So I'm starting this video a little bit differently because what I've got in the back here is worth more than this car
Maybe just maybe I'll have to trade in my car so I can actually buy one for myself
and this is it taking up pretty much my entire booth and about 2/3 of my back seat as well, and
There's a clue
This has to be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever had on my channel. This Acer Predator 21x is
absolutely Insane! First of all before I even open it
Just look at the size of this thing. It's weighs 8.5kg
Which is more than four of these Dell XPS 15 laptops
and that doesn't even account for the fact that - as you can see on the back here - there are actually two power ports
Because you need not one 330 watt power brick
but two, and each weigh about 1.5 kilos
So this kind of stretches the term laptop, and definitely portability, a little bit. So there really aren't enough words to describe how
insane and ridiculous the 21 X is.
So let me just show you because while there are other high-end
Gaming Notebooks on the market like the ASUS GX800vh...
This is the only gaming notebook to come with, as you can see, a curved ultra wide display
That's 21 inches - 21:9 aspect ratio, which looks incredible and as you can see from behind me
I do love a good Ultrawide monitor!
I think it makes gaming so much more immersive and not only that but it's a terrific screen as well
It's got g-sync. It has a 120 hertz refresh rate. It's also an IPS panel
That is surprisingly color accurate as well
So that's the first thing you notice about this beast of a laptop, it's ultrawide display
Which is the only one on the market right now to offer that - so that's pretty incredible, but we're just getting started
The 21X also has a full mechanical keyboard.
It uses Cherry MX Brown switches - and it's an absolute joy to type on. It also comes with this handy palm rest
So you can just slot that in there and typing becomes much more comfortable
This is a genuinely a great keyboard.
Not only that but you've got a Microsoft Precision touchpad here
Which is really responsive, or if you prefer you can simply take it out
Swap it over, and you have a numpad for your keyboard. Which is again. Just insane and slightly ridiculous
It's got toby eye-tracking built in here
I'm not personally that sold on the technology, it basically allows you to control the camera angle in some games, like Assassin's Creed, with your eyes.
But they also say it's really useful for getting heat maps of where your eyes are looking on the screen
So if you're into ESports, or you're a pro gamer you can see basically where you're looking at in the game.
Inside we have two GTX 1080 graphic cards in SLI. As well as that
You've got 64GB of DDR4 RAM, a 1TB hard drive and a 1TB SSD.
So this really is a very special machine - it even says so on it
It says "limited edition 46 of 300" they aren't making a ton of these
Presumably they wouldn't sell a ton of these either considering the fact that this will set you back...
£9,000 / $9,000. As I said at the beginning of this video, this is actually worth more than my car.
You and I - we're not going to go out and buy one of these for nine grand, but then again
I like looking at fast cars I'll never be able to afford
This is like the Lamborghini of gaming Notebooks - it's completely ridiculous.
But super, super powerful only really for the top 0.1% of society. Whether it results in a trickle down of
technology and the engineering remains to be seen. I mean this is a really
Fundamentally well-built machine - the cooling, the fact that a fan noise isn't even that loud. The full mechanical keyboard, its ultrawide screen
This is a feat of engineering, and it is genuinely awesome
So whether we see...
A sort of trickle down to other Acer products will remain to be seen, but this is really just a hero product
And I'm sure will be great PR for them. I mean I'm doing this video on it
So while we may not be buying this, some people will, obviously do a limited edition
But it's just a super cool piece of technology. I think we can all agree. "I tell you, they all love me because I'm great"
So as you'd expect given the price and the dual 1080s this thing absolutely flies through games. The fact that this is a
2560x1080 resolution Ultra Widescreen
So it's not a really high res
4k display or anything means that you do get higher FPS in games, which means you can take advantage of that high refresh rate.
So not being 4k like other high-end gaming notebooks,
I think is actually an advantage because you want to play games at a higher frame rate
That's really important, but of course being SLI, it does come with some fundamental issues
You can have micro stuttering issues sometimes
Driver support, especially on a custom rig like this,
May be an issue going forward hopefully Acer and Nvidia continue to support it.
When I first got the 21X, I posted a picture on Twitter
And someone said it looks like where you can launch a missile attack from
it looks like a proper command center, there's nothing else on the market that offers this kind of performance and
this kind of design and just...presence.
But you know it's not perfect, you may have issues with the SLI micro-stuttering
Battery life, as you would expect, is not great - you get about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Under two hours
Just doing usual stuff like browsing the web or doing office work - although
I'm not sure who's going to be opening a Google Doc
Or just browsing Facebook on this. It seems a bit overkill! So battery life as you expect isn't fantastic.
also, for me. The Tobii eye-tracking is a bit pointless
I'm not really sure why anyone really needs a numpad and also the fact that this thing is massive by itself
It's really heavy, and you have to carry these two power bricks with you
and maybe even in that Pelican case which weighs about 10 kilograms or more by itself. So while it may be Wildly impractical and ridiculously expensive...
I think we can all agree it is super cool.
So let me know what you make of the Acer Predator 21 X in the comments below. I'll leave a Amazon Link...hah!
Can you imagine if I actually got commission on an Amazon link for this??
Well, that'd be quite cool actually!
Let me know what you make of this in a comments below - whether you think it's a complete waste of time, or...
It's cool that they're trying something new. let me know your thoughts. Thank you very much for watching guys
Thank you to Acer for sending it over to me to have a play.
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