WEBVTT 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:09.599 Holy crap. The top-of-the-line laptop 00:00:06.160 --> 00:00:12.240 market has been expanding, even 00:00:09.599 --> 00:00:19.359 exploding in recent years. And it seems now pretty much everybody and their dog 00:00:15.839 --> 00:00:23.519 has a laptop with a GTX 1080 desktop 00:00:19.359 --> 00:00:26.400 edition or even two of them in SLI. So, 00:00:23.519 --> 00:00:35.120 how do you set yourself apart from the crowd? Well, Acer decided to conjure 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:39.640 forth the purest, maddest gaming laptop 00:00:35.120 --> 00:00:45.000 ever created. Gaze upon the Predator 00:00:39.640 --> 00:00:53.840 21X and tremble puny mortals. 00:00:53.840 --> 00:01:01.280 The Master Keys Pro keyboard lineup from Cooler Master is available in three 00:00:57.760 --> 00:01:02.760 sizes each in white or RGB flavors. 00:01:01.280 --> 00:01:09.080 Check them out at the link below. All right, so we really can't go 00:01:05.920 --> 00:01:12.439 any further without addressing the 00:01:09.080 --> 00:01:17.880 display. It's freaking amazing. It's a 00:01:12.439 --> 00:01:20.960 21 in curved ultrawide display on a 00:01:17.880 --> 00:01:24.680 laptop. When you open this thing up, it 00:01:20.960 --> 00:01:27.600 is immediately clear. It means 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:33.840 business. While it does have a little bit of backlight bleed, it's bright, has 00:01:31.040 --> 00:01:42.600 great viewing angles and vivid colors. And the 120 Hz refresh rate along with 00:01:38.479 --> 00:01:46.240 G-Sync compatibility cements it as the 00:01:42.600 --> 00:01:49.439 laptop gaming display to end all laptop 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:54.079 gaming displays. And speaking of games, 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:57.040 if your game dips below 120 FPS, well, 00:01:54.079 --> 00:02:04.159 you can pretty much blame the developers since this baby packs more power than 00:02:00.159 --> 00:02:09.360 your average split Atom. dual power 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:15.200 bricks feed the two GTX 1080s in SLI, a 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:20.800 Core i7 7820HK quad core, two NVMe SSDs 00:02:15.200 --> 00:02:24.000 in RAID zero, and 64 gigabytes of DDR4 00:02:20.800 --> 00:02:27.520 memory. So, these specs and the monitor 00:02:24.000 --> 00:02:30.720 make playing frantic games like Doom 00:02:27.520 --> 00:02:33.120 extra awesome with no perceptible input 00:02:30.720 --> 00:02:40.959 lag and colors popping like the overwrite postules dotting the cranium 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:45.360 of a demon. IO, while we're at it, is 00:02:40.959 --> 00:02:46.959 also near desktop class, but there's a 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 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:57.040 gloss over that. In games, this thing crushed everything 00:02:54.400 --> 00:03:02.239 we threw at it, regularly getting into the hundreds of frames per second while 00:02:59.519 --> 00:03:08.480 running at ultra settings. The ultrawide display made all those frames even more 00:03:04.959 --> 00:03:11.760 sweet, except in DSX and DirectX12, 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:13.879 where things outside of the 16x9 aspect 00:03:11.760 --> 00:03:19.519 ratio kind of drendered. Now, since Acer was the first 00:03:17.040 --> 00:03:26.319 one to include an ultrawide display on a laptop, we had to actually step it down 00:03:22.800 --> 00:03:28.400 to 16 by9 and rerun all of our 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:34.400 benchmarks in order to do direct comparisons against anything else. Good 00:03:31.440 --> 00:03:41.360 news for Acer, though, even compared to other top laptops, the Predator 21X took 00:03:38.560 --> 00:03:47.680 no prisoners. Although to be clear, it is still not quite able to take on a 00:03:44.080 --> 00:03:49.599 desktop running GTX 1080s and SLI. And 00:03:47.680 --> 00:03:55.360 it should also be noted that these benchmarks were taken with the fans on 00:03:52.239 --> 00:03:58.159 what we call jet engine mode. More about 00:03:55.360 --> 00:04:04.080 that soon. So if you expect it to be quiet!, you might see frame rates that 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:06.799 are a little bit lower. Thermals then. 00:04:04.080 --> 00:04:11.280 The Predator 21X's thermals surprisingly actually aren't that amazing when you 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:16.359 leave it on the auto setting. It does keep it nice and quiet, but it falls 00:04:14.080 --> 00:04:21.639 into the same CPU thermal limiting issues that all of 00:04:20.560 --> 00:04:28.240 the hyperlaptops seem to run up against with 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:31.919 a bit of throttling when running ID 64. 