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alright ladies and gentlemen time for yet another high-end gaming laptop with a top-of-the-line NVIDIA GPU and Intel processor this time it's the Acer predator 15 specifically the G 9 v 9 174 kn well compared against other competing gaming laptops in terms of raw performance so stay tuned to see how it stacks up the Scimitar RGB from Coursera features 17 programmable buttons a 12,000 dpi optical sensor and a shape design for comfort in MMO and mobile gaming learn more in the link in the description down below sitting on top of the lid there's a snazzy looking predator logo and name with a pair of red LED bars on the sides there is also an Acer logo visible on the bottom area that is fixed in place as it's part of the main body and not the back of the screen the main material used here is a matte black plastic that almost feels slightly rubbery to the touch I personally like this a lot as it's not glossy and cheesy looking like glossy plastic and it won't look bad over time like brushed aluminum the bottom of the unit features a bunch of venting near the back for rubber feet that help the venting breathe by getting it up off of whatever surface it's on and to help the laptop stay in place by gripping said surface there's a red subwoofer that is a part of the predator sound pound 2.1 audio system that features doli surround and there's a sliding latch that releases your blu-ray drive why the hell would you want to quickly release your blu-ray drive well just in case you want to install the predator frost core basically you turn your laptop off pop the optical drive out pop the Coolermaster designed predator frost core in and now you have a third fan instead of an optical drive which you probably wouldn't have been using is it cool yes is it effective kinda no major changes but in Crysis 3 skybox load test it did bring the temperature down of the CPU and GPU by one degree each nothing to break into song and dance over but definitely something I'm happy to see I wish they also included a like predator Drive core or something where you could mount an additional two and a half inch drive that absolutely would have been kind of cool it's been done before but it would have been kind of cool under the hood it's rocking a shiny i7 6700 HQ Intel processor which turbos up to 3.5 gigahertz and NVIDIA 980m 32 gigs of ram for all your browser tab needs killer 1535 AC Wi-Fi and a Gigabit Ethernet alongside Bluetooth 4.1 a 6,000 milliamp hour battery which claimed six hours of battery runtime a one terabyte 7200 rpm hard drive and a 512 gigabyte nvme SSD which is like crazy not only because nvme drives are super freakin fast and totally awesome check out this video to see just how much more powerful these drives are but it's also crazy because they don't really tell you it has one on the website it just says solid-state drive no other information on any part of the page on the box it states that it's a PCIe SSD which isn't wrong but it also doesn't properly claim the awesome power that is nvme anyways moving on on the left side other than the derivative frost cooler there's an SD card slot - 3.5 millimeter audio jacks for headphone and microphone and a dual USB 3.0 ports on the right hand side there are two USB 3.0 ports a Thunderbolt 3.0 port hdmi displayport killer gigabit ethernet port and a Kensington lock slot where your hands go there's a wonderful chiclet keyboard with four lighting zones and cool outlined WASD buttons just above the keyboard there's five macro keys and a profile button which allows you to swap between three profile groups for a total of effectively 15 possible hotkeys the touchpad is nicely sized and has a noticeable ridge around it and separate buttons so you can easily find your way around without needing to look down which I super definitely like just up in to the right of the touchpad is a toggle button to turn off or on said touchpad just in case you're plugging in a mouse and don't want the touchpad to randomly decide to send pointer inputs when you're just trying to type or whatever also a cool feature the screen itself is a 15.6 inch 1080p IPS comfy view panel which has a little bit too much bezel around it for my liking what suits the laptop quite well regardless the panel does not support g-sync despite a sticker that says g-sync on it if you look a little bit closer in the slightly smaller print you'll notice that it states monitor support meaning that if you plug in a g-sync monitor it will function as intended performance-wise we compared it against the Asus g7 51 the review of which you can also see up here under the hood the G Sun 51 has the same 980m BPU an older model i 747 10 HQ and a little bit more weight near the back in the form of bigger heat sinks it's also considerably cheaper but that can probably be blamed on that massive super badass nvme Drive in terms of power draw from the wall and battery Jane when not plugged into the wall both during our crisis 3 skybox test the predator 15 dominated from wall it drew 29 watts less than the G sub 50 1 and during the battery drain test it lost 4 percent less over 16 minutes of gameplay which is actually pretty significant for temperatures the G 751 consistently had better CPU temperatures with the predator including the not so impactful frost core installed having better GPU temperatures moving on to game performance there's a bit of trading blows that went on here when looking at battery power game performance the predator wins by 5 fps in both battlefront and Crysis 3 but loses by 3 in Tomb Raider when plugged into the wall however they tie in Crysis 3 with the predator losing by 4 in Tomb Raider and three in battlefront ok so that's all fine and good but what are the takeaways here well I think there's three main ones if you want to no compromises compared to a desktop performance laptop and don't mind hauling around basically a bag of bricks maybe check out the sager that we reviewed up here it's a similar price point to the predator but not nearly as elegant if you want great gaming performance and don't mind lugging a bit of extra weight but don't quite want to call a bag of bricks and want to spend some money but maybe not quite as much as this guy of a shaker maybe check out the g7 51 if you want a gaming laptop that still managed to look sleek despite the stereotype of big bulky gaming laptops one that has beefs gaming performance one that performs relatively well on battery and has what has very recently been a revolutionary storage drive maybe check out the predator if your bank account can take that big of a hit mine cannot so I guess I'll keep using the lioness hand-me-down laptop that he gave me it swivels and stuff whatever thanks for watching guys if this video suck you know what to do it was awesome get subscribed hit the like button or even consider supporting us directly by using our fill code to shop at Amazon buying a cool t-shirt like yep I wore the right one like this one or with the direct monthly contribution on the forum now that you've done doing all of that stuff you're probably wondering what to watch next so click the little button in the top right hand corner which i've referenced a few times this video to watch this general super-fun video where we toasting each other on swag ways your hoverboards or the horizontal boards with wheels on them or whatever you want to call them I don't