Acer H236HL bid Slim Bezel LCD Monitor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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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