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by an unlocked Intel fourth gen core i7 or Core i5 processor and get a free copy of Rome 2 total war click now to learn more welcome to my unboxing of something a little bit on the different side well I'm not really unboxing it it's here in the boxes here they've already been undefined but anyway this is the a Oris x7 which is one of the most interesting gaming notebooks that i've ever had the pleasure of checking out so let's start with the general specs it's got a Haswell 4th gen core i7 4708 q that's a quad core that's clocked at 2.4 gigahertz nominal and up to 3.4 gigahertz with a single core running at maximum boost it has 16 gigs of ram and is configurable with up to 32 gigs of ram so it has four slots it has dual GTX 765 M 2 gig graphics cards and a 17 point 3 inch LCD display so that's 1080p it's 8 millisecond response time LED backlit all that good stuff for storage it has 2 128 gig m SATA SSDs running in raid 0 and a 1 terabyte 5400 RPM drive so that is a 2 and a half inch standard drive so it's up to three storage devices it uses wireless 802.11 AC and it has killer branded gigabits onboard LAN there we go so that has their prioritization engine and all that good stuff and then finally it has a 70 3.26 watt hour lithium polymer battery fascinating Linus you might say that's an awful lot of specs but they're not that amazing well they are a little bit amazing when you consider that they are crammed into a 22 point 9 millimeter thick chassis so that's only marginally thicker than the p30 4G that I liked so much it's actually quite similar to the GS 70 from MSI it's 2.9 kilograms making it lighter than your standard gaming notebook but not super light due to the sheer size of it and the all aluminum construction it's got some well I guess we'll do like a bit of a port tour here so on the left hand side it's got the aforementioned Gigabit Ethernet HDMI a first HDMI port VGA one USB 3.0 port and headphone and microphone ports you've also got a speaker grille here on the left-hand side on the front you've got a whole lot of nothing then on the right hand side you find another speaker grille an SD card reader two more USB 3.0 ports for a total of three another HDMI out and DisplayPort out so that's kind of cool moving around to the back we catch a glimpse of one ventilation hole we've got another ventilation hole two more USB 2.0 ports power in and that pretty much rounds it out on the top and the bottom you will as normal on a notebook not find a whole lot of i/o now the speaker's there using our our wrists I don't even know how to pronounce it ARS plus branding so there are 2 2 watt speakers in the front and then there are actually two woofers on the bottom it in practice sounds much better than most notebooks but of course here are these speaker ports on the bottom they're not going to blow your socks off or eliminate the need for a proper desktop speaker system by any stretch of the imagination and in fact there's one thing that I would have liked to see changed in the audio implementation and that's maybe put the speakers up here instead so that there's somewhat pointed at my ears I found that if I had my head like on the same plane as the bottom of the notebook that was where the best listening experience could be had the touchpad is a little bit unique so we can make our way to the inside here and that is that it is a glass touchpad it is completely smooth which actually would have bothered me not that long ago I'm I'm used to it now because of smartphones and I think I'd still prefer a frosted glass touchpad but it tracks well and that's the most important thing and it doesn't actually bother me it's a bit of a fingerprint magnet but not as bad as I necessarily would have thought the keyboard is automatically backlit although you can manually override it with function space so you can have off fifty percent or a hundred percent and it is a chiclet keyboard which is not necessarily my favorite but as far as chiclet keyboards go it's about as good as it gets there is absolutely no flex the entire keyboard area at all again due to the metal construction of the notebook so in spite of its size really really impressed there it's also got some other cool features so your full complement of keys including properly laid out arrow keys a full number pad all the function hotkeys that you could possibly want and finally da-da-da-dah programmable macro keys so there's a color-coded G up at the top here and you can use the included utility to program any number of different functionalities to each of the five keys and then you have five different profiles for all of the five keys combined for a total of twenty-five functions not least - but definitely last it's the fact that the keyboard also supports anti-ghosting so you're not gonna have any accidental random triggering of random Keys even in a gaming scenario oh actually no the true last thing is that it does have a Windows key lock but that's actually done in software as opposed to being done in hardware which is a little bit of an unusual thing for me to see now of course you go okay well it's super slim it's an SLI gaming notebook but come on - what are the temperatures like honestly I am incredibly impressed at idle we weren't able to measure temperatures that were above you know like normal skin temperature the thing barely felt warm to the touch only around 22 degrees max and it was actually quite quiet I mean there my mic is here the exhaust fans right here it's very very quiet at idle under load yeah the fans do start to ramp up a little bit you can actually control them manually you can set it up to go okay well no I want 40% fan speed max and there's a couple of different things you can do the software but under load it did get a little bit louder but what it didn't get was much warmer even though this room is only about 18 degrees so it is a little bit on the cold side it is still very impressive to see a dual graphics card gaming notebook deliver temperatures under 27 degrees even directly above where the GPU heat pipes are not is partly due well probably entirely due to their unique cooling setup on this thing so there are two fans here and here at the back you can actually see the intake here and then rather than having restrictive exhausts like you would find on most notebooks there are two full sets of exhausts for each of the fans and you can feel the heat really coming out of them the fans are very effectively cooling it to the point where it doesn't get noticeably warm and this was the hottest spot I could find up here on the keyboard itself to work especially towards the bottom it's just barely warm to the touch so that's really really impressive and probably probably the coolest thing about this notebook so to speak all right so who's the competition for a product like this I'm gonna fire up Crysis actually maybe I'll give you guys some idea of what it sounds like under load here so go ahead and there you go can it run Crysis yes absolutely that is maxed out crisis at 1080p running at about 75 frames per second in a fairly non-demanding environment but don't worry that'll give you a very playable experience and that is of course those speakers that are quite loud there you go anyway so who's the competition for a gaming notebook like this the obvious ones are gonna be the razor blade Pro and the msi gs70 now the blade pro has an offset touchpad that drove me absolutely crazy and regardless how how awesome the display on it might be that is a deal-breaker for me the GS 70 is a much more interesting option to me personally and it's actually quite comparable to this one it offers similar storage options you were memory slots however only two memory slots but it is in a slightly slimmer form factor the big difference between the ARS and the GS 70 is on the GPU side this guy contains two gtx 765 to gig graphics cards whereas the GS 70 contains only one so i would go as far as to say based on the idea of this overall that is to say the industrial design and the performance I haven't seen pricing yet though so guys you can check out the link and once this thing is actually available somewhere that'll be live I would say if you're looking for the ultimate thin and relatively light gaming or workstation notebook for maximum bragging rights this actually might just be it thank you for checking out this unboxing and overview of the ARS x7 like the video if you liked it dislike if you disliked it leave a comment and let us know how you feel about thin and light gaming notebooks versus regular gaming notebooks which tend to be very brick like in their overall form factor in fact I have one here that I can just grab and hold up for comparison I mean here's some more a more classic gaming notebook side by side with the ARS x7 do you would you consider a gaming notebook if they were all slim like this we'd love to know your thoughts and as all these guys don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from unboxings reviews and other computer videos