apparently the
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discount is active so that's cool go check that out you guys nice all right
43:07
Tesla reveals autopilot 2.0 available on
43:11
all new cars including the model three I
43:14
wonder how long until like some guy buys the model 3 and is
43:20
completely against autop pilot and their kid tries to rip all the tech out and
43:25
see what they can do with it cuz it comes with like uh some pretty intense
43:30
Hardware they call it a NVIDIA GPU Titan
43:35
supercomputer like it's pretty intense and considering the cost of the
43:40
car and the fact that you get an entire car and it has that in it is actually
43:45
kind of interesting honestly that's something that I've always had a hard
43:48
time figuring out why it is that when I'm buying a $3,000 TV it doesn't have a
43:55
$200 processor in it why don't you just
43:58
make it $3,200 and put a proper processor in it
44:03
like Honestly though same thing with cars like why is it that any car made in
44:08
the last 10 years doesn't have an incredibly fluid interface yeah no
44:13
excuse I just spent $35,000 on
44:17
this why didn't you spend a and and that that's the thing like going back five
44:21
years I wanted to do a video like okay so way back when we first started doing
44:25
car stuff the first car thing on our channel was some BMW thing that I did at
44:29
CES and then I wanted to do a followup which is where I compared my car to
44:34
newer similarly priced when they were new um cars that were on the market and
44:40
I wanted to compare them as a car tech episode like cartech Through the Ages
44:44
like okay my car is from 2009 so I think this was 2015 we'll go like in the last
44:49
6 years how much has improved like let's
44:52
let's look at how the automotive industry Paces through things apparently
44:57
cly not at all or negatively sometimes
45:00
um there are some like newer cars which are pretty awesome but at that point in
45:04
time we got in contact with insert manufacturer here cuz honestly I don't
45:09
remember who it was I want to call it the wrong one so
45:13
whatever um and their car had a smaller
45:16
screen and less features than mine at the same price as when mine was new I
45:21
was just like what and to be clear there is some better stuff coming oh and there
45:26
is some better stuff out now but like yeah some of them are still really
45:30
brutal and that one was pretty bad and I still feel the same way about TVs like
45:34
why do TVs still have input leg I I
45:38
don't care how much image processing you put a processor in
45:41
it just just put a better one
45:45
in I mean I went off about that on the
45:49
uh the video I did of LG's $8,000 Signature Series I'm just like they're
45:54
like yes the priority was image quality that's nice
45:57
prioritize everything it's an $88,000 TV
46:01
prioritize everything I don't expect to
46:04
have a crummy gaming experience on a product that costs as much um so this
46:09
picture here also from the electrek.co
46:12
article here shows you what a Tesla will
46:16
be able to see with all of the sensors
46:20
with which it is now equipped so eight cameras three of which
46:24
are front-facing better ultrasonic and a 40 times more powerful onboard computer
46:30
and they're calling it an NVIDIA GPU Titan super computer does that mean it
46:35
is actually based on like a GP 20
46:40
something what what is it gp2 200 GP 2011 I wouldn't be surprised cuz at that
46:44
like really weird I don't know if any of you guys saw this I periscoped it I
46:48
think and I guess that means that it was on my Twitter cuz I didn't have access
46:52
to the main Twitter then but when I was at computex there was this really weird
46:56
NVIDIA announcement meeting and it was like a tiny little
46:59
room and it wasn't really done all that well to be completely honest but they're
47:04
talking about machine learning and something that they kept on pushing but
47:08
would not answer was that they wanted to do more stuff with their
47:12
Titan talking about Pascal very specifically right and they're talking
47:16
about how like oh we've spent enough money to get someone to uh was it Mars
47:21
they were saying like we spent so much money developing this stuff and there
47:24
was a big underlying thing that was like yeah you're all here for computex but we
47:29
spent a lot of money developing this stuff and it wasn't necessarily all for
47:32
you right there was like that was definitely an
47:36
under throwing it in your face but it was the unspoken like there's other
47:40
stuff going on so I wouldn't be surprised at all if this is Pascal based
47:44
so it'll reach level three autonomy in the coming months and level four and
47:49
five autonomy by 2018 in vehicles
47:53
produced today in 2016 so you still have to pay more
47:57
so the uh safety stuff is included for nothing but the autopilot convenience
48:02
features were $3,000 and the new options also come at a price so in order to get
48:07
fully autonomous driving you're going to have to spend $8,000 on the system um okay so if
48:13
you're buying a model 3 that's quite an extra ad
48:18
mhm Tesla's moving away from the name autopilot that should be noted since
48:22
it's going full autonomous and blah blah blah including greater so they're
48:28
calling the safety level substantially greater than that of a human
48:31
driver uh the eight surround cameras provide visibility around the car up to
