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[Assistant] But we are not gonna leak information because that kind of crap is a big deal.


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[Assistant] And that kind of crap gets your parents fired and gets, uh, gets the internet, you know, what's it called, doxxing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that kind of stuff gets you doxxed, shows a picture of himself in the video.


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[Assistant] Seems to understand vaguely that it's a bad idea to be doing what he's doing because he opens up a messaging app.


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[Assistant] And says, oh, let me shake it so you don't see my messages, like...


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[Assistant] Seems to have some concept of that privacy should probably be maintained here.


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[Assistant] But uhm, you know, like I feel bad for the parents, because, like they're-


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[Assistant] Dumbass kid just got both of them fired and potentially unemployable.


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[Assistant] Like, that kind of thing is a real black mark on your resume.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I feel really bad for the kid because he seems pretty young and


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[Assistant] Must not have. Like, it's not even probably didn't understand the, uh, the scope.


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[Assistant] I love my baby, but like, I'd be pretty mad for a pretty long time if he got both me and mom fired.


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[Assistant] Like, like I, like he was stupid, but the punishment is, is way exceeds the severity of the crime because of the internet and like, yeah, just anyway, so leaked info.


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[Assistant] Two rear cameras, uh, micro SD card slot, although that might not necessarily be true in every region. The ONE had, uh, micro SD expan- eeeeh. Yeah, it did.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the one was Dual Sim. I actually can't remember if it had MicroSD. I think it had MicroSD in China.


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[Assistant] It's been a long time since I've cared. Uh, Android 4.4 with Sense 6, and the battery stayed at 40% for 8 minutes with the screen on, although it might be not very granular in terms of how it measures it, so hard to conclude anything about that, but just a terrible situation.


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[Assistant] We haven't done a Twitter Blitz for just general Q&A in a long time. That's a good point. Guys, hit us!


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[Assistant] Uh, at Linus Tech on Twitter, go ahead and blitz us and we'll go ahead and check out some of your questions in the next little while here. Oh yeah, and I don't know if you noticed.


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[Assistant] But there is now a link to the Linus Tech Tips store. Merch.linustechtips.com. You can head on over there. And our store is on District Line. We got some cool t-shirts, which haven't actually arrived yet. Or I'd be wearing it instead of my Team OCZ t-shirt. That's like super awesome. A relic? Yea, I know, right? Okay. Apple CarPlay.


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[Assistant] I called it. Although I'm expe- I'm actually expecting them to do a much more integrated experience with an actual like iCard at some point.


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[Assistant] What's great about them is that they drive the experience forward.


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[Assistant] It's compatible with lightning equipped mobile phones. It will be launching with OS 7.1 later this month. So it's coming like right away.


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[Assistant] And you can get directions, make calls, send and receive messages, and listen to music. There's more app support coming soon, so podcasts, Beats Radio, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher. Uhm, but I think it's really cool!


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[Assistant] We'll get something a little bit more open. I mean, honestly, I really like the Apple TV.


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[Assistant] Okay, but hold on. Apple TV came first in their defense. Yes, that's true. I like the Apple TV, but my biggest problem with it is why the hell can't I install whatever apps I want on it, Apple?


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[Assistant] Like, just stupid stuff. Like, hey we're Apple, we're really good at this integration and this, uh, experience.


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[Assistant] But you're gonna have to have exactly the experience that we have mapped out for you. And so I'm really excited to see Google move towards something like this and better integration with


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[Assistant] Google phones because with Google we can expect to see all kinds of like aftermarket dash add-ins that are well integrated with the system. Although it might take them kind of a couple years to iron out the bugs.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no I don't think so. So appadvice.com actually has a good article about it that's a little bit more in depth than Apple's splash page that just says


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[Assistant] I mean, it's possible that we'll see it retroactively, um, outfitted into cars with reduced functionality. Like for example, if just pressing your, mind you, you need a lightning connector, so.


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[Assistant] There you go, so you'll hold down your voice control in your, uh, like on your steering wheel and you'll be able to use Siri and stuff like that. You know, it actually, uh, okay, well, then it's all of a sudden it's bothering me again. Because if you need a dedicated device, why exactly do you need a smartphone to go with it then?


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[Assistant] Uh, which one? Yeah! Yeah, let's do our, let's do our Twitter blitz. Really? Nobody tweeted us? I have a bunch.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is interesting. Okay, let's- Oh, there's the problem. Okay, I was looking at the faster thing.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, these, these jokesters. So funny.


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[Assistant] Someone says, I am new to watching this channel. Does this show show up on your videos? Yes it does.


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[Assistant] You know what? I'm not gonna switch to Linux on my desktop.


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[Assistant] But I am planning to switch my media PC over to Linux as soon as SteamOS is done.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I'll be switching to db and I'll be learning how to install things. I'm a complete Linux noob. I'll probably have to get you to show me the various ways and then I'll decide how I'll do it from there. Okay, so probably not terminal.


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[Assistant] Alright, do you think it's possible to start with YouTube now, with so many successful YouTubers making a living with it, or is it too late? I think it's possible. I think it's extremely difficult, I think it's more difficult than it used to be. But there are, even in the tech space, up-and-coming YouTubers, like, uh, Barnacles and Jay's Two Cents, who are still small. But, you can still be small and be up-and-coming, I mean,


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[Assistant] I, I, I used to think about it that way a little bit. Like, I'd look at someone like, uhm, like, uh, Sexy Phil, whose live show I actually went to last week, uh, last Friday, after the WAN show, I drove exactly the speed limit, all the way to the theatre where the event was being held, and, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was cool to see compared to sort of where I am relative to him now and where I was relative to him when I started up five years ago and where I was relative to him I think it was three years ago when he got the seed funding from YouTube and started Sourcefed and I was kind of like, oh, okay.


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[Assistant] Well if I'm three years behind, in three years, would I be happy if we were able to like tour live and do like cool demonstrations and shows, and uh, if we had as many followers and uh, as many staff, and like if we had all these processes in place, would I be happy with that? I'm like yeaah.


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[Assistant] That'd be cool, like there's still potential for me to keep growing and there's no reason three years from now that I couldn't do that.


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[Assistant] So if you were, like I said, I'm about an order of magnitude smaller than him. If you were an order of magnitude smaller than me, so you had like 70,000 subscribers right now, is there any reason you couldn't be this big in three years? And would being this big in three years be just as much of an awesome accomplishment? Absolutely. So there's potential. But you have to have an aim.


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[Assistant] Even for us, starting up a new YouTube channel is kind of a daunting...


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[Assistant] A daunting task. I mean, uh, speaking of which, we may actually have some interesting things to talk about on the show today.


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[Assistant] Uhm, maybe we'll be letting our viewers decide what our next channel will be.


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[Assistant] Dun dun dun. But starting up a channel is a daunting task and we can support it with another larger one. So, good luck.


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[Assistant] What do you guys think about DirectX 12? I think that it was, uh, definitely time that the sleeping giant was woken up and did something.


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[Assistant] With DirectX. They have a livestream coming up where they're gonna be talking about some stuff. I mean, I think Mantle's interesting, but the fact that it lacks backwards compatibility with anything and the fact that it has to be specifically coded for when the game developers are gonna have to code for DirectX anyway.


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[Assistant] Thief was a big one for me. No mantle and no true audio at launch.


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[Assistant] Anyway, uhm, I think DirectX 12, if it's not a complete pile of garbage, is probably just going to continue to be dominant. Is HTC One M8 your next primary smartphone? I don't know. I'll have to try it first. I don't even have one.


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[Assistant] Do you know why the 2420TE was discontinued? I think it's replaced by the Z.


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[Assistant] Expectations on 800 series, evolutionary or revolutionary? Well, based on that we've seen Maxwell already, and this is a great example of why I can speculate, because I have no idea, but based on what we've seen of Maxwell already, the 750 Ti and 750 are like...


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[Assistant] And that to me is a solid indicator that higher end versions of Maxwell will be similar. So, let's hope.


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[Assistant] Yeah, at some point. I wanna have, I actually ordered, uhm, like a 5'10 mannequin to dress in the stormtrooper armor. So we'll actually just have a stormtrooper like standing behind us. Yeah. So, no, we're doing things. Will we be at Computex 2014? I am not planning on it right now. It's a really big trap.


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[Assistant] It's a big trip, it's extremely expensive, I haven't had any sponsors like come crawling to our feet telling us they really need us to be there and they really want to throw, you know, thousands of dollars at us to make it happen. So...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm expecting Computex to be a big deal in terms of notebooks and in terms of CPUs and chipsets, but these are all things CPU chipset will have access to.


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[Assistant] But, you know what? This seems like as good a time as any to launch into our sponsor segment. And let's go ahead and-


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let's move into our first sponsor here. There we go. We're not necessarily going to Computex, but we are going to... Pax East! Pax East! Pax East! Pax East!


