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a couple years ago when Vidya started pushing their max-q line of GPUs we saw

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some pretty funktastic designs from Acer

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and ASUS that like they were fun to look at I enjoyed reviewing them but you

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probably don't want to buy it although now after a couple years of trying

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they're getting damn good so let's see

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Acer's most recent one the Trident 300 which is apparently you know she's thin

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she's small very light but it has a 20 70 in it damn let's do it I actually

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have not seen this laptop at all yet

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geez they were really not screwing around with the tape here by the way

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this is a pre-production unit I think that this is final retail packaging but

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I could be wrong it might just be like a normal cardboard box inside here we'll

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see what do you want me to just like hold it here and pull out sure sure

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as always let's first look at the power brick to give ourselves an idea of just

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how much power the things going to draw I imagine this one's going to be quite a

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bit although it's actually not super

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heavy for gaming laptops let's see here but 230 watts that's actually like quite

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up there you've also been nice enough to write Pilar trading 300 on it it's

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really annoying when we open up like several laptops and then you have no clue which one had which power adapter

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anyway own to the main attraction here the way that the predator logo looks

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it's just really cool are you guys able to see that in like the overhead oh yeah

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that's sick anyway I wonder if there's like what's

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that called I'm the like little refract you thing where like traps different

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thing use of light and I'm rubberband kind of like soap anyway sorry that I'm

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just admiring logos here but this one also is really cool I don't know if you

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guys can see how it's like 3d or if it lights up that'd be sick well is there

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anything besides a laptop in here no it

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probably would be like warnings or warranty info or whatever in the

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production version but whatever look that was not as graceful as it is

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quite like given you know that has a 27

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t in it so it's 4.6 pounds which is

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slightly heavier than like the XPS 15

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here which is 4.2 just to give you a bit of context looking at the i/o though we

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have USB type-c and I think it has

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charging on it I'm not entirely sure those have USB a HDMI mini DisplayPort

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and then on the other side we have two

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more Taipei's Ethernet and headphones I actually my favorite part here is just

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having the dedicated Ethernet port I don't know that's going away on gaming

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laptops lately it seems and for Kimmy you just kind of need it well let's get

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into it here can open it with one hand no the screens definitely a bit on the

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flimsy side it doesn't really matter but it doesn't measure up to like an actual

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ultrabook that said the actual chassis feels very stiff yeah that's one thing

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where on some of a sirs less recent

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machines they had especially kind of raid around here you could really flex

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the chassis whereas right now it feels like I'm flexing the table more than the

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laptop overall though the feel of this machine is just very good just like you

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will feel very good with private Internet access wow that was one of the

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bad ones we're keeping it though with BIA you can access services and websites

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as though you're in a different country it encrypts all of your Internet traffic

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and use the safe protected IP you connect up to five devices at once and

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has clients for Windows macOS Android iOS and Linux trip' I a risk free with

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their 30-day money-back guarantee at the link below this is something that might

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seem pretty dumb but I really appreciate that they have just a standard power

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connector here there's nothing more annoying when you just lose the end to a

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power cord and you can't just put in a normal one doesn't really matter but

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it's just nice to see anyway should we wait where's the power oh I thought that

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this right here was the power button but it's turbo are you able to save had I'm

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guessing that's the make it loud button let's take a look at what the specs are

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here we have up to a 10th Gen Intel Core i7 so

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so 1:07 50h which is six cores up to

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five gigahertz pretty awesome for gaming if it can stay cool of course up to

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NVIDIA GeForce r-tx 2070 max-q

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we have a 240 hertz three millisecond Full HD IPS display and fourth gen

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AeroBlade 3d technology the first thing that I want to do is just press this

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turbo button yep that's the vacuum cleaner setting

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for sure although it actually isn't as bad as I was expecting at first it's

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loud for sure but it doesn't have to

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like that some are older your laptop's

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had I feel like this is the kind of thing that when you have headphones on

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it just immediately gets drowned out by whatever you're listening to sure well