48:36
250 M and like while it's a little bit of a
48:41
bold claim because they don't have very much sample data compared to all the
48:44
other cars ever yeah it kind of
48:48
logically as we go on will become and
48:51
already arguably is safer than average drivers on the road so this was exciting
48:56
today large dos attacks cause outages at
48:59
Twitter Spotify and other sites including Shutterstock which made it a
49:02
little bit difficult for us to get videos edited today but you know
49:06
hey you know I'm sure they were you know
49:09
doing something important so do our
49:12
notes even have like um so they took down Amazon Twitter Spotify a second
49:17
attack has been reported sites were down for two hours before coming back up and
49:21
the way they achieved this was by attacking D DNS a public DNS service um
49:26
um which is pretty intense yeah so
49:31
websites and services across the East Coast were shut down earlier in the day
49:35
and Dy added that the attack impacted its DNS Advanced Services monitoring for
49:40
customers but it later resolved the issues the Department of Homeland
49:44
Security told CNBC that it is looking into all potential causes potential
49:48
causes of the attack I can tell them the potential cause it's got cheese stained
49:53
fingers there was some seismic activity yeah seismic
49:58
it caused dos
50:02
attacks razor blade Pro yep are you
50:06
stoked do you care um I requested a
50:09
review sample if that's what you're asking am it looks thin and it has a
50:13
1080 in it stoked I think stoked is a strong word it has an Ethernet port and
50:17
I'm stoked about that hell raw yeah baby 2016 bringing
50:23
Ethernet ports that's right bringing it back yeah sucker
50:27
I am interested in the fact that it features their new lowprofile mechanical
50:33
membrane hybrid switches that's cool because while the blade switches are
50:38
like acceptable I don't think they're I personally don't like them that much oh
50:41
I really like them but compared to other laptops in its thickness they're very
50:46
good compared to other laptops at all
50:49
I'm not a fan okay that's not really fair cuz if we're going to like pull the
50:52
gt80 Titan out I'm not you know full Cherry MX Brown not counting that
50:58
one not counting that one actually don't like that experience either cuz that
51:02
experience as a whole is just kind of terrible I don't understand how they
51:05
sold so many of those laptops have you ever you've like tried to use it right
51:09
like it's not it's not you know they were you know they reneged on the GPU
51:13
upgrade commitment right seriously yeah I did not know they had no choice GTX
51:18
1080 replaced
51:21
980m oh yeah yeah they had no choice
51:24
like it was completely different ball wax there was no way for them to power
51:29
cool it so apparently I talked to the US
51:32
office about it apparently they worked it out so that gt80 Titan owners could
51:37
work out some kind of a deal to like upgrade there was like an upgrade
51:41
program for the laptop itself or something but like yeah what a bad
51:45
situation that's pretty brutal um okay so some more some more specs for the
51:49
Razer Blade Pro I mean the one thing I'll say about the new razor blade Pro
51:54
is that this is one case where it's actually just Jus ified to like do a
51:57
reboot calling it the new razor blade Pro because they have had a razor blade
52:01
Pro before no no the original Blade Pro had that switchblade thing where it was
52:06
like a display on the touchpad the glass touchpad glass touchpad that was off to
52:11
the right you're getting soft I don't consider it a real product you're
52:15
getting oh oh I consider it a tech demo
52:18
I don't think they sold a lot of them no
52:21
have you ever seen no a Blade Pro I've even tried to tell people about it cuz I
52:26
remember like we reviewed it where I no one has any idea what I'm ever talking
52:30
about it had like a 760m or like a 660m in it or something
52:36
like it had an awful GPU in it that thing on the side 17in display weird
52:42
side mounted like so doomed I get it
52:45
okay reboot proper GPU 17.3 in so you're
52:48
talking like Tomb Raider kind of reboot yes I'm talking like rebooted like new
52:53
Tomb Raider new razor blade Pro
52:56
can you get on board with that but they didn't call it new Tomb Raider they just called it Tomb Raider that's true but
53:01
that's kind of worse like if they just called it Tomb Raider 2013 we'd all be a
53:04
lot less confused and I don't think anyone's confused though I think that
53:08
was like the one time that actually sort of worked let's see so they're just
53:11
calling it new well okay so I'm still not I'm still not that was a pretty
53:16
significant amount of time I think for Tomb Raider yeah was like 20 years how
53:20
long has this been uh like four four five something like that I guess it is
53:24
Tac Hardware yeah but like that's an ET turn in Tech yeah yeah I still hate the
53:29
name but I see where you're coming from so 4K display with an LED backlight as
53:33
if they were going to what else would they be backlighting it with um it's a
53:36
touchcreen nuclear power yeah it's like
53:40
yo we're going to put we're going to put ccfl backlighting into a laptop for the
53:44
first time in the last five years you have to swap
53:49
him we we wanted our laptop to be super thick and bulky and have an uneven
