**Tech News Update: Gaming Laptops, VR Requirements, and Record-Breaking Streams**

As we dive into the world of technology, several exciting developments are making headlines. In this update, we'll explore the growing relevance of gaming laptops, the minimum requirements for high-resolution VR experiences, and record-breaking streams on YouTube and Twitch.

**Gaming Laptops: A Viable Alternative to Desktop GPUs?**

With cryptocurrency mining on the rise, GPU prices have skyrocketed, making it increasingly difficult to purchase a desktop GPU at MSRP. However, gaming laptops are still in stock everywhere, offering a viable alternative for those seeking high-performance graphics capabilities. If you can't find a desktop GPU, buying a laptop with a desktop-grade GPU might be the way to go. In fact, this could become the norm in the coming years.

**The SAU Me The Zap Table: A Powerful Gaming Laptop**

The SAU Me The Zap table is a gaming laptop that's generating buzz in the tech community. Its sleek design features brushed aluminum, reminiscent of Apple's iconic aesthetic. This powerful device will come equipped with a GTX 1060 graphics card, an i7 processor, and an SSD, making it a formidable gaming machine. However, its price tag of around $1500 might be a bit steep for some buyers.

**Record-Breaking Streams on YouTube and Twitch**

In other news, a YouTuber has broken the concurrent viewer record for a livestreamed game session, reaching an astonishing 1.1 million viewers at one time. This feat was achieved while playing Fortnite with a group of Spanish-speaking gamers in a hundred-player match. Just a week prior, another streamer on Twitch had set the record for concurrent views with a similar Fortnite match, garnering 600,000 viewers.

**The HTC Vive Pro: A High-Resolution VR Experience**

The HTC Vive Pro has announced its minimum requirements, which are rather daunting. To power this high-resolution VR experience, users will need at least a GTX 1070 graphics card and an FX 8350 CPU. This means that anyone without a gaming rig equipped with these specs might be priced out of the market for super-high-resolution VR experiences.

That's all for today's tech news update. Thank you for watching, and we'll see you this weekend with more exciting tech developments!

