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easiest way to look like some kind of chump in 2017 have a thick ass laptop trust me you will not be picking up any of the Milady's if you're packing anything over an inch and remember boys it's not just the size of the laptop that counts but what you're able to do with it well Acer seems to think they've solved both of these problems by packing what they say is the fastest GTX 10 80 max Q GPU into this sleek 18 point nine millimeter frame and speaking of frames today's video is brought to you by shade-tree sunglasses they're hand made from hardwood materials featuring polarized lenses and they come with soft and hard carry cases use offer code Linus to get five bucks off through the link below so with its cool gray aluminum back panel and somehow less tacky than usual must be the blue accent predator logo there is no denying the Triton 700 is a different breed of gaming laptop this is one fine-looking machine opening it up the thick bezels and the plastic around the webcam are not ideal but these can be forgiving once you see that sexy glass window that subtly shows off the cooling fan and the heat pipes below and look it is not just about that bling bling I mean you got a respect design that performs while also managing to turn sexy engineering into a showpiece and the fact that they also managed to integrate the multi-touch trackpad into it is straight-up cool even if it's not ideal for usability more on that later moving down from the tempered glass we get to the oddly placed keyboard embedded in a very sturdy aluminum chassis the keyboard is fully programmable and boasts full RGB backlighting although in my opinion it does look best when it's left blue to match the lights on the side and the logo on the back we can take a look at the i/o now Thunderbolt 3 with 4 PCIe lanes lots of USB full-size DisplayPort and Ethernet very nice okay now let's just boot it up and oh wow okay really that's not controlled by system volume well make sure you disable that in the BIOS or you're gonna be that guy on the other hand maybe you want your friends colleagues and neighbor down the street to know just how powerful your notebook is because with internals like these this thin and light monster should make short work of all but the thickest of rivals with that said specs are nothing without cooling thankfully the Triton 700 has some legitimately impressive cooling chops and for the most part it succeeds at keeping both the CPU and GPU from thermal throttling our GPU hit a shocking 71 degrees max at room temperature and only a combined synthetic load managed to overload the CPUs cooler and that is a pretty unrealistic workload and this is all while staying calm and for a gaming machine relatively quiet like I got it running right now mics right there ace are even overclocked the GPU a bit to make bears the fastest mac ski laptop available consistently beating out the Asus Sepphoris though admittedly this is a bit of a hollow victory since overclocking what is essentially an under clocked chip is kind of like sandbagging your fitness tracker for the rest of the week so that you can do 200 percent of your daily goal on Friday a real desktop GTX 1080 or for that matter even a thicker laptop with an on max Q 1080 puts both of these pretenders to the throne in their place pretty handily but your desktop wouldn't have an integrated 120 Hertz 1080p IPS display with g-sync now would it the display is a bright point for this product literally like it's bright and with good viewing angles and satisfactory motion blur it's great to look at while you game and if someone wants to look at you the webcam is pretty solid too now the speaker's didn't blow me away but they're not bad at all especially considering how thin it is if you don't mind the lackluster bass and having a Dolby Atmos certification is great if you're a headphone user but let's get back to the interface the trackpad looks really cool and you could make the argument that gamers would be pretty likely to take advantage of the recessed USB port to carry around a high performance wireless mouse but if you care about size enough to pay a premium for this versus a less total gaming notebook then you probably are planning to try to use it as a portable device from time to time and while economically this placement actually didn't bother me nearly as much as I expected it's a lot better than the weird-shaped ones on the right of the keyboard in my opinion you do need to be careful not to mash keys on your keyboard with your palm and there are definitely some other issues the boundaries are poorly marked with no tactile bump to indicate that you've crossed them the glossy gorilla glass is a greasy fingerprint magnet the lack of physical buttons for a two-handed operation is a huge downer for me personally and those are real heat pipes down there it gets hot reaching as high as 53 degrees under load although this should only be an issue if you were to use the trackpad immediately after a gaming session on the subject of planning to use it as a regular notebook the custom mechanical keyboard is awesome with a nice short but satisfyingly clicky key travel that makes it a great balance for both gaming and typing Alex wanted to read it damn near perfect and saying that if they threw in a wrist rest it could be a 10 out of 10 while I did find it a touch on the stiff side though with that said the power brick is really big and battery life still gets killed by basically every other laptop remember guys GT X 1080 laptops don't use onboard graphics and optimist technology to save power at idle for the tinkerers out there popping the Triton 700 open and unscrewing this heat shield reveals the five heat pipes responsible for the impressive performance results we saw as well as two M two slots and two ddr4 sodium slots now they're already populated on our config so you won't be upgrading much unless you want to throw away what's already in there to beef up your RAM or storage down the road but I still appreciate that they aren't soldered that's something you can't take for granted with all Finan lights leading us to a conclusion time I guess you know what overall I really like the predator Titan 700 it's pretty easy to recommend great performance okay battery life considering all the other factors and there's only one thing that really goes against it the price at $3,000 it's not a budget option and it's $400 more than even the competing Asus zephyrus but with that said you're already paying a huge premium over just buying an equivalent desk top plus a separate than in light for travel so between the two of them in my mind the Triton 700 is the way to go thanks to the better battery life and in my opinion better trackpad placement the first content to appear on a new platform rarely takes full advantage of the new paradigm for example the first TV shows were basically radio shows with the camera turned on and today we're in a similar place with VR but already innovative filmmakers are pushing the artform forward and Intel is pushing both the technology and the community forward by partnering with rising filmmaker Eliza McNish to take audiences behind the scenes of her upcoming VR film pale blue dot you'll actually be able to control your own adventure as you peek behind the curtain learning about how visual effects sound design and creative Direction converge into a brand new type of experience the first version of the internet gave everyone a voice letting people around the world including young lioness create whatever content they wanted and the next wave is for the audience to consume content any way they want and that is what VR is about so check out the latest episode of on the making of the pale blue dot and learn more about the project using the link below so thanks for watching guys if this video sucked you know what to do but who's awesome get subscribed hit that like button or check out the link to where 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