In April 2018, the Linus Tech Tips channel uploaded a video claiming that Apple refused to repair his iMac Pro (paid, non-warranty repairs) after they damaged it in a product teardown, an act (refusal to repair) that has been speculated by VentureBeat to be illegal. The system running the display was equipped with 4 Nvidia Quadro P5000 graphics cards. In August 2017, the Linus Tech Tips channel uploaded a two part video where they were able to game at 16K resolution (15360 by 8640 pixels) using 16 4K Acer Predator XB1 monitors in a 4 by 4 configuration. The project was sponsored by Kingston Technology. The computer had eight modules of 32 GB ECC DDR4 RAM, eight 1 TB Kingston SSDs, two Intel Xeon 14-core E5 2697 v3 processors, seven AMD R9 Nano GPUs, an EVGA T2 1600W PSU, and was housed in a Caselabs Mercury S8 with an Asus Z10PE-D8 WS motherboard. The video made technology news on a number of websites. On January 2, 2016, Linus Tech Tips released a video demonstrating a computer capable of supporting seven individual users at once, with an estimated total cost of $30,000. LMG is headquartered in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Between 20 LMG hosted an annual event known as the LTX Expo, a "convention featuring tech-focused content creators and personalities". The group developed the Linus Tech Tips channel as an independent venture. Luke Lafreniere, Edzel Yago, and Brandon Lee were early employees. Sebastian founded Linus Media Group (LMG) in January 2013 out of a garage. He eventually left NCIX following a dispute regarding company management, negotiating an agreement in which he could keep the channel as long as he signed a non-compete clause. During his time at the company, he worked as a full-time sales representative, high-end systems designer, product manager, and category manager. Sebastian did not develop videos full-time at NCIX. Linus Tech Tips was created on November 24, 2008. He described TigerDirect and Newegg as competitors. ĭue to high costs and low viewership during the early days of the channel, Sebastian was instructed to create the Linus Tech Tips channel as a cheaper offshoot of the NCIX channel, to allow for lower production values without impacting the NCIX brand. His first video was a demonstration for a Sunbeam processor heatsink. Sebastian was assisted by an unidentified cameraperson and editor, and worked with limited resources, shooting videos with a camera borrowed from the son of the company's president.
He was asked by the company to be the host for its technology channel, which was created to help demonstrate products. Sebastian was working as a product manager for the now defunct Canadian online computer store NCIX. magazine ranked Sebastian fourth in a list of the "Top 30 Power Players in Tech". In 2014, Tubefilter named the channel as being within the "top 1% of Google's preferred advertising channels" on YouTube for the technology category. Īs of March 2021, Linus Tech Tips is ranked the most-watched technology channel on YouTube. He is also the owner of Floatplane Media. From 2007 to 2015, he was a regular presenter of technology videos for the now defunct Canadian computer retailer NCIX. Sebastian is best known for creating and hosting four technology YouTube channels, Linus Tech Tips ( LTT), Techquickie, TechLinked, and ShortCircuit, which have a combined subscriber base of over 20 million. He is also the founder of Linus Media Group and has served as its CEO since 2013. He is the creator and host of the YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips ( LTT). Linus Gabriel Sebastian (born August 20, 1986) is a Canadian YouTube personality.