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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here, and this is the Triton 700 from Acer, and this was
00:07actually one of the very first laptops that was shown to the world with a whole thin and
00:11powerful but super quiet laptop designs. And this is actually my favorite laptop that Acer
00:16makes. So they also make that super powerful $9,000 gaming laptop, and as impressive as
00:21that thing is, it's just not practical for most people. This thing is still very powerful,
00:26but it doesn't look like a super obnoxious gaming laptop. It's just a simple laptop.
00:31And the reason why they're able to make it like this is from the whole Max-Q design approach.
00:34And if you'll remember, some of my older videos have talked about it, Max-Q is this thing
00:38where manufacturers will focus on energy efficiency and make laptops that are like this. Thin,
00:43powerful, but really quiet. And of all the laptops with the GTX Max-Q 1080, this is my
00:48favorite one. I want to talk a little bit about the build. This thing has incredible
00:52build quality. It's got a full metal design, so metal top panel, metal bottom panel, metal
00:57keyboard deck. Like, this thing is built like a tank. Even though it's 3 quarters of an
01:00inch thick, or not even, it's actually very difficult to twist. I'm also partial to its
01:05color. It's not black, it's kind of like this really dark aqua color, and I think it looks
01:09amazing. The other thing is there's no red on this laptop at all. There's no red power
01:13button or red logo or red exhaust fans. Like, none of that is red. It's a bit of blue and
01:18this dark aqua color. It's straight up my alley. There are a good number of ports. There's
01:23two display outputs, Thunderbolt 3, Ethernet, and four USB ports. If you'll notice, one
01:28of the USB ports is recessed, and it actually comes with a cap that you can kind of put
01:32in and out of it. And I'm not sure, but I think it's for wireless gaming mice and keyboards.
01:36So if you have one of those wireless mice with a required dongle, so not a Bluetooth
01:40connection but like a radio connection, you can leave it plugged in all the time and you
01:44don't have to worry about it getting knocked off or damaged or whatever. It's a small detail,
01:48but I think it's really cool. If you want to, you can access the internals by removing
01:52some screws and then lifting the keyboard off. There are two ribbon cables that are
01:56connected, so if you want to remove them, you have to be super careful. There's a pair
01:59of NVMe drives in there running on RAID 0, and there's 32 gigs of RAM, so that's two
02:03sticks of 16. It seems unlikely, but if you want to, you can upgrade all that stuff inside.
02:09You can open up this laptop with one hand. The hinge tension is pretty much perfect,
02:13and when you do, you get to see one of the most unique keyboard decks you'll ever see
02:16in a laptop. Starting up at the top, there's this glass panel, and when the laptop is on,
02:21you can see the fan spinning in here. The whole thing is a window. You can kind of peer
02:24inside and look at the heat pipes and the other thermal stuff, but the main purpose
02:28of this thing is it's actually a trackpad, which is kind of crazy. It's a smooth glass
02:32surface, there's no texture, and tracking is good. It's interesting that a trackpad
02:36like this that uses a completely unconventional glass surface like this is still able to use
02:41Windows Precision Drivers, so tracking is super accurate without any kind of skipping
02:45issues. Gestures also work perfectly on the surface. The button clicks are a little different.
