The Pursuit of Optimal Performance: Laptops Under 20 Millimeters Thick and GTX 1080

We're already getting pretty close to achieving optimal performance in laptops under 20 millimeters thick, with the latest Razer Blade models showcasing this feat. These thin and powerful laptops are a testament to the progress being made in the field of computer hardware design. The new Razer Blades feature the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080, a graphics processing unit known for its exceptional performance and power efficiency.

Thinner Laptops: A Growing Trend

The trend of creating thinner and more compact laptops is on the rise, with many manufacturers pushing the boundaries of what's possible in terms of form factor and performance. This trend is driven by consumer demand for devices that are both powerful and portable. The latest generation of laptops is designed to meet these demands, with features like whisper-thin designs, leather jackets, and Max Q cooling systems.

The Importance of Micro-ATX Motherboards

When it comes to laptop design, there's a growing recognition that micro-ATX motherboards offer the perfect balance between performance and portability. Unlike traditional ATX motherboards, which are overkill for most users, micro-ATX boards provide a compact and efficient solution for laptops. However, despite their many advantages, micro-ATX motherboards still struggle to gain traction in terms of demand. This lack of demand is due in part to the limited availability of compatible cases, which can be a major barrier to entry for laptop manufacturers.

The Case of Fantech's Project 217

Fantech's new case, previously known as Project 217, is an example of how innovative design can drive progress in the field of micro-ATX motherboard compatibility. This sleek and compact case is designed to accommodate the latest generation of laptops with micro-ATX motherboards, offering a solution that's both functional and visually appealing. Fantech's commitment to innovation has made it one of the most popular brands in the industry, and their new case is likely to play a significant role in driving adoption of micro-ATX motherboard designs.

The Enthusiast Perspective: A Case for Micro-ATX

From an enthusiast's perspective, the appeal of micro-ATX motherboards lies in their ability to provide a balance between performance and portability. Unlike traditional ATX motherboards, which offer excessive expandability but are overkill for most users, micro-ATX boards provide a more focused approach to system design. This focus on simplicity and efficiency has led many enthusiasts to seek out micro-ATX designs that can be easily integrated into compact laptops.

The Lack of Demand: A Barrier to Progress

Despite the many advantages of micro-ATX motherboards, there's a growing recognition that demand for these boards is limited. This lack of demand is due in part to the limited availability of compatible cases, which can make it difficult for manufacturers to design and produce micro-ATX laptops that meet consumer expectations. However, with the introduction of Fantech's new case, there's hope that this trend may begin to shift.

The Future of Laptop Design: Trends and Expectations

As we look to the future of laptop design, it's clear that there are many trends and expectations at play. The pursuit of optimal performance and power efficiency will continue to drive innovation in the field of computer hardware design. With the latest generation of laptops showcasing the power and flexibility of GTX 1080 processors, it's likely that we'll see even more exciting developments in the months and years ahead.

Tech Quickies: A Platform for Enthusiast Content

For those interested in staying up-to-date on the latest developments in laptop design and technology, Tech Quickies is an essential platform. Written by John, a renowned expert in his field, this show provides in-depth analysis and commentary on the latest trends and innovations in computer hardware design. With its focus on enthusiast content, Tech Quickies has become a go-to destination for those looking to stay informed about the latest developments in laptop technology.

The Power of Community: Collaborative Content Creation

Tech Quickies is more than just a show; it's a community-driven platform that celebrates the passion and creativity of its audience. With the help of talented contributors, John creates engaging content that's both informative and entertaining. The show's emphasis on collaboration has helped to build a loyal following among enthusiasts who appreciate the dedication and expertise that goes into each episode.

The Importance of Feedback: A Key Aspect of Community Engagement

For a platform like Tech Quickies, feedback is essential for driving engagement and ensuring that the content remains relevant and informative. By encouraging audience participation and responding to comments and questions, John creates a dialogue that's both collaborative and inclusive. This approach has helped to build trust with his audience and foster a sense of community around the show.

