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so it's been a while since I've done a straight-up unboxing of a gaming laptop this is actually gonna be a little fun because this video is a bit different than usual so it's sponsored by Acer we're going to be over viewing the predator Triton 500 gaming notebook but boy what's all this then mate hey we're also going to be trying to win an apex legends match and I have equipped myself with the best possible gear are you guys gear you know what let's do that let's do the notebook first and then we'll we'll talk about exactly what the plan is for winning we got we got one shot one opportunity mom's sphaghetti guys we got this all right okay all right let's open this thing up so what's special about the predator training 500 is that unlike most other gaming laptops on the market it is both extremely powerful and extremely thin so it can be equipped with anything from an RT X 20 60 all the way up to an RT X 20 80 max Q so that means full fat support for in videos rate racing technology and supportive titles it's got an 87 50 h6 core mobile processor and the particular SKU that we've got here today I believe has 16 gigs of DDR 4 memory although I'm gonna have to double check that and whoo alright there's some other crazy stuff too it's got a 144 Hertz display so that means that you're going to get refreshes to your eyeballs as much as twice as fast actually even potentially more than twice as fast as the plebs that are relying on 60 Hertz displays and it does all this while being extraordinarily thin so let's go ahead and open this puppy up there it is man I am like so rusty on doing like like just straight unboxings alright so on the bottom we've got lots of ventilation one of the things that acer has added this time as they've got these super thin metal fan blades that they claim gives them up to 40% more airflow and when you're trying to pack RTX graphics and a six core processor into something this thin that's obviously fairly important also visible from the outside is all the actual business end of the cooling so right here we've got one radiator two radiators three and four so this machine actually pulls in air across almost the entire bottom here and exhausts it out to vents at the back and two at the side and that's gonna be something you're not gonna want to interfere with and get anything in the way of those or you're going to have a fairly bad time also in terms of I oh man I think we are reaching the limit for how thin like a real no compromises gaming machine can be because you've got your power in okay that we could probably make a little bit thinner we've got our HDMI out headphone microphone USB check that out I don't know how they could possibly make this notebook any thinner and still maintain a full sized rj45 Ethernet jack that is pretty darn impressive over on the other side we've got two more USB type says-- mini DisplayPort what you don't see on that many machines these days but I actually still like to see for a couple of reasons as well as Thunderbolt 3 so between these two what's cool is you can do two DisplayPort outs and one HDMI for a total of up to three 4k displays pretty freakin sick also if you use the display port or the Thunderbolt this one has support for desync now this particular SKU doesn't have G sync on the built-in display it's just 144 Hertz but they actually do have a couple that are available with that option let's go ahead and get plugged in here actually I might as well just start getting set up and I can start talking about what our plan is so in order to give ourselves the best chance of winning an apex legends match just first attempt first attempt right guys like we're not trying twice that's it one try one try edy my understanding is you actually won your warm-up match is that right ten kills all right good so so that's the plan yes we have fantastic gear in order to get the job done but I have partnered up with people who under normal circumstances if I wasn't paying them definitely would not even begin to consider gaming with me in a competitive game are you guys even playing on like your real accounts and stuff too oh all right well I thought maybe you would be but apparently I thought wrong ouch really you don't think you can you think I'm that bad that you wouldn't even trust yourselves to carry me on your real accounts all right okay fine I kind of accept that all right I'm gonna fire in I'm gonna oh I'm feeling very disheartened right now okay I'm gonna fire up the machine here we've already got all the windows set up done so we might as well just kind of poke around and see what we can do so there's a couple of interesting buttons here on the keyboard other than kind of your standard ones one of them right here so uh these laptops are actually overclockable so I wouldn't necessarily count on getting a ton of headroom out of the you know RTX 20 80 with max Q design one or anything like that the thing is that invidious last few generations of cards really rely heavily on thermals in order to get their best performance and so with this one though with a 2060 I would expect to actually be able to get a little bit more out of it oh did I miss something yeah oh thanks Anthony this is so we can capture my display sweet so you've got your OneTouch turbo over here so that's on evidently now I actually have like I haven't used this before or you've got the predator button over here which brings up there which