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huge thanks to Squarespace for sending Lynas Media Group to CES 2016 check out the link in the video description to learn more about Squarespace welcome to our second video at the course our suite at CES 2016 in my lap I have one of the two working models they have here of the Corsair Bulldog this puppy's been a long time coming so as a refresher if you've forgotten since the first time you heard about it this is Corsairs concept for 4k gaming in the living room because as we all know the modern consoles aren't capable of it and I mean you know if you remember from my Alienware steam machine video a lot of the other sort of pc type consoles really aren't ready for it as well so their concept was that okay we need a case that small and media sentry looking which unfortunately the Corsair meant glossy plastic on the front I really wish they'd gone with like a a brushed finish and then in addition to that we need adequate cooling for the high-performance components inside in order to have it not only run cool enough for them to not thermal throttle but also to be quiet so what that meant was designing more than just a case they actually had to develop an SFX line of power supplies so this is the 600 watt and then there's also a 450 watt that's going to be available they had to design this really cool well cooler it's called the h5 SF and it's a blower design it actually reminds me kind of like a heat pipe blower in a laptop except instead of heat pipes it's got water tubes that go to the CPU it's like 40 millimeters tall by 120 millimeters wide and they figure it can handle anywhere from a 100 watt heat load like near silently up to a 150 watt heat load they also had to source a motherboard for it so they're actually using a gigabyte z170 and Wi-Fi as part of like a bare-bones kit and then they also worked with MSI to develop a liquid-cooled gtx 980ti graphics card so the idea is that if you buy all the components in the bulldog ecosystem you can put together a kick-ass silent gaming machine in terms of the case itself obviously any ITX motherboard is pretty much going to work you could use a different SFX power supply you can buy everything a la carte because that's the corsair way but they intend for people i think for the most part to buy them as a bare-bones furthermore timid buyers who don't aren't familiar with putting together a PC completely on their own so if you do that you can add yourself up to three SSDs or a single SSD and a three and a half inch drive and you don't have to do a liquid-cooled graphics card you can go air-cooled as well now for me personally I'm not necessarily that sold on where the technologies at in terms of 4k gaming in the living room angry Corsair brings up to me that with overclocking their gtx 980ti can run up to 20% faster than a standard 980 TI but personally i don't necessarily think 20% is the difference between 1080p k 1080p gaming and and 4k gaming so I think the technology's got a ways to go but if nothing else core Tara Sarah is taking a step in the direction of bringing 4k gaming to the living room and at least their solution is actually somewhat capable of doing it when you compare it to well game consoles but of course the Bulldog isn't the piece that's actually supposed to go in your lap no my friends this is the lap dog and this is the sort of accessory for the bulldog but also would be appropriate for any number of other PC solutions they go on your TV of which there actually aren't that many but you know we're not too stressed about that if more are released the lap dog should be a good accompaniment for them and actually I'm a pretty big fan of this product it's gone through some evolutionary changes since the first time we saw it like way back early last year if I recall correctly and it seems like for the most part they're not only better than previous iterations but also better than other similar concepts that I've seen in the past so I actually unboxed a phantom lap board way back in the day it was like functional but pretty pretty awful then I checked out the nerdy tech couch master which has the two big cushions on either side of you and the big platform with active USB cables and and all that kind of stuff this takes that idea of having a platform with you on the couch it like kind of a TV tray so to speak and makes it way more ergonomic and way easier to store so I'll walk you guys through it really quick you've got a single USB connection that goes over to your computer comes with I think it's sixteen foot cord and then there's a four port USB hub that allows you to connect your keyboard your mouse and then a couple of peripherals on the side whether you want like a USB stick or something like that or whatever the case may be there's a swappable mousepad platform over on the right-hand side and this is cool there's a swappable keyboard slot on the left it's compatible with the K 65 and the K 70 keyboards not the strafe now with that said I don't think that you're going to like be ripping your keyboard out and putting it back in all the time because if you are using it properly you're probably going to be using the cable management like routing tray thing under this handy little hinge up here to make the whole thing really clean and really tidy so you don't have any mouse cord rag or anything along those lines this is kind of I personally feel this is kind of unnecessary but the really soft like surprisingly softest like a it's like a memory gel kind of like a really nice material on the bottom is actually detachable from the main born board via magnets I guess one benefit of this would be if you wanted to put it on the coffee table in front of you and you wanted to sit flat it would be able to do that but from an ergonomic standpoint I don't really see why you wouldn't just want it in your lap because unlike the couch master it's not up at an uncomfortable height I find it's at just the right height for me to have my shoulders in a relaxed position and game quite comfortably on it I think this is a huge step in the right direction and I need more modularity is always nice but it's not like the keyboards that go with it are you know phantom lap board class keyboards we're talking k70 RGB s with Cherry MX switches so not exactly you know slim pickins as far as that goes so thanks for checking out video number two from the corsair booth here at CES 2016 don't miss our other one if you're interested in their new cases and don't miss any of our CES 2016 content by being subscribed also want to take this opportunity to give a huge shout out to Squarespace thanks to them we're able to be here at the show if you don't know what Squarespace is did you ever watch our videos but I mean okay I will explain it it allows you to build a beautiful functional website easily you don't have to be a coder to do it and all you got to do is go to Squarespace comm / Linus tryto for free for two weeks and use offer code Linus to 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