WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.800 We're here with Acer at CES 2024 to check out just a whole whack of laptops and even a monitor. 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:10.480 We're just going to throw them all straight at your face, just like this laptop right here is 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:17.920 throwing 3D stuff straight at my face. It is so cool. This is the Aspire 3D 15 Spatial Labs edition. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:23.280 We did see Spatial Labs stuff last year, but it had a couple of problems. The main one being, 00:00:23.840 --> 00:00:28.000 even if you wanted it, the laptop started at like four grand. You probably were not going to be 00:00:28.080 --> 00:00:34.000 getting it. Well, now this thing right here starts at $13.99 and the amount that it has 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:39.600 improved over last year is incredible because like I'm currently enjoying watching this and the even 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:46.480 more impressive part is that this right here is not a 3D video. So we can just exit out of this. 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:54.160 I've just opened up CrabRave and by hitting Alt G, it does some AI magic and just turns it into a 00:00:54.160 --> 00:01:00.080 3D image. Now, this isn't new for this year per se, but they've been training the AI models for 00:01:00.080 --> 00:01:05.840 the past year and the improvement is incredible because like this scenery here is really great. 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:11.440 We're like this palm actually looks like it's way out in front of all of the crabs. Like the fact 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:16.720 that they were able to do this on the fly in real time and turn it into 3D of this quality, 00:01:16.720 --> 00:01:22.400 I am quite impressed. Now, of course, if you do have a 3D model or a 3D program, 00:01:22.400 --> 00:01:28.560 it works really great in that as it did before, but I am just so impressed at the improvement in 00:01:28.560 --> 00:01:34.000 this because if I am honest, when I looked at these last year, they just kind of made me sick 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:40.320 and this is not doing that. I am actually quite stoked at how much better this is, especially for 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:45.280 how much cheaper it is. But those of you that don't remember from CES last year and fair enough, 00:01:45.280 --> 00:01:51.600 this Spatial Labs technology works so you don't have to use glasses by having a 4K panel, 00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:58.400 but when you enable 3D, it splits it and halves the resolution horizontally. So half of those 00:01:58.400 --> 00:02:03.600 pixels are being sent to your left eye and half are being sent to the right. It is doing that by 00:02:03.600 --> 00:02:08.960 aiming them through a lenticular lens and it is tracking where exactly your eyes are using cameras 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:15.200 right here to make sure that like this tree and stuff are going correctly into this eye and this 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:20.080 eye to give you that depth of field and it's actually really quite neat just how well they've 00:02:20.080 --> 00:02:26.800 done it. As for the computer itself, we can see we have 3.5mm headphone jack, type A on the other 00:02:26.800 --> 00:02:32.720 side. Wow, there's actually a lot of IO on this. Thunderbolt 4, two more type As, HDMI and a full 00:02:32.720 --> 00:02:40.720 size Ethernet port. Dang. And on the inside, you get up to an i7-13620H, 32 gigabytes of RAM 00:02:40.720 --> 00:02:48.400 and a 57 watt hour battery. Now if we give this a little bit of a push test, it's not bad. It's 00:02:48.400 --> 00:02:53.440 not bad. I've seen better. I have definitely seen worse. And the keyboard and trackpad are both 00:02:54.240 --> 00:03:02.560 pretty okay for the price point. I would say that they're not going to hinder you. You will be able 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:09.200 to get up to full speed and the trackpad is decent enough, but they aren't like standouts like this 00:03:09.200 --> 00:03:18.160 display is. What is a real standout though? Is this Aspire Go 14? This is the Acer Aspire Go 14. 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:24.880 There is also a 15 inch version and I am amazed that they were able to get a laptop of this quality 00:03:24.880 --> 00:03:32.720 down to $250 starting price. Like if we look at this here, we can give it a bit of a bit of a push. 00:03:32.720 --> 00:03:40.000 It's, you know, it's not the best built laptop in the world and we do not expect that at all. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:47.520 But holy crap, compared to the other $250 just pieces of actual e-waste that I have seen before, 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:55.440 this is actually incredible. So the standouts here, first of all, 14 inch 16 by 10 display 00:03:56.080 --> 00:04:04.560 starting at $250. Processor, nothing incredible. What we have is an Intel N100. That's four cores, 00:04:04.560 --> 00:04:10.880 four threads and a six watt TDP. So it's not going to be too quick. But given that laptops at this 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:17.680 price point in the past have had like two core Celerons, it's going to be a whole world of difference. 