Razer WISHES they Thought of This - MSI App Player First Look
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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970 words · ~4 min read
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so last ces razer showed off a concept
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notebook shell that allowed you to take their gaming phone and put it in as like
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a touchpad and then like a a larger
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Android experience and i was kind of going hey this has kind of been done before so
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this is a little lackluster compared to your previous concept products and b why
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the hell would anybody want a full-size Android experience it's terrible
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so MSI apparently saw an opportunity here
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and they are showing off a much better
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solution because why would you want to run
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a desktop experience or laptop experience on underpowered mobile
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hardware when you can run a mobile
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software experience on totally op gaming
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laptop hardware so i don't normally cover like
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some software crap that comes bundled with a gaming notebook but the MSI app
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player is actually pretty freaking cool
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so it's not a new concept running an Android emulator on a computer in fact
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they even got a sticker right here it is based on the bluestacks Android emulator
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but what effectively they've done here is packaged this into something that is
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very usable and very practical for
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gamers so what you're looking at right here is the full fat google play store
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where we can get any normal Android apps any normal Android games and yes my
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friends you should see where we're going with that so using this software you can
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use a mouse and wasd
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or a game controller to control Android
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games giving you a distinct advantage compared to people who are playing on
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mobile with their like touch screen joysticks and all that stuff so the
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better the system the better the experience it'll take advantage of your
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CPU your GPU and even things like high
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refresh rate displays and there are other intrinsic advantages
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as well you don't have to worry about battery life constraints you get to use
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your full sized notebook great audio solution and if you plug into a wired
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network connection you don't have to worry about any mobile network leg
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bullcrap or anything like that now they're mostly focused on gaming but you
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can run any app from the play store there's a bunch of great functionality
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built in here as well so you can see there's hotkeys for pretty much anything
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and MSI steel series keyboards built into their laptops will allow you to
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remap any of that let's just go ahead and make this full screen and you guys
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might have noticed that i'm running this on an MSI desktop now so they are not
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limiting it to just their notebooks in fact it's not even limited to just their
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gaming products so their motherboards their video cards even their new
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prestige series non-gaming notebooks are going to have support for this app and
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this is a huge boon for streamers for example some people do stream Android
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games so now all you got to do is hook up a secondary monitor run your regular
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obs and xsplit and then you just run this in a window and you can do all of
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your gaming and streaming from one machine
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this is a seriously unfair advantage that's not my
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problem though one last point is that if you suck at games like me so this is
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some like weird pub g clone or something you can actually run multiple games at
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the same time so if you're like waiting around for a respawn you can just flip
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over into another tab here play another play angry birds or
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whatever while you're waiting and then just flip back over and you're ready to
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continue one last point cliff from MSI said if i
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don't talk about his prestige series he's not gonna send me a gigantic
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life-size MSI dragon so this is their
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new thin and light prestige series it's got like a metal chassis uh 8th gen core
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i7 so up to quad core uh HDMI a couple
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type c's a couple type a's you got your uh sd card 1080p ip looks like ips yep
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not too bad and uh so the point here is basically that MSI is finally doing
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something other than gaming notebooks
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making sure you're subscribed we will see you at the next booth
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no you ran away from me again
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this is like an ongoing thing