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So we're here at Acer where they're showing off some gaming notebooks
They're showing off the new Swift 7 which is the same thinness as the old one, but significantly smaller
So it's still got a y-class processor. It's still super thin 10-hour battery life dual-core hyper-threaded
It's still a little flimsier than I'd like and it's still very expensive at what was it?
$1,700 or something along those lines and then to go with the thinnest lightest notebook they've ever made
They've got this
This is the aptly named Thronis
Arguably the biggest heaviest
Desktop ever made so this entire thing is actually one package
There is a single skew
It costs $10,000, but whoa hold on that actually isn't as crazy expensive as you might initially think and in fact
The first thing that both I and Colton said when we walked in is like oh, that's it
Because there's a lot of stuff here. So first of all you get yourself a predator Orion desktop
So this is their 9000 desktop. It comes with it's a pretty good spec
But not an over-the-top spec that's included in the $10,000 unit. So you got your 8700 K
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?
64 gigs around who's keeping track at this point
RTX 2080 Ti so very capable little gaming machine. All right, you get a full set of Acer predator gaming peripherals
keyboard mouse
You got your headset. You got this special shaped mouse pad that goes with this, you know ARM that closes in on you
You get three Acer predator gaming
Monitors, so these are 27 inch
144 Hertz 2560 by 1440 monitors. They're running in NVIDIA surround whatever NVIDIA is calling that these days and you get
this
So Acer is only selling this
With what they're calling white glove service, which is to say that when you buy a thrown us
Someone will come to your house
Spends probably upwards of two hours assembling it for you wherever it is
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
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
The most deluxe gaming chair that I have ever been in
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
I'm partial to orange I'm gonna go ahead and do that
Then you grab this remote right here, which controls not
of subwoofers built into the seat
that will just detect any low frequency sound
in your game or movie or whatever else it is
and vibrate along your back and along your butt crack.
But you also get to adjust, check this out.
Oh no, that is all this one does, nevermind.
So it's got a separate remote that's built in right here
that you can use to do this.
The, oh the headset, ah, open.
Hold on.
Ah, to do this.
So it closes the keyboard mouse tray.
I gotta give it a little help.
This is pre-production still.
It's not shipping till Q2 sometime,
something along those lines.
Closes the ARM and then there's actually a couple
of other things here that I can adjust as well.
So I'm gonna go ahead and throw my headset on
and I'm gonna raise the pedals.
So this lifts up my feet and this buddy is supposed
to pop up here, I think.
Come on there, buddy.
Eh, pre-production, like I said.
So, eh, come on, pedal rise.
Do you mind showing me how you got this
to come up before?
Oh, oh, okay, wrong button.
Then finally, this is the last trick.
What they're calling zero G.
So it lifts up your legs and tilts the whole thing back.
Now you don't have to go all the way back
and in fact, I would say there is at least a small risk
of your keyboard kinda accidentally falling on you
if you don't secure it back here or something.
Figure out some way to cable manage that.
And in fact,
part of it is not, I wouldn't say infinitely adjustable,
but very adjustable so you can raise the arms a little bit
if your eye line's a little bit higher.
So this is it.
You are immersed in your gaming cockpit.
You've got your cup holders.
You've got your USB hub over here
so you plug in a thumb drive or whatever else it is you want.
You've got a controller pouch down here
that you can keep your, I don't know, your, come on,
your Xbox game controller or whatever else in.
I mean, what more could you ask for?
This type of thing is sure to impress the ladies.
I mean, what more could you ask for?
This type of thing is sure to impress the ladies.
And like I said, all of this for just $10,000,
including coming to assemble it for you.
Now, if you guys are anything like me,
you're probably asking yourself at this point, why?
Why is Acer building this?
This is so far outside of their typical product lineup.
And the best answer that I could get,
because unlike what I would have expected
with a product like this,
where I would have seen a brand trying to make,
you know, $5,000 a unit,
because this is gonna be obviously a low volume item.
They seem to be taking a very similar approach
to the margin of this product,
based on what I know about how much it costs
to do this kind of thing,
as they would even on like a typical gaming notebook.
So the best answer that I can get out of them
is that this is a statement piece.
This is the kind of thing that they want to be a draw
in retail stores or in, you know, in, you know, in, you know,
entertainment centers or wherever else
where people are gonna be exposed to the Predator brand
and think, you know what, Predator?
Yeah, gaming, like hardcore gaming.
And if that's the goal, then as far as I'm concerned,
mission accomplished, Acer.
Mission accomplished.
That's not really a recommendation to buy one,
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And I'm just gonna kind of tune out for a little bit here.
I got some gaming to do and we'll see you guys later.
Let's close this, close this cabin in here.
Not gonna, not gonna break the headphones this time.
Zero G opening.
Yeah.
Did I mention the adjustable ARM rests?
Oh, pay attention to the road here.
Ah, I crashed.