Conclusion

The pursuit of optimal performance in laptops under 20 millimeters thick is an ongoing challenge that requires innovation and creativity from manufacturers and enthusiasts alike. With the latest Razer Blade models showcasing exceptional power and efficiency, it's clear that we're making progress towards a future where high-performance devices are both portable and accessible. As we look to the future of laptop design, it's essential that we continue to prioritize collaboration, community engagement, and the pursuit of excellence in every aspect of our work.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enuh hey you got it okay good and we are now live we're late but yeah we're eight minutes late it's not it's not yeah for us that's really not bad like eight minutes is pretty damn bad but like yeah for our track record i feel like that's not the worst thing it's like going one mile over the speed limit it's like who cares compared to last week where we went 50 over the speed limit had our car impounded because we were like we were so late that people got the time zone wrong and thought that we were a little bit early because we were like 58 minutes late so people thought we might have been two minutes early how does that even happen it's just when time zones start coming into play yeah so good anyways this week we have lots of topics most of which are amd based there is so much amd news which is great because their stock needs to come up um so hopefully that goes well but we'll get into that in a moment other than that we also have a 200hz ultra wide monitor and north korea has started manufacturing their own ipad what does that look like i don't know let's find out and we're going to start the intro using the stream deck so hopefully this works i just tried it like a million times and it did so we'll see that was awkward oh no but it's fancy but it doesn't work it's worked before it worked fine like literally literally just good when we weren't live it worked completely okay tearing it broke well i don't know what to tell you hang on say hi to taryn everybody hi i'm trying to get this here just close give it give us a second close this thing you know oh god it's gone so this this is the stream deck as you guys it's very fancy yeah what did that do well we can't see now because no hmm well just click on it okay it worked when we weren't live oh just click on it oh good gracious that kind of sums things up right now there's no expert integration right now that's the issue they have obs but they don't have x-plays what so i told them that that's important and like it is we don't need windows anything other than 10 or or xsplit screw it anyways i fixed it you can screw things with their screwdrivers that would be fantastic thank you i fix it also ltx tech carnival 2017 if you want to go to that get some tickets meet me there and squarespace thank you very much to squarespace i'm going to show this back to the top and then i'm going to try to use the stream deck nope going to click on it that worked better sometimes an easier solution is better not always i feel bad because i was kind of attacking elgato on twitter because their stream deck only works with windows 10 and i don't like windows 10 but i like the stream deck and like i have one now because cat boyler bought one for me which was like amazing well but i can't use it i use windows 10. are you currently using the version of windows that has the current least market penetration except for maybe vista probably close to that okay but like supporting the last two is a fairly general thing i i think that's fair but okay anyways i still think it's a super cool product it is for a pretty niche crowd but still a super cool product so i'm actually not trying to roast them by having it not work right now there's something going wrong because it was totally working flawlessly when we were offline and i will completely admit to that so that's how it always happens it works perfectly when no one's looking taran is the one that's trying to do the review on this thing so if you guys are interested in the stream deck and have any specific questions about it or anything like that hit taren up on on twitter i don't do you know what his handle is i don't know handles h that yeah that sounds right so te at taren vh on twitter if you have any specific questions about the stream deck he will vet those see if they're important enough and maybe include them in his review but to start the show we've got amd news not stream deck news the first of the main amd news topics is amd announces new thread ripper details and these are pretty freaking juicy you want to start firing through them i'll get this on screen yeah so threadripper is conv confirmed to be half of an epic processor that's epyc and i had when i first read this i had to slide a gary johnson moment uh where i didn't i thought it was an acronym but it's not it's just epic spelled with the y because it's supposed to be their super high end thing so um we're looking at 16 cores and 32 threads on the top end made of two processor dies so that's pretty interesting um all products feature 64 lanes of pci express with 60 of those uh coming off of the chipset uh for reference uh the top end of the new intel i9s on the other side are 44 so you're getting quite a bit more with this um all products featuring ddr4 quad channel ram pretty standard 16 megs of level 3 cache an x399 chipset which is so annoying because i saw this i had yet another moment like that where i saw x399 i'm just like is intel releasing like two families of chipsets back-to-back because of two nine-nine but they're not this is an this is an amd thing like so uh yeah i i wonder if they're just trying to set sintel with the naming a little bit there ours is 100 better and yeah and like and you're not going to want to name your next platform this one because we already had it and yeah exactly the naming schemes for the last like few years just i can't even get over it and i know you guys are probably even like tired of hearing it at this point because i feel like every single video that a product has a stupid name uh like the like the surface pro instead of being the surface pro 5 or almost uh any razer laptop at this point like it's just it's so frustrating that all the reviewers freak out about it i don't know how interesting it is for the viewers but like uh just ugh i don't know at some point i'm just expecting someone to get sick of it like a new company start mod model name company name one company product name one and just start one two four yeah exactly yeah perfect sku one product one done why not we've made 500 products what is this product's name 500. it's it's like intel's first ever process was what was what the 4004 what happened to one through 4003 like like i know there was a reason behind it but still you know anyway but okay so there's a new there's a rumor about the threadripper and that rumor is that the threadripper might be under 1 000 which due to the you know more recent news from the intel camp is a little bit cheaper the 16 core version of the course which is on the top of the top end is 18 cores and cost 2 grand yeah the 16 core i don't know the pricing off top of my head but you have to think it's at least a 1500 part you know so this is gonna this is gonna be quite a bit cheaper yeah and like this isn't this is a like a random tweet leak kind of deal thing if it even is a leak this is a little loose but yeah i don't know 849 is insanely cheap for what you're getting and the thing is that that sounds like a move amd would try to pull so i'm not even like way too it doesn't seem unrealistic this seems like something they would do i mean there's also the whole ipc argument and what single threaded like yeah there's more to it for sure but you know at the same time verizon's been mostly good as far as single threaded so far so you have to think okay then then we've got eve i'm just going to try to power through some amd news here hopefully everyone wants to hear about amd stuff i do it's kind of what's interesting right now um so amd trims prices of the ryzen 7 1700 and the ryzen 1700x uh so i showed that to you guys on stream the current price of the 1700 is 319 dollars that's going down by 10. or sorry the current price is 3.29 it's going down by 10 to 319. a major difference but the 3 1700x which was 399 is going down by 50 bucks to 349 and the 1800x has a little bit of a smaller change it's going from 499 to 469 with a savings of 30. that that 1700x discount is pretty sick actually it's pretty substantial it's just like booking a hotel at disney world the more expensive thing gets the bigger discount when it goes on sale and that's kind of what's happening here well not entirely not entirely but it is the most expensive you're not going to you're not going to you're not going to um save this much on the very low end though yeah that's you know i think you know 50 you know get yourself get yourself a triple a title get yourself a few 12 packs of mountain dew get yourself whatever else you're into yeah fill the mini fridge there you go there you go uh but yeah i know i think that's pretty cool i think it's really close to my nightstand with the mini fridge i'm thirsty middle of the night just reach over my fridge is all the way downstairs now it's like get some nuka cola yeah perfect um yeah but like i i think that's pretty substantial 400 to 350. there's that like golden number that's like around it was 300 for a long time but then i think there's been some inflation and now it might be like 350 right but for a long time like consoles were right around 300 like a lot of like nicer things that you could get for like your house like different tabletop things and whatnot tried to aim at like 300 because it was a digestible but relatively expensive item that you could buy but like i digestible like you could save up for this over a little bit and get it and it would probably be fine yes that's the trick in this industry right you only you want to price things high but not too high and there's there's always a spot to hit there so i think that might help them actually getting to that 350 number that's pretty cool and on top of that amd vega release dates this is cool the vega frontier edition card will be available on june 27th can we bring up a picture of that because it looks pretty hopefully they've got it in here because it yeah that's pretty cool i like it you might not be able to tell from the screen cap there but the that little yellow thing on the upper right is it's actually it's a cube it lights up it's illuminated the r of course for radeon so yeah and it also comes in a kind of a reverse color scheme i think they have a gold one with like a blue cube on it too so stupid click bait stuff come on anantic i've always hated like not to rag on a nantech while we're here but i've always hated when there's article click bait ads on a site that is based around articles because like it makes you think that like reverse hair loss was this brilliantly simple home remedy anantec is now talking about like uh this the secret that'll cure your diabetes and this ear tinnitus ending trick thing and like weird other stuff hashtag fake news except it literally is yeah but yeah yeah but yeah that's a pretty sick looking card i'm also stoked that it's coming soon because i feel like vega has been this like cherry that's been dangled in front of everyone for so freaking long and it's been actually really annoying because people have been asking me forever on my stream on this stream on all the comments on all the videos on the forums everywhere like oh should i buy this card or should i wait for vega and it's been like i have no idea yeah because i don't know when vega is coming information has been a little bit hard to come by i actually wonder if they're going to have that sick looking shroud for the consumer line because the frontier edition is it's more of a professional's card you know so it's not really for gaming yeah yeah it sounds like the founders edition there there's a lot of originality going on over there x399 the founders edition now they need to combine the two the x 399 founders edition oh good or sorry frontier frontier edition frontier edition i'll get it right sorry about that frontier edition come on guys anyways that's actually super cool i'm really stoked on that release date and i'm assuming that because like as far as i know we don't have one yet so i'm assuming that means that we're getting one fairly soon and we'll be able to like screw around with it which will be cool um i look forward to it yeah the the frontier edition of amd's is amd's first batch of vega based cards marketed towards early adopters completely unlike the founders edition yeah okay a price has not been announced um so that sort of sucks it's going to i mean if it's a pro level card it's going to be it's going to be like quadro level probably so it's going to be pretty high it will yeah it would be many dollars is not going to be cheap um some intel news finally intel getting on the board so much amd news intel announces skylake x bringing 18 core hcc silicon to consumers for two thousand dollars they've also simultaneously announced kb like x which is very confusing yes so so skylake x is like the super high end and then kb like x at least for now is going to be i think mainly four core eight thread i7s right which were going through puberty there apparently yeah but uh that was one so so we're not used to seeing four core eight thread skus being considered an enthusiast product but apparently now at least some of them are so that's happening as well yeah i it's very speaking of confusing naming schemes but yeah top end i9 18 cores 36 threads uh 2 000 it's cool but i think this is going to be an interesting interesting fight and i think at least um as far as our our viewers are concerned amd's probably going to win this fight because just the value proposition of those dollar amounts is pretty intense i feel bad for anyone who bought a 6950x with this puny 10 cores because they're selling they're selling a 10 core i9 as the lowest end i9 they have score excuse going from 10 to 18 cores so if you spent that much money on the 6950x i feel bad for you son like i got 18 problems i guess i got yeah but only having 10 isn't one of them i failed that pretty hard let's revisit this joke i feel like this is worth like processing the background for a few minutes yeah okay cool uh speaking about processing in the background possibly not happening anymore elon musk to trump you quit paris so i quit you um this is some political jargon so we're probably not going to spend too much time on this but elon musk and disney boss didn't know about that part quit trump's business panel over the paris pullout basically what happened uh there was this thing called the paris accord it was agreed to last year it was a ton of countries getting together saying hey let's do something about global warming then trump got elected and he said nah i i ain't about that he's going to try to pull the u.s out of it and elon musk is not very happy about it so elon is no longer sitting on i think president trump had like some sort of technology council advisory group thing elon's not too happy with the paris decision so he's pulling out and that's pretty much that yeah so elon's tweet said am departing presidential councils climate change is real leaving paris is not good for america or the world and there you go although in counter news because i'm trying to explain the whole playing field i believe there was like a surge in the stock market or something i haven't stock market did well or something if you're interested in that go check it out somewhere else we're not very good at covering political topics that's not our mo correlation is not causation or is it decide for yourself also it should be noted however you feel about