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awesome skins at the link below here we are in the Acer booth and here it is in

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the flesh the laptop that many would

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have called impossible but I now that I've seen that

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it is indeed possible would simply call

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very very very highly improbable this is it it is a 20 1

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in laptop with a curved 2560 by 1080

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12 htz display a Cherry MX Brown

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mechanical keyboard with full individually controlled and back lit RGB

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lighting a right handed right sided

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touchpad oh look at that it can also

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have a number pad that is also individually lit but regrettably not

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Cherry MX Brown key switch I mean Acer you guys got to get your stuff together

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here these aren't even mechanical keys and it's got a balls to the wall IO

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including a couple USB 3s on the right a Kensington lock you lock this baby up

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because otherwise someone's going to walk off with it and gain a few pounds

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of ARM bulk in the process I mean look at my arms I'm not flexing I'm just

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holding the laptop we got two more USB 3s on the left dedicated headphone and

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microphone audio Jackson SD card reader and oh this is where it gets real right

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around the back here where you got two power plugs in for two 330 W bricks more

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on that later gigabit Ethernet Thunderbolt 32 DisplayPort 1.2s HDMI

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2.0 and a whole lot of ventilation so

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why does it need five fans and nine

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internal heat pipes that's a great question it comes down to Specs inside

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inside the Predator 21x you will find a

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core i7 7820hk that is an overclockable chip

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Acer didn't give any specific reason why they didn't just go with a desktop chip

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like I've seen ton in these kinds of machines before but there you go uh it's

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got 64 gigs of ddr4 dual Channel memory

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two GTX 1080s and SLI each with 8 gigs

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of GDDR 5x it's got a 1 tbte NVMe SSD

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raid zero configuration with a 1 tbte hard drive that is actually the memory

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and all the drive slots are pretty easy to get at so you've got a couple more

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spare SATA m.2 slots available and the

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CPU and GPU are both

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overclockable but what does that overclocking translate

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to well our Benchmark results actually went down in unigen Valley but I think

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that speaks to the pre-production nature of this machine not to the insufficient

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thermals because the temperatures of the gpus while running these tests were

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flipping unbelievable we're not even reaching the 80° limit of a GTX 1080 so

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I would expect that even though they don't have any details for me at this

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time these might even be full TDP 108s

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in a laptop form factor though it would be fairly generous to call this a laptop

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form factor there's only one configuration the highest end

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configuration but quite frankly I agree

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with Acer's decision as much as consumer choice is important quite frankly I

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think anyone spending $8,000 on a laptop

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is probably willing to spend $9,000 on a laptop because they're going for the

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best of the best and that's what this puppy is going to cost you at least in

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the US so uh wow that is a thing it's real it is

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not a PR stunt I mean it might still be a PR stunt but it's a real one that you

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can actually hold I mean look how thick this thing is so thanks for watching our

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coverage of the Predator 21x here at the Acer booth at C 2017 and a huge shout

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