I Bought a Gaming PC from EPSON

[TannerMcCoolman]

Epson, that company that makes printers and scanners and projectors and GAMING PCS? Well, they might not in America, but over in Japan, Epson is a jack-of-all-trades company with tons of offerings. What does a Japanese Epson Gaming PC have in it? What sets it apart from the others? Is there even a market for an Epson PC?

[filpo]

*3 years from now* 

EPSON presents 

 

The GAMING PRINTER, now with 3x faster printing graphics and boost clocks of up to 5 pages per second!

[WereCat]

The RGB is out of cyan, contact support to turn on your PC!

 

edit:

I wrote this before I started watching... Linus literally just said the same joke and color...  I mean, there are so many colors. Why did we say cyan?

[OhYou_]

7 minutes ago, WereCat said:

The RGB is out of cyan, contact support to turn on your PC!

 

edit:

I wrote this before I started watching... Linus literally just said the same joke and color...  I mean, there are so many colors. Why did we say cyan?

shortest colour unless you actually call black key

[Senzelian]

30 minutes ago, WereCat said:

The RGB is out of cyan, contact support to turn on your PC!

And sometimes red and green lines show up on the display and you need to recalibrate, which takes about an hour.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

linus: buys the lowest end configuration

also linus: pc parts are typically more expensive in japan

also linus: why does it come with a hard drive? 




what did you expect

[Senzelian]

4 minutes ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

what did you expect

a ssd for the lowest end configuration.

 

imagine selling a harddrive lol

[WereCat]

7 minutes ago, Senzelian said:

 

 

imagine selling a harddrive lol

imagine buying one  

[manikyath]

36 minutes ago, Ashley MLP Fangirl said:

linus: buys the lowest end configuration

also linus: pc parts are typically more expensive in japan

also linus: why does it come with a hard drive? 




what did you expect

last time i checked (which was already a while back.. because career switch and stuff..)

 

none of HP's semi-pro offerings i've encountered (excluding pavilion and below) have a base spec with spinning rust anymore, because an mSata SSD is so cheap that you may as well just not have spinning rust in your product stack.

[Needfuldoer]

@13:34 Surprise cameo from the best character in the Linus Cinematic Universe!

[bezza...]

13 minutes ago, Needfuldoer said:

@13:34 Surprise cameo from the best character in the Linus Cinematic Universe!

so so so so true

Edited May 2, 2023 by Tomberry
i think i need to say so a few more times

[sub68]

This didn't surprise me I guess I am used to Japanese computers.

What I think is cool the PC's are like stuck in late 2000's and early 2010's.

The cool part they are super serviceable.

Mostly laptops I have been eyeing

 

I like the panasonic SV I want one, its like 12in has a optical drive and VGA still but has 11 gen intel.

https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/sv2j/

 

Fujitsu Lifebooks also look super dope.

[TannerMcCoolman]

17 minutes ago, sub68 said:

This didn't surprise me I guess I am used to Japanese computers.

What I think is cool the PC's are like stuck in late 2000's and early 2010's.

The cool part they are super serviceable.

Mostly laptops I have been eyeing

 

I like the panasonic SV I want one, its like 12in has a optical drive and VGA still but has 11 gen intel.

https://panasonic.jp/cns/pc/products/sv2j/

 

Fujitsu Lifebooks also look super dope.

Unfortunately the SVs have been getting harder to get. Seems like Panasonic might be discontinuing them. The Sony Vaio S15 does offer VGA and optical with a 12th gen CPU though. 

[sub68]

8 minutes ago, TannerMcCoolman said:

Unfortunately the SVs have been getting harder to get. Seems like Panasonic might be discontinuing them.

Yeah there newer models SR, I think getting more in favor

10 minutes ago, TannerMcCoolman said:

The Sony Vaio S15 does offer VGA and optical with a 12th gen CPU though. 