this issue the paris accord actually to my knowledge it doesn't mandate that the signatories actually do anything so it's not like oh you must reduce carbon emissions by x percentage by year y or there will be consequences i don't think it does anything like that um but uh there which whichever way you feel about this uh there you go so this is another like uh kind of political topic kind of deal where we're probably not going to dive into it too far but you guys might be interested so we're at least going to give you like the kernel so that if you are interested in it you can go try to find the whole popped corn i don't know where i was going with that but the whole piece of popcorn yeah well one is a precursor the other is yeah i guess i guess that works yeah okay i don't know um so this is u.s approved social media background checks for visa applicants the so the reason why we thought this might be interesting to you guys is social media i guess tech things social media stuff i don't know this is definitely tech is it i mean like it's social media sure but i mean like like do you call someone who's on twitter a lot of techie go on their forums go on our technica go on any of the major sites that cover tech news there's always coverage about either privacy or net neutrality which affects social media and is it's discussed as a tech topic so i think it's completely appropriate yeah i've always just thought it's been a little weird but i do agree with saying it at all there's a questionnaire which we can check out here in a second um because it was linked by the glorious person who made this dock so here we go here's the wow okay um yeah we're not gonna look that closely at that social media identifier name slash handle social media platform so you can see that right there so i guess you'd have to declare i wonder how like what is defined by social media please provide your unique username for any websites or applications you have used to create or share content photos videos status updates etc as part of a public profile within the last five years so like what qualifies if someone is not from the states and they use linustechtips.com i think they would have to declare their username and the site let's just get right down to brass tags well if you have a pornhub account you're leaving comments on that does that i mean seriously there's no but like i think it would if you want to embarrass yourself to that like point like because that is in a for it says it's status updates which is just text and then etc there's also the thing where i also wonder how they would find out like let's say you just put let's let's say you just put twitter all i use is twitter i have a public twitter handle you put that down you you declare it so if you had five other things would they necessarily know where maybe they're gonna like cross search your handle they could potentially download 52 and find you on pornhub as well i don't know if you're maybe if you're a known person of interest to customs and border protection and you only declare one handle and be like oh yeah we need to like look at this guy so it's there's this huge like veil of secrecy around it you know because you don't know exactly what that is it's really vague yeah and it's really vague to the point where like i feel like if you signed up for some random site 4.45 years ago and completely forgot about it tons of people have yeah accounts just around the internet they've forgotten about it because they don't need oh i want to access an article when i have to sign up for a super free account i'm never going to use it again but um it does say though that uh this isn't like an auto request it says that additional information would only be requested when the department determines that quote unquote such information is required to confirm identity or conduct more rigorous national security vetting so this sounds like they're going to ask you if you're already like flagged if you're already some kind of person of interest to them it also says if you're unsure of the answer to a question please provide a response to the best of your knowledge so i don't feel like you're going to get crushed the vast majority of dealings with the federal government is you're not going to get in ridiculous trouble as long as you're trying to tell the truth like that's kind of how the irs operates you know they they don't they don't typically come after people for honest mistakes they really go at you if you're if they think you're like intense potentially like lying or defrauding so don't forget linustechtips.com if you're trying to get a visa in the u.s make sure you list that as a social media platform i want as many us officials searching my site for people's usernames as possible just because it sounds fun okay so if we get guys in like dark dark suits showing up yeah one day at the door and sunglasses awesome yeah yeah super cool i'm excited what's the chat saying about this i kind of want to know i have no idea probably nothing good will do yes thank you very much roy i appreciate i appreciate your uh your willingness to do so yeah at least i'm a u.s citizen yeah i feel the same way i was i was actually crossing the border the other day i was driving down um to bellingham and i got a pretty gruff gruff border officer i gave my passport he saw it was from the u.s his whole tone completely changed oh welcome back he was just starting becoming super chill with me because because i have bc license plate so he also thought that was canadian but he saw that and he was just it was so funny but so another person come over the border pick up a darn package so many of them oh lord okay my favorite question is what are you coming over for i'm just picking up a package uh sir it's it's 3am why are you picking up a package i don't sleep man well yeah you you know what i would say if i were you and this would also not be lying um is that the border weights are much less yeah there's a few i've had to get into it a little bit more a couple times but that's that's a big one there's i can just roll up and there's usually only nobody or one or two people in front of me which greater vancouver has two major highway uh border crossings and they're both usually extremely busy so yeah quite a while yeah next up is north korea's ipad which is just i oh wait air quotes ipad yeah yeah so a north korean company come named wow sure uh it released a new tablet and they called it the ipad so that is not yeah okay good it's it says in the corner of this photo actual ipad designed by apple in california i like how designed by apple and california made it all the way to that subtext goodness okay i okay i think the reason why i made it there was because he was trying to be like making a joke like not designed by some random obviously a joke like it's not made by kim jong-un and pyongyang so yeah yeah yeah apple hasn't commented on this development its use of its most popular trademarks and while the company undoubtedly isn't pleased with it it's unclear what kind of legal action it could take against a company that's controlled by the north korean government i guarantee you they don't care their lawyers don't care um i don't think there's really any significant mark in north korea for western consumer goods at the same time you know there is a market in earth yeah there's not going to be for that this is going to be shipped out in north korea it's probably going to be one of those dealies like with their radios and tvs over there oh it's set to like three channels that only broadcast government-approved like content and propaganda this is probably going to be the same thing where they have it running through like a firewall just for north korea yeah so apple's not going to care it doesn't matter so it can this is fantastic it is a 1 gigahertz cpu 512 megabytes of ram 8 gigs of internal storage 16 gigs of external storage and eight inch display and it promises six hours of battery life honestly that is not quite as bad as i expected the next part though is rather fantastic it's currently unknown what kind of apps the device will be able to run in a region like north korea which is not surprising but it has a total of 28 websites that it can access that's a pretty good number of websites it's probably like eight gigabytes is also that's a lot of compressed jpegs i think linus owns more than 28 domains just because he like likes buying domains yeah so so how many images of the dealer leader is that eight gigabytes and how much how much does how much would like you know there has to be a minimum quota like you you have to have a certain percentage of your storage on your tablet filled with various angles and various images of the of the leader yes oh yeah it like and like the the the uh the idea the the uh the game is probably something like it's like space invaders except it's like you know kim jong-un like a little fighter fighting the capitalists or something like that it's probably something like that so shooting american flags in an asteroid simulator oh yeah bastards yeah but so so yeah that's happening uh that's pretty epic can apple even do anything to stop this i seriously doubt it unless apple decides to get an army which at this point they could probably do they probably could but i mean i mean again like if if you're going to say okay will this violate some sort of like intellectual property statute with north or not statute but agreement that north korea is probably not even a signatory to they still have to enforce their laws inside their own borders it's kind of like you know team america world police where hans blix comes in yeah or what or we'll write you a letter saying how angry we are with you so yeah probably nothing's going to happen and some folks in north korea will be getting their um commie pads so yeah there you have it after that we've got a soos with an announcement of a 35-inch rog swift pg-35vq display with quantum dots and a 200 hertz refresh rate my question is i'm actually getting a little bit disturbed by this asus where the heck is the 4k um hdr g-sync beautiful swift that they announced at ces that i saw in person working why can't i buy one i tweeted them and they just liked it they didn't say anything oh the long troll okay well you know you know better than to see a prototype at a trade show and then be like oh where can i buy it it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it doesn't matter maybe only work for the length of the show and it like died five seconds you don't know that so funny story about the seeing the prototype thing uh in 2012 just before christmas in 2012 i decided uh that i was good this was remember 2012. this is early kickstarter this is when people still like believe believe me that things might happen i saw a hammer on there it was super cool it's called the colbar hammer let me see if i can find this is this like a great sword the coal bar here it is cold war hammer by lance brown oh my goodness let's see was i right was it 2012 this thing does look pretty cool um yeah hit updates so yeah expected delivery of june 2013 and my gift to him was the backing of the project um the project launched april 25th 2013. okay so it was a 2013 but it's been a long time but it's been a while yeah um so i i backed the coal bar hammer i decided to back this thing from my dad it's super cool in theory it usually i'm not into like multi-tool stuff but this one actually looks pretty sweet you can see like a lot of people covered it you can turn it into a crowbar instead of just being a hammer it's it's a socket wrench like it's a whole bunch of different things and it's it's their destruction tools you can take them apart completely it's that's amazing like it's pretty cool right it's still not out but the best part about this because most kickstarter projects if it's been like four years they would have just given up right kolbar has not given up at this point if you go to their update staff which i check every once in a blue moon just out of interest 5th month 10 day 17th year they are still giving updates for backers only so i can't see because i'm not logged in but dang it's basically a modular hammer why is it taking so long like does it does does it have bluetooth or something like what what like why is it and yeah that's the other part okay so the whole reason why i got to this story is in their demonstration videos they have one and they like the guy like jams it in a little thing and hangs off of it and like they they do tons of tests with it so i'm like okay you know what i'll back this because they physically have the product and i can clearly see that it is working maybe it was a very very very well done hologram oh man at this point i have to wonder if it's been four years if that thing crushed my soul that destroyed any possibility of me being into kickstarter well that like fueled the kickstarter kickfarted series well it's funny because it's a literal hammer so it's smashed it's your face it's smashed my face yeah kickstarter there you go just buy a hammer and a multi-tool i know i was trying to like my dad is totally um of the persuasion and i agree with this to be completely honest of just buy the damn tool use it till it breaks and then buy another one and like toss them around do whatever the the job is what's important but try to not buy one that's like too crap but like he's not super into like oh this is such a amazing tool he just like wants something that he can do the job with yeah so i was going to try to buy him something that was above the tier that he normally shops at but not like so he doesn't have to be the one that buys it so he doesn't feel bad about spending too much money on something but it's also not like god tea or yeah it's just kind of a cool nifty thing and then nope never got it completely failed so when a chat said i hate sand yeah it's coarse and it gets everywhere it's just the stuff it's funny every time it is it absolutely is uh speaking of funny every time every single time it's funny we're gonna go to looking at channel super fun on floatplane uh so here we go this is a floatplane club where his channel's super fun minis youtube comments this was actually genuinely hilarious i had a great time with this one so everyone that you can see in the thumbnail right now including the the one and only nikki v and john who's sitting right beside me reading through comments what you're doing every day you're loving it various platforms and but colton could have picked far meaner things there's some pretty intense some of them are brutal dennis had some pretty brutal ones this one on screen how to be dentist be terrible at everything cheat and then lie about cheating that honestly sounds a little bit more like linus with live life is like the perpetual if you watch kenny versus spinning blindness on channel super fun is kenny i can't remember a channel super fun where he did not cheat in some way or attempt to cheat yeah i think the last the best scrap yard wars am i right there you go yeah the batting cages wasn't a competition because we were just literally hitting balls but other than that yeah every time so you can see it scrubs pretty quick which is cool you can watch this video now if you're interested which is cool and you can even download to watch it later you can which is awesomely fantastic scrapyard wars if you guys have been enjoying that the last episode of scrapyard wars will be on floatplane this weekend they've been on full plane every saturday so far but the main editor for them edzel got pretty freaking sick actually um so the next one is going to be slightly delayed it will be coming out on sunday instead of on saturday but it is still coming on float plane first so you can see the actually insane probably the most insane conclusion of any scrap headboards we've had the last season of skype rewards season four was my favorite one but in terms of conclusions this