World's first Curved Ultrawide G-Sync gaming laptop - Acer Predator 21 X

[Tim Q]

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As part of the IFA event this week in Berlin, Acer is announcing its Predator 21 X, the industry’s first desktop replacement notebook with a curved display. The laptop is aimed at gamers without budget constraints and packs high-end gaming hardware, such as Intel’s 7th Generation Kaby Lake processors, two NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 1080 graphics cards in SLI and even a mechanical keyboard.

From the article and pictures we have for specs:

• 21:9 IPS G-Sync panel, 2560 x 1080 resolution, refresh rate unknown?
• 7th Gen "Kaby Lake" Intel Core processors
• Dual GTX 1080 GPUs in SLI
• Cherry MX mechanical keyboard
• Tobii infrared eye-tracking
• 2 x USB Type-A, 1 x USB Type-C, 2 x DP, 1 x HDMI
• GbE, Wi-Fi ac 

Damn son, the price tag is gonna be eye watering. On looks, this is definitely overdone for my taste. Those specs doe... 

 

Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10614/acer-predator-21-x-notebook-with-curved-display-7th-gen-intel-core-cpu-and-geforce-gtx-1080-in-sli

[SImoHayha]

but is the battery going to be garbo though? For a nearly 1000$ plus laptop I best to get a fucking 14 hour battery. I don't care how heavy the laptop is, just give us a battery that last more than 4 measly hours. 

[ShadowCaptain]

I both  love and hate this

 

for the right person this is an insane piece of tech, but not the laptop I am looking for myself

[Shubham Yadav]

Can you even call it a laptop? Nobody will put in on his lap considering how heavy it will be. 

[zacRupnow]

Neat, and I would not mind having one at all...

 

That said from a perspective of 'Let's make a product that more than 10 people will buy!' this is 

Spoiler

http://orig06.deviantart.net/25f9/f/2013/113/4/4/facepalm_inception___detailed_photo_mosaic_by_zantaff-d62pgmc.jpg

 

[Ashaira]

1 minute ago, Shubham Yadav said:

Can you even call it a laptop? Nobody will put in on his lap considering how heavy it will be. 

well not if you have spaghetti legs. people need to understand that small is not the same as portable. if i had the cash for a high end laptop i would prob get this. i need my laptop to be portable not small enough that i can hold it in one hand while i type with the other. i have a phablet for that.

[zacRupnow]

Neat, and I would not mind having one at all...

 

That said from a perspective of 'Let's make a product that more than 10 people will buy!' this is 

Spoiler

 

[ShaunOfNintendo]

These kind of laptops always came across as a weird middle ground between powerful slim laptops, like NVIDIA's 10 series laptops, and a nice powerful full tower PC. I just can't seem to think of a scenario where something like this would be useful. 

[Shubham Yadav]

1 minute ago, Ashaira said:

well not if you have spaghetti legs. people need to understand that small is not the same as portable. if i had the cash for a high end laptop i would prob get this. i need my laptop to be portable not small enough that i can hold it in one hand while i type with the other. i have a phablet for that.

It's not portable at all. A 21" is not going to fit in your bag. 

[Shubham Yadav]

Just now, Thread212 said:

More like Desktop..lol

anyway i never been a fan of gaming laptop..
if u buy it for $2000 USD and one of the part is broke especially the gpu and zaaapp.. u lose $2000..

It's an AIO with the screen attached as a hinge. And it will likely cost more than 4000$. 

[Ashaira]

4 minutes ago, Shubham Yadav said:

It's not portable at all. A 21" is not going to fit in your bag. 

you don't know what bag i have. don't judge me.

[Fetzie]

9 minutes ago, Ashaira said:

you don't know what bag i have. don't judge me.

You mean something like this?

 

[FloRolf]

I've never seen anything this stupid... 

[rattacko123]

ooh Kaby Lake

EDIT: This is probably the worst idea for a high end laptop. 2 USB ports!!?! wtf. The curved screen makes no sense.

[ThinkWithPortals]

That is quite literally the stupidest thing I have ever had the misfortune to see.

[laminutederire]

54 minutes ago, Ramamataz said:

but is the battery going to be garbo though? For a nearly 1000$ plus laptop I best to get a fucking 14 hour battery. I don't care how heavy the laptop is, just give us a battery that last more than 4 measly hours. 