53:53
backlight so we we went ccfl no they're just TR make Fallout 4 more immersive we
53:58
wanted lots of heavy metals in our laptop so that you know you could rock
54:01
out to like heavy metal yeah um hell
54:04
yeah GTX 1080 with 9 gigs of GDDR
54:11
5x it's an unusual configuration core i7
54:15
6700 processor so that is a desktop
54:19
grade processor which is what very interesting
54:23
up to 32 gigs of dual Channel memory ddr4
54:27
and 512 1 terab or 2 terab of storage in
54:30
raid zero our videos are so clickbait now that I don't know how I'm going to
54:34
find this CU I don't know what it was called what are you looking for but um
54:39
the the event that I went to in London uh oh uh uh uh uh uh uh um mobile gpus
54:46
are dead clickbait um anyways well
54:49
it's true sure is yeah um like I don't I do
54:56
not think that was the spec that they said the 1080 was going to be so that's
55:00
something new well the 1080 is customizable I actually got a really
55:03
interesting email from uh Sasha conon I remember Sasha
55:10
from uh from his bit Phoenix days y but he saw my video of the um oh he's from
55:16
he's there now yeah he's at isus now he saw my review of the Sager dual 1080 SLI
55:22
laptop and he sent this memo out to me
55:25
uh as far as I know the total uh TDP for
55:29
the GPU is around 220 Watts for mobile
55:32
1080s I don't know if G saying that he said this oh cuz at the event that I was
55:37
at it was like they were not talking about tdps for things well basically oh
55:43
am I why do you tell me this then hold on a second may I ask what prompted this
55:48
message blah blah blah blah blah blah blah like I don't know but like PC per
55:52
and other people were like hey what are the tdps of things and they were like no
55:56
definitely not so I don't Oh thanks Ryan for the good
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question at the at the meeting that was what we know is that the TDP for the
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mobile GTX 1080 is configurable what I know and what you
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don't know is that it is very
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configurable depending on how much um
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thermal dissipation The Notebook is designed for and how much power The
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Notebook is designed to provide so
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whatever the manufacturer sets it to the
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GPU will try and get the most out of the power and thermal budget so what I will
56:38
definitely be doing with the Blade Pro is putting it head-to-head against a
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thicker style laptop that has a GTX 1080
56:47
Mobile Edition in it I wonder if you can beat it out I can beat out anything like water
56:52
cooling we could try water cooling it yeah we should try to make the best dock
56:57
ever made for a razor blade Pro I'd be
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kind of down when you dock it it like you water cool it we should just do like
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the best laptop dock ever like I don't know exactly how we
57:09
would do it but like hm but if you just
57:12
like pelti the crap out of the bottom and made it like really cold pelti
57:16
cooling is a nightmare I know cuz it's more okay so a lot of people have asked
57:21
why I've never done a tech cooler video Tec cooler uh thermoelectric cooling P
57:26
ch um the reason is that most sorry um the
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way that most people think Peltier cooling works is not really the way that
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it works so there's more to it than just like you put a pelti on something and
57:43
like let's say a CPU and the CPU runs really cool so you actually have to
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dissipate not only the heat produced by
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the CPU but also the Heat produced on
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the hot side of the pel it's pretty brutal so let's say you've got uh you
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know 130 watt CPU something along those lines okay so you have to have a cooler
58:07
that can dissipate 130 watts of heat
58:10
then and this is where it gets really cumbersome you can't just put 130 Watt
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pelti on it doesn't work that way you need something like double or possibly
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triple the capacity if you want to see really low temperatures like if you want
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to actually justify the fact that you using it if you use one that is
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underpowered you will actually end up with the Peltier acting as an insulator
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and you will end up with CPU temps that are
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hotter than what you would have if you weren't using a pelier at all and you
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will eventually burn out your Tech there's also condensation issues there's
58:44
