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have you ever been sitting at your laptop thinking the screen's too far away you can't see

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a gas darn thing what if i told you acer has a solution

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that's pretty neat i guess

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but it doesn't really answer the question of

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who out there was asking for

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this so we'll be spending the next few minutes figuring out what makes this

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laptop truly special

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let's start by figuring out just who the heck the triton 900 was made for my

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first thought honestly game designers it's a super powerful machine with a

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party trick that's right up their alley the surprisingly robust feeling hinged

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screen gives you three positions to work with all the way back

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all the way forward and even check that out a drawing position with

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the last one being especially important since there are two things that game

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designers need somewhere to design you know like ideally with a pen on a nice

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large display and then somewhere to be able to

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play their game making a roided out surface book look like the perfect

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solution except for one small hiccup

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even though this is a touchscreen when we tried using various pens from dell hp

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microsoft wacom and samsung none of them worked but just because the

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display doesn't feature pen support doesn't mean that it's bad we just need

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to dig a little deeper here and in fairness

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it's not just not bad this is one of the most crisp gaming displays that we've

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ever feasted our eyes on we're talking 4k resolution 400 net peak brightness

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that's pretty darn good for a mobile device a hundred percent adobe RGB color

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space coverage and support for HDR video playback coupled with the improved

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ergonomics a screen like this could make the triton 900 a killer content

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consumption laptop but we've got another problem i mean if

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you want to buy a 3 800 us dollar machine to watch youtube videos

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be my guest but it's probably not the wisest move

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ever plus the speakers kind of suck

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which of course brings us to the most obvious conclusion i mean it's part of

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their predator lineup is the trite 900 for gamers then packing an NVIDIA rtx

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2080 this thing chews through games i mean you can expect to be able to run

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basically anything at 4k 60 FPS even on high details making it

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fantastic for simulation games like city

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skylines or anno 1800 as well as third

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person or sightseeing games like the witcher 3 or the tomb raider series

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where you can like really crank up the details because even if you do dip a

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little bit below 60 FPS because you turned rtx on or whatever

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g-sync is gonna step in and make sure that your game still looks its best we

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even don't mind it for streaming because while the webcam isn't anything special

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at least it has one unfortunately anything without a high refresh rate

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display feels like a compromise to us in 2019

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especially for anything first person and especially for anything competitive and

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the thing is there are lots of other laptops on the market that can deliver

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way more frames on their panels and that still look really good

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for a lot less the zephyrus gx701 is one

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that stands out it's nearly as powerful as this machine while and i never

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thought i'd be saying these two things about this cephas being a lot easier to

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use as a laptop and a lot cheaper alright then so let's say maybe you only

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occasionally game but you also need lots of power and a really sharp display for

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other things like i don't know number crunching or 3d modeling well here the

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triton 900 really shines it sports up to

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an 8 core core i9 9980 hk that in our

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case regularly turboed up to 4.8 gigahertz in lighter loads and maintain

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3.6 gigahertz so well above Intel's

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advertised base clock in heavier multi-threaded ones this actually puts

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it on the podium with the fastest laptops we've ever tested where it gets

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beaten only by the alienware area 51m

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which in fairness to acer has a freaking desktop CPU in it and this incredible

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CPU power is augmented by excellent i o including three usb type a ports a type

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c Thunderbolt 3 gigabit Ethernet and two

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full-size display connectors one quick aside one of the usb ports is inside

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this little flippy audi thing that kind of weirded us out at first and then we

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were like oh wow you can hide your wireless mouse dongle

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in there without worrying about it getting broken or lost sick of course

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features like hidden compartments are normally found on pretty bulky machines

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and this is no exception even ignoring its

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monstrous nine pound weight the triton 900 is hardly a laptop in the

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traditional sense i mean we understand that thermally it

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makes a lot of sense to lay it out like this you've got nice easy access to

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fresh air for your fans but using this thing in your lap is

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uncomfortable at best and as for working

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away from the wall i mean maybe the silver lining here is

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that you won't have time to get uncomfortable actually i lied about that

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last bit the typing experience is pretty good overall but only if you remember

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your wrist rest otherwise it's a pretty bad time the good news is that while

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acer's low profile mechanical keyboard did take me a little while to get used

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to once i did i began to really like it

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aside from some oddities the space bar needs better stabilization this is

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unacceptable and as for the right shift

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who puts that here it takes so much mental effort on this

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machine to type a question mark and every single time i tried to use the

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right shift at best i ended up with the

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cursor up a line and at worst i'm an entire page above where i intended to be

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while i'm talking about things on the lower right side of the laptop let's

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address the touchpad now a lot of people hate this layout but

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after using it more it's actually not that bad this one tracks well and i'm

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always surprised to see how quickly i get used to trackpads in this location i

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only find it truly annoying when i'm trying to go all the way from one side

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of the screen to the other while we're down here by the way let's pry up the

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keyboard which gives us access to the only upgradable components on the triton

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900 the two m.2 SSD slots and the two

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sodium memory slots so not much expansion here so then let's

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take stock we've got a desktop replacement that's not too upgradeable

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but is damn powerful out of the box with a pretty good albeit kind of annoying

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keyboard and an outstanding display have we perhaps found the perfect machine for

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our video editors it actually looks great on paper but

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does this panel have the color accuracy that they would require well after

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testing it turns out that while it manages over 99 of the adobe RGB color

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space which is great when we look at the accuracy of the colors within that space

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it's not particularly amazing with an average delta e of 4.2 and a max of 7.3

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this display yeah it's gonna look great to the eye

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while you're gaming we really felt that but it simply isn't good enough for

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color critical work like video or photo editing for those you're generally

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looking for delta e's of less than two so this is where acer's concept d9

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starts to look really appealing it's basically the same laptop but it

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includes a wacom digitizer for professional level stylist support and

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it's color calibrated on the box so that you can trust that what you see is what

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others are going to see only problem is the concept d is projected to be about a

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thousand dollars more than the triton 900 so if you don't need stylus support

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and you want an incredible machine for video editing or content creation on the

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go we really like the triton 900 just make

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