I seriously question those fans keeping this cool for any extended amount of time. i would also love to see one of these console laptops run on battery's.
Well, it can sit in your lap. Also, my laptop that doesn't run on battery anymore, isn't considered a portable desktop since it's battery doesn't work. It's still called a laptop. I just have to keep it plugged in, haha
I would argue that any laptop intended for gaming pretty much needs to be plugged-in to actually game (otherwise you often get like, 30-45minutes). So in that sense this is spot-on to the functionality of a 'gaming laptop'. It's also neat that this has the power supply built into the chasis instead of as an external brick.
Still a laptop ;) Also, agreed with TheTron08, gaming on a laptop, in my experience, almost requires to be plugged in. They don't last long enough otherwise
The only thing that bothered me is that you used a 360 logo instead of the one logo but otherwise that's pretty sweet and I want to be able to do this.
Star Wars fun-fact! You actually see Poe Dameron remove his jacket immediately after getting in the TIE fighter. :P Awesome build! More time seemed to help a lot with build-quality. It looks sexy as hell!
JonasLue With today's tech that would be feasible, but would require some extra fine tuning. That's not easy, but as a long term project? I think it's doable.
20:40 I was also a cable installer...and what he is talking about is a coax tester/tuner. These items attach to the bare copper coated wire inside the coax connector from your cable box and then the other end attaches the same way. When both ends are on the same line there is an audible tone to let you know that you found the cable that has the connector on the other end. These are notoriously cheap and break, run out of battery, stop working, lose audio, and so on.
There are a lot of different types of these: www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=coax+tester&tbm=shop&spd=13765752482076737384But I think he was referring to this one: www.philex.co.uk/catalogue/product/?id=640&cat=1125
We also want to see if we can make one that can send/detect a signal through the jacket so you don't have to strip or detach a wire. So basically without contacting the conductive material of the wire.
Please take your time on more future builds. A lot of the newer stuff seems rushed. A long term project every month or so would be great. I don't know about re-visiting specific builds, but if you could just rotation all of them through a schedule. Just a thought. I know you need to release regularly, but there should always be long term builds, in my opinion.
Suggestion for next build: Hey Ben! I've always wondered about this. How about you buy a Nintendo Wii (With Homebrew would be better) and a Wii U gamepad. You can modify the controls, like the left analog stick being the Wii Nunchuk and the right one synced to the d-pad controls. L and ZL can be Z and R and ZR can be B. The X Button can also be B. Y can be 1 and B can be 2. This, if done correctly, will make a Wii Gamepad (Wii Portable) and can be used as a regular controller for the Wii. Make sure to build the sensor bar into it! Like if you agree!
You guys are the best. I really enjoy this channel and it gives me something to look forward to every week. I don't know a lot about electronics but I always learn something new from each video. Thank you and keep up the good work!
A wire tracer would be a handy device. Especially if you made it so you could plug the signal generator into a wall outlet, screw it in a light socket or attach a set of jumper cables. It would probably be a good idea if it could survive being attached to a live circuit too.
Chaos a laptop that uses more expensive power efficient parts would be 10% larger with a typical 40-60watthour battery, for this thing you'd have to supply about 100w for hours for a battery to be worth it.
I think the exposed cables for the LCD are a major flaw. That is the first thing that will go in this build. You could've wired them through the hinges.
Dam that laptop looks really good. If only Microsoft and Sony would make a retail version of this instead of crapping out the ps4 pro and expecting people to buy it
if you want to get rid of heat just get some of the small box fans from a server - the run at high speeds, about 30mm sq and are designed for 1ru/2ru units to remove high cpu heat quick
Joe Stacks actually uses a laptop (notebook, in terms of speed) grade CPU (actually an APU) if you look at it in terms of clockspeed, if I recall correctly, it uses a 1.8ghz (maybe 2) AMD Jaguar 8-core APU, with something like a HD7770 for a GPU.
You are correct. The bigger fan was probably chosen for the Xbox One S design because having a single bigger fan with low RPMs to maintain airflow on the whole case makes much less noise than several smaller ones going at much higher RPMs constantly. Something the PS4 gets often criticized for by people who find the constant audible whir of the fans annoying. In Ben's design I think that airflow on the case overall is probably not good enough for gaming not because the fans are too small (As you rightly point out they are going at much higher RPM), its because the components are laid out differently and further appart than the original design and the space is rather cramped too. The PSU might not be getting good enough airflow or its likely just getting hot air from the rest of the components.