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[Assistant] Alright, maybe you should maybe give some more details because Intel is our big sponsor for Paxies, so we're gonna be doing a bunch of cool stuff with them. And in addition to that, Corsair confirmed, uh, last night that they are also gonna be sponsoring us at Paxies. So huge thanks to Intel and Corsair for making it possible, but why don't you talk about what the plan is at Paxies?


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[Assistant] Whoa! Wow, that's not funny. That's terrible. I can't believe how quickly people forget about stuff like that. It's just like... Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Anyway, sorry, go ahead. Uh, so dogfighting, we were specifically referring to the dogfighting module from Star Citizen.


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[Assistant] But we'll definitely be covering Intel's cool stuff there. So they're gonna have 738 series SSDs all over the place. They're gonna have some exciting gaming notebooks.


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[Assistant] The upgrade of team B to team A. Because I will not be there.


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[Assistant] So Team B, Luke and Brandon, they will be the only ones going to PAX East from Linus Media Group. I'll be doing sort of like, uh, you know, like controlling the dials, like in the Hunger Games.


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[Assistant] Of fun, creating the integration we did earlier this week for these guys in our dual graphics video, which we're gonna discuss in more detail because I felt like the video told the message, told the story of dual graphics and value graphics card shopping a little bit.


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[Assistant] But I still think there's a little bit more room for us to, to sort of chat about it. So Dollar Shave Club, this is a package of what looks like the kind of thing that you might receive from them. And, uh, we, we started talking with them and I didn't really know much about it. I'd seen the hilarious commercial.


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[Assistant] But beyond that I was like, like I didn't really know how much it cost and I didn't know really any of the details, but the idea is that you sign up


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[Assistant] So they're butt wipes for men. And okay, so it's right on their thing. Yes, you probably know how to wipe your ass at this point in life. Below are just some helpful tips. How to use One Wipe Charlies. It's just like, really, you guys? It's freaking awesome.


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[Assistant] They have three different tiers that are available. I'm just gonna go ahead and uh, run over to my screen here. Uh, the Humble Twin, the Forex, and the Executive.


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[Assistant] So the Forex and the Executive, the objective here was to create something that was competitive with, or even better than the brand name shavers and razors and cartridges that you can buy in the store, except without the hassle of waiting around in the store for someone to go unlock the thing. Like, guys?


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[Assistant] Feel free, let us know in the Twitch chat. I'm gonna be having a look at the Twitch chat. Do they lock the shaver?


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[Assistant] Uh, like the shaver cartridges behind a glass case at your store because I've seen it. Have you seen it?


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[Assistant] So that one looks like this, and then you get four new cartridges per month that you can swap on so that you're using one per week, which means whenever you're using it, it's actually sharp. They come in a little thing like this, you can get their shave butter, which has, uhm,


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[Assistant] And yeah, I used the executive, which is still cheaper than buying them at the store.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, like, six blades, and like...


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[Assistant] And in the US, the $6 or $9 a month includes shipping. So it's like...


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[Assistant] Once a month, that's your- that's your shaving supplies. Anyway guys, if you didn't see me- if you didn't see the integration, okay, even if you know everything you need to know about Dollar Shave Club now, which is basically save time, save-


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[Assistant] Sorry, there's the slogan. Shave time, shave money. Uh, then you should still check out this video, the dual graphics video, because this is friggin' awesome. Uh, I actually had Edzel, I think he spent like a couple hours on this. Cause I'm, oh, I think there's audio.


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[Assistant] So guys, uh, head over to dollarshapeclub.com slash minus and check it out. It's available in Canada, the US, and Australia.


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[Assistant] Dual graphics works. Look at that. It's better than, you know, just an APU and better than just a graphics card running on the CPU portion of the APU. So then we, you know, we're like,


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[Assistant] Oh, previous, okay. So then here's sheer FPS numbers in Far Cry 3.


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[Assistant] And then here is a price to performance evaluation, where we can see that running dual graphics, if you look at how many dollars it costs you per FPS, per frame per second, which is an interesting way to evaluate solutions, because, okay.


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[Assistant] It's not always which one is the lowest one on the graph.


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[Assistant] Because something could deliver great FPS per dollar, but not deliver a playable gaming experience. Like if you bought a potato for a dollar, and it could deliver you 1 FPS.


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[Assistant] That would be 1 FPS per dollar, great ratio. Whereas if you spent $100 on like, 7 potatoes that could deliver 30 FPS. That bundle deal is terrible. I know. Those are really bad. Okay, cucumbers then. Okay. You can all agree cucumbers are great for all kinds of things. So if you bought


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[Assistant] The better solution that gives you a playable frame per second, so 30 FPS but costs much, much more, that's still probably the better one to buy. Okay, so back to the numbers. Uhm, it delivered better value and higher frame rates, so we're like, yeah, that's great. In Bioshock Infinite and in Far Cry 3. Then, expanded testing came along. So! All the numbers.


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[Assistant] Well no, I think what I said was, did you actually watch the video? Because the Intel solutions, the only Intel things on here, are a 4670K, that has the highest performance by like,


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[Assistant] Derp. Okay, so two and a half FPS higher and then the lowest performing solution with a $200 CPU running its integrated graphics and performing half as well as AMD's latest APU at $200. Okay. So anyway.


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[Assistant] We added a 750ti discrete graphics card because we had just done our review and we saw how fantastic that was, but not to appear as if we were just showcasing how Nvidia is so superior to AMD because it's not about that. We threw in a 260x, which is also an excellent value card from AMD. Then we were like, okay,


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[Assistant] Well, let's keep testing the R7 250, so we keep those numbers in there, so we've got three graphics cards, one that is capable of running with the APU in dual graphics or crossfire, and two of them that can't do it, but are more powerful cards, then we were like, you know what? Let's throw in more CPUs too.


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[Assistant] You know, just for it's CPU prowess, because CPU performance didn't change much, and it's quite a bit cheaper than the newer APU. And then let's throw in an Athlon X4, which is the same architecture as the last gen APU, but doesn't have an onboard GPU, but is extremely inexpensive.


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[Assistant] So, the FPS numbers aren't really that interesting, except to demonstrate that with a discrete graphics card, whether it's a 260x or a 750ti,


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[Assistant] You have to have a seriously, like, not very powerful CPU in order to really fall below playable frame rates. Because, yeaah, we got 60 to 76, so to 79 FPS, spending anywhere from, what was it, 760K? Like 80 bucks?


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[Assistant] Okay, so anywhere from 90 bucks to 200 bucks, you're getting at best, you know, a 50% improvement in frames per second.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we determined that, and then we determined that, okay, the, uh, the dual graphic solution doesn't perform that well.


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[Assistant] Oh, but what's with that pricing? So then, we move beyond that, and we graft it in terms of...


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[Assistant] FPS per dollar. Not including motherboard. Not including the motherboard. Which can be more expensive on the Intel side as well, and more expensive for newer platforms like FM2 Plus for the new APU as well.


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[Assistant] So check that out, the big winner is the 760K, the cheapest CPU on our list, with a 750Ti, a value but yet gaming grade, so above $100 graphics card, and this, this is, this is a big problem.


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[Assistant] Because basically what happened was we went from being like dual graphics, that's kinda cool, to...


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[Assistant] Because right now, Kaveri, and you know what? I can kind of answer that question. Why would you buy this as a strictly gamer? Becomes a difficult question to answer.


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[Assistant] Because for non-gamers who are looking at content creation and who are interested in leveraging the HSA architecture of Kaveri where you can, I mean it can do all kinds of crazy stuff like even loading up a folder


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[Assistant] In Windows, waiting for thumbnail previews to pop in goes way faster on a Kaveri.


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[Assistant] Because of the way the CPU and the GPU work together. But if you're strictly gaming, you're much better off to spend your $300 on a 760K and a 750Ti and get way better performance.


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[Assistant] Okay, let's go ahead and, oh, are people saying that there's echo?


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[Assistant] Okay, cool. Alright, so let's do a couple more Twitter, Twitter questions.


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[Assistant] Linus wants to know if he can take us out for lunch if he happened to pass by Vancouver someday. We've actually had quite a few people ask us about that, believe it or not, in the past, and I've always kind of said no. But it's- But Mr. Forsell, if you're in town,


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[Assistant] We'll take you out for lunch. But it's, but it's him. I know. I know who it is. I know how much he's supported us over the years. Uhm, you're a cool dude, man. We'll have some lunch. Maybe we'll get like free pizza with our order of something.


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[Assistant] Alright, my 7970 runs at 95 degrees while running Furmark, should I RMA it? No. Don't run Furmark. Yeah. Bam. Okay, should I- That card runs pretty hot. Yeah.


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[Assistant] How long would you expect a new higher-end PC to last before it needs an upgrade or to be fully replaced? A lot longer than I would have said three or four years ago.