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online is about to be upgraded from 16 gigs of HBM 2 to 32 gigs of HP m2 and this is so that they can keep a firm hold on the AI market which is something that a Nvidia sorrentino name be well I'm sure and video also really wants to do that but something that is really important to Nvidia to do and then they also spoke at length about ray-tracing which was really interesting because ray tracing is a really cool technology that they've been speaking about for a long time and I think it's about time that we get it out into the world and on the note of ray tracing I'm gonna leave GTC now because the rest of it is just kind of AI news about you know driverless cars and things like that the new metro game that's gonna come out at some point I don't really know when its release date is but it's gonna come out at some point is going to apparently use some ray tracing techniques to make better-looking game made I guess but yes so that might be the first game where we're actually gonna see ray-tracing be implemented which is pretty cool I really like the idea of ray tracing and all of the tech demos were really impressive the only issue with it is at this point it seems as though it's extremely demanding and you know they were like oh wow this is being generated in real time yes it's being generated in real time on like $20,000 worth of hardware so that's not something that everybody has available to them but yes this is obviously early days and it'll get better and I still am going to make a full video just around ray tracing and what I think about it and what you know where it stands I'm gonna do that whole daring thing of making a making a prediction on technology and then having it come out terribly wrong and then everybody laughing at me in five years of like oh wow this guy thought this was going to be a great thing and now nobody's using it and in other news which I don't massively want to talk about but I feel like it's unavoidable at this point because well it's it's bits like is the only thing people have been talking about in the last week the Zuckerberg is in really deep trouble because well apparently he used data from from 50 million of his Facebook accounts to apparently helped Donald Trump's presidential campaign now that's all very controversial and everybody's very upset about it and they're gonna have to they're gonna have to like testify at things and now Zuckerberg is really really being aloof about it because obviously he's not gonna testify but he has to testify but he's saying no he doesn't want to go because like he has people who he pays that are way more way more equipped to be testified but I think it's just because he wants to not do it because why would you want to testify about something like that so yes there's there's a lot of people that are very upset about it but the thing that I don't really understand is why why is anyone surprised at this point I mean Facebook is pretty much renowned for its kind of security and personal information violations why are we at this point sitting back and going oh no how could we have seen this coming Oh there hasn't been outraged about this at least once a year for the past decade at this point so yes everyone's very angry and Zuckerberg is is worried about people being angry and there's a movement about hashtag stop Facebook and all of that and the thing is like you know it's great be outraged about it but like personal information violation is pretty much what the United States has been built on over the last 10 years we're just not even the United States just like tech companies in general so like I don't understand why everybody's so surprised now in other more interesting news zoomy which is traditionally a cell phone manufacturer has actually announced their first gaming laptop and this is something that I think is really exciting because I'm gonna do a video on this at some point but I think the idea of gaming laptops it's actually becoming way more relevant in in the coming years just because of because of cryptocurrency mining yes GPUs are going missing everywhere but the thing is gaming laptops are in stock everywhere and you know if you can't get a desktop GPU for MSRP why not buy a laptop because you can get like a desktop GPU and laptops these days so yeah there might actually be what we all have to move to one day but I'll do a dedicated video on that let me get back to the SAU me the Zap table looks pretty good it's it looks very similar to a razor blade to be honest it's got that whole like brushed aluminium look that Apple has made famous and that I really like I think it looks awesome and it's going to have a GTX 1060 in it which is not a bad gaming chip at all and it's gonna have some laptop CPU in it it's gonna probably be an i7 something and then it's got an SSD and some ramen if it is gonna be quite expensive it's gonna come to market at the price of around $1500 which I think considering the prices of competing laptops I think for a laptop with the gtx 1060 in it that's a little too much but then again the razor blades current generation laptops do have a 1016 the man they go for more than that so it'll be interesting to see how the build quality compares of the two in other news some youtuber who I don't know how to say his name to be honest and this is probably very embarrassing because he does have he does have more subscribers than most countries of people in them but he's recently broken the concurrent viewer rate for a livestream of a game now this he actually broke 1 million people watching at one time which is pretty insane the actual amount was 1.1 million and it was a fortnight stream where he got a bunch of apparently they were all spanish-speaking like gamers and it was like a hundred people match and it was really exciting now this comes just a week after some other guy who his name I don't know broke the twitch record for concurrent views for a livestream which was also a match of fortnight being played and that was 600,000 something people watching at one time which is also amazing but it's interesting to see that like it seems almost as though YouTube had to like coordinate so that that record of most concurrent viewers wasn't held by a twitch stream yeah I thought that was interesting oh yeah and on final note news confirmable what the story was let me just check typically sorry death just happened oh yeah case was just a little bit there's something super exciting it's gonna happen soon anyways let me get back to the tech news what was I saying oh yes HTC vive no no why these videos always end on the HTC vive pro for some reason because I think I always kind of end the part where I talk about the vive pro in in massive disinterest kind of like kind of like oh yeah this is the vive pro this is what's happening with it I don't care and that's probably not right of me because I think it's quite a cool technology and I there me there I am backtracking again but anyway let me just get into the story the vive pro has had its minimum requirements announced and they're pretty terrifying so because it's got such a high resolution it's got a 77 percent increase in resolution we're now going to be looking at a minimum requirement of a gtx 1070 to power it which is crazy the CPU requirements is still the same it's like an FX 8350 which you know if that's the minimum requirement it means the cpu requirement isn't really a thing but yeah gtx 1070 that means that if you don't have a gaming rig with at least a 1070 in it at this point and you want to get into super high resolution VR it's gonna be really expensive for you to do at the time because yes no GPUs anyway that's all I have for today thank you very much for watching I'm sorry that you had to listen to to this happening and that falling but thank you very much for tuning in and I'll see you this weekend with more not more tech news with a different video anyway bye byehello and welcome to another episode of this week in the tech news and as you can probably tell from my voice I've got a combination of Ebola and man flu at the moment so that's why I haven't uploaded a video this weekend and I'm really sorry about that I'll get back on that horse soon now in today's episode we're gonna be talking about a combination of things that didn't didn't happen in the last week and we're gonna start off with GPC now GTC happened