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Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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653 words · ~3 min read
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LTT Computex 2016 coverage is brought to you by the Corsair Lap Dog. It lets you
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use a full-size mouse and mechanical keyboard on the couch. Also, thank you
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to MSI. So, first off at the Gigabyte Suite, I'm going to be checking out the
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Orus X7DT. This laptop will be looked
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into in much more detail by Lionus in a little while, so I'm not going to cover
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it in its entirety, but I do want to cover some major changes that were asked
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for by Lionus and a few other people in the past. One, the keyboard is no longer
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just orange backlighting. It is RGB backlighting and it has a wicked amount
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of different modes in the software. Don't pay too much attention into the
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individual tones of the colors, however, because they are still tweaking that.
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The touchpad has also changed. It is still glass, but it appears and feels
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quite a bit different. The logo is still going to be on it. I know it isn't on it
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here, but it's still going under some changes. It'll be fine. But it is much
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more matte textured and not as slippery, which I think people will like. The
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screen has also changed. The bezel instead of coming to like a single fang
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now has two, one on each side of the center point. And the screen itself has
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changed a little bit. It's still G-Sync, but instead of being 4K, it's now 1080p
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120 Hz with 5 milliseconds of delay. So, if you're going for something like the
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shooter games on your laptop, that would be quite ideal. For the rest of the
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details on the X7D, tune in to Linus' video, which will be back in the office
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and more in depth later on. For now, let's check out the Aero14. The A14 is
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equipped with a 970 or 965M NVIDIA GPU.
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And on the processor side, you have a sixth generation i7. The one right here
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is a 6700 HQ, so you can go pretty high-end there as well. In terms of
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memory, you've got 8 gigs or 16 gigs, but it is expandable. There's two slots,
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and you can go up to 32 gigs. The screen is a beautiful
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2560x440p IPS panel, and you have two M.2 slots that can go all the way up to
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NVMe. It has up to 10 hours of battery life in productivity mode and even then
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only weighs 1.89 kg with the battery installed. For wireless connectivity,
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you have wireless AC and Bluetooth 4.1LE. For connectivity, on the right
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hand side, you have USB 3.1 type-C connector, a mini DisplayPort
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connector, two USB 3.0 connectors, and AC power in. On the lefth hand side, you
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have an HDMI 2.0 port, a USB 3.0 0 port,
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a headphone/microphone port, an SD card slot, and the Kensington lock. Yes, as
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you may have noticed, there is no Ethernet port, but that is actually fairly standard these days. And it's
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optional, but I think it's going to come with most of them. There's going to be a USB to Ethernet adapter. And then, as
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you can very obviously see beside me on the table that I'm crouching next to, it
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comes in orange, black, and green. Thanks again to Corsair for sponsoring
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this episode. If you like gaming on the couch, check out their Lap Dog. It lets
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you use something like a full-size keyboard like their K70 or a full-size
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mouse to game on the couch. Also, thanks to MSI, they're showing off their new
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AUS X desktop and their new GTX 1080 Gaming X8G. We'll be checking those out
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later on in the show, so stay tuned for that.