Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This 3D display is actually GOOD. – Acer at CES 2024”.
We’Re here with Acer at CES 2024 to check out just a whole whack of laptops and even a monitor, we’re just going to throw them all straight at your face. Just like this laptop right here is throwing 3D stuff straight at my face. It is so cool. This is the Aspire. 3D5 spatial Labs Edition.
We did see spatial Labs stuff last year, but it had a couple of problems, the main one being uh. Even if you wanted it, the laptop started at like 4 grand, you probably were not going to be getting it well now. This thing here starts at $ 13.99 and the amount that it has improved over last year is incredible. Cuz, like I’m currently enjoying watching this, and the even more impressive part, is that this right here is not a 3D video, so we can just exit out of this. I’Ve just opened up crab Brave and by hitting alt G it does some AI magic and just turns it into a 3D image.
Now this isn’t new for this year per se, but they’ve been training the AI models for the past year, and the Improvement is incredible because, like this scene, right here is really great. Where, like this Palm, actually looks like it’s way out in front of all of the crabs, like the fact that they were able to do this on the fly in real time and turn it into 3D of this quality, I am quite impressed now, of course, if You do have a 3D model or a 3D program, it works really great and that as it did before, but I am just so impressed at the Improvement in this cuz. If I am honest, when I looked at these last year, they just kind of made me sick, and this is not doing that – I am actually quite stoked at how much better this is especially for how much cheaper it is for those of you that don’t remember From CES last year and fair enough, this spatial Labs technology works so that you don’t have to use glasses by having a 4K panel. But when you enable 3D, it splits it and halves the resolution horizontally. So half of those pixels are being sent to to your left eye and half are being sent to the right.
It is doing that by aiming them through a lenticular lens, and it is tracking where exactly your eyes are using cameras right here. To make sure that, like this tree and stuff, are going correctly into this eye and this eye to give you that depth of field – and it’s actually really quite neat just how well they’ve done it. As for the computer itself, we can see we have 3.5m headphone jack type, A on the other side, wow there’s actually a lot of I/O on this Thunderbolt 4, two more type A’s HDMI and a fullsize ethernet port dang, and on the inside, you get up to An i7 13620 H, 32 GB of RAM and a 57w battery. Now, if we give this a little bit of a push test, it’s not bad.
It’S not bad. I’Ve seen better. I have definitely seen worse and the keyboard and trackpad are both pretty okay. For the price point, I would say say that they’re not going to hinder you, you will be able to get up to full speed and the trackpad is decent enough, but they aren’t like standouts, like this display is.
What is a real standout, though, is this Aspire? Go 14: this is the Acer Aspire, go 14. There is also a 15in version, and I am amazed that they were able to get a laptop of this quality down to $ 250 starting price like if we looked at this here, we we can give it a bit of a bit of a push. It’S you know: it’s not the best built laptop in the world and we do not expect that at all, but holy crap compared to the other $ 250 just pieces of actual e-waist that I have seen before. This is actually incredible. So the standouts here first of all, 14-in 16 by10 display starting at $ 250 processor.
Nothing incredible! We have is an Intel n100, that’s four cores four threads and a 6 wat TDP. So it’s not going to be too quick, but given that laptops at this price point in the past have had like two core seller on it’s going to be a whole world of difference like you are not going to be doing fluid simulations on this thing. But you will be able to watch YouTube videos at full resolution and not have it be slow.
The keyboard also is just perfectly functional. There’S nothing wrong about it, which is quite shocking, given just how inexpensive this thing is. I’M used to key caps at this price point being just smaller than a normal size, key caps they’ll cheap out in that way and like if we look at this, the key stability I have seen ,000 laptops or in the case of Razer $ 2,500 laptops that Have worse Keys than this thanks to be quiet for sponsoring a CES 2024 coverage? If you’re shopping for your next PC, build or just new components in general, make sure to check out, be quiet.
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Also in here we have a 53w hour battery and given this CPU only draws 6 wats, I imagine that you’re going to be able to get pretty decent battery life out of this thing, final thing in here Wi-Fi card that is a aable nice moving back to It assembled the I/O that we have is 3.5 mm, headphone, jack, fullsize, USB type A or on the other side, another fullsize USB type, a HDMI and USB type c up. Next, we have the Swift go 14 and this is sort of a choose how good it is kind of laptop. You can have the $ 750 version, which is going to be not particularly fast, comes with a 1200 piece, 60 HZ panel. That’S only got srgb coverage or you can go all the way up to a 90 HZ 2.8k overed panel.
That looks just absolutely fantastic. Those viewing angles are very good. Is it touch a darn? It’S not touch. This comes with up to 32 GB of memory and AER are really proud about their media touchpads.
So if we swipe across this now, we have our volume controls pause play in the center. We can go forwards backwards, mute all the stuff that you know. You have hard buttons for up here uh.
