I love that all the other laptop manufacturers are bringing all these crazy laptops and Acer is just bringing humble updates and Nintendo 3DS screens to their laptops
@@gtamike_TSGKidk wearing a headset kinda sucks ass. Id rather have a 3d display. I agree it should track your head though. Could triangulate your head position and give an effect of looking into a 3d window. Saw a demo like that using a wiimote back in the day with a flatscreen display.
Alex has become my favourite LMG person. I don't understand a lot of the stuff he goes on about, but I watch it to relax. His low-key but very much there enthusiasm is so perfectly balanced.
They've announced what I think is the best monitor of all CES that no one is talking about, a mini led screen with over 2000 dimming zones and $800 price tag. Can't wait to buy one
I actually had an Acer 3D laptop back in about 2010 that used passive glasses and a polarised coating on the screen to split it line by line. It worked really well, I'm glad to see they haven't given up on it.
I've got a 2006 Acer Travelmate 2420 Win/Lin/Hackintosh laptop that still seemingly holds a full charge. It's pretty slow by today's standards. But it works. I bought it new back then and gave it away to 3 different people in my family who gave it back when they got a new one. Every now and then I pull it out to see how everything is holding up. Remarkable build quality for the time and a great match for classic mac OSX 10.4.8. Only needed a jumper in the VGA.
I've got a 2012 acer laptop (don't even remember the model) that I bought before I was much into tech that I based the decision solely off of build quality. Every other laptop I tried had horrible deck flex and felt like it'd shatter if I just put my backpack down too hard, whereas the acer felt like a brick. It still holds up to this day, my brother used it as a media pc in our shop room while he did work for a home business for many years starting around 2016 to watch shows while he made stuff. Even now, I could probably go down there and boot it up and have it work just fine. Was only about $700, I used it to play games on for 3 years when I first bought it and it did a fair enough job (apart from sounding like a jet engine) think its rocking an i5, onboard graphics, and 8gb of ram or somethin. It might have had an SSD swapped in when my brother used it, but I can't remember. Think it was originally 500gb hdd.
Weren't 3D displays a thing like 10 years ago, but nobody cared enough to buy them so they just stopped making them, I'd be surprised if it comes back and actually succeeds
@@Dell-ol6hb I believe most people just didn't want to bother with the glasses, also the amount of content was restricted mostly to blu-rays at the time. It's a shame most 3D blu-rays are only available overseas now. Though there were some built in TV apps on the very last years 3D TV's were made that could stream 3D content. But with VR and gaming, I think glasses free 3D has a much better chance at becoming a thing, particularly useful for 3D modelers and graphics artist. If you want 3D today on a large screen, they still make DLP projectors that have it built in.
Yes, both TVs and monitors, but they all required glasses so maybe if they can figure this out for multiple users and with good AI/Neural engine maybe itll be more useful now@@Dell-ol6hb
@@Dell-ol6hb3d displays 10 years ago sucked because you had to have glasses. The technology used here is basically the same as in the nintendo 3DS, meaning it works without glasses. And even on the 3DS, it was usually a „fun thing“ you turned off after a few hours and never turned it back on. It might be somewhat useful for 3D Model designers, but thats about it.
I remembered last CES. It was kinda fresh off of the 3D TV retrospective and I thought it was a shame the craze ended around when the panels were getting good. I really want to see stereoscopic 3D to make a come back in devices.
It's especially bad because passive 3D would have been great with 4K TVs. 1080p was just too low for passive, and active 3D had some big design issues (though it'd work much better with the current 120hz TVs). LG made a couple of OLEDs up to 2016 that were 4K and passive 3D, and they're considered by far the best TVs for watching 3D content. Sadly, it came at a time when nobody wanted 3D anymore, and even if you buy one now it'll probably have serious burn-in.
Yeah, I'm quite sad that my old 27" "TV" I used as a 3d monitor broke down due to a VR mishap. I'd really love if my TV actually had 3D so I can play games or watch movies in 3d with radial polarized glasses or without them at all!
The problem with this tech is that it's only usable by one person. With the glasses 8 people could have the 3D experience. This feels like a step backwards, not forwards.
The progress Acer has made with their laptops year-on-year is seriously impressive! Especially excited about the Aspire 3D5 Spatial Labs Edition, the improvement sounds significant.
As an original owner of the first generation of 3D tv’s I am unashamedly excited for 3D to come back. I knew 3d would come back and now having tvs/monitors with high refresh rates, better clarity and most importantly not needing to wear glasses. This is gonna be awesome! Black Ops 2, Crysis 2, Killzone 3 in 3D was awesome in the early 2010’s. Now that they wont run at 30fps it will hopefully be a full fledged experience worth the cost of entry.
Acer is one of my favorite brands. I got a brand new acer monitor that is 2k, 144hz, 31 inches for just 139 bucks, and it has been running amazing for six years now. Now seeing then introduce real budget options that aren't e-waste is awesome. I feel like way too many brands are just fine to up prices and not compete with spec in the budget ranges. Landfill for no reason. At least these are usable.
I appreciate the media controls being built into the trackpad - not sure I'm sold on the execution 100%, but as a heavy excel user, I find myself using function keys (F4 specifically) a lot, and in some cases I'd rather have the function keys available all the time but still have quick access to volume/playback controls. Trackpad may make sense for that.
@@AndrewTSq Toshiba made a model that would track I think up to 8 set of eyes in the room and give each person a glasses free 3D view. Though apparently it was rather slow to track, so if you moved your head much, you lost the 3D effect. With todays eye tracking hardware and software I've seen demo's of this glasses free 3D and it locks onto your vision until you get too far to the side; but by that point your way too far over for comfortable viewing anyway.
