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what's going on everyone we are heading to Taipei Taiwan again for Computex 2018 this year we're gonna do a few things outside of the typical Computex coverage give you guys the lowdown on what goes on in the city itself city life and want to build a pc here are just shop for tech in general going tois I think I said that right is the place to be we're gonna have fun hunting maybe even buy a few things assuming we can fit them in our carry ons back home let's have fun now something to keep in mind before we start showing the prices here the Taiwan US dollar conversion rates about 35 or so to one that will of course vary depending on your choice currency so if you see a laptop let's say price at thirty five thousand Taiwanese dollars it might seem a lot to you but remember divided by 35 that's roughly a thousand bucks for a mid to high range to the laptop it's not too bad so in the process you're actually pretty competitive you'll see that here shortly I'm almost about the same equivalently as you would find in the states so let's go check that out okay first up what you're looking at here is kind of like and just everything you could possibly want in it little store and you find that this building in particular has a lot of these small shops kind of built into the plaza now this one sells everything from you see we have a ton of Intel CPUs we have power supplies there we have a bunch of peripherals you know mice keyboards headsets we have graphics cards most of them albeit are pretty weak by comparison you know GT 1037 30s are x5 60s are pretty common in there and then we have motherboards on the right side but the idea is right you come in here you decide what you want to build and then you can pretty much pick everything imaginable apart from maybe a case in a single store like this which is great for PC building enthusiasts you don't see this stuff like I mean even fans up top I know you can't really tell because it's very bright but there are some fans you can choose as well Israel pretty up-to-date as well now so this is a pretty sweet stop here right at the entrance you see the escalator behind us and this will get you going for sure but of course there isn't just this store to choose from you have many on this level alone so here are examples of typical laptop prices here in Taiwan you see twenty five thousand nine hundred dollars what's funny is they they still use the US currency symbol but of course this is Taiwan dollar that's four gigs of DDR for 256 gig SSD nandai 580 250 which I believe is a quad core ultra low power CPU so it's the newest CPU for the ultra low power ultra books and that's good to see they don't have the most up-to-date stuff I noticed that in hallway and a few other brands are very very behind I guess you can buy a lot of stuff in the states that they haven't gotten yet the p20 though from hall is pretty big we might stop by that store in a second Hey look at this awesome one-hand keyboard I don't know it's kind of weird but comfortable at the same time we should play games with this these pcs what are they that's pretty smart so that's kind of like what NZXT does with the the build software online you can basically build your PC and tell you exactly what kind of specs we'll give you what fps so look if you want to play pub G at 80 fps apparently this is the system for it now I don't know what that says it might be might have something to do with the in-game resolution or the settings but still nice and it's cool to see you know a marketing tactic like this in Taiwan not something you see too much in the States alright so we have a dedicated PlayStation Store they're actually about three or four of every store in here and that's because none of these are actually directly affiliated with the manufacturers of the products or selling so you'll see like Lenovo they're like that's not an official sorry it's really great like that's not an official Lenovo store they just sell one over products so they put the sign up top so you know exactly what you're buying and then you have a couple other stores that will just kind of keep it general because they sell a plethora of products a bunch of graphics cards 1060 s I see a lot of in there 1050 T eyes referrals more peripherals back there see smaller stores dedicated just to let's say storage in the case of a data xpg more laptops on this side hello and yeah what I've noticed is that most people are actually pretty cool with us filming here and I think that just has to do with the culture you know Germany in particular was very anti filming we had to be very sneaky when we filmed in the tech market just because people don't like being filmed and I understand that right you have the right to say no but a lot of the people here are k with it so this store here is a branded asus rog retailer and what they have again pretty much everything you could possibly want in a pc build all laid out for you're ready to buy part by part the great thing about a store like this though first off they're upfront about all their prices so you can see the far right here all the yellow tabs are the prices again in Taiwanese dollars so for example 16 gigs of DDR 467 99 s of a 68 divided by 35 is about 200 bucks so again that's very comparable to what you would find in the states will have the exact conversions on the bottom of the screen down here so 60 $7.99 for 16 gigs of ram and that again that's you know pretty high clock to you right 3,000 megahertz lpx corsair ram and if we pan over here they're actually doing bundles and this is where things get really fancy so we have an Intel Core i7 8700 ksz 370 motherboard 16 gigs of ram a 240 gig SSD plus a one terabyte hard drive a 1070 arm or 8 gig card from MSI you get an optical drive a 600 700 what that says and you get all that 440 1900 Taiwanese dollars sounds like a crap ton of money right but if you convert it a real time here we go that is just under 1,400 US dollars and that in our country is a great price right now for what you're getting an excellent gaming PC again the 8700 K is one of the best gaming PC peas out there actually the best right now being getting decent clocks on it and a 1070 which is plenty for 1080p moderate 1440p gaming that's a great great price and it says basically all you need to build a PC right here you get it all for 41 900-mile side of the tech market in Taiwan and I want to show you guys some of the places you can shop so there's an official HTC store right there Samsung store just around the corner so you know all the official name brands those official retailers are in this section of the tech space here in Taiwan now we're gonna go upstairs to check out what else they have to offer by the way we were talking about Huawei earlier this is where that store is and very bright kind of like Apple stores I think they've all caught on board at this point a dedicated ROG looks like land party going on in that one so coming up on the second floor here we're gonna swing right is this cool it's like a WD Showcase it's actually looks like a building at Western Digital hard drive right there that's pretty chill so here we have sony then we have transcend that's basically a data storage company we have HP to their right and then we have msi down at the end so what does an msi store look like in taiwan let's go check it out it's the following what I was talking about earlier razor here's an example of a company doesn't have all the latest tech in store yet and this is something you won't really run into in the States because you don't really have dedicated stores like these all over the place but razor in particular is advertising their older 14 razor blade laptop a 14-inch model when we actually have I think it what the 15 15.6 inch model now that just came out that you can buy on their website but you don't have in store yet and that's just kind of weird usually when you have a new model released or you're about to release it you tend to have those products in the shop so that people can actually and uh play with them and maybe buy them on site so that's one of the things I've noticed the Rays are stored by itself though it's actually really cool here they they try to trick all these out and give people who are into gaming a personal field okay folks so that was the wrong flaw Tech Center here in Taipei and I wanted to make this video thanks Lisa for helping me and literally filming almost everything in there just to give you guys a little something different we don't usually go out of the office much and when we do we try to at least film in some text or give you guys an idea of what to expect when you go in them Taiwan has very competitive prices I'm very pleased to see that and I am excited to see what kind of new tech these companies will have to offer at Computex this year stay tuned for that coverage we'll try to do maybe one more of these before we leave Taiwan in about two weeks this is science studio thanks for shopping with us you