- I wish I was there
when Acer went into their room of engineers and was like
make the most powerful laptop ever.
You could see them all, like, look at each other
and be like, wait what about portability,
practicality, pricing?
None of that matters.
Just make something powerful.
And then the excitement in the room,
as they all went off to go sketch things
or whatever engineers do.
And that had to be what happened with this laptop.
It is a testament to what is technically possible
in a gaming laptop today, and yes
it is for sale for about 9000 dollars,
and your average consumer is probably not
going to look to actually buy this thing,
so I'm not going to do a review.
Instead, I'm gonna do what I think
a technical masterpiece like this deserves.
I'm gonna put it through its paces
and see what those engineers were able to do.
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So first up, besides benchmarks
which, don't worry, we'll get to,
let's talk about some of the crazy tech
they managed to squeeze into this behemoth.
And it is a behemoth,
weighing 18.74 pounds and over 22 inches wide,
it physically dwarfs every other laptop, period.
But the impressive part of this is the fact
that every millimeter is crammed with
some form of tech or another.
The bottom half has every port imaginable,
one SD card slot, a headphone jack,
microphone jack, 4 USB 3.0 ports,
an HDMI 2.0 port, two display ports,
an ethernet port, and
a USB 3.1 type C thunderbolt 3 port.
It also has not one, but two AC power ports
for the two AC power adapters
required to power this thing,
that can be held together with a nice rubber brace.
In between all of these ports taking up
every other inch of frame are air vents,
which are connected to the five fans
three of which are Acer's new patented aeroblade fans,
that are impressive in their own right, by the way,
and nine heat pipes used to keep this thing running cool.
There's also three-way sound with two tweeters,
two mid-range speakers and
two subwoofers found under the laptop,
all with Dolby Audio enhancements.
Then, at the front when you think there's
nothing there, there's even magnets to hold
the included wrist rest that comes with it.
The top half is no less packed with tech.
The screen is a curved, yes curved,
21 inch, 2560 by 1080 display,
with a 120 gigahertz refresh rate
and a 21 by nine aspect ratio,
which of course is laced with an
LED backlit logo and strips along the sides.
There's even tobii eye-tracking
under the bottom of the screen,
which can be used to control the mouse.
You can actually hold your finger down
on the trackpad while looking somewhere
to get the mouse to jump to that location.
It's kinda cool,
but is mainly used for the over 45 titles
to have HUD options fade in and out,
place commands to target enemies,
control the in-game camera and look around
in the game with, and more.
And because, why not,
there's also a 720p webcam at the top.
The keyboard is a cherry MX switch mechanical keyboard
that is, of course, super-clicky
and is backlit and customizable
with up to sixteen point seven million colors.
There are six customizable keys to the left
and a precision touchpad that magnetically attaches
and can be flipped over for a numberpad,
should you want to use an external mouse
and have more keys at your disposal.
Along the top, there's a window
to show off some of the internals,
including a fan lit up by an LED
and a large panel that can also be
customized on ordering with
country flags and different images.
Cleverly, though this plaque is
also an easy-access panel to get to
one of the five storage bays and two slots for RAM.
You can get to the other RAM slots
and four M2 storage bays by unscrewing
the bottom of the laptop.
Which brings us to what is inside
this laptop and powering it.
We have 64 gigs of DDR4 RAM,
a seventh gen IntelCore i7 78 20HK overclockable CPU
and not one, but two invidia gtx 1080 GPUs
in sl-I configuration, giving you about
16 gigs of dedicated GDDR 5xvRAM.
Which brings us to the question of
what can this loosely-named "laptop" handle?
So first, benchmarks.
First up, this CPU is overclockable using
the ACER included software, so we'll
turn that all the way up.
Also, the GPU as well.
Second, I'm going to grab stats from the
Predator 21X, but you can take these numbers
from the test and compare them to
other laptops online for yourself.
Let's start with Geekbench 4.
Then 3-D Mark's most intensive test, TimeSpy
Then VRMark's most intensive test, Blue Room.
And then how about rendering four minutes
of 4k footage out at the YouTube 4k preset
in Adobe Premiere.
Now let's try an actual game,
you guys mentioned to me Witcher three
as the game that I should test, so
let's turn everything all the way up to maximum
and play that for a sec.
(funky tech music)
Alright, no problem for the laptop,
so how about we try that again
while rendering that same footage from before
out in Premiere?
(funky tech music)
Okay, how about rendering that footage,
streaming a 4K video on YouTube,
streaming music from Spotify,
running a VR game on max settings
to the VIVE that is attached,
and playing Witcher three on max settings,
all at the same time?
(funky tech music)
And, yeah, no problem whatsoever.
And there you go.
For your average person,
there's probably not much you could throw
at this laptop that it couldn't handle.
Now its also not a very practical laptop
by any means, but it is a really interesting thing
to see what is actually capable in a laptop right now
and I have to applaud the engineers at Acer.
So you wanna know what the most exciting part
to me about all this?
At the rate that technology is
advancing right now,
I don't really think its gonna be that long
before we have the power like that
in something more like this size.
I can't wait.
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