a couple years ago when Vidya started pushing their max-q line of GPUs we saw
some pretty funktastic designs from Acer
and ASUS that like they were fun to look at I enjoyed reviewing them but you
probably don't want to buy it although now after a couple years of trying
they're getting damn good so let's see
Acer's most recent one the Trident 300 which is apparently you know she's thin
she's small very light but it has a 20 70 in it damn let's do it I actually
have not seen this laptop at all yet
geez they were really not screwing around with the tape here by the way
this is a pre-production unit I think that this is final retail packaging but
I could be wrong it might just be like a normal cardboard box inside here we'll
see what do you want me to just like hold it here and pull out sure sure
as always let's first look at the power brick to give ourselves an idea of just
how much power the things going to draw I imagine this one's going to be quite a
bit although it's actually not super
heavy for gaming laptops let's see here but 230 watts that's actually like quite
up there you've also been nice enough to write Pilar trading 300 on it it's
really annoying when we open up like several laptops and then you have no clue which one had which power adapter
anyway own to the main attraction here the way that the predator logo looks
it's just really cool are you guys able to see that in like the overhead oh yeah
that's sick anyway I wonder if there's like what's
that called I'm the like little refract you thing where like traps different
thing use of light and I'm rubberband kind of like soap anyway sorry that I'm
just admiring logos here but this one also is really cool I don't know if you
guys can see how it's like 3d or if it lights up that'd be sick well is there
anything besides a laptop in here no it
probably would be like warnings or warranty info or whatever in the
production version but whatever look that was not as graceful as it is
quite like given you know that has a 27
t in it so it's 4.6 pounds which is
slightly heavier than like the XPS 15
here which is 4.2 just to give you a bit of context looking at the i/o though we
have USB type-c and I think it has
charging on it I'm not entirely sure those have USB a HDMI mini DisplayPort
and then on the other side we have two
more Taipei's Ethernet and headphones I actually my favorite part here is just
having the dedicated Ethernet port I don't know that's going away on gaming
laptops lately it seems and for Kimmy you just kind of need it well let's get
into it here can open it with one hand no the screens definitely a bit on the
flimsy side it doesn't really matter but it doesn't measure up to like an actual
ultrabook that said the actual chassis feels very stiff yeah that's one thing
where on some of a sirs less recent
machines they had especially kind of raid around here you could really flex
the chassis whereas right now it feels like I'm flexing the table more than the
laptop overall though the feel of this machine is just very good just like you
will feel very good with private Internet access wow that was one of the
bad ones we're keeping it though with BIA you can access services and websites
as though you're in a different country it encrypts all of your Internet traffic
and use the safe protected IP you connect up to five devices at once and
has clients for Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux trip' I a risk free with
their 30-day money-back guarantee at the link below this is something that might
seem pretty dumb but I really appreciate that they have just a standard power
connector here there's nothing more annoying when you just lose the end to a
power cord and you can't just put in a normal one doesn't really matter but
it's just nice to see anyway should we wait where's the power oh I thought that
this right here was the power button but it's turbo are you able to save had I'm
guessing that's the make it loud button let's take a look at what the specs are
here we have up to a 10th Gen Intel Core i7 so
so 1:07 50h which is six cores up to
five gigahertz pretty awesome for gaming if it can stay cool of course up to
NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2070 max-q
we have a 240 hertz three millisecond Full HD IPS display and fourth gen
AeroBlade 3d technology the first thing that I want to do is just press this
turbo button yep that's the vacuum cleaner setting
for sure although it actually isn't as bad as I was expecting at first it's
loud for sure but it doesn't have to
like that some are older your laptop's
had I feel like this is the kind of thing that when you have headphones on
it just immediately gets drowned out by whatever you're listening to sure well
we get some games installs they have some 3d audio examples here that I want
to take a look at well yeah I can see
why they had raid on the desktop they're
an example for the DTS X audio because that actually sounds friggin awesome
like their last ones had Dolby Atmos and this might actually have better
separation of the sounds it's pretty crazy what they can do now that said if
we turn on turbo so it's an actual simulation of what it'll sound like when
you're gaming much less impressive just put on headphones actually do they have
oh they don't I really liked how long some of a sirs more recent laptops that
had a little spot for your mouse dongle to go is like a USB type a that was just
a bit recessed so you just kind of got to chuck this guy in there and just
never worry about it again that said this is fine there's enough type-a ports
on here that you don't really have to worry about it they've also been nice and not put the Ethernet cable on the
right side on the left here it's going to be just way better for using your
mouse at the same time oh there we go 240 Hertz is just so sick as well those
things were like very few people besides eSports professionals are going to
actually need it but it's just so awesome to have that's what else do we
have here how much RAM is in this 32 gigabytes not bad I actually found out
the other day that just like doing mine job uses more than 16 gigs of gram I was
pretty shocked all right let's see if this laptop can play a portal to well
240 Hertz is just so great it's the sort
of thing we're like I want to turn 90 degrees right did it anyway that's
really enough of that unsurprisingly it plays Portal 2 great now although we
can't show you performance data we can just take it apart and find out how good
it's probably gonna be anyway because sometimes your eyeballs work just as
well this looks like it should be pretty easy just a couple of screws and I'm
guessing it's gonna come right apart i wonderful get bonus points for using the
same screw in all of these I always really like to see that because then you just don't have to worry about where
they go back in also it's so bad when like you're a noob taking apart a laptop
and you accidentally put the longer screw when the shorter screws thing and
it comes through the top of your like keyboard or something I'd like to say I
haven't done that before nice yeah all the exact same screw perfect it's
plastic but at the same time it does feel pretty good alright let's see here
so we have a 50 7.3 watt hour battery
that's not great for something with this much performance really I would guess
with what an i7 at 6 cores up to 5
gigahertz and 27 D you're going to be
getting 4-5 hours of battery life maybe yeah they say up to 6 hours based off of
mobile mark and video playback tests so
you might be able to get that you might have to turn down the refresh rate of
display I'm not entirely sure as far as the cooling system goes though they
don't have a lot of peeps but the ones that they do are big we have one two
three four heat pipes and four heat
sinks and some big old fans that are metal that ones metal this one plastic
yeah interesting bill stuff super easy upgrading of the RAM just two sodium's
slots right there storage we have two one terabyte and the two SSDs that's
actually sick they're probably in raid and we also have is this a hard drive
bay I can't tell so there's a spot right here for another m2 SSD for three of
them but I can't tell if there's a way
to add in a why is there just a space there that's weird I can't figure out if there's
supposed to be a SATA SSD here or if you're supposed to get a larger battery
that comes all the way over in the production unit either way the upgrade
ability on this thing is gonna be absolutely fantastic it looks like that
there's loads of heatsink here for the
VR Rams I imagine this thing's gonna perform really well anyway that's about it
really there's not a whole lot else to say it seems like a pretty great laptop as far
as like if you need the performance of that 20 70 it's gonna be pretty good you
also get like I didn't check this out really but the keyboard seems good
trackpad seems good it's not a lot to fault it on let's see what the price is
actually that might be a spot to folt it okay so it's starting at 1,300 bucks
that's actually not too bad that's for the i-5 and the 1650 version so I
probably would not buy the starting one
like if you're buying something that's this opie I'd probably go for at least
like the 2060 2070 if you're going for something that's a bit cheaper I'd go
for something more powerful and like their helios lineup which they also just
released some new ones of good anyway that's about it I like it overall it
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