We're here with Acer at CES 2024 to check out just a whole whack of laptops and even a monitor.
We're just going to throw them all straight at your face, just like this laptop right here is
throwing 3D stuff straight at my face. It is so cool. This is the Aspire 3D 15 Spatial Labs edition.
We did see Spatial Labs stuff last year, but it had a couple of problems. The main one being,
even if you wanted it, the laptop started at like four grand. You probably were not going to be
getting it. Well, now this thing right here starts at $13.99 and the amount that it has
improved over last year is incredible because like I'm currently enjoying watching this and the even
more impressive part is that this right here is not a 3D video. So we can just exit out of this.
I've just opened up CrabRave and by hitting Alt G, it does some AI magic and just turns it into a
3D image. Now, this isn't new for this year per se, but they've been training the AI models for
the past year and the improvement is incredible because like this scenery here is really great.
We're like this palm actually looks like it's way out in front of all of the crabs. Like the fact
that they were able to do this on the fly in real time and turn it into 3D of this quality,
I am quite impressed. Now, of course, if you do have a 3D model or a 3D program,
it works really great in that as it did before, but I am just so impressed at the improvement in
this because if I am honest, when I looked at these last year, they just kind of made me sick
and this is not doing that. I am actually quite stoked at how much better this is, especially for
how much cheaper it is. But those of you that don't remember from CES last year and fair enough,
this Spatial Labs technology works so you don't have to use glasses by having a 4K panel,
but when you enable 3D, it splits it and halves the resolution horizontally. So half of those
pixels are being sent to your left eye and half are being sent to the right. It is doing that by
aiming them through a lenticular lens and it is tracking where exactly your eyes are using cameras
right here to make sure that like this tree and stuff are going correctly into this eye and this
eye to give you that depth of field and it's actually really quite neat just how well they've
done it. As for the computer itself, we can see we have 3.5mm headphone jack, type A on the other
side. Wow, there's actually a lot of IO on this. Thunderbolt 4, two more type As, HDMI and a full
size Ethernet port. Dang. And on the inside, you get up to an i7-13620H, 32 gigabytes of RAM
and a 57 watt hour battery. Now if we give this a little bit of a push test, it's not bad. It's
not bad. I've seen better. I have definitely seen worse. And the keyboard and trackpad are both
pretty okay for the price point. I would say that they're not going to hinder you. You will be able
to get up to full speed and the trackpad is decent enough, but they aren't like standouts like this
display is. What is a real standout though? Is this Aspire Go 14? This is the Acer Aspire Go 14.
There is also a 15 inch version and I am amazed that they were able to get a laptop of this quality
down to $250 starting price. Like if we look at this here, we can give it a bit of a bit of a push.
It's, you know, it's not the best built laptop in the world and we do not expect that at all.
But holy crap, compared to the other $250 just pieces of actual e-waste that I have seen before,
this is actually incredible. So the standouts here, first of all, 14 inch 16 by 10 display
starting at $250. Processor, nothing incredible. What we have is an Intel N100. That's four cores,
four threads and a six watt TDP. So it's not going to be too quick. But given that laptops at this
price point in the past have had like two core Celerons, it's going to be a whole world of difference.
Like you are not going to be doing fluid simulations on this thing, but you will be able to watch
YouTube videos at full resolution and not have it be slow. The keyboard also is just perfectly
functional. There's nothing wrong about it, which is quite shocking given just how inexpensive this
thing is. I'm used to keycaps at this price point being just smaller than a normal size keycap.
So cheap out in that way. And like if we look at this, the key stability, I have seen $1,000
laptops or in the case of Razer $2,500 laptops that have worse keys than this. One thing Acer
isn't sure about is just how upgradable this thing is. And one thing that's unfortunate is that at
that $250 price point, you are only getting four gigabytes of RAM. So let's see if you can change
that. And after 10 Phillips head screws, I can say unfortunately you cannot. The RAM is soldered
down right here. So you will have to shell out for something like the eight Gigabyte of RAM model.
