Acer Predator 21 X Pro Reviews

What it's like using a laptop that's more than fives times more expensive than my desktop.

Over-the-top in every way, the Predator 21 X is the ultimate luxury gaming laptop, packing twin GeForce GTX 1080 chips and a 21-inch curved screen. You won't be taking it on a plane, even in first class, but it's the beast you've been waiting for if you have infinite budget and a yen for extreme power.

There are certain over-the-top luxury goods that exist to display their owners' social status, such as the Hermes Birkin handbag or the Mercedes AMG S65 sedan. The $8,999.99 Acer Predator 21 X aims to join the PC equivalent of that lot, which includes the Microsoft Surface Studio desktop PC and the Razer Blade Pro gaming laptop. Its attention-grabbing looks and formidable size will turn every head in the room, and that is its raison d'être. It has an impressive laundry list of high-end gaming components like a 21-inch curved screen, dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 graphics processors, 64GB of RAM, and an overclocked Intel Core i7 CPU. No other gaming laptop matches its audacity, but because of that sky-high price tag, power systems like the Editors' Choice Origin EON17-X 10 Series ultimately present a better balance of price and performance.