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we're here with Acer at CES 2024 to check out just a whole whack of laptops

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and even a monitor we're just going to throw them all straight at your face

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just like this laptop right here is throwing 3D stuff straight at my face it

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is so cool this is the Aspire 3d5

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spatial Labs Edition we did see spatial

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Labs stuff last year but it had a couple of problems the main one being uh even

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if you wanted it the laptop started at like 4 grand you probably were not going

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to be getting it well now this thing here starts at

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$13.99 and the amount that it has improved over last year is incredible

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cuz like I'm currently enjoying watching this and the even more impressive part

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is that this right here is not a 3D video so we can just exit out of this

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I've just opened up crab Brave and by hitting alt G it does some AI magic and

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just turns it into a 3D image now this

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isn't new for this year per se but they've been training the AI models for

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the past year and the Improvement is incredible because like this scene right

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here is really great where like this Palm actually looks like it's way out in

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front of all of the crabs like the fact that they were able to do this on the

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fly in real time and turn it into 3D of this quality I am quite impressed now of

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course if you do have a 3D model or a 3D

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program it works really great and that as it did before but I am just so

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impressed at the Improvement in this cuz if I am honest when I looked at these

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last year they just kind of made me sick and this is not doing that I am actually

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quite stoked at how much better this is especially for how much cheaper it is

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for those of you that don't remember from CES last year and fair enough this

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spatial Labs technology works so that you don't have to use glasses by having

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a 4K panel but when you enable 3D it

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splits it and halves the resolution horizontally so half of those pixels are

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being sent to to your left eye and half are being sent to the right it is doing

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that by aiming them through a lenticular lens and it is tracking where exactly

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your eyes are using cameras right here to make sure that like this tree and

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stuff are going correctly into this eye and this eye to give you that depth of

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field and it's actually really quite neat just how well they've done it as

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for the computer itself we can see we have 3.5m headphone jack type A on the

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other side wow there's actually a lot of I/O on this Thunderbolt 4 two more type

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A's HDMI and a fullsize Ethernet port

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dang and on the inside you get up to an i7

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13620 H 32 GB of RAM and a

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57w battery now if we give this a little

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bit of a push test it's not bad it's not

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bad I've seen better I have definitely seen worse and the keyboard and trackpad

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are both pretty okay for the price

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point I would say say that they're not going to hinder you you will be able to

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get up to full speed and the trackpad is decent enough but they aren't like

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standouts like this display is what is a

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real standout though is this Aspire go

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14 this is the Acer Aspire go 14 there

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is also a 15in version and I am amazed

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that they were able to get a laptop of this quality down to

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$250 starting price like if we looked at

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this here we we can give it a bit of a bit of a push it's you know it's not the

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best built laptop in the world and we do not expect that at all but holy crap

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compared to the other $250 just pieces

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of actual e-waist that I have seen before this is actually incredible so

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the standouts here first of all 14-in 16

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by10 display starting at

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$250 processor nothing incredible we

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have is an Intel n100 that's four cores

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four threads and a 6 wat TDP so it's not

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going to be too quick but given that laptops at this price point in the past

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have had like two core seller on it's

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going to be a whole world of difference like you are not going to be doing fluid

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simulations on this thing but you will be able to watch YouTube videos at full

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resolution and not have it be slow the keyboard also is just perfectly

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functional there's nothing wrong about it which is quite shocking given just

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how inexpensive this thing is I'm used to key caps at this price point being

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just smaller than a normal size key caps they'll cheap out in that way and like

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if we look at this the key stability I have seen ,000 laptops or in the case of

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Razer $2,500 laptops that have worse

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below one thing isn't sure about is just how upgradeable this thing is and one

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thing that's unfortunate is that at that $250 price point you are only getting 4

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GB of RAM so let's see if you can change

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that and after 10 Phillips head screws I can say unfortunately you cannot the RAM

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is soldered down right here so you will have to shill out for something like the

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8 GB of RAM model we've done a little bit more digging and it appears that the

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storage that comes with it is also soldered down which is a little little

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bit strange so there's flash on here somewhere I guess on the other side of

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the board but fortunately you can upgrade it right here so we have a Gen 4

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SSD slot and I would strongly recommend

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looking to upgrade that pretty soon after you get one of these also in here

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we have a 53w hour battery and given this CPU only draws 6 wats I imagine

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that you're going to be able to get pretty decent battery life out of this

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thing final thing in here Wi-Fi card that is a aable nice moving back to it

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assembled the I/O that we have is 3.5 mm headphone jack fullsize USB type A or on

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the other side another fullsize USB type a HDMI and USB type c up next we have

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the Swift go 14 and this is sort of a

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choose how good it is kind of laptop you can have the $750 version which is going

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to be not particularly fast comes with a 1200 piece 60 HZ panel that's only got

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srgb coverage or you can go all the way up to a 90 HZ 2.8k overed panel that

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looks just absolutely fantastic those

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viewing angles are very good is it touch a darn it's not touch this comes with up