It should have a keyboard and a mouse track pad on it. I want one of these so bad. I wish Microsoft would actually make something like this. You are incredibly smart and creative Ben Heck.
I built a little xbox one portable! Its a controller attachment that lets you just move around the house to play xbox anywhere in the house! Check it out!
MorimotoYTP I'm not sure the dock has much in it that would be worth integrating into the rest of the switch. XD Seems more like a convenience thing (not having to plug in a bunch of seperate cables and the like), plus maybe some extra cooling.
Why would you need to make a portable Switch? That's one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. The system is already portable, and Nintendo has said that the dock serves no purpose other than TV connection and charging, which you can already do with the charger. Literally nothing would be gained by integrating the dock.
It just gives the switch more power than the batteries can provide. You could probably get a performance increase on the switch by plugging in an external battery.
I dont know if ya'll check the comments on older videos but I've had an idea that would be more of a long term thing. I've been wanting to make a pc desk for a few years, but also be able to play console games as most of my friends have Xbox or Playstation. I know that either one of those systems don't take up much room by themselves, and are only about as large as a large pc case, but i think it would be cool to have the pc desk with an Xbox and, or a PlayStation built inside of it as well. Like a dual monitor set-up for the Pc and a 40 or 50 inch T.V. for the console(s)
Just because the 360 is old now doesn't mean it's gotten smaller over time. If he made annother 360 portable now, it would be probably the same size as his last one. :/
Yeah, he'd have to completely reverse engineer a 360, make a mobo and buy and route every single modern equivalent component of what's in the original 360 to make a whole new system essentially. Hard work.
I would easily buy something like this in kit form to turn my S into something more portable. Even one that goes all digital with out a DVD drive to cut down on power and size would also be great.
I didn't mean APU on it ;) But PSU will overheat and fry PCB on MB. It overheats like crazy already playing music/movies (the guy in vid said it goes over 100 degrees F). With games that would go even higher as more power would be needed to fuel games. Cool idea, but unusable for gaming.
any computer whether it be a pc, mac, xbox or ps should not be going any higher than 90* CELSIUS (apu mainly), 100* fahrenheit should be just fine for the psu itself as shown in the video
Thomas Myers remember PSU was not even under load when it hit that temp. That's what hit me first. Fans came to my mind afterwards. 2 options console would have when overheating: thermal throttle or emergency shut down. APU would not fry that easily that's for sure.
100 F is ~37 C, numbnuts. That's like 4 degrees above idle temperature. The machine's thermals are fine. In the future, please refrain from commenting on things you know nothing about.
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Really enjoyed this episode. the production of this episode felt better then usual episodes. I don't know why. (a good thing) and I think the montage music sections made the video. :) I want this laptop soooo bad. wish I had a next gen console. anyway great video guys great work
my iPhone is better than the vita and it can do a whole lot more than just game well this portable xBox idea kinda sucks as it is pointless as you need a 3D printer and CNC machinery which is expensive i know there are cheap 3D printers for under like $500 but that CNC will set you back over $10K and i know you can create your own PCB's and other parts but that is too much time consuming i personally know quite a bit on electronics but this guy is old school he knows how electronics work etc... but he is sort of basic and he lacks the knowledge of competing products and so on such as gaming laptops and so on at least PC gaming is not as complicated as this because i am no expert at this but i do know what i am doing when it comes to electronics but this type of stuff is too much for me
Ben and Crew, one thing you could do to make a little money on the side is sell plans with the files for the 3d printed parts and the laser parts. It is much easier than making kits and you could sell them fairly inexpensively considering that the brunt of the cost of producing the machine is taken care of by the consumer. This is similar to how the woodworking channels on youtube make money.
I think it would have been a good idea to throw a thin keyboard on top. And seems how the Xbox one S has Bluetooth it wouldn't even need to be tethered to the motherboard. It would be very handy anytime you want to message or search for something. I think the side lines ended up looking good. To make it more fancy, the lid symbol should be reworked so it glows with LED's, as that symbol looks like the old 360 version.
Id build a battery base that snaps to the bottom with a power cable connector on it. Just use like thin laptop batteries and run them in parallel. Then of course an inlet for charging.
