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Acer ConceptD 9 Complete Walkthrough: A Designer’s Dream

Acer, not too long ago, was one of the first laptop manufacturers to realize that there is a huge group of professionals that buy their gaming laptops but not just to play games. They use them for professional applications like video production, animations, photo editing, and more. And that there is even a decent percentage of the them that buy gaming laptops and don’t play games on them at all (this guy). They decided to […]

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Acer Predator Helios 500 Complete Walkthrough: Upgradeable 17″ Gaming Laptop

Acer recently launched their newest gaming laptop in their Predator Helios lineup. This time it’s a powerful, overclockable 17.3 beast called the Predator Helios 500. They were kind enough to let me test it out so I figured I’d do a complete walkthrough on it. If you aren’t familiar, a complete walkthrough on my channel is where I go through as many features on a device as I can to help you be better informed

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Here’s All the New Products Acer Announced Today in an Easy-to-Read Bulleted List

Today was Acer’s annual Next@Acer event where Acer showcases all of their new products in a rapid-fire presentation (the best kind of presentation?). Some of the devices worth noting are the Swift 5, the “thinnest 15.6″ laptop”; a new Helios 300 in white and gold, and some younger siblings of the monster we saw at IFA last year the Orion 9000. As usual, here’s my bulleted list of everything Acer announced for those out there

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Why Windows 10S is Just What Windows Needs (Video)

Windows 10S: faster, better battery life, and limited to Microsoft Store only apps. That last part doesn’t sound good but wait. Since it’s only store apps allowed they are vetted and optimized, and more importantly, are packaged in a way that they can’t affect Windows startup and are sandboxed from the rest of the system, much like MacOS. This is in comparison to regular exe programs that can basically do anything they want to your

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Acer Reveals The GPU in Their Ultrathin Gaming Laptop (Hint: It’s Better Than I Expected)

Remember that Triton 700 super thin, metal gaming laptop I got to see at the Acer event in NYC last month? Well, when they showed it off, we didn’t know what GPU was inside. Until now. Turns out alongside NVIDIA announcing they’re new Max-Q program with OEMs, a way of optimizing laptops with OEMs to get them to be more efficient and powerful from the ground up, Acer has announced that the Triton 700 we saw

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Predator Triton 700 Keyboard and Trackpad

Acer Announces a New Ultrathin Gaming PC, All-in-One w/ Liquid Cooling, & More

Acer held their annual press conference in NYC this year at an IMAX theater on the Upper West Side. Now, one might wonder why an IMAX theater? Well, once you realize that Acer is one of the strategic partners in IMAX’s new 50 million dollar investment fund for higher quality VR content that happened late last year, you can start to see the conversation: “Hey, why not do your event at our theater this year? We have

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Acer Predator 17X Gaming Laptop Giveaway! (Video)

Remember that Acer 17X crazy gaming laptop I reviewed a while back? Well, Acer, in their infinite kindness and wisdom, has generously decided to give it away to you guys instead of asking for it back (like most review devices). It’s nuts, it’s a $3000 laptop with a desktop graphics card in it that can run VR and one of you guys will be chosen at random to win it. DigitalTrends.com, a popular tech site

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Acer Predator 17X Review: The Ultimate Gaming Laptop?

The Acer Predator 17X is a beast of a laptop. One of the first laptops to feature a full-blown desktop NVIDIA GTX 980 graphics card, it also houses a 6th gen Intel i7 processor, 32GBs of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB hard drive, 512GB solid-state drive which means, it’ll handle pretty much any game you throw at it on the highest settings. It Runs Full-Blown, Real Virtual Reality Beyond your normal gaming, that desktop 980 graphics card

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Acer Predator G1 Gaming Desktop Will Now Include the New GTX 1080

Remember that sick looking monster of a gaming laptop I showed you back when? Well it just got a little more powerful. The Acer Predator G1 compact gaming desktop PC that was recently unveiled by Acer at their event back in April is now available for pre-order with the new NVIDIA GTX 1080 graphics card in it (you know, the one everyone is scrambling to buy). If you were wanting to get your hands on

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A VR-Capable Laptop, Liquid Cooled 2-in-1, & All the Coolest Tech Announced at Acer’s Event (Video)

Acer held an event in the 57th floor of the world trade center building to show the press what it is they’ve been up to for the past few months, and, well, it seems like a lot. From a fanless 2-in-1 to a VR-capable gaming laptop, here’s the coolest things they announced. Chromebook 14 for Work First up, Acer announced a pretty slick looking Chromebook that they are calling the fastest on the market. The Chromebook

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