Not Unboxing the Xbox Series X 

Linus: "we're gonna design a custom cabinet fore your tech..." Alex: "we?"

"That's what she said" Looks like linus heart broke for a sec or really disappointed.

I can never get tired of “that’s what she said”. 🤣

LTT Media Cabinet with integrated cooling. I'd buy that.

Finally, a title with absolutely no clickbait.

"that's what she said" Linus looked so disappointed .

8:00 my man's laughing to keep his job

"That's what she said!" James burning his CEO on camera

"this way. no. this way. no. this way" - the usb story all over again :D

"That's what she said" And thats how colton got fired again Edit : I have been told it was James, thats makes infinity more sense But chances are colton was still probably fired

this is gonna be really interesting to watch again in 10-20 years. the old dated consoles, the flip phone, and 4k.

"that is what she said" Linus: *disappointed*

The look that Linus has after the "that's what she said" LMAO

Can’t wait to watch the “airflow media cabinet” video featuring a lot of over engineered CNC machining

0:45 😂 I can’t get tired of this

You can't unbox a Xbox since it would become a X

Linus managed to be disapointed in his team twice before even reaching sponsor.

They need to include a spot in the credits for "Off-camera shouter".

The media console I have is open in the back and the front has a metal thing with holes so it is good for ventilation

My best guess for why the stand can’t come off is to prevent somebody removing it and then placing the system upright, cutting off the bottom intake and potentially overheating their system.

Am I the only one whos worried about the table legs failing? That table is wobbly af

I love how Linus just dies inside, when James said “That’s what she said”.

I have actually been planning on implementing cooling in my upcoming media console, so it'll be fun to see the LTT solution.

Requests I took away: - She thinks it's small - It's pretty powerful - Needs a way to rotate it.

linus: reasonable price also linus: whips out $2000 folding phone

0:45 : "Why do I even..." - Linus

I set up my old desk to have cooling. The back had a big hole in it so I mounted a fan from a coat hanger blowing the hot air out the top. It made a world of difference and if it got too hot i would open the front door and let more air in.

Linus: *Makes a joke about future consoles having a RAM expansion* Nintendo 64 Expansion Pak: Am I a joke to you?

Talking about being able to rotate the logo “I’ve seen pc cases where you can do it” *laughs in PS2*

Agree about the media cabinets. I have, for the past 10 years, always mounted mine to the wall. I then put some 120mm fans across the back (AC Infinity makes good that dont require additional adapters and/or that run on component USB) and exhaust up and out behind my center channel or, my latest one, directly back into the wall cavity. My latest one actually exhausts into my wall cavity that is also my return air duct for my central air handler, so that heat never actually makes it into the room, but is instead conditioned by my central system when it is operating.

I added some exhaust fans to the back of my audio cabinet to pull hot air out. As a result, it pulls cold air through the front, works really well.

Gamers: Why is the new Xbox so boxy? Microsoft: it’s literally called an xBOX. What did you expect

The memory card needs the ole' USB type A triple flip to slot in.

I built my own vented cabinets a while back, check out AC infinity's Airplate series if you want pre built fans that look nice, otherwise the full diy route can work as those cost a bit of change

8:35 'It looks kinda Boxy' Me: *Vietnam flashbacks to 2009 RU-vid*

RU-vid compression does not like the matte black and also makes the fingerprint smudges really obvious.

I love how a shadow place in the head of linus is like "I'm a CEO, there is legal stuff around there, be carefull" and the majority of his brain is like: "I f*cking want to open up all this stuff and have a closer look inside"

i love the expansion slot, reminds me of the ps2 memory card or gamecube style. small and pocket sized portability, but yet with way more space being 1tb. thats really frikkin cool