Doesn't need a benchmark, he didn't just throw in some random shit and go "yeah that'll do". It's all calculated before putting it all together, and with the APU heat censor and all that, the fans would have to work a bit harder but with the heatsink and intake/exhaust, it'd add up to roughly the same temperature. AND like he said, APU's are a lot less heat intensive than you'd expect, did you even watch the video??
one thing that would be really cool is if you had a optional external out HDMI that you can plug into a TV for 4K and also make the laptop somewhat like a Nintendo switch since you can plug into the TV also
it would be interesting if you removed the bluray drive entirely to make it slimmer still and added a higher capacity hard drive (not sure what the limit is on xbox but id say maybe 3 tb would be really cool) and have an even more portable xbox that doesn't need discs.
Very cool design, the one thing that bugged me though was how you used the 360 logo instead of the flat-colored One logo, but that's such a minor detail it probably doesn't matter much. Lol.
Since the Xbox One supports mouse and keyboard, I was really hoping that you would've placed a nice low profile keyboard into the design. Would of made surfing the web super easy with it's built in Edge web browser. Not to mention sending text messages would be a snap as well.
It is great and anyone would love to have one, but it would be better with a battery. I mean the main purpose of a laptop is to be portable. But it is truly awesome and you made it look super easy. Great job!
omg, when the windows sound played at the beginning for a device connected, i freaked out for a sec, i thought my keyboard had been disconnected without me knowing and had just reconnected hahahah
Ben!! love the show, had an idea for an episode. kinda different but how about going over how you use tools like onenote, your surface, and anything else you use to organize your ideas and projects?? would really be useful info!
I wonder if the Xbox One would function without its disc drive connected? That would save a lot of space and weight with the build. The system would just have to rely on digital content.
You could have gotten a keyboard/trackpad mouse built into the Xbox1-laptop, maybe get a controller built into it as well (though still with the option to plug in a traditional controller).
It's a great design, but would be cool if it had a built in battery like some game cases. I love the finished product. Great for people who travel a lot and dont want to lug around an xbox and cables to play at a hotel. Even could be played at an airport dock station while you wait. If i this option over just sticking my xbox in a portable case. i would get this
Sick build, very innovative!!! if you put the relief cut at the corners on the back side you would accomplish what your after with a better appearance..
Could you make a "Wii U-DS-Laptop"? I.e., do what you did with this XBOX ONE S laptop but for a Wii U but also put the touchscreen controller inside the laptop so it essentially looks and functions like an oversized DS?
I think the side skin should be made from one layer.. And instead of xbox logo you could print your The ben heck show (+BHs) or e14 logo. And lunchbox laptop would look cool as well.
Would have been interesting to see you actually use the thing to play games. That would put a much bigger load on the system and you would actually have a test whether your cooling solution is feasible, which I doubt.
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but I would have loved to see you add a way to toggle between the connected screen and an independent screen (such as your home TV when not on-the-go). I can see this being achieved two ways: 1. The HDMI F port that goes to the Xbox's monitor being flush with the case that can be unplugged to swap out for the independent screen. However, this would look super tacky since you'll always have a bulky HDMI M sticking out. This could also cause issues during transportation (I could see this breaking easily). 2. An HDMI switch with one HDMI F inside of the case like yours that directly connects to the monitor, a second HDMI F connector flush with the case for an independent monitor/screen to connect to, and the actual switch 1/2 flush with the case to swap between the Xbox monitor and a connected monitor. -- Why would this be useful? You're on the go playing on the attached monitor. That's pretty neat. Then you come home and switch over to your much larger HD TV. You have portability without sacrificing the big screen functionality. -- Just my two cents. Very cool project. I'm curious how those fans hold up during prolonged use or while playing games (assuming that would generate more heat).
Now go "balls out" and watercool the APU and increase the screen to 4K @ 60hz As soon as I saw the new APU fans, I was worried about thermals. Especially under heavy gaming load for hours on end. Other than that, it's an awesome build
I like that this exists, but im guessing you made it "because you can" (not a huge point to it) Also, Im not knocking what you do, far from it, but i wish you would use different materials sometimes, everything ends up looking really similar! Other than that, i like the design and how well everything fits in the casing (seems to be full rather that oversized and half empty like some of the other portables i have seen that you made) Cool!