I just never had a good experience with Acer Laptops, there were always some variant of performance-, thermal-, quality issues. I hope they improved but I'm steering clear of anything other than maybe their monitors
Exactly! It's all about what you're going to use it for. A $250 laptop, even if it's only got 4GB of RAM, is going to be fine for a general school laptop. Just maybe don't use Chrome.
I'm actually curious of a battery life on that thing. It can totally go over 10 hours of non-idle! And with that amount of RAM, installing Linux would make the most sense. I really don't need it, but I'm excited about it!
Damn, it is very good, any laptop available on my country at 250$ only comes with old piece of 💩 intel celeron n4020. To put into perspective how 🐌 that celeron cpu is , that celeron multicore performance is almost twice slower than single core performance on my 4 years old amd renoir laptop
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 My school laptop also uses n4020 cpu and it’s definitely bad. Also capable of reaching up to 80C doing some somewhat intensive stuff
Honestly, the n100 ain't something to sneeze at, I'm using an n100 machine as my home server and it will happily serve up seven simultaneous 1080p Plex streams. I've got a buddy who uses one as a multi system retro emulation box, plays up to Gamecube era games pretty smoothly. It's basically four 12th gen e-cores, winds up being about as fast as an i5-6500, and it's insanely power efficient. We're honestly in a golden age of cheap "low end" machines.
Damn how I wish I had a display capable of doing this glass-less 3D on the fly conversion WHILE also being an actually good display! Like, I just bought the insane Alienware QD-oled monitor some months ago, I want a screen like this BUT with that really cool looking 3D tech on top of it that you could toggle on and off! Just imagine a 4k Bluray rip of Avatar 2 with VRR on this...
I have no evidence, but seems to me that in order to get this workong, you need to add a bunch of AI image Processing, which could kill your input delay for gaming purposes.
I love 3D and lamented TVs eliminating the feature. I had the LG Thrill 3D phone back in the day and even with a Dorito for a CPU it managed to do a decent job converting 2D to 3D for videos (TRON in 3D was a treat) so I can only imagine what a job a modern processor paired with AI could do. I am very tempted by that Spatial Labs laptop.
I miss the Acer Nitro lineup. 15 inch, Ryzen 5 and a GTX 1650 for less than 600 USD was an amazing price to performance. The predator starting at 1500 for a 4050 is a bitter pill to swallow.
That Aspire Go is fucking BRILLIANT. Good lord. The I/O is better than some $1500 laptops. The KEYBOARD is better than some $1500 laptops. Throw in a $65 TeamGroup Z4L 1TB 4.0x4 SSD and you have a brilliant little laptop that can LITERALLY BE ON THE ENTIRE DAY without needing to be charged. 6W PEAK TDP and a 53Wh battery?! Yeah, you're easily getting 10 hours of real-world battery. FINALLY a good low-cost laptop I can actually recommend!
@@BenAlderfer nope. It seems Acer's current marketing push is trying to clear out their stock of old Acer Aspire Go laptops, which by comparison to the new ones are absolute dogshit.
Note that the N100 CPU's four cores are E-cores, so expect performance similar to a 4-core Skylake (i.e. 6th-gen) chip without hyperthreading. (this is probably obvious, but the video wasn't explicit about it) I have a mini-PC with the very similar N95 CPU. I can't say how well it runs Windows -- I immediately threw Debian on it. It also came with twice the RAM. Still, I'd expect the Aspire Go 14 to be a decent laptop for typical office tasks, giving presentations, writing blog posts in a café, etc.
had my be quiet silent base 601 case for about 6 months now, absolutely in love with it. It's a big black bxo that the loudest noise from it is my 6TB HDD internally. SUPER fun and easy to build in, and lots of quality of life pieces built in including cabel managing and mounting HDD for large storage. Just looooove mine. highly recommend if you're interested in a nonrgb silent case.
I had a $250ish Acer Aspire with an Atom & a touchscreen in college and was always pleasantly surprised at how usable it was. It was 11.8" I think? I sold it last winter for a couple bucks knowing that it'll serve another student well for a while.
The touch media thing is something you can do in windows with multi finger. And it's really good. 3 fingers up and down does vol. Up and down. 3 fingers left does back and 3 fingers right does forward and tapping with 3 fingers does pause/play
Just a quick note on 7:05 - this is probably due to Acer's marketing material, but it bugs me a bit that you use different measures for the screen resolution when comparing the different Swift Go 14 screens. The first one was described as "1600p" (vertical), the second as "2.8k" (horizontal). That makes it kind of unnecessarily hard to see how big the difference (around 12.5% better pixel density) actually is.
Ooh I've been waiting for ultrawide monitors to finally have 4K pixel densities. Not quite at 4K 28" densities, but it's close. Maybe I'll be updating my setup sometime soon. Though, I think that 2-3 monitors actually suits my workflows better 😅
I've had good luck with Acer's stuff generally. My last 3 laptops were theirs, even if two them were 10" Atom powered netbooks. My current one's a Swift3 with an R5 4500U though and I love that thing. I wanted something purple, and it was this, or an HP with an i5. The Acer was better specced in other areas too
My ACER Aspire from 2012 still working fine slight overheat and win10 a bit slow but still operates whit no problem dispite coming from factory whit a dead pixel on the screen.
I love the track pad media thing. Look Alex, not all of us have big hands and genuinely reaching the f-keys is ass. I hate it. So I use arrow keys, m, spacebar for media. If I could just use the track pad when watching a show, that would be amazing. less reach, bigger, and less distance between "keys" 7/10 feature they invented.
