When there wasn’t a load on the Predator 21 X, the laptop would behave in a more civil matter. But considering the Predator 21 X’s formidable power load, it’s probably safest to hit full stop rather than shove a 400-watt load onto the onboard batteries in a millisecond. For any other laptop, you’d expect it to switch over to the internal battery. We ran into one interesting behavior: If you push the GPUs hard running Furmark, with the CPU and GPUs overclocked, and then suddenly pull the plug, the Predator 21 X immediately cut power to the laptop. Power consumption itself, for what it’s worth, generally sat in the 400-watt range under a graphically intense workload such as Furmark. For the sake of appearance and neatness, it’s a nice touch you’d expect of a premium machine. In a sign of how much thought Acer put into the Predator 21 X, the company includes a rubber stand for the AC adapters, emblazoned with the Predator logo and shaped in an X. The Predator 21X runs on two 330 watt bricks that can stylishly be held together using the included X-shaped rubber coupler. Both are identical, so there’s no specific order for plugging them in. Because no external bricks are available in sizes larger than 330 watts, Acer uses the old trick of slaving two 330-watt bricks together. It looks like the thickest hard drive you can get in the Predator 21 X is a 9.5mm HDD, which tops out at 2TB today.Īs you can imagine, all of this hardware takes a considerable amount of power to run. It’s hard to quibble with that much storage, but if we had to complain, we’d say the hard drive is too small at 1TB. There’s also a quad-core Core i7-7820HK, 64GB of DDR4/2400, two Toshiba 512GB NVMe M.2 drives, and a 1TB hard drive. To drive that 2.8-megapixel screen, Acer stuffs no fewer than two GeForce GTX 1080 cards inside, in SLI mode. At 21 inches, the curve-rated at 2000R-doesn’t make a huge difference to our eyes, but it certainly adds to the panache of the Predator 21 X. We generally prefer curved screens to flat screens-on ultra-wide panels measuring 34 inches. It is decently bright, though-we measured its maximum brightness at 420 nits. The panel has decent off-axis support and a light anti-glare finish, but it won’t win any color accuracy contests. Once you’ve used a high refresh-rate panel, you never want to go back. The high refresh rate and G-Sync means everything is simply smoother-from gaming to just moving windows and scrolling a browser windows.
The panel is 2560×1080, and supports G-Sync with a refresh rate of 120Hz. The most striking feature of the Predator 21 X is its 21-inch curved screen. 21.yup Features: Everything inside the Predator 21 X
0 kommentar(er)
