For a long time the borderline boutique manufacturer MSI had the market cornered on weird, overpowered laptops no sane person would spend their money on. But Acer has just snatched that crown straight out of MSI’s hands with this 21-inch gaming laptop.
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Did you think a 17-inch laptop was too big? 15-inches? Then avert your eyes mortal, because the Acer 21-X is 21 inches of lighting, soft-touch plastic and giant exhaust grills. It’s also the first laptop to include a curved screen for a “truly immersive gaming experience”. Also it has a wrist rest.
This is the computer for the jackweeds that bring a full desktop and monitor to Starbucks to game. You know, the guy lugging this in for some gaming and mocha Frappachino time. Watch as he removes it from an enormous backpack and heaves it onto a shaky table that nearly collapses under the weight of of the greatest gaming laptop ever created. You know what? Take two tables buddy — one for the laptop, and one for your Venti caffeine bomb.
The only thing this beast seems to lack is a sign that automatically pops up and tells noobs, “Yes, it’s a curved display laptop.” Now excuse me I’ve got some frags to get.
While it’s not the first, the 21-X is one of the rare laptop to include Tobii Eyetracking technology. That’s cool tech that moves the in-game camera depending on where your eyes are looking. It wasn’t cool enough to warrant the hefty price tag of the $4200 Kaby Lake processor, a mechanical keyboard and something called SoundPound.
I do not know what SoundPound is, but I do know it’s speaker related and means the 21-X has four speakers and two subwoofers.
That grill. And that ethernet port gives you a good sense of scale.
This is the laptop that later gained sentience and gave rise to Hedonism Bot.
There’s no word on pricing or availability, but honestly I don’t want to know when it’s available, and I do not want to know how many thousands of dollars it will cost. I just want to know it exists out there in the world, putting all other outrageous laptops to shame with its incredible, unprecedented wrist rest.
This story originally appeared on Gizmodo
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7 responses to “Acer’s 21 Inch Curved Gaming Laptop Is Insane”
I think I’m in love. I would totally buy this if it was a tax deduction etc.
Dual 1080s but the screen is 1080p.. Bit of a waste no?
Not to mention how few new games have SLI support, or working SLI support, these days
MSI just released a GS73 Stealth Pro variant which comes with a 17.3 4K screen but it’s paired with a 1060 lol
You could connect it to external display that is higher res.
that big of a laptop, it’s not even worth buying. I’ll just build myself a extremely high end rig for half the cost
I apologise for nothing!
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