Nine Days With an Absurd $9,0. Gaming Laptop. There may exist inside of you a desire that burns white hot for the Acer Predator 2. X, but you will never buy this laptop. It is not for you, because if you want this laptop, you probably can’t afford it, and if you can afford it, you are probably old enough to not want to spend $9,0. But if you’re reading Gizmodo you’re still enough of a gadget fan to want to at least understand the $9,0. To that end, I spent nine days working almost exclusively with Acer’s ode to excess. Here is its story.

Day 1: The arrival. Our office manager looked suspiciously from me to the box, which is the size of three ten- year- olds squeezed together.“It’s a laptop,” I explained. While the office manager was incredulous, others were delighted.

I want to sit in the box,” a colleague shouted while snapping photos. Following the included instructions, I managed to open the gigantic cardboard box—as well as the nearly indestructible Pelican case contained within. Desiring nothing more than to game, I plopped the Predator 2. X on my knees as I would a Mac. Book. Fortunately, I used to bicycle a lot, so I’ve got strong thighs that don’t weep under the weight of 1. When I told inquisitive on- lookers the price, they looked at me aghast.

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Why does a $9,0. 00 machine exist? I didn’t have a good answer.

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So I pulled the trackpad out of its slot and showed people that it can be flipped over and used as a number pad. Everyone agreed that was very neat.

The trick earned the computer its first “wow” unrelated to size or price. After an hour and ten minutes of use, the computer died. It was after 5pm, and I did not want to find outlets for the computer’s two (two!) necessary power supplies, so I left it on a coworker’s desk and went home. Day 2: Set up. When I got to the office, I finally found outlets for the the 2.

X’s two 3. 30 watt power supplies and began to use the laptop in earnest. It comes with Tobii Eyetracking, but it didn’t appear to be working. The Nvidia graphics drivers were out of date too. Nvidia Ge. Force unhelpfully uninstalled its drivers, and the computer broke for twenty minutes. I uninstalled everything with the Nvidia name. Reinstalled. Inexplicably, the eye tracking started working on the third restart.

After three hours of futzing with drivers and settings, I got Rise of the Tomb Raider running. My coworkers crowded around the computer shouting their advice on how to walk in a straight line. Take a moment, remember when there was only one controller for the SNES at a slumber party. This moment was like that, but burlier.

Yet there was exactly one coworker who did not care. She was the one who told me to mute the computer earlier when she’d had enough of Windows notifications exploding from the computer’s four speakers and two subwoofers.

Now she was irritated because the work day was over and people were peering at a laptop. Let’s go get beer” she bellowed. The horde agreed. I saved my game and closed the laptop. The battery was still not fully charged. Day 3: Making my way downtown, part 1“You are taking this on the train.” It was not a suggestion. My boss and I agreed that you couldn’t review a laptop without testing its mobility—how easy it was to pack up and move around.

In the case of the Acer 2. X, it is a chore. Thanks to the gentle curve of the display, the lid does not sit flush, so the 1. The 2. 1- inch display might crack. So I packed it back up into the Pelican case and headed home an hour and a half early. No one questioned this.

A woman offered to help me carry it down the second flight of stairs to the train, but I declined. I need to do this for myself,” I said. On the train, everyone eyed me like you always eye the asshole with huge luggage on a rush hour train. It was only 4: 4. Thursday, but the train filled up the closer to Brooklyn we got.

When I arrived at my stop, I had to muscle my way to the door and pray the wheels on the case didn’t roll over a foot. I am too delicate to be shouted at by cranky commuters. Off the train, I made it up one flight of stairs, a line of annoyed passengers forming behind me. A man wordlessly held out a hand and helped me up the second flight of stairs. New York is nicer than you’d expect it to be.

It is . 4 miles from the train station to my home. The sidewalks aren’t the smooth and clean ones of the Flatiron District. They’re broken with concrete jutting up out of the ground. On the day I brought the Predator home, it had just rained, and while the streets were dry, puddles of brown, stagnant awful lay in a pedestrian’s path at every intersection.

I lifted and dodged and hurried home. The shipping weight of the box is 7. Pelican case, power supplies, and 1.

I was sure I was dragging all 7. The dog and cat were both alarmed by the monstrosity that took up residence in our living room. Watch Modigliani Dailymotion.

That night my roommate arrived home. She saw the computer on my lap and could not take her eyes off of it. Is it like.. for army?” she asked. Her voice was a whisper, barely heard over the hum of the machine. No. It was not for army.

Day 4: I cannot feel my toes. The journey home had clearly affected me.

Like the best friend in an 1. I was plagued by a cough and a sniffle and a weakness of indeterminate origin. My only salve was the laptop.