brings up their dashboard this is good okay I heard the fans kick in so I'm apparently gonna be running with an overclocked GPU we can't tell what it's actually gonna run at because this is while we're idling and then my fan control is at max I will say though even if max fan speed like its to be clear I can hear it perfectly well but it's not super annoying or anything like that it's gonna grab a pair of headphones here because I didn't get prepared ahead of time like these guys alright so we're not gonna bother with microphones right guys we're just gonna like yell at each other across the room really you need a microphone to sit in the set and why are you so a social come on come on who even needs in-game audio anyway people who knew him yeah well III see I see the way you're gonna be about this a couple of other things that are notable about this machine so keyboard actually we've I mean we've talked about the previous generation triton 500 I actually really like it it manages to be super thin without doing any of the kind of weird stuff like you know positioning the touchpad over here or the keyboard down here anything like that it feels just like a normal laptop nice thin bezels but still with a webcam up here instead of down here nice thin body but without moving anything around in a in a weird manner and of course basically tops back I mean okay technically intel announced eight core mobile processors what was that yesterday or Wednesday Wednesday I think but uh yeah give him time give him give him time my friends all right look at this so not only that but our chip is actually turbo Eng up to around 3.9 gigahertz pretty nice okay tweedledum six nine eight eight has invited you to play apex legends is that have you guys just been spamming that and waiting for me to finally notice it because I heard it a couple times but I didn't actually see it alright all right oh that's pretty loud one sec just find my volume down wow you do not sound great ed so what's that yeah it's that's that's pretty bad not not super impressed okay so I'm Master LM g1 and you guys are Tweedledee and Tweedledum so I guess the the idea before I went and took the lid off of this was that we were gonna pretend that I'm good and that somehow I won based on my own merits rather than just being carried by you guys so for those of you don't know that's Edie he's been with LMG since the beginning actually he used to be a video editor here and camera operator I don't think he's touched a camera in like four years and I don't think he's touched a premiere timeline in like one actually technically he does once in awhile we just don't like it when he does anymore and then David joined us you've been here like six months now eight months holy crap so yeah his credentials were that he like sort of knows how to use a camera and that he is like wicked crazy good at video games so if I ever needed someone to help me out he'd have me he'd have me all set up so are we are we almost ready to start here guys all right cool let me just see if there's anything that I'm supposed to tell you guys for for a sirs whole thing what's that Anthony yeah windows audio settings yeah yeah sounds yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah that all look good shweet yes this guy just because I suck at games doesn't mean that I suck at knowing if my monitor is running at a high refresh rate it makes such a big difference like you can tell immediately when you sit down at a machine that's running a high refresh rate display all right so uh I just went ready up then I don't have video games work this is the one where you slide around on the ground with control right okay cool got this press you to pick things up all right yeah yeah I've played this before okay can you guys not patronize me oh yeah actually one other feature that I was supposed to go over with you guys is it has killer doubleshot networking so that means that in theory assuming everything's going according to plan if you're plugged into wired and wireless oh no I'm plugged into wireless what a chump speaking of knowing how to configure things correctly oh no there's no network cable here yes thank you oh that was plugged into the back of the system yeah yeah we got you we got - no problem yeah speaking of not knowing how to configure a gaming system so the idea is if you've got both of them connected it'll send all of your game data down the wire and then any like stupid windows you know malware executable or any like background nonsense it'll do that over wireless so that you don't get any interference with your with your wired data stream okay yeah let's just go without mic you got this I mean can you guys not hear me I'm pretty loud yeah hi heck yeah so you guys just have to yell like get into it Oh connectivity to server time do't all that's probably cuz I switched over to Wired sorry guys wired to friends in Apex oh oh crap no no hold on I think you guys can invite me again hey oh you've got to be kidding me it says press Y to accept and if you click on the why it doesn't accept it can you try again like how is that even a thing see and it like you look at highlights and everything look see if you actually have to press what I mean yeah RTM I get it I didn't follow the instructions or whatever but still okay I'm ready to go alright wish us luck guys this is if I do win this will be my first apex win although I have one table G a couple of times I was also carried those times I