02:50Left click is still just a single click. Right click is a double tap, kind of like a MacBook,
02:54but it's the fact that there's no tactile response at all. You're basically tapping
02:58on a glass surface, but it works accurately. The click and drag is a little weird. You
03:02have to double click something to start dragging it around, and again, it works well, and it
03:06does accurately detect when you want to start clicking and dragging things around, but it's
03:10so different from anything I've used before that it took me a couple days to get used
03:13to it, but the reality is you're going to have a mouse connected to this thing for most
03:17times that you're using it. The keyboard is comfortable. It's close to the edge, like
03:21the whole keyboard is shifted down to give the internal some better cooling, and when
03:24I first saw photos of this thing, I thought it would be weird to use because there's no
03:27wrist rest, but it's actually very comfortable. It's a mechanical keyboard, but the switches
03:31aren't your usual Cherry Switch kind of feel. They feel more like micro switches, very short
03:36travel with a short click. If you're used to a regular mechanical keyboard, like a regular
03:40desktop mech, you're not going to be able to come over to this thing and just type regular
03:44speeds. You're going to have to have a bit of a learning curve. It's not that it's a
03:46bad keyboard. It's actually a great keyboard, but it's just really different from a regular
03:50mechanical keyboard. You get fully customizable RGB lighting, individual key lighting with
03:55tons of colors to choose from, and you can go as crazy as you want, or you can just turn
03:59it all off. The fan up at the top also lights up into whatever color you want as well. Performance
04:04on this laptop is really impressive. It's a Max-Q 1080, Kaby Lake i7, 32 gigs of RAM,
04:09and because it's a Max-Q laptop, this thing runs at around 40 decibels when you're playing
04:13games, and even the most demanding or the most unoptimized games run really well on
04:17this thing. The Triton 700 also lets you overclock the GPU. You need to push the fans a little
04:22harder to keep it cooled properly, but in turbo mode, the performance is surprisingly
04:26good. It actually comes close to a full-fat GTX 1080 laptop. Thermal performance is also
04:31really good. You get full control of the fans and the software. If you want to push
04:34this thing hard for, like, a video edit or if you're playing a game competitively, you
04:37can just crank up the fans and just let it rip, but if you want to play something a little
04:41more stealth, you can lower it back down and just keep it in whisper mode. So I wanted
04:44to see how hot this laptop would get when I was playing this thing for a long time in
04:48whisper mode. So the footage you're about to see was this game running for about three
04:51hours in Overwatch, and I just kept this thing with G-Sync on with fans at 40 decibels. Temperatures
04:56are a little hot. It never got worse than this, but the frame rates don't dip too much.
05:11The speakers are positioned really well. The stereo separation is on point. They project
05:14upwards, one on each side. They're good speakers. They're not excellent. Decent clarity, but
05:19the bass isn't as strong as I'd like. The screen is really nice. It's a 1080p, 120Hz
05:24panel, supports G-Sync, and when you pair it up with a 1080, games run so smooth on
05:28this thing. The color gamut and brightness are good as well, and I've said this before
05:32in other videos, but when you have a laptop like this with high-end components, you have
05:35to put a good quality screen like this in. A lot of laptops are still being made with
05:39good components, fast components, but 60Hz screens, and that just kills me. They've done
05:43it well. 120Hz panel, G-Sync, Max-Q 1080. It's a great combination. It's an IPS panel.
05:50You don't get the super fast response time of TN panels, but with an IPS panel, you're
05:53getting better-looking image quality, and viewing angles are better as well. The battery
05:58life on this laptop is probably its weakest point. It's a 54Wh battery, and I'm only getting
06:02around 2 hours of battery life, with a screen at 250 nits. Now, most people that are picking
06:06this up aren't going to be using it for, like, extended gaming sessions on the road, but
06:10if that's what you're looking for, it's not the best option. The Triton 700 is one of
06:15the best-built laptops I've seen from Acer. Full metal construction with excellent build
06:20quality and a nice design. Pricing starts at just under $3,000, but it comes in fully
06:24loaded. You're getting a 120Hz G-Sync screen. It's excellent for gaming, with good enough
06:29color accuracy for content creation. The mechanical keyboard is really clicky, and it's comfortable
06:34to use, but it doesn't use your normal desktop keyboard switches. You'll need to get used
06:38to these. The trackpad is built into the glass window, with great tracking accuracy, but
06:42clicking is a little bit weird. Inside, the Kaby Lake i7 and the Max-Q 1080 deliver really
06:48impressive performance. The fans are quiet, but you can overclock the GPU and adjust the
06:52fans to your preference. The RAM and the two NVMe drives are replaceable if you need, but
06:57Acer loads this thing up with some really fast stuff out of the factory. The battery
07:01life is shorter and clocks in at just over a couple of hours. Okay, I think Acer did
07:05an amazing job on this thing. It's such a cool device. The design, the build, the performance,
07:10the trackpad, everything about it I really, really like. Now, it's not for everyone. It's
07:14super expensive. That also makes it, like, unachievable for most people, including myself.
07:19This is a review unit, I gotta send it back. But of all the laptops I've seen in 2017,
07:24this is the one that's most impressive to me. I've seen other ones that are even more
07:27extravagant, but it's not about that. It's about building something that's practical,
07:31that's viable as an everyday machine, and looks really good while it does it. Okay,
07:36hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thumbs if you liked it, subs if you loved it. See you
07:39guys next time.