condensation issues and there are power issues oh yeah so why are you trying to
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Tech cool there's a question you have to ask yourself are you trying to Tech cool
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because you want super low temperatures or because it's freaking sick and if
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that's the case then go phase because
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Tech cooling is can be can be cheaper
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than phase but okay I I'll get to that
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so Tech cooling can be cheaper than phase but it also has the potential to
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fail catastrophically because your CPU will overheat very very quickly with a
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pel that stops working on top of it and the configuration is complicated you'll
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still need to insulate it's like kind of a pain in the butt and if you're
59:29
concerned and it's so it's less reliable than phase change remember phase change
59:33
is what runs your fridge like pH Chang is like appliances stuff like it's
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pretty that's why it's loud it's pretty stable technology by this point in time
59:40
the other thing is that while phase change is loud Tech cooling because now
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all of a sudden you have a 450 watt heat
59:50
load sitting on your CPU to Cool Tech cooling ends up pretty loud too the way
59:55
people used to do do it was by buying meanwell 320 W power supplies and then
59:59
if they had a really powerful Tech they would buy a couple of them those things are freaking loud they're like server
60:04
power supplies yeah nowadays we have power supplies that technically could
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run a system and a tech but what we still don't have is power lines in your
60:13
system actually designed to carry that kind of current without overheating so
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you would have to like custom wire up like an ax 1500i and even then I don't
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think Corsair is going to sign off on putting stuff like that on their power
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supply because it's an incredible load
60:31
and there's a reason that modern power supplies even if it's done virtually
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have their rails divided so uh random
60:37
aside really quickly we'll get back to this uh when I was at twitchcon randomly
60:42
mostly for fun I guess uh I stopped by some Booth who luckily didn't know who I
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was cuz I ran away afterwards um but they were selling CPU
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coolers that were Tech coolers they CP coolers and then they
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had six pin power that would go into the side of it and I saw that and was just
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like what the heck yeah and a n Tech has
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a review up I wonder how he did his
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conclusion because when I was standing there not only do you have this weird
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cable going into the top of the cooler which is the worst possible place for
61:18
that to be in terms of like aesthetic Cable Management stuff um but it didn't
61:22
seem like it did that well um they did a demo in person and I was like eh but
61:27
like I can't the an on tech review which we're
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just going to like pull up on screen you guys can check it out it's actually a
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pretty good read uh core
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temperatures uh blah blah blah measured so this is with a 60 watt load so it's a
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pretty low power CPU let's see do they here we go uh here we go so let's say
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100 watt load and if you're overclocking that's not even so you can see it goes
61:53
from being the best performing to falling way way behind to be fair its
61:58
size compared to a D15 is that's a that's a big difference yeah it is a lot
62:04
smaller than a D15 so it is smaller but if you're if you're okay you're putting
62:08
if you're Tech cooling I'm assuming we're not talking 100 watt load we're talking 150 watt load at least and all
62:13
of a sudden it's like pretty close to the am it's closer to the AMD wraith
62:18
than it is to an auu N15 and like which is like a box cooler
62:22
I mean it's a good box cooler but it's a very good box cooler let's get real a
62:26
box Cooling and like you have to plug that six pin into the it's so Derpy I
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don't know and the more you load a tech the worse it performs and the hotter
62:35
it's running the less efficiently it runs like there's a bunch of problems
62:38
with tech Cooling and there's a reason that it has never happened so there you
