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curse for more details welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Acer h236
hlb D this uh has a very uninteresting
product name but it is a very interesting product for a couple of
reasons number one is I think just under 23 in or around 23 to 24 in is the
optimal size for a 1080p monitor um I think when they get smaller I've seen 21
in monitors or like 21.5 that are 1080p
I think text gets a little bit small and you can say all day oh well lus you can
just adjust the text size in your operating you know what not every operating system handles it that well a
lot of the time you end up with things just being tiny and unreadable and then
when you go above 24 in when you go up to something like a 27 in pixels get
pretty big it starts to look more like um using your computer on a TV that's
sitting on your your desk so I think it's the optimal size I think surround
gaming is very very cool but one of the things holding it back is the lack of
monitors that have very slim bezels that
um I mean a big bezel in between your two monitors when you're playing a game
is kind of ridiculous unless it's like a racing game and you can pretend to
yourself that it's like part of the cockpit or something like that like
unless it's something like that I think it takes away from the gaming experience
um and then as you guys probably know I'm not a huge fan of TN monitors I
don't think they enhance the Computing experience in anyway and in surround so
I'm I'm bringing this all around to my surround gaming message um in surround
TN panels can be a bit of an issue because you can almost never get it so
that every single monitor is facing directly at you which is the optimal way
to use a TN so
this this my friends has has a 0.08 in
bezel absolutely beautiful it is an IPS
monitor it is 23 I think it's 23.6 in or
something like that there maybe 20 maybe 23 in whatever it is um cannot remember
yeah 23 in it's a 23in monitor it is IPS
it has a 5 millisecond response time making it still suitable for gaming even
though it's an IPS and not like a you know a fast TN and in surround this
thing is going to be a whole new Beast
so we're going to assemble it we'll be back in a moment so the first thing you
might notice about this monitor is something a little bit different it
actually has a little magnetic spot on the base that allows you to store
anything with iron content there without it sort of escaping from you so we
thought that was kind of cool the base also has uh brushed plastic finish that
as you guys probably know I'm a pretty big fan of because I like the way that
it looks it looks like brush aluminum but it actually doesn't uh stain like
brushed aluminum so that's great assembly is simple so all you got to do
is screw in one piece from the bottom here then clip the monitor onto the base
station here so there's only three pieces Acer includes pretty much
everything you need now due to the slimness of this monitor I'm going to pull up my iPhone for my trademark
iPhone comparison there we go due to the slimness of this monitor there wasn't
much they could do about the positioning of bulky connectors like say for example
DVI and they didn't want them sticking like right out the of the monitor cuz
there's not much of a bezel to hide it behind which is what they normally do so
instead the uh connectors all come directly out the back of the monitor so
it's got HDMI DVI and VGA as well as an
audio out so it can process the HDMI audio you can plug in your headphones or
whatever else and DC in so it includes actually every cable that it's
compatible with comes with a DVI cable VGA HDMI cable and the power brick that
you need now let's also take just a
closer look at the overall construction here so I showed you the slimness
already Acer has been talking about upping their game in terms of overall uh
overall build quality and and sexiness of the products and uh slick and I were
discussing this off camera while we put the monitor together and they really do
seem to be doing it between the S7 notebook the w700 tablet and now this
monitor the uh the naming schemes might not have increased in sexiness but the
products themselves look pretty fantastic now one of the things that was
immediately sort of a ooh okay I'm not quite sure if I like that about this
monitor was the glossy screen because particularly plastic glossy screens can
be incredibly reflective and very distracting however if you have a glass
glossy screen and the panel is very close to the glass layer over top the
reflectiveness is reduced once the screen is on this is indeed a piece of
glass