The Mailroom #1 - Mystery LG Crate Unboxing!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2016-05-06
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1,885 words · ~9 min read
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So many of you have asked us, where do we get our ideas from? Where do we get
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the products that we make videos about? Well, today I'm going to be giving you
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guys some insight. Welcome to a new segment we're going to be calling the
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mail room. Not because you have to be male and not because it's necessarily a
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room. It's more of a area, but
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video description to try it now for
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free. First up, the Prodigal Sun has
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returned. The Seven Gamers 1 CPU rig is
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back from our bros who helpfully put this made in
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Canada sign on it. These are the BS mods guys and uh who
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also No way. Oh wow. Oh
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wow. Oh wow. Shots. Shots fired, you
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guys. Shots fired. So, uh, we're going
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to be challenging them to either a tech showdown or a scrapyard wars sometime
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soon. And,
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uh, it's on. It's on. Next up is some
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pretty boring stuff. So, this is
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apparently 40 yards of 50 yards of
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medical, no, 100 yards of medical tape.
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This box right here actually just arrived. This is all the unsold
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merchandise from our District Lines t-shirt store. And you can tell uh which
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was the least popular of all the designs we've ever done.
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Edzel, I personally think it's adorable, but uh Masters of the Universe was not a
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top selling design for us. So, we're going to have to find something to do with those. Uh we just got our sample of
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the G410 Spectrum. So, that was sent to us by Logitech as well as the Corsair
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Carbide 400C. And
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this actually this is this is interesting. This is a shadow box for
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mounting like a sports jersey or something. My wife intends to put her
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old pharmacy lab coat as kind of like a
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hearkening back to the good old days before she had to work with me all the
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time type thing. You can get these pretty cheap on uh eBay. All right, this
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next item is one that I have absolutely no idea
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what's inside. I think someone else took a peek at it, but this was sent uh by
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LG and uh they actually asked me at CES
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if I had opened it and I kind of went uh yeah, I know I've had that for weeks,
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but no, I have not opened it yet because I haven't had
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time. Happy New Year, Lionus. Do you have any exciting plans at the beginning
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of the year? How about experiencing your favorites like new? You are now the star
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of the movie Ivonne 2. May the force be with you. What? That's
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cryptic. We've got a container marked line of Sebastian.
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Wow, that is um that is
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uh wow that that is a thing.
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No, I think the bases are aluminum.
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Um, hey Von. So, um, check this out. LG
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got us a gift. It's like uh Han Solo and
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uh Princess Leia action figures with the
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catch being that um they put your face on Princess Leia
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and mine on Han Solo. So um
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can I be your Han Solo? Han Solo.
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Okay, I don't really have a choice. It's
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done.
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Mine looks a lot taller than that. Actually, no. If we stand next to each
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other, we're pretty much the same height. Really?
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Okay. Okay. And there's a gift inside.
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Your favorite movies. Yes. Well, my favorite movies. Lionus
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just made me watch all of them in the last month, I think, before we go and
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see the the new one. We made you. Didn't you want to?
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Wow. Wow. So many. But we haven't watched all
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these bonus disc features.
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We had not watched them. Look at all of those. It's like you're navigating to a
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sweater and not trying them on. That is actually
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creepily like similar. You guys are just
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having a trouble.
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Just smile. Okay, let's go back to the mail room.
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Oh, okay. I'm a little jelly about that.
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Well, I think we all know what the uh appropriate thing to do would be. I
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think we need the rest of the cast. I want him as Greo.
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Chewbacca. I'm down with Chewbacca. I'm super down with Chewbacca. Luke. Luke.
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It's like BS Mods is all like all
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talking smack. LG is all like, "Yo,
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here's like the weirdest, coolest thing ever." Back to the mail room. So, this
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is a uh 800 W redundant power supply
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that I ordered for one of our servers. This is a box from NZXT that I have no
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idea what's inside. Looks like a Kraken
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X61. This is embarrassing. This is like
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a modular headphone system with a bunch of different headbands and cables and
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ear cups that I've had for literally months. This is Netgear's 28 port 10
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gigabit switch, which I'm super stoked to upgrade the server room with. Now I
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can do some trunking and link aggregation. Here's a couple
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letters. Maybe fan mail.