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[Assistant] The pace of innovation, especially on the CPU side has slowed down and the pace at which RAM requirements increasing has slowed down. I mean, I bought a PC like four years ago that I put 12 gigs of RAM in and I spent, uhm,


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[Assistant] Have you ever spent all of your monies as a child? If yes, on what?


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[Assistant] My sister bought a trampoline once. Whoa. So that was an example of that. Saved up for like three years of allowances and bought a trampoline. Whoa. Uhm, let me try to think if I ever did it. I did. Did you? What did you? I'm mineral.


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[Assistant] Your mineral oil computer. Oh, yes! My first computer, same thing. I spent all my money on my first computer.


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[Assistant] Uhm, any videos planned on the GTX Titan Black? No. No.


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[Assistant] It's a titan except black and a little bit faster.


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[Assistant] It almost never made sense at any point in time in the history of graphics cards, at least for the past eight or nine years, to buy the top tier card. It's like the...


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[Assistant] Basically just a way of showing that you have more money than you know what to do with. I mean, no offense to people who buy the top tier card. Uhm, buying the second one down.


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[Assistant] Or buying two of them has been the way to go. From a bang to, from a bang for the buck perspective, if you still really want bleeding edge performance. Two of the next one down is actually usually more expensive, but that much more powerful running an SLI or Crossfire.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I want to have a team probably of anywhere between 10 to 15 people. I want us to have a lot more high quality and fun content like the, uh, dusting out your PC video, uh, tech quickie fast as possible I think is a fantastic format for us in the future. I want to have more hosts.


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[Assistant] And more, more scripters, I wanna be able to pump out more content for you guys. And ultimately, I need the community and our sponsors to keep supporting us to do that. And that's, that's the direction that I see for us.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, no, no, I think we can all agree on this one because calling something free when actually it's just free until we make you pay to unlock the rest of it


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[Assistant] So, I mean, basically I don't think there's any firm plan in place as to how they can do this, but the idea is that you can't use words like free if they're not actually free and the sort of the accusation is that this causes financial harm to consumers. Now,


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[Assistant] I would make the argument that figuring out new ways to squeeze more money out of consumers is just an endless arms race and there'll be something else in the future as well, and I would also make the argument that most people who download an app for free, expecting it to, to be free, they have a choice.


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[Assistant] If they discover that they don't like the free implementation, they have a choice whether they want to pay more or not. Like, I don't feel, I don't feel deceived.


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[Assistant] Because uhm, I'm just trying to think of an app that I've actually thought of.


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[Assistant] Whereas the way that Reaper did it, actually have you played Reaper? No. Oh, it's actually pretty good. Uh, you gotta play with a controller though.


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[Assistant] Right, but, but, but the demo app is not differentiated from the full app. You unlock it with an in-app purchase. I'm like, okay. Uh, but I like, I don't feel bad about that.


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[Assistant] I don't feel deceived, so I don't know, there's that. Uhm, although one thing that I really, I really feel very strongly is, is a great idea is they want developers to completely cut out any direct calls for purchasing in any title that is designed to appeal to children. Because children don't know better, and it's mommy and daddy's credit card that is going to suffer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like when your parents tell you not to do something, like uhm, I dunno, uh, pour out the mustard bottle onto the...


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[Assistant] Floor of the kitchen or whatever. You're like, you know, mommy and daddy said no, but I really want to.


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[Assistant] Alright, speaking of thinking far ahead, holy freaking crap. This, my friends,


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[Assistant] Is one of the most forward looking gaming concepts.


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[Assistant] That, you know what, we're not really gonna watch the video because quite frankly their Kickstarter video ain't that great. But these guys...


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[Assistant] There, that's basically the point. Skirmos open source laser tag only begins to describe the potential of this idea. I posted it on Facebook.


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[Assistant] I'm not backing the campaign, uhm, even though I love the concept and the hardware actually looks like it's in a state where it's pretty usable.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm not backing the campaign because I don't think these guys are realistic.


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[Assistant] I don't think they understand how little money $60,000 is. For me, running a business with now five employees, Employee Search 2014 is sort of over.


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[Assistant] Sort of. Uhm, for me running a business with five employees, I will burn through $60,000 like that.


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[Assistant] Amazingly quickly, whether it's gear or payroll or now we have employee benefits, like all these kinds of things cost so much money and they just haven't given any thought to it. At the bottom where they say the risks or whatever, uhm, their risks are they know that they don't know anything about mass production of something.


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[Assistant] And they're like, they're students. Probably really smart guys. But it is a completely different world to use an Arduino, strap it to a gun, uh, put like a, you know, uh, an infrared emitter on it, and some sensors.


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[Assistant] So I'm not backing this, but what I really hope happens is these guys get acquired and a company that actually knows what they're doing. Someone like Mattel.


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[Assistant] Okay, probably not better than paintball. But better than the other two. Here, do you wanna?


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[Assistant] Could turn this, cause to me, the thrill of paintball is the fact that it hurts to get hit.


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[Assistant] That's why laser tag is dumb. And, like, I like laser tag, but it's dumb. Because you just run around, hee hee hee, I got hit, hee hee hee hee, okay, 15 second cooldown.


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[Assistant] So you could load like game maps in, and it could like wipe out any enemy units in a given area.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean, for me, it's not necessarily about this. I mean, this is cool. I mean, they've got the gun as the sensor, so you fire at other people's guns in order to register a hit. Uhm, they've got a display built onto it, so you can use that for an ammo readout or, or any other pertinent information. Uhm, all kinds of cool stuff, but really,


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[Assistant] And your next phone upgrade includes, uhm, bloody hell, what's it called again?


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[Assistant] Project, uh, Tango. Tango. Includes Project Tango, so you could literally map out areas.


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[Assistant] Yes. Okay, so you've got Project Tango, your force feedback suit, let's say something that, you know, has, uhm, you know, like vibration motors or something in it, and you wear it all over your body. Let's say that costs a few hundred bucks. So we've spent $700 now, plus, uh, what else do we need? It has to have sensors for the light guns, you've got your display,


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[Assistant] Of this. So you, you go around with your phone and you like map a building, right?


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[Assistant] Or like, you could, I mean, you could create like, uh, like, like, like obstacles or something. Like, you could have it, uhm,


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[Assistant] Oh. So you'll see. So anyway, you go around, like, let's say basic example. Everyone who's playing, so you get like 40 dudes together or whatever.


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[Assistant] Or ladies, whatever. Uhm, goes and walks around like a forested area or something with their phones, like mapping it out. Okay? Then, everyone loads the map.


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[Assistant] It can augment the camera on the front with like, uh, with like checkpoints, with like uhm, you know, health bars, with like heads up display crap and menus and stuff like that. Use your gun to navigate it and everyone like runs around in the forest. Obviously, latencies will have to be much better and the technology's gonna have to continue to improve.


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[Assistant] Holy crap, what an amazing gaming experience. I mean, my son, by the time he's like a teenager and is into gaming, is gonna think the concept of sitting with a keyboard and mouse is ridiculous.


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[Assistant] And then, when the game developer money goes towards these, uh, these, well, I don't know, casual, but not casual, when all the game developer goes there, and those become AAA,


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[Assistant] All of a sudden, it's gonna become more niche to be a traditional gamer, and you're gonna be the casual.


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[Assistant] I'm still making my son play Mario as his first game though. Super Mario World.


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[Assistant] Like, you know what? You are going to be okay at 2D platformers. Or you are not moving on to bigger and better things.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here's the stupidest thing I've seen in a while.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I love this. 5,000 views, 657 dislikes, 50 likes. Uh, this was on the Gadget Show, and basically, you know what? Are you guys getting, are you guys getting audio from this? Cause for some reason... Oh, there we go. Nope. Oh, oh, I hope that's not...


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[Assistant] No, no, no, it's, uh, it's, it's, uh, no sound, no sound, audio, something.


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[Assistant] I don't get it. I don't know why they're not getting audio from this, but it's kind of important. Basically... Oh yeah, it seems to be working. No, no, okay.


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[Assistant] Well, they're not. Okay, well, whatever. Okay, so the point is... Ah, it's stupid.


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[Assistant] So they say the death of the desktop PC is, is already here because of a couple things. And like some of the- aw man, you guys should just watch the video just to be, to be entertained. Uh, so the stats they bring up are this. So by 1986, laptops only represented 2% of the commuting- computing market, whereas now they're everywhere.


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[Assistant] In 2004, we got good wireless connectivity with WiFi and 3G, meaning you didn't have to be plugged into a wall to get online, proper mobile computing was born, and in 2010, tablets came that drove desktop sales down even more. Now,


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[Assistant] This is where within their own stupid video, 3 minutes and 59 seconds in, they give an example


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[Assistant] Of why the desktop no longer matters. So he's holding this tablet and he's like, this is a professional photographer, and this is the tablet that he uses instead of a desktop to preview the- oh shoot, I'm not screen sharing right now- to preview the photos that he's taking.