last conclusion is insane and by far the most nutty freaking balls conclusion we've ever had like no question about it at all hey you don't know do you i've only watched through the first episode i have not had time to watch it i i fully intend to watch the rest of them i'm not just saying that but uh everyone that was a part of it has been trying to stay rather close-lipped about it around the office because a lot of people around the office if i don't have any much going on this weekend i might just sit down and like binge like the last couple of them yeah so yeah i think this week not not to uh bash on my own platform but i think this week a fair amount of the things that were released were from computex so they're on both platforms but we do have a few different things that that mean-ish youtube comments on channel superfund is genuinely hilarious would holly recommend that uh there's some tech quickie stuff on here why do people still use fax machines if you guys like the sketch that we did um for our scanners as fast as possible uh you're going to love this one um so yes why do people still use fax machines uh featuring the one the only dennis liao um currently on floatplane club just went up today and yeah hey it's you hey there he is it's coming out of a phone i love it i'm gonna show you guys just the first little bit of you're sitting there minding your own business and you go what's that oh my goodness oh my god it's a bomb so you call your friends anyways that's your teaser and there's there's another episode um about um about seo i believe which yeah isn't as exciting but it's still very interesting i cool a cool topic the tech wiki is interesting because it doesn't have like the like sex appeal at certain channels but it's more interesting than a lot of other things luke has basically summed up my entire life it's not what i was trying to say well you said anyways if you need a website for whatever reason you can go to squarespace and get your website on squarespace you can save 10 by using offer code wan they have 24 7 live chat and email support it is 12 bucks a month and if you subscribe for a year you get a domain rolled in with that they have a commerce module so you can sell your stuff online they have a cover page feature so you can have one nice beautiful scrollable page and everyone can now publish content in the apple news format directly from their 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because sometimes we have sponsors and we talk about buying it or whatever and people in canada where we're from are like guys you're from our own region and shipping sucks for this so they're offering another option which is pretty cool also ltx if you want to show up to a weird place and meet us weird people and do weird things uh you can go you can buy tickets for ltx i'm gonna move to that thing there we go so you can go to the worst url to say out loud ever which is ticket rocket dot co slash event slash details slash 97246 ltx-2017 come meet me we can talk about burger trivia oh my god you should have a trivia booth we'll figure something out that would actually be awesome i'm doing vr stuff taren's editing a video you can do the like what is that geoguesser yeah no promises but it's a fantastic idea i'm gonna look into it i actually like that a lot that would be freaking great and back to the real show okay what is there even a talk about still this week was weird most of the like interesting news from this week is in literal videos that linus hosted from computex but um microsoft has rolled out not one but two bad builds on the windows insider program thanks guys it's like every so often they're like they remember oh we're that company that made windows me we should remind people that from time to time and they do things like this windows me i don't know millennium edition no i know i just don't hear it called that very often but yeah that's kind of how they marketed it like me oh it's my version of windows for regular people in the year 2000 except it wasn't it just made everyone very very mad because it didn't work yeah the marketing was terrible but windows 7 professional updates so yeah uh i like i don't know huh okay and now people in the chat are saying or appear to think that i said windows meme emi oh my god which it kind of was someone needs to make a custom microsoft os that is skinned all with memes it's like every day when you log on there's like a different courage wolf as your background he's saying different things cortana is advice dog is it just advice dog yeah yeah it should just be it's been a while since that meme was popular but like yeah you could even do like a two-in-one with that you could have it be a vice dog but it could start every sentence to you with your dog like the exhibit mean there you go yes whenever your system has like a pretty heavy slowdown and then comes up with like an error it can be slowpoke that'd be good please someone do this that would be fantastic you're you know what you're like you're you're you're developing an idea for another lioness tech this video as we speak the custom memes meme yeah there we go oh jeez john's picks what is this this is just crap i sent to james okay what is this tell the people tell the people okay um well first thing i will do is i did find this earlier and i did read it but i've been busy since then so let me click on the article first and write to speak freely about engineering is subject of first amendment lawsuit an engineer was fined 500 for discussing traffic light engineering without a license so this happened down in oregon which is not too far from here uh so oh i heard about it apparently this guy sent the state some advice about um traffic light timings um specifically he wanted to make yellows longer um which is odd which obviously can be very important for traffic little reasons and also not to surprise people when they think they have enough time to drive through an intersection but they actually don't anyway so um but instead of the state saying hey thank you for speaking out concerned citizens let's have a look at this they instead slap them with a 500 fine for doing something along the lines of practicing engineering without a license now as some of you know i went to law school i have a law license which is currently inactive because why do i need it right now but i do have one from north carolina and it there and in every other state and also up here in canada you can't do a thing called unauthorized practice of law you can't practice law or give legal advice without the licenses against the law so for engineering i also believe every state has like a professional license by for engineers licensed buyer for engineers where they're doing the same thing but just like i can sit here on the lan show and generally discuss legal topics like i am doing right now actually without giving anyone specific advice you would think an engineer could do the same thing but the state of oregon is saying to him no you can't even talk about it without a license because i think this guy doesn't have his license yet so this is a huge problem um ended up going to court uh he ended up suing uh the state of oregon uh for breach of his first amendment rights which is free speech you can say what you want to um and i think this is still going on but they basically said that he can talk about this as long as the lawsuit is pending so that is where we are with this okay yeah interesting i don't understand legal stuff so i have concerns and questions but i'm just gonna move on because they're probably juvenile uh big leagues 10 million dollar league of legends tournament holy butt chunks team applications for the new lcs open today the buy-in price is 10 million dollars players on the 10 selected teams get a guaranteed salary of at least 75. wait wait wait the buy-in is 10 million yeah that the buy-in for the world series of poker isn't even 10 million dollars how how does that pretty nuts yeah um riot games said its end goal is to create a strong and stable system that's profitable for pro players and provides entertainment for fans in the long term and i guess they plan to do that by charging 10 million dollars for 10 teams which is a hundred million dollars how many people on the team do you know like there would be five active players but you have like a roster where you have yeah adventures like there's there's other stuff going on ugh once the ten teams are determined they are in the league for good ryan says it will offer incentives to teams that play well and penalize the squads that purposefully that purposefully stay at the bottom of the ladder what um team's that tank first for on purpose for some reason why okay so admittedly i don't really watch esports it's been a very long time since i've played lol but uh what i can say in um in more traditional sports um what certain teams at times are especially in the us and canada it doesn't really work this way in europe but in the us and canada teams will be accused of tanking if they have no no hope of making the playoffs so they end up taking for a better draft pick so so whether this has ever actually happened is a matter of debate but like there's accusations of it happening to pop up every now and then so maybe it's something like that you get some kind of extra benefit are you draft picking in league of legends though i don't think so i don't think that's how it works be clear we're not talking about draft picks in terms of like when you're drafting heroes for that game um you know we probably have a lot of people that don't watch sports at all yes we're talking about like like the nfl's college player draft where the worst the worst teams can pick earlier to help make them better so yeah pick a play player like a person again being not not draft picking like oh let's let's ban ezreal or something i don't know why you do that i don't think he's very strong right now someone says they say not to get relegated which may be true so that would be more like a not to get relegated more like soccer you know about promotion relegation okay interesting okay uh that's pretty nuts oh that's that is that is so much a 10 million dollar buy-in i wonder how well they're gonna do i don't know i almost wonder if if they would if if it would help them to have like teens represent specific areas like real sports or traditional sports and assault anybody but i don't see okay i have no idea that's so new that's like a deeper topic but i don't think so because i think with esports it's more of a global thing and because everyone basically everyone is watching online and you can play from anywhere online yeah like i don't think there's a lot of team it's just a little bit more like national spirit like if there was like the american team that happens a lot in like individual sports yeah a little bit more like traditional individual sports you know we did have um a heroes of the dorm in the u.s where uh the larger colleges all enter college teams into this so there's like a little bit of that but yeah so yeah interesting next up we have the first ryzen based all-in-one which is actually pretty crazy it's it's a dell all-in-one let's have a look at her it looks pretty nice actually uh dell inspiron 27 7775 aio it's an eight core andy ryzen seven hey six numbers in a row all right great names pretty freaking nuts yeah well i get the 27's gotta be 27 yes but but even so like even so so it's the seven seven seven five a or 77 75 whatever you want to call it uh amd ryzen 7 chip radeon rx 580 and a 4k lcd screen and it looks pretty good you could actually do some like pretty serious gaming on it with an rx 580 yeah yeah um the the chassis very vaguely reminds me of the the surface studio from microsoft like a little bit you know like the way the mouse is like the way the chassis is yeah yeah some of the 7775 this is worded a little bit weirdly but i can get there i'm gonna i'm gonna jump away from that actually come on in non-tech well i couldn't tell if they were talking whoa i just screwed everything first the diabetes cure now this okay so despite being yes so it's actually the inspiron 27 7000 series the 7775 is a specific version there's multiple versions of it um the low end version is a quad core amd ryzen 5 1400 with an rx 560 with four gigs of gddr5 memory and then 180 watt psu but if you jump up to the high end i believe that one that i just noted is about a thousand dollars um and if you jump to the high end you get an eight core amd ryzen 7 1700 which i had just mentioned and then a radeon rx 580 with eight gigs of gddr5 and a 330 watt power supply and i believe you can get up to 32 gigs of ram with one of these i do hope the lower end one didn't go for like the full like ball and 4k display because there's no way you're going to get 4k consistently it does say have the 4k so i seriously doubt that the low end one so the bare bones one is a grand so there you go here we go if we scroll down a little bit okay they do uh they do a better job so we're display or screen display there we go um yeah so the cheaper one is 1080p it's so still ips so it's still going to be a pretty good looking display but this will be 1080p yeah 1980 that's got to be a typo should be 1920 by 1080. yeah that's pretty interesting isn't it i think that is a typo in terms of usb connections which is like a topic of much debate these days i do see type c which is good so they have two usb 2.0 which is fine they have three usb type a or sorry they have three two usb 2.0 type a which is fine three usb 3.0 type a which is good one usb 3.1 type c which is solid and then one usb 3.1 type a which is also pretty good the webcam is 720p which is like actually a little disappointing um like still seeing stuff showing up in 720p um it's running windows 10 home 64-bit which is about what you'd probably expect that's kind of cool though it looks sharp um i'm happy to see amd getting their products and stuff like this so that's cool yeah it also looks a little bit more elegant than some past gaming aio's scene i mean granted a lot of that is most is more the gpu manufacturers but even so and i think part of this is that it i don't think it's heavily aimed at gaming it's not it's it's something that you can game online yeah if you want it's powerful enough the the higher end one is definitely powerful enough that you could but it looks more like it's designed for like oh if you wanted to edit some video or photos yeah a little bit like says 580 for 4k casual use is great and i would agree with that so yeah yeah there we go okay ah moving on we're a little thin on topics are we talking about um uh the the facial recognition thing with a monkey so we're gonna talk about that where's that that's down here right it's under john's picks this is which is why i didn't know what the heck was going on hashtag shameless you wanna start talking about it i'll get it on the screen so uh there's an article in the guardian here about uh scientists discovering how the brain recognizes recognizes faces by reading the minds of monkeys more specifically analyzing their brain wave patterns yeah it's a little different but you know and what they did was they they looked at their brainwaves and decoded faces that the monkey like human faces that the monkeys remembered and you might be able to see it on the screen capture here but they were almost exactly the same as the subjects appeared in real life which is both cool and a little bit unnerving so you know you start wondering about oh well things like you know reading minds and that and reading thoughts were once purely the realm of science fiction but now you're starting to start to wonder okay you know is this something that you you know actually has has some some water to it you know some of them look like video gamified versions of the real people a little bit yeah so so so the predicted faces are on the right and the actuals are on the