Customer Ratings & Reviews

The new Acer Predator Helios is here but is it everything you are looking for in a gaming laptop? Cpu is top notch with a Ultra 9 275hx at the helm. Runs decently cool enough for a laptop CPU and handles any game i've thrown at it. RGB all around is nice on the keyboard and the outer shell case. Plenty of ports everywhere, 2.5gb nic, hdmi out, usb of all shapes and sizes and a thunderbolt 5 port. 1TB SSD performs as you expect. Screen is buttery smooth oled at 240hz so all your fps games look amazing. This particular model though is a let down for me and here is why. They opted to cheap out at 16gb Ram which is barely the minimum this day in age especially with Windows 11 at the fore front. Should not be seeing any gaming laptops with less than 32gb in my opinion. They also took a cheap route by pairing all the bells and whistles with a lowly 8gb 5060, not even a ti just the basic version. All this while the next model up for a couple hundred more has all the things this one does not with 32gb Ram and a 5070ti. That's the model you want, this one I would pass on. If that model isn't available there are other better options out there. It's pretty, the battery life is good, but they really missed the mark on the internals. Also a quick note on the Quality Assurance from Acer could use some work, the bezel around my laptop was popped off and I had to snap it back in a few spots. For the money you are paying for this laptop, they need to put a little more care before shipping things out. Solid 4 stars but the ram and gpu, really gutted this beautiful machine.