have you ever been sitting at your laptop thinking the screen's too far away you can't see
a gas darn thing what if i told you acer has a solution
that's pretty neat i guess
but it doesn't really answer the question of
who out there was asking for
this so we'll be spending the next few minutes figuring out what makes this
laptop truly special
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let's start by figuring out just who the heck the triton 900 was made for my
first thought honestly game designers it's a super powerful machine with a
party trick that's right up their alley the surprisingly robust feeling hinged
screen gives you three positions to work with all the way back
all the way forward and even check that out a drawing position with
the last one being especially important since there are two things that game
designers need somewhere to design you know like ideally with a pen on a nice
large display and then somewhere to be able to
play their game making a roided out surface book look like the perfect
solution except for one small hiccup
even though this is a touchscreen when we tried using various pens from dell hp
microsoft wacom and samsung none of them worked but just because the
display doesn't feature pen support doesn't mean that it's bad we just need
to dig a little deeper here and in fairness
it's not just not bad this is one of the most crisp gaming displays that we've
ever feasted our eyes on we're talking 4k resolution 400 net peak brightness
that's pretty darn good for a mobile device a hundred percent adobe rgb color
space coverage and support for hdr video playback coupled with the improved
ergonomics a screen like this could make the triton 900 a killer content
consumption laptop but we've got another problem i mean if
you want to buy a 3 800 us dollar machine to watch youtube videos
be my guest but it's probably not the wisest move
ever plus the speakers kind of suck
which of course brings us to the most obvious conclusion i mean it's part of
their predator lineup is the trite 900 for gamers then packing an nvidia rtx
2080 this thing chews through games i mean you can expect to be able to run
basically anything at 4k 60 fps even on high details making it
fantastic for simulation games like city
skylines or anno 1800 as well as third
person or sightseeing games like the witcher 3 or the tomb raider series
where you can like really crank up the details because even if you do dip a
little bit below 60 fps because you turned rtx on or whatever
g-sync is gonna step in and make sure that your game still looks its best we
even don't mind it for streaming because while the webcam isn't anything special
at least it has one unfortunately anything without a high refresh rate
display feels like a compromise to us in 2019
especially for anything first person and especially for anything competitive and
the thing is there are lots of other laptops on the market that can deliver
way more frames on their panels and that still look really good
for a lot less the zephyrus gx701 is one
that stands out it's nearly as powerful as this machine while and i never
thought i'd be saying these two things about this cephas being a lot easier to
use as a laptop and a lot cheaper alright then so let's say maybe you only
occasionally game but you also need lots of power and a really sharp display for
other things like i don't know number crunching or 3d modeling well here the
triton 900 really shines it sports up to
an 8 core core i9 9980 hk that in our
case regularly turboed up to 4.8 gigahertz in lighter loads and maintain
3.6 gigahertz so well above intel's
advertised base clock in heavier multi-threaded ones this actually puts
it on the podium with the fastest laptops we've ever tested where it gets
beaten only by the alienware area 51m
which in fairness to acer has a freaking desktop cpu in it and this incredible
cpu power is augmented by excellent i o including three usb type a ports a type
c thunderbolt 3 gigabit ethernet and two
full-size display connectors one quick aside one of the usb ports is inside
this little flippy audi thing that kind of weirded us out at first and then we
were like oh wow you can hide your wireless mouse dongle
in there without worrying about it getting broken or lost sick of course
features like hidden compartments are normally found on pretty bulky machines
and this is no exception even ignoring its
monstrous nine pound weight the triton 900 is hardly a laptop in the
traditional sense i mean we understand that thermally it
makes a lot of sense to lay it out like this you've got nice easy access to
fresh air for your fans but using this thing in your lap is
uncomfortable at best and as for working
away from the wall i mean maybe the silver lining here is
that you won't have time to get uncomfortable actually i lied about that
last bit the typing experience is pretty good overall but only if you remember
your wrist rest otherwise it's a pretty bad time the good news is that while
acer's low profile mechanical keyboard did take me a little while to get used
to once i did i began to really like it
aside from some oddities the space bar needs better stabilization this is
unacceptable and as for the right shift
who puts that here it takes so much mental effort on this
machine to type a question mark and every single time i tried to use the
right shift at best i ended up with the
cursor up a line and at worst i'm an entire page above where i intended to be
while i'm talking about things on the lower right side of the laptop let's
address the touchpad now a lot of people hate this layout but
after using it more it's actually not that bad this one tracks well and i'm
always surprised to see how quickly i get used to trackpads in this location i
only find it truly annoying when i'm trying to go all the way from one side
of the screen to the other while we're down here by the way let's pry up the
keyboard which gives us access to the only upgradable components on the triton
900 the two m.2 ssd slots and the two
sodium memory slots so not much expansion here so then let's
take stock we've got a desktop replacement that's not too upgradeable
but is damn powerful out of the box with a pretty good albeit kind of annoying
keyboard and an outstanding display have we perhaps found the perfect machine for
our video editors it actually looks great on paper but
does this panel have the color accuracy that they would require well after
testing it turns out that while it manages over 99 of the adobe rgb color
space which is great when we look at the accuracy of the colors within that space
it's not particularly amazing with an average delta e of 4.2 and a max of 7.3
this display yeah it's gonna look great to the eye
while you're gaming we really felt that but it simply isn't good enough for
color critical work like video or photo editing for those you're generally
looking for delta e's of less than two so this is where acer's concept d9
starts to look really appealing it's basically the same laptop but it
includes a wacom digitizer for professional level stylist support and
it's color calibrated on the box so that you can trust that what you see is what
others are going to see only problem is the concept d is projected to be about a
thousand dollars more than the triton 900 so if you don't need stylus support
and you want an incredible machine for video editing or content creation on the
go we really like the triton 900 just make
sure you grab a display calibrator as well
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