 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 $1,700 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 Thronus, arguably the biggest, heaviest desktop ever made. So this entire thing is actually one package. There is a single SKU. It costs $10,000 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 is 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 9,000 desktop. It comes with a, it's a pretty good spec but not an over-the-top spec that's included in the $10,000 unit. So you got your 8,700K. I believe it's 32 gigs of RAM. Does that sound about right? You got your 512 gig SSD, 2 terabyte hard drive. What's that? 64 gigs of RAM. Who's keeping track at this point? RTX 2080 Ti. So very capable little gaming machine. All right, you get a full set of Acer Predator gaming peripherals, keyboard, mouse. 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 Thronus, 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. 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. Oh, no, the headset. Open, open. Come on, Linus. Hold on. Ah, to do this. So it closes the keyboard mouse tray. I got to give it a little help. This is pre-production still. It's not shipping till Q2 sometime, 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 gonna 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. So, eh, buddy, come on, pedal rise. Do you mind showing me how you got this to come up before? Oh, OK, 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 kinda 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 not, 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, 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 $10,000, 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, $5,000 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 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 customizable. So you can change out this marble back that I've got on mine with dragon skin or any color you want. They're all true textured, authentic 3M vinyl, and they are cut with the precision that you'd expect from dbrand. 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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 close this, close this cabin in here. Not gonna break the headphones this time. Zero G opening. Yeah. Did I mention the adjustable armrests? Well, pay attention to the road here. I crashed.