"What else would you have liked to see us do to this Xbon One S laptop?"
Oh, I don't know. How about play a game on it maybe?!
2:56 i thought my screen was damaged...nobody else is gonna mention the lines on the video?
Maybe it was just a design? Don’t know why they did that though.
And i thought my GPU was dying.
me too
ant bro no
I know right? I recently undervolted my laptop and was like "Oh no, here we go"
I seriously question those fans keeping this cool for any extended amount of time. i would also love to see one of these console laptops run on battery's.
BlueFoxTV they draw to much current
Grey John then that means it's not a true laptop it's more of a portable desktop then
Well, it can sit in your lap. Also, my laptop that doesn't run on battery anymore, isn't considered a portable desktop since it's battery doesn't work. It's still called a laptop. I just have to keep it plugged in, haha
I would argue that any laptop intended for gaming pretty much needs to be plugged-in to actually game (otherwise you often get like, 30-45minutes). So in that sense this is spot-on to the functionality of a 'gaming laptop'. It's also neat that this has the power supply built into the chasis instead of as an external brick.
Still a laptop ;)
Also, agreed with TheTron08, gaming on a laptop, in my experience, almost requires to be plugged in. They don't last long enough otherwise
The only thing that bothered me is that you used a 360 logo instead of the one logo but otherwise that's pretty sweet and I want to be able to do this.
Chad Blitzer ikr
emojis make me want to kill myself
I am all pc master race but you still need to shut your fuck
RotiiK _ Douche
Star Wars fun-fact! You actually see Poe Dameron remove his jacket immediately after getting in the TIE fighter. :P
Awesome build! More time seemed to help a lot with build-quality. It looks sexy as hell!
MooCowManHG was just about to comment the same thing.
And he probably had concussion upon waking up. He would have been disoriented and it would explain why he left it behind.
What is he saying though in the intro? Sounds like "I wanna live in a world when Star Wars are gay". If that's the case it should be "is gay"?
Ingen Ting sounds to me like "I wanna live in a world with star wars again!"
Austin Reynolds Yes, It's from a parody of "It's a Wonderful Life" that they did.
2:05 "It's difficult finding LCS panels under 19" these days" ...
*behind me a stack of 15.6 and some 17" LCDs just waiting to be used...*
RLY?!
The Mechanical TV!!! That needs a revisit...
Who would like to see that finished?
1blisslife And then make it portable xD
But seriously, would be cool to see more about it/a similar subject
JonasLue With today's tech that would be feasible, but would require some extra fine tuning. That's not easy, but as a long term project? I think it's doable.
+The Ben Heck Show PLEASE REVISIT IT
"What more would you want us to do?' Test games on the modded games console.
Anyone notice he kept getting windows notifications? Lol
A keyboard would've been cool. They support it for typing and apps
Could you make a Nintendo 3ds into a home console. You could mod a game pad from the wifi u to display the bottom screen.
That would be awesome. There are places that mod the 3ds for video output, but using the wii u gamepad for control and bottom screen is a great idea!
want
LightningGamer500 Delta post this idea in the ven heck show suggestion forums
240p on a big screen?
yep 240p like most retro consoles,nes,snes PSX...
I think adding a battery to it so it could be portable would be an awesome update for this. Love your work
20:40 I was also a cable installer...and what he is talking about is a coax tester/tuner. These items attach to the bare copper coated wire inside the coax connector from your cable box and then the other end attaches the same way. When both ends are on the same line there is an audible tone to let you know that you found the cable that has the connector on the other end. These are notoriously cheap and break, run out of battery, stop working, lose audio, and so on.
There are a lot of different types of these: www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=coax+tester&tbm=shop&spd=13765752482076737384But I think he was referring to this one: www.philex.co.uk/catalogue/product/?id=640&cat=1125
Retro Adventure yes that would be handy as a cable guy as your self do they still Use them today?
I have no need at the moment since I do not install anymore. But, I used a couple different methods to trace cables and this was one of them yes.
Wow amazing keep up the good work
We also want to see if we can make one that can send/detect a signal through the jacket so you don't have to strip or detach a wire. So basically without contacting the conductive material of the wire.
23 minutes of hype to watch him criticize a dumb movie
lmao what?
what were you expecting?