left yeah they're pretty close though actually for this one i thought the predicted face was the accurate one and the actual face was not isn't that weird because the actual face on this one actually looks lower resolution than the predicted face which is kind of interesting yeah so you know oh you have to wonder about you know is this does this mean that a person could end up one day with the correct equipment seeing oh what is the person thinking but or who they're thinking about and what they're thinking about they're i think they're also talking about um your brain encodes like faces a certain way and it does much kind of like a gpu would do like mathematical transformations to like if you're if there's a shape on your computer screen and it's like rotating you can see it's like a cube or it's a circle or it's a sphere like whatever else your gpu is doing mathematical transformations to it to figure out what it looks like so the article was saying the brain works similarly where if you have met a person a couple times even if you haven't seen their face from every possible angle your your brain can do these mathematical transformations so when you see the person again maybe you just see them like from the side or like from an angle when they're walking away from you but you can still figure out who it is so it's it seems like it's tapping more into that part of the brain as far as reading like emotional thoughts that might be a little bit different i don't know but someone in the chat said how to hide your porn so like we'd have to make like a version two of that video oh yeah it's like think of your grandma here's how not to think about what you've been looking at yeah yeah yeah so well it's like as soon as you say don't think of a pink elephant you think yeah so yeah yeah yeah how to hide your porn version two mind reading edition that'd be freaking awesome i should make that video at some point in a thousand years this might get litigated this has covered the right deprived the right to privacy cover your own thoughts you know i would certainly think it does but who i mean who knows who knows at this point who knows they're allowed to record well you know when you think in public you implicitly give up your right to privacy yeah of course i could see some lawyer making that argument like hundreds of years from now yeah yeah i don't know but nvidia announces gpus for thinner gaming laptops so they've got a few different things going on uh now in videos looking to find the fastest and most power optimized performance level to allow laptops under 20 millimeters thick and sport a gtx 1080. we're already getting pretty close aren't we like with with the new well like the new razer blades you know you can get a 1080 in those and how thick are those you know i'm not sure an exact thickness for those but he's showing pretty thin freaking laptops right here with this traymark leather jacket very good with his freaking leather jacket max q it's cool thinner laptops is good whisper mode blah blah blah blah we're constantly getting ah see forbes even at least they say from the web but like still come on guys news websites that advertise articles for clickbait news is such a weird situation it really really is because there's tons of people that really can't tell the difference super lame anyways that's that's just a cool thing and videos trying to do that that's cool they'll they will i'm sure succeed if they're going to be this open about the fact that hey we're going to do this yeah they've probably already done it as rock announces itx boards for amd ryzen that's super cool um i've been kind of waiting for i expected it was going to happen faster than it has been but i wanted matx to get very popular there is a serious serious lack of um really good looking micro atx boards out there and that's part of the problem yeah but itx boards too like i i expected to see more of this stuff going on i think with fantech's new case i can't remember the new name for it the old name for it was project217 but as of this computex they have a new name for it i think that might even help because fantastic cases are super popular and this thing's freaking beautiful yeah i just want to talk about micro atx for a second because because when you think about it if you're an enthusiast it has to be the most sensible form factor you know because because no one uses four-way slr crossfire anymore but you get two slots usually micro atx so if you want to expand you can usually get like a little bit more i o like but most people are doing external dax not internal sound cards anymore exactly so you don't really need like but and even if you want like pci express-based storage most people are using m.2 opt-ins coming up so that you don't have to slot it into a traditional slot so it's just like why don't you see more of this because atx is overkill for most people with the amount of expandability that you're just never going to use so yeah and you can get some really nifty kind of small cases but that's part of the problem too there isn't a huge amount of demand on the motherboard side so the cases aren't there yet really there isn't a ton of cases for it because of that and then there isn't a ton of cases for it because of that so people don't want to build that form factor so there isn't a ton of demand for the motherboards they were in like kind of a stuck situation but i wish they'd get a little bit more popular i hate stuck situations ductless schwag says i didn't realize john knew this much stuff yeah i've had a nickel for every time i've heard that have you ever watched tech quickie yeah tech cookie is is more or less unanimously written by john it's it's essentially like it's my channel and it's not i'm basically creative director for whatever it's worth but tons of other people contribute to it too but yes so but like especially on the writing side i'm like entirely but especially on the right i'm trying not to sound like a jerk hogging all the credits so but okay but yeah i know on the writing side it's basically the john show right now so yeah i think that's probably about it for the show today yeah do we do we need to make taffy stretch or stretch like stretch like you know when you come to the end of a program but it's not the end you have like blank space do we need to like oh no no we just get to roll the intro outro i mean intro outro it's the same thing i can try to do it with nope the stream deck's still not working it looks so and look at this when i press the button you can see you can tell it's just one screen because i'm like damaging it hey taryn come look at this that's so sad thank you squarespace is it working or not no it's not ltx 2017. thank you us i guess and thank you i fix it bye guys i'm gonna reset hi it'll work as soon as you stop streaming i just know ituh hey you got it okay good and we are now live we're late but yeah we're eight minutes late it's not it's not yeah for us that's really not bad like eight minutes is pretty damn bad but like yeah for our track record i feel like that's not the worst thing it's like going one mile over the speed limit it's like who cares compared to last week where we went 50 over the speed limit had our car impounded because we were like we were so late that people got the time zone wrong and thought that we were a little bit early because we were like 58 minutes late so people thought we might have been two minutes early how does that even happen it's just when time zones start coming into play yeah so good anyways this week we have lots of topics most of which are amd based there is so much amd news which is great because their stock needs to come up um so hopefully that goes well but we'll get into that in a moment other than that we also have a 200hz ultra wide monitor and north korea has started manufacturing their own ipad what does that look like i don't know let's find out and we're going to start the intro using the stream deck so hopefully this works i just tried it like a million times and it did so we'll see that was awkward oh no but it's fancy but it doesn't work it's worked before it worked fine like literally literally just good when we weren't live it worked completely okay tearing it broke well i don't know what to tell you hang on say hi to taryn everybody hi i'm trying to get this here just close give it give us a second close this thing you know oh god it's gone so this this is the stream deck as you guys it's very fancy yeah what did that do well we can't see now because no hmm well just click on it okay it worked when we weren't live oh just click on it oh good gracious that kind of sums things up right now there's no expert integration right now that's the issue they have obs but they don't have x-plays what so i told them that that's important and like it is we don't need windows anything other than 10 or or xsplit screw it anyways i fixed it you can screw things with their screwdrivers that would be fantastic thank you i fix it also ltx tech carnival 2017 if you want to go to that get some tickets meet me there and squarespace thank you very much to squarespace i'm going to show this back to the top and then i'm going to try to use the stream deck nope going to click on it that worked better sometimes an easier solution is better not always i feel bad because i was kind of attacking elgato on twitter because their stream deck only works with windows 10 and i don't like windows 10 but i like the stream deck and like i have one now because cat boyler bought one for me which was like amazing well but i can't use it i use windows 10. are you currently using the version of windows that has the current least market penetration except for maybe vista probably close to that okay but like supporting the last two is a fairly general thing i i think that's fair but okay anyways i still think it's a super cool product it is for a pretty niche crowd but still a super cool product so i'm actually not trying to roast them by having it not work right now there's something going wrong because it was totally working flawlessly when we were offline and i will completely admit to that so that's how it always happens it works perfectly when no one's looking taran is the one that's trying to do the review on this thing so if you guys are interested in the stream deck and have any specific questions about it or anything like that hit taren up on on twitter i don't do you know what his handle is i don't know handles h that yeah that sounds right so te at taren vh on twitter if you have any specific questions about the stream deck he will vet those see if they're important enough and maybe include them in his review but to start the show we've got amd news not stream deck news the first of the main amd news topics is amd announces new thread ripper details and these are pretty freaking juicy you want to start firing through them i'll get this on screen yeah so threadripper is conv confirmed to be half of an epic processor that's epyc and i had when i first read this i had to slide a gary johnson moment uh where i didn't i thought it was an acronym but it's not it's just epic spelled with the y because it's supposed to be their super high end thing so um we're looking at 16 cores and 32 threads on the top end made of two processor dies so that's pretty interesting um all products feature 64 lanes of pci express with 60 of those uh coming off of the chipset uh for reference uh the top end of the new intel i9s on the other side are 44 so you're getting quite a bit more with this um all products featuring ddr4 quad channel ram pretty standard 16 megs of level 3 cache an x399 chipset which is so annoying because i saw this i had yet another moment like that where i saw x399 i'm just like is intel releasing like two families of chipsets back-to-back because of two nine-nine but they're not this is an this is an amd thing like so uh yeah i i wonder if they're just trying to set sintel with the naming a little bit there ours is 100 better and yeah and like and you're not going to want to name your next platform this one because we already had it and yeah exactly the naming schemes for the last like few years just i can't even get over it and i know you guys are probably even like tired of hearing it at this point because i feel like every single video that a product has a stupid name uh like the like the surface pro instead of being the surface pro 5 or almost uh any razer laptop at this point like it's just it's so frustrating that all the reviewers freak out about it i don't know how interesting it is for the viewers but like uh just ugh i don't know at some point i'm just expecting someone to get sick of it like a new company start mod model name company name one company product name one and just start one two four yeah exactly yeah perfect sku one product one done why not we've made 500 products what is this product's name 500. it's it's like intel's first ever process was what was what the 4004 what happened to one through 4003 like like i know there was a reason behind it but still you know anyway but okay so there's a new there's a rumor about the threadripper and that rumor is that the threadripper might be under 1 000 which due to the you know more recent news from the intel camp is a little bit cheaper the 16 core version of the course which is on the top of the top end is 18 cores and cost 2 grand yeah the 16 core i don't know the pricing off top of my head but you have to think it's at least a 1500 part you know so this is gonna this is gonna be quite a bit cheaper yeah and like this isn't this is a like a random tweet leak kind of deal thing if it even is a leak this is a little loose but yeah i don't know 849 is insanely cheap for what you're getting and the thing is that that sounds like a move amd would try to pull so i'm not even like way too it doesn't seem unrealistic this seems like something they would do i mean there's also the whole ipc argument and what single threaded like yeah there's more to it for sure but you know at the same time verizon's been mostly good as far as single threaded so far so you have to think okay then then we've got eve i'm just going to try to power through some amd news here hopefully everyone wants to hear about amd stuff i do it's kind of what's interesting right now um so amd trims prices of the ryzen 7 1700 and the ryzen 1700x uh so i showed that to you guys on stream the current price of the 1700 is 319 dollars that's going down by 10. or sorry the current price is 3.29 it's going down by 10 to 319. a major difference but the 3 1700x which was 399 is going down by 50 bucks to 349 and the 1800x has a little bit of a smaller change it's going from 499 to 469 with a savings of 30. that that 1700x discount is pretty sick actually it's pretty substantial it's just like booking a hotel at disney world the more expensive thing gets the bigger discount when it goes on sale and that's kind of what's happening here well not entirely not entirely but it is the most expensive you're not going to you're not going to you're not going to um save this much on the very low end though yeah that's you know i think you know 50 you know get yourself get yourself a triple a title get yourself a few 12 packs of mountain dew get yourself whatever else you're into yeah fill the mini fridge there you go there you go uh but yeah i know i think that's pretty cool i think it's really close to my nightstand with the mini fridge i'm thirsty middle of the night just reach over my fridge is all the way downstairs now it's like get some nuka cola yeah perfect um yeah but like i i think that's pretty substantial 400 to 350. there's that like golden number that's like around it was 300 for a long time but then i think there's been some inflation and now it might be like 350 right but for a long time like consoles were right around 300 like a lot of like nicer things that you could get for like your house like