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holy crap the top-of-the-line laptop market has been expanding even exploding in recent years and it seems now pretty much everybody and their dog has a laptop with a gtx 1080 desktop edition or even two of them in sli so how do you set yourself apart from the crowd well Acer decided to conjure forth the purest maddest gaming laptop ever created gaze upon the predator 21x and tremble puny mortals the master keys pro keyboard lineup from Coolermaster is available in three sizes each in white or RGB flavours check them out at the link below alright so we really can't go any further without addressing the display it's freaking amazing it's a 21 inch curved ultra wide display on a laptop when you open this thing up it is immediately clear it means business while it does have a little bit of backlight bleed it's bright has great viewing angles and vivid colors and the 120 Hertz refresh rate along with g-sync compatibility cements it as the laptop gaming display to end all laptop gaming displays and speaking of games if your game dips below 120 FPS well you can pretty much blame the developers since this baby packs more power than your average split atom dual power breaks feed the two GTX 1080s in sli a core i7 7820 HK quad core 2 nvme SSDs in raid 0 and 64 gigabytes of ddr4 memory so these specs and the monitor make playing frantic games like doom extra awesome with no perceptible input lag and colors popping like the overripe pustules dotting the cranium of a demon IO Palmer edit is also near desktop class but there's a bunch of way cooler stuff that we want to get to so we're going to kind of gloss over that in games this thing crushed everything we threw at it regularly getting into the hundreds of frames per second while running it ultra settings the ultra wide display made all those frames even more sweet X in Deus Ex in directx12 where things outside of the 16 by 9 aspect ratio kind of D rendered now since Acer was the first one to include an ultra wide display on a laptop we had to actually step it down to sixteen by nine and rerun all of our benchmarks in order to do direct comparisons against anything else good news for Acer though even compared to other top laptops the predator 21 X took no prisoners although to be clear it is still not quite able to take on a desktop running GTX 1080s in SLI and it should also be noted that these benchmarks were taken with the fans on what we call jet engine mode more about that soon so if you expect it to be quiet you might see frame rates that are a little bit lower thermals then the predator 21 X's thermals surprisingly actually aren't that amazing when you leave it on the auto setting it does keep it nice and quiet but it falls into the same CPU thermal limiting issues that all of the hyper laptops seem to run up against with a bit of throttling when running i-264 but if you have the fans to max aka hope you have active noise-cancelling headphones because that may teen is taking off in your backyard mode the internals are kept nice and cool which you'd hope would be the case because there are five fans and nine freaking heat pipes I mean don't get me wrong here with a machine like this I expect you're going to love the noise because this isn't Civic with a hole in the muffler this is Ferrari v12 as it screams at over 8,000 rpm and you can make it roar any time you want with the oh yeah four speakers and two subwoofers this is the loudest laptop I've ever heard in every possible way even the keyboard is fully mechanical with Cherry MX brown switches and with the wrist rest attached it actually feels like typing on a standalone mechanical keyboard now the astute among you might have noticed there isn't a trackpad but have no fear all you got to do is lift up the number pad and turn it around if you've forgotten your mouse pretty sweet now the predator 21x also features Toby eye tracking which allows for dynamic lighting and aiming depending on where you're looking and as more games begin to support it I can see this becoming a really cool feature but at the moment it doesn't do a whole heck of a lot routine disassembly of the 21x is actually relatively easy with only one screw required to remove the top panel giving you access to the spinning storage and half of the RAM opening up the bottom requires removing three screws and gives you access to the four MDOT to drive blaze plus the rest of the RAM this is all that can be easily accessed though and any other internal components are only possible to reach through pretty much a full disassembly so then by this point in the video you must be thinking to yourself wait a second line is that 17.8 pounds isn't portability kind of out the window and the answer is No fortunately Acer thought of this and they included this incredibly convenient custom Pelican case with every 21 X it's compact size and ergonomic wheels and handles mean taking the 21 X with you on the go is almost simple and it can fit in the trunk of your average van with ease joking aside though the 21 X is still considerably easier to pack up than a full desktop computer and with the hardware it's packing that is really not an unjust comparison so if you want full-on performance at a LAN party or if you move around a fair bit it's actually a pretty incredible option I was slightly worried that the curved monitor would be easily damaged when more casual transportation though like say in a backpack but during our testing we actually found that it remained quite sturdy even when you put pressure on it using it on your lap go figure it is a laptop still is surprisingly comfortable that is to say until your legs start to go numb and if you roll up in the coffee shop to do some work it does work even if you might get a couple of funny looks but bottom line then should you get one well really it's more of a question of can you get one to which the answer is probably no first of all it costs $9,000 which is enough to get you at this time 608 shares and Acer or to many trucks and second they're only making three hundred of them of which I already have one so if you didn't order one already chances are you're out of luck but the Acer predator 21x isn't about practical things like price availability noise weight thinness general usability professional appearance it's a chest-thumping piece this was about Acer delivering the craziest gaming experience that anyone's ever seen in a laptop and I have to say this mission accomplished Acer I absolutely love this thing Dollar Shave Club the concept here is very very simple hair grows out of your face or other parts of your body you got to remove it so you might as well do it on the cheap and in a way that's convenient and if you head over to dollarshaveclub.com right now we've got it linked in the video description you can get a trial being a member is awesome they deliver amazing razors directly to your door meaning that you can afford to shave with a fresh blade anytime you want 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