Gadgetory

hey it's time with the verge and I'm here at Aoife 2018 at Acer where they've just announced a whole bunch of new products at the press conference there's the new Swift five there's the Swift seven the fitness laptop in the world there's this ridiculous predator throw nose gaming chair there's a convertible predator triton 900 two-in-one gaming laptop the predator X this giant gaming Tower the problem is is that while a lot of this stuff is super cool and super interesting what if it just isn't actually here so yeah Acer announced a lot of cool products and yes some of them are actually here and we'll get into those but most of them aren't and that's kind of a habbit phrase for these days for example take the swift v in May 2018 earlier this year Acer announced the Swift v taking the 14-inch Swift v screen replacing with a 15.6 inch one for would be the lightest 15-inch laptop around and it was pretty cool at the time but they didn't actually have a working one there in May just a dummy prototype unit so here at Aoife in august 2018 they've got a working swiss v and it looks good the screen looks great it's got Intel's latest whiskey like processors plenty of RAM feels a little cheap but I guess that's a sacrifice you make when you're making a superlight laptop but the problem is that it took months to get to this point where it's even here and real it's gonna be months more before you'll actually be able to buy one November for Europe and January 2019 in the US next up is the chair that's behind me Acer's predator throw knows this is a completely ridiculous device it's a 485 pound gaming chair it's got a mechanical arm that can support up to 327 inch screens just encompass your entire field of vision it has motorized foot rest it has a motorized foot pedal in case you don't want to use the motorized foot rest the keyboard swings out you sit down in this and it just in cases you like a cage of gaming joy I actually got to try it out for a few minutes here and I love it it's just completely ridiculous in the best kind of way so just hit this button oh my god oh my god it's it's eating me goodbye everyone I live here now okay that's really cool you can like feel each individual bullet shot because the chair has haptic feedback I really like to see more companies embrace this level of ridiculousness and all their products going forward I love it the problem though is that it's here it's great but there's no price and there's no release date so we have no idea how much it'll actually cost or when you'll actually be able to buy one which is about to become a really recurring theme here it's a similar story by Acer predator triton 900 it's a new two-in-one convertible gaming laptop that they just announced and it's here at Aoife sort of they have one prototype locked under a glass box that we've been able to look at but we can't try it out we have no idea how it works and it looks pretty cool the screen flips around you can adjust it you can move it around so that it's in different places and different angles for gaming but there's no price there's no release date there's no word on specifications and we have no idea when you'll be able to buy one it's a similar story by the predator X which is a stirrers new gaming tower it's supposed to be this ultra powerful gaming desktop it has two of Intel Xeon processors which are usually put in servers and it also is here it's an unmarked black box we can't see anything running on it and we have again no idea of price really estate or any of that information and last there's Acer Swift 7 now Acer showed this off at its keynote on stage in a slide they showcase the incredibly small bezel it has a 92% screen to body ratio the bezels are just over four millimeters and it looks awesome but that's all we can really say about it because that's all ESR told us they don't have even a prototype here that we can see they haven't released any word on specs there's no price release date there's barely any information other than a picture and that's where the problem all this is really cool and it's really cool to look at but right now without any details it's hard for us to even get an idea of what these products are gonna be like when they come out in months or even years with all that said though it is still really fun just to see that acer is willing to take these risks and make these innovative products even if all we can really do is see them and not actually try them out here at Aoife and who knows there's always CES ok time with Virg I'm hearing Aoife 2018 at acer and there is a loud banging noise there's no release date we have no idea when you'll be able to pick one up or how much it'll cost when you did when you will when it does