2020 week 2 My Acer Predator 17X laptop_h

When I needed a new laptop for VR I looked on the internet for a top of the line gaming machine . I came across the Acer Predator 17x and its specs sold me so I ordered it and haven’t been disappointed.

It arrived shortly later I fired it up and it was ready in no time due to the ssd gum drive the os is on. The drives are set up like I would a smaller speedy drive for running the os and fltsims the bigger slower drive for a library drive or storage for archival purposes. It has 32gb main ram and 8 gb vram.

I quickly installed the oculus software and my vr adventure begins. Besides fltsim my other hobby is shooting so I have several shooting simulations loaded along with a driving simulation.

Let look at the Predator 17 X in detail.

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Hello 2020! Week 1)

Well my hope for this year is to post weakly a detailed article on my simming experience. One post will be on hardware, one DCS:World, one on X-Plane, and one on software. If there’s a fifth week it will be a grab bag article meaning your not sure what you’ll get but it should be informative.

This being the intial post of the year kicking off the new format is going to be a grab bag post. I’m going to give an idea of what I’m using right now.

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Welcome to Blackey’s Blog

This is a place holder until I can create the initial page down the road.  The increase in a long time hobby,Flight simulation, I’ve been a fan since I bought my first Commodore 64 and loaded sub logic’s flight which later was bought by Microsoft and became the long live Microsoft Flight Simulator.

We we will get into more specific’s in The time to come I’ll describe my setups and reviews of each item involved in the project.  The project if it proceeds will be taking the following items and merging them in to my sim pit I’m thanking of calling Franken pit.

the intense so far are:

Digital Combat Simulator:World will be referred to as DCS in the future.

X-Plane 11 will be referred to as xp11 in the future.

Oculus Rift CV1to be referee to simply by as the Rift in the future.

Pro Flight Trainer Puma to be referred. As the Puma in the future.

Speedmaster Flight seat to be referred to as Flight Seat in the future

Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS to be referred as tm wh hotas in the future.

vKB Gladiator stick to be referred to as the Gladiator in the future.

Acer Predator 17X laptop to be referred to as main pc or flight pc in the future.

HP DV-7 17″ laptop to be referred to as backup pc or server pc.

More items are coming.

I hope you really like this blog and will recommend it to your fellow simmers.