00:04:17.680 --> 00:04:23.920 Like you are not going to be doing fluid simulations on this thing, but you will be able to watch 00:04:23.920 --> 00:04:30.320 YouTube videos at full resolution and not have it be slow. The keyboard also is just perfectly 00:04:30.320 --> 00:04:37.360 functional. There's nothing wrong about it, which is quite shocking given just how inexpensive this 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:44.000 thing is. I'm used to keycaps at this price point being just smaller than a normal size keycap. 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:49.600 So cheap out in that way. And like if we look at this, the key stability, I have seen $1,000 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:56.800 laptops or in the case of Razer $2,500 laptops that have worse keys than this. One thing Acer 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:02.080 isn't sure about is just how upgradable this thing is. And one thing that's unfortunate is that at 00:05:02.080 --> 00:05:09.280 that $250 price point, you are only getting four gigabytes of RAM. So let's see if you can change 00:05:09.280 --> 00:05:15.440 that. And after 10 Phillips head screws, I can say unfortunately you cannot. The RAM is soldered 00:05:15.440 --> 00:05:20.240 down right here. So you will have to shell out for something like the eight Gigabyte of RAM model. 00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:24.400 We've done a little bit more digging and it appears that the storage that comes with it 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:28.400 is also soldered down, which is a little bit strange. So there's flash on here 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:33.600 somewhere, I guess on the other side of the board, but fortunately you can upgrade it right here. So 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:40.560 we have a Gen 4 SSD slot and I would strongly recommend looking to upgrade that pretty soon 00:05:40.560 --> 00:05:47.200 after you get one of these. Also in here, we have a 53 watt hour battery and given the CPU 00:05:47.760 --> 00:05:53.200 only draws six watts, I imagine that you're going to be able to get pretty decent battery life out 00:05:53.200 --> 00:05:59.360 of this thing. Final thing in here, Wi-Fi card, that is upgradable. Nice. Moving back to it assembled, 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:06.320 the IO that we have is 3.5 millimeter headphone jack, full size USB type A, or on the other side 00:06:06.320 --> 00:06:15.120 another full size USB type A, HDMI and USB type C. Up next we have the Swift Go 14 and this is sort of 00:06:16.000 --> 00:06:21.920 choose how good it is kind of laptop. You can have the $750 version, which is going to be not 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:29.360 particularly fast. It comes with a 1200p 60 Hertz panel that's only got sRGB coverage or you can go 00:06:29.360 --> 00:06:37.920 all the way up to a 90 Hertz 2.8K OLED panel that looks just absolutely fantastic. Those viewing 00:06:37.920 --> 00:06:43.680 angles are very good. Is it touch? Oh darn, it's not touch. This comes with up to 32 gigabytes of 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:50.320 memory and Acer are really proud about their media touch pad. So if we swipe across this, 00:06:50.960 --> 00:06:56.640 now we have our volume controls, pause play in the center, we can go forwards, backwards, 00:06:56.640 --> 00:07:02.640 mute, all of the stuff that you know you have hard buttons for up here. I don't really know how 00:07:02.640 --> 00:07:08.000 useful this is, but at the same time it's it's neat. It's neat. I'll give them that. With the Swift 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:14.160 Go, Acer are continuing their trend of just having fantastic IO on their laptops. This has 00:07:14.160 --> 00:07:21.040 a micro SD card reader, 3.5 millimeter headphone microphone combo jack, full size USB type A 00:07:21.040 --> 00:07:28.080 or on the other side, two Thunderbolt 4s HDMI 2.1 and another USB type A. So you can just plug 00:07:28.720 --> 00:07:34.160 all the things into this. It's actually really sick. The keyboard on the Swift Go 14 is pretty 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:40.080 decent. I would give it maybe a B plus same sort of thing. I don't hate it, but at the same time 00:07:40.080 --> 00:07:45.040 there's nothing particularly special about it. Although if we go over to the Swift Go 16, 00:07:45.040 --> 00:07:51.680 it's largely the same compared to the 14, but we don't get that media touch pad and we also don't 00:07:51.680 --> 00:07:58.960 get a keyboard that I enjoy. If we look at this right here, we have a nice large keyboard and we 00:07:58.960 --> 00:08:04.960 do have a numpad. Some people love that, but the chassis in it becoming a bit larger has become 00:08:05.760 --> 00:08:13.840 pretty soft right here and you can really tell. So the keys on the left side pretty good, 00:08:13.840 --> 00:08:17.760 keys on the right side pretty good, and the keys in the middle here right where your right hand is 00:08:17.760 --> 00:08:24.160 are not nearly as good. They're very mushy because the whole chassis is flexing. We won't dwell on the 00:08:24.160 --> 00:08:29.840 Swift Go 16 too long then because instead I want to talk about the spicy Swift. This right here is 00:08:29.840 --> 00:08:36.800 the Swift X14 and this thing is the very fancy one. The keyboard is a definite improvement from 00:08:36.800 --> 00:08:41.200 the other ones that we have seen and although I don't think it gets into the A's, I'm going to give 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:48.800 it a B plus plus