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

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

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?

Baddass · 6 Sep 2015 at 11:38

psykix said:
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.

Or they are just releasing a new screen in the future like every other manufacturer does. You can't expect them to never update it. This won't be available for a while I'm sure

Baddass · 6 Sep 2015 at 11:40

Vega said:
It looks like in the US they are calling it just the "XB1":

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

I'd imagine it uses the same panel as the previous 27" Predator, so I am not sure how they can make it a "frame-less" design. The panel has side and top edges of 9mm from internal metal bezel to lit pixel distance. Unless Acer got AUOptronics to modify the panel to have less bulky internal bezels...

XB1 is the series of new screens including the XB271HU, XB271HK and XB281HK I believe. Possible AUO have an updated ver of the panel with frame less design planned although I've not seen it on any road maps yet. Suspect we are a fair way off release yet though

Baddass · 17 Dec 2015 at 11:38

Acer told me they were expecting a very small stock in Dec (30 units or something) as a possibility but majority would be Jan. given that it's now very near Christmas, and given i've not received a sample yet for review, i wouldn't expect to see anything until the new year now