Oh yeah, if I'm on the couch and the laptop is on the coffee table it's nice if I can just tap at it to adjust what I'm watching instead of actually sitting up
Acer never lasterd me a year without any problem same goes for there monitor... hope they have improved considerably especially. On the $250 model because we can't much too much on repair for entry level laptops
I agree. The quality of their products is not up to par. I have had only bad experiences with Acer laptops. To be fair, I haven't used one since around 2017 when the screen stopped working out of nowhere, lol.
Thank goodness someone is still working on 3D monitors and screens. I know its not for everyone, but when it works, It's better than any 4k experience.
Emulating 3DS games is about to be crazy. I use a screen drawing tablet as the bottom screen for my DS and 3DS games, and a 3d display would be the cherry on top.
I like the Acer laptop at 250$ but when you look at the tecno laptop in india which is about 23k INR which is approximately 275 US Dollars !!!!!! With an i3 11th gen, 8gb ram 256 GB storage and an awesome display with build quality. You guys should try that out
i think that i'll go instead for a Thinkpad T480, which is better, as it's a 15.6" at 1920x1080, with non soldered storage and ram, better io, easy repair/upgradability and costs about the same
I would absolutely love for 3D to make a comeback. For privacy sake, I think machine learning working with a basic PiR motion detector signal would be better than a camera with eye tracking. Probably cheaper too in parts and compute. An amorphous blob of heat is likely plenty of data to center a 3D image. With only a slight risk that your amorphous off-axis viewing habits will get you sent to the Gulag.
The 14” non-gamer looking one I’d buy if I needed a new laptop. That’s very nice and great i/o in such a small sturdy platform. I like it, we need more of that and less of the landfill crud. People should try their hardest to not buy crappy stuff. Spending just a little more can mean years more use and overall quality of life if you use often. That’s not an overstatement.. having a solid laptop and phone anymore really make a huge difference.
All I got out of this video is that Acer still needs to get with the times and stop putting barrel jacks for power on their laptops. Its so cheap to implement a 20v trigger module for power there are easy guides on how to retrofit one into an older laptop... they aren't saving any money on the power bricks over a GaN charger with a decent 100w C cable.
Got an Acer 14 back in 2019, 14 inch 1080p IPS display with AMD Ryzen 3 and Vega 8 graphics, upgradable DD4 RAM and upgradeable NVME SSD. $600 ish with solid aluminium frame top and chassis. Still looking for the 2023-24 version, unfortunately their lineup is totally Intel focused now and their AMD offerings are trash tier.
That N100 performs about the same as a 2700k. That's with half the threads, and literally using less than 1/10 of the power draw (6w vs 95w). That's actually fucking incredible.
haha, i've nerver checked but thats acutally insane. Still have a computer running a 2600k for gaming and it gets beat by a 6 Watt Ultra Low Power Budget Notebook ? no way, haha :D
@@angry_wizard true. I just wanted to compare it to an old champ i7. It's actually insane how powerful processors have become, especially with low power ones.
@@frankieinjapan Yeah it really is wild, I'm using an N100 mini PC running Ubuntu as the brains of my home media server/NAS it's hooked up to a four bay USB 3.0 HDD enclosure and I'm really impressed at how much of a workload the little guy can take. I've seen it do eight simultaneous 1080p streams (two transcodes) without hitching, and I've had almost no downtime. It just sips power too, I'd probably be out an extra $10 a month if I was running an old workstation instead.
Got a Chuwi N100 laptop with 16 GB of RAM for my wife around the same price. They run on par with an i5-7400 in terms of performance. So really, not too shabs for 250 bones.
Would have liked the video to have just concentrated more on the 3d laptop, that was the only thing that was actually interesting... The rest were basically just spec revs of standard laptops... Hoping you guys get the 3d one into the office soon so I can decide if it's something I would want.
Sorry but 250$ is click bait. I couldn't find any source about what specific specs this starting configuration is going to have. Further it seems to be not available everywhere. In Germany the Go 14 is starting at 549€. Seems like they don't even offer the very low end configurations with Intel Pentium here.
2:32 "and a full sized Ethernet port" I keep hearing reviewers say this and I need to ask, is there such a thing as a non full sized port? I'm genuinely asking because I've never seen anything beside a full sized port.
@@UFOhunter4711 This is what they used on the laptop in the video and I've seen them on plenty of laptops. It is still full sized tho since it uses a regular Ethernet cable connector. I mean is there some kind of non-standard sized Ethernet port on laptops I'm not aware of?
That media control touchpad makes me think Apple should try their Touch Bar again, but put it on the trackpad instead where it would actually make sense.
Put that 3d display tech in a phone to play videos please. Will sell like hot cakes if it works very good. Maybe that will be the next big hardware upgrade for phones now that all if them are rectangular bricks.
It's already over, ended last Friday. Probably had so many videos done while at CES to space out the video's, plus it takes time to go through tons of footage and edit.
I assume the slot is just PCIe Gen3 ×4. Though the N100 does support up to 9 PCIe lanes. Maybe there's some chipset magic that converts eight Gen 3 lanes to four Gen 4 lanes, but I wouldn't count on it.
back in the early 2000s i had an acer travelmate with dvd player, that thing was cheap and bombproof, lasted years and the keyboard was great to use long term, intel cpu and ATI Rage II graphics
I can't believe it's already 2024 and laptop manufacturers still sell laptops with 4GB RAM. You can't even watch RUclips and a few tabs without hitching. So why?
