This costs way less than you'd think
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2019-05-06
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1,529 words · ~7 min read
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So we're here at Acer where they're showing off some gaming notebooks
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They're showing off the new Swift 7 which is the same thinness as the old one, but significantly smaller
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So it's still got a y-class processor. It's still super thin 10-hour battery life dual-core hyper-threaded
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It's still a little flimsier than I'd like and it's still very expensive at what was it?
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$1,700 or something along those lines and then to go with the thinnest lightest notebook they've ever made
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They've got this
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This is the aptly named Thronis
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Arguably the biggest heaviest
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Desktop ever made so this entire thing is actually one package
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There is a single skew
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It costs $10,000, but whoa hold on that actually isn't as crazy expensive as you might initially think and in fact
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The first thing that both I and Colton said when we walked in is like oh, that's it
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Because there's a lot of stuff here. So first of all you get yourself a predator Orion desktop
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So this is their 9000 desktop. It comes with it's a pretty good spec
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But not an over-the-top spec that's included in the $10,000 unit. So you got your 8700 K
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I believe it's 32 gigs of rams that sound about right. You got your 512 gig SSD 2 terabyte hard drive. What's that?
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64 gigs around who's keeping track at this point
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RTX 2080 Ti so very capable little gaming machine. All right, you get a full set of Acer predator gaming peripherals
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keyboard mouse
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You got your headset. You got this special shaped mouse pad that goes with this, you know ARM that closes in on you
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You get three Acer predator gaming
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Monitors, so these are 27 inch
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144 Hertz 2560 by 1440 monitors. They're running in NVIDIA surround whatever NVIDIA is calling that these days and you get
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this
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So Acer is only selling this
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With what they're calling white glove service, which is to say that when you buy a thrown us
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Someone will come to your house
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Spends probably upwards of two hours assembling it for you wherever it is
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But it has a lot of cons and cons and cons and cons and cons about how it is that you choose to plunk it down
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And by the way, you won't be moving it after because it weighs well over 500 pounds and you will be treated to not just
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The most deluxe gaming chair that I have ever been in
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It will be a motorized one. So the first thing you need to do is get your RGB adjusted to whatever is comfortable for you
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I'm partial to orange I'm gonna go ahead and do that
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Then you grab this remote right here, which controls not
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of subwoofers built into the seat
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that will just detect any low frequency sound
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in your game or movie or whatever else it is
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and vibrate along your back and along your butt crack.
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But you also get to adjust, check this out.
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Oh no, that is all this one does, nevermind.
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So it's got a separate remote that's built in right here
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that you can use to do this.
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The, oh the headset, ah, open.
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Hold on.
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Ah, to do this.
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So it closes the keyboard mouse tray.
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I gotta give it a little help.
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This is pre-production still.
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It's not shipping till Q2 sometime,
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something along those lines.
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Closes the ARM and then there's actually a couple
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of other things here that I can adjust as well.
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So I'm gonna go ahead and throw my headset on
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and I'm gonna raise the pedals.
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So this lifts up my feet and this buddy is supposed
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to pop up here, I think.
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Come on there, buddy.
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Eh, pre-production, like I said.
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So, eh, come on, pedal rise.
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Do you mind showing me how you got this
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to come up before?
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Oh, oh, okay, wrong button.
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Then finally, this is the last trick.
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What they're calling zero G.
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So it lifts up your legs and tilts the whole thing back.
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Now you don't have to go all the way back
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and in fact, I would say there is at least a small risk
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of your keyboard kinda accidentally falling on you
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if you don't secure it back here or something.
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Figure out some way to cable manage that.
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And in fact,
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part of it is not, I wouldn't say infinitely adjustable,
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but very adjustable so you can raise the arms a little bit
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if your eye line's a little bit higher.
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So this is it.
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You are immersed in your gaming cockpit.
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You've got your cup holders.
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You've got your USB hub over here
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so you plug in a thumb drive or whatever else it is you want.
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You've got a controller pouch down here
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that you can keep your, I don't know, your, come on,
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your Xbox game controller or whatever else in.
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I mean, what more could you ask for?
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This type of thing is sure to impress the ladies.
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I mean, what more could you ask for?
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This type of thing is sure to impress the ladies.
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And like I said, all of this for just $10,000,
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including coming to assemble it for you.
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Now, if you guys are anything like me,
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you're probably asking yourself at this point, why?
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Why is Acer building this?
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This is so far outside of their typical product lineup.
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And the best answer that I could get,
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because unlike what I would have expected
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with a product like this,
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where I would have seen a brand trying to make,
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you know, $5,000 a unit,
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because this is gonna be obviously a low volume item.
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They seem to be taking a very similar approach
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to the margin of this product,
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based on what I know about how much it costs
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to do this kind of thing,
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as they would even on like a typical gaming notebook.
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So the best answer that I can get out of them
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is that this is a statement piece.
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This is the kind of thing that they want to be a draw
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in retail stores or in, you know, in, you know, in, you know,
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entertainment centers or wherever else
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where people are gonna be exposed to the Predator brand
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and think, you know what, Predator?
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Yeah, gaming, like hardcore gaming.
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And if that's the goal, then as far as I'm concerned,
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mission accomplished, Acer.
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Mission accomplished.
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That's not really a recommendation to buy one,
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but it's definitely attention grabbing.
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And I'm just gonna kind of tune out for a little bit here.
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I got some gaming to do and we'll see you guys later.
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Let's close this, close this cabin in here.
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Not gonna, not gonna break the headphones this time.
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Zero G opening.
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Yeah.
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Did I mention the adjustable ARM rests?
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Oh, pay attention to the road here.
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Ah, I crashed.