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what's up we're at Acer's booth at CES 2023 and they've got their own version

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of what we've seen from a few companies we've got their new x45 Predator model

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it's a 45-inch OLED display running at

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240 hertz 1440p it's pretty sweet this

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thing is basically what we've seen from a lot of other companies it's probably

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LG supplying the panel similar to the Corsair Xenia on Flex except we're not

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able to flex it but because of that we're probably also not going to see the

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flex tax that they've put on those monitors of like three or four hundred

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dollars at least so honestly this is now like becoming available for people it's

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crazy I never would have expected a 45-inch OLED to be available to the

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public in this day and age at the prices that we're seeing we don't know the

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exact MSRP of this yet but if it's at

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all competitive with everyone else it's gonna be at least you know expensive

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don't get me wrong for those of us who want to splurge though a little bit on

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our display and her graphics card this might be the one I mean it's going to be

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beautiful it's got 98.5 coverage of DC

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ip3 it's running at the Lightning Fast pixel response time that OLED is going

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to give you it's also going to get you an incredible HDR experience with every

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self-emissive pixel acting as its own dimming Zone unlike mini LED which

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honestly is starting to get eclipsed even when it didn't really you know

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stretch its legs all that much yeah 16.99 that's pretty much in line with

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what we're seeing from other people that have this got basically this exact same

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panel so if you like Acer for other reasons then honestly you're not going

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to get screwed over in any way by going with this one one thing that I

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absolutely love is this stand don't get me wrong it's big but it's also a big

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screen so you're gonna need that to make sure it's nice and stable I'll be honest

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I haven't played flight Sim I don't know the controls I just clicked ready to fly

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and here we are and I can tell you it looks absolutely stunning like the

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reality is it's really hard to go wrong when it comes to OLED it just looks so

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good it's hard it's so hard to describe without actually showing it to you in

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person and that's the one biggest problem about making videos about

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displays is that I can't actually show you how good it might look if I didn't

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mention it already it's going to hit 240 hertz which is crazy with the Lightning

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Fast pixel response times of OLED it's just stunning the 800 are curvature as

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well for a display this size is actually preferable at least to me personally

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there are some who might want to argue that you know it's a bit too much but

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when you're getting to this level of ultra wide and size I really don't think

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so you want this curve here so you don't have to bend your neck every which way

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to like see the corners of the screens and you're going to be kind of up close with this thing anyway USB a USB a USB B

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USBC DisplayPort I'm guessing and why HDMI

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footed the bill the only catch is they want me to come out onto the streets and

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offer Tech tips to random people for free it's I I'm not optimistic for how

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this is gonna go excuse me guys do you want a tech tip

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a tactic a tech tip sure yeah yeah uh

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you know when you plug in a USB yeah and it won't go in all the way yeah uh don't

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keep pushing because there's a reason it's not going you want to flip it over

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probably okay yeah yeah did that help

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yeah super helpful okay great yeah that's awesome wait can you do one more

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thing for me yeah go to shortlineus.com yeah sure man you will yeah you promise

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yeah do you want a tech tip have you ever swapped a processor a lot of times

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okay you know when you take the thermal paste off of the processes small is

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better but you know the isopropyl alcohol you used to take us to rub it

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off yeah it's you can't drink it no you can't no okay can you do one more thing

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for me after we're done okay go to shortliness.com short uh you follow

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Linus and you're the short liners I follow that guy too I'm not the

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shoreline is on the tall Linus okay now if you want a smaller display because

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let's be real 45 inches a bit too big for a lot of people especially if you've

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got a smaller desk we've got the x27u

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here which is another 1440p display but also OLED and one of the things that I'm

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actually really excited about is that we're seeing a lot more 1440p displays

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this year than we have before and I think that's because they've just kind of realized like it's really hard to run

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4K and on top of that like you're gonna

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you're gonna be able to save a buck by going with 1440p resolution instead of a

