1 00:00:01,960 --> 00:00:09,599 Holy crap. The top-of-the-line laptop 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:12,240 market has been expanding, even 3 00:00:09,599 --> 00:00:19,359 exploding in recent years. And it seems now pretty much everybody and their dog 4 00:00:15,839 --> 00:00:23,519 has a laptop with a GTX 1080 desktop 5 00:00:19,359 --> 00:00:26,400 edition or even two of them in SLI. So, 6 00:00:23,519 --> 00:00:35,120 how do you set yourself apart from the crowd? Well, Acer decided to conjure 7 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:39,640 forth the purest, maddest gaming laptop 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:45,000 ever created. Gaze upon the Predator 9 00:00:39,640 --> 00:00:53,840 21X and tremble puny mortals. 10 00:00:53,840 --> 00:01:01,280 The Master Keys Pro keyboard lineup from Cooler Master is available in three 11 00:00:57,760 --> 00:01:02,760 sizes each in white or RGB flavors. 12 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:09,080 Check them out at the link below. All right, so we really can't go 13 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:12,439 any further without addressing the 14 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:17,880 display. It's freaking amazing. It's a 15 00:01:12,439 --> 00:01:20,960 21 in curved ultrawide display on a 16 00:01:17,880 --> 00:01:24,680 laptop. When you open this thing up, it 17 00:01:20,960 --> 00:01:27,600 is immediately clear. It means 18 00:01:24,680 --> 00:01:33,840 business. While it does have a little bit of backlight bleed, it's bright, has 19 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:42,600 great viewing angles and vivid colors. And the 120 Hz refresh rate along with 20 00:01:38,479 --> 00:01:46,240 G-Sync compatibility cements it as the 21 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:49,439 laptop gaming display to end all laptop 22 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:54,079 gaming displays. And speaking of games, 23 00:01:49,439 --> 00:01:57,040 if your game dips below 120 FPS, well, 24 00:01:54,079 --> 00:02:04,159 you can pretty much blame the developers since this baby packs more power than 25 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:09,360 your average split Atom. dual power 26 00:02:04,159 --> 00:02:15,200 bricks feed the two GTX 1080s in SLI, a 27 00:02:09,360 --> 00:02:20,800 Core i7 7820HK quad core, two NVMe SSDs 28 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:24,000 in RAID zero, and 64 gigabytes of DDR4 29 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:27,520 memory. So, these specs and the monitor 30 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:30,720 make playing frantic games like Doom 31 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:33,120 extra awesome with no perceptible input 32 00:02:30,720 --> 00:02:40,959 lag and colors popping like the overwrite postules dotting the cranium 33 00:02:36,560 --> 00:02:45,360 of a demon. IO, while we're at it, is 34 00:02:40,959 --> 00:02:46,959 also near desktop class, but there's a 35 00:02:45,360 --> 00:02:51,280 bunch of way cooler stuff that we want to get to. So, we're going to kind of 36 00:02:49,280 --> 00:02:57,040 gloss over that. In games, this thing crushed everything 37 00:02:54,400 --> 00:03:02,239 we threw at it, regularly getting into the hundreds of frames per second while 38 00:02:59,519 --> 00:03:08,480 running at ultra settings. The ultrawide display made all those frames even more 39 00:03:04,959 --> 00:03:11,760 sweet, except in DSX and DirectX12, 40 00:03:08,480 --> 00:03:13,879 where things outside of the 16x9 aspect 41 00:03:11,760 --> 00:03:19,519 ratio kind of drendered. Now, since Acer was the first 42 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:26,319 one to include an ultrawide display on a laptop, we had to actually step it down 43 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:28,400 to 16 by9 and rerun all of our 44 00:03:26,319 --> 00:03:34,400 benchmarks in order to do direct comparisons against anything else. Good 45 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:41,360 news for Acer, though, even compared to other top laptops, the Predator 21X took 46 00:03:38,560 --> 00:03:47,680 no prisoners. Although to be clear, it is still not quite able to take on a 47 00:03:44,080 --> 00:03:49,599 desktop running GTX 1080s and SLI. And 48 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:55,360 it should also be noted that these benchmarks were taken with the fans on 49 00:03:52,239 --> 00:03:58,159 what we call jet engine mode. More about 50 00:03:55,360 --> 00:04:04,080 that soon. So if you expect it to be quiet!, you might see frame rates that 51 00:04:00,640 --> 00:04:06,799 are a little bit lower. Thermals then. 52 00:04:04,080 --> 00:04:11,280 The Predator 21X's thermals surprisingly actually aren't that amazing when you 53 00:04:08,879 --> 00:04:16,359 leave it on the auto setting. It does keep it nice and quiet, but it falls 54 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:21,639 into the same CPU thermal limiting issues that all of 55 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:28,240 the hyperlaptops seem to run up against with 56 00:04:24,720 --> 00:04:31,919 a bit of throttling when running ID 64. 