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[Assistant] While on a shoot. So here's the- here's the photographer. Yeah, there you go. Blah blah blah. So this replaced his desktop. No it didn't!


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[Assistant] What that replaced is the tiny screen on the back of the camera! You idiot! And I don't often call someone an idiot. But it didn't replace his desk-


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[Assistant] And a tablet maybe replaced a laptop in this situation, but it sure did NOT replace a proper computer that you're gonna sit down at and get real work done at.


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[Assistant] Uh, the way that I'll sit on my couch and browse my tablet or watch a movie on the tablet while my wife watches something that entertains her on the TV, that didn't replace a desktop!


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[Assistant] The fact that desktop sales are going down is a reflection of the decrease in, uhm, improving power of desktops. It's not a mark of desktops not being necessary anymore.


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[Assistant] So, basically, gadget show? If you guys are watching, just don't.


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[Assistant] That's all I have to say. Oh yeah, they had some other stupid thing to say.


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[Assistant] And I mean, you know what? Wait, I'm gonna leave the fact that the one terabyte USB drive from Kingston costs a thousand dollars? I'm gonna leave that out. It almost doesn't even matter, despite that being insane.


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[Assistant] Flash storage will continue to become more and more economical, and that's fine. And I'm gonna leave out their argument that 4G connectivity


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[Assistant] Is faster than your landline internet connection.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna leave out that argument as being stupid because I think that both of those things are the future.


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[Assistant] Much, much larger storage being ca- being possible with Flash, and the fact that you're gonna have a super fast, super cheap connection via 4G or 5G or 6G or whatever, that is the future. But that doesn't mean we don't need a desktop still. Yep. Until those connections- Sorry, my nose is itchy. Gotta, you know.


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[Assistant] That's awkward. Anyways, uhm, that doesn't mean that we're not gonna need those because until the latencies are so much lower for these connections, such that my desktop, which I'm still gonna need, can utilize them. And like, do you really trust your flash drive storage?


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[Assistant] No, of course not. They use much, much lower grade chips that are much, much more prone to failure than something like an SSD or a hard drive.


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[Assistant] Speaking of cloud storage, and, uh, jays2cents and, uh,


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[Assistant] Barnacles are like, hey, I heard you mentioned us on the show. Thanks, buddy. We love LMG. It's like yeah, but what they didn't realize is that I was, you know, mentioning how much I hate them.


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[Assistant] And I think that they should join Dollar Shave Club because their facial hair is ugly.


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[Assistant] And they need one wipe Charlie's so they can clean their butts better. Dem sponsor integrations yo. Wow.


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[Assistant] Alright, anyway, Samsung promises, and really like, this was posted by misanthrope on the forum, Samsung promises, and I really, like, promises, more like threatens, promises $500 worth of various subscriptions on the upcoming Galaxy 5, er, S5 rather.


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[Assistant] Uhm, really guys? Original article here is from Techspot and-


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[Assistant] That is basically like Firefox promising to give me


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[Assistant] It's A, too short to matter, and B, completely irrelevant unless you're looking for a job. I mean, I don't know anyone who actually like, hangs out on LinkedIn. Like, I've got a LinkedIn account.


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[Assistant] But like, that's for when this whole thing goes up in flames and I need to look for a real job. Uhm, and like, three months of a subscription is basically, like, that's- It's a trial. Yeah. That's, that's, that's a, that's a free trial. That's not a, like, we're giving you-


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[Assistant] That's, that's like me saying every t-shirt you buy in our merch store.


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[Assistant] Every t-shirt you buy in our merch store comes with like three months of, uh, of free, uhm, you know, Norton antivirus. That's locking you in.


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[Assistant] Or like comes with two- Especially the one terabyte storage. Okay, we haven't gotten to that yet. Or that's like me saying that, uh, you know, it gets you two weeks of free square space. Or, you know,


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[Assistant] Hotspot Shield, or whatever, like all of our sponsors, like, that's the kind of thing that I gotta imagine LinkedIn is paying Samsung to include, because they're just giving out free trials.


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[Assistant] And like, that's not even the worst one. The one that really makes me mad is the one terabyte of storage from BitCase. First of all, BitCase, whatever.


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[Assistant] Like, I'd rather have the two year 50 gig Dropbox that they used to do, even though it's much less storage, I-


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[Assistant] Relatively speaking, Trust Dropbox, it's already a part of my workflow, like I've got it installed everywhere, and three months of storage? So what, I'm gonna put one terabyte of storage in there, and then you're gonna wipe it after three months when I don't want to pay you for it?


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[Assistant] And the funny thing about that is, okay, because Korea banned non-removable bloatware. Is this, like, the new bloatware?


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[Assistant] Maybe it's removable, but that doesn't make it not obnoxious. No, exactly.


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[Assistant] Alright, we are actually, like, we've already run overtime on the show here, so I think we're just gonna do a couple more things here. Windows 9 is expected to push people off Windows XP. Uhm, sources, rumored release dates indicate fall 2014 or spring 2015.


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[Assistant] And it will apparently continue the trend that Microsoft has been moving towards with Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1...


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[Assistant] Revised, which is coming soon, of taking the modern UI and the classic desktop UI and making them work better together.


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[Assistant] Okay. Vista Loyalists, represent, guys. You're the only one.


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[Assistant] Whatever. Uhm, OCZ launches the new Z Drive. This was posted on the forum by 4960x. It's PCI Express. It's available in capacities up to 3.2 terabytes. But that'll cost you a cool $6,500. And I actually want to hear from you guys. We'll do one more, uh, maybe we'll do one more Twitter blitz before the end of the show. Would you buy an OCZ SSD?


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[Assistant] Alright, no, let's do a straw poll. Straw poll. Straw poll. Create one. So the question will be, would you buy an OCZ SSD before the Toshiba acquisition? And then would you buy an OCZ SSD after the acquisition? So I think it's yes before, no before, yes after, no after.


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[Assistant] And then allow multiple choices so that they can vote for before and for after. Cause I wanna see how perception has shifted.


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[Assistant] Now that they're gonna be using Toshiba Nand, which is by all accounts pretty darn good. Okay.


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[Assistant] Twitch TV now allows streaming from mobile platforms, so you can, uhm, play mobile games, stream them on Twitch TV. It's got support for your front camera, so people can see your mug playing your mobile games, although I think there are gonna be some challenges here, like especially games where the controls are done like this, that, that front camera's gonna move around a fair bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, either way I think it's cool. I wouldn't mind seeing Justin TV or, you know...


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[Assistant] Twitch's parent. Uhm, some other streaming service integrates support for the rear camera.


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[Assistant] Cause that'd be a really neat way to stream events or whatever else. Uh, what's up? Yeah, I don't know what to say about that. Anyway.


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[Assistant] That's all I really have to say about that. Dell is charging 16 Great Britain pounds to install Firefox on PCs in the UK. Mozilla's like, yo, that's uh, against our terms of service.


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[Assistant] Now get this, uhm, Dell is saying the charge is to cover the time and labor involved, but I know for a fact that Dell images their machines.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's like, it works out to like $100 an hour, assuming that you were paying 10 bucks. Or, assuming it takes 10 minutes to install Firefox, which it doesn't. Not to mention that installing anything...


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[Assistant] Where, to install anything, you are supposed to be the person to accept the end user license agreement, whether you read it or not. For someone else to install something for you is technically not allowed.


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[Assistant] Because someone else agreed to it for you, then shipped a computer to you that has it on it.


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[Assistant] Well, this is something that I used to deal with working at NCIX, right? Like that's why we couldn't install really cool, pre-install cool stuff for people. I wonder how like the Geek Squad Services thing works. Cause we could put install shortcuts on the desktop, and we could say, hey, here's some cool stuff you might like. But we couldn't actually install it for people.


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[Assistant] Uh, because our Folding at Home team is awesome. Number 49 in the world right now.


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[Assistant] All you have to do is navigate to the URL, which is, here we go, uh, chrome dot, oh, folding dot stanford dot edu slash nacl. So, salt?


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[Assistant] It has multiple modes, so you can use the light mode if you're on a laptop and you don't want it to overheat or, you know, if you...


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[Assistant] We, we got a pretty big e-peen already, we don't need more e-peen. It is more about using extra computing cycles to do something, uh, really useful with them. You wanna go ahead and find a topic that you don't need a visual aid for? Cause my battery just died.


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[Assistant] Churig, a coffee company, uh, props to the OP Tyler Matthew on Linus Tech Tips forum.


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[Assistant] We'll use DRM in their new coffee maker to lock out the refill market.


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[Assistant] I think that's pretty self-explanatory, but really? I mean, we've seen this in printers.