Yeah that what my head goes to when look for that type, also funfact sony isnt part of vaio know vaio split off of sony (lenovo thinkpads older are kinda same ish)

[TannerMcCoolman]

1 hour ago, sub68 said:

Yeah that what my head goes to when look for that type, also funfact sony isnt part of vaio know vaio split off of sony (lenovo thinkpads older are kinda same ish)

TIL. Shows how up-to-date I keep on these things lol. This is why I keep doing the videos on tech that's 5+ years old.

[alphaLONE]

Are you sure it's PoziDriv fasteners in that system? I think japanese stuff uses JIS, but I could be wrong.
Mostly curse the PDs for driving me insane while trying to build IKEA furniture with a Philips driver

 

Also, with regards to these computers, the build reminds me of stuff I've seen on Fujitsu Celsius workstations, sadly those were much more "proprietarized" than this Epson system, using custom fan headers, custom power supply plugs, and unremoveable backplates.

[dclnj]

I need to buy that case... LMG if you part it out please remember me...

[Yoshoobaroo]

Seriously, that case is fantastic! I'd love that kind of front load hotswap setup for my plex machine!

[borisattva]

I sincerely want to buy that chassis. 
anyone have an idea about logistics of buying JUST the chassis and shipping it to NYC? 

[sub68]

2 hours ago, TannerMcCoolman said:

TIL. Shows how up-to-date I keep on these things lol. This is why I keep doing the videos on tech that's 5+ years old.

Funny part I learned it from Alex

 

[indrora]

3 hours ago, borisattva said:

I sincerely want to buy that chassis. 
anyone have an idea about logistics of buying JUST the chassis and shipping it to NYC? 

You might find one "junk" on Yahoo Auctions Japan. You'll definitely pay a premium getting it over to the states though. 

 

9 hours ago, Senzelian said:

a ssd for the lowest end configuration.

 

imagine selling a harddrive lol

SSDs are still "relatively" the same on the Japanese market, yen-for-yen, you're getting WAY better bang for your buck going spinning disk:

At the scale that Epson and others are selling at, that spinning rust is far cheaper than the SSDs, especially when you have... Complicated relationships with China: Japan would much rather have something produced in Japan (as that chassis likely was) than something produced in China unless it's going to be seen as of inferior quality anyway.

I'm spitballing here, but I'd bet that the drive that was included was also a local brand: Toshiba or HGST. a Toshiba drive would absolutely make sense given the market and the consumer cost: 

Most of my Japanese friends and coworkers have mentioned that they would rather go for something lower cost and slightly older than something higher cost and top of the line. Many of them have picked up Xbox One X as they've become quite cheap and can still play many of the games that the Xbox Series S can play. One even congratulated me on building a sleeper PC with slightly older parts instead of very high end parts (I had a third gen ryzen chip floating around, plus an rtx2070) and went as far as to say "you should have really gone for a 1650 if you were buying parts."

 

[riba2233]

7 hours ago, alphaLONE said:

Are you sure it's PoziDriv fasteners in that system? I think japanese stuff uses JIS, but I could be wrong.
Mostly curse the PDs for driving me insane while trying to build IKEA furniture with a Philips driver

 

Also, with regards to these computers, the build reminds me of stuff I've seen on Fujitsu Celsius workstations, sadly those were much more "proprietarized" than this Epson system, using custom fan headers, custom power supply plugs, and unremoveable backplates.

Correct, those were jis (identified by the dots), pozidrive is mostly an european thing

[silentdragon95]

That case looks an awful lot like the ones that FujitsuSiemens used to use way back when Siemens was still in the name. That would make it 20-ish years old, which seems about right.

[CurryMantou]

Two LTT videos I watched in the span of a few days featured handles on the PC case. Interesting.

[Eviljuche]

This case looks and feels wonderful, I would've loved for those indestructible practical steel giants with tons of useful features and space for the peripherals such as drives to get back into mainstream PC building...