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curse for more details welcome to my unboxing and first look at the Acer h236

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hlb D this uh has a very uninteresting

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product name but it is a very interesting product for a couple of

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reasons number one is I think just under 23 in or around 23 to 24 in is the

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optimal size for a 1080p monitor um I think when they get smaller I've seen 21

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in monitors or like 21.5 that are 1080p

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I think text gets a little bit small and you can say all day oh well lus you can

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just adjust the text size in your operating you know what not every operating system handles it that well a

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lot of the time you end up with things just being tiny and unreadable and then

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when you go above 24 in when you go up to something like a 27 in pixels get

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pretty big it starts to look more like um using your computer on a TV that's

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sitting on your your desk so I think it's the optimal size I think surround

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gaming is very very cool but one of the things holding it back is the lack of

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monitors that have very slim bezels that

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um I mean a big bezel in between your two monitors when you're playing a game

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is kind of ridiculous unless it's like a racing game and you can pretend to

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yourself that it's like part of the cockpit or something like that like

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unless it's something like that I think it takes away from the gaming experience

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um and then as you guys probably know I'm not a huge fan of TN monitors I

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don't think they enhance the Computing experience in anyway and in surround so

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I'm I'm bringing this all around to my surround gaming message um in surround

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TN panels can be a bit of an issue because you can almost never get it so

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that every single monitor is facing directly at you which is the optimal way

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to use a TN so

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this this my friends has has a 0.08 in

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bezel absolutely beautiful it is an IPS

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monitor it is 23 I think it's 23.6 in or

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something like that there maybe 20 maybe 23 in whatever it is um cannot remember

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yeah 23 in it's a 23in monitor it is IPS

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it has a 5 millisecond response time making it still suitable for gaming even

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though it's an IPS and not like a you know a fast TN and in surround this

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thing is going to be a whole new Beast

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so we're going to assemble it we'll be back in a moment so the first thing you

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might notice about this monitor is something a little bit different it

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actually has a little magnetic spot on the base that allows you to store

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anything with iron content there without it sort of escaping from you so we

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thought that was kind of cool the base also has uh brushed plastic finish that

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as you guys probably know I'm a pretty big fan of because I like the way that

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it looks it looks like brush aluminum but it actually doesn't uh stain like

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brushed aluminum so that's great assembly is simple so all you got to do

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is screw in one piece from the bottom here then clip the monitor onto the base

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station here so there's only three pieces Acer includes pretty much

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everything you need now due to the slimness of this monitor I'm going to pull up my iPhone for my trademark

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iPhone comparison there we go due to the slimness of this monitor there wasn't

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much they could do about the positioning of bulky connectors like say for example

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DVI and they didn't want them sticking like right out the of the monitor cuz

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there's not much of a bezel to hide it behind which is what they normally do so

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instead the uh connectors all come directly out the back of the monitor so

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it's got HDMI DVI and VGA as well as an

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audio out so it can process the HDMI audio you can plug in your headphones or

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whatever else and DC in so it includes actually every cable that it's

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compatible with comes with a DVI cable VGA HDMI cable and the power brick that

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you need now let's also take just a

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closer look at the overall construction here so I showed you the slimness

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already Acer has been talking about upping their game in terms of overall uh

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overall build quality and and sexiness of the products and uh slick and I were

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discussing this off camera while we put the monitor together and they really do

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seem to be doing it between the S7 notebook the w700 tablet and now this

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monitor the uh the naming schemes might not have increased in sexiness but the

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products themselves look pretty fantastic now one of the things that was

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immediately sort of a ooh okay I'm not quite sure if I like that about this

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monitor was the glossy screen because particularly plastic glossy screens can

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be incredibly reflective and very distracting however if you have a glass

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glossy screen and the panel is very close to the glass layer over top the

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reflectiveness is reduced once the screen is on this is indeed a piece of

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glass