different tabletop things and whatnot tried to aim at like 300 because it was a digestible but relatively expensive item that you could buy but like i digestible like you could save up for this over a little bit and get it and it would probably be fine yes that's the trick in this industry right you only you want to price things high but not too high and there's there's always a spot to hit there so i think that might help them actually getting to that 350 number that's pretty cool and on top of that amd vega release dates this is cool the vega frontier edition card will be available on june 27th can we bring up a picture of that because it looks pretty hopefully they've got it in here because it yeah that's pretty cool i like it you might not be able to tell from the screen cap there but the that little yellow thing on the upper right is it's actually it's a cube it lights up it's illuminated the r of course for radeon so yeah and it also comes in a kind of a reverse color scheme i think they have a gold one with like a blue cube on it too so stupid click bait stuff come on anantic i've always hated like not to rag on a nantech while we're here but i've always hated when there's article click bait ads on a site that is based around articles because like it makes you think that like reverse hair loss was this brilliantly simple home remedy anantec is now talking about like uh this the secret that'll cure your diabetes and this ear tinnitus ending trick thing and like weird other stuff hashtag fake news except it literally is yeah but yeah yeah but yeah that's a pretty sick looking card i'm also stoked that it's coming soon because i feel like vega has been this like cherry that's been dangled in front of everyone for so freaking long and it's been actually really annoying because people have been asking me forever on my stream on this stream on all the comments on all the videos on the forums everywhere like oh should i buy this card or should i wait for vega and it's been like i have no idea yeah because i don't know when vega is coming information has been a little bit hard to come by i actually wonder if they're going to have that sick looking shroud for the consumer line because the frontier edition is it's more of a professional's card you know so it's not really for gaming yeah yeah it sounds like the founders edition there there's a lot of originality going on over there x399 the founders edition now they need to combine the two the x 399 founders edition oh good or sorry frontier frontier edition frontier edition i'll get it right sorry about that frontier edition come on guys anyways that's actually super cool i'm really stoked on that release date and i'm assuming that because like as far as i know we don't have one yet so i'm assuming that means that we're getting one fairly soon and we'll be able to like screw around with it which will be cool um i look forward to it yeah the the frontier edition of amd's is amd's first batch of vega based cards marketed towards early adopters completely unlike the founders edition yeah okay a price has not been announced um so that sort of sucks it's going to i mean if it's a pro level card it's going to be it's going to be like quadro level probably so it's going to be pretty high it will yeah it would be many dollars is not going to be cheap um some intel news finally intel getting on the board so much amd news intel announces skylake x bringing 18 core hcc silicon to consumers for two thousand dollars they've also simultaneously announced kb like x which is very confusing yes so so skylake x is like the super high end and then kb like x at least for now is going to be i think mainly four core eight thread i7s right which were going through puberty there apparently yeah but uh that was one so so we're not used to seeing four core eight thread skus being considered an enthusiast product but apparently now at least some of them are so that's happening as well yeah i it's very speaking of confusing naming schemes but yeah top end i9 18 cores 36 threads uh 2 000 it's cool but i think this is going to be an interesting interesting fight and i think at least um as far as our our viewers are concerned amd's probably going to win this fight because just the value proposition of those dollar amounts is pretty intense i feel bad for anyone who bought a 6950x with this puny 10 cores because they're selling they're selling a 10 core i9 as the lowest end i9 they have score excuse going from 10 to 18 cores so if you spent that much money on the 6950x i feel bad for you son like i got 18 problems i guess i got yeah but only having 10 isn't one of them i failed that pretty hard let's revisit this joke i feel like this is worth like processing the background for a few minutes yeah okay cool uh speaking about processing in the background possibly not happening anymore elon musk to trump you quit paris so i quit you um this is some political jargon so we're probably not going to spend too much time on this but elon musk and disney boss didn't know about that part quit trump's business panel over the paris pullout basically what happened uh there was this thing called the paris accord it was agreed to last year it was a ton of countries getting together saying hey let's do something about global warming then trump got elected and he said nah i i ain't about that he's going to try to pull the u.s out of it and elon musk is not very happy about it so elon is no longer sitting on i think president trump had like some sort of technology council advisory group thing elon's not too happy with the paris decision so he's pulling out and that's pretty much that yeah so elon's tweet said am departing presidential councils climate change is real leaving paris is not good for america or the world and there you go although in counter news because i'm trying to explain the whole playing field i believe there was like a surge in the stock market or something i haven't stock market did well or something if you're interested in that go check it out somewhere else we're not very good at covering political topics that's not our mo correlation is not causation or is it decide for yourself also it should be noted however you feel about this issue the paris accord actually to my knowledge it doesn't mandate that the signatories actually do anything so it's not like oh you must reduce carbon emissions by x percentage by year y or there will be consequences i don't think it does anything like that um but uh there which whichever way you feel about this uh there you go so this is another like uh kind of political topic kind of deal where we're probably not going to dive into it too far but you guys might be interested so we're at least going to give you like the kernel so that if you are interested in it you can go try to find the whole popped corn i don't know where i was going with that but the whole piece of popcorn yeah well one is a precursor the other is yeah i guess i guess that works yeah okay i don't know um so this is u.s approved social media background checks for visa applicants the so the reason why we thought this might be interesting to you guys is social media i guess tech things social media stuff i don't know this is definitely tech is it i mean like it's social media sure but i mean like like do you call someone who's on twitter a lot of techie go on their forums go on our technica go on any of the major sites that cover tech news there's always coverage about either privacy or net neutrality which affects social media and is it's discussed as a tech topic so i think it's completely appropriate yeah i've always just thought it's been a little weird but i do agree with saying it at all there's a questionnaire which we can check out here in a second um because it was linked by the glorious person who made this dock so here we go here's the wow okay um yeah we're not gonna look that closely at that social media identifier name slash handle social media platform so you can see that right there so i guess you'd have to declare i wonder how like what is defined by social media please provide your unique username for any websites or applications you have used to create or share content photos videos status updates etc as part of a public profile within the last five years so like what qualifies if someone is not from the states and they use linustechtips.com i think they would have to declare their username and the site let's just get right down to brass tags well if you have a pornhub account you're leaving comments on that does that i mean seriously there's no but like i think it would if you want to embarrass yourself to that like point like because that is in a for it says it's status updates which is just text and then etc there's also the thing where i also wonder how they would find out like let's say you just put let's let's say you just put twitter all i use is twitter i have a public twitter handle you put that down you you declare it so if you had five other things would they necessarily know where maybe they're gonna like cross search your handle they could potentially download 52 and find you on pornhub as well i don't know if you're maybe if you're a known person of interest to customs and border protection and you only declare one handle and be like oh yeah we need to like look at this guy so it's there's this huge like veil of secrecy around it you know because you don't know exactly what that is it's really vague yeah and it's really vague to the point where like i feel like if you signed up for some random site 4.45 years ago and completely forgot about it tons of people have yeah accounts just around the internet they've forgotten about it because they don't need oh i want to access an article when i have to sign up for a super free account i'm never going to use it again but um it does say though that uh this isn't like an auto request it says that additional information would only be requested when the department determines that quote unquote such information is required to confirm identity or conduct more rigorous national security vetting so this sounds like they're going to ask you if you're already like flagged if you're already some kind of person of interest to them it also says if you're unsure of the answer to a question please provide a response to the best of your knowledge so i don't feel like you're going to get crushed the vast majority of dealings with the federal government is you're not going to get in ridiculous trouble as long as you're trying to tell the truth like that's kind of how the irs operates you know they they don't they don't typically come after people for honest mistakes they really go at you if you're if they think you're like intense potentially like lying or defrauding so don't forget linustechtips.com if you're trying to get a visa in the u.s make sure you list that as a social media platform i want as many us officials searching my site for people's usernames as possible just because it sounds fun okay so if we get guys in like dark dark suits showing up yeah one day at the door and sunglasses awesome yeah yeah super cool i'm excited what's the chat saying about this i kind of want to know i have no idea probably nothing good will do yes thank you very much roy i appreciate i appreciate your uh your willingness to do so yeah at least i'm a u.s citizen yeah i feel the same way i was i was actually crossing the border the other day i was driving down um to bellingham and i got a pretty gruff gruff border officer i gave my passport he saw it was from the u.s his whole tone completely changed oh welcome back he was just starting becoming super chill with me because because i have bc license plate so he also thought that was canadian but he saw that and he was just it was so funny but so another person come over the border pick up a darn package so many of them oh lord okay my favorite question is what are you coming over for i'm just picking up a package uh sir it's it's 3am why are you picking up a package i don't sleep man well yeah you you know what i would say if i were you and this would also not be lying um is that the border weights are much less yeah there's a few i've had to get into it a little bit more a couple times but that's that's a big one there's i can just roll up and there's usually only nobody or one or two people in front of me which greater vancouver has two major highway uh border crossings and they're both usually extremely busy so yeah quite a while yeah next up is north korea's ipad which is just i oh wait air quotes ipad yeah yeah so a north korean company come named wow sure uh it released a new tablet and they called it the ipad so that is not yeah okay good it's it says in the corner of this photo actual ipad designed by apple in california i like how designed by apple and california made it all the way to that subtext goodness okay i okay i think the reason why i made it there was because he was trying to be like making a joke like not designed by some random obviously a joke like it's not made by kim jong-un and pyongyang so yeah yeah yeah apple hasn't commented on this development its use of its most popular trademarks and while the company undoubtedly isn't pleased with it it's unclear what kind of legal action it could take against a company that's controlled by the north korean government i guarantee you they don't care their lawyers don't care um i don't think there's really any significant mark in north korea for western consumer goods at the same time you know there is a market in earth yeah there's not going to be for that this is going to be shipped out in north korea it's probably going to be one of those dealies like with their radios and tvs over there oh it's set to like three channels that only broadcast government-approved like content and propaganda this is probably going to be the same thing where they have it running through like a firewall just for north korea yeah so apple's not going to care it doesn't matter so it can this is fantastic it is a 1 gigahertz cpu 512 megabytes of ram 8 gigs of internal storage 16 gigs of external storage and eight inch display and it promises six hours of battery life honestly that is not quite as bad as i expected the next part though is rather fantastic it's currently unknown what kind of apps the device will be able to run in a region like north korea which is not surprising but it has a total of 28 websites that it can access that's a pretty good number of websites it's probably like eight gigabytes is also that's a lot of compressed jpegs i think linus owns more than 28 domains just because he like likes buying domains yeah so so how many images of the dealer leader is that eight gigabytes and how much how much does how much would like you know there has to be a minimum quota like you you have to have a certain percentage of your storage on your tablet filled with various angles and various images of the of the leader yes oh yeah it like and like the the the uh the idea the the uh the game is probably something like it's like space invaders except it's like you know kim jong-un like a little fighter fighting the capitalists or something like that it's probably something like that so shooting american flags in an asteroid simulator oh yeah bastards yeah but so so yeah that's happening uh that's pretty epic can apple even do anything to stop this i seriously doubt it unless apple decides to get an army which at this point they could probably do they probably could but i mean i mean again like if if you're going to say okay will this violate some sort of like intellectual property statute with north or not statute but agreement that north korea is probably not even a signatory to they still have to enforce their laws inside their own borders it's kind of like you know team america world police where hans blix comes in yeah or what or we'll write you a letter saying how angry we are with you so yeah probably nothing's