Thomas Myers him to play some games and test it instead of just watching a movie
What makes that any more entertaining? its just him showing off that the xbox is working and it shows up on the display
Thomas Myers alright my bad for having an opinion
Please take your time on more future builds. A lot of the newer stuff seems rushed. A long term project every month or so would be great. I don't know about re-visiting specific builds, but if you could just rotation all of them through a schedule. Just a thought. I know you need to release regularly, but there should always be long term builds, in my opinion.
Suggestion for next build: Hey Ben! I've always wondered about this. How about you buy a Nintendo Wii (With Homebrew would be better) and a Wii U gamepad. You can modify the controls, like the left analog stick being the Wii Nunchuk and the right one synced to the d-pad controls. L and ZL can be Z and R and ZR can be B. The X Button can also be B. Y can be 1 and B can be 2. This, if done correctly, will make a Wii Gamepad (Wii Portable) and can be used as a regular controller for the Wii. Make sure to build the sensor bar into it! Like if you agree!
That could never work lmao
Was actually expecting u to play games on it
1:23 I got confuzed thinking windows was hiding a notification
Love the beard! It works for you.
I have to disagree. I liked the clean-shaven Ben better. It's probably just a phase he's going through...
u like them better ? u a gay or something ?
*****
lol u triggered
*****
cuz u love gays
***** look in the Oxford English dictionary
You guys are the best. I really enjoy this channel and it gives me something to look forward to every week. I don't know a lot about electronics but I always learn something new from each video. Thank you and keep up the good work!
why didn't he test any games lol
he has no games he said that already
***** still could've downloaded one.
BathNApe
wh bother spending money on a game he wont play ?
***** I didn't say to spend money.
BathNApe
does it matter ? the console works ,dont need to test a agme
It is nearly impossible trying to find any of these beautiful works of art for sell ANYWHERE.
Nice Beard Ben. You look good with it.
A wire tracer would be a handy device. Especially if you made it so you could plug the signal generator into a wall outlet, screw it in a light socket or attach a set of jumper cables. It would probably be a good idea if it could survive being attached to a live circuit too.
I've been waiting for this! I knew you will make it. :)
"well that's all the time we have for today ..." he just took for months to work on this lol!
if only it had a battery lol
Tracenji it would need a massive battery
Je55terK1ng so?
The laptop would be like 10% larger if not more because of that.
Chaos a laptop that uses more expensive power efficient parts would be 10% larger with a typical 40-60watthour battery, for this thing you'd have to supply about 100w for hours for a battery to be worth it.
Yeah it's just not worth it.
im surprised how elegant it looks.... almost like an official product... well done!
Holy crap that is amazing nearly perfect the only thing I would have changed that bugged me was the Xbox 360 logo on the Xbox one computer lol.
I think the exposed cables for the LCD are a major flaw. That is the first thing that will go in this build. You could've wired them through the hinges.
Dam that laptop looks really good. If only Microsoft and Sony would make a retail version of this instead of crapping out the ps4 pro and expecting people to buy it
This show is so lit! For someone that drools over building, creating, and modifying your own tech its goals!
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if you want to get rid of heat just get some of the small box fans from a server - the run at high speeds, about 30mm sq and are designed for 1ru/2ru units to remove high cpu heat quick
those mini fans aint gonna do shit
the xbox isn't a laptop.
Joe Stacks actually uses a laptop (notebook, in terms of speed) grade CPU (actually an APU) if you look at it in terms of clockspeed, if I recall correctly, it uses a 1.8ghz (maybe 2) AMD Jaguar 8-core APU, with something like a HD7770 for a GPU.
he showed the temps in the video and ironically enough the part where the big fan was originally was cooler than the power supply and mobo
the fans are about equivalent since the big fan spun really slow thats about as easy as I can put it
You are correct. The bigger fan was probably chosen for the Xbox One S design because having a single bigger fan with low RPMs to maintain airflow on the whole case makes much less noise than several smaller ones going at much higher RPMs constantly. Something the PS4 gets often criticized for by people who find the constant audible whir of the fans annoying.
In Ben's design I think that airflow on the case overall is probably not good enough for gaming not because the fans are too small (As you rightly point out they are going at much higher RPM), its because the components are laid out differently and further appart than the original design and the space is rather cramped too. The PSU might not be getting good enough airflow or its likely just getting hot air from the rest of the components.
