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  1. I actually am fine with the content of the video. I imagine a lot of less savvy people search on how to speed up their laptop and it would be lucrative to be a top search result for that. It's okay if not every single LTT upload is relevant for the subscriber base. That being said, I am not a fan of the new direction for thumbnails and especially titles. Titles in particular are getting a lot less descriptive (see videos from ~2 months ago to see what I mean).
  2. Username FredW Favorite videos: https://www.vessel.com/videos/SUpmlhD8x https://www.vessel.com/videos/ES8eT_T-e
  3. I would be interested if it used a non-proprietary connection (such as thunderbolt) and could be used by other notebooks. As it stands this is pretty much a waste of money. I have a couple concerns with this thing: Because the GPU housing is proprietary, when you inevitably need to get a new laptop, the GPU enclosure becomes trash (unless MSI makes more models, which isn't much better as you are locked to a brand). The notebook has Iris Pro graphics, which means any "high-end" gaming without the cinder block is pretty much not feasible. I am not terribly fussed about this given the GPU enclosure but something dedicated like a 965M for the road would have been a lot better. Given the elevated height, an external keyboard is pretty much required while using the GPU brick with any semblance of comfort and ergonomics, which MSI could have avoided by using a cable, and something Alienware was smart enough to do. From the little I have seen, the build quality seems sub par for it's price category. I am not going to excuse thing kind of thing because of the "value add" of the GPU enclosure, especially when the standalone model without the GPU igloo is only ~$300 cheaper. Anyone with $2000 (not including GPU) is much better off buying a laptop with equivalent or better specs and spending the rest on a separate gaming desktop (even a prebuilt). For example you could get a ~$1300-1500 notebook, plus a ~$500-700 desktop minus GPU, plus whatever GPU you were going to use with the GS30 Shadow: The ~$1300-1500 notebook would be about the same or better than the GS30 Shadow without external GPU. The ~$500-700 (not including GPU) desktop would be substantially better than the GS30 Shadow with its dollhouse. The two aren't dependant on each other, can be used separately at the same time, and doesn't use proprietary crap. Your desktop benefits from the numerous advantages of a desktop motherboard including more expansion slots. I love the idea of external GPU enclosures, and good ones are on the horizon, but anyone who gets this is probably in for some early adopter woes when thunderbolt ones start hitting the market. If you want the desktop vs. laptop best of both worlds you are still better off getting both and staying away from this frankenstein machine. Rant over.
  4. The revenue from the video could easily justify the cost. You could even use dead parts if you insist on not wasting good ones. I would even be willing to donate+ship some of my old stuff including a dead mobo/case/psu if this ever got the go ahead.
  5. Imagine playing at the Vancouver LAN ($150k stretch goal) and seeing something like this take place. The video I linked is staged at a old CS1.6 lan. I bet LTT could stage something like this at the proposed LAN to mess with the other players. Secretly appoint a community member to act as the "hacker" (I must stress that they would only be acting). Get him a PC that will be smashed by the angry tournament staff. The PC doesn't have to be powerful but make it look expensive with LEDs and watercooling. Build the PC so it will smash into a million pieces on the concrete. Lots of missing screws/etc. Make a "viral" style video for it. It will help justify the cost of the PC. You may be able to bring on some HW sponsors as well (Fractal?). It's just a thought. It can be expanded upon? What do you guys think?
  6. I started watching LTT in early 2010. Linus' videos helped me learn how to build my first gaming PC from the ground up. I have made upgrades to store bought PCs before, but I never built one from scratch. Since then, I have helped numerous friends build their own PCs from scratch. I like to think that I am taking a page from Linus' book by helping people that way. If you told me in 2010 that Linus would leave NCIX, start an independant media group, and become one of the biggest tech personalities on the internet, I would have been rather surprised. I started watching Linus when I was fifteen, now I am twenty! Linus has been a regular part of 1/4 my life!
