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acer seems to think they've solved both of these problems by packing what they
say is the fastest gtx 1080 max-q GPU
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so with its cool gray aluminum back panel and somehow less tacky than usual
must be the blue accent predator logo there is no denying that triton 700 is a
different breed of gaming laptop this is one fine looking machine opening it
up the thick bezels and the plastic around the webcam are not ideal but
these can be forgiven once you see that sexy glass window that subtly shows off
the cooling fan and the heat pipes below
and look it is not just about that bling
bling i mean you gotta respect design
that performs while also managing to
turn sexy engineering into a showpiece
and the fact that they also managed to integrate the multi-touch trackpad into
it is straight up cool even if it's not ideal for usability
more on that later moving down from the tempered glass we get to the oddly
placed keyboard embedded in a very sturdy aluminum chassis the keyboard is
fully programmable and boasts full RGB backlighting although in my opinion it
does look best when it's left blue to match the lights on the side and the
logo on the back we can take a look at the i o now Thunderbolt 3 with four PCIe
lanes lots of usb full size displayport and Ethernet very
nice okay now let's just uh
boot it up and
oh wow okay really that's not controlled by
system volume well make sure you disable that in the BIOS
or you're gonna be that guy
on the other hand maybe you want your friends
colleagues and uh neighbor down the street to know just
how powerful your notebook is because
with internals like these this thin and light monster should make short work of
all but the thickest of rivals with that
said specs are nothing without cooling
thankfully the triton 700 has some legitimately impressive cooling chops
and for the most part it succeeds at keeping both the CPU and GPU from
thermal throttling our GPU hit a shocking 71 degrees max at room
temperature and only a combined synthetic load managed to overload the
CPU's cooler and that is a pretty unrealistic workload and this is all
while staying calm and for a gaming machine relatively quiet like i got it
running right now mike's right there acer even overclocked the GPU a bit to
make bears the fastest max q laptop available consistently beating out the
ASUS zephyrus though admittedly this is a bit of a hollow
victory since overclocking what is essentially an underclocked chip is kind
of like sandbagging your fitness tracker for the rest of the week so that you can
do 200 of your daily goal on friday
a real desktop gtx 1080 or for that
matter even a thicker laptop with a non-max q1080 puts both of these
pretenders to the throne in their place pretty handily but your desktop wouldn't
have an integrated 120hz 1080p ips display with g-sync now would it the
display is a bright point for this product literally like it's bright and
with good viewing angles and satisfactory motion blur it's great to
look at while you game and if someone wants to look at you the webcam is
pretty solid too now the speakers didn't blow me away but they're not bad at all
especially considering how thin it is if you don't mind the lackluster base and
having a dolby atmos certification is great if you're a headphone user but
let's get back to the interface the trackpad looks really cool and you
could make the argument that gamers would be pretty likely to take advantage
of the recessed usb port to carry around a high performance wireless mouse but if
you care about size enough to pay a premium for this versus a less total
gaming notebook then you probably are planning to try to use it as a portable
device from time to time and while ergonomically this placement actually
didn't bother me nearly as much as i expected it's a lot better than the
weird shaped ones on the right of the keyboard in my opinion
you do need to be careful not to mash keys on your keyboard with your palm
and there are definitely some other issues the boundaries are poorly marked
with no tactile bump to indicate that you've crossed them the glossy gorilla
glass is a greasy fingerprint magnet the lack of physical buttons for two-handed
operation is a huge downer for me personally and those are real heat pipes
down there it gets hot reaching as high as 53 degrees under
load although this should only be an issue if you were to use the track pad
immediately after a gaming session on the subject of planning to use it as a
regular notebook the custom mechanical keyboard is
awesome with a nice short but satisfyingly clicky key travel that
makes it a great balance for both gaming and typing
alex wanted to rate it damn near perfect
and saying that if they threw in a wrist rest it could be a 10 out of 10 while i
did find it a touch on the stiff side
though with that said the power brick is
really big and battery life still gets
killed by basically every other laptop
remember guys gtx 1080 laptops don't use
onboard graphics and optimus technology to save power at idle for the tinkerers
out there popping the triton 700 open and unscrewing this heat shield reveals
the five heat pipes responsible for the impressive performance results we saw as
well as two m.2 slots and two ddr4 sodium slots now they're all already
populated on our config so you won't be upgrading much unless you
want to throw away what's already in there to beef up your RAM or storage
down the road but i still appreciate that they aren't soldered that's
something you can't take for granted with all thin lights leading us to a
conclusion time i guess you know what overall i really like the predator
triton 700 it's pretty easy to recommend great
performance okay battery life considering all the other factors
and there's only one thing that really goes against it the price
at three thousand dollars it's not a budget option and it's four hundred
dollars more than even the competing ASUS zephyrus
but with that said you're already paying a
huge premium over just buying an equivalent desktop plus a separate thin
and light for travel so between the two of them in my mind
the triton 700 is the way to go thanks to the better battery life and in my
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