Its 250 dollars you can't complain especially with that build quality. Plus with that slow cpu I don't think you would do anything intensive enough to need more. It's more of a laptop for your grandma to watch RUclips and check emails or Facebook or something.
@@beefycroissant6485OR ya know, charge like 10 more bucks and make it 8GB so that this POS doesn't immediately become e-waste. OR maybe don't use soldered RAM.
The Aspire go 14 seems interesting, though they need to give the specs on the display. They also need to make the RAM user upgradable. Usually when traveling, I like using a cheaper low end laptop that is less painful to get broken. Aside from that 4GB is not enough RAM, especially if they plan to run windows 11, though I have largely settled on simply going for older gen laptops where old models where a used unit can offer a better specs and a better display for $200- 250. Beyond that, I have purchased super low end stuff as well, especially from the netbook days. For example, I still use an old Lenovo S21e (running a stripped down windows 10 install (all bloat removed, thus only using around 400MB of RAM at startup) which cost $129 back in 2015, since it is passively cooled, and the CPU is fast enough to handle audio recording, it works for handling a USB mixer and a few mics, and not having it raise the noise floor.
its manufactured ewaste, a friend bought this or the previous model last week and brought it to me because it was slow and he thought it had a virus or something. the 4gb ram is insufficient by all means. i tried installing mint on it and it kinda worked but was still barely usable. He returned it and i recomended him getting a thinkpad for around the same price with i5 6300u 16gb ram and a proper ssd.
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I love that all the other laptop manufacturers are bringing all these crazy laptops and Acer is just bringing humble updates and Nintendo 3DS screens to their laptops
for gods sake when will these lame CES videos finally end.
@@RandomUser2401 how does that have absolutely anything to do with the comment. It's CES week what do you expect?
@@iseceepcool2 no, heck no, it‘s _not_ CES week anymore. we already suffered a full week of these lame booth videos.
@@RandomUser2401 lame? what did you expect from ces?
I love Acer's affordable laptops
Not gonna lie, I wouldn't mind a 4k 3d laptop or phone that tracks your eye movement like the New Nintendo 3DS.
pretty sure thats what the laptop does
It's called VR Headsets.
Rip those old 3D Bluray movies and load them up in the headset, it will blow your mind.
@@gtamike_TSGKidk wearing a headset kinda sucks ass. Id rather have a 3d display. I agree it should track your head though. Could triangulate your head position and give an effect of looking into a 3d window. Saw a demo like that using a wiimote back in the day with a flatscreen display.
@@gtamike_TSGKthe problem with VR is that FOV is really low. And the aspect ratio is about 4:3.
@@gtamike_TSGKfacts…. I was able to find a few 3d movies on the quest and the 3d was amazing
Alex has become my favourite LMG person. I don't understand a lot of the stuff he goes on about, but I watch it to relax. His low-key but very much there enthusiasm is so perfectly balanced.
I forgot all about the Acer Predator line of monitors. They used to be the talk of the town for a long time and then seemingly vanished into thin air.
ROG monitors took over
All Acer gaming monitors carry the Predator name.
I remember getting the X34A which was top of the line when it came out
They've announced what I think is the best monitor of all CES that no one is talking about, a mini led screen with over 2000 dimming zones and $800 price tag. Can't wait to buy one
@@mikolv21 I can't find anything regarding this monitor, but it sounds interesting! Do you have a model number or name?
I actually had an Acer 3D laptop back in about 2010 that used passive glasses and a polarised coating on the screen to split it line by line. It worked really well, I'm glad to see they haven't given up on it.
I've got a 2006 Acer Travelmate 2420 Win/Lin/Hackintosh laptop that still seemingly holds a full charge. It's pretty slow by today's standards. But it works. I bought it new back then and gave it away to 3 different people in my family who gave it back when they got a new one. Every now and then I pull it out to see how everything is holding up. Remarkable build quality for the time and a great match for classic mac OSX 10.4.8. Only needed a jumper in the VGA.
I've got a 2012 acer laptop (don't even remember the model) that I bought before I was much into tech that I based the decision solely off of build quality. Every other laptop I tried had horrible deck flex and felt like it'd shatter if I just put my backpack down too hard, whereas the acer felt like a brick. It still holds up to this day, my brother used it as a media pc in our shop room while he did work for a home business for many years starting around 2016 to watch shows while he made stuff. Even now, I could probably go down there and boot it up and have it work just fine. Was only about $700, I used it to play games on for 3 years when I first bought it and it did a fair enough job (apart from sounding like a jet engine) think its rocking an i5, onboard graphics, and 8gb of ram or somethin. It might have had an SSD swapped in when my brother used it, but I can't remember. Think it was originally 500gb hdd.
I absolutely LOVE that you reviewed a cheaper model! Not everyone can afford to shell out 2k at a laptop ;-)
and in almost 95 percent of all cases, its not necesarry too ;)
I want a display that does this. It's fine having it on a laptop but restricting it to that really shrinks the market
Weren't 3D displays a thing like 10 years ago, but nobody cared enough to buy them so they just stopped making them, I'd be surprised if it comes back and actually succeeds
@@Dell-ol6hb I believe most people just didn't want to bother with the glasses, also the amount of content was restricted mostly to blu-rays at the time. It's a shame most 3D blu-rays are only available overseas now. Though there were some built in TV apps on the very last years 3D TV's were made that could stream 3D content. But with VR and gaming, I think glasses free 3D has a much better chance at becoming a thing, particularly useful for 3D modelers and graphics artist. If you want 3D today on a large screen, they still make DLP projectors that have it built in.