a couple of hours ago or well the keynote happened a couple of hours ago and it was a really interesting event because they spoke about a lot of interesting things but unfortunately the next generation of gaming GPUs which is what seemingly the only thing is that people are interested in wasn't announced so the keynote has come and gone and they didn't talk about the new ampere or Volta or there was another one that it might have been but it just it didn't come up but what they did say is that the revolt online is about to be upgraded from 16 gigs of HBM 2 to 32 gigs of HP m2 and this is so that they can keep a firm hold on the AI market which is something that a Nvidia sorrentino name be well I'm sure and video also really wants to do that but something that is really important to Nvidia to do and then they also spoke at length about ray-tracing which was really interesting because ray tracing is a really cool technology that they've been speaking about for a long time and I think it's about time that we get it out into the world and on the note of ray tracing I'm gonna leave GTC now because the rest of it is just kind of AI news about you know driverless cars and things like that the new metro game that's gonna come out at some point I don't really know when its release date is but it's gonna come out at some point is going to apparently use some ray tracing techniques to make better-looking game made I guess but yes so that might be the first game where we're actually gonna see ray-tracing be implemented which is pretty cool I really like the idea of ray tracing and all of the tech demos were really impressive the only issue with it is at this point it seems as though it's extremely demanding and you know they were like oh wow this is being generated in real time yes it's being generated in real time on like $20,000 worth of hardware so that's not something that everybody has available to them but yes this is obviously early days and it'll get better and I still am going to make a full video just around ray tracing and what I think about it and what you know where it stands I'm gonna do that whole daring thing of making a making a prediction on technology and then having it come out terribly wrong and then everybody laughing at me in five years of like oh wow this guy thought this was going to be a great thing and now nobody's using it and in other news which I don't massively want to talk about but I feel like it's unavoidable at this point because well it's it's bits like is the only thing people have been talking about in the last week the Zuckerberg is in really deep trouble because well apparently he used data from from 50 million of his Facebook accounts to apparently helped Donald Trump's presidential campaign now that's all very controversial and everybody's very upset about it and they're gonna have to they're gonna have to like testify at things and now Zuckerberg is really really being aloof about it because obviously he's not gonna testify but he has to testify but he's saying no he doesn't want to go because like he has people who he pays that are way more way more equipped to be testified but I think it's just because he wants to not do it because why would you want to testify about something like that so yes there's there's a lot of people that are very upset about it but the thing that I don't really understand is why why is anyone surprised at this point I mean Facebook is pretty much renowned for its kind of security and personal information violations why are we at this point sitting back and going oh no how could we have seen this coming Oh there hasn't been outraged about this at least once a year for the past decade at this point so yes everyone's very angry and Zuckerberg is is worried about people being angry and there's a movement about hashtag stop Facebook and all of that and the thing is like you know it's great be outraged about it but like personal information violation is pretty much what the United States has been built on over the last 10 years we're just not even the United States just like tech companies in general so like I don't understand why everybody's so surprised now in other more interesting news zoomy which is traditionally a cell phone manufacturer has actually announced their first gaming laptop and this is something that I think is really exciting because I'm gonna do a video on this at some point but I think the idea of gaming laptops it's actually becoming way more relevant in in the coming years just because of because of cryptocurrency mining yes GPUs are going missing everywhere but the thing is gaming laptops are in stock everywhere and you know if you can't get a desktop GPU for MSRP why not buy a laptop because you can get like a desktop GPU and laptops these days so yeah there might actually be what we all have to move to one day but I'll do a dedicated video on that let me get back to the SAU me the Zap table looks pretty good it's it looks very similar to a razor blade to be honest it's got that whole like brushed aluminium look that Apple has made famous and that I really like I think it looks awesome and it's going to have a GTX 1060 in it which is not a bad gaming chip at all and it's gonna have some laptop CPU in it it's gonna probably be an i7 something and then it's got an SSD and some ramen if it is gonna be quite expensive it's gonna come to market at the price of around $1500 which I think considering the prices of competing laptops I think for a laptop with the gtx 1060 in it that's a little too much but then again the razor blades current generation laptops do have a 1016 the man they go for more than that so it'll be interesting to see how the build quality compares of the two in other news some youtuber who I don't know how to say his name to be honest and this is probably very embarrassing because he does have he does have more subscribers than most countries of people in them but he's recently broken the concurrent viewer rate for a livestream of a game now this he actually broke 1 million people watching at one time which is pretty insane the actual amount was 1.1 million and it was a fortnight stream where he got a bunch of apparently they were all spanish-speaking like gamers and it was like a hundred people match and it was really exciting now this comes just a week after some other guy who his name I don't know broke the twitch record for concurrent views for a livestream which was also a match of fortnight being played and that was 600,000 something people watching at one time which is also amazing but it's interesting to see that like it seems almost as though YouTube had to like coordinate so that that record of most concurrent viewers wasn't held by a twitch stream yeah I thought that was interesting oh yeah and on final note news confirmable what the story was let me just check typically sorry death just happened oh yeah case was just a little bit there's something super exciting it's gonna happen soon anyways let me get back to the tech news what was I saying oh yes HTC vive no no why these videos always end on the HTC vive pro for some reason because I think I always kind of end the part where I talk about the vive pro in in massive disinterest kind of like kind of like oh yeah this is the vive pro this is what's happening with it I don't care and that's probably not right of me because I think it's quite a cool technology and I there me there I am backtracking again but anyway let me just get into the story the vive pro has had its minimum requirements announced and they're pretty terrifying so because it's got such a high resolution it's got a 77 percent increase in resolution we're now going to be looking at a minimum requirement of a gtx 1070 to power it which is crazy the CPU requirements is still the same it's like an FX 8350 which you know if that's the minimum requirement it means the cpu requirement isn't really a thing but yeah gtx 1070 that means that if you don't have a gaming rig with at least a 1070 in it at this point and you want to get into super high resolution VR it's gonna be really expensive for you to do at the time because yes no GPUs anyway that's all I have for today thank you very much for watching I'm sorry that you had to listen to to this happening and that falling but thank you very much for tuning in and I'll see you this weekend with more not more tech news with a different video anyway bye bye