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[Assistant] We've seen this in the pro photography and pro videography and cinematography markets. We see this all the time. Canon with their X-A10 upgrade camera, the X-A20, actually not only


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[Assistant] forces you to use canon canon batteries, but even though the slot is the same and the power output is the same, they force you to use specifically XA-20 batteries and not XA-10 batteries, like just ridiculous stuff like that.


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[Assistant] So with unlicensed pods, the Keurig CEO confirms that the new coffee maker won't work.


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[Assistant] Unless you put their license pod in. Ah, this is really cool. This is from uh, this is from Yale.edu. Rewritable paper and ink.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're still a long way away from this mattering to someone like me.


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[Assistant] Where I write things on paper so that I can like, dig them up later.


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[Assistant] But this is really cool. So this new rewritable paper can be reused dozens of times. So you can actually see the document there. So it can be reused dozens of times and simply works with water. So you'd have a water pen, you write it down,


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[Assistant] And then in the time that it takes the water to dry, typically around 22 hours, obviously less in hot environments, it'll be visible and you can read stuff on it. And so the justification for this is that uhm, they figure 90% of business information


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[Assistant] The scientists note that while 90% of business information is retained on paper, most printed documents are read only once before being discarded.


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[Assistant] So if the idea was to print out notes for a presentation in a meeting and hand a copy to everyone, a reusable paper system like this could be invaluable.


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[Assistant] But you have another thing that tablets don't replace computers for. Keyboards. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, I was wrong. Twitch Plays Pokemon 1. So there you go. Told you. Yeah, you were right. They're starting a new one now. Oh wait, did we talk about that last week? I don't remember.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, what else we got? Gayben's AMA? You checked it out, I actually didn't read it.


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[Assistant] Uh, Verizon wants to charge gamers and streamers more for their internet service. We're really running out of time, so I don't think we're gonna be able to talk about this nearly as much as I'd want to.


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[Assistant] Have the time or gumption to, to do. But the point is that they've been quoted saying, okay, blah blah blah blah blah. When it comes to downloading games and streaming movies, online is easy to surpass 15 gigs worth of data in a day. And according to Verizon's chief executive, people that use more bandwidth downloading games, streaming movies, or playing online games should pay more to play.


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[Assistant] Okay, now I'm gonna do something here that you're probably not gonna like.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say... That's why I asked before, like, is it time to fight? I have no problem with pay-per-use.


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[Assistant] I have no problem with services that cost more for heavier users


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[Assistant] If I drive more, I buy more gas.


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[Assistant] If there is a finite amount of something, if there is a limit to it. There's not of this. Hold on.


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[Assistant] If, if there is a finite amount of something and there's a limit to it, and I mean, there are limits.


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[Assistant] There are limits to how much internet traffic could conceivab- If every single person fired up, breaking bad on Netflix at exactly the same time, we'd have a problem. And they won't. And they won't. But, if they did.


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[Assistant] Where my issue starts is when you don't subsidize the light users with the money you're taking from the heavy users.


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[Assistant] Uhm, introduced some stiffer penalties for people who get tickets. So you don't actually have to get in an accident, but you can just be speeding and your insurance premiums will go up. And they said this was to make the roads safer and more affordable for the safe drivers. To which I said, where is my discount? You're taking more money from somebody and then eating it?


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[Assistant] Presumably? Well, I see BC as a giant piece of crap. Yes.


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[Assistant] If Verizon wants to do this, if they want to say, okay, we're gonna charge the heavier users, in addition to charging guys like Netflix, just for the privilege of


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[Assistant] of being allowed to deliver their movies to Verizon users. If Verizon is going to charge the heavy users more, then I want to see free internet for web surfing and email.


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[Assistant] That's my challenge to you, Verizon. If you do that... Rock on, man.


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[Assistant] If you truly make it pay per use or not pay at all per light user and you are actually genuinely trying to innovate and deliver a more connected experience to the world,


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[Assistant] And you just need to figure out how to collect the money to make that happen and you're not being evil about it, then that's fine. But if you're just figuring out ways to charge more,


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[Assistant] And you're not figuring out ways to give anything back? Then you can screw off.


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[Assistant] Alright, I think I have one more thing to talk about before we do the announcement.


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[Assistant] For the winners, for the LTT 2014 update giveaways. So those are coming.


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[Assistant] Do you? You can go ahead. It's long. It's like 6.30 already.


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[Assistant] Maybe, you know what, I wanna add it to like, uh, the notes for next week. Okay. We'll discuss it some more. Cause I think it's a really good debate topic, even if it's not necessarily news next week. Yeah.


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[Assistant] So Razer has released a keyboard with what they're calling Razer Mechanical Keyswitches. Now the internet has exploded.


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[Assistant] In a way that I actually didn't expect. I knew that the keyboard dorks of the world, two of which are sitting on this couch, would have a lot to say about something like this. But I didn't expect the enthusiast community in general to have as much of a problem with what Razer's doing as they do.


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[Assistant] So, what's your take on the- Okay, so to be clear, there we go, there we go. That's exactly where we wanna be, that's what we wanna look at. This key switch, see that? Ooh, it doesn't say cherry on it. Looks an awful lot like a cherry key switch. The housing.


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[Assistant] The mount on the top for the keycap, the LED positioning right there, but it says Razor on it. So what Razor's done is they have stopped


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[Assistant] Using Cherry MX keys for their Black Widow Ultimate line of keyboards.


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[Assistant] They are not specifying who is manufacturing them.


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[Assistant] But, the internet already knows who it is, it's Kale.


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[Assistant] And they are saying that they have done their own work with respect to, uhm,


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[Assistant] R&D-ing a switch that is better for gaming because of its higher actuation point and faster reset once you let go of the switch, once you let go of the key. So that you are able to more quickly activate it in a repetitive fashion.


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[Assistant] They are allowed to do this because Cherry's patent on the MX switches has run out at this time. So other manufacturers, while there were counterfeit switches before, are now free without being slapped with a counterfeit lawsuit.


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[Assistant] I mean, there were- okay. Okay. There were counterfeit-


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[Assistant] But not what people would say recently. Okay. So anyway, this is the first major like brand name manufacturer to bring


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[Assistant] A keyboard that is using switches manufactured by Kailh, although Razer says that in the Chinese factory they have their own QC staff overseeing the production.


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[Assistant] But they are the first major manufacturer to bring Kailh made switches to market.


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[Assistant] I think that was pretty much all there was to say. What do you, what's your thoughts?


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[Assistant] Well, Edzel's, uh, Edzel's got it at home right now. I think he's playing around with it. Has he ever noticed the problem with blues? I'm not sure. I thought so. Have he? I was talking to him about it. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'll check with him, but he's got it, and he has Black Widow 2013 as well. So, okay, so go ahead.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the only thing, and that's the thing, is there's a lot of, this bothers me because I feel like this, or this doesn't bother me because I feel like this, but I think the only objective thing that I can look at and say that I'm bothered by, is that I know for a fact, Kailh switches are cheaper than Cherries, and the keyboard costs the same.


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[Assistant] And someone else, someone else already has. I mean, you can buy a TT Esports Poseidon Z for 80 bucks. 70. 70 bucks, I think.


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[Assistant] And that are, is it 80? I think it's 80. And that is a blue backlit, kail, mechanical keyboard. Reasonably well built. So.


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[Assistant] There you go. The internet is up in arms. Guys, do check out the video if you haven't had a chance yet. Razer BlackWidow Ultimate 2014 is the name of the video. Obviously it's on Linus Tech Tips channel. Uhm, where I cover some of the reasons that Razer gave for switching to a Chinese manufacturer and I cover some of the reasons that I'm aware of.


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[Assistant] That's funny, because I actually had Corsair. I actually had both Corsair and Cooler Master. Uh, contact me about this video.


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[Assistant] I don't know about One Wipe, although the instructions do say that it's not, even though they're called One Wipe Charlies, you can't necessarily...


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[Assistant] Achieve the desired results with just one wipe, so.


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[Assistant] Use as many wipes as necessary to get the job done, but try not to flush more than a couple at a time. And dry off with TP.


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[Assistant] And you know what, that's, that's actually, it's funny, okay, I paid off to make the Razer review, uh, and it's funny because, uh, Min, their CEO, specifically, like, took a, took a shot at me for one of the things that I said in that video, which was that I think their packaging is deceptive to their customers.


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[Assistant] And I think that not, that not labeling something 2013 or 2014 edition, when you're putting Cherry MX switches and Chinese made switches,


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[Assistant] Is, I think Razer's rationale here is that we're QC-ing them, they're of the same quality. And I get that. But when you revise something, you tell your customers. Yeah.


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[Assistant] On the other hand, look at it from the manufacturer's perspective. So let's take, uh, let's take, uh, thermal take, okay? So the Poseidon Z just says mechanical key switches, it doesn't say Cherry.