Yes, both TVs and monitors, but they all required glasses so maybe if they can figure this out for multiple users and with good AI/Neural engine maybe itll be more useful now@@Dell-ol6hb
@@Dell-ol6hb3d displays 10 years ago sucked because you had to have glasses. The technology used here is basically the same as in the nintendo 3DS, meaning it works without glasses. And even on the 3DS, it was usually a „fun thing“ you turned off after a few hours and never turned it back on. It might be somewhat useful for 3D Model designers, but thats about it.
A 27 inch version is announced for this year...
I remembered last CES. It was kinda fresh off of the 3D TV retrospective and I thought it was a shame the craze ended around when the panels were getting good. I really want to see stereoscopic 3D to make a come back in devices.
I’d love this tech in a 4k 120hz oled monitor. Now THAT would be a monitor I’d drop everything to buy
It's especially bad because passive 3D would have been great with 4K TVs. 1080p was just too low for passive, and active 3D had some big design issues (though it'd work much better with the current 120hz TVs).
LG made a couple of OLEDs up to 2016 that were 4K and passive 3D, and they're considered by far the best TVs for watching 3D content. Sadly, it came at a time when nobody wanted 3D anymore, and even if you buy one now it'll probably have serious burn-in.
Yeah, I'm quite sad that my old 27" "TV" I used as a 3d monitor broke down due to a VR mishap. I'd really love if my TV actually had 3D so I can play games or watch movies in 3d with radial polarized glasses or without them at all!
The problem with this tech is that it's only usable by one person. With the glasses 8 people could have the 3D experience. This feels like a step backwards, not forwards.
@@TheZoenGaming if your willing to drop a huge amount on this type of 3D screen you probably dont have many friends to share it with anyway 😂😂😂
The progress Acer has made with their laptops year-on-year is seriously impressive! Especially excited about the Aspire 3D5 Spatial Labs Edition, the improvement sounds significant.
As an original owner of the first generation of 3D tv’s I am unashamedly excited for 3D to come back.
I knew 3d would come back and now having tvs/monitors with high refresh rates, better clarity and most importantly not needing to wear glasses. This is gonna be awesome!
Black Ops 2, Crysis 2, Killzone 3 in 3D was awesome in the early 2010’s.
Now that they wont run at 30fps it will hopefully be a full fledged experience worth the cost of entry.
I never thought about it but not using a teleprompter does feel a little weird when you see Alex looking to the side instead of the camera for details
@@kh-ro5su he woudlnt be looking at the people around him for the specs of an asus laptop
Acer is one of my favorite brands. I got a brand new acer monitor that is 2k, 144hz, 31 inches for just 139 bucks, and it has been running amazing for six years now. Now seeing then introduce real budget options that aren't e-waste is awesome. I feel like way too many brands are just fine to up prices and not compete with spec in the budget ranges. Landfill for no reason. At least these are usable.
I appreciate the media controls being built into the trackpad - not sure I'm sold on the execution 100%, but as a heavy excel user, I find myself using function keys (F4 specifically) a lot, and in some cases I'd rather have the function keys available all the time but still have quick access to volume/playback controls. Trackpad may make sense for that.
When they make a 3D display that I can go inside and walk around the room while you're presenting, _that_ will be good.
Last time when 3d monitors was around, there was models with eye tracking that did this.
@@AndrewTSq Toshiba made a model that would track I think up to 8 set of eyes in the room and give each person a glasses free 3D view. Though apparently it was rather slow to track, so if you moved your head much, you lost the 3D effect. With todays eye tracking hardware and software I've seen demo's of this glasses free 3D and it locks onto your vision until you get too far to the side; but by that point your way too far over for comfortable viewing anyway.
I just never had a good experience with Acer Laptops, there were always some variant of performance-, thermal-, quality issues. I hope they improved but I'm steering clear of anything other than maybe their monitors
That n100 is actually perfectly usable for daily use. My office pc uses an n100 and it feels just as snappy as my gaming rig.
Exactly! It's all about what you're going to use it for. A $250 laptop, even if it's only got 4GB of RAM, is going to be fine for a general school laptop. Just maybe don't use Chrome.
@@VeshSneaks 4gb of ram with windows 12 is a totally crap.
It actually has Xe cores for the igpu! You can game with older titles
I'm actually curious of a battery life on that thing. It can totally go over 10 hours of non-idle!
And with that amount of RAM, installing Linux would make the most sense.
I really don't need it, but I'm excited about it!
@@VeshSneaks 4 gigs isn’t enough for casual use anymore. 8 is the bare bare minimum and 16 is recommended
The N100 is only slightly slower than the 3770k in my current desktop PC, at less than 1/10th the TDP. That is pretty amazing.
Damn, it is very good, any laptop available on my country at 250$ only comes with old piece of 💩 intel celeron n4020. To put into perspective how 🐌 that celeron cpu is , that celeron multicore performance is almost twice slower than single core performance on my 4 years old amd renoir laptop
You know your cpu is 💩 when your multicore performance is worse than singlecore scores on modern cpu
@@mrbobgamingmemes9558 My school laptop also uses n4020 cpu and it’s definitely bad. Also capable of reaching up to 80C doing some somewhat intensive stuff
3ds emulation on that laptop is gonna be lit
Honestly, the n100 ain't something to sneeze at, I'm using an n100 machine as my home server and it will happily serve up seven simultaneous 1080p Plex streams. I've got a buddy who uses one as a multi system retro emulation box, plays up to Gamecube era games pretty smoothly. It's basically four 12th gen e-cores, winds up being about as fast as an i5-6500, and it's insanely power efficient. We're honestly in a golden age of cheap "low end" machines.
