Acer reveals $9000 21 inch gaming laptop...

[Fetzie]

55 minutes ago, JR8 said:

I really want to see a LTT Price/Performance graph for this product....

 

Probably below a 200 dollar Chromebook

[Doobeedoo]

Well that's a beast no doubt, look quite well too tbh. Would like to see parts price of this thing.

[RagnarokDel]

56 minutes ago, Dogeystyle said:

Probably comes with horrid Acer bloatware.

as opposed to Lenovo malware?

[Randolph_Bubba]

1 hour ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

 

Interested? Well here are some specs:

 

Sounds good? Well it only weighs 8.8KG and well...is a proper desktop replacement...

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What other neat features do it have? The numpad is a touchpad under-neath so you can turn it around for dem touchpad users, ermmmm it's a brick?

 

I mean is it a good idea? Not really, what's the point in 21:9 in a laptop when there is literally going to be zero vertical screen estate? 

With the curved screen, is it nice? Yep, is it going to make the laptop a lot thicker? Yep but I guess a few extra CM doesn't matter when it's already a couple of CM thick anyway.

 

Sources:

Cnet, PC gamer, Verge

I've been waiting for this to come out just so I can gob at its glory. I look forward to benchmarks of this laptop. 

[Misanthrope]

2 hours ago, Natsoup said:

Why not tape a screen to the side of a mini itx case and call ot a day?

Actually I seriously want a "dumb" laptop combo: a laptop screen and keyboard, possibly battery, without any processor or motherboard but hdmi and display port inputs. 

 

Basically you pack that and a really tiny itx rig on a backpack. 

[Natsoup]

8 minutes ago, Misanthrope said:

Actually I seriously want a "dumb" laptop combo: a laptop screen and keyboard, possibly battery, without any processor or motherboard but hdmi and display port inputs. 

 

Basically you pack that and a really tiny itx rig on a backpack. 

See, that's a cool idea. I like that.

[zMeul]

you haven't seen the power brick required to power that laptop 

[Mr.Meerkat]

12 minutes ago, zMeul said:

you haven't seen the power brick required to power that laptop 

...how big is it?  

[DevilishBooster]

Everyone is spazzing about how stupid they think this laptop is, and I'm just sitting here like....

 

[Belgarathian]

That's just an all-in-one masquerading as a laptop. 

[Stefan1024]

5 hours ago, Aelar_Nailo said:

He said, as well as the guy above him, 120 Ghz refresh rate. That is indeed very high framerate.

The visible ligth spectrum starts at 430 THz, so there is still some headroom left

[vorticalbox]

5 hours ago, JCBiggs said:

a laptop like this is only going to be good in a few situations.... none of which i can think of

if you don't have room for a full pc and desk and you move from location then it makes sense.

 

sure you're not going to be using on the move with hardware like that for more than an hour or two but worth it.

[AnonymousGuy]

I don't think this laptop really makes sense in any scenario except only the most hardcore type LAN parties where there's a shortage of outlets.  Otherwise you'd just bring a mITX box with a monitor and plug in to the wall.

 

I still won't hate on Acer for making it.  I'd rather have crazy shit like this being made than yet-another-whitelabel-notebook.

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, vorticalbox said:

if you don't have room for a full pc and desk and you move from location then it makes sense.

 

sure you're not going to be using on the move with hardware like that for more than an hour or two but worth it.

Or a super small mITX case, 60% KB, mouse and a 24 inch monitor...granted that there will be more wires but it's probably gonna weigh as much a would only be ever so slightly bulkier  (although you'd fit the laptop into a single large bag...)

[PlayStation 2]

For the price for a fairly good used car, you can own a fucking desktop replacement.

y tho

[Nowak]

This isn't new, it was revealed last year but as more of a concept computer iirc.

 

But now it's real, you'll be able to buy one and I'm just like "Why?" Who would want this?

[ThinkWithPortals]

Oh, for the love of... WHY?!

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

For the price for a fairly good used car, you can own a fucking desktop replacement.

y tho

Agreed, much rather get meself a 24K mile 2013 (I think) Alpha Mito  

[Mr.Meerkat]

2 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Oh, for the love of... WHY?!

Well I guess it's at least different from all other desktop replacement going for it  

 

But all this laptop does is remind me of this...

 

Thanks toshiba  

[FakeNSA]

1 hour ago, Stefan1024 said:

The visible ligth spectrum starts at 430 THz, so there is still some headroom left

Refreshes per second, not frequency of light waves.... That is such a terrible joke

[Commodus]

This is basically the PC that wealthy families buy their kids to make sure they have the 'best.'  After all, when you live in a $2 million home, what's $9,000 so that your child is superior to all the riff-raff at the next LAN party?

[Dabombinable]

Holy shit:

http://ark.intel.com/products/97464/Intel-Core-i7-7820HK-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

That is a very high boost speed for a mobile CPU.

[Misanthrope]

5 hours ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

...how big is it?  

Other than:

 

Spoiler

That's what she said

 

Let's say this: If you didn't develop a hernia from carrying around the laptop on it's own, adding the power brick would probably guarantee one.

[Guest Kloaked]

That's the most glorious thing I've ever seen. Idk why people get so triggered when shit like this gets made. 

 

10/10 Acer

[malon]

And why is it 1080p with that kind of cpu and gpu power, i know the screensize isn't a problem with that resolution but i k ow i would want a 4k or 1440p ultrawide screen(external monitor) to take full advantage of it