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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit store dot phantom dot glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX we're here in the msi suite with what for me personally is the most exciting thing I've seen at the show yet which isn't really saying much this is only the second suite we've been to but this is something that I'm pretty stoked on anyway this is the GS 30 shadow-zero-zero 1 it's a gaming notebook that has a very thin and light design so they're using what appears to be the same material as as their GS series so like a Malecha blasted finished magnesium kind of shell it's got an extremely thin display 2 USB 3 ports Intel Gigabit LAN HDMI out an SD card reader audio ports an intel core i7 4870 HQ quad core processor and iris pro graphics yeah that's right gaming laptop $2,000 iris pro graphics no no hold on it gets it gets better than that so what's going on over here is we're running external and external display not off of the notebook itself but off of this included box underneath it so I'm actually going to go ahead and shut it down because right now the way it works is in order to switch between standalone notebook mode and notebook with like beastly graphics mode you do have to shut down the machine because here at the back we can go ahead and is it shut down unlock it it's like mechanism it it's like Lock and Load your notebook right here at the back is a PCI Express 16 X Gen 3 interface so that is a full speed link any high end GPU you could possibly want to want you can run off of that and you don't just you know just stick it in the slot at the at the back of the notebook no no that's that's not how it works it's much more elegant than that this box down here contains a speaker just in case you don't have speakers for whatever reason or something like that it's got some more i/o for the notebook so 4 more USB ports killer LAN 2 more audio ports a power button as well as a cooling fan and then inside this is awesome I'm just gonna open it up here try not to break it this time whoops ok yeah and then inside we've got a PCI Express 60 a lot a 450 watt power supply and then we can see now that that cooling fan is gonna allow us to run well msi says any of their graphics cards and any reference card up to a GTX Titan black or r9 290x pretty much anything you could want to put in it compared to Alienware solution this is still proprietary so it's not the you know most elegant thing in the world we're a little ways away from just plugging in a Thunderbolt cable and hot swapping graphics cards but compared to Alienware solution it has four times the bandwidth because the Alienware one runs at PCIe 4x so this and and while that's not normally gonna be a bottleneck anyway it's something that gives you in my mind a little bit more room for the future because CPUs don't affect gaming performance the same way that GPUs do and this could last you through several GPU upgrades and who knows what the bandwidth requirements will look like a couple years from now so this is what's got my attention because for me carrying around a bulky gaming notebook like this 18 inch monstrosity over here that we're also gonna have a video of by the way I can't even lift and it's so heavy carrying around something like that is not necessarily an option but being able to carry something like this around with me most of the time and then grab my dock that actually maybe it does way more than that notebook but not by much being able to just grab an extra dock when I really need the gaming horsepower is an unbelievable use case scenario that I think is fantastic so guys thank you for checking out our video of the GS 30 shadow - 0:01 don't miss any of our CES coverage our trip to the show here is brought to you by oh yeah these guys see them right on the left are on the microphone phantom glass visit store da Phantom dot glass right now in order to get the best dang screen protector in our mind it's Gorilla Glass so it's as clear and as satisfying to touch as the glass that's already on your phone if you have a high-end smartphone and it has a nano coating on the back so it goes on completely bubble free also check out the HyperX youtube channel they also sent us here to the show they've got some great gaming content over there you can find links to both of those places in the video description also click that subscribe button so you don't miss any of our CES 2015 content