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to 32 GB of memory and AER are really

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proud about their media touchpads so if

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we swipe across this now we have our

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volume controls pause play in the center we can go forwards backwards mute all

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the stuff that you know you have hard buttons for up here uh I don't really

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know how useful this is but at the same time it's it's neat it's neat I'll give

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them that with the Swift go Acer are continuing their trend of just having

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fantastic iio on their laptops this has a Micro SD card reader 3.5 mm headphone

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microphone combo Jack fulls sizee USB type A or on the other side two

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Thunderbolt fors HDMI 2.1 and another

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USB type A so you can just plug all the things into this it's actually really

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sick the keyboard on the Swift go1 14 is pretty decent I would give it maybe a B+

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same sort of thing I don't hate it but at the same time there's nothing

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particularly special about it although if we go over to the Swift go 16 it's

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largely the same compared to the 14 but

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we don't get that media touchpad and we also don't get a keyboard that I enjoy

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uh if we look at this right here we have a nice large keyboard and we do have a

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numpad some people love that but the chassis in it becoming a bit larger has

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become pretty soft right here and uh you

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can really tell so the keys on the left

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side pretty good keys on the right side pretty good and the keys in the middle

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here right where your right hand is are uh not nearly as good they're very mushy

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cuz the whole chassis is flexing we won't dwell on the Swift go 16 too long

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then because instead I want to talk about the spicy Swift this right here is

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the Swift x14 and this thing is the very

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fancy one the keyboard is a definite improvement from the other ones that we

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have seen and although I don't think it gets into the A's I'm going to give it a

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B+ plus cuz I actually am kind of an oh

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no I think it gets an A minus this is actually quite a well-built machine and

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the internals are even more better this thing has up to an RTX

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4070 in a laptop of this size so that

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right there would have 60 watts plus 15 watts Dynamic boost just for the GPU and

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the display options on this are awesome with having up to a 2.8k OLED at 120 HZ

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and this has that variable refresh rate technology so it can go down to 48 HZ in

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order to save you a little bit of battery we also have up to an Intel Core

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Ultra 9 185h so this thing right here even

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though it's only 3.42 lbs is actually

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going to be able to do some very serious work or even gaming quite serious gaming

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I would say IO once again absolutely fantastic very similar to the Swift go4

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love to see all of this and if you're looking for something like this with its

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starting price of $1,400 which of course doesn't get you

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all of this it's like a 4050 but it still is very very compelling moving

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over to the gaming side of things Acer has released their new predicator Helios

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neol line now it is quite similar to the Helios line that they had before but

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Acer have been really smart about the ways that they have costed down the

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Helios line because honestly I don't

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think you're going to care about the stuff that you're losing too much so

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we're getting Zone RGB we have four zones instead of the per key RGB that we

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have on the full-fledged Helios but uh whatever you don't get this little RGB

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Predator logo right here I'm sure you're very torn up about that just like this

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RGB light bar on the back oh no you

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don't get it that's going to really affect your gaming performance I imagine

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also uh you have less configurability about the RGB on the Predator logo on

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the back if you look right here this one right here is like a little bit nicer

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but the stuff that actually matters performance has remained unchanged so if

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we look right here they heat pipes this is not new for this year but it is

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pretty cool to see that on the older models they have these rounded heat

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pipes like you see on pretty much every single laptop which work well enough but

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what they have on their Helios line are these Square heat pipes so you can see

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just how much more surface area you're going to have hitting the hot spots of

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your computer and just getting that heat out of there by having this Square heat

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pipe design instead of just just losing all of that area to the little rounded

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edges on the side as for the specs and pricing the Neo 16 starts at $14.99 the

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Helios 16 is $18.99 Neo 18549 and the Helios 18

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$2000 as for the exact specs I would say that you're going to have to just kind

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of look at what each one is able to do

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at each price because there's just such a large range from a 4050 to a 4090 and

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mini LED IPS panels you're just going to

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have to look at each one when they actually release it in April at the

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start I said we had a monitor and oh my God Acer has deliver this right here is

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the Predator Z series z57 and it is a

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57in dud panel that's dual Ultra HD this

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thing right here is like they took two 4K 32in panels and just crammed them

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together and then gave gave it a big old curve and oh my God like it's actually

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crazy when you just step up to this and you're right here pretty much your

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entire field of view is occupied by this thing and holy crap does this look good

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it's one of the most immersive gaming experiences that I have seen and I have

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seen quite a few in my days the amount that I want to hook this thing up to

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like a big old racing Sim holy crap that

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would be amazing as for other specs 120 HZ refesh fresh rate 1 millisecond

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response time 1,000 nits Peak brightness

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so this right here has vesa 1,000 HDR

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support and holy crap I am just going to

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have a bit of a look at this again and maybe even a bit of a game oh driving

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simulator time here we go holy crap this thing is

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cool yeah this would be so good for iRacing oh my God just like it would be

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really good if you hit like get subscribed and just have have a great

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