Acer reveals $9000 21 inch gaming laptop...

[Little Bear]

11 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Wow...

 

Gaming Laptop Performance per Kilogram.. a new metric?

Watch Linus start to use it.

[SeraphicWings]

9kg

 

Is this even considered a laptop anymore?

[AlTech]

18 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Wow...

 

Laptop Performance per Kilogram.. a new metric?

This was a thing starting with SurfaceBook. They started measuring performance per pound and compared it to all other laptops that size.

[Tieox]

Lets be honest for a portable computer, it is about as useful as a square dildo in a Brazzers flick.

[nzpancakes]

When would this even be practical? Lets say, just for example, someone was rich enough to buy this and they were a traveling businessman. The battery time on this thing would be way too impractical maybe doing 30min at most. And if someone was just getting this for home use, you could just buy a better home pc for $3000 less and it would be quieter.

 

Like this one!

[Wolther]

Pretty gross. I hate the style of that thing. Hell would be embarrassed to even have it in my room if family came over ...nevermind a girlfriend

[SeraphicWings]

7 hours ago, Wolther said:

Pretty gross. I hate the style of that thing. Hell would be embarrassed to even have it in my room if family came over ...nevermind a girlfriend

Let's be real, anyone who see this thing called "laptop" the first time would probably shit their pants

[No Nrg]

ha, SLI 1080 running 2560x1080???

 

Sounds like they picked that resolution because it has "1080" in it. That's so overkill; could have at least gone for 3440x1440 if I'm paying $9k for it.

 

Though I guess it's enough for a 21" screen and it would most likely be on a desk hooked up to a 4K monitor anyways

[Daul]

Anyone else who sees the similarities between that and the Toshiba 3200 (shown below)? No? I see a lawsuit from Toshiba coming at high speed in Acer's direction pretty soon.

 

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4435/Toshiba-T3200/

 

This was my dad's first thought when he saw the Acer 21X. PC-veterans are glorious sometimes!

 

/Benji

[Shog]

Jokes on you I bought 7. here's my receipt. 

Your credit card was declined to the tune of $147,000.00. This exceeded your max credit limit of $2,500.
-Bank of America

[Mr.Meerkat]

4 minutes ago, Daul said:

Anyone else who sees the similarities between that and the Toshiba 3200 (shown below)? No? I see a lawsuit from Toshiba coming at high speed in Acer's direction pretty soon.

 

http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/4435/Toshiba-T3200/

 

This was my dad's first thought when he saw the Acer 21X. PC-veterans are glorious sometimes!

 

/Benji

Well not that much actually considering that Asus has this...

Spoiler

 

[Thaldor]

I really don't know wether this Acer monster belongs to the basket full of "nice try, but shit" or "why did you even try". When considering it needs 2 power bricks and all of that power probably goes to power the two GTX 1080s. At that price range and size I would have thought that Acer would have gone totally overkill with it, like installing 2 Xeons or just desktop CPU generally and do some really crazy stuff. Now it's just like "meh" when you consider you can get something like Origin EON17-SLX with around 6k$ with i7 7700K, 2x GTX 1080, 64GB Corsair Vegance, more SSD and HDD than needed with 17.3" 4K IPS screen. Comparing these two is like well, the other one is a real overkill hardware wise and the other one is just gimmick with which someone tried to do something overkill but weren't ready to go all the way. From the last years concept stuff I was expecting something like throwing every single highest performance part into a laptop with curved screen and mechanical keyboard and watercool the hell out of it and generally go so overkill that someone might get a heartattack. And when it comes out there's a competitor which is smaller, cheaper and at least has better CPU and probably RAMs (I have bad experiences with Acer laptops).