00:04:28.240 --> 00:04:33.919 But if you have the fans to max, aka 00:04:31.919 --> 00:04:38.960 hope you have active noiseancelling headphones because an F-18 is taking off 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:43.960 in your backyard mode. The internals are kept nice and cool, which you'd hope 00:04:41.199 --> 00:04:50.720 would be the case because there are five fans and nine freaking heat pipes. I 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 00:04:52.720 --> 00:05:00.479 to love the noise because this isn't Civic with a hole in the muffler. This 00:04:56.800 --> 00:05:03.520 is Ferrari V12 as it screams at over 00:05:00.479 --> 00:05:06.639 8,000 RPM. And you can make it roar 00:05:03.520 --> 00:05:10.400 anytime you want with the uh oh yeah, 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:13.520 four speakers and two subwoofers. This 00:05:10.400 --> 00:05:16.320 is the loudest laptop I've ever heard in 00:05:13.520 --> 00:05:21.600 every possible way. Even the keyboard is fully mechanical with Cherry MX Brown 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:28.000 switches. And with the wrist rest attached, it actually feels like typing 00:05:24.400 --> 00:05:30.280 on a standalone mechanical keyboard. 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:36.560 Now, the astute among you might have noticed there isn't a 00:05:33.479 --> 00:05:39.120 trackpad, but have no fear. All you got 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 00:05:41.039 --> 00:05:47.199 mouse. Pretty sweet. Now, the Predator 00:05:44.080 --> 00:05:50.400 21X also features Toby eye tracking, 00:05:47.199 --> 00:05:52.400 which allows for dynamic lighting and 00:05:50.400 --> 00:05:57.520 aiming depending on where you're looking. And as more games begin to 00:05:55.440 --> 00:06:02.720 support it, I can see this becoming a really cool feature, but at the moment, 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:07.600 it doesn't do a whole heck of a lot. Routine disassembly of the 21X is 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:12.240 actually relatively easy with only one screw required to remove the top panel, 00:06:10.080 --> 00:06:17.360 giving you access to the spinning storage and half of the RAM. Opening up 00:06:15.280 --> 00:06:24.160 the bottom requires removing three screws and gives you access to the four 00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:27.520 M.2 drive bays, plus the rest of the 00:06:24.160 --> 00:06:30.240 RAM. This is all that can be easily 00:06:27.520 --> 00:06:35.880 accessed though and any other internal components are only possible to reach 00:06:32.960 --> 00:06:40.759 through pretty much a full disassembly. So then by this point in 00:06:38.160 --> 00:06:45.520 the video you must be thinking to yourself, wait a second, L minus at 00:06:46.039 --> 00:06:52.759 17.8B. Isn't portability kind of out the 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:55.680 window? And the answer is no. 00:06:52.759 --> 00:07:02.919 Fortunately, Acer thought of this and they included this incredibly convenient 00:06:58.800 --> 00:07:06.400 custom Pelican case with every 00:07:02.919 --> 00:07:10.000 21X. Its compact size and ergonomic 00:07:06.400 --> 00:07:13.919 wheels and handles mean taking the 21X 00:07:10.000 --> 00:07:16.080 with you on the go is almost simple, and 00:07:13.919 --> 00:07:22.120 it can fit in the trunk of your average van with ease. Joking aside though, the 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:28.319 21X is still considerably easier to pack up 00:07:25.440 --> 00:07:34.800 than a full desktop computer. And with the hardware it's packing, that is 00:07:30.639 --> 00:07:38.400 really not an unjust comparison. So, if 00:07:34.800 --> 00:07:41.840 you want full-on performance at a land 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:44.960 party or if you move around a fair bit, 00:07:41.840 --> 00:07:48.080 it's actually a pretty incredible 00:07:44.960 --> 00:07:51.199 option. I was slightly worried that the 00:07:48.080 --> 00:07:53.520 curved monitor would be easily damaged 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:57.919 in more casual transportation though, like say in a backpack. But during our 00:07:56.240 --> 00:08:04.879 testing, we actually found that it remained quite sturdy even when you put 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:07.199 pressure on it. Using it on your lap, go 00:08:04.879 --> 00:08:12.160 figure, it is a laptop still, is surprisingly comfortable. That is to 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 00:08:14.319 --> 00:08:21.120 do some work, it does work, even if you 00:08:18.240 --> 00:08:27.759 might get a couple of funny looks. But bottom line then, should you get one? 00:08:24.199 --> 00:08:30.919 Well, really, it's more of a question of 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:38.320 can you get one? To which the answer 00:08:30.919 --> 00:08:38.320 is probably no. First of all, it costs 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:48.720 $9,000, which is enough to get you at this time 608 shares in Acer or two mini 00:08:44.760 --> 00:08:50.959 trucks. And second, they're only making 00:08:48.720 --> 00:08:57.519 300 of them, of which I already have one. 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