Shoutout to 3D Displays! Gotta be one of my favorite Tech gimmicks! 🙌
"You're not going to be doing fluids simulations on this thing"
Hold my beer
More like, spill my beer on the laptop :D
Damn how I wish I had a display capable of doing this glass-less 3D on the fly conversion WHILE also being an actually good display!
Like, I just bought the insane Alienware QD-oled monitor some months ago, I want a screen like this BUT with that really cool looking 3D tech on top of it that you could toggle on and off!
Just imagine a 4k Bluray rip of Avatar 2 with VRR on this...
I have no evidence, but seems to me that in order to get this workong, you need to add a bunch of AI image Processing, which could kill your input delay for gaming purposes.
And why vrr on avatar just stick to standard fps just distracting to see the fps change in fight scenes
@@ellenoorcastricumthe film is all in 24 FPS so it would just be that the entire time. It's just so there would be no screen tearing
@@Wuerschtle yeah obviously, that's why I said it would need a simple toggle option!
@@ellenoorcastricum I liked the switched from 24 to 48fps in the theater release of the movie
I love 3D and lamented TVs eliminating the feature. I had the LG Thrill 3D phone back in the day and even with a Dorito for a CPU it managed to do a decent job converting 2D to 3D for videos (TRON in 3D was a treat) so I can only imagine what a job a modern processor paired with AI could do. I am very tempted by that Spatial Labs laptop.
I miss the Acer Nitro lineup. 15 inch, Ryzen 5 and a GTX 1650 for less than 600 USD was an amazing price to performance.
The predator starting at 1500 for a 4050 is a bitter pill to swallow.
I loved my nitro. Decent enough to game on, cheap enough to throw it in a bag as a daily driver laptop that you don't mind too much if you scratch it.
I bought an Acer Nitro 5 last year which came with RTX 3050 for... $750.
I'm just here to watch Alex push on the keyboards. 😜
That Aspire Go is fucking BRILLIANT. Good lord. The I/O is better than some $1500 laptops. The KEYBOARD is better than some $1500 laptops. Throw in a $65 TeamGroup Z4L 1TB 4.0x4 SSD and you have a brilliant little laptop that can LITERALLY BE ON THE ENTIRE DAY without needing to be charged. 6W PEAK TDP and a 53Wh battery?! Yeah, you're easily getting 10 hours of real-world battery. FINALLY a good low-cost laptop I can actually recommend!
If it has a minimum of 8gb ram.
Any idea when it comes out? Can't find anything online about it. Even other RUclipsrs at CES didn't cover it
@@BenAlderfer nope. It seems Acer's current marketing push is trying to clear out their stock of old Acer Aspire Go laptops, which by comparison to the new ones are absolute dogshit.
Note that the N100 CPU's four cores are E-cores, so expect performance similar to a 4-core Skylake (i.e. 6th-gen) chip without hyperthreading.
(this is probably obvious, but the video wasn't explicit about it)
I have a mini-PC with the very similar N95 CPU. I can't say how well it runs Windows -- I immediately threw Debian on it. It also came with twice the RAM. Still, I'd expect the Aspire Go 14 to be a decent laptop for typical office tasks, giving presentations, writing blog posts in a café, etc.
@@BenAlderferthe Aspire Go 14? It supposedly comes out in March (for North America at least)
had my be quiet silent base 601 case for about 6 months now, absolutely in love with it. It's a big black bxo that the loudest noise from it is my 6TB HDD internally. SUPER fun and easy to build in, and lots of quality of life pieces built in including cabel managing and mounting HDD for large storage. Just looooove mine. highly recommend if you're interested in a nonrgb silent case.
Any other 3D laptop options? What’s the model number of this one? When it’s going to be released?
I had a $250ish Acer Aspire with an Atom & a touchscreen in college and was always pleasantly surprised at how usable it was. It was 11.8" I think? I sold it last winter for a couple bucks knowing that it'll serve another student well for a while.
It's funny how a $250 laptop has a touchscreen but $2k+ Macbooks have never had a touchscreen, let alone the option.
The touch media thing is something you can do in windows with multi finger. And it's really good. 3 fingers up and down does vol. Up and down. 3 fingers left does back and 3 fingers right does forward and tapping with 3 fingers does pause/play
last year's flow x16 2in1 had a square heatpipe as well. It managed to cool down a 13900h and a 140w 4070.
Would love to see 3D make a comeback on TVs and everything
Just a quick note on 7:05 - this is probably due to Acer's marketing material, but it bugs me a bit that you use different measures for the screen resolution when comparing the different Swift Go 14 screens. The first one was described as "1600p" (vertical), the second as "2.8k" (horizontal). That makes it kind of unnecessarily hard to see how big the difference (around 12.5% better pixel density) actually is.
Ooh I've been waiting for ultrawide monitors to finally have 4K pixel densities. Not quite at 4K 28" densities, but it's close. Maybe I'll be updating my setup sometime soon. Though, I think that 2-3 monitors actually suits my workflows better 😅
Don't know why, but the (non)-touchpad animation made me laugh so much 😂😂😂
Yaay 3D technology is coming back...
I wonder how long that took.
We can start a new drinking game. Every time Alex says "holy crap" take a shot....
Funny that Alex mentioned putting that monitor on a SIM rig. That's exactly what my first thought was.
