A laptop with water in it??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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656 words · ~3 min read
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Thanks to Razer for sending us to PAX West 2016. They just released a new
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Blade Stealth. Check it out in the description down below. So, I am now
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sick and that is a bad thing, but this is also sick and that's a good thing.
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It's a massive ROG G800 laptop from
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ASUS. It has a 6820 HQ i7 processor, a
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GTX 1080 desktop glass graphics card, an
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18.4 4 inch 4K IPS screen, 64 gigs of
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DDR4 memory, and 1 terabte of NVMe PCIe
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SSD storage. Damn. Now, literally on top
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of almost all of that is one of their main key features, and that is their
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Mech Tag mechanical keyboard. Now, they will tell me almost nothing about it.
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They won't tell me its response time. They won't tell me its total travel
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distance. They won't tell me when it actuates. Nothing. What I do know is
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that while you're pressing down, partway through, there is a tactile bump. That
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is all I can tell you. Near the top of the keyboard, you will notice an ROG
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button that will open up the Republic of Gamers Gaming Center where you can set
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up the M1, M2, and M3 keys to change the
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functionality of your F keys to custom macros depending on what game you're
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playing. On the lefth hand side, you have a headphone and microphone jack,
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one USB 3 type A port, two USB type-C
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connectors, a mini DisplayPort, HDMI and Ethernet jacks, and a big power
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connector that requires you to squeeze it kind of like a DisplayPort in order
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to disconnect it. And above that, a Kensington lock. On the right hand side,
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they have a much lower selection of things. There are two USB 3 ports and
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one SD card reader. On the front, there's just a couple speaker ports. And
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then on the back, things get a little funky. There's four passroughs for water
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cooling and one pass through for power. This will be for the large water cooler
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add-on if you get the GX model. It is
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not clear at this time if they will be selling the water cooler add-on by
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itself for people that don't buy the GX model and want to upgrade down the line.
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So, I'll have to wait till later to try to figure that out. On the bottom,
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there's four metallic connecting points. Those are for connecting to the dock,
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which is not actually the water cooler. Those are two different things and two
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of them are just for extending off of the dock. There's also this mysterious
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glass panel which may or may not have something to do with the water cooling.
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I'm really not sure. They like won't really tell me and I I don't know. But
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I'm getting a G800 GX to review in
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office in a little while. So hopefully I'll be able to know then. So stay tuned
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for that video. In terms of all the juicy performance numbers and stuff like
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that, you'll just have to wait until I get it in Office. They have Doom set up
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here right now, but they're running VSSync, so I'm not entirely sure how
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fast it's actually able to run the game. I'll have extensive numbers both with
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and without the water cooler once I get this guy to personally test. Anyways,
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thank you to Razer for sending us here this year. We have recently passed three
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million subscribers and Razer is helping us celebrate by giving away a Blade
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Stealth with some custom art on it designed by Ed Zilyago in-house back at
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the Linus Media Group Studios in Canada. So check that out. Link video
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description down below. Enter to win. I'll see you next time.