 Over the last couple of years, a certain company, and by a certain company, I mean Apple, have been diluting the pro moniker to basically mean the expensive consumer one. But that changes today with the Acer Concept D7 Easel Pro, a desktop replacement designed for professionals and certified by brands like Adobe, Altair, Autodesk, and Ansys. Acer didn't get super far into the alphabet. Just like we won't get super far into this video without mentioning that our CES 2020 coverage is brought to you by Pulseway, the software that lets you remotely monitor, manage, and control all of your Windows, Mac, and Linux machines from one app. Create your free account and get 20% off their team's plan at the link below. If you don't look too closely at the Easel Pro, you might be fooled in thinking that it's a pretty standard laptop, just a bit on the bulky side with fairly high build quality and ooh, what is this? There's something else. We have seen a hinge kind of like this from Acer before that had a similar concept on the Trident 900, but that included these bulky arms on the side that made an already very non-portable laptop even less on the go friendly. But here they have incorporated all of the things you could do with big hinge into just this small, elegant one on the back. With this, we get five usage modes. Standard, like it is right now. Sharing for easier sharing on a table. Floating, which is somewhere in the middle, brings the display a little bit closer to you. I actually liked that one quite a bit. Pad for when you're using the stylus. And finally display for when you want to look at the back of the display. Now you might be thinking that designing a hinge such as this one is pretty simple. Like, you know, it's just a hinge. Well, there's a reason that Acer's first try looked like a laptop with water wings. Each hinge and torsional spring in here had to have its own aluminum injection mold to make sure that the torque was just right at every point during travel. Of course, a fancy hinge on its own does not make this a professional device. Here we have a 15.6 inch 4K display that covers 100% of the Adobe RGB spectrum. Has a brightness of 400 nits and each panel is verified by Pantone to be within a Delta E of under two. The thing that really sets the Easel Pro apart from say the MacBook Pro though, is the excellent pen support provided by the Walcom EMR or electromagnetic resonance pen. Basically you get a traditional IPS display and then on top of that is Walcom's EMR sensors that are lined up and down the screen to create a very small electromagnetic field that extends roughly five millimeters or so up from the sensors. Within the pen is a small coil of wire that is basically turned into electromagnet that is picked up by the sensors on here, completely removing the need for the pen to be battery powered. The key advantage of the EMR pen is that it's very easy for the display to discern between touch inputs and pen inputs, making it excellent for tasks such as drawing and writing. As for the actual performance of the pen, I can't really say. This is a pretty early sample and some of the apps are not working great but some of them are pretty good. Fortunately it does behave well in Paint 3D and the responsiveness is excellent. Many of you might be thinking though, Apple does have a pro device that has excellent pen support, the iPad Pro, which is true and really it's 120 Hertz refresh rate on the iPad Pro will deliver a slightly superior experience if all you want to do is draw baby Yoda's. If you're a true professional though, you'll need professional applications and the power to run them. And do we ever have the power to run them here? I think. The only solid information that I have is that it'll be using Intel Xeon processors and Nvidia RTX Quadro graphics. But I think it will be fair to guess we'll be getting eight or more processing cores and an RTX 4000 on the non-pro version and an RTX 5000 on the pro model. The most impressive part though is that under full load, the Easel Pro, according to Acer, should be under 40 decibels of volume. There's also ECC memory and up to two terabytes of storage. The Concept D7 comes with an assortment of IO that you can guess is the kind of stuff that professionals might actually want. We've got two Thunderbolts, Type A, believe that there's full-sized HDMI and DisplayPort, very nice, ethernet and I think there's an SD card reader on here, maybe. Basically with all this, you'll just be saying bye to the dongle life. What you can say bye to though is a scratched laptop. Apparently, according to Acer. The Concept D7 is finished with a metal arc oxidization, basically a ceramic-like coating that should be more resilient to scratches and discoloration than traditional anodization. Of course, if you're looking to get all of this powerful proness, it's gonna cost you. With the Concept D7 Easel starting at 2699 and the Easel Pro starting at 3099 with expected availability around March or so. So as a little bonus at the end, and by that I mean a bonus for me, this is the new Acer Thronos. Acer have decided to remove the big hydraulic lifting arm saying that it was a bit overkill. So in this version, we get a more normal door with hydraulic assistance for positioning the monitors like so. What I really like though is that they have included a massage chair. Oh, I'm not sure if all of this is worth almost $14,000. That does include these three monitors, but not the PC in the back, but it does feel good though. This is pretty sick. 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