played with Luke and he's quite a lot better than me but not as good as n so I'm feeling good on my chances I have never actually know I've played games with you before yeah never anything modern though yeah yeah he's pretty good he's pretty good at those games and also I'm pretty sure I actually beat you okay so if we're talking just like pure skill because I mean this is all like you know knowing what a mo goes with what gun really I mean you know if you want to talk pure skill game I don't think it gets any more real than quake 3 just you know I'm just just saying oh yeah it would be a total wasted opportunity if I didn't tell you guys over on LTT store comm we're taking pre-orders for the shipment of these that's arriving in I think three weeks they have sold vastly beyond our expectations oh no someone took the medic chick that's what I was gonna do what do I pick what do I pick quick don't take all right okay good anyway so we've got some more coming in three weeks we've placed another order already but those are at least two months out we think so if you want one of these LT t store comm they're like freaking awesome so many people internal you're like I want one we're like no you actually may not one until uh until all the the customer orders are fulfilled so mm-hmm crap I'm either left control to relinquish jumpmaster left control the relinquish please okay no no no no we don't want me to be the jumpmaster I'm not I'm not who's jumpmaster I don't know no let's play it for real play for real where are we going are you good okay does anyone else here I don't see anyone else coming down okay all right oh we're playing only a 60 person game or wait is Apex legends only 60 okay no no I need stuff why you gotta be like that no I want this stuff your stuff seems pretty good I have nothing well I didn't know what way he was gonna go yeah and I have not picked up anything good yet you guys are mean oh I got armor neat yeah I still don't have an actual weapon I have one grenade so that'll be my entire contribution no no that's fine I got a weapon all right man I wish you guys the very best of luck here I just have no idea what any of the stuff I'm picking up is I don't even know where you guys are oh you're 63 meters away oh how do I get out of here yeah I I know I went upstairs why are you guys so mean odd in this game do you have to run to runner does it just right it doesn't seem like it's making a difference yeah I know it's control i I just it doesn't seem like I'm going any faster when I hold shift do you run faster with a smaller gun yeah it doesn't seem to make much of a difference wow what a jerk oh shoot I just put down my rifle I would like to have that back okay oh you guys are so far out ahead of me I don't even know what any of this stuff I'm picking up is how do you how do you how do you put cool stuff on your gun I want like a cool gun does it just automatically go on if it's fits on it okay this stuff is barrel stabilizer does this okay there's nothing you don't want okay holy crap you guys are so far away you took a zip line yeah you know you had all these concerns about you know the microphone and everything you're not even saying what's going on so it's not like that would have been helpful okay oh okay so who's Tweedledee and who's Tweedledum okay all right all right all right I just picked up a thing I don't know what it is no alternator SMG do I want to ask them to your pistol I'm gonna take that okay okay and I have ammo so okay yeah I'm really not looking that closely at these things barrel stabilizer okay getting all anxious so there's only ten squads left how do you see the map in this game never mind I figured it out holy crap we are way outside of the thing do we need to do we need to deal with that at some point though okay where do I go where's head oh crap yeah I left all right I will come back so you can't just reverse your zip line yeah I'm not gonna try that okay I have a pretty crappy sight I'm gonna have to try and find a better site I think that would be okay there's only eight squads left you guys so just by like hiding away we could just win right nice wait am I being attacked No yeah I'm coming it's just I'm very very far behind you yeah okay just very far how about that okay so then I equip it okay okay so I'm gonna get some more ammo uh-huh uh-huh which one okay all right all right see this is what I need in order to be good at games I just need people who know what they're doing I think they did they helped me okay I'm gonna go get a site so that sites really good okay okay so we should we should try to like at least sort of move in the right direction maybe okay yeah oh there's the there's the me map cool I'm just gonna put away my gun because let's face it that wasn't gonna be useful anyway I have no idea what people are saying in YouTube chat right now or floatplane chat I didn't think to get that set up before we started I really should have I'm just gonna have a look people are probably like well he sucks just wait I'm thanks Anthony that's real constructive okay you guys don't know that for sure I might actually be decent you never know exactly exactly people are saying lioness you're killing me exactly see that's what skill you know ah get back in the ring it says you can't fight if you're not in the ring uh what the heck guys why did we cut this so close okay cuz like if see it just seems unnecessary like was I did I not say oh hey maybe we should probably go