  7. After a luke-warm review of the A50's, I would like it if you also checked out the A40s, since I think many of the issues you have with the wireless version are better in the wired version. For starters, it weighs less due to not having an internal DAC, and I expect it would sound better. In other reviews I have seen audio-enthusiasts approximate the sound of the A40s to things like the PC360. It has a much better frequency response and most likely a higher impedance. Also, I know for a fact that the microphone quality of the A40 is much better, and actually very good, again probably due to the fact it isn't wireless. You can also ditch the boom-mic for an included in-line mic. The A40 system costs less also, despite being a lot better where it matters.
  8. I don't think/never said that Linus and co. are intentionally misleading viewers, it probably has more to do with tradition. I still don't see why they would do it.
  9. I never said that most users want to watch unboxings. If LMG decides that they should focus on the product rather than the packaging, that is perfectly fine by me personally, but they have no reason to mislabel the video. For us subscribers of Linus, there is zero effect of the title on our video enjoyment because we watch the videos for Linus more than we do the product, so it doesn't surprise me you are all on the offensive. For somebody who doesn't know about Linus on the other hand, a misleading title will likely turn them off. Had I wanted simply a product overview/review, I wouldn't have put the word unboxing in the search bar. In other words, of course we don't care what the title says. I am not talking about subscribers here. Discovery and growth is key to a YouTube channel however.
  10. Linus and co. have more and more been putting the word "unboxing" in the titles of their videos when the video does not feature the product packaging. Here I present a few recent examples where Linus and co. either stretch the meaning of unboxing significantly or outright lie about there being an unboxing. Title: AMD R9 270X Unboxing & Review In this video, Linus says the video is an unboxing while he holds the unpackaged product in his hands. Title: AMD Radeon R7 260X Unboxing & Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2O_e3pACFY In this video, Linus spends merely a second pulling the card from an antistatic bag, no box whatsover. Title: AMD Radeon R9 290X Unboxing & Review Again, no box in sight Title: SPRNG Clip "Unboxing" & Torture Test At least slick acknowledges that the term is being stretched in this video, but why? Just don't call it an unboxing. Title: Bitfenix Phenom Series Compact Computer Case Unboxing & Overview "I am going to spare you the unboxing portion of this unboxing" Then it isn't an unboxing Linus. It's a first impressions/product overview. Stop doing this. People often go to unboxing videos because they want to see the packaging more than the product. When I am considering getting something, I use unboxing videos to learn what the product comes with. Some people, myself included, often just look at unboxings for the eye candy of well made packaging. Most of the videos I showed you have no packaging while the rest have such a minor inclusion of the packaging that it defeats the purpose. If I recall, I found your channel three years ago because I wanted to know what came with a motherboard I wanted. I already was informed of the product, and I used the word unboxing to filter out the videos that didn't focus on the packaging. It's okay that you make videos that exclude the packaging. I understand that you receive samples that don't come in consumer packaging, and those videos are of course still worth watching but it makes no sense that you call videos "unboxings" when they aren't. It's also okay if you stretch the term a little bit, like if you call it an unboxing when the product really comes in a different type of package, but as long as the video has a portion of it focused on the packaging and what is included. I am not saying to stop making videos unless they are unboxings, but don't mislabel the videos. If somebody were to search for, example, "battletoads unboxing", and they click on a LinusTechTips video and there is no actual unboxing, most of the time they will hit the back button and look for another video from somebody else. That person typed "battletoads unboxing" because they wanted an unboxing. This is where I get to the important part. I work for a company as a search engine rater. Part of my job is to look at YouTube videos in relation to their search query and determine the relevance of the result. If the query included "unboxing" but the video didn't include an actual unboxing, I would have to rate the video as "bad" in terms of relevance. The feedback that I am paid to give is then used to influence the search rankings of the videos and other content that I judge. This is a cut and dry example of why a misleading title can cost you views and ultimately revenue.
  11. Am I the only one that thinks that too many folks are entering the console market? I wan't it to shrink in favor of PC gaming, not grow. And just because you make a console doesn't mean AAA devs will jump on it.
  12. Not mechanical, not remotely interested. You would think Steelseries would know better but they are becoming Razerey.
  13. I got a MSI and I managed to kill the dual BIOS when updating it... ASUS has better BIOS protection with it's USB flash method hard-wired on the board.
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