- We just wrapped up the Consumer Electronics Show
for 2018 and today I'm going to tell you
the top five things I'm most excited about and why.
Stay tuned. (high energy music)
Okay, starting in no particular order,
the Razer Mamba Hyperflux, so,
I've actually been using a wireless gaming mouse
for a while now, the Logitech G903 with its power mat,
very expensive system, and it works wonderful
although I don't quite love Logitech's design.
You may disagree.
I like Razer's design here,
and the Mamba is one of their oldest mice
going back years ago, so I'm glad to see it updated.
So what makes this thing exciting?
Well it's completely wireless and it has no battery.
This thing has 16,000 DPI and optical sensors
so don't worry about that laser issue
and you never have to recharge it.
It has no battery in it, making it 91 grams.
It is super light, it feels like it's hollow,
and that's really good, they found out,
for first person shooters where people
don't like to have a lot of drag when using the mouse.
Now I'm real excited about this because like I said,
I've been using a wireless game mouse
and once you go to high precision
and you never have to recharge it,
it's just pretty awesome, so we'll see that later this year
and of course we'll review it.
Next up is the Dell XPS 15 2-in-1 9575,
yes that's a bit of a mouthful.
This is their new 15 inch laptop.
Now, I should make it clear here,
this is not replacing their current XPS 15.
In fact, we can expect that device
to get updated later this year.
This is just a different version of the device,
so you have two options.
Ever since the XPS 15 came out, people have been asking
for 2-in-1 version, sort of like the Surface Book 2 15.
You're still going to get an awesome 4K IPS IGZO display
which we know and love from the XPS line.
You're also going to get a 45 watt processor
that's quad cored, a new Intel 8 generation,
and has built in AMD graphics.
That's a really good combo.
For performance, we are expecting this
to be very competitive with the Surface Book 2.
Now Surface Book 2 has a little bit better GPU there
but this is the better processor,
so it will be interesting to see how that pares out.
But overall it's a really neat device.
The only thing I'm worried about is that keyboard.
Its a little bit different,
it's going to have some shallow travel.
We're going to have to see if we get used to it,
but I think this is going to be a winner of a device.
Plus, you have that awesome pen.
That pen has 4,096 levels of pressure,
and it supports WACOM and AES 2.0
and it should be a really good combination
for those who like to ink on these devices.
Look for our full review for that later this spring.
All right, double-dipping, we're going back to Razer here
with Project Linda, now, I should point out
Project Linda is not necessarily coming out.
They did solicit a lot of feedback.
If you don't know what this is, it is basically
Razer's phone can be dropped into a Razer Blade Stealth
and turned into a mini PC, although it's powered by Android
and using this thing for about 30 minutes,
I have to say, this is already pretty polished
and I could personally use this
as a mini laptop throughout the day.
You would get exceptional battery life,
you get really good performance.
Don't forget, you can run the full Microsoft suite
of applications on here, including Outlook, Edge,
you can do Word, you can do all sorts of Microsoft apps,
giving you a really complete experience.
Now it's not going to be equal to a PC
but the performance was pretty solid.
I was actually very impressed, and I think this stuff
is going to be the future.
Whether Razer actually releases this,
we'll have to wait and see.
Pricing's going to be the big determinate here,
but I was very excited.
This is the best execution of this concept I've ever seen
and I'm excited to see where it goes.
Now another cool announcement
that sort of slid under the radar
that I found really exciting was Dell Mobile Connect.
So, many of you probably haven't seen this yet,
but it's a really cool application.
Specifically it's a Microsoft UWP app
that we found in the store.
Now it'll be limited to just Dell PCs unfortunately.
So why is this really cool?
Well it allows you to connect up
your Android or IOS phone to your PC.
You're saying "Big deal, we can already kind of do that,"
but this is the most full-featured version
of this app I've ever seen.
What it allows you to do is have incoming calls come in:
a little notification will pop up and you can answer it
on your computer, take the full call on your computer.
Now how this works is it's using wifi direct and Bluetooth
so it connects through Bluetooth for pairing
but wifi direct for the actual signal.
What's neat about that, there's no cloud involved here,
there's no local network involved here,
so you don't need to be on wifi to use this.
It's a direct connection to the PC.
That means low latency and really good performance,
so for that phone call, you've got very good audio.
Of course that's not all you can do with this app.
For instance, you have full SMS abilities for conversations.
It brings in all your SMS contacts and your messaging
and you can just message on your computer
with your phone in your bag.
You can also run all your Android apps on there
including games and because of that wifi direct connection
it's going to be very good performance.
Now IOS will be a little bit more limited
as they don't have full access to all the applications
and functionality, but it should be a very good experience.
Now this is only limited to the new Dell PCs,
launching after January first, that's a bit unfortunate,
but I think it's a really big selling point for the XPS
and Latitude line, and we should look forward
to seeing it later this year.
Finally there's the HP Envy X2.
Now technically this device was announced in early December
but that was the Windows 10 on ARM version.
At CES, HP announced there's also going to be
an Intel version, it's going to run
their Core Y series processor
for a little extra boost and it'll even have
an LTE option there and I love having this ability
to choose which version I actually want.
I think it's great HP is doing this.
Plus it allows us to put them side by side
to see how they actually perform.
Now for those curious, I'm expecting
the Snapdragon 835 version to get around the performance
of a core M3 processor which is pretty solid.
I don't know how the new Intel version will run
but it should be a little bit better in performance
but probably less battery life,
and that's going to be the big difference here
with the Windows 10 on ARM version,
you're going to get instant on and very long battery life.
I'm hearing people are going three, four weeks
without recharging these things,
which is a little bit mind-blowing
but I think it's really true
that these are going to get very good battery life.
Will have to wait and see though,
so look for that in the next coming months.
So those are the top five things
that I found super exciting about CES,
but if I missed something let me know in comments
and tell me what you think.
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