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[Assistant] Oh no, Razer, Razer didn't tell me they're being manufactured at Kail, I had to dig around for that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, no, I was saying Thermaltake hasn't done that because they are, even though on the product page, you're not going to find any reference to KO.


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[Assistant] But I think that's probably a good thing, because you look at what happened with Cherry being the one who owns all the, all the brand equity here.


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[Assistant] That's what people look at. They go on Monoprice.com and they see Cherry MX Blue Keyboard. It's not a particularly great keyboard. It's not real well built. So the guys who are building really great keyboards, like Ducky or like Cooler Master or whatever else,


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[Assistant] Okay, but hold on a second. Okay, this is where I'm going with this. So the keyboard makers have let Cherry hold all the brand equity and have made the Cherry keyboard the desirable thing, even though Cherry's own keyboards aren't really that great.


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[Assistant] But the direction they're trying to go is they're trying to make the product stand alone. And that's not a bad direction. No, but they're also hiding something.


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[Assistant] What, you know, uh, what, what material this is. As long as it's like really good and it's really high quality and Logitech mice are great. But that's never been something that people purchase off of.


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[Assistant] But everyone tries to do the same thing. You look at the way Dell wants to sell you Apple. Great example. Apple!


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, not changing naming. I'm talking about Apple taking the perception of the product and making it about the product, not about the components inside. Apple barely even mentions Intel. Sort of. They don't tell you who makes the motherboard.


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[Assistant] That is not the only thing that matters about a keyboard. That's the main thing that matters about a keyboard. I would argue drivers can matter as much about a keyboard. So what are you gonna do? What do you mean? With drivers. What are you gonna do with drivers? Because drivers don't show up on a screen.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay, there's a difference between actively hiding something.


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[Assistant] And I would argue that- I would argue Razor's hiding something. There is a difference between hiding something and not saying something.


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[Assistant] Okay, and if they're looking for a very specific mechanical keyboard, and the manufacturer makes the argument that regardless of who made the metal piece that goes in the back, or who made the keyswitch, or whatever else, we are delivering you the Uberly Hacksword Keyboard 5000.


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[Assistant] And you shouldn't care because we're doing a great job of either one of them and you won't be able to tell the difference, then does it matter anymore?


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[Assistant] Apple doesn't say what motherboard's in it. No one gives a blank. Bleep.


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[Assistant] It's like BMW saying this is the X3. And the X3 comes with whatever delivers the horsepower we said it does, and the torque we said it does, with the fuel economy we said it does.


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[Assistant] You don't get it. Razer's saying here's a key switch that actuates at this point, clicks in a tactile way, sounds like this, and they're giving you the specs!


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[Assistant] So now the way it'll work is what's the typing experience like on the Black Widow Ultimate 2014?


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[Assistant] You look at all the flying around information about Razer. You look at the comments on the video about how blah blah blah, I hate this, it's unreliable that.


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[Assistant] That doesn't stop Razer from being enormous. So, it doesn't matter. The internet can be all butthurt about this.


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[Assistant] But at the end of the day, Razer will change the way people shop for keyboards. Hopefully.


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[Assistant] That's not the argument we're having. The argument we're having is that from the company's perspective, and it's a smart business move, people should shop for a keyboard, not for a switch. That's how they want people to shop.


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[Assistant] Their main branding is a Switch because they have to, they have to talk about it. They have no choice.


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[Assistant] They can't say, here's the keyboard, because that's how people shop for keyboards right now, based on the Switch. So they were talking about the Switch a lot.


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[Assistant] And they're talking about, I mean really their marketing is really about how similar it is to the last one they had, which everyone knows is a Cherry Alex Blue.


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[Assistant] Okay, look at it this way. What about when they stopped using Omron switches on their mice?


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[Assistant] Okay, I agree with you that they should have used colors that don't exist.


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[Assistant] And I understand Green is their branding too, and I agree that it is going to create confusion, but I don't disagree with their move of making it about the product and not about the component level.


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[Assistant] So, I don't think you and I necessarily disagree as much as I initially thought we did.


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[Assistant] Wanna know something funny? This diagram of the keyswitch actually appears to be the exact diagram that the colors changed of a cherry keyswitch. I just thought that was kind of amusing.


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[Assistant] Then in that case, wouldn't it be better if they called it a blue, and they just called it a razor, a razor blue switch?


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[Assistant] No, they didn't, and uhm, the other brands that are looking at using Kailh switches are planning to maintain the color scheme.


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[Assistant] So it'll be, it'll be blue switch versus cherry MX blue switch. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And I think there will be some people- Okay, but here, hold on a second. There will be some people who are deceived.


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[Assistant] But I will make the argument that those people were gonna be the value shoppers who weren't gonna pay the extra 10 or 15 dollars anyway.


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[Assistant] Black, okay, Black Widow 2014, no packaging change, with blue switches.


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[Assistant] In fact, I think that is a different brand. They, they use standard a little bit interchangeably.


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[Assistant] Between Razer mechanical switches and standard mechanical switches, this actuation point is compared to Cherry.


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[Assistant] I don't know, using, oh sorry, I'm not screen sharing anymore. Uh, they seem to be kinda using the numbers that are convenient here a little bit. I'm not super pleased with that. Uhm, but there you go. Alright.


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[Assistant] I think people have been sitting here listening to us argue.


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[Assistant] Not because they want to, but because they want to know who won the big giveaway. So there's one of the draws that unfortunately we couldn't really do live because of the phenomenally tedious nature of determining the winner of the person who posted the comment for the Crate Computer, like, oh man.


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[Assistant] So what we had to do was we had to figure out how many comments per page and because YouTube no longer allows us to just key in a page number? To go to a page of comments?


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[Assistant] We actually had to click show more to get to the right page. So we had to determine how many per page, how many comments there were, then we had to key the number of pages into random.org, click it that many times to get to that page, and then do another random.org entry between them to find the winning entry.


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[Assistant] Have you noticed the winner yet? I'm like, no. No. No I have not.


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[Assistant] In fact, the fact that we got this done so quickly is sort of magical. Alright, so let me just-


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[Assistant] I don't know how to pronounce the name. But here we go, you guys ready? Announcing the winner. There you go, that is the winning comment.


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[Assistant] Uh, so Lucas is, or 2500? Something like that. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you are the winner! Congratulations! I will need you to, uhm...


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[Assistant] You know, oh my goodness, did you save where the comment is? Is it up on your screen still? Did you message him? I have his account open.


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[Assistant] Okay, we will send you a message through YouTube, because that's the only real way we can contact people who enter contests on YouTube. Yeah, that's a good point. Okay!


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[Assistant] So with that out of the way, remember there were two additional branches of this contest, the influencer parts. So we got 184 entries.


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[Assistant] So one of them is if you have more than 10,000 followers on a given platform,


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[Assistant] Then you can post about our giveaway and you will be entered for a chance to win a Sony Ultrabook.


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[Assistant] Then, if you got someone who has more than 10,000 followers to post about it, and they credit you, you were entered in a draw for a GTX Titan.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And guys, if we were gonna fake it, do you think we'd come up with a name that's like- That we can't pronounce? That's like-


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[Assistant] Bless you! Uhm, alright. So, someone says unsubscribe and unfollow. Yeah, it's always like that. Alright, so I got random.org. Oh, I just closed random.org, come on.


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[Assistant] I got random.org going here, and we are going to pick. Which one should we do first?


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[Assistant] Titan? You wanna do the titan first? Alright. So let's do the titan first. Generate. Nine! So one of the first people-


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm screen sharing, guys. So nine is the viewer.


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[Assistant] DenZion2! DenZion2 had it shared by Twisted Duck Games in a YouTube video. That was the first YouTube video created with a call-out for the contest.


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[Assistant] So congratulations, Denzian! Alright, now we're doing our second draw. This is for the ultrabook for an influencer. Right, right.


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[Assistant] Has 1100 followers on- oops. On Facebook?


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[Assistant] And posted, sharing our giveaway, and is the lucky winner of the Ultrabook.


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[Assistant] It was amazing how many people shared this giveaway. It was actually fantastic. Chris Perillo shared it. He was actually the only other YouTuber who shared it on a platform that counted.


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[Assistant] Yes, Barnacles and Jays2Sense. Oh, the only other tech YouTuber. Oh, yeaah, the only other YouTuber that I know. Everyone else I know. Lou from Unbox, uhm.


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[Assistant] No, well. There was other YouTubers that we know. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, so the guys that I like know in person. Yeah. Are you happy now? Yeah. So the guys that I know in person, none of them shared it. Because I think they were mad at me.


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[Assistant] Because everyone and their dog was messaging them constantly asking them to share this thing. So I think, uh, oh, who was it?


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[Assistant] Or something? And I was like, yeaah, you're gonna have to tell him that he's gonna have to retweet it. And then they just didn't.


