solving traffic congestion and easily getting people to and from work in a way
that's environmentally friendly sounds fantastic
until you realize that i'm describing the segway on the other hand putting a
bunch of mirrors on a mountain to bounce sunlight in the winter months sounds
pretty dumb but it's actually been fantastic for rajukin in norway where
otherwise they wouldn't see real sunlight for seven months which brings
us to the acer predator helio 700 which
can do this
which depending on how it performs is either boneheaded or absolutely
brilliant and spoilers it works really well
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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
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