Gadgetory

(soft upbeat music) - I am extremely lucky and fortunate to have the chance to be a gaming YouTuber. The fact that I can take something that I grew up loving and channel that passion into an actual job has just been super awesome. (upbeat music) And there's a couple different things that go into making all of this work. A large part of it is definitely hard work with a little bit of luck because sometimes you spend a ton of hard work and effort on a project and it's your little baby, this art thing that you're working on, and you're super excited to release it. And sometimes it goes amazingly great and you get a million views and you're super happy about it. And sometimes it doesn't. But, again, that's where the hard work comes in. But also really importantly the tools to get the job done. Tools like a high-power laptop from Best Buy, something that's gonna have the portability and battery power to let me use it throughout the entire day, at different locations to get all kinds of different work done. Something that has the ports necessary and a powerful 9th Generation Intel Core Processor to get important work projects done like video editing. And of course something that's gonna have the graphics I need to play as much games as I can during my downtime, which sometimes I'll say is for work, if people aren't paying attention too hard. The first step to any video is not actually working on any direct video. Instead it is a lot, a lot of planing. Now something that some of you guys I think have kind of come on to and realized, but not everyone has figured out yet is I actually work as part of a larger company called Sun Squared Media, where I get the chance to work with a lot of awesome people. And the way most of our videos start is we meet together, get together and just talk about well what do we wanna shoot this week? Going hand in hand with that, it's also a lot of reading Emails and a lot, a lot, a lot of studying analytics. Looking over every single video we've ever worked on and seeing how they did, and trying to figure out why they did how they did. So that way we can learn what we should keep doing, what we should avoid, and what stuff just well works. Doing these things I'm actually traveling around quite a bit. I'm not doing it in just one location. Sometimes I'm working from home, sometimes I'm at the office, studio, someone else's studio. I might be off site at some brand new location we wanna shoot at. And so it's a lot of traveling. It's really important to have a work station that's gonna be easily portable to come with you and have the battery life to last the whole time. And that's something really nice about a laptop like this. They're optimized to give the best battery performance possible to make sure that it's gonna stay alive, and at the same time offer the performance you need whether you're working or gaming. So once we figured out what videos we're actually going to be shooting for the week, of course the next step is well, making them. Now normally when you guys see my videos you see this kind of tight little area of well where I want you to see stuff. But in actuality the whole set around me looks like this. There's a lot more microphones and stands and things blocking light and light sources and Rich standing off to the side, listening to words I'm saying to make sure they don't sound too weird. There's a lot more going on than you guys normally see to make sure that instead you see this. Once we finish shooting a video it's time to take that hour of footage and condense all of my mad rambling down to a concise and logical sounding five to 10 minute video. And because we're filming 4K footage, it's important to have a system powerful enough to allow you to effectively edit it. And that's where a 9th Generation Intel Core Processor comes in handy. It packs the power that you need along with having additional features that further enhance your experience. Features like Intel Quick Sync Video, which uses hardware acceleration to speed up video encoding and decoding. And thanks to having a USBC port we're able to connect and move vast amounts of storage all at once, or connect to 4K displays. Well making videos is fun and all, but at the end of the day the main thing I'm always looking forward to is playing games. I mean it's why I started doing YouTube in the first place so I could make that the focus. And so having a system that's able to support playing awesome, great looking games on the go is super important, especially for me, 'cause like I said earlier, I'm moving around all the time, sometimes I'm home, sometimes I'm at the office. Its great to be able to sit down and play the game I wanna play regardless of whether or not I'm nearby a desktop. For instance, one game that I'm finally get back to on my backlog is Far Cry New Dawn. And that is a demanding game. So I'm not gonna be able to play it on just any other PC. I wanna make sure I have something that's powerful enough to make sure that it's gonna look great and run smoothly all at the same time. And thanks to having a 9th Gen Intel Core Processor, I'm able to not only play games like this on the go, but even multitask by being able to stream or even record them all at the same time. And maybe even duck out of the window and do something else productive if someone's in the room seeing if I'm working. With up to eight cores and 16 threads for seamless multitasking, and Intel Dynamic Tuning, which adjusts your PC power to make sure you're getting the right performance without overheating your system at the same time. So that's all the work and fun that goes into making videos. Make sure to check out the link down below if you're interested in grabbing a high-power laptop like this from Best Buy, and I'll see you guys later. (upbeat music)