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- 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 so this is it we've got Broadwell all over the freaking place all of a sudden so Intel is trumpeting a variety of things about this so of course we've got slightly better performance per clock but the big story is has got to be power consumption so thanks to its extremely low power consumption and heat output Broadwell is enabling a whole new class of devices for these guys so check this out this is actually a fully functional Broadwell so this chip on here so right here this package has a CPU and GPU right here and then it's actually got a chipset right here that CPU goes anywhere from one point 1 - 2 point 6 gigahertz it's a dual core and the GPU even more impressively Intel's gots awesome 3d mark ice storm stuff going on over here they're saying actually outperforms the recently announced Tegra x1 where they're taking what they're calling it's actually kind of funny so for the first time they're taking a leadership position in 3d graphics in really any kind of space I mean who saw this one coming I mean probably the people paying very close attention to how much of the die size of recent Intel CPUs is dedicated to graphics but other than that you didn't stand much of a chance also on this board is four gigs of ram on the back you've got an interface that allows an SSD up to 512 gigs and intel cheated a little bit here with me so they told me oh well Linus it only weighs here we can wait for our scale to go come on over here it only weighs uh 12 grams but of course they didn't put the copper heatsink on it that obviously it's gonna need so let's go ahead and 12 grams that's a massive 14 grams you liars so it's still the lightest PC that I've ever encountered we're gonna see this in a variety of different devices so this one's a pretty incredible little number just to make my point about how light it is here I'm gonna hold it by as tiny a corner as I possibly can that is how light this little Panasonic device is I don't even know what this is this is the çf rz4 it is a full-fledged computer yes fully oh you've got your USB 3 SuperSpeed all that nonsense three of those Gigabit Ethernet this is not a cut-down device in any way and it is running a board like that inside we've got the other one here so this is the demo machine that they're using in order to make their point about how fast graphics are so you saw me just pull it off of the base the computer itself is not in the base of this device at all it is actually all up here same thing one point one turn all the way up to two point six gigahertz this is some tomfoolery magic that they're doing because the power consumption of these chips is gonna be anywhere from four and a half to six watts and then at the very high end 15 watts but thanks to their 14 nanometer manufacturing process and some little tricks with being able to push like massive amounts of current through it for micro seconds at a time enabling exactly the performance you need when you need it you're able to achieve well the kinds of things that we're looking at right here and still have a device that doesn't get so hot you have to drop it I was hoping to get more of a reaction from you guys I should have gone for a longer drop before I caught it usually I get people to freak out we've got another cool one here so this is actually more filled this is not unfortunately Broadwell so it's not exactly something that launched just now but the device itself launched today this is the venue eight from Dell this has a two gigahertz quad core in it it's an android-based tablet and this is a pretty sick looking little device it's got an eight point four inch 2560 by 1600 OLED screen it's got 2 gigs of RAM 16 gigs of storage on the model that I'm holding today and what's kind of cool about it is I don't know if you guys can see what's going on with this picture right here where it's like there okay the background and foreground are shifting separately anyway it's got a 3d camera on the back which is a pretty neat little feature to have this is six millimeters thick and as far as Android tablets go it takes a fair bit to impress me but I'm impressed by how thin it is I'm impressed by how gorgeous it is and I'm impressed that Intel managed to get a design win in a tablet this small and this thin because they've been kind of beating this drum for a while and we haven't seen much success but here it is guys that is an absolutely beautiful little device to drive home the point because I mean oh yeah here's Edison I've actually never touched one so the lightest computer in the world Bluetooth wireless CPU all that kind of stuff on there that's pretty freakin cool so I've criticized Intel in the past particularly on our podcast saying I you know it feels like they've abandoned you know the enthusiast a little bit you know they're not really giving us dual-processor systems anymore and all that crazy stuff I actually happened to be standing in the same room as one of the one of the founders of the whole Skull trail concept over at Intel where it which is one of the things I love to harken back to the last time they cared about us they gave us dual processors on a single motherboard they let us overclock the snot out of it those were the good old days but I don't know I guess another perspective on all that I'm still gonna keep ragging on them until I see you know dual processors and on overclockable motherboards but I guess another perspective on that a point that Intel's trying to make and I kind of messed up the demo here but this is a demo that they actually showed off on Skull trail back when they launched it in 2008 they had like minus 40 degree liquid cooling on the bloody thing in order to get this to even run hopefully there we go there's the pictures of the machine so we've got like a touch interface thing going on here this is the rig they had running dual processors quad GPUs let's go ahead and okay we'll zoom in more I haven't actually used this before so I'm trying this for the first time anyway there we go that's what they were running that was the board it was running and they ran this demo and blew people away with it so what was at 350,000 photos or something like that and okay about three hundred billion pixels and being able to interact with it like this in real time was like this amazing thing holy crap look at what we built and then they kind of lift up the curtain here and show that they now have that demo from 2008 running on their new Broadwell nook right there yes it's getting a little bit toasty no it doesn't seem particularly happy about running the demo but it is actually doing it so there you go I guess that's Moore's law at work are they ignoring enthusiasts you could look at it that way or are they just making enthusiast hardware very different and then it used to look in the past well that's what I'll say but all the Intel people watching me here in the suite either way it's a very cool demo and it's amazing to see how far we've come in six years I mean think about that oh I missed one bring-bring please so this is another little cool this is another Broadwell device so this is from a soos same thing totally detachable tablet totally thin absolutely unbelievable this one doesn't have the 2.6 gigahertz turbo SKU in it did you end up looking at the CPU speed is it about 2.6 all right well there you go I lied I misled you guys I'm very sorry I apologize it's only barely thick enough you can see there's just enough room for the panel the touch interface and then a three and a half millimeter jack that is it that is all the space there is on this tablet / Convertible / 2 + 1 / whatever marketing name there is for it these days so pretty amazing stuff going on here and I'm looking forward to more reviews of guys let me know what devices you want to see us 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