Acer Predator XB271HU - upgrade to the XB270HU

Baddass · 2 Sep 2015 at 16:04

Looks like this will be interesting. only real change seems to be in the design at the moment with frame-less appearance now offered. also expect it will support HDMI input as well as DP:

http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/news_archive/34.htm#acer_xb271

Gibbo · 2 Sep 2015 at 17:02

Great stuff coming from Acer, in gaming sector they are now pretty much our best selling monitors, absolutely owning it.

psykix · 2 Sep 2015 at 17:41

Well that's a nice stab in the ribs to those of us that bought the XB270HU and persevered with it through its issues.

Not impressed that it's replaced with an updated model so soon.

Who knows, maybe OCUK or Acer will offer an upgrade/replacement program.

pmc25 · 2 Sep 2015 at 18:07

frame-less appearance? it has a pretty chunky looking frame / bezel to me. still, these are much less ugly than their predecessors.

psykix said:
Well that's a nice stab in the ribs to those of us that bought the XB270HU and persevered with it through its issues.

Not impressed that it's replaced with an updated model so soon.

Who knows, maybe OCUK or Acer will offer an upgrade/replacement program.

Dream on ...

JediFragger · 2 Sep 2015 at 18:46

pmc25 said:
Dream on ...

Agreed, won't happen.

Liking the look of the Z35 Predator, 200Mhz will be super sweet but only 1080p

snips86x · 2 Sep 2015 at 18:50

JediFragger said:
Agreed, won't happen.

Liking the look of the Z35 Predator, 200Mhz will be super sweet but only 1080p

Wouldn't drop below 1440p now!!

Baddass · 2 Sep 2015 at 19:12

pmc25 said:
frame-less appearance? it has a pretty chunky looking frame / bezel to me. still, these are much less ugly than their predecessors.

Dream on ...

The picture is of the XB281HK not the new XB271HU

varkanoid · 3 Sep 2015 at 10:39

XB281HK Computex 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W0vt9zBTfk

stand looks awful like something Batman would throw and the footprint is horrendous !
If you look closely you can see the curved Acer Announce 35" behind it (I think ?)

ibbreezy · 3 Sep 2015 at 11:14

Here's Acer's website regarding the XB271HU.

http://www.acer.com/predator/en_US/predator_xb1.html

Hutchy · 3 Sep 2015 at 11:16

What a massive %^$£ you to all those that bought the XB270HU including myself.

Sylver123 · 3 Sep 2015 at 12:10

I wonder if they have improved the backlight bleed issue with the new design.

The older XB270HU is well known for having bad backlight bleed.

wickeruk · 3 Sep 2015 at 13:21

I bet we see a continued massive price drop of the XB270HU over the next couple of months.

Although we know how fast these monitors come to market... see you in 2016 XB271HU

(Still waiting for my Acer Predator X34 - hoping it wont be made redundant in 3 months from time of release)

Ashendie · 3 Sep 2015 at 13:22

Great stuff? Owning it?... Acer wouldn't know quality if it was smashed into their face.

After going through 4 of the XB270HU's each with similar issues they know where they can shove this one.

Unless they miraculously have sorted themselves out in the past several months there's no chance of me picking one of these up.

Acting like they've done a good job is like a slap in the face to the people that actually bought it and had to deal with months of BS from Acer.

Massive thumbs down.

Baddass · 3 Sep 2015 at 14:02

Hutchy said:
What a massive %^$£ you to all those that bought the XB270HU including myself.

why is it?! a slightly updated design with zero frame bezel and possibly a couple of other small changes known so far. it wont be out for a considerable amount of time i'm sure, suspect Q1 next year. so how is it an insult to XB270HU owners?

Legend · 3 Sep 2015 at 17:10

Who had the bright idea of sticking on those ridiculous clown feet for a stand?? Oh, probably the same guy who thought all the glossy piano black plastic on the XB270HU was the way to go. Nuts.

This is going to be the Sideshow Bob of monitors if it follows in its predecessors footsteps. Basically a failure and a joke.

varkanoid · 3 Sep 2015 at 17:26

....waits for the comments about writing it off before its released.......

With any other manufacturer I would have agreed but not with Acer baby.

drunkenmaster · 3 Sep 2015 at 18:43

I literally just bought one of these... oh wait, it was the freesync version, for way cheaper... and already has multiple inputs, I guess I'm okay

mxoagentjohnson · 3 Sep 2015 at 21:26

I dont believe anything Acer says.

My Acer monitors Gsync broke in 6 months, wouldnt take it to be returned and fixed. Had HORRENDOUS motion blur + ghosting. Has awful colours, no sharpness option, and the screen flickers at the bottom (really obvious on steam and some windows) all the time. So i dont believe any of this "flicker free" they promote.

psykix · 5 Sep 2015 at 12:14

Baddass said:
why is it?! a slightly updated design with zero frame bezel and possibly a couple of other small changes known so far. it wont be out for a considerable amount of time i'm sure, suspect Q1 next year. so how is it an insult to XB270HU owners?

Because they know they screwed up with the XB270HU and so have attempted to rectify some of the consumer gripes. Those of us who have persevered with the XB270HU never expected what is in effect a revision of our current monitor so soon.

I'm happy with the picture quality of the panel on my monitor - however I would never ever buy an Acer monitor again. The build quality is just dreadful for this price point.

Doug73458 · 5 Sep 2015 at 15:17

They look sexy af, especially the predator z35... just look at the curvature.