Project GAEMS G155 Real World Demonstration Gaming Case Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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the G155 mobility gaming station. Should
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you ever have the desire to travel with your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 Slim, you
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can get one of these and you can game on the go. I am have it all packed up
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inside here and ready to demo, but I just want to show you guys the outside of this case. I did an unboxing already,
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so you can check that out if you want to see it. But, uh, we'll just sort of
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recap for the sake of anyone who hasn't already watched that video. So, on the
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top, you've got your manufacturer logo, which is G A E M S. I guess it's meant
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to be pronounced games, like as in spelled wrong, but still would be
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pronounced games. Okay, so it's the G155. Okay. On this side, you find a
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clip, which can have a shoulder strap attached to it by the look of things. It
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could also have a lock attached to it, whichever you prefer. I don't think that's going to work as a shoulder
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strap. Let's go with lock. So, you can lock the one side, you can lock the
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other side. Okay. On the bottom, you find three rubber nonslippy things. On
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the bottom, you find more rubber non-slippiness. So, whether you put it
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down this way or whether you put it down this way, it shouldn't slip and it
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shouldn't fall over. Now, the unit was unstable when I put it on the table in
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my unboxing. But, see, look. Look how stable it is. Now, the reason is that
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it's meant to have a game console loaded in it in addition to the LCD monitor
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that's already in there. So, that's why it was leaning to one side quite easily
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when it didn't have a console inside. So, I'm going to go ahead and put this
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down. This is the game I'm going to run on it right here. Uncip both sides. Oh,
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yeah. The carrying piece. So, metal, robust rubber here, very
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strong. All right, let's open this bad
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boy up. And inside we
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find our HD LCD monitor, including a
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power button, volume control, brightness
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up, brightness down, menu, and two headphone jacks, an HDMI input, and a
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power input. This two headphone jacks thing is critical because you're
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probably not going to be playing with like four players on something like this. But it'd be pretty cool if you
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were traveling around and you had your your Xbox 360 and you could, you know,
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plug in one pair of headphones to get your friend to plug in a pair of headphones and then you could use the
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two controllers that can be stored in the little pouch on the side here. So,
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I've got two Xbox 360 controllers there. You could also take out the power plugs,
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which I'm going to go ahead and plug in. So, I'll need two. So, I'll go one
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there. And then I'm going to pull out the Xbox Whoops. 360 power brick. And
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I'm going go ahead and take that around there. So, this is the setup that you
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will have to do. The reality of it is you need to uh two power plugs and all
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that in order to get the unit running. So, you know, hopefully you can live
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with that. I'm going to have to unplug one of my lights in here. So, hopefully it's not too bad. Is it okay? Okay. All
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right. So, that's what I had stored in there. Now, I wasn't able to find any
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additional room for games, but I guess you could probably get away with like one game here or something like that.
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But, you can see how the Xbox 360 is strapped in. So, this pad on the bottom
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protects it. It's very, very soft. You can flip it over the other way for the
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PS3 Slim or for the Xbox 360 slim. And then what you do is you take these
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straps, you strap in your console, and it is not going anywhere. So, I have it
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plugged in. Let's go ahead and power it on. I've actually not yet turned this
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thing on before. And I hope I have batteries in
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my Xbox 360 controller. I do. All
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right. Okay. Give me a sec here, guys. I'll wait for it to boot up. Sorry about
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that, guys. Okay. So, we have the G155
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gaming station. I've got it all set up and the Xbox 360 is booted up. And I
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also have a helium balloon. So, I'm feeling pretty
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lightheaded right about now. Oh, that's better. Okay. So, I just want to show
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you guys basically how it works in terms of the viewing angle, in terms of any
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sort of ghosting or motion blur that you're going to see on this particular
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screen. So, uh I mean I think you pretty much got the point. Here's something
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that it bears noting. Uh, it's really
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hard to move around once it's deployed because of the rubber grippy things on
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the bottom, which is good. You don't want it to just sort of randomly move
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around. But, um, all your ventilation holes at the back have ample room
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between the back of the Xbox and the screen. Your ventilation holes here are
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not Did I just do something? Oh, I just ejected the game. Whoops. Um, are not
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too obstructed by the straps. And then the ones on the bottom are also not that
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obstructed. So, your Xbox 360 shouldn't run into any more uh overheating
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problems than normal uh when you're using the
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G155. Now, in terms of the speakers that we're equipped with here, I guess uh
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give me a sec to get the game booted back up now that I now that I broke it,
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and then we can uh we can listen to the speakers. So, just a sec. So, here's the
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viewing angles, you guys. It is a TN panel, so it's not going to be perfect
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by any stretch of the imagination. But I'm so far away at this point that uh
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really realistically, you're not going to be playing with four people on something like this. So, if you got two
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people, you're sitting at a reasonable distance. You got kind of person one
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here, it's going to look about like that. And then you got person one here,
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and it's going to look about like that. So, uh that's pretty much how it's going
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to go down. Now, in terms of the volume, let's go ahead
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and crank this up. I mean, I don't want you guys to
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have unrealistic expectation. Okay, we're probably not going to crank that
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all the way up because it's getting pretty loud to be perfectly
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honest. So, go ahead and start the game. Continue
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story. So, here, why don't I just kind of leave this here, and I'm going to go
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ahead and adjust the screen. No, apparently I can't do that. Okay. So,
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what I could do is I could put a game box
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here and I could put that
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there. So, it is a glossy screen, so you are going to get a little bit of
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reflectiveness. So, I'm going to go ahead and kill the light that's right
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behind it. And the other light. There we
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are. Hand to hand gives you the ability to execute. Okay. Whoops. Okay. I
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haven't really used the Xbox much, so uh
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I'm not an expert. Is it loading right now
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or? There we
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go. Come on. Sooner we get this loaded up, the sooner we get it to the
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Americans at the airport. Sooner we do that, the sooner we get paid.
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Oh, was that a guy? How we doing?
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Yeah, no kidding. Any idea what's in the big box?
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Okay. Apparently, they didn't notice that.
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I've actually never played a Splinter Cell game. A to jump. Oh, that one.
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Okay, there we go.
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Here we go. Left trigger to drop. Left.
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Oh, wow.
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Cool. And they didn't notice that somehow. I think they're even facing
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over there.
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Okay. Well, the general point of that was that the speakers are pretty loud.
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Definitely a satisfactory gaming experience. So, thank you for checking
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out my uh first look and gameplay video
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with the G51 portable gaming station, and I hope
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videos.
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You know what? Just to give you guys some idea, it looks better in person than it looks on the camera. There's a
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lot of reflectiveness that the camera's catching and that you really can't see
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in person. I'd say this zone kind of right here is representative of how the
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screen actually looks. Because with that light behind me, it looks fine. Yeah,
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it's just the lens is having the camera's having a hard time adjusting to
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the uh the back lit screen. So, I'd say the color is sort of more like this than
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like this at all. This is This is more like it.