going to happen and some folks in north korea will be getting their um commie pads so yeah there you have it after that we've got a soos with an announcement of a 35-inch rog swift pg-35vq display with quantum dots and a 200 hertz refresh rate my question is i'm actually getting a little bit disturbed by this asus where the heck is the 4k um hdr g-sync beautiful swift that they announced at ces that i saw in person working why can't i buy one i tweeted them and they just liked it they didn't say anything oh the long troll okay well you know you know better than to see a prototype at a trade show and then be like oh where can i buy it it doesn't matter it doesn't matter it doesn't matter maybe only work for the length of the show and it like died five seconds you don't know that so funny story about the seeing the prototype thing uh in 2012 just before christmas in 2012 i decided uh that i was good this was remember 2012. this is early kickstarter this is when people still like believe believe me that things might happen i saw a hammer on there it was super cool it's called the colbar hammer let me see if i can find this is this like a great sword the coal bar here it is cold war hammer by lance brown oh my goodness let's see was i right was it 2012 this thing does look pretty cool um yeah hit updates so yeah expected delivery of june 2013 and my gift to him was the backing of the project um the project launched april 25th 2013. okay so it was a 2013 but it's been a long time but it's been a while yeah um so i i backed the coal bar hammer i decided to back this thing from my dad it's super cool in theory it usually i'm not into like multi-tool stuff but this one actually looks pretty sweet you can see like a lot of people covered it you can turn it into a crowbar instead of just being a hammer it's it's a socket wrench like it's a whole bunch of different things and it's it's their destruction tools you can take them apart completely it's that's amazing like it's pretty cool right it's still not out but the best part about this because most kickstarter projects if it's been like four years they would have just given up right kolbar has not given up at this point if you go to their update staff which i check every once in a blue moon just out of interest 5th month 10 day 17th year they are still giving updates for backers only so i can't see because i'm not logged in but dang it's basically a modular hammer why is it taking so long like does it does does it have bluetooth or something like what what like why is it and yeah that's the other part okay so the whole reason why i got to this story is in their demonstration videos they have one and they like the guy like jams it in a little thing and hangs off of it and like they they do tons of tests with it so i'm like okay you know what i'll back this because they physically have the product and i can clearly see that it is working maybe it was a very very very well done hologram oh man at this point i have to wonder if it's been four years if that thing crushed my soul that destroyed any possibility of me being into kickstarter well that like fueled the kickstarter kickfarted series well it's funny because it's a literal hammer so it's smashed it's your face it's smashed my face yeah kickstarter there you go just buy a hammer and a multi-tool i know i was trying to like my dad is totally um of the persuasion and i agree with this to be completely honest of just buy the damn tool use it till it breaks and then buy another one and like toss them around do whatever the the job is what's important but try to not buy one that's like too crap but like he's not super into like oh this is such a amazing tool he just like wants something that he can do the job with yeah so i was going to try to buy him something that was above the tier that he normally shops at but not like so he doesn't have to be the one that buys it so he doesn't feel bad about spending too much money on something but it's also not like god tea or yeah it's just kind of a cool nifty thing and then nope never got it completely failed so when a chat said i hate sand yeah it's coarse and it gets everywhere it's just the stuff it's funny every time it is it absolutely is uh speaking of funny every time every single time it's funny we're gonna go to looking at channel super fun on floatplane uh so here we go this is a floatplane club where his channel's super fun minis youtube comments this was actually genuinely hilarious i had a great time with this one so everyone that you can see in the thumbnail right now including the the one and only nikki v and john who's sitting right beside me reading through comments what you're doing every day you're loving it various platforms and but colton could have picked far meaner things there's some pretty intense some of them are brutal dennis had some pretty brutal ones this one on screen how to be dentist be terrible at everything cheat and then lie about cheating that honestly sounds a little bit more like linus with live life is like the perpetual if you watch kenny versus spinning blindness on channel super fun is kenny i can't remember a channel super fun where he did not cheat in some way or attempt to cheat yeah i think the last the best scrap yard wars am i right there you go yeah the batting cages wasn't a competition because we were just literally hitting balls but other than that yeah every time so you can see it scrubs pretty quick which is cool you can watch this video now if you're interested which is cool and you can even download to watch it later you can which is awesomely fantastic scrapyard wars if you guys have been enjoying that the last episode of scrapyard wars will be on floatplane this weekend they've been on full plane every saturday so far but the main editor for them edzel got pretty freaking sick actually um so the next one is going to be slightly delayed it will be coming out on sunday instead of on saturday but it is still coming on float plane first so you can see the actually insane probably the most insane conclusion of any scrap headboards we've had the last season of skype rewards season four was my favorite one but in terms of conclusions this last conclusion is insane and by far the most nutty freaking balls conclusion we've ever had like no question about it at all hey you don't know do you i've only watched through the first episode i have not had time to watch it i i fully intend to watch the rest of them i'm not just saying that but uh everyone that was a part of it has been trying to stay rather close-lipped about it around the office because a lot of people around the office if i don't have any much going on this weekend i might just sit down and like binge like the last couple of them yeah so yeah i think this week not not to uh bash on my own platform but i think this week a fair amount of the things that were released were from computex so they're on both platforms but we do have a few different things that that mean-ish youtube comments on channel superfund is genuinely hilarious would holly recommend that uh there's some tech quickie stuff on here why do people still use fax machines if you guys like the sketch that we did um for our scanners as fast as possible uh you're going to love this one um so yes why do people still use fax machines uh featuring the one the only dennis liao um currently on floatplane club just went up today and yeah hey it's you hey there he is it's coming out of a phone i love it i'm gonna show you guys just the first little bit of you're sitting there minding your own business and you go what's that oh my goodness oh my god it's a bomb so you call your friends anyways that's your teaser and there's there's another episode um about um about seo i believe which yeah isn't as exciting but it's still very interesting i cool a cool topic the tech wiki is interesting because it doesn't have like the like sex appeal at certain channels but it's more interesting than a lot of other things luke has basically summed up my entire life it's not what i was trying to say well you said anyways if you need a website for whatever reason you can go to squarespace and get your website on squarespace you can save 10 by using offer code wan they have 24 7 live chat and email support it is 12 bucks a month and if you subscribe for a year you get a domain rolled in with that they have a commerce module so you can sell your stuff online they have a cover page feature so you can have one nice beautiful scrollable page and everyone can now publish content in the apple news format directly from their squarespace blog module which is pretty cool it's it's automatically available to millions of potential viewers this thing dynamically changes in a responsive way to basically whatever screen size in whatever format you need it's all done for you it's fantastic you talk about commerce already yes if you're using squarespace and you want to host an online store this is new this is a pretty recent update uh to the platform they they they now support lots of different new currencies so if you like cool israeli shekels if you want to take pesos from mexico if you want to take new zealand dollars singapore dollars even uh rubles from our good friends over in russia you can do that now that's really cool actually um so squarespace.com when offer code wan 10 off moving on if you need to fix some stuff i actually use this thing very often at home now that i have one at home but i fixed this pro-tec toolkit you've probably seen them in a lot of our content uh we use them in scrapyard wars yeah 64-bit driver kit magnets which is actually really nice the the lid for the driver kit magnetically goes on and when you take it off you can use it as a parts tray which is pretty sick it has precision esd-safe tweezers including a pair of reverse tweezers it has a rather wide variety of plastic opening tools that are better quality let me see if i actually have one here yes these things are beautiful some of the the older ones that they had were still really cool and i liked them a lot but they weren't as durable as these ones are so after you use them a few times the edge would get a little chewed up and then you might have some issues getting through some thinner electronics but these new ones have been able to withstand like everything we've thrown at them uh which has actually been really cool they give you three which is pretty awesome so even if you do manage to wear through a few of them they've really been a lifesaver because the current trend in electronics does desktop desktops but them laptops tablets mobile phones has been let's make this thing as difficult to use user service as possible yeah opening tool is really helpful so those are like manual intervention openers basically um it's backed by ifixit's lifetime warranty which is awesome um buy it because it's awesome or don't and you still get access to all of their free repair resources which is awesome so even if you have your own driver kit and your own tools if you want to get into repairing stuff and you don't want to buy this you can still go to ifixit's website and learn how to take things apart which is awesome they use their own toolkits on there so it's easier if you have their tool kit but yeah head over to line sorry head over to ifixit.com linus and use offer code linus at the checkout to save five bucks on a purchase of 10 bucks or more there you go and if you're in canada this is actually a pretty cool note if you're in canada check out amazon.ca for cheaper shipping options because sometimes we have sponsors and we talk about buying it or whatever and people in canada where we're from are like guys you're from our own region and shipping sucks for this so they're offering another option which is pretty cool also ltx if you want to show up to a weird place and meet us weird people and do weird things uh you can go you can buy tickets for ltx i'm gonna move to that thing there we go so you can go to the worst url to say out loud ever which is ticket rocket dot co slash event slash details slash 97246 ltx-2017 come meet me we can talk about burger trivia oh my god you should have a trivia booth we'll figure something out that would actually be awesome i'm doing vr stuff taren's editing a video you can do the like what is that geoguesser yeah no promises but it's a fantastic idea i'm gonna look into it i actually like that a lot that would be freaking great and back to the real show okay what is there even a talk about still this week was weird most of the like interesting news from this week is in literal videos that linus hosted from computex but um microsoft has rolled out not one but two bad builds on the windows insider program thanks guys it's like every so often they're like they remember oh we're that company that made windows me we should remind people that from time to time and they do things like this windows me i don't know millennium edition no i know i just don't hear it called that very often but yeah that's kind of how they marketed it like me oh it's my version of windows for regular people in the year 2000 except it wasn't it just made everyone very very mad because it didn't work yeah the marketing was terrible but windows 7 professional updates so yeah uh i like i don't know huh okay and now people in the chat are saying or appear to think that i said windows meme emi oh my god which it kind of was someone needs to make a custom microsoft os that is skinned all with memes it's like every day when you log on there's like a different courage wolf as your background he's saying different things cortana is advice dog is it just advice dog yeah yeah it should just be it's been a while since that meme was popular but like yeah you could even do like a two-in-one with that you could have it be a vice dog but it could start every sentence to you with your dog like the exhibit mean there you go yes whenever your system has like a pretty heavy slowdown and then comes up with like an error it can be slowpoke that'd be good please someone do this that would be fantastic you're you know what you're like you're you're you're developing an idea for another lioness tech this video as we speak the custom memes meme yeah there we go oh jeez john's picks what is this this is just crap i sent to james okay what is this tell the people tell the people okay um well first thing i will do is i did find this earlier and i did read it but i've been busy since then so let me click on the article first and write to speak freely about engineering is subject of first amendment lawsuit an engineer was fined 500 for discussing traffic light engineering without a license so this happened down in oregon which is not too far from here uh so oh i heard about it apparently this guy sent the state some advice about um traffic light timings um specifically he wanted to make yellows longer um which is odd which obviously can be very important for traffic little reasons and also not to surprise people when they think they have enough time to drive through an intersection but they actually don't anyway so um but instead of the state saying hey thank you for speaking out concerned citizens let's have a look at this they instead slap them with a 500 fine for doing something along the lines of practicing engineering without a license now as some of you know i went to law school i have a law license which is currently inactive because why do i need it right now but i do have one from north carolina and it there and in every other state and also up here in canada you can't do a thing called unauthorized practice of law you can't practice law or give legal advice without the licenses against the law so for engineering i also believe every state has like a professional license by for engineers licensed buyer for engineers where they're doing the same thing but just like i can sit here on the lan show and generally discuss legal topics like i am