I don’t really know how useful this is, but at the same time it’s it’s neat. It’S neat I’ll give them that with the Swift go, Acer are continuing their trend of just having fantastic iio on their laptops. This has a Micro SD card reader, 3.5 mm headphone, microphone, combo, Jack, fulls, sizee, USB type A or on the other side, two Thunderbolt fors HDMI 2.1 and another USB type A so you can just plug all the things into this. It’S actually really sick. The keyboard on the Swift, go1 14 is pretty decent. I would give it maybe a B same sort of thing.
I don’t hate it, but at the same time there’s nothing particularly special about it, although if we go over to the Swift go 16, it’s largely the same compared to the 14. But we don’t get that media touchpad and we also don’t get a keyboard that I enjoy uh. If we look at this right here, we have a nice large keyboard and we do have a numpad.
Some people love that, but the chassis in it becoming a bit larger has become pretty soft right here and uh. You can really tell so the keys on the left side, pretty good keys on the right side, pretty good and the keys in the middle here right, where your right hand is, are uh not nearly as good they’re, very mushy cuz, the whole chassis is flexing. We won’t dwell on the Swift go 16 too long, then, because instead I want to talk about the spicy Swift. This right here is the Swift x14, and this thing is the very fancy one.
The keyboard is a definite improvement from the other ones that we have seen and, although I don’t think it gets into the A’s, I’m going to give it a B plus cuz, I actually am kind of an oh. No, I think it gets an A minus. This is actually quite a well-built machine and the internals are even more better. This thing has up to an RTX 4070 in a laptop of this size, so that right there would have 60 watts, plus 15 watts Dynamic boost just for the GPU and the display options on this are awesome with having up to a 2.8k OLED at 120 HZ And this has that variable refresh rate technology, so it can go down to 48 HZ. In order to save you a little bit of battery, we also have up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 185h. So this thing right here, even though it’s only 3.42 lbs is actually going to be able to do some very serious work or even gaming. Quite serious gaming, I would say IO once again, absolutely fantastic, very similar to the Swift go4 love to see all of this and, if you’re looking for something like this with its starting price of $ 1,400, which of course doesn’t get you all of this. It’S like a 4050, but it still is very, very compelling. Moving over to the gaming side of things, Acer has released their new predicator Helios neol line. Now it is quite similar to the Helios line that they had before, but Acer have been really smart about the ways that they have costed down the Helios line. Because, honestly, I don’t think you’re going to care about the stuff that you’re losing too much so we’re getting Zone RGB. We have four zones instead of the per key RGB that we have on the full-fledged Helios but uh whatever you don’t get this little RGB Predator logo right here, I’m sure you’re very torn up about that. Just like this RGB light bar on the back. Oh no! You don’t get it that’s going to really affect your gaming performance. I imagine also uh. You have less configurability about the RGB on the Predator logo on the back.
If you look right here this one right here is like a little bit nicer, but the stuff that actually matters performance has remained unchanged. So if we look right here, they heat pipes. This is not new for this year, but it is pretty cool to see that on the older models they have. These rounded heat pipes, like you, see on pretty much every single laptop which work well enough, but what they have on their Helios line.
Are these Square heat pipes, so you can see just how much more surface area you’re going to have hitting the hot spots of your computer and just getting that heat out of there by having this Square heat pipe design, instead of just just losing all of that Area to the little rounded edges on the side. As for the specs and pricing, the Neo 16 starts at $ 14.99. The Helios 16 is $ 18.99 Neo 18549 and the Helios 18 $ 2000. As for the exact specs, I would say that you’re going to have to just kind of look at what each one is able to do at each price, because there’s just such a large range from a 4050 to a 4090 and mini LED IPS panels.
You’Re just going to have to look at each one when they actually release it in April. At the start, I said we had a monitor and, oh my God, Acer has deliver. This right. Here is the Predator Z series z57, and it is a 57in dud panel. That’S dual Ultra HD. This thing right here is like they took two 4K 32in panels and just crammed them together and then gave gave it a big old curve. And, oh my God, like it’s, actually crazy when you just step up to this and you’re right here. Pretty much your entire field of view is occupied by this thing and holy crap. Does this look good? It’S one of the most immersive gaming experiences that I have seen and I have seen quite a few in my days the amount that I want to hook. This thing up to like a big old racing, Sim holy crap. That would be amazing, as for other specs, 120 HZ refesh, fresh rate, 1 millisecond response time, 1,000 nits Peak brightness, so this right here has vesa 1,000 HDR support and holy crap. I am just going to have a bit of a look at this again and maybe even a bit of a game.
Oh driving, simulator time. Here we go holy crap. This thing is cool yeah. This would be so good for iRacing, oh my God, just like it would be really good if you hit like get subscribed and just have have a great old day, see you later at the next booth. .