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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by Western Digital Intel and steel series so we're here in the intel booth at pax 2013 there is a ton of stuff on display here gaming desktops tablets all kinds of great stuff they're giving away over forty thousand dollars worth of processors throughout the show but behind me here I have the main gear pulse 14 this is a bit of a unique notebook because it takes what you would call a more traditional DIY approach because obviously main gears roots are from sort of the custom desktop background that they started up with and they've taken a lot of those principles and applied them to this notebook right here so let's go through the general specs it's got a quad-core 4702 processor so that's about as good as you can get within a 35 watt TDP it's got a gtx 760m which from a pure performance standpoint it should give you about double what you're going to get with a 660m so it's a huge generational improvement it still maintains a very slim overall form factor doesn't compromise on Io so on the left hand side here you got your power in you got your ventilation hdmi vga a high yes still hardwired gigabit ethernet to super speed USB 3 ports then on the other side you find another USB 2.0 port card reader headphone and microphone jacks the screen runs at 1600 x 900 although a little bird told me it might be available in even higher resolutions moving forward the keyboard is a chiclet type unfortunately not backlit but this is where things start to get really interesting the pricing is extremely aggressive starting at 12 49 and check this out on the back unfortunately the base model doesn't include the sexy paint job for the back of the notebook so you can see that is a premium automotive finish main gear figures their own shop is better than most of the shops in the jersey area and it is dedicated to painting not only your pc but also potentially the accessories that you acquire with it so check this out here's a logitech gaming mouse that has also had the same finish applied to it now that DIY spirit is back guys because the storage configuration of the notebook is extremely flexible in spite of its small size so 14 inches and very slim it can accept a two and a half inch drive so whether it's an SSD or hard drive doesn't really seem to matter and to msata ssds all at the same time so you could actually run two SSDs for boot and then throw a two and a half inch hard drive in there for storage giving you an extremely flexible little system guys don't miss any of our packs 2013 coverage remember we're powered here at the show by intel western digital and steel series