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[Assistant] So I think they were like super butthurt at me for, for running the contest that way. So I think next time what we would do is we'd like the guys that I know really well and I know everyone's gonna go after like Lou and Marcus and stuff like that. I was just like, look, these guys don't count.


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[Assistant] Like go find someone new. And the people that got creative about it...


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[Assistant] And like, you know, found, uh, found pro gamers to do it or whatever else.


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[Assistant] They got entries and had a chance to win, so congratulations to the winners again. And I think we're done with the show, everyone. That was a really long show, holy crap. Thanks for watching, everyone.


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[Assistant] The Twitch chat is just spatting out.


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[Assistant] Well, clearly the cloning process is successful, I think. I don't keep it...


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[Assistant] Quite that short, it's been a while since I had it like, fully on, but I mean, and,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you guys went all out. I mean, have you ever tried to rush a makeup artist before? They don't... No. They don't really take kindly to that.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, I go in there, uh, once a week still, and, and, and do a show, so I'm still hanging out there, but also working on my own channel, so check it out if you guys are interested. Love to have you stop by.


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[Assistant] I think it's a good idea. I think if you, I mean, if you look at...


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[Assistant] When people do builds and so often I see build, build setups and you know there's no windows in there and it's always like oh well are you gonna have to spend another hundred bucks on your windows license or something like that. But I mean if you compare it to something like Adobe.


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[Assistant] Like, I think Adobe realized that piracy was pretty rampant with their products. Yeah, rampant is one way of putting it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's putting it mildly, but since they realized it was such an issue, they offered this subscription-based thing, and I know of a lot more people.


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[Assistant] Who do the subscription now, who never had a thousand plus dollars depending on what suite you were getting to drop on something like that. So I think it's a good idea.


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[Assistant] I think it's definitely something Microsoft needs to do given the competition that they're looking at as far as operating systems go. And uhm, I'm just kind of curious how much they're going to charge actually. Is there any information on that?


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[Assistant] Well I was just gonna say, I mean we discussed some of the benefits of the subscription based service, but


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[Assistant] Luke, like as you're pointing out, there are definitely situations where just buying it outright is also a good option. So I know a lot of businesses...


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[Assistant] No that subscription-based services are a way to create an income stream that's very steady and very standard and getting a bunch of people to sign up is a really good thing if you look at something like


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[Assistant] Yes, and you can know exactly how much money you're going to be making.


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[Assistant] Essentially you can have people who would end up paying more than what you would pay for if you had just bought it outright. So I would say that I would not want to see the subscription model at the expense of also not being able to buy it outright.


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[Assistant] On my live shows? I don't, I don't do live shows. I could do live shows.


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[Assistant] I do have Instagram, uh, I'm not super active on there, but I try to post a few videos every now and then. A few, uh, pictures every now and then, of course. Uhm.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. I'd be curious about actual traffic though because I feel like there's a lot of people who go to Twitter and read Twitter but aren't necessarily signed up.


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[Assistant] Question or comment or something that I do want to reply to and I'm like, I can't.


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[Assistant] Clearly, putting in a lot of good work and it's good to see that you, uh, you get recognized for that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, totally. Uhm, okay, so the suit has a couple of things. Uhm, so I, I started, when I started the site I was 14 and, uh, I don't know, my parents always...


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[Assistant] That we're, you know, in the industry doing similar things weren't necessarily doing things as professionally as I thought.


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[Assistant] They should be doing them. Uhm, so I, I use the suit as kind of a way to, to at least when I walk in a room to, to help explain that, look, we're here to work.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I mean since then the, you know, industry's consolidated, things have like calmed down a bit, but uhm, the suit always kind of stayed. Uhm, now every now and then I do slip up, like, uh, I mean it went, I probably went like a decade without anyone ever seeing me outside of a suit. Cause like that's not how I dress at home, like I'm not wearing a suit right now.


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[Assistant] So I, I kept the facade going for like a really, really long time. And then one time I think I was speaking at.


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[Assistant] Maybe a quake con or something like that. And I remember getting out of, uh, a car and I was like in basketball shorts. I hadn't shaved in days.


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[Assistant] Okay, so that answers the suit question. Origins of an on tech. Long story short, I was like, I don't know, my parents are teachers, we didn't have a ton of money. I needed a new computer. My dad was like, hey, just build one because back then you could save a lot of money doing that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I had no idea what I was doing, so I flipped through Computer Shopper, pointed at stuff, and you know, we ordered things and I put it together. And of course I shorted the motherboard to the chassis, so I killed the motherboard and my dad's like, you're done.


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[Assistant] Uhm, my mom's like, no, no, no, it's okay, we'll get you another motherboard. Uhm, totally, like, piece of crap motherboard 2 had like fake cash on it, the whole thing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I built that and I'm like, hey, this is kind of cool. I have a new computer. Uhm, and I learned a lot in the process. Uh, my dad's a, uh, he was a teacher at a college at the time and, uhm,


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[Assistant] Other faculty and students were in a similar situation, so this is like seventh-ish grade for me. He would like pick me up after school and I'd go around and build people computers.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, they'd have problems with their computers, so I'd go around and fix them. Uhm, so I did that for like two years, and then 97 hit, and both my parents being teachers, I had this like bug to want to teach and share knowledge. So I kind of brain-dumped online, and that's where we started.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know, I was 14 and I didn't know what I was doing. I just wanted to share thoughts and, uh, I hadn't really thought about the whole print to internet transition. Um, and actually, you know, I was doing it for years when, you know, print was still on this, this pedestal. And, you know, it was just, you're the, you're the online guys or you're the online guy that wears a suit. Um, and.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it took a while for that transition from print to digital to really become a holy crap, we need to do this kind of thing. And I would say that really probably happened in the past handful of years, where you go through the past recession.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, where everyone gets hit advertising wise, um, and you know, the, the print guys got hit the worst. Um, so I think that's, you know, you could point to that point as well, you know, you had better jumped by now because otherwise you're going to have a difficult time or hope you have a lot of money.


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[Assistant] Well, so I would, I would add right place, right time, right age. Uhm, cause one thing I do is I talk to uhm,


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[Assistant] I go around and talk to, like, kids in high school. That was a very formula period of my life and, uh, I had a very unique high school career where, uh, you know, I was in school, I was on TV and, and you know, I was also working with, you know, these amazing companies and learning a lot.


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[Assistant] Uh, and one of the things that I like to tell kids is that, you know, those four years you have in high school, um, that's like a free ride, right? Like you get your work done.


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[Assistant] But those are your four years to get your way towards, you know, your 10,000 hours, right? You pick a passion, you pick something that you don't need to make money with, uhm, that you can just


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[Assistant] I appreciate that. No, Brian isn't sitting next to me. He's, uh, he's in Arizona right now working actually on another phone review. Um, but he, uh, he's amazing. Like I, I'm actually really, really proud of our entire team. Um, so it's interesting if you look at it through, you kind of hit the nail on the head there. Yeah. Right. Like, um, a lot of our coverage does.


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[Assistant] Uh, or at least what I do kind of follows my interests. Uhm, you know, I was building a home theater, so I said, hey, maybe I should look in home theater PCs. And I remember walking into a compiler class in college.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is back in 02 or 03. I remember walking in, uh, in the, uh, I guess this was in the College of Engineering building, uh, or maybe in the computer science building. So I walk in and I look around and everyone has a Mac laptop. And I'm like, this is really weird, um, because, you know, for years, you wouldn't see that.


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[Assistant] And that was actually what inspired me to go out, buy a Mac and start using that. And that spawned, you know, our Mac coverage.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, from there, you, you said it yourself, we, we branched out into mobile. What is interesting from my perspective is I, I don't actually view this as any different as what we, you know, did when I started, right? Like it's all,


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[Assistant] And, you know, we, our phone coverage kind of basically started with the iPhone, uh, back in 07. We had some false starts internally when we said, hey, you know, how do we grow? We need other things to do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and, you know, we, we messed around with just kind of more regular phone reviews and, you know, playing around with PDAs and Windows Mobile and stuff like that. But none of those projects ever really got off the ground. And then, you know, we, we kind of tried again with the iPhone and that did relatively well. And then, you know, a couple of years into it, we, we started.


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[Assistant] Adding more, uhm, and then definitely over the past, I'd say three or four years, uh, we really ramped up our mobile coverage. Uhm, but from my perspective, they're all PCs, right? It's just a different box. Uhm, and you know, it's a different cadence of release, right? Cause we do enterprise reviews as well, but that's just like a really, really big computer that comes out, you know, once every year or two.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and, cause that's, I mean, I would say the same thing on a console, right? Like if you look at, you know, 360, PS3, PS4, Xbox One, it's just PCs. It's their, like, really weird PCs that are made by Microsoft and Sony, but they're just PCs.


