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the flesh the laptop that many would
have called impossible but I now that I've seen that
it is indeed possible would simply call
very very very highly improbable this is it it is a 20 1
in laptop with a curved 2560 by 1080
12 htz display a Cherry MX Brown
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
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