57 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:33,919 But if you have the fans to max, aka 58 00:04:31,919 --> 00:04:38,960 hope you have active noiseancelling headphones because an F-18 is taking off 59 00:04:36,000 --> 00:04:43,960 in your backyard mode. The internals are kept nice and cool, which you'd hope 60 00:04:41,199 --> 00:04:50,720 would be the case because there are five fans and nine freaking heat pipes. I 61 00:04:48,639 --> 00:04:55,040 mean, don't get me wrong here. With a machine like this, I expect you're going 62 00:04:52,720 --> 00:05:00,479 to love the noise because this isn't Civic with a hole in the muffler. This 63 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:03,520 is Ferrari V12 as it screams at over 64 00:05:00,479 --> 00:05:06,639 8,000 RPM. And you can make it roar 65 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:10,400 anytime you want with the uh oh yeah, 66 00:05:06,639 --> 00:05:13,520 four speakers and two subwoofers. This 67 00:05:10,400 --> 00:05:16,320 is the loudest laptop I've ever heard in 68 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:21,600 every possible way. Even the keyboard is fully mechanical with Cherry MX Brown 69 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:28,000 switches. And with the wrist rest attached, it actually feels like typing 70 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:30,280 on a standalone mechanical keyboard. 71 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:36,560 Now, the astute among you might have noticed there isn't a 72 00:05:33,479 --> 00:05:39,120 trackpad, but have no fear. All you got 73 00:05:36,560 --> 00:05:44,080 to do is lift up the number pad and turn it around if you've forgotten your 74 00:05:41,039 --> 00:05:47,199 mouse. Pretty sweet. Now, the Predator 75 00:05:44,080 --> 00:05:50,400 21X also features Toby eye tracking, 76 00:05:47,199 --> 00:05:52,400 which allows for dynamic lighting and 77 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:57,520 aiming depending on where you're looking. And as more games begin to 78 00:05:55,440 --> 00:06:02,720 support it, I can see this becoming a really cool feature, but at the moment, 79 00:05:59,759 --> 00:06:07,600 it doesn't do a whole heck of a lot. Routine disassembly of the 21X is 80 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:12,240 actually relatively easy with only one screw required to remove the top panel, 81 00:06:10,080 --> 00:06:17,360 giving you access to the spinning storage and half of the RAM. Opening up 82 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:24,160 the bottom requires removing three screws and gives you access to the four 83 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:27,520 M.2 drive bays, plus the rest of the 84 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:30,240 RAM. This is all that can be easily 85 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:35,880 accessed though and any other internal components are only possible to reach 86 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:40,759 through pretty much a full disassembly. So then by this point in 87 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:45,520 the video you must be thinking to yourself, wait a second, L minus at 88 00:06:46,039 --> 00:06:52,759 17.8B. Isn't portability kind of out the 89 00:06:49,199 --> 00:06:55,680 window? And the answer is no. 90 00:06:52,759 --> 00:07:02,919 Fortunately, Acer thought of this and they included this incredibly convenient 91 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:06,400 custom Pelican case with every 92 00:07:02,919 --> 00:07:10,000 21X. Its compact size and ergonomic 93 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:13,919 wheels and handles mean taking the 21X 94 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,080 with you on the go is almost simple, and 95 00:07:13,919 --> 00:07:22,120 it can fit in the trunk of your average van with ease. Joking aside though, the 96 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:28,319 21X is still considerably easier to pack up 97 00:07:25,440 --> 00:07:34,800 than a full desktop computer. And with the hardware it's packing, that is 98 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:38,400 really not an unjust comparison. So, if 99 00:07:34,800 --> 00:07:41,840 you want full-on performance at a land 100 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:44,960 party or if you move around a fair bit, 101 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:48,080 it's actually a pretty incredible 102 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:51,199 option. I was slightly worried that the 103 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,520 curved monitor would be easily damaged 104 00:07:51,199 --> 00:07:57,919 in more casual transportation though, like say in a backpack. But during our 105 00:07:56,240 --> 00:08:04,879 testing, we actually found that it remained quite sturdy even when you put 106 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:07,199 pressure on it. Using it on your lap, go 107 00:08:04,879 --> 00:08:12,160 figure, it is a laptop still, is surprisingly comfortable. That is to 108 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:18,240 say, until your legs start to go numb. And if you roll up in the coffee shop to 109 00:08:14,319 --> 00:08:21,120 do some work, it does work, even if you 110 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:27,759 might get a couple of funny looks. But bottom line then, should you get one? 111 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:30,919 Well, really, it's more of a question of 112 00:08:27,759 --> 00:08:38,320 can you get one? To which the answer 113 00:08:30,919 --> 00:08:38,320 is probably no. 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