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we get some games installs they have some 3d audio examples here that I want

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to take a look at well yeah I can see

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why they had raid on the desktop they're

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an example for the DTS X audio because that actually sounds friggin awesome

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like their last ones had Dolby Atmos and this might actually have better

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separation of the sounds it's pretty crazy what they can do now that said if

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we turn on turbo so it's an actual simulation of what it'll sound like when

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you're gaming much less impressive just put on headphones actually do they have

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oh they don't I really liked how long some of a sirs more recent laptops that

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had a little spot for your mouse dongle to go is like a USB type a that was just

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a bit recessed so you just kind of got to chuck this guy in there and just

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never worry about it again that said this is fine there's enough type-a ports

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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

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right side on the left here it's going to be just way better for using your

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mouse at the same time oh there we go 240 Hertz is just so sick as well those

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things were like very few people besides eSports professionals are going to

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actually need it but it's just so awesome to have that's what else do we

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have here how much RAM is in this 32 gigabytes not bad I actually found out

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the other day that just like doing mine job uses more than 16 gigs of gram I was

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pretty shocked all right let's see if this laptop can play a portal to well

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240 Hertz is just so great it's the sort

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of thing we're like I want to turn 90 degrees right did it anyway that's

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really enough of that unsurprisingly it plays Portal 2 great now although we

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can't show you performance data we can just take it apart and find out how good

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it's probably gonna be anyway because sometimes your eyeballs work just as

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well this looks like it should be pretty easy just a couple of screws and I'm

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guessing it's gonna come right apart i wonderful get bonus points for using the

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same screw in all of these I always really like to see that because then you just don't have to worry about where

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they go back in also it's so bad when like you're a noob taking apart a laptop

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and you accidentally put the longer screw when the shorter screws thing and

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it comes through the top of your like keyboard or something I'd like to say I

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haven't done that before nice yeah all the exact same screw perfect it's

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plastic but at the same time it does feel pretty good alright let's see here

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so we have a 50 7.3 watt hour battery

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that's not great for something with this much performance really I would guess

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with what an i7 at 6 cores up to 5

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gigahertz and 27 D you're going to be

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getting 4-5 hours of battery life maybe yeah they say up to 6 hours based off of

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mobile mark and video playback tests so

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you might be able to get that you might have to turn down the refresh rate of

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display I'm not entirely sure as far as the cooling system goes though they

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don't have a lot of peeps but the ones that they do are big we have one two

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three four heat pipes and four heat

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sinks and some big old fans that are metal that ones metal this one plastic

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yeah interesting bill stuff super easy upgrading of the RAM just two sodium's

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slots right there storage we have two one terabyte and the two SSDs that's

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actually sick they're probably in raid and we also have is this a hard drive

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bay I can't tell so there's a spot right here for another m2 SSD for three of

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them but I can't tell if there's a way

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to add in a why is there just a space there that's weird I can't figure out if there's

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supposed to be a SATA SSD here or if you're supposed to get a larger battery

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that comes all the way over in the production unit either way the upgrade

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ability on this thing is gonna be absolutely fantastic it looks like that

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there's loads of heatsink here for the

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VR Rams I imagine this thing's gonna perform really well anyway that's about it

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really there's not a whole lot else to say it seems like a pretty great laptop as far

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as like if you need the performance of that 20 70 it's gonna be pretty good you

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also get like I didn't check this out really but the keyboard seems good

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trackpad seems good it's not a lot to fault it on let's see what the price is

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actually that might be a spot to folt it okay so it's starting at 1,300 bucks

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that's actually not too bad that's for the i-5 and the 1650 version so I

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probably would not buy the starting one

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like if you're buying something that's this opie I'd probably go for at least

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like the 2060 2070 if you're going for something that's a bit cheaper I'd go

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for something more powerful and like their helios lineup which they also just

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released some new ones of good anyway that's about it I like it overall it

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seems like quite a good one so yeah hit like get subscribed have an

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excellent day so long