It should have a keyboard and a mouse track pad on it. I want one of these so bad. I wish Microsoft would actually make something like this. You are incredibly smart and creative Ben Heck.
I built a little xbox one portable! Its a controller attachment that lets you just move around the house to play xbox anywhere in the house! Check it out!
Is it on your RUclips channel because I'd like to see that.
Yes it is!
Is that the one that was on one of ben's videos when he went to some convention?
That was me on the previous episode where i showed a Xbox 360 portable, but i made one for the Xbox one!
I do like the longer build cycle. Would be nice to see more of these mixed in to the regular schedule.
Make a Wii U laptop or maybe a portable Nintendo Switch with the dock included
MorimotoYTP I'm not sure the dock has much in it that would be worth integrating into the rest of the switch. XD
Seems more like a convenience thing (not having to plug in a bunch of seperate cables and the like), plus maybe some extra cooling.
Why would you need to make a portable Switch? That's one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. The system is already portable, and Nintendo has said that the dock serves no purpose other than TV connection and charging, which you can already do with the charger. Literally nothing would be gained by integrating the dock.
MrHatoi If rumors say that the dock increases performance, though.
Rumors aren't always true, and since Nintendo has specifically said that that rumor is not true.
It just gives the switch more power than the batteries can provide. You could probably get a performance increase on the switch by plugging in an external battery.
I dont know if ya'll check the comments on older videos but I've had an idea that would be more of a long term thing. I've been wanting to make a pc desk for a few years, but also be able to play console games as most of my friends have Xbox or Playstation. I know that either one of those systems don't take up much room by themselves, and are only about as large as a large pc case, but i think it would be cool to have the pc desk with an Xbox and, or a PlayStation built inside of it as well. Like a dual monitor set-up for the Pc and a 40 or 50 inch T.V. for the console(s)
what a refreshing commentsection btw awesome project, revisit the 360 and include a battery and try to make it smaller
Just because the 360 is old now doesn't mean it's gotten smaller over time.
If he made annother 360 portable now, it would be probably the same size as his last one. :/
Yeah, he'd have to completely reverse engineer a 360, make a mobo and buy and route every single modern equivalent component of what's in the original 360 to make a whole new system essentially. Hard work.
Savage Cat The last 360 revisions use less than 140W. It may be possible.
I would easily buy something like this in kit form to turn my S into something more portable. Even one that goes all digital with out a DVD drive to cut down on power and size would also be great.
If you are making a laptop out of it, why not add a keyboard? (Yes, the Xbox One supports a keyboard.)
and why not add a battery in there to make it portable xd
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Play any game and it will fry in an instant...
I didn't mean APU on it ;)
But PSU will overheat and fry PCB on MB. It overheats like crazy already playing music/movies (the guy in vid said it goes over 100 degrees F). With games that would go even higher as more power would be needed to fuel games.
Cool idea, but unusable for gaming.
any computer whether it be a pc, mac, xbox or ps should not be going any higher than 90* CELSIUS (apu mainly), 100* fahrenheit should be just fine for the psu itself as shown in the video
Thomas Myers remember PSU was not even under load when it hit that temp. That's what hit me first. Fans came to my mind afterwards. 2 options console would have when overheating: thermal throttle or emergency shut down.
APU would not fry that easily that's for sure.
Maybe he could have just added a water cooling.
100 F is ~37 C, numbnuts. That's like 4 degrees above idle temperature. The machine's thermals are fine. In the future, please refrain from commenting on things you know nothing about.
I love how the footage recorded of the 3d printed part with the cavities at 16:24 was one where the part popped off the bed. lol
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!!!
If you manage to make the DVD player work as an external unit you save space and weight, since you do not always use the DVDs.
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why didn't you replace the hdd with an ssd
please build the mini pinball
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Really enjoyed this episode. the production of this episode felt better then usual episodes. I don't know why. (a good thing) and I think the montage music sections made the video. :) I want this laptop soooo bad. wish I had a next gen console. anyway great video guys great work
Microsoft should sell that
15:05 "now the question is around the BACK here", like, y u say it so loud, scared me half to death.
No idea why, but this had me weak as shit
If only this was a real product. Come on Microsoft. Sony already made a PS Vita..