62:44
have it apparently the sound cutout right
62:47
after I said I can't so people were like
62:50
can't what you can't even oh Dead memes
62:55
um AMD announces their Q3 2016 Financial
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results hey uh no no that's just their stock
63:03
price oh sorry no they lost hey that's also good though they lost a bunch of
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money oh but they lost less maybe so 1.3 billion Revenue gross margin of 5% and a
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net income ofus $46 million
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oh so um they have more Revenue but as
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far as I can tell they straight up just bought it
63:25
they could have literally bought like they did worse than buying
63:30
they could have bought money and then they'd be better off than if they hadn't
63:36
I'm pretty sure if they bought like American dollars and then just
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transferred them into Canadian basically they sold $5 bills for
63:47
$3 no like $2 yeah oh for to make up the
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difference between yeah um so so so there's
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that oh man see oh I thought they're
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doing better than that because they're selling lots of
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gpus so I mean this your 400 series is good okay this is coming in a video very
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soon I actually have a video that I'm calling the viewers Choice Award PC yeah
64:17
where I go through all of the Amazon sales data for this is really
64:21
interesting really cool video you should seriously all watch this yeah all of our
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Amon Amon affiliate sales data and I pick all the most popular components
64:30
well I don't pick you guys pick based on what people are buying I sift through
64:34
and find all the most popular components for every category CPU motherboard case
64:39
and what's really cool about it is that I end up with a very all compatible yeah
64:44
I ended up with a fully compatible totally sensible gaming config yeah
64:50
that's like as good as anything I could have picked out good job
64:56
the bad news is that I it probably the
64:59
most generic thing ever no no it it pretty good it was pretty good fantex
65:04
saw 400s like a 6700k it's like pretty pretty ba fantex
65:09
400s is like okay fantex is kind of the
65:12
they're they're kind of rocking the case game right now they're like Corsair when
65:16
cases first started getting cool Corsair like kind of started all
65:21
this so I ran through just because I had all the numbers in front of I ran
65:26
through some some additional numbers I was just kind of curious in our viewer
65:30
base what's the what's the market share like NVIDIA versus AMD uh both in terms
65:35
of units sold and in terms of Revenue
65:38
and what I found was actually pretty terrifying I um I'm just going to see if
65:44
I can maybe I'll just bring it up right right now I'll bring up the actual numbers because I don't want to say
65:48
something wrong AMD 400 series cards are really good to be very clear we don't
65:53
we're not hating on the cards no like what not a thing it's it's been
65:59
frustrating like talking to friends and family and like random people outside of
66:05
just videos that we make for LT people be like oh man I need a 1080 but it's
66:10
really expensive and I'm
66:13
like why it's so
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powerful you don't why and then I have to like fight
66:24
and talk them down to 1070 which is still
66:29
ridiculous h i I think the thing is like no no one wants to like be that guy with
66:33
a 400 series AMD card but then we just did testing on Battlefield 1 spoiler
66:39
alert holy crap the AMD cards did real
66:42
well yeah don't turn on
66:46
dx12 oh I'm pretty sure AMD it made no
66:49
difference and NVIDIA it was slightly
66:52
worse I think I don't know and don't go on Lower medium settings John figured
66:56
this out what the heck low and medium settings introduced like artifacting and
67:00
all this other bogus you'll have to watch the video to like see what's going
67:04
on but that was yeah that's coming soon weird um so video card market share last
67:08
month by units was 87.7% NVIDIA 12.3% AMD and by Revenue
67:16
this is where it gets really scary 95.1% NVIDIA 4.9% AMD now with that said
67:24
the stuff that people were buying in in general skewed towards the high end for
67:28
St things that people were buying on our affiliate code so bear that in mind but
67:32
what you guys also have to understand is much like we were talking about on the W
67:36
show two weeks ago where Samsung is saying is really confident that ssds can
67:41
overtake hard drives um in the economy
67:44
segment of the market because hard drives have a fixed cost you have to buy
67:49
platters you have to have Motors you have to have magnets whereas so so you
67:54
can only build a hard drive for like 40 bucks at the very cheapest no matter
67:57
what capacity it happens to be a video card has a fixed cost you have to have a
68:03
PCB you have to have some RAM even if
68:07
