Between the slew of glowing LED lights, the sharp edges on the plastic case, the giant plastic exhaust vents, and the enormous metallic blue dragon that graces the vast expanse of space above the keyboard, this is a gaming laptop through and through. While the scale and specs the 21 X may be impressive (as is the engineering to actually build it), Acer hasn't taken any dramatic departures when it comes to the aesthetic design. Side by side with any other laptop (gaming or otherwise), it almost feels like the punchline to a joke: 'You call that a laptop? No, THIS is a laptop.' And of course, the show-stopping curved 21-inch screen, which Acer highlights as the first in a laptop (the screen also features a 120Hz refresh rate and NVIDIAвЂ™s G-Sync technology). (Acer ships a single configuration, with one 1TB hard drive and two 500GB SSDs in a RAID configuration.) A Tobii eye-tracking rig, for further immersion. Five storage slots: three SATA, two PCIe. USB-C, USB 3.0, an HDMI port, two DisplayPorts, and an SD card slot. Two SLI linked GTX 1080 GPUs, with a total of 16GB of dedicated onboard VRAM. A Core i7 Skylake Intel processor thatвЂ™s overclocked up to 4.1 GHz.

Like the external design, the 21 X's spec sheet feels built for sheer overkill. This is the biggest, most powerful, and most expensive gaming laptop ever made Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The vergeДЄcer has made the most of the enormous size of the 21 X, cramming what feels like every inch of it with some serious firepower.

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