towards the thing you're still leading okay me no I don't have a gun equipped right now guys we're taking damage oh we're almost back in the ring all right fine okay okay damn coming that just seemed totally unnecessary what did I punch okay so I just stand here all right okay so what's our plan there's only five squads left Who am I following you guys are splitting up well I don't know Weedle dumb took off my crouched is that the problem no okay nevermind I was just on weird uneven terrain okay I got this guys I'm not dying no it's the chat okay so just wandering around in the open like this this is a good good tactic right okay so we're heading towards the the next circle closure okay so I need a helmet at some point right okay I could just not get hit in the head seems like a good strat okay so we're looking into the circle right now there's presumably like people down there oh yeah I see some nope I lied it was it was it was a it was a dust bunny oh cool okay well that's gonna be my job to see if I see enemies and then you guys you guys do the trigger pulling okay whatever no I know you're pretty good oh that was where I thought I saw people okay cool um the boats gonna land there's a boat oh okay so if I wanted oh I felt oh yeah okay oh yeah okay so you guys see these guys right I think they're fighting yeah yeah yeah so we're just gonna let them fight okay cool this really does seem like the kind of wimpy way to win this game though okay like there's nothing really royale or battle about it it's just it's like Heidi Heidi Royale I want to shoot people and win they can't have both people are telling me to press Q to detect enemies is there any truth to that or is Q for quit okay I could use a helmet oh okay I'll go get it nice okay four squads left shut up so rude alright I'm still way behind you guys oh okay so that's good but they're gonna start heading over here and they're gonna see us wait we're hiding um okay so wait how long does it take the drop to arrive okay Wow oh okay that was the drop so I'm gonna get sniped right okay a Phoenix KITT what's a Phoenix KITT dude just you guys take good stuff right side okay I'm just gonna come back up to you Ed oh crap ah did it that's it over there yeah I just pinged um ah man I want to get up have crap Yap they're shooting at me okay hold on hold on I'm good I still can't see them so I'm following you guys okay three squads left are we one of them or does that mean three more okay I don't know what that means okay I don't know how to drop things thermite grenade yeah yeah I'm not realistically gonna use it and I have four of them I am taking the Phoenix kid okay you guys are so far ahead I'm gonna die oh so when there's three squads left it doesn't tell you how many people that is wait do I have to go out and around here okay cool all right we got this right okay see it's okay so we have to play fight a fight here okay that's fine got this I should look at the map neat oh oh wow it's a toggle you don't hold it okay cool so I just follow you guys or take up a different position or okay sure I can do that I will watch our but I will be the butt watcher on the team the blood watcher the patois sure that's how you win okay I'm still watching our butt so if I see someone don't fire them okay just hide full hide yeah yeah if they shoot I shoot back yes yes yes yes so wait are we had any risk of getting the circle oh crap I had my nap open not good and I'm done I'm crawling I'm calling I'm calling I'm calling they are shooting me I'm dead dang it hey I can still win really seriously alright okay this seems like a tactical error like this is not what you would normally do right so I'm on a ship right now so what do I do I just jump out of it oh wait so I have no weapons this seems okay I don't have a weapon but I can hey wait where are you guys are we dead okay I think yeah okay I'm gonna melee um how do you mean lay yeah where are you where you went what's up now [Laughter] all right well it goes to show you that even with the finest equipment and the finest teammates you can still lose pretty spectacularly if you're just honestly not that great at video games with that said I dealt more damage than Tweedledum just saying and survived longer and got the same number of kills so so that's a thing that happened yeah thank you guys for making me feel very middle of the road today um while we're at it thanks JJ for sponsoring today's video we'll see you guys on land show in about two and a half hours here oh man you guys tried you guys tried you behave we're number 200 right how do I see super Jets I don't think I have any way of doing this just on like the mobile app here ah okay okay I'm gonna go over to Anthony cuz I should probably respond to some oh you've got some there oh thank you John lost the game yeah thanks cells David I'm gonna get sniped right yeah love you Linus but you suck at video games as Kyle Jason age says MLG K Swagger's yes Oh compensation for the team about to carry you they get paid alright probably too well given they didn't manage to give me a victory today Linus you're a cutie yeah I think you're on your own there Madison the predator is cool when are we gonna get a loop beard tips live stream I have no idea I mean he live streams almost every Friday after an show you should just ask him although I wouldn't take beard tips from him I would take beard tips from maybe this guy or James if I was gonna take beard tips all right thanks guys see