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4K resolution so I'm a big fan personally and especially when you're up

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this close like 27 inches at 1440p is

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pretty much perfect for me that's about 110 PPI if I remember correctly sorry

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I'm not doing any of this uh like off camera right now this thing is also

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going to hit 240 hertz it's got again like 98 99 coverage of DC ip3 it's got

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Lightning Fast pixel response time thanks to it being OLED and both of

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these displays are going to have freesync premium so you're going to get a really good variable refresh rate

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experience if you need it we've got basically the same stand again but a

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little smaller so it should have yeah essentially the same functionality which

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is great yep fantastic

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it will it will I'm not going to tilt this the whole I'm not going to Pivot

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this the entire way because there's a bunch of cables plugged in and it's not

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our displays but it does look like it's going to Pivot to 90 degrees if you want

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to go portrait mode uh for i o it's not bad we've got a barrel plug for power uh

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what looks like a headphone jack usb-a USB a USB B to connect to your PC USBC

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might be power delivery might be DisplayPort I'm not sure and what we've

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got here a DisplayPort and two HDMI ports so there's plenty of i o for

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basically whatever you want to do I don't think there's a KVM on this one but it's also 10.99 not 16.99 so it's

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significantly cheaper and you're still getting a absolutely mind-blowing level

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of performance when it comes to 1440p gaming honestly OLED is just fantastic

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these days one thing about OLED is that you can make the panels crazy thin

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without losing any kind of performance or anything like that and on the back of

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both of these displays we've got a like big Electronics control box and then the

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actual panel though is like like razor thin along the edges here now I feel

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perfectly fine maneuvering it and adjusting it in any way that's fine but

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if you're a little nervous about that sort of thing then I don't know just

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don't worry about it it's meant to be moved and whatnot you're good you're

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good to go don't worry don't worry I promise it'll be fine it'll be fine if

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you want to save a bit more you can go with the Nitro here it's their XV sorry

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I've got to read this one off the sheet because you know monitor names it's an XV 27 5K P3 now if you do need 4K

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because let's be real as much as I love 1440p and I think it's the right choice

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for most Gamers 4K looks really good you guys it's it's beautiful

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um if you want a 4K panel and OLED is

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kind of Out Of Reach or you're afraid of burning and image retention and whatnot

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mini LED is still a fantastic technology

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another major advantage to this guy over the other two that we looked at is it

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does have slightly more color gamut coverage with 99 of adobe RGB and it's

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still going fast you guys like this thing is 160 Hertz with like one

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millisecond response time it's got HDR 1000 it's probably hitting over a

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thousand it's no problem thanks to mini LED and with over 500 zones you're

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actually getting a pretty good dimming experience in a screen this size the

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only problem with the Nitro that we're seeing here is that unlike our other two

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that we looked at earlier this is coming out in Q2 of this year and I mean that

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might change who knows uh it wasn't even on the list today we just they had it

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out we saw it we're filming a video about it you know I love RGB look at

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this it's a really nice diffusion strip that's arcing across the back here I'm a

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really big fan it's a little understated they've also got a nice little cable

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cover here and the stand looks like it can do basically the same as the other

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ones it looks like it can pivot but once again we've got a bunch of cables here

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so we're not going to do that as for the i o we've got similar i o for this one

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with USB B two USB a ports a USB-C Port

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DisplayPort and then two hdmis a little harder to take a look at this one sorry

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cables are wrapped a little tighter than the other guys but the reality is you're

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getting a pretty solid both i o and stand experience with any of these

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displays so at the end of the day you've got to just pick whatever is in your

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budget and whichever one is right for your experience thanks guys this is

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Acer's booth at CES 2023 as you can see they've got a ton of other stuff here

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too that we haven't really talked about much they've got pre-built they've got

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some new speakers they've got some backpacks they've got a bunch of laptops

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and portable screens over there too it all looks sick we're gonna try to cover

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as much as we can but you know we only have so much time thanks for watching