because I actually am kind of an, oh no I think it gets an A minus. This is 00:08:48.800 --> 00:08:54.800 actually quite a well-built machine and the internals are even more better. This thing has 00:08:54.800 --> 00:09:02.720 up to an RTX 4070 in a laptop of this size. So that right there would have 60 watts plus 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:09.440 15 watts dynamic boost just for the GPU and the display options on this are awesome. With having 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:16.400 up to a 2.8 k OLED at 120 Hertz and this has that variable refresh rate technology so it can go down 00:09:16.400 --> 00:09:22.800 to 48 Hertz in order to save you a little bit of battery. We also have up to an Intel Core Ultra 00:09:22.800 --> 00:09:30.960 9 185H so this thing right here even though it's only 3.42 pounds is actually going to be able to 00:09:30.960 --> 00:09:38.720 do some very serious work or even gaming. Quite serious gaming I would say. IO once again absolutely 00:09:38.720 --> 00:09:47.040 fantastic very similar to the Swift Go 14. Love to see all of this and if you're looking for something 00:09:47.120 --> 00:09:53.280 like this with its starting price of $1400 which of course doesn't get you all of this it's like a 00:09:53.280 --> 00:10:00.480 4050 but it still is very very compelling. Moving over to the gaming side of things Acer has released 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:07.520 their new Predator Helios Neo line. Now it is quite similar to the Helios line that they had before 00:10:07.520 --> 00:10:13.520 but Acer have been really smart about the ways that they have costed down the Helios line because 00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:19.120 honestly I don't think you're going to care about the stuff that you're losing too much. So we're 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:25.600 getting zone RGB we have four zones instead of the per key RGB that we have on the full fledged 00:10:25.600 --> 00:10:32.720 Helios but uh whatever you don't get this little RGB Predator logo right here I'm sure you're very 00:10:32.720 --> 00:10:39.200 torn up about that just like this RGB light bar on the back oh no you don't get it that's going to 00:10:39.200 --> 00:10:45.760 really affect your gaming performance I imagine. Also you have less configurability about the RGB 00:10:45.760 --> 00:10:50.880 on the Predator logo on the back if you look right here this one right here is like a little bit 00:10:50.880 --> 00:10:56.640 nicer but the stuff that actually matters performance has remained unchanged so if we 00:10:56.640 --> 00:11:02.240 look right here their heat pipes this is not new for this year but it is pretty cool to see 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:07.600 that on the older models they have these rounded heat pipes like you see on pretty much every 00:11:07.600 --> 00:11:14.480 single laptop which work well enough but what they have on their Helios line are these square 00:11:14.480 --> 00:11:20.000 heat pipes so you can see just how much more surface area you're going to have hitting the hot spots 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:25.440 of your computer and just getting that heat out of there by having this square heat pipe design 00:11:25.440 --> 00:11:31.040 instead of just losing all of that area to the little rounded edges on the side. As for the specs 00:11:31.040 --> 00:11:40.880 in pricing the Neo 16 starts at $1499 the Helios 16 is $1899, Neo 18 15 49 and the Helios 18 00:11:40.880 --> 00:11:47.200 $2000. As for the exact specs I would say that you're going to have to just kind of look at what 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:55.680 each one is able to do at each price because there's just such a large range from a 4050 to a 4090 00:11:55.680 --> 00:12:02.720 and mini LED IPS panels you're just going to have to look at each one when they actually release it 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:10.160 in April. At the start I said we had a monitor and oh my god Acer has delivered this right here 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:19.680 is the Predator Z series Z57 and it is a 57 inch dud panel that's dual ultra HD this thing right 00:12:19.680 --> 00:12:26.400 here is like they took two 4k 32 inch panels and just crammed them together and then gave it a big 00:12:26.400 --> 00:12:32.960 ol curve and oh my god like it's actually crazy when you just step up to this and you're right here 00:12:33.760 --> 00:12:40.000 pretty much your entire field of view is occupied by this thing and holy crap does this look good 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:46.240 it's one of the most immersive gaming experiences that I have seen and I have seen quite a few in 00:12:46.240 --> 00:12:52.560 my days the amount that I want to hook this thing up to like a big ol racing sim holy crap that would 00:12:52.560 --> 00:13:00.400 be amazing as for other specs 120 Hertz refresh rate 1 millisecond response time 1000 nits peak 00:13:00.400 --> 00:13:08.480 brightness so this right here has Vesa 1000 HDR support and holy crap I am just gonna have a bit 00:13:08.480 --> 00:13:13.520 of a look at this again and maybe even a bit of a game oh driving simulator time here we go 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:21.040 holy crap this thing is cool yeah this will be so good for iRacing oh my god 00:13:21.680 --> 00:13:27.040 just like it would be really good if you hit like get subscribed and just have a great ol day see you 00:13:27.040 --> 00:13:28.480 later at the next booth