I found a place for its two plugs, settled it on my lap, and downloaded Mass Effect: Andromeda. The machine did not like the internet in my home and it took an hour, three attempts to fix the internet, and one restart to download the game. The laptop rested on my thighs and destroyed all sensation below my knees.“I cannot feel my toes,” I texted a friend at 3: 3. Playing the game on the 2. X’s keyboard and using its trackpad was a study in painful frustration. I couldn’t get comfortable. The Cherry Brown mechanical key switches were nice, and the trackpad gave me zero issues, but the spacing between the keyboard and trackpad felt all wrong, especially when the computer was sitting in my lap.

I finally gave up and found my Xbox One controller. Gaming was instantly more pleasant. Day 5: Never mind, everything hurts. I played Mass Effect for longer than I should admit in polite company, and at the very least the gaming performance is incredible.

The dual Nvidia GTX 1. GB SSDs in a speedy RAID 0 configuration, plus the 6.

GB of RAM and the Kaby Lake i. It had zero issues giving me 1.

And with two Nvidia GTX 1. As long as the laptop was plugged in.

Full Moon Names Native American Moon Names. Native Americans’ Full Moon names were created to help different tribes track the seasons. Think of it as a “nickname” for the Moon! See our list of other full Moon names for each month of the year and their meanings. Why Native Americans Named the Moons. The early Native Americans did not record time by using the months of the Julian or Gregorian calendar. Many tribes kept track of time by observing the seasons and lunar months, although there was much variability.

For some tribes, the year contained 4 seasons and started at a certain season, such as spring or fall. Others counted 5 seasons to a year.

Some tribes defined a year as 1. Moons, while others assigned it 1. Certain tribes that used the lunar calendar added an extra Moon every few years, to keep it in sync with the seasons. Each tribe that did name the full Moons (and/or lunar months) had its own naming preferences. Some would use 1.

A full Moon name used by one tribe might differ from one used by another tribe for the same time period, or be the same name but represent a different time period. The name itself was often a description relating to a particular activity/event that usually occurred during that time in their location. Colonial Americans adopted some of the Native American full Moon names and applied them to their own calendar system (primarily Julian, and later, Gregorian). Since the Gregorian calendar is the system that many in North America use today, that is how we have presented the list of Moon names, as a frame of reference. The Native American names have been listed by the month in the Gregorian calendar to which they are most closely associated. Native American Full Moon Names and Their Meanings. The Full Moon Names we use in the Almanac come from the Algonquin tribes who lived in regions from New England to Lake Superior.

They are the names the Colonial Americans adapted most. Note that each full Moon name was applied to the entire lunar month in which it occurred.

Link on the names below for your monthly Full Moon Guide! Month. Name. Description. January. Full Wolf Moon.

This full Moon appeared when wolves howled in hunger outside the villages. It is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February. February. Full Snow Moon. Usually the heaviest snows fall in February. Hunting becomes very difficult, and hence to some Native American tribes this was the Hunger Moon.

March. Full Worm Moon. At the time of this spring Moon, the ground begins to soften and earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of robins. This is also known as the Sap Moon, as it marks the time when maple sap begins to flow and the annual tapping of maple trees begins.

April. Full Pink Moon. This full Moon heralded the appearance of the moss pink, or wild ground phlox—one of the first spring flowers. It is also known as the Sprouting Grass Moon, the Egg Moon, and the Fish Moon. May. Full Flower Moon.

Flowers spring forth in abundance this month. Some Algonquin tribes knew this full Moon as the Corn Planting Moon or the Milk Moon. Simpsons Family Guy Full Episode Watch. June. Full Strawberry Moon. The Algonquin tribes knew this Moon as a time to gather ripening strawberries.

It is also known as the Rose Moon and the Hot Moon. July. Full Buck Moon. At this time, a buck’s antlers are in full growth mode.

This full Moon was also known as the Thunder Moon, because thunderstorms are so frequent during this month. August. Full Sturgeon Moon. Some Native American tribes knew that the sturgeon of the Great Lakes and Lake Champlain were most readily caught during this full Moon.

Others called it the Green Corn Moon. September. Full Corn Moon. This full Moon corresponds with the time of harvesting corn. It is also called the Barley Moon, because it is the time to harvest and thresh the ripened barley. The Harvest Moon is the full Moon nearest the autumnal equinox, which can occur in September or October and is bright enough to allow finishing of all the harvest chores.

October. Full Hunter’s Moon. This is the month when the leaves are falling and the game is fattened. Now is the time for hunting and laying in a store of provisions for the long winter ahead. October’s Moon is also known as the Travel Moon and the Dying Moon.

November. Full Beaver Moon. For both the colonists and the Algonquin tribes, this was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs.

This full Moon was also called the Frost Moon. December. Full Cold Moon.

This is the month when the winter cold fastens its grip and the nights become long and dark. This full Moon is also called the Long Nights Moon by some Native American tribes. Note: The Harvest Moon is the full Moon that occurs closest to the autumnal equinox. It can occur in either September or October. At this time, crops such as corn, pumpkins, squash, and wild rice are ready for gathering.