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I may be buying an Acer Predator today

  1. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    The monitor?

    The Desktop?

    the Tablet?

    The Laptop?

  2. Lays

    Lays

    monitor, the 1440p IPS 144hz one w/ g-sync

  3. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    Are you going to be selling the PB278Q then?

    Or will you keep it?

    Will be interesting to see how these modern 'AHVA-IPS' panels on the Predator compare to Asus' professional grade 'AH-IPS' panels.

    I mean usually higher pixel clock comes at the cost of pixel quality, will be interesting to see if you can see the difference in a side by side comparison

  4. Lays

    Lays

    No I'll be keeping it as a secondary monitor.

    I've actually just got a friend selling his ROG Swift for $600 shipped I think, I will get that instead if he wants to sell me it.

  5. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    I don't know, I think if you have the money for the Predator that you should go for it.

    Going from a high tier IPS to a TN....

  6. bcredeur97

    bcredeur97

    Stick with IPS man. Its gonna drive you insane once you dont have one

  7. Lays

    Lays

    Yes but $200 is quite a big difference, and Linus multiple times has said the TN In the swift is VERY good

  8. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    Yes, and then he also said that it's still quite a far cry from IPS.

    It's a great TN panel....but at the end of the day it's still just a TN panel.

  9. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    Lays bro, just watch this part of the PCPER podcast and you'll understand.

    Allyn Malventano [PCPER] - "I ended up buying it cuz like at that price I was like hell I'll sell the Swift and I'll just switch to that and I did, and I couldn't be happier, that's good stuff"

    Allyn Malventano [PCPER] - "I couldn't be happier"

  10. Lays

    Lays

    Except I'm not looking at it from a $775 to $800 price point, it's $600 vs $800

  11. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    Yes....$200 for a warranty(fairly sure Asus doesn't do warranty transfers), an IPS panel, and being new.

  12. Lays

    Lays

    The thing is, spending that extra 200 would break the bank, and my Mom is paying for it. If I can save her some $ for bills and thing, it'd be nice.

  13. Lays

    Lays

    She owes me a lot of money from when I lent her a bunch of money from my Car-Accident settlement, so she's going to buy this on credit and make payments on it.

  14. mvitkun

    mvitkun

    Ah, I just figured that you were buying all these things yourself.

    I mean you've been swapping parts like mad.

  15. Lays

    Lays

    In a way I've been buying them myself, since the money she's giving me back was mine in the first place XD

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