{"video_id":"bnpoAIfUWIk","title":"The BIGGEST, HEAVIEST, Laptop EVER - $9,000 Acer Predator 21X","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2017-05-06T14:53:29Z","duration_s":273,"segments":[{"start_s":0.199,"end_s":7.0,"text":"thanks to dbrand for sponsoring our CES coverage this year check out their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":4.44,"end_s":15.24,"text":"awesome skins at the link below here we are in the Acer booth and here it is in","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":11.799,"end_s":16.4,"text":"the flesh the laptop that many would","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":15.24,"end_s":23.4,"text":"have called impossible but I now that I've seen that","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":19.64,"end_s":25.679,"text":"it is indeed possible would simply call","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.4,"end_s":37.8,"text":"very very very highly improbable this is it it is a 20 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mechanical keyboard with full individually controlled and back lit RGB lighting a right handed right sided touchpad oh look at that it can also have a number pad that is also individually lit but regrettably not Cherry MX Brown key switch I mean Acer you guys got to get your stuff together here these aren't even mechanical keys and it's got a balls to the wall IO including a couple USB 3s on the right a Kensington lock you lock this baby up because otherwise someone's going to walk off with it and gain a few pounds of ARM bulk in the process I mean look at my arms I'm not flexing I'm just holding the laptop we got two more USB 3s on the left dedicated headphone and microphone audio Jackson SD card reader and oh this is where it gets real right around the back here where you got two power plugs in for two 330 W bricks more on that later gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt 32 DisplayPort 1.2s HDMI 2.0 and a whole lot of ventilation so why does it need five fans and nine internal heat pipes that's a great question it comes down to Specs inside inside the Predator 21x you will find a core i7 7820hk that is an overclockable chip Acer didn't give any specific reason why they didn't just go with a desktop chip like I've seen ton in these kinds of machines before but there you go uh it's got 64 gigs of ddr4 dual Channel memory two GTX 1080s and SLI each with 8 gigs of GDDR 5x it's got a 1 tbte NVMe SSD raid zero configuration with a 1 tbte hard drive that is actually the memory and all the drive slots are pretty easy to get at so you've got a couple more spare SATA m.2 slots available and the CPU and GPU are both overclockable but what does that overclocking translate to well our Benchmark results actually went down in unigen Valley but I think that speaks to the pre-production nature of this machine not to the insufficient thermals because the temperatures of the gpus while running these tests were flipping unbelievable we're not even reaching the 80° limit of a GTX 1080 so I would expect that even though they don't have any details for me at this time these might even be full TDP 108s in a laptop form factor though it would be fairly generous to call this a laptop form factor there's only one configuration the highest end configuration but quite frankly I agree with Acer's decision as much as consumer choice is important quite frankly I think anyone spending $8,000 on a laptop is probably willing to spend $9,000 on a laptop because they're going for the best of the best and that's what this puppy is going to cost you at least in the US so uh wow that is a thing it's real it is not a PR stunt I mean it might still be a PR stunt but it's a real one that you can actually hold I mean look how thick this thing is so thanks for watching our coverage of the Predator 21x here at the Acer booth at C 2017 and a huge shout out to our sponsor for this video dbrand if you guys are thinking gee my device looks kind of cool and it's like kind of scratch resistant but it 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