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So we're here at Acer where they're showing off some gaming notebooks

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They're showing off the new Swift 7 which is the same thinness as the old one, but significantly smaller

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So it's still got a y-class processor. It's still super thin 10-hour battery life dual-core hyper-threaded

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It's still a little flimsier than I'd like and it's still very expensive at what was it?

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$1,700 or something along those lines and then to go with the thinnest lightest notebook they've ever made

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They've got this

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This is the aptly named Thronis

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Arguably the biggest heaviest

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Desktop ever made so this entire thing is actually one package

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There is a single skew

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It costs $10,000, but whoa hold on that actually isn't as crazy expensive as you might initially think and in fact

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The first thing that both I and Colton said when we walked in is like oh, that's it

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Because there's a lot of stuff here. So first of all you get yourself a predator Orion desktop

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So this is their 9000 desktop. It comes with it's a pretty good spec

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But not an over-the-top spec that's included in the $10,000 unit. So you got your 8700 K

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I believe it's 32 gigs of rams that sound about right. You got your 512 gig SSD 2 terabyte hard drive. What's that?

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64 gigs around who's keeping track at this point

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RTX 2080 Ti so very capable little gaming machine. All right, you get a full set of Acer predator gaming peripherals

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keyboard mouse

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You got your headset. You got this special shaped mouse pad that goes with this, you know ARM that closes in on you

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You get three Acer predator gaming

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Monitors, so these are 27 inch

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144 Hertz 2560 by 1440 monitors. They're running in NVIDIA surround whatever NVIDIA is calling that these days and you get

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this

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So Acer is only selling this

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With what they're calling white glove service, which is to say that when you buy a thrown us

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Someone will come to your house

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Spends probably upwards of two hours assembling it for you wherever it is

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But it has a lot of cons and cons and cons and cons and cons about how it is that you choose to plunk it down

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And by the way, you won't be moving it after because it weighs well over 500 pounds and you will be treated to not just

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The most deluxe gaming chair that I have ever been in

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It will be a motorized one. So the first thing you need to do is get your RGB adjusted to whatever is comfortable for you

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I'm partial to orange I'm gonna go ahead and do that

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Then you grab this remote right here, which controls not

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of subwoofers built into the seat

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that will just detect any low frequency sound

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in your game or movie or whatever else it is

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and vibrate along your back and along your butt crack.

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But you also get to adjust, check this out.

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Oh no, that is all this one does, nevermind.

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So it's got a separate remote that's built in right here

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that you can use to do this.

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The, oh the headset, ah, open.

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Hold on.

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Ah, to do this.

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So it closes the keyboard mouse tray.

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I gotta give it a little help.

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This is pre-production still.

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It's not shipping till Q2 sometime,

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something along those lines.

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Closes the ARM and then there's actually a couple

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of other things here that I can adjust as well.

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So I'm gonna go ahead and throw my headset on

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and I'm gonna raise the pedals.

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So this lifts up my feet and this buddy is supposed

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to pop up here, I think.

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Come on there, buddy.

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Eh, pre-production, like I said.

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So, eh, come on, pedal rise.

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Do you mind showing me how you got this

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to come up before?

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Oh, oh, okay, wrong button.

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Then finally, this is the last trick.

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What they're calling zero G.

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So it lifts up your legs and tilts the whole thing back.

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Now you don't have to go all the way back

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and in fact, I would say there is at least a small risk

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of your keyboard kinda accidentally falling on you

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if you don't secure it back here or something.

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Figure out some way to cable manage that.

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And in fact,

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part of it is not, I wouldn't say infinitely adjustable,

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but very adjustable so you can raise the arms a little bit

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if your eye line's a little bit higher.

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So this is it.

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You are immersed in your gaming cockpit.

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You've got your cup holders.

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You've got your USB hub over here

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so you plug in a thumb drive or whatever else it is you want.

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You've got a controller pouch down here

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that you can keep your, I don't know, your, come on,

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your Xbox game controller or whatever else in.

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I mean, what more could you ask for?

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This type of thing is sure to impress the ladies.

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I mean, what more could you ask for?

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This type of thing is sure to impress the ladies.

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And like I said, all of this for just $10,000,

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including coming to assemble it for you.

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Now, if you guys are anything like me,

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you're probably asking yourself at this point, why?

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Why is Acer building this?

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This is so far outside of their typical product lineup.

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And the best answer that I could get,

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because unlike what I would have expected

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with a product like this,

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where I would have seen a brand trying to make,

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you know, $5,000 a unit,

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because this is gonna be obviously a low volume item.

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They seem to be taking a very similar approach

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to the margin of this product,

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based on what I know about how much it costs

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to do this kind of thing,

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as they would even on like a typical gaming notebook.

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So the best answer that I can get out of them

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is that this is a statement piece.

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This is the kind of thing that they want to be a draw

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in retail stores or in, you know, in, you know, in, you know,

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entertainment centers or wherever else

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where people are gonna be exposed to the Predator brand

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and think, you know what, Predator?

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Yeah, gaming, like hardcore gaming.

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And if that's the goal, then as far as I'm concerned,

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mission accomplished, Acer.

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Mission accomplished.

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That's not really a recommendation to buy one,

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but it's definitely attention grabbing.

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Speaking of attention grabbing,

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can I just grab your attention for a minute

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It's got their extra clickable buttons

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and like anything dbrand, it's customizable.

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So you can change out this marble back

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that I've got on mine with dragon skin

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or any color you want.

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They're all true textured, authentic 3M vinyl,

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and they are cut with the precision

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that you'd expect from dbrand.

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Actually that goes for their grip cases as well,

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including their cutouts for fingerprint sensors,

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cameras, et cetera.

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And then on the front of the phone,

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they've got their new prism screen protectors.

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These things are absolutely nuts.

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The demo you guys are looking at right now,

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is absolutely real.

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So they've got this cool applicator

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that you use to put their screen protector on.

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So you get a perfect fit every time.

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And then once it's on,

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it kind of, it feels like glass on the front,

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but it's not because you can take it

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and smack a nail into a piece of wood

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with the front of your phone,

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peel the thing off and the screen is still pristine.

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I haven't seen impact protection like this

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from a third party product ever before.

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And you guys can check out both the grip

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At the link in the video description.

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So thanks for watching guys.

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Don't miss any of our CES coverage here at CES 2019

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And I'm just gonna kind of tune out for a little bit here.

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I got some gaming to do and we'll see you guys later.

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Let's close this, close this cabin in here.

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Not gonna, not gonna break the headphones this time.

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Zero G opening.

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Yeah.

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Did I mention the adjustable ARM rests?

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Oh, pay attention to the road here.

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Ah, I crashed.