I've had good luck with Acer's stuff generally. My last 3 laptops were theirs, even if two them were 10" Atom powered netbooks. My current one's a Swift3 with an R5 4500U though and I love that thing. I wanted something purple, and it was this, or an HP with an i5. The Acer was better specced in other areas too
3D animation and CAD would be SO cool on that 3D laptop!
My ACER Aspire from 2012 still working fine slight overheat and win10 a bit slow but still operates whit no problem dispite coming from factory whit a dead pixel on the screen.
Good ole 3ds technology
I love the track pad media thing. Look Alex, not all of us have big hands and genuinely reaching the f-keys is ass. I hate it. So I use arrow keys, m, spacebar for media. If I could just use the track pad when watching a show, that would be amazing. less reach, bigger, and less distance between "keys" 7/10 feature they invented.
Oh yeah, if I'm on the couch and the laptop is on the coffee table it's nice if I can just tap at it to adjust what I'm watching instead of actually sitting up
Acer never lasterd me a year without any problem same goes for there monitor... hope they have improved considerably especially. On the $250 model because we can't much too much on repair for entry level laptops
Mine has lasted me 4 years on average and this current one is my 3rd acer laptop. Sometimes I think the users just sucked
I agree. The quality of their products is not up to par. I have had only bad experiences with Acer laptops. To be fair, I haven't used one since around 2017 when the screen stopped working out of nowhere, lol.
Thank goodness someone is still working on 3D monitors and screens. I know its not for everyone, but when it works, It's better than any 4k experience.
I love how other manufacturers only give you PowerPoint slides of new products and Acer says “sure, you can disassemble our laptop”
Emulating 3DS games is about to be crazy. I use a screen drawing tablet as the bottom screen for my DS and 3DS games, and a 3d display would be the cherry on top.
Wish we still had Nvidia 3D Vision to go with these 3D screens
2 core without AVX, FMA instruction compare with 4 core with AVX, FMA and even VNNI ?
After hearing Alex explain how tech works - so, its upgraded version of 3DS?
My question about the 3d laptop would be could you watch 3D Blu Rays on it? Do external 3D Blu Ray Drives exist?
I like the Acer laptop at 250$ but when you look at the tecno laptop in india which is about 23k INR which is approximately 275 US Dollars !!!!!! With an i3 11th gen, 8gb ram 256 GB storage and an awesome display with build quality. You guys should try that out
The hinge was the worst part of the swift 3 line and the scalding temperature of the keyboard surface when doing work.
i think that i'll go instead for a Thinkpad T480, which is better, as it's a 15.6" at 1920x1080, with non soldered storage and ram, better io, easy repair/upgradability
and costs about the same
I would absolutely love for 3D to make a comeback.
For privacy sake, I think machine learning working with a basic PiR motion detector signal would be better than a camera with eye tracking. Probably cheaper too in parts and compute. An amorphous blob of heat is likely plenty of data to center a 3D image.
With only a slight risk that your amorphous off-axis viewing habits will get you sent to the Gulag.
I’ve got the Go 15 with the Intel N200 processor and it’s great.
The 14” non-gamer looking one I’d buy if I needed a new laptop. That’s very nice and great i/o in such a small sturdy platform. I like it, we need more of that and less of the landfill crud. People should try their hardest to not buy crappy stuff. Spending just a little more can mean years more use and overall quality of life if you use often. That’s not an overstatement.. having a solid laptop and phone anymore really make a huge difference.
youre watchable now. nice vid
If the horizontal dimension of a curved vs flat heat pipe are the same, the curved heat pipe will have more surface area.
All I got out of this video is that Acer still needs to get with the times and stop putting barrel jacks for power on their laptops. Its so cheap to implement a 20v trigger module for power there are easy guides on how to retrofit one into an older laptop... they aren't saving any money on the power bricks over a GaN charger with a decent 100w C cable.
Got an Acer 14 back in 2019, 14 inch 1080p IPS display with AMD Ryzen 3 and Vega 8 graphics, upgradable DD4 RAM and upgradeable NVME SSD. $600 ish with solid aluminium frame top and chassis. Still looking for the 2023-24 version, unfortunately their lineup is totally Intel focused now and their AMD offerings are trash tier.
That N100 performs about the same as a 2700k. That's with half the threads, and literally using less than 1/10 of the power draw (6w vs 95w). That's actually fucking incredible.
haha, i've nerver checked but thats acutally insane. Still have a computer running a 2600k for gaming and it gets beat by a 6 Watt Ultra Low Power Budget Notebook ? no way, haha :D
It's closer to an i5-6500, and you get those 12th gen quicksync cores with AV1 decode too.
@@angry_wizard true. I just wanted to compare it to an old champ i7. It's actually insane how powerful processors have become, especially with low power ones.
@@frankieinjapan Yeah it really is wild, I'm using an N100 mini PC running Ubuntu as the brains of my home media server/NAS it's hooked up to a four bay USB 3.0 HDD enclosure and I'm really impressed at how much of a workload the little guy can take. I've seen it do eight simultaneous 1080p streams (two transcodes) without hitching, and I've had almost no downtime. It just sips power too, I'd probably be out an extra $10 a month if I was running an old workstation instead.
Got a Chuwi N100 laptop with 16 GB of RAM for my wife around the same price. They run on par with an i5-7400 in terms of performance. So really, not too shabs for 250 bones.
Acer, outside of Framework, is the laptop brand I trust and they make good machines. All of these are great offerings.
Can you imagine if advertisers start using your eye tracking to see if you're actually watching an ad or not... Terrifying...
Would have liked the video to have just concentrated more on the 3d laptop, that was the only thing that was actually interesting... The rest were basically just spec revs of standard laptops... Hoping you guys get the 3d one into the office soon so I can decide if it's something I would want.
