Still, once plugged in, there's no denying the 21X can offer a great gaming experience. AdvertisementĮnlarge / It holds the laptop too, of course. That said, taking up the entirety of a shared train table probably isn't going to go down well with your fellow commuters. This precludes you from whipping out the 21X on a train for a spot of "light" gaming, due to the paltry single socket provided on Britain's ramshackle train services. The 21X uses two external 300W power bricks, which are about as long as an original Xbox 360 power supply, but half as thick.
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For the full GTX 1080 SLI experience, you need a plug socket-or rather, you need two plug sockets. That said, there is a battery inside that Acer claims is good for around 2-3 hours of use, depending on how heavily you tax the graphics cards in reality, I doubt you'd get much more than an hour of use in a modern 3D game.Įven then, bear in mind that on battery power the 21X will down-clock its GPUs in order to conserve power. At roughly 7cm (2.75in) at its thickest point, and roughly 60cm wide, the 21X is very much a desktop replacement, rather than a luggable laptop. Suffice it to say, the 21X is unlikely to fit in the boot of a car, let alone an aircraft's overhead locker.įree the 21X from its foamy confinement-something not recommended for those with back problems-and its mammoth scale becomes apparent. Instead, there's a ginormous flight case, complete with custom foam cutouts for the two 300W power supplies, wrist rest, and X-shaped power supply holder. Even the box it comes in isn't your typical cardboard affair. Very few need this much graphical grunt in a desktop, let alone a laptop sporting a display with a paltry 2560x1080 pixel resolution-even then, with the 21X costing a whopping $9000 (probably £9000), a similarly specced desktop would be a lot cheaper.Īnd yet, seeing the 21X in the flesh, it's hard not to marvel at the sheer ridiculousness of it all, or admire the bravado behind a laptop likely concocted after one too many beers during a Friday afternoon marketing meeting. You have to wonder what the thinking was behind the Acer Predator 21X, "The world’s first curved-screen laptop." After all, with its obscene 21-inch 21:9 display, full-width mechanical keyboard, and dual Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics cards, the 21X isn't so much a laptop as it is an 8-kilogram eulogy to frivolousness.