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connected to the internet find out with glass wire and see if there are any suspicious apps badly behaving use offer code Linus to get 25 off at the link below this laptop right here it's damn fast we're talking an Intel i9 9980 hk 8-core processor and NVIDIA rtx 2080 along with 32 gigabytes of RAM and two 512 Gigabyte ssds and raid zero meaning we've got the kind of power that can't be cooled by just some pinner heatsinks to solve that cooling problem acer has equipped the helio 700 with something of a party piece this movable keyboard fortunately that sounds pretty easy to turn off moving the keyboard forward allows the fans to suck in fresh air from above and according to acer this leads to a 13.9 percent increase in airflow compared to when the keyboard is docked in its original mode this airflow combined with five heat pipes which you can see through this pretty cool gorilla glass window and some massive heat sinks on the side i mean the helios 700 stays incredibly well cooled for a laptop after looping 3d mark's time spy for half an hour the GPU hits only 56 degrees celsius what that's better than the vast majority of desktop gpus and with it regularly boosting between 17 and 1800 megahertz the helios 700 is the fastest gaming laptop we've ever tested beating out the alienware area 51m by about 5 in terms of frame rates now as for the CPU the cooling isn't quite as amazing and by that i mean it regularly gets above 95 degrees but that doesn't mean it's slow since it's still the second fastest CPU in a laptop just behind the alienware area 51m by again about five percent meaning in games the helios 700 and the area 51m trade blows to try and see who's the fastest gaming laptop in the world all this means while gaming you're going to have one hell of a good time on the helios 700 with your frame rates easily exceeding the 144 hertz of display even when on high details the display itself is pretty great its 1080p 144hz ips panel generally looks great in games even if the frames dip just a bit since it does have g-sync support but there is one problem it's just too far away with the keyboard undocked i'm sitting a bit over two feet away from the display which is great on a 27-inch monitor but i just can't quite make out the details on a inch one now this isn't a deal breaker for me just don't forget your glasses before a gaming session or noise cancelling headphones and maybe some earmuffs as well because while gaming or doing basically anything the helios 700 is just so freaking loud it sounds like this almost all the time when you're installing a program watching a video or even just Windows updating in the background and the problem isn't just that it's creating near 60 decibels of noise similar to that of an air conditioner but that high pitched wine is just so bad if you blindfolded me and stuck me beside this machine i'd think he took me into an old house during a hurricane here it is against the area 51m a pretty loud machine on its own right so you can get an idea of just how incredibly distracting these fans are okay fortunately the helio 700 has some more things to try and win me over though for one the trackpad is pretty awesome for a gaming laptop it features Windows precision drivers and just it did does a good job but the keyboard is where things get really interesting so in this little case right here we have replacement keys for wsad and this handy dandy keycap puller but these are more than just fancy pieces of plastic on the bottom instead of the rubber dome you'll find a spring meaning instead of having a tactile bump they go down smoothly and linearly now this might seem kinda dumb why would you want just those keys to feel different but down there is also a magnet that lets the computer know how far you have pressed the keys then is able to relay that information to your game to give you full analog control of your character similar to what you get using a controller now in theory i really like this but in practice i just don't really care only about half the games that i tried supported it and even in those i found it really hard to maintain a moderate key press not even to mention that while using these keys your typing experience is just completely ruined not that it's that great in the first place like the keyboard it's it's fine with the rubber domes giving me some decent feedback but like every acer keyboard i find the force required to press the keys is just a bit too high and they're a bit mushy and i just i could just never get into it on the area 51m though they're just so much smoother like where the helio 700 does beat out the area 51m though is in the speakers the helios has five of them plus a sub and this makes for quite an impressive listening experience until you undock the keyboard and block the front speakers it just muddles the sound taking the speakers from like a solid a to more of a b and then the fans kick in and you're looking at more of like a b-minus so it's about the same as the alienware when the keyboard's undocked but on a more positive note the construction is solid if i had to choose between getting clocked over the head by this or a baseball bat it would take a while for me to consider which one to use but despite its over 10 pounds of heft the helio 700 only gets a 70 watt hour battery that's less than an lg gram you'll be lucky to stay away from the charger for two and a half hours that's assuming that you're not gaming although honestly i think that's good enough from a machine this powerful the sting of the thickness is also removed a bit by the excellent i o with Thunderbolt 3 and 2.5 gigabit Ethernet being the real standouts here the helios 700 also has pretty decent upgrade ability with the storage and two empty RAM slots accessible by just removing two screws although it does still fall behind the area 51m in that regard it has the removable CPU and GPU now we need to talk about my least favorite part of this machine the looks when the keyboard is docked the boxy design and massive bezels around the screen make this less like a futuristic gaming weapon and more like a reisto rugged laptop from 2014 i'm i'm sorry about that acer and when undocking the keyboard around people in the office it's been met with laughs just as often as amazement kind of like telling all your friends you got a supercar and then showing up in a gumpert apollo instead of a ferrari which brings us to the big question for 4 grand should you get a helios 700 probably not i know at the start of the video i said that if something works it's not dumb and acer's sliding keyboard does offer the best GPU thermals we've ever seen in a laptop it's just also so incredibly loud and the screen's too far away and it obstructs the speakers as well for the same amount of money you can get a very similarly spec'd alienware area 51m that's a lot quieter has a much better keyboard and it's more upgradable but most importantly for me when i use it i feel like a badass and speaking of badass this sponsor segue the massdrop object 2 headphone amplifier aka the o2 amp was designed and created based on over 500 members of the audio community's feedback and it serves as the ideal baseline reference amplifier that can power anything from in-ear monitors to hd800s you can adjust the input output and power arrangements in two different gains medium and standard and the o2 delivers big clear and accurate sound new users who sign up to the website are going to get 20 off this amp and you guys can check that out at drop.com at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked like you spent so much time on this set how can you not like it so just hit like get subscribed and check out where to buy the stuff we featured in the video description also down there is a link to our merch store which has okay it doesn't have a stormtrooper outfit in our community forum which you should totally join"}