GTX 1080 in an ULTRABOOK??
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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1,266 words · ~6 min read
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All the plebs are getting hands on time
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with the Triton 700, a new Predator laptop from Acer. What we're going to be
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doing is too hot for TV. We are not only
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going to be taking you guys on a tour of the outside of an utterly groundbreaking
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gaming laptop. We are going to be cracking the casing open for the first
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time.
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We're opening up a new merch store. You can check out some of our new gear today
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at the link in the video description. That is a weird layout. Yes, we'll get
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to that. But first, the display. It's 1920x 1080 60 Hz. They are not talking
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about whether or not it's G-Sync, which presumably means that it will be because
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if it wasn't, there would be no NVIDIA breathing down their neck. Don't talk
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about how it's going to be G-Sync. So, that that would be my assumption
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there, but I I could be incorrect about that. On the back, you're going to find
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actually fairly complete IO. We've got power in, HDMI 2.0, as well as display
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port, whichever standard that is. They aren't talking about that at the moment.
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We've got our power button, Thunderbolt. Nice addition. We've got USB 3, and look
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at that, an Ethernet port. Wow. On this side, we've got two more USB 3s, audio,
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and this is a really smart idea, a little recessed USB port, so your
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wireless mouse dongle doesn't get caught on stuff when you're sliding it in and
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out of your bag. So, the trackpad uses Gorilla Glass. It's got a very
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unconventional trapezoid shaped kind of outline here on a glossy surface that
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I'm gonna go ahead I'm gonna have to be totally honest with you guys. Not a fan.
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It's a weird shape. It's a different aspect ratio than the display. And uh
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when there's no tactile feedback when I'm going off the trackpad, I just end
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up confused because I'm really not that smart. Okay. Then we've got the
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keyboard. Even as even as a person who
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legitimately carries around a mouse pad and a mouse at all times,
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even as one of those freaks, I'm still not a huge fan of the weird trackpad
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positioning. It's better than I've seen in the past. So, they're calling it like
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a mechanical type keyboard. I'd say it's a little stiffer than what's on the
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Blade as it is. But this, whether intentionally or unintentionally, is
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where it gets to be actually somewhat usable because the laptop is so thin
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that you can actually rest your wrists on the table next to it instead of
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having to rely on also carding around a wrist rest with you. We interrupt this
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program to bring you breaking news that we learned later after this is a mouse.
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The keyboard is RGB. The software is not working yet, but individual key
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backlight. Woo! Now, let's get to the
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part you guys have all been waiting for.
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I never show up at one of these events without my trusty tool kit. Whoa, ho ho.
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Hold on a minute here. Oh, we got the ribbon connector for the keyboard. Let's
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try not to break their uh their prototype unit here. Oh, it's turned on.
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Uh, okay. One second. Let's go ahead and
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uh power buttons over here.
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Yeah. Holy crap. Is that six heat pipes
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in here? And these are connected to a whopping four heat sinks. Two near the
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back on the side and then two more of them at the back. And then the whole
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thing is cooled by these are So these are pretty special. These are what
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they're calling their twin aoblade fans. These are a second generation of the
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design that uses like these these razor
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thin blades on it. Or maybe I should uh
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Okay, I think I just crossed a line here. I mean very thin pieces of metal
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uh on the fan in order to achieve what they're claiming is 35%
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improved air flow over more conventional fans. But of course, when you see a lot
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of cooling, it's like a where there's smoke, there's fire, right? where
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there's a lot of cooling, there must be a lot of performance. So, you've got two
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sodium slots allowing you to install up to 32 gigs. Let's see what's in here.
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So, this is Yeah. So, they've got 32 gigs of DDR4 sodium memory in here.
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They've got uh what else is going on? This is a really cool battery. I'm sure
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like very few other people are going to geek out over this battery, but holy
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crap is that ever thin. They've got, oh, I love this. Copper cooling for the up
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to dual M.2 slots right here. So, you
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can run RAID zero NVMe SSDs for boot up to 512 gigs. Killer wireless. And then,
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of course, here you've got the main story. The high-end model, the first one
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coming is going to be $29.99.
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This is a $3,000 laptop. So, under these
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heat pipes here, what we know is that we're getting a Core i7 7E700HQ,
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and I would speculate that that's right there next to the memory. What we don't
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know is the 10th generation graphics that Acer is going to be equipping it
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with. What we do know is that it's 10th
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gen. What we also know is that Acer had a slide showing it was going to be over
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40% faster than a late 2016 Blade. And
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what we also know is that hey, we had it
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turned on for the time being. That's a
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GTX 1080 in there. Acer says this
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notebook will be overclockable.
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Whoa. I have to repair this electronic device.
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What will I do? Wait, hold on. I think I got something.
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Ah, yes. Never more than an arms reach
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away is my iixit protect tool kit or one
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of the dozen or so that I have cuz these things are flipping awesome. You
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probably know iFixit from the thousands
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accessories that you need to complete your latest electronics repair. And the
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best part is you can get a whole ProTek tool kit for usually less than what it
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would cost to have someone else fix your device once and you can use it many,
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many times. Prying tools, screwing tools, uh, suction tools, you pretty
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much freaking name it. And the best part is you can use offer code Linus at the
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checkout to save $5 on a purchase of $10 or more. And it comes with a lifetime
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warranty. Thank you guys for watching this video.
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