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hey how's it going Dave - D here and this is the Triton 700 from Acer and this was actually one of the very first laptops that was shown to the world with a whole thin and powerful but super quiet laptop designs and this is actually my favorite laptop that Acer makes so they also make that super powerful nine thousand dollar gaming laptop and as impressive as that thing is it's just not practical for most people this thing is still very powerful but it doesn't look like a super obnoxious gaming laptop it's just a simple laptop and the reason why they're able to make it like this is from the whole max-q design approach and if you'll remember some of my older videos of talks about it Mac SKUs this thing where manufacturers will focus on energy efficiency and make laptops that are like this thin powerful but really quiet and if all the laptops with the GTX max q10 80 this is my favorite one I want to talk a little bit about the build this thing has incredible build quality it's got a full metal design so metal top panel metal bottom panel metal keyboard deck like this thing is built like a tank even though it's three quarters of an inch thick or not even it's actually very difficult to twist I'm also partial to its color it's not black it's kind of like this really dark aqua color and I think it looks amazing the other thing is there's no red on this laptop at all there's no red power button or red logo or red exhaust fans like none of that is red it's a bit of blue and there's dark aqua color it's straight up my alley there are a good number of ports there's two display outputs Thunderbolt 3 Ethernet and 4 USB ports if you'll notice one of the USB ports is recessed and it actually comes with a cap you can kind of put in and out of it and I'm not sure but I think it's for wireless gaming mice and keyboards so if you have one of those Wireless mice with a required dongle so not a bluetooth connection but like a radio connection you can leave it plugged in all the time and you don't have to worry about it getting knocked off or damaged or whatever it's a small detail but I think it's really cool if you want to you can access the internals by removing some screws and then lifting the keyboard off there are two ribbon cables that are connected so if you want removing it to be super careful there's a pair of nvme drives in there running on raid 0 and there's 32 gigs of ram so that's two sticks of 16 it seems unlikely but if you want to you can't upgrade all that stuff inside you can open up this laptop with one hand intention is pretty much perfect and when you do you get to see one of the most unique keyboard decks you'll ever see in a laptop starting up at the top there's this glass panel and when the laptop is on you can see the fan spinning on here the whole thing is a window you can kind of peer inside and look at the heat pipes and the other thermal stuff but the main purpose of this thing is it's actually a trackpad which is kind of crazy it's a smooth glass surface there's no texture and tracking is good it's interesting that a trackpad like this that uses a completely unconventional glass surface like this is still able to use Windows precision drivers so tracking is super accurate without any kind of skipping issues gestures also work perfectly on the surface the button clicks are a little different left-click is still just single click right click is a double tap kind of like a MacBook but it's the fact that there's no tactile response at all you're basically tapping on a glass surface but it works accurately the click and drag is a little weird you have to double click something to start dragging it around and again it works well and it does accurately detect when you want to start clicking and dragging things around but it's so different from anything I've used before that it took me a couple days to get used to it but the reality is you're gonna have a mouse connected this thing for most times if you're using it the keyboard is comfortable it's close to the edge like the whole keyboard is shifted down to give the internal some better cooling and when I first saw photos of this thing I thought it would be weird to use because there's no wrist rest but it's actually very comfortable it's a mechanical keyboard but the switches aren't your usual cherrise which kind of feel they feel more like micro switches very short travel with a short click if you're used to a regular mechanical keyboard like a regular desktop mech you're not gonna be able to come over to this thing and just type regular speed so you gonna have to have a bit of a learning curve it's not that it's a bad keyboard it's actually a great keyboard but it's just really different from a regular mechanical keyboard you get fully customizable RGB lighting individual key lighting with tons of colors to choose from and you can go as crazy as you want or you can just turn it all off the fan up at the top also lights up into whatever color you want as well performance on this laptop is really impressive it's a max Q 1080 QB League i7 32 gigs of ram and because it's a max Q laptop this thing runs at around 40 decibels when you're playing games and even the most demanding or the most unwise games run really well on this thing the Trend 700 also lets you overclock the GPU you need to push the fans a little harder to keep it cooled properly but in turbo the performance is surprisingly good it actually comes close to a full fat GT X 1080 laptop thermal performance is also really good you get full control of the fans in the software if you want to push this thing hard for like a video edit if you're playing a game competitively you can just crank up the fans and just let it rip but if you want to play something a little more stealth you can lower it back down and just keep it in whisper mode so I wanted to see how hot this laptop would get when I was playing this thing for a long time in whisper mode so the footage you're about to see was this game running for about three hours and over watch and I just kept this thing with g-sync on with fans at 40 decibels temperatures are a little hot they never got worse than this but the frame rates don't dip too much the speakers are positioned really well the stereo separation is on point they project upwards one on each side they're good speakers they're not excellent decent clarity but the base isn't as strong as I'd like the screen is really nice as a 1080p 120 Hertz panel supports g-sync and when you pair it up with the 1080 Games run so smooth on this thing the color gamut and brightness are good as well and I've said this before in other videos but when you have a laptop like this with high-end components you have to put a good quality screen like this in a lot of laptops are still being made with good components fast components but 60 Hertz screens and that just kills me they've done it well 120 Hertz panel g-sync max-q 1080 it's a great combination it's an IPS panel you don't get the super fast response time of TN panels but with an IPS panel you're getting better looking image quality and viewing angles are better as well the battery life on this laptop is probably its weakest point it's a 54 watt hour battery and I'm only getting around 2 hours of battery life with the screen at 215 it's now most people that are picking this up aren't gonna be using it for like extended gaming sessions on the road but if that's what you're looking for it's not the best option the trend 700 is one of the best built laptops I've seen from Acer full metal construction with excellent build quality and a nice design pricing starts are just under $3,000 but it comes in fully loaded you're getting a 120 Hertz g-sync screen it's excellent for gaming with good enough color accuracy for content creation the mechanical keyboard is really clicky and it's comfortable to use but it doesn't use your normal desktop keyboard switches you'll need to get used to these the trackpad is built into the glass window with great tracking accuracy but clicking is a little bit weird inside the cable a chi seven and the max Q 1080 deliver really impressive performance the fans are quiet but you can overclock the GPU and adjust the fans to your preference the RAM and the two nvme drives are replaceable if you need but AC loads this thing up with some really fast stuff out of the factory the battery life is shorter and clocks in at just over a couple of hours okay I think Acer did an amazing job on this thing it's such a cool device the design that build the performance the trackpad everything about it I really really liked now it's not for everyone it's super expensive that's also makes it like unachievable for most people including myself like this is reviewing it I got to send it back but if all the laptops I've seen 17 this is the one that's most impressive to me I've seen other ones that are even more extravagant but it's not about that it's about building something that's practical that's viable as like an everyday machine and looks really good while it does it okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs if you liked it some of you loved it see you guys next time