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00:00Hey, how's it going? Dave2D here. This is something very special from Acer. It's the
00:08Predator 21X. So this box has a laptop in it. It's huge. It's the biggest, it's the
00:14heaviest, it's the most expensive laptop in the world. And I normally don't unbox things,
00:18but because this one's kind of special, I thought I'd share the experience with you.
00:36This is so big. I don't even know why they needed such a large box. Wow. Okay. Oh my
00:46this is so heavy. Okay. I got to see this. I got to see what it looks like. Okay. This
01:02is surprisingly heavy. I knew it would be heavy, but this is heavier than I thought
01:06it would be. Okay. Now I'm going to put this aside for just two seconds while I look at
01:13the inside. Let's see what else is in here. This looks like a weapons case. Like if I
01:19like went to a weapons dealer and he showed me what I was going to buy, this is what it
01:23would look like. What is this? Cool. We have a track pad. Oh, it's got a number pad on
01:33the bottom, but it's like a track pad slash number pad. Okay. You must be able to switch
01:36that in and out. You get pamphlets. Oh no. It's keys. Oh, this is so cool. Okay. I'm
01:46assuming this has like removable WASD keys and removable space bar. Maybe for like, I
01:51don't know. We'll see. That's pretty cool. I should take this stuff out because we're
01:55going to plug it up in a minute. We get two very large AC adapters to power this thing.
02:03I want to see what this looks like on the inside because this is special. Holy smokes.
02:11You could get a serious workout just lifting this thing all the time. Oh, okay. I love
02:18the blue keys. This keyboard, it's so weird seeing this type of keyboard in a laptop.
02:25Like this is like your regular desktop keyboard and it's a mechanical, I think it's mechanical.
02:29It feels, it could be like a cherry brown or like a brown switch. This feels like a
02:34really nice keyboard and it's weird to have this kind of key travel and this type of tactility
02:40in a laptop. Are you kidding me? Okay. This is cool. I thought this would be a sticker,
02:46but it's not. This looks like it's like painted right in. Okay. Look at this. Limited edition,
02:5117 out of 300. That's pretty cool. Okay. This shows you how you can use this thing.
02:59So you can, okay, I get it. So you just plug it up. Oh, it's magnetic. Oh, that's satisfying
03:09click. Does it come out? Okay. And you just flip it when you want number pad and when you want
03:17trackpad. Okay. I need to boot this up. Now I didn't go through the exterior features while
03:24I opened this because quite frankly, I was like super excited to just boot it up and see it. But
03:28now that I've looked at this for a second, the build quality is so good. There's no play or
03:33flex on any parts of this laptop. The screen is probably one of the most unique features on this
03:37thing. It's a curved screen and I've never actually used a gaming laptop that had a curved screen.
03:42This might be the first one of its existence. The whole reason why you have curved screens,
03:46give you that extra level of immersion in games, but the color accuracy and brightness on this
03:50thing are fantastic. The other thing that's really cool is that as a refresh rate of 120 Hertz games
03:56are going to look really good on this thing. My only suggestion, if you happen to be one of the
04:00300 people that get one of these is to do this to your keys. It's perfect. Now it's like customized
04:06to the way that your hands naturally rest. There's an eye tracking thing down here. I've never been
04:12a user of Tobii eye tracking. I've seen people like play games directly off of this, but I've
04:17never tried it myself. So it says caution over here, but I'm going to crack it open. I should
04:23power this down. Okay, we're going in. I'm curious to see what's inside this thing. Am I giving this
04:31too much pressure? I mean, it's only $9,000. Oh, it's coming apart. Yes, we're in. Hard drive,
04:42two RAM sticks. I'm going to see the underside now. Four empty slots, two more sticks of RAM,
04:49Wi-Fi card. So the inside is pretty simple to access if you need to get in there. So you're
04:53able to run a lot of storage on this thing. Five drive bays. You probably won't need any kind of
04:57external storage. The Predator 21X uses two AC adapters. Each one of these is 330 watts. It's a
05:04lot of juice going through here, and they both connect into this rubber housing, which kind of
05:08keeps it in one package. I'm going to post some specs. I'm not going to go into too much detail,
05:12but this is as loaded as a laptop gets. It's beyond impressive. In terms of the speakers,
05:18they don't sound bad, but I think for a laptop this size, I had unrealistic expectations. I
05:23kind of thought it would sound amazing. They do get louder than your average laptop though.
05:27The SLI GTX 1080s are incredibly powerful. This is the stuff that dream desktops are made of,
05:33and then when you put it into a laptop form, it becomes even crazier. I ran some benchmarks just
05:38to see how it would compare. It performs like a crazy powerful desktop. It's insane how much
05:43horsepower this thing has. All right, I want to play some games. Let's put this thing to the test.
05:50The frame rate on this thing is freaking amazing.
05:52One thing I just noticed, the fan noise when you're idling is surprisingly quiet. I thought
06:19this thing would be significantly louder because it's a pretty powerful processor,
06:23but even when you're playing games, if you're on the default mode, it's pretty quiet.
06:26The external temperatures are very comfortable, even when you're playing games. When I'm running
06:50benchmarks, there is some thermal throttling on the default mode, but if you crank up the fans,
06:54the throttling disappears, and you can overclock it pretty generously.
06:59I don't know if the mic will pick it up, but the fans are on full tilt right now,
07:02and it's loud. Obviously, this is a very powerful laptop, but whether or not it's worth it,
07:07chances are if you're watching this video and you're kind of wondering whether or not you
07:10should buy it, this is not for you. But if you want to live the dream and you have the money
07:14for this thing, this thing is incredible. Amazing performance, amazing device,
07:19limited edition, pretty cool. Hope you guys enjoyed this video. Thumbs if you liked it,
07:23subs if you loved it. I'll see you guys next time.