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iPhone parts. Oh, the new home button for my iPhone 4.
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This is Care of MSSM and it's
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handwritten. Dear Mr. Sebastian, my name is Ian and I'm a freshman at the main
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school of science and mathematics. The purpose of this letter is a huge thank
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you. About a year ago, I was bombing
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around YouTube when I came across one of your videos. I became hooked. From then
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on, my life has revolved around the amazing world that is modern technology.
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Everything I have learned has come from one of your videos. However, there is
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more to it than that. All of these and videos inspired me to focus harder on my
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schoolwork. They even helped motivate me to apply here at MSSM. I began to be
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more driven in the things that I enjoyed and in experiencing what I hadn't. When
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it came time to build my gaming system, your archive of videos had all the
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answers. though not an insane system. GTX 960, 8
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gigs of RAM, i5 4460. It showed me that I could do anything if I just could do
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anything. It just would not have happened if not for your videos. Even
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though I'm only 15, I started a small computer repair business and build epic
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custom systems. Once again, I owe it all to you. Sincerely, Ian. PS, I vote
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turnip. That is so charming. Well, thank
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you, Ian. It's always nice to uh to hear from
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people that what we do is more than just sort of making a video
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sometimes. Here, this is funny. Uh this is all the Sennheiser
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gear that was supposed to appear in the music video for our Christmas album, but
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that we ended up just using the microphone behind the scenes to record.
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So, thank you Sennheiser for providing those. We we're going to send them back
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anyway. Like, it's not a big deal. It's just Yeah, we never even opened the
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boxes. Oh, awesome. First is some a new cable for
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my IE80s. Really need that along with that
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iPhone 4 button. This is cool. This is I think
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this is for like a sponsor spot or something. But this is Apacer's world's
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first dual interface
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SSD open. So basically it has a SATA
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interface on the one side and then it has USB 3 TypeC on the
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other side. And then over here is finally the world's largest mouse pad.
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We were kind of thinking of doing like another holy episode around this.
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Let us know in the comments if you'd like to see us show off the uh the
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Padzilla here. Oh yeah, and this is the
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uh toilet paper that we so desperately need. 10 guys in a building.
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seems a lot of toilet paper. Speaking of whatever it is I was talking about,
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Ting.com. Ting is the mobile carrier that makes sense. And it's funny because
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sense can be like sense like in your head and it can also be sense like in
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your pocket. They build you only for what you use. And the whole thing is
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totally transparent. So if you're like, "Gee, I wonder if TING would be a good
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fit for me." All you have to do is head over to their website, which you can
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visit at Linus.ing.com. We have that linked in the video
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description and try out their savings calculator today. You enter your last
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few bills. You know, the ones where you have to sort of look into your crystal
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ball and figure out how many text messages you're going to send. And then
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you look at your actual usage and you find out if TING would save you money.
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And from the last numbers that I've seen, it was something ridiculous like
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high 90% of people would save money by
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switching to TING. And there's other advantages, too. If you call them, you
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actually talk to a person. I have personally tested this there. You don't
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get put through to an automated system or anything like that. You call and someone's like, "Hello." And you're
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like,
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"What? Hello? I would like to." It actually works. It's pretty crazy. So,
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the cool thing is if you head over to the savings calculator and it looks like it's going to work by using our link,
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you can get 25 bucks off of a new device or as a service credit. Pretty cool
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stuff. So, thanks for watching, guys. If you enjoyed our mail room tour of kind
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for something else to watch, we've got what I personally think is about as good
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as it gets. Ultimate rundown of the HTC Vive versus the Oculus Rift based on
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corner up there if you're curious about VR and which option, however expensive
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they might be, is going to be best for you.