However there's a secret USB port you can flip out from beneath the laptop to use with wireless Xbox controllers. At first, you wouldn't think anything's amiss here. Sure, it's no Predator 21 X, which had a mad curved ultrawide screen display and dual GTX 1080s inside it, but it's pretty darn close.
But hot damn if I don't admire the heck out of Acer for including it anyway. I'll also never fold its 4K touchscreen down flat and use it like a ginormous tablet or cover up its windowed heat pipe by bringing the screen forward slightly when using it like a normal laptop.
#ACER PREDATOR 21X MINECRAFT TV#
Never in a million years will I flip its screen round to show other people what I'm looking at or tuck the keyboard away so I can use it as a tiny, makeshift TV along with its flip-out Xbox wireless receiver (a glorified USB port in practice). It's a ridiculous piece of technology and yet, just like the R7, I actually kind of dig it. They really aren't kidding about the summoning your strength part when it comes to lifting Acer's Predator Triton 900
#ACER PREDATOR 21X MINECRAFT FULL#
Give the screen a little shove, and it will flip almost a full 180 degrees on its so-called 'Ezel Aero Hinge' (Ezel being the same name given to Acer's aforementioned R7 laptop that I really quite liked back in the day despite its wonderfully stupid design). It's a huge great thing, weighing a palpable 3.4kg that makes Acer's 'Summon Your Strength' slogan (see below) feel comically straight-faced when you try and pick it up, and it's made even bulkier by the two supporting arms that hug either side of its rotating screen. In the flesh, however, the Triton 900 is anything but.
On paper, it sounds like your typical high-end gaming laptop: an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 graphics chip in its newly-announced energy efficient Max-Q design, a 17.3in IPS display with a 4K resolution and Nvidia G-Sync support, an 8th Gen Intel Coffee Lake Core i7 CPU and up to 32GB of RAM. Originating from the same family tree as Acer's ill-fated Aspire R7 from late 2013, the Predator Triton 900 serves no logical purpose. For as long as I've been writing about tech (and gaming laptops in particular), this Taiwanese giant has been responsible for almost every surprise and baffling bit of innovation I've encountered over the years, and their latest Predator Triton 900 laptop is no exception. When it comes to bonkers gaming laptops, you can always rely on Acer to go that extra mile and create something that's utterly bananas.
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