you have a lower amount of RAM you still have to have like RAM packages RAM dieses you have to have the connectors
68:12
you have to have theum licensing associated with an HDMI port like
68:16
there's all of this stuff you have to put some copper on it to cool it and a
68:21
fan and when your chip is bigger and more expensive that's right so when your
68:25
video card can only be sold for
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like0 to $250 which is AMD's entire viable
68:34
product stack right now you incur the same overhead as someone whose product
68:39
stack goes all the way up to $700 so when NVIDIA sells a GTX 1080 the
68:45
cost of that fan that $3 fan is a much
68:49
lower proportion of the overall sale than it is for AMD where it's like you
68:54
know three % of the cost of the card
68:58
it's like it's significant now um so
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when you look at AMD's Revenue numbers and you kind of go oh maybe they're
69:04
selling lots of gpus it's not as profitable yeah and that's a big problem
69:09
yeah
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um oh I really hope Zen does well me
69:17
too
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although I'm like selfishly not excited for it to come out cuz then for
69:26
everything everyone's going to want an entirely other set of
69:31
benchmarks cuz they're going to want the other platforms results no one cares
69:35
right now that everything's just tested on Intel and it's fine yeah but like
69:39
like I we just did Battlefield and I did
69:42
like or John sorry John John did uh
69:46
graphics card testing total system RAM testing vram testing uh like CPU core
69:53
testing now we're going to have to do CPU core testing other type of CPU core
69:58
testing other type of IPC test so like
70:01
figuring out which speed matters on different thing
70:07
oh press F pay
70:11
respects so many benchmarks Uber's ad
70:14
toing drones are heckling drivers stuck in traffic oh my God so the trans oh my
70:22
God like look at these things
70:26
so the translation is are you driving by yourself or something along those lines
70:30
let me just uh let me let me have a look Spanish to English says driving by
70:33
yourself this is why you can never see the volcanoes uh so it's a reference to
70:38
the smog that hovers over the city and obscures too nearby Peaks uh so it's an
70:42
ad for Uber pool as part of Uber's big push into markets across Latin America
70:47
wow Uber what a way to get drones banned in your area Uber does more business in
70:52
Mexico City than almost any other City
70:55
it operates in so I thought that was pretty interesting what a way one of those is
71:00
going to fall and it's going to bounce off a car and then smash a window and
71:04
then drones are going to be banned well it won't be able to get over the wall into America so
71:10
oh so he's kind of like imploded over the last little bit we don't even have
71:14
to make fun of him anymore SC yeah so
71:18
that's that's just as well that that that got too close for comfort I don't
71:23
know if it's I don't I don't want to talk about politics but I think we're I
71:28
think we're just screwed in that department whatever happened I'm not
71:31
happy with anything going on down there oh well yeah okay even the side game I'm
71:35
just like nope don't like any of it side game the like third party stuff whatever
71:42
oh the independent oh well the the other the non non two- party non two party
71:46
thing yeah I just the whole thing I don't know Samsung commences
71:52
mass production of system on chip with 10 nanometer fin fet Tech now the thing
71:57
to understand here what if these on would be bombs a nanometer is not
72:01
necessarily like a nanometer at tsmc is not necessarily A nanometer at Intel is
72:06
not necessarily A nanometer at Samsung uh the way that it's defined is not
72:10
quite as black and white as it used to be yeah um so for example one person's
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14 nmet is not necessarily or could be
72:18
equivalent excuse me to someone else's 16 nmet uh finfet makes a big difference
72:23
with that said this is 10 NM fet but not everyone's finfet is created equal um
72:28
but here's the quote the industry's first mass production of 10 NM finfet
72:32
technology demonstrates our leadership in advanced process technology says the
72:37
Executive Vice President head of Foundry business at Samsung Electronics we will
72:40
continue our efforts to innovate scaling Technologies and provide differentiated
72:44
total solutions to our customers apparently allows up to a 30% increase
72:49
in area efficiency with 27% higher performance or 47 or excuse me 40 %
72:55
lower power consumption so expect faster
72:59
phones with less power consumption in a phone near you sometime pretty soon
73:05
that's good speaking of phone near you pretty excited to finally try the pixel
73:09
yeah should arrive pretty soon I'm actually and the more I hear about it
73:12
actually the more excited I am so hopefully it works out maybe maybe
73:17
they'll have figured out how to make it so that when you go into the battery
73:22
usage thing in Android oh no it's it's not just full of it's not just full of
73:26
40% Android system that you don't know what's actually using the power by the
73:30
way I did get your email do you think they figured that out about the laptop do you think they figured that out yet
