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easiest way to look like some kind of chump in 2017 have a thick ass laptop

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trust me you will not be picking up any of the

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miladies if you're packing anything over an inch and remember boys it's not just

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the size of the laptop that counts but what you're able to do with it well

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acer seems to think they've solved both of these problems by packing what they

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say is the fastest gtx 1080 max-q GPU

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into this sleek 18.9 millimeter frame

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so with its cool gray aluminum back panel and somehow less tacky than usual

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must be the blue accent predator logo there is no denying that triton 700 is a

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different breed of gaming laptop this is one fine looking machine opening it

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up the thick bezels and the plastic around the webcam are not ideal but

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these can be forgiven once you see that sexy glass window that subtly shows off

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the cooling fan and the heat pipes below

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and look it is not just about that bling

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bling i mean you gotta respect design

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that performs while also managing to

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turn sexy engineering into a showpiece

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and the fact that they also managed to integrate the multi-touch trackpad into

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it is straight up cool even if it's not ideal for usability

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more on that later moving down from the tempered glass we get to the oddly

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placed keyboard embedded in a very sturdy aluminum chassis the keyboard is

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fully programmable and boasts full RGB backlighting although in my opinion it

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does look best when it's left blue to match the lights on the side and the

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logo on the back we can take a look at the i o now Thunderbolt 3 with four PCIe

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lanes lots of usb full size displayport and Ethernet very

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nice okay now let's just uh

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boot it up and

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oh wow okay really that's not controlled by

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system volume well make sure you disable that in the BIOS

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or you're gonna be that guy

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on the other hand maybe you want your friends

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colleagues and uh neighbor down the street to know just

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how powerful your notebook is because

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with internals like these this thin and light monster should make short work of

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all but the thickest of rivals with that

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said specs are nothing without cooling

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thankfully the triton 700 has some legitimately impressive cooling chops

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and for the most part it succeeds at keeping both the CPU and GPU from

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thermal throttling our GPU hit a shocking 71 degrees max at room

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temperature and only a combined synthetic load managed to overload the

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CPU's cooler and that is a pretty unrealistic workload and this is all

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while staying calm and for a gaming machine relatively quiet like i got it

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running right now mike's right there acer even overclocked the GPU a bit to

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make bears the fastest max q laptop available consistently beating out the

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ASUS zephyrus though admittedly this is a bit of a hollow

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victory since overclocking what is essentially an underclocked chip is kind

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of like sandbagging your fitness tracker for the rest of the week so that you can

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do 200 of your daily goal on friday

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a real desktop gtx 1080 or for that

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matter even a thicker laptop with a non-max q1080 puts both of these

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pretenders to the throne in their place pretty handily but your desktop wouldn't

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have an integrated 120hz 1080p ips display with g-sync now would it the

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display is a bright point for this product literally like it's bright and

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with good viewing angles and satisfactory motion blur it's great to

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look at while you game and if someone wants to look at you the webcam is

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pretty solid too now the speakers didn't blow me away but they're not bad at all

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especially considering how thin it is if you don't mind the lackluster base and

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having a dolby atmos certification is great if you're a headphone user but

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let's get back to the interface the trackpad looks really cool and you

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could make the argument that gamers would be pretty likely to take advantage

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of the recessed usb port to carry around a high performance wireless mouse but if

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you care about size enough to pay a premium for this versus a less total

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gaming notebook then you probably are planning to try to use it as a portable

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device from time to time and while ergonomically this placement actually

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didn't bother me nearly as much as i expected it's a lot better than the

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weird shaped ones on the right of the keyboard in my opinion

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you do need to be careful not to mash keys on your keyboard with your palm

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and there are definitely some other issues the boundaries are poorly marked

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with no tactile bump to indicate that you've crossed them the glossy gorilla

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glass is a greasy fingerprint magnet the lack of physical buttons for two-handed

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operation is a huge downer for me personally and those are real heat pipes

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down there it gets hot reaching as high as 53 degrees under

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load although this should only be an issue if you were to use the track pad

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immediately after a gaming session on the subject of planning to use it as a

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regular notebook the custom mechanical keyboard is

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awesome with a nice short but satisfyingly clicky key travel that

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makes it a great balance for both gaming and typing

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alex wanted to rate it damn near perfect

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and saying that if they threw in a wrist rest it could be a 10 out of 10 while i

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did find it a touch on the stiff side

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though with that said the power brick is

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really big and battery life still gets

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killed by basically every other laptop

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remember guys gtx 1080 laptops don't use

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onboard graphics and optimus technology to save power at idle for the tinkerers

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out there popping the triton 700 open and unscrewing this heat shield reveals

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the five heat pipes responsible for the impressive performance results we saw as

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well as two m.2 slots and two ddr4 sodium slots now they're all already

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populated on our config so you won't be upgrading much unless you

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want to throw away what's already in there to beef up your RAM or storage

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down the road but i still appreciate that they aren't soldered that's

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something you can't take for granted with all thin lights leading us to a

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conclusion time i guess you know what overall i really like the predator

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triton 700 it's pretty easy to recommend great

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performance okay battery life considering all the other factors

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and there's only one thing that really goes against it the price

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at three thousand dollars it's not a budget option and it's four hundred

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dollars more than even the competing ASUS zephyrus

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but with that said you're already paying a

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huge premium over just buying an equivalent desktop plus a separate thin

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and light for travel so between the two of them in my mind

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the triton 700 is the way to go thanks to the better battery life and in my

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opinion better trackpad placement the first content to appear on a new

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platform rarely takes full advantage of the new paradigm for example the first

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tv shows were basically radio shows with the camera turned on and today we're in

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a similar place with vr but already innovative filmmakers are

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pushing the art form forward and Intel is pushing both the technology and the

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community forward by partnering with rising filmmaker eliza mcnitt to take

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audiences behind the scenes of her upcoming vr film pale blue dot

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you'll actually be able to control your own adventure as you peek behind the

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curtain learning about how visual effects sound design and creative

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direction converge into a brand new type of experience the first version of the

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internet gave everyone a voice letting people around the world including

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young lioness create whatever content they wanted and the next wave is for the

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check out the latest episode of on the making of the pale blue dot and learn

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