Quantum Gaming is that a joke?
my iPhone is better than the vita and it can do a whole lot more than just game well this portable xBox idea kinda sucks as it is pointless as you need a 3D printer and CNC machinery which is expensive i know there are cheap 3D printers for under like $500 but that CNC will set you back over $10K and i know you can create your own PCB's and other parts but that is too much time consuming i personally know quite a bit on electronics but this guy is old school he knows how electronics work etc... but he is sort of basic and he lacks the knowledge of competing products and so on such as gaming laptops and so on at least PC gaming is not as complicated as this because i am no expert at this but i do know what i am doing when it comes to electronics but this type of stuff is too much for me
Just simply get an gaming laptop.
When Finn and Poe first get inside the TIE, you can see Poe shrug off his jacket. Just uh, you know, thought I'd point that out...
If only the cable from the motherboard to the screen could have been hidden.
Ben and Crew, one thing you could do to make a little money on the side is sell plans with the files for the 3d printed parts and the laser parts. It is much easier than making kits and you could sell them fairly inexpensively considering that the brunt of the cost of producing the machine is taken care of by the consumer. This is similar to how the woodworking channels on youtube make money.
Why even put in the (original) HDD and the disc drive? Could've saved a ton of space with those out
Use flash memory?
I don't know about these things but it's probably possible to fool the system into thinking it has a disc drive and the original HDD
Jobaa87 The price of flash or SSD's to dump discs and keep the OS+Game data is enormous, and they're also 2.5" so no difference in size
yeah and without a disc drive the system wouldve been gimped.
+JonasLue
Well I was mostly talking about the disc drive which is massive and not needed at all
Jobaa87 so why don't you build one?
I think it would have been a good idea to throw a thin keyboard on top. And seems how the Xbox one S has Bluetooth it wouldn't even need to be tethered to the motherboard. It would be very handy anytime you want to message or search for something. I think the side lines ended up looking good. To make it more fancy, the lid symbol should be reworked so it glows with LED's, as that symbol looks like the old 360 version.
Way better then Tested with Adam Savage
EpicMeme EMPEROR i
That intro is nostalgic, I love it
that look so cool I wish that I could have one #xbox computer
Id build a battery base that snaps to the bottom with a power cable connector on it. Just use like thin laptop batteries and run them in parallel. Then of course an inlet for charging.
This girl looks like she takes huge bong hits..
That Win10 notification sound at 1:23 made me think my computer was telling me that I had files ready to be burned to a disk again.
Fan is not big enough.
if you watched the video you would have seen how the 2 fans one for intake and one for output was plenty enough to keep temps below 100* Fahrenheit
There was no heavy load/GPU usage test, to be sure.
Not even any gameplay.
Doesn't need a benchmark, he didn't just throw in some random shit and go "yeah that'll do". It's all calculated before putting it all together, and with the APU heat censor and all that, the fans would have to work a bit harder but with the heatsink and intake/exhaust, it'd add up to roughly the same temperature. AND like he said, APU's are a lot less heat intensive than you'd expect, did you even watch the video??
one thing that would be really cool is if you had a optional external out HDMI that you can plug into a TV for 4K and also make the laptop somewhat like a Nintendo switch since you can plug into the TV also
I can't imagine those tiny little fans can actually cool that thing. It must get really hot with those.
this was awesome! the only other thing i could think of would be to include a keyboard for signing into apps or typing messages in-game/through chat
One of the best RUclips channels I've ever seen, so informative
it would be interesting if you removed the bluray drive entirely to make it slimmer still and added a higher capacity hard drive (not sure what the limit is on xbox but id say maybe 3 tb would be really cool) and have an even more portable xbox that doesn't need discs.
Halfway through, Ben magically transforms into Brian Posehn.
Very cool design, the one thing that bugged me though was how you used the 360 logo instead of the flat-colored One logo, but that's such a minor detail it probably doesn't matter much. Lol.
Since the Xbox One supports mouse and keyboard, I was really hoping that you would've placed a nice low profile keyboard into the design. Would of made surfing the web super easy with it's built in Edge web browser. Not to mention sending text messages would be a snap as well.
A 1TB solid state drive is also great for an Xbox One option I came up with.
2:49 JESUS FUCKING CHRIST you nearly gave me a heart attack! nearly thought my laptop screen was about to break
Definitely think the Seeing Hat and Self Recording Guitar are the best potential products listed.
