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solving traffic congestion and easily getting people to and from work in a way

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that's environmentally friendly sounds fantastic

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until you realize that i'm describing the segway on the other hand putting a

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bunch of mirrors on a mountain to bounce sunlight in the winter months sounds

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pretty dumb but it's actually been fantastic for rajukin in norway where

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otherwise they wouldn't see real sunlight for seven months which brings

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us to the acer predator helio 700 which

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can do this

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which depending on how it performs is either boneheaded or absolutely

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brilliant and spoilers it works really well

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this laptop right here it's damn fast

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we're talking an intel i9 9980 hk 8-core

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processor and nvidia rtx 2080 along with

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32 gigabytes of ram and two 512 gigabyte

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ssds and raid zero meaning we've got the kind of power that can't be cooled by

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just some pinner heatsinks to solve that cooling problem acer has equipped the

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helio 700 with something of a party piece this movable

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keyboard

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fortunately that sounds pretty easy to turn off moving the keyboard forward

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allows the fans to suck in fresh air from above and according to acer this

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leads to a 13.9 percent increase in airflow compared to when the keyboard is

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docked in its original mode this airflow combined with five heat pipes which you

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can see through this pretty cool gorilla glass window and some massive heat sinks

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on the side i mean the helios 700 stays incredibly well cooled for a laptop

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after looping 3d mark's time spy for half an hour

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the gpu hits only 56 degrees celsius

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what that's better than the vast majority of desktop gpus and with it

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regularly boosting between 17 and 1800

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megahertz the helios 700 is the fastest

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gaming laptop we've ever tested beating out the alienware area 51m by about 5 in

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terms of frame rates now as for the cpu the cooling isn't quite as amazing and

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by that i mean it regularly gets above 95 degrees but that doesn't mean it's

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slow since it's still the second fastest cpu in a laptop just behind the

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alienware area 51m by again about five

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percent meaning in games the helios 700 and the area 51m trade blows to try and

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see who's the fastest gaming laptop in the world all this means while gaming

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you're going to have one hell of a good time on the helios 700 with your frame

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rates easily exceeding the 144 hertz of display even when on high details the

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display itself is pretty great its 1080p 144hz ips panel generally looks great in

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games even if the frames dip just a bit since it does have g-sync support but

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there is one problem it's just too far away with the keyboard

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undocked i'm sitting a bit over two feet

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away from the display which is great on a 27-inch monitor

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but i just can't quite make out the details on a

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inch one now this isn't a deal breaker for me just don't forget your glasses

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before a gaming session or noise cancelling headphones and

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maybe some earmuffs as well because while gaming or doing basically anything

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the helios 700 is just so

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freaking loud

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it sounds like this almost all the time

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when you're installing a program watching a video or even just windows

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updating in the background and the problem isn't just that it's creating

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near 60 decibels of noise similar to that of an air conditioner but that high

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pitched wine is just so bad if you blindfolded me and stuck me beside this

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machine i'd think he took me into an old house during a hurricane here it is against

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the area 51m a pretty loud machine on its own right so you can get an idea of

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just how incredibly distracting these fans are

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okay fortunately the helio 700 has some more

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things to try and win me over though for one the trackpad is pretty awesome for a

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gaming laptop it features windows precision drivers and just it did does a

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good job but the keyboard is where things get really interesting so in this

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little case right here we have replacement keys for wsad and this handy

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dandy keycap puller but these are more than just fancy pieces of

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plastic on the bottom instead of the rubber dome you'll find a spring meaning

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instead of having a tactile bump they go down smoothly and linearly

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now this might seem kinda dumb why would you want just those

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keys to feel different but down there is also a magnet that lets the computer

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know how far you have pressed the keys then is able to relay that information

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to your game to give you full analog control of your character similar to

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what you get using a controller now in theory i really like this but in

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practice i just don't really care only about half the games that i tried

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supported it and even in those i found it really hard to maintain a moderate

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key press not even to mention that while using these keys your typing experience

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is just completely ruined not that it's that great in the first

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place like the keyboard it's it's fine with the rubber domes giving me some

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decent feedback but like every acer keyboard i find the force required to

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press the keys is just a bit too high and they're a bit mushy and i just i

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could just never get into it on the area 51m though they're just so much smoother

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like where the helio 700 does beat out the

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area 51m though is in the speakers the helios has five of them plus a sub and

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this makes for quite an impressive listening experience

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until you undock the keyboard and block the front speakers it just muddles the

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sound taking the speakers from like a solid a to more of a b

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and then the fans kick in and you're looking at more of like a b-minus so

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it's about the same as the alienware when the keyboard's undocked but on a

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more positive note the construction is solid if i had to choose between getting

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clocked over the head by this or a baseball bat it would take a while for

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me to consider which one to use but despite its over 10 pounds of heft the

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helio 700 only gets a 70 watt hour battery that's less than an lg gram

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you'll be lucky to stay away from the charger for two and a half hours that's

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assuming that you're not gaming although honestly i think that's good enough from

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a machine this powerful the sting of the thickness is also removed a bit by the

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excellent i o with thunderbolt 3 and 2.5 gigabit ethernet being the real

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standouts here the helios 700 also has pretty decent upgrade ability with the

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storage and two empty ram slots accessible by just removing two screws

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although it does still fall behind the area 51m in that regard it has the

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removable cpu and gpu now we need to

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talk about my least favorite part of this machine

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the looks when the keyboard is docked

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the boxy design and massive bezels around the screen make this less like a

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futuristic gaming weapon and more like a

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reisto rugged laptop from 2014 i'm i'm

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sorry about that acer and when undocking the keyboard around

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people in the office it's been met with laughs just as often as amazement kind

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of like telling all your friends you got a supercar and then showing up in a

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gumpert apollo instead of a ferrari which brings us to the big question for

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4 grand should you get a helios 700

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probably not i know at the start of the video i said

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that if something works it's not dumb and acer's sliding keyboard does offer

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the best gpu thermals we've ever seen in a laptop it's just also so incredibly

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loud and the screen's too far away and it obstructs the speakers as well for

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the same amount of money you can get a very similarly spec'd alienware area 51m

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that's a lot quieter has a much better

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keyboard and it's more upgradable but

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most importantly for me when i use it i feel like a badass

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