We've done a little bit more digging and it appears that the storage that comes with it
is also soldered down, which is a little bit strange. So there's flash on here
somewhere, I guess on the other side of the board, but fortunately you can upgrade it right here. So
we have a Gen 4 SSD slot and I would strongly recommend looking to upgrade that pretty soon
after you get one of these. Also in here, we have a 53 watt hour battery and given the CPU
only draws six watts, I imagine that you're going to be able to get pretty decent battery life out
of this thing. Final thing in here, Wi-Fi card, that is upgradable. Nice. Moving back to it assembled,
the IO that we have is 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, full size USB type A, or on the other side
another full size USB type A, HDMI and USB type C. Up next we have the Swift Go 14 and this is sort of
choose how good it is kind of laptop. You can have the $750 version, which is going to be not
particularly fast. It comes with a 1200p 60 Hertz panel that's only got sRGB coverage or you can go
all the way up to a 90 Hertz 2.8K OLED panel that looks just absolutely fantastic. Those viewing
angles are very good. Is it touch? Oh darn, it's not touch. This comes with up to 32 gigabytes of
memory and Acer are really proud about their media touch pad. So if we swipe across this,
now we have our volume controls, pause play in the center, we can go forwards, backwards,
mute, all of the stuff that you know you have hard buttons for up here. I don't really know how
useful this is, but at the same time it's it's neat. It's neat. I'll give them that. With the Swift
Go, Acer are continuing their trend of just having fantastic IO on their laptops. This has
a micro SD card reader, 3.5 millimeter headphone microphone combo jack, full size USB type A
or on the other side, two Thunderbolt 4s HDMI 2.1 and another USB type A. So you can just plug
all the things into this. It's actually really sick. The keyboard on the Swift Go 14 is pretty
decent. I would give it maybe a B plus same sort of thing. I don't hate it, but at the same time
there's nothing particularly special about it. Although if we go over to the Swift Go 16,
it's largely the same compared to the 14, but we don't get that media touch pad and we also don't
get a keyboard that I enjoy. If we look at this right here, we have a nice large keyboard and we
do have a numpad. Some people love that, but the chassis in it becoming a bit larger has become
pretty soft right here and you can really tell. So the keys on the left side pretty good,
keys on the right side pretty good, and the keys in the middle here right where your right hand is
are not nearly as good. They're very mushy because the whole chassis is flexing. We won't dwell on the
Swift Go 16 too long then because instead I want to talk about the spicy Swift. This right here is
the Swift X14 and this thing is the very fancy one. The keyboard is a definite improvement from
the other ones that we have seen and although I don't think it gets into the A's, I'm going to give
it a B plus plus because I actually am kind of an, oh no I think it gets an A minus. This is
actually quite a well-built machine and the internals are even more better. This thing has
up to an RTX 4070 in a laptop of this size. So that right there would have 60 watts plus
15 watts dynamic boost just for the GPU and the display options on this are awesome. With having
up to a 2.8 k OLED at 120 Hertz and this has that variable refresh rate technology so it can go down
to 48 Hertz in order to save you a little bit of battery. We also have up to an Intel Core Ultra
9 185H so this thing right here even though it's only 3.42 pounds is actually going to be able to
do some very serious work or even gaming. Quite serious gaming I would say. IO once again absolutely
fantastic very similar to the Swift Go 14. Love to see all of this and if you're looking for something
like this with its starting price of $1400 which of course doesn't get you all of this it's like a
4050 but it still is very very compelling. Moving over to the gaming side of things Acer has released
their new Predator Helios Neo line. Now it is quite similar to the Helios line that they had before
but Acer have been really smart about the ways that they have costed down the Helios line because
honestly I don't think you're going to care about the stuff that you're losing too much. So we're
getting zone RGB we have four zones instead of the per key RGB that we have on the full fledged
Helios but uh whatever you don't get this little RGB Predator logo right here I'm sure you're very
torn up about that just like this RGB light bar on the back oh no you don't get it that's going to
really affect your gaming performance I imagine. Also you have less configurability about the RGB
on the Predator logo on the back if you look right here this one right here is like a little bit
nicer but the stuff that actually matters performance has remained unchanged so if we
look right here their heat pipes this is not new for this year but it is pretty cool to see
that on the older models they have these rounded heat pipes like you see on pretty much every
single laptop which work well enough but what they have on their Helios line are these square
heat pipes so you can see just how much more surface area you're going to have hitting the hot spots
of your computer and just getting that heat out of there by having this square heat pipe design
instead of just losing all of that area to the little rounded edges on the side. As for the specs
in pricing the Neo 16 starts at $1499 the Helios 16 is $1899, Neo 18 15 49 and the Helios 18
$2000. As for the exact specs I would say that you're going to have to just kind of look at what
each one is able to do at each price because there's just such a large range from a 4050 to a 4090
and mini LED IPS panels you're just going to have to look at each one when they actually release it
in April. At the start I said we had a monitor and oh my god Acer has delivered this right here
is the Predator Z series Z57 and it is a 57 inch dud panel that's dual ultra HD this thing right
here is like they took two 4k 32 inch panels and just crammed them together and then gave it a big
ol curve and oh my god like it's actually crazy when you just step up to this and you're right here
pretty much your entire field of view is occupied by this thing and holy crap does this look good
it's one of the most immersive gaming experiences that I have seen and I have seen quite a few in
my days the amount that I want to hook this thing up to like a big ol racing sim holy crap that would
be amazing as for other specs 120 Hertz refresh rate 1 millisecond response time 1000 nits peak
brightness so this right here has Vesa 1000 HDR support and holy crap I am just gonna have a bit
of a look at this again and maybe even a bit of a game oh driving simulator time here we go
holy crap this thing is cool yeah this will be so good for iRacing oh my god
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