This is honestly really cool and deserves to get way more views than those stupid 1000 degree knife videos, keep up the good work
The advertisement took so long that Ben grew a face full of hair!
It is great and anyone would love to have one, but it would be better with a battery. I mean the main purpose of a laptop is to be portable. But it is truly awesome and you made it look super easy. Great job!
The Ben Heck Show, let's see you fire up a game in that thing!
I didn't see the audio cd at first but I instantly recognised "Do you get excited?" first notes :D Joyride FTW!
omg, when the windows sound played at the beginning for a device connected, i freaked out for a sec, i thought my keyboard had been disconnected without me knowing and had just reconnected hahahah
Ben!! love the show, had an idea for an episode. kinda different but how about going over how you use tools like onenote, your surface, and anything else you use to organize your ideas and projects?? would really be useful info!
I wonder if the Xbox One would function without its disc drive connected? That would save a lot of space and weight with the build. The system would just have to rely on digital content.
You could have gotten a keyboard/trackpad mouse built into the Xbox1-laptop, maybe get a controller built into it as well (though still with the option to plug in a traditional controller).
It's a great design, but would be cool if it had a built in battery like some game cases. I love the finished product. Great for people who travel a lot and dont want to lug around an xbox and cables to play at a hotel. Even could be played at an airport dock station while you wait. If i this option over just sticking my xbox in a portable case. i would get this
Sick build, very innovative!!! if you put the relief cut at the corners on the back side you would accomplish what your after with a better appearance..
A key board would have been a good idea to add. Not sure how hard it would have been. But definetly cool.
Could you make a "Wii U-DS-Laptop"? I.e., do what you did with this XBOX ONE S laptop but for a Wii U but also put the touchscreen controller inside the laptop so it essentially looks and functions like an oversized DS?
That's one of the best looking projects you've built. .. i almost forgive Ben for doing up nuts with long nose pliers ... ha ha ha
I think the side skin should be made from one layer.. And instead of xbox logo you could print your The ben heck show (+BHs) or e14 logo.
And lunchbox laptop would look cool as well.
Poe took his jacket off when he first climbed into the TIE Fighter.
I love this laptop! Have you checked out the late $9000 laptop with curved 4K screen in development? Super neat!
Just found this channel, I appreciate the attention to detail, subscribed
puts an xbox one s in a laptop format, proceeds to play a movie instead of a game. well that was a worthwhile effort.
I hope, when the Switch comes out, you do a half hour highly detailed video on turning it into a portable console.
Love to see the xbox actually running some games
Would have been interesting to see you actually use the thing to play games. That would put a much bigger load on the system and you would actually have a test whether your cooling solution is feasible, which I doubt.
Maybe I'm alone on this one, but I would have loved to see you add a way to toggle between the connected screen and an independent screen (such as your home TV when not on-the-go). I can see this being achieved two ways:
1. The HDMI F port that goes to the Xbox's monitor being flush with the case that can be unplugged to swap out for the independent screen. However, this would look super tacky since you'll always have a bulky HDMI M sticking out. This could also cause issues during transportation (I could see this breaking easily).
2. An HDMI switch with one HDMI F inside of the case like yours that directly connects to the monitor, a second HDMI F connector flush with the case for an independent monitor/screen to connect to, and the actual switch 1/2 flush with the case to swap between the Xbox monitor and a connected monitor.
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Why would this be useful? You're on the go playing on the attached monitor. That's pretty neat. Then you come home and switch over to your much larger HD TV. You have portability without sacrificing the big screen functionality.
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Just my two cents. Very cool project. I'm curious how those fans hold up during prolonged use or while playing games (assuming that would generate more heat).
I like to see a revisit of the can crusher. Last one was not quite right if I remember. I bet it could be perfected over months.
Now go "balls out" and watercool the APU and increase the screen to 4K @ 60hz
As soon as I saw the new APU fans, I was worried about thermals. Especially under heavy gaming load for hours on end.
Other than that, it's an awesome build
I like that this exists, but im guessing you made it "because you can" (not a huge point to it)
Also, Im not knocking what you do, far from it, but i wish you would use different materials sometimes, everything ends up looking really similar!
Other than that, i like the design and how well everything fits in the casing (seems to be full rather that oversized and half empty like some of the other portables i have seen that you made)
Cool!