doing right now actually without giving anyone specific advice you would think an engineer could do the same thing but the state of oregon is saying to him no you can't even talk about it without a license because i think this guy doesn't have his license yet so this is a huge problem um ended up going to court uh he ended up suing uh the state of oregon uh for breach of his first amendment rights which is free speech you can say what you want to um and i think this is still going on but they basically said that he can talk about this as long as the lawsuit is pending so that is where we are with this okay yeah interesting i don't understand legal stuff so i have concerns and questions but i'm just gonna move on because they're probably juvenile uh big leagues 10 million dollar league of legends tournament holy butt chunks team applications for the new lcs open today the buy-in price is 10 million dollars players on the 10 selected teams get a guaranteed salary of at least 75. wait wait wait the buy-in is 10 million yeah that the buy-in for the world series of poker isn't even 10 million dollars how how does that pretty nuts yeah um riot games said its end goal is to create a strong and stable system that's profitable for pro players and provides entertainment for fans in the long term and i guess they plan to do that by charging 10 million dollars for 10 teams which is a hundred million dollars how many people on the team do you know like there would be five active players but you have like a roster where you have yeah adventures like there's there's other stuff going on ugh once the ten teams are determined they are in the league for good ryan says it will offer incentives to teams that play well and penalize the squads that purposefully that purposefully stay at the bottom of the ladder what um team's that tank first for on purpose for some reason why okay so admittedly i don't really watch esports it's been a very long time since i've played lol but uh what i can say in um in more traditional sports um what certain teams at times are especially in the us and canada it doesn't really work this way in europe but in the us and canada teams will be accused of tanking if they have no no hope of making the playoffs so they end up taking for a better draft pick so so whether this has ever actually happened is a matter of debate but like there's accusations of it happening to pop up every now and then so maybe it's something like that you get some kind of extra benefit are you draft picking in league of legends though i don't think so i don't think that's how it works be clear we're not talking about draft picks in terms of like when you're drafting heroes for that game um you know we probably have a lot of people that don't watch sports at all yes we're talking about like like the nfl's college player draft where the worst the worst teams can pick earlier to help make them better so yeah pick a play player like a person again being not not draft picking like oh let's let's ban ezreal or something i don't know why you do that i don't think he's very strong right now someone says they say not to get relegated which may be true so that would be more like a not to get relegated more like soccer you know about promotion relegation okay interesting okay uh that's pretty nuts oh that's that is that is so much a 10 million dollar buy-in i wonder how well they're gonna do i don't know i almost wonder if if they would if if it would help them to have like teens represent specific areas like real sports or traditional sports and assault anybody but i don't see okay i have no idea that's so new that's like a deeper topic but i don't think so because i think with esports it's more of a global thing and because everyone basically everyone is watching online and you can play from anywhere online yeah like i don't think there's a lot of team it's just a little bit more like national spirit like if there was like the american team that happens a lot in like individual sports yeah a little bit more like traditional individual sports you know we did have um a heroes of the dorm in the u.s where uh the larger colleges all enter college teams into this so there's like a little bit of that but yeah so yeah interesting next up we have the first ryzen based all-in-one which is actually pretty crazy it's it's a dell all-in-one let's have a look at her it looks pretty nice actually uh dell inspiron 27 7775 aio it's an eight core andy ryzen seven hey six numbers in a row all right great names pretty freaking nuts yeah well i get the 27's gotta be 27 yes but but even so like even so so it's the seven seven seven five a or 77 75 whatever you want to call it uh amd ryzen 7 chip radeon rx 580 and a 4k lcd screen and it looks pretty good you could actually do some like pretty serious gaming on it with an rx 580 yeah yeah um the the chassis very vaguely reminds me of the the surface studio from microsoft like a little bit you know like the way the mouse is like the way the chassis is yeah yeah some of the 7775 this is worded a little bit weirdly but i can get there i'm gonna i'm gonna jump away from that actually come on in non-tech well i couldn't tell if they were talking whoa i just screwed everything first the diabetes cure now this okay so despite being yes so it's actually the inspiron 27 7000 series the 7775 is a specific version there's multiple versions of it um the low end version is a quad core amd ryzen 5 1400 with an rx 560 with four gigs of gddr5 memory and then 180 watt psu but if you jump up to the high end i believe that one that i just noted is about a thousand dollars um and if you jump to the high end you get an eight core amd ryzen 7 1700 which i had just mentioned and then a radeon rx 580 with eight gigs of gddr5 and a 330 watt power supply and i believe you can get up to 32 gigs of ram with one of these i do hope the lower end one didn't go for like the full like ball and 4k display because there's no way you're going to get 4k consistently it does say have the 4k so i seriously doubt that the low end one so the bare bones one is a grand so there you go here we go if we scroll down a little bit okay they do uh they do a better job so we're display or screen display there we go um yeah so the cheaper one is 1080p it's so still ips so it's still going to be a pretty good looking display but this will be 1080p yeah 1980 that's got to be a typo should be 1920 by 1080. yeah that's pretty interesting isn't it i think that is a typo in terms of usb connections which is like a topic of much debate these days i do see type c which is good so they have two usb 2.0 which is fine they have three usb type a or sorry they have three two usb 2.0 type a which is fine three usb 3.0 type a which is good one usb 3.1 type c which is solid and then one usb 3.1 type a which is also pretty good the webcam is 720p which is like actually a little disappointing um like still seeing stuff showing up in 720p um it's running windows 10 home 64-bit which is about what you'd probably expect that's kind of cool though it looks sharp um i'm happy to see amd getting their products and stuff like this so that's cool yeah it also looks a little bit more elegant than some past gaming aio's scene i mean granted a lot of that is most is more the gpu manufacturers but even so and i think part of this is that it i don't think it's heavily aimed at gaming it's not it's it's something that you can game online yeah if you want it's powerful enough the the higher end one is definitely powerful enough that you could but it looks more like it's designed for like oh if you wanted to edit some video or photos yeah a little bit like says 580 for 4k casual use is great and i would agree with that so yeah yeah there we go okay ah moving on we're a little thin on topics are we talking about um uh the the facial recognition thing with a monkey so we're gonna talk about that where's that that's down here right it's under john's picks this is which is why i didn't know what the heck was going on hashtag shameless you wanna start talking about it i'll get it on the screen so uh there's an article in the guardian here about uh scientists discovering how the brain recognizes recognizes faces by reading the minds of monkeys more specifically analyzing their brain wave patterns yeah it's a little different but you know and what they did was they they looked at their brainwaves and decoded faces that the monkey like human faces that the monkeys remembered and you might be able to see it on the screen capture here but they were almost exactly the same as the subjects appeared in real life which is both cool and a little bit unnerving so you know you start wondering about oh well things like you know reading minds and that and reading thoughts were once purely the realm of science fiction but now you're starting to start to wonder okay you know is this something that you you know actually has has some some water to it you know some of them look like video gamified versions of the real people a little bit yeah so so so the predicted faces are on the right and the actuals are on the left yeah they're pretty close though actually for this one i thought the predicted face was the accurate one and the actual face was not isn't that weird because the actual face on this one actually looks lower resolution than the predicted face which is kind of interesting yeah so you know oh you have to wonder about you know is this does this mean that a person could end up one day with the correct equipment seeing oh what is the person thinking but or who they're thinking about and what they're thinking about they're i think they're also talking about um your brain encodes like faces a certain way and it does much kind of like a gpu would do like mathematical transformations to like if you're if there's a shape on your computer screen and it's like rotating you can see it's like a cube or it's a circle or it's a sphere like whatever else your gpu is doing mathematical transformations to it to figure out what it looks like so the article was saying the brain works similarly where if you have met a person a couple times even if you haven't seen their face from every possible angle your your brain can do these mathematical transformations so when you see the person again maybe you just see them like from the side or like from an angle when they're walking away from you but you can still figure out who it is so it's it seems like it's tapping more into that part of the brain as far as reading like emotional thoughts that might be a little bit different i don't know but someone in the chat said how to hide your porn so like we'd have to make like a version two of that video oh yeah it's like think of your grandma here's how not to think about what you've been looking at yeah yeah yeah so well it's like as soon as you say don't think of a pink elephant you think yeah so yeah yeah yeah how to hide your porn version two mind reading edition that'd be freaking awesome i should make that video at some point in a thousand years this might get litigated this has covered the right deprived the right to privacy cover your own thoughts you know i would certainly think it does but who i mean who knows who knows at this point who knows they're allowed to record well you know when you think in public you implicitly give up your right to privacy yeah of course i could see some lawyer making that argument like hundreds of years from now yeah yeah i don't know but nvidia announces gpus for thinner gaming laptops so they've got a few different things going on uh now in videos looking to find the fastest and most power optimized performance level to allow laptops under 20 millimeters thick and sport a gtx 1080. we're already getting pretty close aren't we like with with the new well like the new razer blades you know you can get a 1080 in those and how thick are those you know i'm not sure an exact thickness for those but he's showing pretty thin freaking laptops right here with this traymark leather jacket very good with his freaking leather jacket max q it's cool thinner laptops is good whisper mode blah blah blah blah we're constantly getting ah see forbes even at least they say from the web but like still come on guys news websites that advertise articles for clickbait news is such a weird situation it really really is because there's tons of people that really can't tell the difference super lame anyways that's that's just a cool thing and videos trying to do that that's cool they'll they will i'm sure succeed if they're going to be this open about the fact that hey we're going to do this yeah they've probably already done it as rock announces itx boards for amd ryzen that's super cool um i've been kind of waiting for i expected it was going to happen faster than it has been but i wanted matx to get very popular there is a serious serious lack of um really good looking micro atx boards out there and that's part of the problem yeah but itx boards too like i i expected to see more of this stuff going on i think with fantech's new case i can't remember the new name for it the old name for it was project217 but as of this computex they have a new name for it i think that might even help because fantastic cases are super popular and this thing's freaking beautiful yeah i just want to talk about micro atx for a second because because when you think about it if you're an enthusiast it has to be the most sensible form factor you know because because no one uses four-way slr crossfire anymore but you get two slots usually micro atx so if you want to expand you can usually get like a little bit more i o like but most people are doing external dax not internal sound cards anymore exactly so you don't really need like but and even if you want like pci express-based storage most people are using m.2 opt-ins coming up so that you don't have to slot it into a traditional slot so it's just like why don't you see more of this because atx is overkill for most people with the amount of expandability that you're just never going to use so yeah and you can get some really nifty kind of small cases but that's part of the problem too there isn't a huge amount of demand on the motherboard side so the cases aren't there yet really there isn't a ton of cases for it because of that and then there isn't a ton of cases for it because of that so people don't want to build that form factor so there isn't a ton of demand for the motherboards they were in like kind of a stuck situation but i wish they'd get a little bit more popular i hate stuck situations ductless schwag says i didn't realize john knew this much stuff yeah i've had a nickel for every time i've heard that have you ever watched tech quickie yeah tech cookie is is more or less unanimously written by john it's it's essentially like it's my channel and it's not i'm basically creative director for whatever it's worth but tons of other people contribute to it too but yes so but like especially on the writing side i'm like entirely but especially on the right i'm trying not to sound like a jerk hogging all the credits so but okay but yeah i know on the writing side it's basically the john show right now so yeah i think that's probably about it for the show today yeah do we do we need to make taffy stretch or stretch like stretch like you know when you come to the end of a program but it's not the end you have like blank space do we need to like oh no no we just get to roll the intro outro i mean intro outro it's the same thing i can try to do it with nope the stream deck's still not working it looks so and look at this when i press the button you can see you can tell it's just one screen because i'm like damaging it hey taryn come look at this that's so sad thank you squarespace is it working or not no it's not ltx 2017. thank you us i guess and thank you i fix it bye guys i'm gonna reset hi it'll work as soon as you stop streaming i just know it\n"