Both Metro: Last Light and Doom were buttery smooth at a stable 112fps and 120fps respectively, even with settings tweaked to max. With two Nvidia GTX 1080 SLI graphics chips buried inside, along with 64GB of DDR4 RAM and a full-fat Intel Core i7-7820HK CPU the laptop promises absurd levels of gaming performance.Īnd boy did it live up to its promise. It’s certainly an arresting sight, but the Acer Predator 21X is all about what’s going on beneath the surface. Acer Predator 21X review: Performance and battery life Take a look at the rear and you’ll spot two DisplayPorts, a solitary HDMI port, USB Type-C and a single Gigabit Ethernet port. On the right edge you’ll find two USB 3.0 ports, while the left houses another pair, plus 3.5mm headphone and mic jacks and an SD card reader. Add those to your backpack and you’ll be lugging 11kg around.īut, given its size, there is at least a goodly selection of physical ports. The consequence is that the Predator 21X tips the scales at a back-breaking 8.5kg and that’s without factoring in the two beefy power bricks required to keep the 21X supplied with DC electricity. It’s an Nvidia G-Sync 120Hz panel with a 2,560 x1,080 resolution and widescreen 21:9 aspect ratio and in use it’s simply awe-inspiring.
Yes, you read that right: 21in and with a dramatic 2,200mm radius at that. Acer Predator 21X review: DisplayĪll of this is insanely impressive, of course, but the machine’s most arresting aspect is its enormous, curved 21in display.
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The 21X is made to order too, so don’t expect to see this on the shelf of your local PC World. And you can buy three of those for the price of one Predator 21X. It isn’t anywhere near as powerful as the Predator, but its Nvidia GTX 1060 graphics, Intel Core i7-7700HQ processor and 6GB of GDDR5 RAM should be fast enough for most.
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Our current favourite gaming portable is the Razer Blade and that will set you back £2,399 for the top spec model. Given the Predator 21X’s hefty £9,000 asking price, there’s little in the way of similarly-priced competition. Acer Predator 21X review: Price and competition It weighs nigh-on 9kg, though, so it’s less a laptop than it is a desktop PC in a slightly more compact chassis. And it all comes wrapped up in a package that folds up just like a normal laptop. There’s also a curved (yes, CURVED!) 21in 2,560 x 1,080 IPS display to contend with, complete with Tobii Eye Tracking.