I actually built in entertainment center a few years ago out of wood specifically to house all of my gaming consoles without having to pick and choose what is connected. And it does have a cooling solution. The basic design is fairly simple, with they sent her slot for housing two HDMI switches. All the consoles on the left side going to one and all the consoles on the right side going to the other. On the bottom I have a cabinet for housing all of the wiring War I also include a voltage regulator and many surge protectors as well as a cat 7 ethernet switch. All of the consoles are networked through it. In the front right side I hand carved a space for two different usb charging boxes. The top one will charge One USB C, One USB quick charge, and 3 slower USB charging ports. The bottom one has hen USB charging ports for an older generation of charging which I included specifically because some older hard work doesn't like the faster charging. After gluing it in place I used wood putty to seal the gaps around them. In the back right side I have two HDMI ports, Each of which plug directly into the HDMI switches. Beneath that I have a set of cat7 ethernet ports in case I ever wants to plug another console in temporarily, such as friends coming over for a LAN party type of deal. And beneath that I have a set of electrical outlets which wire to the surge protectors and all the surge protectors into the voltage regulator which has a really long cable that comes out the back which means that if I unplug the whole system I can move everything on Wheels and not have to mess with wires. As far as cooling goes, I had to make some choices because my living room has a radiator behind where the TV goes and that radiator would be a bigger problem. My solution was to insulate the back using a layer of metallic bubble and a layer of foam insulation. Then I set each of the shelves to have a gap in the far back of them to allow air flow between the shelves and I put a Manhattan brand laptop cooling fan under each and every console, which has a weird angle to it so for a few of them I had to put some spare wood material under the legs in the front to prop it up which worked out. Since no more than one console would be running on either side the collective airflow keeps the air moving so the heat isn't just sitting. And it's extremely quiet too. Even though all the fans are running all the time I can never hear it. at present, my entertainment area houses an Nvidia Shield, a Dreamcast, two Nintendo switch docks, a Wii U, a PS4, a PS4 Pro, an Xbox Classic, on Xbox 360, a dream pie for the taking the Dreamcast online and all of the charging stuff I need for every console and all their controllers. my plan is to build a Similar type thing for the controllers and chargers to go to be better organized to make room for more consoles later. I'll eventually have a second Xbox 360, a second Dreamcast, and maybe I'll put my old PS3 back in. then I would have enough room remaining for 1 PS 5 . And I could get the Xbox series X as well, but I'm going to kind of wait and see beyond what Microsoft is doing since there's a reason why I never bought an Xbox One. for my office, I built a wooden box on Wheels to how's my computer tower and my UPS backup battery. For that I drilled a 4 inch hole in the back with a hole saw and installed a plug-in PC style fan on the outside which, as a prototype, worked well for moving the air although when I eventually redo it I'm going to put those fans on the inside and run a whole lot of extension cables through it. things like USB are real pain to deal with when you can't access the back of the computer, as an example. I'd also put a second fan in with the same controller just to be safe. for now though, the box is really helping because I used to keep it to the left of my corner computer desk area with my 4 monitors because there was no space to go underneath it, and now I have the room to expand the countertop so I have more area to work with instead of a lot of wasted space. It is a shame that there is no commercial version of any what I'm doing though.

"I expected this to be bigger" acting like he hasnt already been playing with it lol

On this episode of ShortCircuit: Linus makes another promise that he almost certainly won't keep.

The wobbly table is really off putting! Didn't know about this channel though, I saw it when watching your xbox comparison video. How many channels are you guys running?!!

RU-vid compression does not like the matte black and also makes the fingerprint smudges really obvious. surely!

Playstation 2 had the rotatable logo, perhaps Sony made that an exclusive too.

5:47 Microsoft knew this would happen, so they included extra bubble wrap.

The non removable part on the bottom is also good so that if someone pushes it against the side of something it would still allow air flow instead of it being blocked off

The startup sound should be programmable so it might actually change at launch, or it may not, but it would be cool to add an option in to change it.

I think by "not unbox" Microsoft just didn't want Linus to do a teardown

Everyone online: we're instructed by Microsoft to cut away or bleep out the power button sound so we're gonna. Linus: "clicky button.." *presses it* "..Can we do that"

AC Infinity already makes fan systems for media consoles. I have 2 of them that both have 3 120mm fans each and an LED display where you can change the settings. It's dope. I got them when I made an HTPC with a 3900XT and 2080TI and put it in my media cabinet. Also, some PS4 models have a rotatable logo.

Everyday, in my RU-vid recommendations, in quarantine, I find a new Linus Tech Tips channel.

A friend of mine had a ps2 but didn't have a memory card. He borrowed my NFS and didn't power down his ps2 so as to not lose his progress. He went like that for 3 days and completed nearly half the game, but then there was a power cut. That was fun😂

That subtle Galaxy Fold flex at 7:29

0:45 despite having done the math with a measuring tape (sp?) i had the same reaction yesterday when i got mine.

3:40 PS2 slim logo had that feature where you could rotate the logo to match the orientation of the console.

Microsoft can't send it over Steve at GN cause they know, Steve be like "I'm sorry Microsoft, we're going to tear this down".

Linus: I want the logo to be rotatable Me: I can’t argue, I can agree

3:43 Hell you could do it with the PS2 logo.

When I was 17 I had a cabinet for all my consoles that had fans in it. They were those gross light up fans from the early 2000s and I cut the holes for them with a dremmel, but I had just bought it so I didn’t know how to use it and the holes weren’t any shape in particular. Also ran outlets to all the shelves inside and had routing holes for the signal wires so they never crossed power lines to cut down on static. Haha

The psvita's proprietary memory card is the most overpriced storage Sony ever made.

