Acer - Predator Helios 300 - 15.6" FHD 165Hz Gaming Laptop - Intel Core i7 - 16GB DDR5 - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 - 512GB SSD - Abyss Black

I grabbed this at a pretty good discount at 999 on this Black Friday month sales. Screen looks good, performance has been impressive, and it has been able to do every task that my engineering classes have thrown at me (mainly Matlab simulations). For this price I don’t think that there’s a lot of better options out there. As far as gaming goes, I’ve been playing League of Legends at max settings at around 200-240 fps. Fans don’t get too loud on this game and the laptops doesn’t get hot at all.

This is a quite a good gaming laptop at its regular price point, but if you're fortunate enough to grab it for under that its an amazing one. Its well spec'd, speedy, quiet except of course under heavy loads (to be expected in a laptop), with a great display, keyboard and logical well-spaced ports. Additionally, if purchased at the lower price points, IMO that is where I would invest back into it with a 2TB or larger SSD. 512GB is quite small in today's world...FH5 alone is over 120GB. Either way its a great laptop. Thank you.

I purchased this Acer Predator Helios 300 after weeks of checking reviews and doing comparisons. I've been using it for 11 months and I still love it. The speed is amazing, love the fact I can create my own customized back-lit color scheme, especially during football season lol. The one drawback I've noticed is the sound is awful. I either have to use my earbuds or an external Bluetooth speaker. They really need to improve the speakers in this version. The other drawback, for me in particular, is that I am a data analyst and use the Numpad consistently, in this model they have included the extra Predator key on the Numpad so the / key is moved to the right, which means when I attempt to use / in say a date as such 08/02/2023, I will always hit the Num key instead, thereby turning OFF the Numpad. Very frustrating when in the groove, but not a total killer. Also, just a heads up, the battery pack is a BRICK! It is extremely heavy and large. Overall I did take away 1 star for the sound and the numpad, but I still love my Predator!

Cannot even begin to explain how pleasantly surprised i was by how good this laptop is. From the metal body instead of the cheap plastic to the packaging it comes in, truly a quality product. Even more amazing that i scored this thing on sale for $999 considering it retails for $1499. First of all the actual construction of this thing is solid. Metal body all around with the exception of the bottom which is still plastic. Nice metal brushed blue tone to it gives it a very nice tone. The specs are really nice, i-7, Nvidia RTX 3060, 16GB DDR5, everything to make this thing a REALLY good mid range gaming laptop that will surely not be sluggish on performance. The RGB keyboard is really nice too. Overall extremely happy with it.

Owned for 1 week, no problems with this laptop at all. The battery drains pretty quickly when gaming so I'm just going to keep it plugging and charging the whole time. This laptop is even faster than my gaming PC for some reason lol. Can easily run heavy games with high+maximum graphic settings smoothly.

I got this on sale for 1199.99, I believe for this price point it is a great buy. 14 cores, 20 threads thermals stay quite cool for a laptop with a cpu like this. The 3060 works great for this display, has a higher power limit compared to other competitors and again, great cooling for mobile. The fans get loud at times, but that’s expected when you have this kind of hardware in a thin laptop. I installed a larger capacity m.2 & more ram, take apart was super easy and beginner friendly. One downfall about this product is the battery life when not plugged into the power brick and using full brightness etc etc. (just use the brick), but, acer greatly improved the battery life compared to the 2021 acer Helios 300, at least there were improvements. Perfect machine for someone that needs a “stronger” computer for school and likes to game occasionally.

Ive had this PC for almost a year now. It handles everyday tasks with ease, but when gaming it can get a little hot. The fans get super loud when under demand so I bought an external cooling pad to help regulate temperatures. The battery life isnt really that good but that's to be expected on gaming laptops. Windows 11 is very buggy on this computer, I think thats mostly Windows' fault. The speakers and the screen on this laptop aren't that great. Windows 11 is also very buggy when trying to connect bluetooth headphones. Overall the performance is great, especially for the price. It can handle most games on medium to high settings.

Best laptop I ever had for gaming so far, can run a lot of aaa games in best quality settings