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Hey, how's it going guys this is Dave 2D
and I just got back from CES 2017. Now, I don't go to this event with the intention of making a particular type of video,
I just kind of go in if
I see something cool I make a video,
last year, at the beginning of 2016
Skylake H processors are coming out, and in the middle of last year the GTX 10 series
for laptops came out and those things just blew the laptop industry
wide open. They basically provided the graphics powers to make your laptop into
a desktop replacement it was that awesome so that kind of big step up in
performance you're not going to get that from the processor upgrades that we're
getting right now that we saw at CES so we're getting the Kaby Lake H processor so
the quad core Kaby Lake processors, the big graphics cards improvements are the new
GTX 1050 and the GTX 1050Ti now I was able to play with both of them I was
kind of disappointed because my expectations were unrealistically high I
was so blown away by the 1060 to the 1070, 1080 cards those things are just amazing
I kind of thought that 1050 would be also really cool, it is it's just that
it's more tuned down so I would say that the 1050 is about a 20% maybe 25%
improvement over the 960m from what I saw I had limited time working with it
the 1050Ti we're looking at has slightly better performance than a 970m
actually in some cases equivalent to the 970m but overall very cool cards I'm
excited to give you full reviews of those shortly, the two laptops that kind
of stuck out for me. First, the Dell Inspiron $7,800 laptop; GTX 1050; Kaby Lake CPU,
it's a very capable machine and the pricing is really good; I think it looks
better than last year's model and the trackpad feels nicer than last year's trackpad
I wouldn't say it's a perfect trackpad or anything but for $800,
pretty good value the other one is the Acer VX 15, it's also the same kind of idea;
$800 gaming laptop, reasonably priced; good performance. Now, both of them have that
black and red thing going on which I don't love but overall the performance for the
money, I'm very happy with. Now on that note in general I think companies are
kind of cluing into the fact that we don't love black and red gaming laptops,
I mean maybe they sell in a particular type of demographic that I'm not familiar with
or just maybe it's just my personal distaste for black and red
gaming laptops but I mean this, those are just so played out. Look at this laptop,
it's called the Samsung Odyssey they probably spent a good chunk of money in
terms of R&D to develop this thing and comes onto the market looking very dated.
Now again maybe this stuff sells really well in Asia or something but for me
personally I'm just not a fan. Other cool stuff that I saw; I finally got to play
with the Acer 21X predator, we saw this thing a few months ago at, I forget, some
convention, but this thing is a beast $9,000; 20 pounds; but I mean it's 20
pounds of just sheer awesomeness. 120 Hz G-Sync panel; mechanical keyboard;
and I mean like a real mechanical keyboard. I think these are Cherry MX browns.
Great sound system and the whole laptop is just completely over the top
now I tried to get a battery life estimate from one of the reps there and
he wouldn't really give me one, he kind of danced around the topic but I think
if I play this thing with max screen brightness, max gaming volume, max like
everything across the board with RGB lighting going, I think I could kill the
battery in like 20 minutes. It's kind of nuts it's not supposed to
be a super portable device but it's just a very impressive product to begin with.
$9,000 kind of makes it not really affordable for most people but yeah it's
a pretty cool thing another thing I got to play with was Razer's super cool
working concept called Project Valerie. It's based off the Razer Blade Pro but
with three monitors. Now, I got to be honest when I first saw this thing and
press like before the event I thought it was cool-looking but I didn't think it
would be very practical but after using it in person it's really changed my
perception of usability and even desirability, I mean it's still not
something that I think everyone's going to buy or should buy but the triple
monitor gaming thing is more immersive than I thought it would be, now I've
played with triple monitors on my desktop before in the past and because
your screen is kind of a certain distance away from your face, you just, I
mean the immersion is there on a desktop as well but when you're playing on a
laptop your face is just naturally closer to the screen and the immersion
is just that much better. Now in terms of getting applications and
programs running on this the Razer Media Suite didn't have them running so I
couldn't really test a premiere on this thing, but I legitimately want to try one
when they come out. One other thing to note I mean they don't work right now
but they're aiming for automatic deployment like you press a button and
the screens will automatically come out and get into position. How cool is that,
right? Another thing I saw was the Asus water-cooled laptop. It's not new but
let's step back for a second and understand what is going on here.
This is a water-cooled laptop. They're pumping water into this laptop and then cooling
it with a rad (radiator) to maximise overclock ability. Now in terms of just
practicality, we're looking at a solid zero but in terms of like sheer coolness
it's over 9000. Ok other cool stuff, the Dell 8k monitor, it's super sharp;
super-high resolution, it's not the first of its kind but it's the first one
that's kind of hit consumer grade, It's still a very expensive five thousand
dollars and it needs a ridiculously powerful card to run it. You're looking
at a GTX 1070, maybe a 1080 to power those pixels, and you need
2 displayports powered so if you have a Mac and you try to set this up you're gonna have
to use 2 of your USB-C ports to get this thing going, actually they might
have an adapter that can do... I don't know. It needs a lot of power, it needs a lot
of cables to make this thing run but it's an 8k screen and it looks awesome
Dell also had something called the Canvas which is a 27-inch monitor that's
touch enabled. Reminiscent of the Microsoft Surface studio, but they market
this thing as a secondary screen. Now I actually got to spend quite a bit of
time on this thing I don't know how useful it is for my particular workflow
because they didn't have Premiere installed, I tried to get used to I
forget what video editing application they had going on there I mean it's
entirely software dependent so I can't really give this thing even like a rough
opinion. I would need to try it on Premiere but the idea is really cool, I
definitely want to check it out when I can get one in. The TVs were on point as
usual, lots of super thin stuff with great image quality. There were a lot of
cars, Volkswagen in particular had a sweet electric concept with blue tires, I
mean these blue tires will turn black on the road in like five seconds but it
looked super cool in the show floor hence their inclusion in this video.
1 last thing I have a couple items that are still under NDA that are sitting, one
of them is actually right off frame there, I can't do a review of them quite
yet because the NDA has to lift but when it does and it will be soon,
you'll be seeing a full review on a couple cool things that I'm pretty sure
you guys will be interested in these are things that I'm like the super amped
about personally.
That's the end of this video, hope you guys liked it,
thumbs if you liked it, subs if you loved it, it's been nice, see you guys next time.