This costs way less than you'd think

our ces 2019 coverage is brought to you by dbrand their grip case and prism screen protector give you 360 degree protection for your phone check them out at the link in the video description so we're here at acer where they're showing off some gaming notebooks they're showing off the new swift 7 which is the same thinness as the old one but significantly smaller so it's still got a y-class processor it's still super thin 10-hour battery life dual core hyper-threaded it's still a little flimsier than i'd like and it's still very expensive at what was it seventeen hundred dollars or something along those lines and then to go with the thinnest lightest notebook they've ever made they've got this this is the aptly named throwness arguably the biggest heaviest desktop ever made so this entire thing is actually one package there is a single sku it costs ten thousand dollars but whoa hold on that actually isn't as crazy expensive as you might initially think and in fact the first thing that both i and colton said when we walked in was like oh that's it because there is a lot of stuff here so first of all you get yourself a predator orion desktop so this is their 9000 desktop it comes with uh it's a pretty good spec but not an over-the-top spec that's included in the 10 dollar unit so you got your 8700k i believe it's 32 gigs of ram does that sound about right you got your 512 gig ssd two terabyte hard drive what's that 64 gigs of ram who's keeping track at this point uh rtx 2080 ti so very capable little gaming machine all right you get a full set of acer predator gaming peripherals keyboard mouse uh uh you got your headset you got this special shaped mouse pad that goes with this you know arm that closes in on you you get three acer predator gaming monitors so these are 27 inch 144 hertz 2560 by 1440 monitors they're running in nvidia surround whatever nvidia is calling that these days and you get this so acer is only selling this with what they're calling white glove service which is to say that when you buy a throwness someone will come to your house spend probably upwards of two hours assembling it for you wherever it is that you choose to plunk it down and by the way you won't be moving it after because it weighs well over 500 pounds and you will be treated to not just the most deluxe gaming chair that i have ever been in it will be a motorized one so the first thing you need to do is get your rgb adjusted to whatever's comfortable for you i'm partial to orange i'm gonna go ahead and do that then you grab this remote right here which controls not just the rumble in the seat so there's actually a couple of subwoofers built into the seat that will just detect any low frequency sound in your game or movie or whatever else it is and vibrate along your back and along your butt crack um but you also get to adjust check this out oh no that is all this one does never mind so it's got a separate remote that's built in right here that you can use to do this [Music] oh no the headset open open come on linus hold on ah to do this so it closes the keyboard mouse tray i gotta give it a little help this is pre-production still it's not shipping till q2 sometimes something along those lines closes the arm and then there's actually a couple of other things here that i can adjust as well so i'm gonna go ahead and throw my headset on and i'm going to raise the pedals so this lifts up my feet and this buddy is supposed to pop up here i think come on there buddy eh pre-production like i said sir come on pedal rise do you mind showing me how you got this to come up before oh okay wrong button then finally this is the last trick what they're calling zero g so it lifts up your legs and tilts the whole thing back now you don't have to go all the way back and in fact i would say there is at least a small risk of your keyboard kind of accidentally falling on you if you don't secure it back here or something figure out some way to cable manage that and in fact every part of it is no i wouldn't say infinitely adjustable but very adjustable so you can raise the arms a little bit if your eye line's a little bit higher so this is it you are immersed in your gaming cockpit you've got your cup holders you've got your usb hub over here so you plug in a thumb drive or whatever else it is you want you've got a controller pouch down here that you can keep your uh i don't know your come on your xbox game controller or whatever else in i mean what more could you ask for this type of thing is sure to impress the ladies and like i said all of this for just ten thousand dollars including coming to assemble it for you now if you guys are anything like me you're probably asking yourself at this point why why is acer building this this is so far outside of their typical product lineup and the best answer that i could get because unlike what i would have expected with a product like this where i would have seen a brand trying to make you know five thousand dollars a unit because this is going to be obviously a low volume item they seem to be taking a very similar approach to the margin of this product based on what i know about how much it costs to do this kind of thing as they would even on like a typical gaming notebook so the best answer that i can get out of them is that this is a statement piece this is the kind of thing that they want to be a draw in retail stores or in um entertainment centers or wherever else where people are going to be exposed to the predator brand and think you know what predator yeah gaming like hardcore gaming and if that's the goal then as far as i'm concerned mission accomplished acer mission accomplished that's not really a recommendation to buy one but it's definitely attention grabbing speaking of attention grabbing can i just grab your attention for a minute tell you about our sponsor dbrand dbrand's grip case is super grippy it's got their extra clickable buttons and like anything dbrand it's 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phone 360 degrees at the link in the video description so thanks for watching guys don't miss any of our ces coverage here at ces 2019 by making sure that you are subscribed to linus tech tips and i'm just gonna kind of tune out for a little bit here i got some gaming to do and we'll see you guys later let's uh close this close this cabin in here not gonna not gonna break the headphones this time zero g opening did i mention the adjustable armrests oh pay attention to the road here i crashed

Channel: Linus Tech Tips

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Keywords: acer, predator, thronos, gaming, cockpit, racing, chair, desktop

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Length: 8min 41sec (521 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 12 2019