![]() You won’t be left wanting for places to connect your kit, and there’s enough there for a proper VR setup as well if you dabble in that sort of thing. You get four USB 3.0 ports, a USB-C ThunderBolt 3 port, an SD card reader, two 3.5mm jacks, an HDMI port, two full-size DisplayPort connectors and a gigabit Ethernet port. There’s a desktop number of ports as well. Think of it less as a laptop and more as an inverted all-in-one desktop. It’s unlikely that you’ll carry this 568 x 314 x 68mm device around in a backpack. The 21 X weighs in at 8.5kg, rising to over 10kg with its two power bricks in tow. The foam insides have been specially moulded to the 21 X and its bits and pieces, and it’s outrageously big and heavy.īig and heavy is the story of the day, though. All this is stored in a Pelican case, which is about as rugged a laptop case as you’ll find anywhere on the planet. You’ll need the keyboard wrist rest that attaches magnetically to the front of the laptop, alongside two 1.2kg power bricks and a rubber stand to keep them in check. The machine is so large and so powerful that it requires an arsenal of accessories to be used properly. It lacks subtlety and business class, and I especially dislike the limited edition maintenance panel next to the screen (this can be replaced with a custom or blank panel instead), but the black plastic and silver highlights give it supercar/spaceship looks that I’ve become a little bit fond of. There are sizeable vents on both sides of the device, highlighted speaker covers on the corners and a keyboard that is, to the casual onlooker, in completely the wrong place.īut I think it’s a grower. Ignoring the RGB LED strips, backlit keyboard and transparent, LED-lit fan cover, the Predator 21 X is ‘loud’. Not everyone will be a fan of the 21 X design, and I can totally see why. Acer Predator 21 X – Design, Build and Features The Predator 21 X is unique – and is worth celebrating for what it is. Obviously, the Predator 21 X isn’t good value for money for the average consumer then, but at this end of the market, there’s far more to talk about than whether you’re simply making a good buying decision. This beast packs dual GTX 1080 graphics cards and an high-end processor, a huge and quick SSD array along with 64GB of RAM. It’s a Bugatti Chiron, but with better graphics. Priced at a jaw-dropping $9000 (£9000, including VAT), this isn’t a mass-market device. If it’s the end of the old-school gaming laptop era, the Acer Predator 21 X is the machine to mark it. As ultra-thin and efficient gaming laptops start to become the norm, a breed of super-huge laptops are likely on their last legs. When computing historians look back on 2017, I imagine they’ll mark it as the start of the end of the cumbersome gaming laptop era. ![]()
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