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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2015 is brought to you by phantom glass visit stores antem glass for the best iron screen protectors out there as well as HyperX so I've got my lovely Vanna White here who thought he was going to hide throughout the video but of course I'm not going to not going to let him get away with that showing off the gt80 Titan SLI dash 0:09 this has been all over the internet as the world's first maybe for a reason gaming notebook with a built in Cherry MX mechanical keyboard so MSI has has was quick to pull out the key cap puller and show off that these are not just any mechanical key switches these are genuine Cherry MX key switches they also pointed out that they went to great lengths to find exactly the right red LEDs these are not just the standard provided ones for red LED illuminated switches so that the keyboard itself is extremely vibrant even in a bright situation like the suite that we're standing in right next to a window right now now some compromises have to be made if you're going to make a gaming notebook with a full thickness mechanical keyboard so number one is that you're not going to want to stack any components under the section of the notebook where the mechanical keyboard is here can you turn it to the side so they can see the profile there we go so this thickness right here is pure keyboard along the side all the components for the notebook itself including the optical drive the quad-core CPU and two gtx 980m graphics cards have to be in this position right here now the other compromise you have to make is that you don't end up with much of a wrist rest then in this scenario and I talked to MSI about this and they kind of went well you know ho-hum you know engineering is hard and all that kind of stuff and I and they made some very good points so I kind of said well I'd love to have the keyboard here in the Canon went well then you're going to have heat from the components on your wrist then you're not necessarily going to get that exact profile that people are used to with mechanical keyboard because the way that they're shipping this is with a wrist rest so it's designed to be used from here now I kind of went well then I'm a little bit far away from the screen and the response was okay well hold on a second it's a 1080p screen and this is eighteen point whatever eighteen point four inch screen so you're going to want to sit a little bit further away from it anyway and I kind of went okay Touche on that again and I kind of went well okay I still think it's huge and it's still not necessarily made for me and they went well hold on but wait Linus there's more we throw in a backpack that actually fits this monstrosity so people can use it and with their new upgrade program that they introduced last Friday this is I'm not going to say world's worst of worst excuse me world's first upgradable notebook because there have been notebooks that have been upgradable before but this is the first one I'm aware of where there is actually a plan for an upgrade path so their upgrade program promises that for to product generations on GPUs MSI will have available new MXM modules and new cooling modules that you can install to move to the next two generations of high end graphics cards in here which i think is a very unique and be pretty freakin cool they also made it easily accessible to get at most of the other upgrades you might want to do so it's two screws to pull off this panel I have them take them off before the video it doesn't just slide off like that don't worry it's okay and you can get at the optical drive you can get at all four of the m2m SATA SSDs so you can run quad raid you can get at the two and a half inch hard drive you can get at two of the four memory slots the other two are at the bottom and I guess that's pretty much all you would really want to get at wireless module is that accessible from the bottom yes okay well there you go so you can get at the wireless module from the bottom so the idea sorry I'll let you I'll let you stop being actually conditioning around we can look at the back so the idea here is that someone paying what was it thirty six hundred dollars for a gaming notebook is probably going to want to get more than one typical notebook lifecycle out of it so they wanted to make it highly upgradeable in terms of i/o you're going to have that massive this power brick is hilarious but is this a 300 watt power brick 350 watt power brick alright and it uses a four pin connector here at the back so you've got Ethernet dual mini DisplayPort and HDMI back here on this side you've got a couple USB three SuperSpeed and then over on this side you've got three more usb3 SuperSpeed optical out Kensington lock SD card reader and a couple audio jacks now the last thing that I haven't talked about yet is the unique shape of the touchpad thank you very much you're being an excellent Vanna so in order to make room for the mechanical keyboard here they didn't have a whole lot of space for an additional touchpad and while I looked at this initially and I kind of went yeah you guys you guys done goofed because the screen is shaped this way and the touchpad is shaped this way it's actually surprisingly not bad I found that using it one-handed with my thumb on the click and my finger on the rest of the touchpad was actually not a bad use case scenario for it and another really cool thing is there's actually an unlock button up in the corner that you can press that brings up a I mean are there's no tactile feel other than a frankly fairly delayed haptic feedback but it does at least give you a touch pad or a number pad if you so desire so as usual the keyboard is in conjunction with SteelSeries so I'm assuming it supports SteelSeries engine okay so it's only red backlighting so you won't be doing like fancy rainbow lighting like on this GT series right here but you will be able to fully reprogram all the keys just like you would be able to on a normal MSI gaming notebook very cool stuff so that's the GT 80 Titan SLI 0:09 guys thanks for checking out this video don't miss any of our CES coverage remember our trip to the show this year is brought to you by phantom glass the makers of in our minds the best screen protectors for your phone on the market they're made of Gorilla Glass they use a nano coating on the bottom so it's pretty much impossible from my experience to get an air bubble in them and they are as clear and as pleasing to use as the glass that's already on your phone assuming you have a high end device as well as HyperX so check out the YouTube channel that's youtube.com slash HyperX for great gaming content over there thanks again for watching and don't miss any of our CES coverage by making sure that you're subscribed you subscribe to that's good