1000$ plus?  You mean 4000$ plus?

 

35 minutes ago, ShaunOfNintendo said:

These kind of laptops always came across as a weird middle ground between powerful slim laptops, like NVIDIA's 10 series laptops, and a nice powerful full tower PC. I just can't seem to think of a scenario where something like this would be useful. 

It's for people who don't understand how to do things

Like students who need a laptop and want to game. They could buy that thing to do both, or they could pay less than half the price for similar or better performance by buying a full desktop suite to game in better circonstances and buy a chrome book for school to browse through Internet, take notes, or make presentations. Money wise that's the more interesting option and you'll have something less ridiculous than 2 gtx 1080 for 1080p ultra wide (sure those cards are under clocked, but they made the effort to put one no under clocked,  it would have been mooooooore than enough for that screen.

[oo2k15]

Here's the video of the reveal.

Go to 46:38

 

[Misanthrope]

Looks like the curve can afford them substantially beefer coolers on that. Other than basically carrying around a clam and it making it really prone to accidental damage (curve designs make it more rigid, yet also any impact has a much smaller, concentrated impact and thus failing point) it looks interesting.

[cluelessgenius]

39 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

1000$ plus?  You mean 4000$ plus?

 

It's for people who don't understand how to do things

Like students who need a laptop and want to game. They could buy that thing to do both, or they could pay less than half the price for similar or better performance by buying a full desktop suite to game in better circonstances and buy a chrome book for school to browse through Internet, take notes, or make presentations. Money wise that's the more interesting option and you'll have something less ridiculous than 2 gtx 1080 for 1080p ultra wide (sure those cards are under clocked, but they made the effort to put one no under clocked,  it would have been mooooooore than enough for that screen.

i hope you're not in marketing or target group research because if students actually were the main target thats stupid. no honorable student has enough money to even buy a regular notebook let alone a 4000$ 20 kilo 21" monstrocity. no but seriously if rich kid student with their parents shoving money places are the target group for this product well...hel i dont know but its not good.

[Lethal Seraph]

I'm pretty sure it's just going to end up as a permanent desktop with high mobility. Might up end running out of ports too. It was a pain to carry my m17x back in the day for school, and that shit was only ~6.5kg, I imagine this thing is a monster in performance while weighing like a whale.

[Misanthrope]

2 minutes ago, Lethal Seraph said:

I'm pretty sure it's just going to end up as a permanent desktop with high mobility. Might up end running out of ports too. It was a pain to carry my m17x back in the day for school, and that shit was only ~6.5kg, I imagine this thing is a monster in performance while weighing like a whale.

Aye: I just don't see the point of that vs this:

Before anybody says "the battery" I'd be impressed with over 3 hours of battery time and over 30 minutes at load.

[Lethal Seraph]

Just now, Misanthrope said:

-snip-

Exactly. I like the minimalist-style too. Sadly, people will still buy a laptop than an all-in-one just for mobility. 

[laminutederire]

1 hour ago, cluelessgenius said:

i hope you're not in marketing or target group research because if students actually were the main target thats stupid. no honorable student has enough money to even buy a regular notebook let alone a 4000$ 20 kilo 21" monstrocity. no but seriously if rich kid student with their parents shoving money places are the target group for this product well...hel i dont know but its not good.

Who else would buy that?

Adults with jobs don't need a gaming laptop, they have their home, with a beefy desktop setup if they have that kind of money. Playing on the move doesn't really make sense for them since they don't have to move as much. Enthusiasts will prefer saving that money to make their own laptop, or to make a 1080 sli with i7 custom water loop with a giant 1440p or 4K monitor for the same price.

That leaves old people and college students.

[Ashaira]

2 minutes ago, laminutederire said:

Who else would buy that?

Adults with jobs don't need a gaming laptop, they have their home, with a beefy desktop setup if they have that kind of money. Playing on the move doesn't really make sense for them since they don't have to move as much. Enthusiasts will prefer saving that money to make their own laptop, or to make a 1080 sli with i7 custom water loop with a giant 1440p or 4K monitor for the same price.

That leaves old people and college students.

i'm 28 i have a job and i would buy this if i wasn't in the middle of looking for another house

[Ashaira]

ignore the double post.