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[Assistant] And, you know, how, how well Valve does with Steambox over the next decade, I think we'll, we'll ultimately determine whether or not we get another console refresh.


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[Assistant] It's a really, really good idea. Uhm, it's actually, I was at a, uh, a dinner, uh, like a secret, until Larabee dinner, which I guess I can talk about now, cause Larabee never happened for consumers. Uhm, so I was at this dinner.


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[Assistant] I mean, they, they announced it, right? I was never supposed to talk about this dinner, but I'm gonna talk about the dinner now. So uhm, it's not actually like, it's now hyped it up too much. The dinner, it doesn't, I mean, it was a great dinner. It's just, it's irrelevant to the current conversation. The food was good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it was actually, yeah, it was an entertaining dinner. Anyways, Charlie from Semi Accurate, he was, he was at the dinner. And he floats this idea of, uhm,


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[Assistant] And this is years ago, right, like Larribee time frame, like pre a lot of stuff. Uhm, so he floats this idea that


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[Assistant] You know, AMD and Intel should get together, develop a list of specs, and make, you know, develop a little badge program, and make hardware vendors go out, meet the specs, and you know, they can distribute like an OS, like a little virtualized, or like a hypervisor or something like that, uhm, like on a USB stick, uhm.


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[Assistant] Oh, true, yeaah, sure. Uhm, basically a thing that you can run multiple virtualized OS's on. Uhm, so you, you would run, uh, so like if you have a Mac, how you can run Windows on it, right? So like you'll, your VMware will be your hypervisor and then Windows will be, you know, your, uh, if you run Windows alongside OS X, like in OS X effectively.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but basically you look at it like this, or actually the OS that uhm, the Xbox One runs, right? So it has a hypervisor that runs the Xbox Gaming OS as well as the Windows kernel side by side. Uhm, and you know, you switch between them.


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[Assistant] Anyway, so this is his idea, and, and I heard it, and like, this is amazing, this is exactly what we need to do, because...


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[Assistant] The console model of, hey, you know, you got a certain amount of money has to go to the publisher, a certain amount of money has to go to, you know, you know, the owner of the platform. Like that's all silly. Like there's no reason to have that anymore because we have the internet and we have steam and you know, steam handles distribution for you. And at that time, if you looked at.


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[Assistant] What was happening to PC gaming? I remember I walked into a Best Buy one day and I was like, where are all the PC games? And it like worried me, right? Because it was kind of, this started happening right before Steam


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[Assistant] Picked up a lot of steam, right? Like before it got really, really good where, you know, you don't have to worry about PC gaming anymore. Uhm, and, and it was worrisome to me. So I heard this idea and I'm like, this is amazing. This is the exact way to save PC gaming. Uhm.


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[Assistant] And it was a great idea, but, but you know, nothing ever came of it. And then, you know, Valve starts talking about SteamOS and SteamBox. And I'm like, oh, this is amazing. This is exactly what he was talking about years ago.


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[Assistant] And I believe in it. Uhm, I think it's a really, really good idea. The, the wrinkle in all of this is, can you get...


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[Assistant] So you may bring up a really good point, uhm, but I, so I separate that from, cause at that point then you don't need Steam OS, right? All you need is like a, a, a, a sync, right? Like you just need a wireless sync for, you know, that connects to your TV. And I'm guessing, you know, Nvidia's already kind of done that with Shield and I'm guessing there'll be, uh,


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[Assistant] If you play in that space, you know, chances are you'll want to build a similar device, right? So that's, that's kind of independent of in my eyes of Steam OS being a success or not. Uhm, right? Cause like you can, you can build and deliver that experience today, right? Like there's no, you don't need anything else.


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[Assistant] What I'm, what I'm looking at SteamOS being successful at is can you duplicate the console model, right? Can you get to the point where someone who knows doesn't own a gaming PC, like he just runs like Word on his notebook from 10 years ago?


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[Assistant] Can that guy or girl go out and say, hey, I want this, I don't want an Xbox, I don't want a PlayStation, I want this, I don't know what PC gaming is, I don't know what Steam is, but this is what I want in my living room. Like, can they get to that point?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and, and you know, if you, uh, you, you were at the Montreal thing, weren't you?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so if you listen to, you know, all those guys up there, Carmack, Sweeney, they all said, hey, this is a crazy idea, give it 10 years and, you know, maybe it'll work. If they can get to that ease of use model, right? I think you could definitely, definitely replace, uh,


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[Assistant] Consoles. The issue, though, is if we're talking about a 10 year...


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[Assistant] Horizon before this thing's successful, that does leave room for another go from the traditional console players.


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[Assistant] So I'd agree with that, uhm, but I would say that those are like, that's something you can easily mitigate, right? So.


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[Assistant] You know, Microsoft tries to do this with, you know, the Windows hardware approval process, right? It's just that they set the bar so low.


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[Assistant] Uhm, whereas Valve isn't in that position, right? So if I'm at Valve, you know, you just go hardcore about it, right? We'll give you, you know, you want this official Steam box logo or whatever, you have to not ship, like, just terrible hardware.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I, I think that's a, that's something that you can get around. Uhm, you know, big picture mode.


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[Assistant] I actually wrote about this in our G-Sync coverage that it seems like there are a lot of individual projects.


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[Assistant] That are out in the PC gaming world right now, that if we just polished them all up, we would be.


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[Assistant] We'd be very close to like a hyper console experience, right? So something that's even, you know, it used to be that, hey, consoles, they were simple. You didn't need to worry about installing your game and updates and none of that. But like now- Remember cartridges?


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[Assistant] No, and now it's like, well, you gotta put in the disk and like wait three and a half minutes because it has to install and like there's a disk. So like now it's a, it's a very, yeah. And it's not all of the whole.


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[Assistant] The premise of this being an easy to use different thing, like it has a web browser now, it's just, it's no longer what a console used to be, it's just a managed PC now.


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[Assistant] Um, so I feel like if you look at, you look at GeForce experience, right? That's, that's a way of abstracting the whole, you have to define settings.


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[Assistant] Uhm, which works, right? You look at Steam's big picture mode that gets away from, you know, there's a Windows desktop, a Windows desktop in the background. Uhm, and then you look at technologies like G-Sync and now you're getting into this realm of, well, not only does it look better, have cheaper games and, you know, whatever compared to a console,


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[Assistant] But like it's actually also smoother too, right? Like this is like, this is, it's, it's insane. So we have all of these like little things, but all of them need polish, right? Cause big picture mode is close, but it's still kind of valvey, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so uhm, I don't know, there's no big story as to why I was the one that wrote it. NVIDIA was like, hey, we're sending you a monitor. I was like, hey, yeaah, I'm busy, I have stuff to do, and they're like, no, you have to, it doesn't, I don't care, just take the monitor.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that was the long story of that.


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[Assistant] You saw it there, and like what they showed was impressive, right? Like I looked at it like, this is good. Definitely.


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[Assistant] Exactly, I'm like, come on, this is not, so I'm fully expecting it to just be miserable. And for like the first day, day and a half, that was my experience. Uhm, I kinda mentioned it in the review. I had this, uhm, this Titan system, the Tiki from Falcon Northwest that, you know, I got when the Titan launched.


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[Assistant] And dude, like the thing was just like hard block, uhm, whenever just I did anything.


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[Assistant] And when I could get it to be stable, like I totally wiped the machine, did a brand new install, Windows 8.1, latest drivers, whatever. Uh, and, and whenever I just even running benchmarks, when I could get them to run on this Titan, they were running like slower than the, the GTX 760.


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[Assistant] So, at first, and you know, I have, uhm, Dell's, uh, 24 inch 4K here, so I switch monitors, and switch the monitors, and all the problems go away, everything's fine. So, at first, I thought, well, this thing sucks.


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[Assistant] And then I had a, uh, GTX 660 Ti, uh, on a different testbed. Plug it in, the thing won't even, like, post. Like, I don't even, there's no nothing out of the display. So I'm like, okay, this is really, really bad. Uhm, and then, you know, third time's the charm, I had a, a GTX 760 from EVGA and, uh, worked perfectly. So, uh,


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[Assistant] When I got to that point, I was really, really worried, but no, it literally worked and everything. Like there were no issues. I never ran into, uh, any like weird hiccups or visual glitches or anything like that. Um, it all worked and it worked and looked just as good as it did in Montreal, which was kind of amazing.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was frustrating to me that the pendulum demo doesn't let you


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[Assistant] It doesn't deal with any scenario greater than 60 frames a second. Like I can't do any of the 120 or 144 testing there. That was kind of frustrating. But I spent a lot of time playing games which I don't get time to do anymore. So that was kind of cool.


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[Assistant] And, I don't know, I've posted some videos that kinda show the effect, uh, it, it, you know, makes me hate tearing a lot, uhm.