When will Acer officially announce the sale date in the EU and US?
That 14inch laptop at 250 finally I have something I can recommend to people that want cheap laptops that aren't from random overseas reuse companies.
Description is wrong guys it says HP instead of acer
i am curious why in desktop cpus we compare their "Performance" in GHz but in mobile components we compare their "Performance" in Watts.
the chuwi gemibook pro has that same processor, ~2k res, backlit kb and is 3 by 2 AR. 8gb ram and it costs just a bit more.
YES a conpetitor to samsungs 57 inch odyssey. Dream monitor.
Isn't this basically the same as what the 3DS did 10 years ago?
Sorry but 250$ is click bait. I couldn't find any source about what specific specs this starting configuration is going to have. Further it seems to be not available everywhere. In Germany the Go 14 is starting at 549€. Seems like they don't even offer the very low end configurations with Intel Pentium here.
2:32 "and a full sized Ethernet port" I keep hearing reviewers say this and I need to ask, is there such a thing as a non full sized port? I'm genuinely asking because I've never seen anything beside a full sized port.
Yeah there is like kind of squished ports where they have a but you move to make the port the actual size of the cable
@@UFOhunter4711 This is what they used on the laptop in the video and I've seen them on plenty of laptops. It is still full sized tho since it uses a regular Ethernet cable connector. I mean is there some kind of non-standard sized Ethernet port on laptops I'm not aware of?
Nintendo was using that 3D tech 12 years ago on the 3DS
The idea of an FPS game with a 3D screen is so exciting
That media control touchpad makes me think Apple should try their Touch Bar again, but put it on the trackpad instead where it would actually make sense.
We need this in desktop hardware
Put that 3d display tech in a phone to play videos please. Will sell like hot cakes if it works very good. Maybe that will be the next big hardware upgrade for phones now that all if them are rectangular bricks.
One would think you would specify which monitors use which panel types and/or backlight types.
Why is the be quiet ad louder then the rest of the video?
I can't wait until CES is over
It's already over, ended last Friday. Probably had so many videos done while at CES to space out the video's, plus it takes time to go through tons of footage and edit.
I miss 3D, i loved it
6:05 you can upgrade its just not easy
Was there ever a half size Ethernet port?
the 3d screen seems a bit gimmicky, but man that much ram and the other specs alone are decent enough at that price point
Please add next time the USB speeds of the different ports. btw i love 3D
Uh…. The N100 only has PCIe Gen 3. Was that an error about the m.2 slot or did Acer do some kind of magic?
maybe "Its got a PCIE4 NVME Drive that is going down to 3.0 compability mode"
I assume the slot is just PCIe Gen3 ×4.
Though the N100 does support up to 9 PCIe lanes. Maybe there's some chipset magic that converts eight Gen 3 lanes to four Gen 4 lanes, but I wouldn't count on it.
Thas cool but why not a monitor/tv?
"THE BEST 3DS EMULATOR AT CES 2024?!?!'
back in the early 2000s i had an acer travelmate with dvd player, that thing was cheap and bombproof, lasted years and the keyboard was great to use long term, intel cpu and ATI Rage II graphics
Usually LTT tell you when a company have sponsored the video. Not this time.
You don't pronounce DUHD as dud, but as dude, as in "DUHD, that's a big ass monitor!"
I can't believe it's already 2024 and laptop manufacturers still sell laptops with 4GB RAM. You can't even watch RUclips and a few tabs without hitching. So why?
Windows 11 itself uses almost 3GB of RAM without any apps open. So honestly, 8GB is the bare minimum in 2024, especially if the RAM is not upgradable
Its 250 dollars you can't complain especially with that build quality. Plus with that slow cpu I don't think you would do anything intensive enough to need more. It's more of a laptop for your grandma to watch RUclips and check emails or Facebook or something.
For ChromeOS 4 is fine and the Go 14 is commonly sold as a Chromebook
@@beefycroissant6485OR ya know, charge like 10 more bucks and make it 8GB so that this POS doesn't immediately become e-waste.
OR maybe don't use soldered RAM.
@EoRdE6 I dont know how much it is to give it more ram but if it's only like 10 bucks more 100% they should have gone for it.
Hows the input lag on these new OLED acer laptops?
The Aspire go 14 seems interesting, though they need to give the specs on the display. They also need to make the RAM user upgradable. Usually when traveling, I like using a cheaper low end laptop that is less painful to get broken. Aside from that 4GB is not enough RAM, especially if they plan to run windows 11, though I have largely settled on simply going for older gen laptops where old models where a used unit can offer a better specs and a better display for $200- 250.
Beyond that, I have purchased super low end stuff as well, especially from the netbook days. For example, I still use an old Lenovo S21e (running a stripped down windows 10 install (all bloat removed, thus only using around 400MB of RAM at startup) which cost $129 back in 2015, since it is passively cooled, and the CPU is fast enough to handle audio recording, it works for handling a USB mixer and a few mics, and not having it raise the noise floor.
its manufactured ewaste, a friend bought this or the previous model last week and brought it to me because it was slow and he thought it had a virus or something. the 4gb ram is insufficient by all means. i tried installing mint on it and it kinda worked but was still barely usable. He returned it and i recomended him getting a thinkpad for around the same price with i5 6300u 16gb ram and a proper ssd.
When a $250 laptop has smaller bezels than your $2.2k Razer Blade from 2017, you know it’s time to get a replacement 😭
I hope whatever they're doing with the 3D works on Linux at some point! I might go for that