Rich review tech: ssd storage card is expensive! Linus: ssd is right around what you would normally pay This is why I watch you guys

Love your work man! If I want to request an original xbox game to the backwards compatibility plan, how can I do it?

“Let me just check my phone”... Show off ahahahah

I think the reason they didn't allow the stand to be removed was so that people don't accidentally (or stupidly) remove the stand and block the airflow into the cooling system.

Games as a service. Been trying to tell my friends this is exactly where Microsoft is trying to go and why they'll make millions

2:12 something they've done right on the XBOX but wrong in Windows : you can open and close your disk drive in the X360 with your Controller without having to write or install a script or program of some kind.. Nowadays with the wii-type drives there's nothing to open/close but I'm almost certain that they would put in a Software eject function(I use it all the time because I hate that the Sound it makes when you use the physical Button is so loud).

The Mini fridge and the washing machine vs the WiFi Router with paper on the sides

Desk: wiggle wiggle

4:50 it does kinda exist. There is a company called AC Infinity that makes media console fan and AC units. They are very well made :)

06:33 Ops this way.... Ops this way... 🤣 Really relatable (edit time)

The PSVita was was the worse when it came to Memory Cards.

Linus is like a kid who woke at midnight because he's curious about his Christmas present 😂😂😂

So should I keep it horizontal or vertical because I never have my consoles standing up straight but this time both consoles look like they should be stood up so I don't really know

Add a fan to the back of the TV stand cabinet and use one of the USB ports on the back of the XSX to power it. That way it turns on only when the Xbox is on. Proper cooling only when you need it.

"Tune in later for gameplay tests, drop tests etc."

6:32: Seems like a USB clone...

removing of the stand would mean that it becomes possible to block airflow from entering the bottom. How did you guys not think of that?

6:18 - not quite! There are no proprietary controllers in the Mini Mag at all, nor are there any firmware tweaks. The 'controller' is actually just a basic passive adapter, and the 'firmware' is in fact just the firmware that ships from the factory. There is zero modification to the firmware itself. All they do for DRM purposes is copy the original manufacturer's serial number for the SSD and paste it into the Log File section of the SSD which can be freely read and written to using a standard SATA command. This is why it's unaffected by formatting the drive etc. The camera checks that the serial number matches what's stored in the Log File and if it does, it recognises it as an official Mini Mag. That's it. No firmware fuckery, just a standard SATA command being used to copy a pre-existing serial number to somewhere it isn't found fresh out of the factory.

I Think the NZXT H1 is a closer equivalent in terms of looks.

The series X looks Brutalistic. I love it.

Wait, is that the Age of Empires 2 soundtrack the one I hear in the background?

wait... at 7:30 is he really using Linus selfie meme as his phone case ? hahahaha.

I love that this channel is so much fun!

Microsoft seing this: Wait, that should be illegal.

ok I'll turn notifications on for that DYI media cabinet with cooling on it \m/.

On 4:40!! Watch out with your desk! It seems is not strong enough!! LOL!!

FINALLY!! Now I dont have to argue to someone that the External Storage is decently priced.

So we have finally have the exact measurements of the new Xbox. It's 1.5 Linus heads

There are definitely existing cooling systems for media centers. Fan, temperature sensor, modular (for more sections), ect. But I still want you guys to build one!

8:40 The word i'd use is "Consice". Its comprehensive, brief, and gets straight to the point.

Been looking for living room furniture recently, and I'm more surprised why so many TV tables actually have a back board plugging up the backside. Why don't more have the back exposed which seems more useful.

If you're actually going through with the cabinet, I'd love to see a video where you go through the designing process.

does hot air get sucked back while inside that TV console.. recommended clearance or the space requirement? Size isn't the whole picture..

that cooling furniture would make a good DIY video

Those fingerprints are causing me great distress 😕

"A gateway drug to pc gaming." That's how I will forever describe the Xbox now.

The base under the Xbox is so if you have it standing up it allows for more air flow underneath

I have four 80mm usb power fans in my cabinet with glass door is closed works great there are lower and upper large Vent holes in the back I just zip tied it to the cabinet I have them in the upper portion exhausting out works great no heating issues with my Xbox one X at all or other components . I bought them on amazon just search for USB case fans . Mine are all 80mm . I originally was going to buy eight but I only went with four exhausting seems to work great I was going to put four on the bottom blowing cool air in the cabinet but this worked great .

Next on LTT: Watercooling a Media Cabinet

Previously on LTT: "... We don't sell desks on LTTStore.com, Andy!!!" Linus at the now: "We need to start making livingroom furniture!!!"