over the last couple years a certain company and by a certain company i mean
apple have been diluting the pro moniker
to basically mean the expensive consumer
one but that changes today with the acer concept d7 easel pro a desktop
replacement designed for professionals and certified by brands like adobe
altair autodesk and ansys acer didn't
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if you don't look too closely at the easel pro you might be fooled in
thinking that it's a pretty standard laptop just a bit on the bulky side with
fairly high build quality and oh what is
this there's something else
we have seen a hinge kind of like this from acer before that had a similar
concept on the trident 900 but that included these bulky arms on the side
that made an already very non-portable laptop even less on-the-go friendly but
here they have incorporated all of the things you could do with big hinge into
just this small elegant one on the back
with this we get five usage modes standard like
it is right now sharing for easier
sharing on a table floating which is you know somewhere in
the middle brings the display a little bit closer to you i actually like that
one quite a bit pad for when you're using the stylus and
finally display for when you want to look at the back of the
display now you might be thinking that designing a hinge such as this one is
pretty simple like you know it's just a hinge
well there's a reason that acer's first try looked like a laptop with water
wings each hinge and torsional spring in
here had to have its own aluminum injection mold to make sure the torque
was just right at every point during travel of course a fancy hinge on its
own does not make this a professional device here we have a 15.6 inch 4k
display that covers 100 of the adobe RGB
spectrum has a brightness of 400 nits and each panel is verified by pantone to
be within a delta e of under two the thing that really sets the easel pro
apart from say the macbook pro though is the excellent pen support provided by
the wacom emr or electromagnetic resonance pen basically you get a
traditional ips display and then on top of that is qualcomm's emr sensors that
are lined up and down the screen to create a very small electromagnetic
field that extends roughly five millimeters or so up from the sensors
within the pen is a small coil of wire that is basically turned into an
electromagnet that is picked up by the sensors on here completely removing the
need for the pen to be battery powered the key advantage of the emr pen is that
it's very easy for the display to discern between touch inputs and pen
inputs making excellent for tasks such as drawing and writing as for the actual
performance of the pen i can't really say this is a pretty early sample and
some of the apps are not working great but some of them are
pretty good fortunately it does behave well in paint 3d and responsiveness is
excellent many of you might be thinking though apple does have a pro device that
has excellent pen support the ipad pro which is true and really 120 hertz
refresh rate on the ipad pro will deliver a slightly superior experience
if all you want to do is draw baby yodas if you're a true professional though
you'll need professional applications and the power to run them and do we ever
have the power to run them here i think the only solid information that i
have is that i'll be using Intel xeon processors and NVIDIA rtx quadro
graphics but i think it'll be fair to guess we'll be getting eight or more
processing cores and an rtx 4000 on the
non-pro version and an rtx 5000 on the
pro model the most impressive part though is that
under full load the easel pro according to acer should be under 40 decibels of
volume there's also ecc memory and up to two terabytes of storage the concept d7
comes with an assortment of i o that you can guess is the kind of stuff that
professionals might actually want we've got two thunderbolts type a
i believe that there's full size HDMI and displayport very nice
Ethernet and i think there's an sd card reader on here maybe basically with all
this you'll just be saying bye to the dongle life what you can say bye to
though is a scratched laptop apparently
according to acer the concept d7 is finished with a metal arc oxidization
basically a ceramic-like coating that should be more resilient to scratches
and discoloration than traditional anodization
of course if you're looking to get all of this powerful pronus
it's it's gonna cost you with the concept d7 easel starting at 26.99 and
the easel pro starting at 30.99 with
expected availability around march or so so as a little bonus at the end and by
that i mean a bonus for me this is the new acer thronos acer decided to remove
the you know the big hydraulic lifting ARM
saying that it was a bit overkill so in this version we get
a more normal door with hydraulic assistance for positioning the monitors
like so what i really like though is that they have included a massage chair
oh i'm not sure if all of this is worth
almost fourteen thousand dollars that does include these three monitors but
not the pc in the back but it does feel good though this is this is
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