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all right so we're here in the gigabyte suite actually but we're only sort of in the gigabyte suite and don't worry I will explain this you know all of this a little bit later Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2016 is brought to you by Squarespace build it at R active to the eye also known as beautiful so we're actually on the ARS side of things that's a sub brand that they have for gaming notebooks and they're showing off a couple of pretty cool things so first up is the oil heiress x7 DT so the DT is for determination because a horas was determined to take a desktop GPU and I'm sure the DT has nothing to do with that in this case the gtx 980 and cram it into not just any old 17 inch laptop because we've seen 980 based laptops kind of all over the place at this point but to do it in their signature thinner form factor so it also features a refreshed skylake processor ddr4 ram m dot 2 storage has got a 17 inch screen that same signature aluminum construction that is as beautiful to the touch as it is to the eye but now with even more performance now remember the thing about the GTX 980 in a laptop is that we don't know exactly how it's going to handle its power and thermal limits so maybe we'll have to check this one out in the future let me know if you guys want to see that but I am definitely excited to see where they're going with this one in terms of i/o they've made some upgrades as well so on the right side you got your USB 3 you've got your HDMI you've got your mini DisplayPort and yes that is USB 3.1 with a type-c connector unfortunately not Thunderbolt however at the back is power as well as another USB 3 and over here on the left next to their G keys those are programmable macro keys actually they've got some new macro functionality including like profiles that you can create for different EQ settings and all that depending on application signal so that's kind of neat then they've got Gigabit Ethernet HDMI VGA another USB 3.0 and audio now the one thing that I continue to criticize about ARS laptops is the fact that they use a glossy that is a smooth glass touchpad so they're half of the way they glass is good but I'd like to see frosted they've got another model here that's pretty similar to the previous x5 as well but with one key change now it's still available in the dual 965 M SLI configuration but in addition to some updated i/o so again we've got USB 3.1 type C this time over on the left side this puppy features up to a 970 m single graphics card if you prefer the non SLI gaming experience which brings us of course to the last thing here in the a or a suite that we're talking about and the reason for the get up here this is their new well not new because it doesn't exist yet but whatever upcoming limited edition versions of the X 7 X 5 and X 3 the main difference between these and the other ones is they have severely downgraded the specs and it is all about the looks just kidding it's exactly the same laptop so you get the same aluminum construction but they're using water transfer technology to use this like super hyper thin film and then they take the components of the chassis itself and they kind of like dip it into the water that holds the film on top which allows this camo finish that they've developed which is actually based on a multicam like legit military finish to be not only on the flat surfaces like you'd be able to do with a traditional vinyl wrap but also on things like even you know fan or speaker grilles without losing any of the overall pattern now each of these is basically hand done and they're not no two are going to look the same but with that said if you guys are like well I would want to look the same as that anyway because it's like camo well actually you may have an opportunity to influence future ARS design so they actually allow you to submit ideas through their form that's where this whole thing came from and if you're like yeah you know I'd love one that had like he's super like completely different design this technology allows them to do pretty much anything it's really cool and depending on the region the specs of the limited editions ones will vary but as assuming that the specs were apples to apples it only adds about $100 to the cost of the laptop and makes it really freakin unique looking so guys thanks for checking out this video on the gigabyte suite don't miss any of our CES 2016 content and of course don't miss an opportunity to build it beautiful with squarespace.com head over to squarespace.com / - whose offer code - to save 10% on building your beautiful website hopefully with pictures of me in this getup all over it today