73:34
no no no you don't think so oh no all right I did get your email about the
73:37
laptop's next door which like the W show is very well versed on at this point and
73:41
no one else has any idea what's going on yeah the the browser Wars yeah uh I am
73:46
still I've got some more information okay I hear did you hear my whole like
73:51
I'm leaving Windows 10 thing uh yes I
73:54
think so so there's so many like background processes and all this that runs that I'm just kind of
73:58
done with Windows 10 so I was
74:01
like this has to be why that's going on
74:05
and it is I was right there are random
74:08
bull crap things that are happening during the tests it just so happens that
74:12
two of them seem to have pattern at the same time and two of the other ones seem
74:16
to pattern at the same time as well because I did some follow-ups and they
74:20
don't always like the two that did better on
74:25
that one test yeah sometimes don't
74:28
sometimes they will do worse and they did better by like 2 hours and sometimes
74:32
they will do worse by like an hour or something right so they're not better
74:36
laptops they just patterned better so I need to figure out every single
74:40
individual tiny thing to turn off and there are a lot of
74:45
them wow Windows 10 oh my God there's a
74:49
huge amount of automated things in the
74:53
background like oh it's not just my stream like it's a thing and it's
74:57
crippling people like and i' I've done some more research on it like like
75:00
pretty low-end computers that you're like remember back in the day like oh you're a Windows 7 computer you couldn't
75:05
have done Vista but SE or uh XP computer you couldn't have done Vista but 7's
75:09
probably fine throw it on it's fine no 10 is not that way 10 is more Vista
75:14
where like you need the horsepower right and if you have it it will do cool
75:18
things and it will automate everything and everything in the back end is all nice and clean and tidy and stuff if you
75:22
don't have the power it's not very nice to you and if you're like using a lot of
75:26
your computer it does not care it will do whatever it wants completely
75:31
irregardless of what you're doing which is frustrating but anyways it's coming
75:36
along all right so Microsoft research
75:40
demonstrates an actuator that allows feeling virtual objects in 3D
75:48
space so it's a me it's a mechanically
75:51
actuated handheld controller that renders the shape of virtual objects
75:55
through physical shape displacement enabling users to feel 3D surfaces
76:00
textures and forces that match the visual
76:04
rendering um so they've published the results of their investigation in the
76:07
proceedings of the 29th annual Symposium on user interface software and
76:11
technology and they demonstrated two such controllers normal touch and
76:14
texture touch it's tracked in 3D to produce spatially registered haptic
76:19
feedback now we just need incredibly
76:23
powerful magnets because I I think so far that's the only
76:28
way that I've uh been able to figure out how they're going to do weight
76:34
right cool yeah the PS4 Pro is basically two PS4
76:40
chips using one of them for old games and both for the pro enhancements so the
76:45
original article here is from Games Radar and um so I G SLI is back except
76:54
sorry Crossfire Crossfire cross sorry Crossfire Crossfire Crossfire except
76:59
also there's two CPUs so like Athlon MP
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is back hey FX FX platform is back what what was
77:09
it quad FX 4x4 4x4 is
77:13
back um sorry I'm dying so I guess there's
77:18
not really much else to say about that I'm trying not you uh games that support
77:22
the new console will have a base and a pro mode depending on the hardware they're played on the ability to switch
77:27
between the two comes from actually doubling the existing Hardware wait so
77:30
are you going to have to select that so we doubled the GPU size by essentially
77:34
placing it next to a mirrored version of itself giving us an extremely clean way
77:39
to support the existing 700 PS4 titles we just turn off half the GPU and run it
77:44
at something quite close to the original GPU
77:50
oh okay so you double the GPU power while running the CPU at the same rate
77:54
to ensure compatibility with older games okay
78:00
okay um psvr is doing really well we
78:04
just skimmed over an article that was talking about that it's selling yeah
78:07
50,000 units in Japan in the first week although Japan sales of a Nintendo or
78:12
Sony or Playstation yeah thing are not always like IND of i' I've heard that
78:18
it's doing pretty well in North America and one of the reasons why ours was delayed is because it was sold
78:22
out okay fair enough like it's
78:26
yeah all right well I think that's it for the W show thank you very much for
78:29
tuning in this week we will see you again next week same bat Time same bat
78:34
Channel yeah and I'm going to run the intro but it's the outro now yeah we
78:39
should really like do like a a thing where we pick up the couch and walk away
78:43
with it or something didn't I say that oh you mean animated thousand years ago
78:48
probably never no I me
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protect your package protect your package with silver fibers in your uh
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fabric protect your pecs