Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought this as a gift for my daughter. She loves it and says it works great

I like it!! Best store in the us definitely coming back!

Overall good laptop, gifted my daughter it for her 18th Birthday and she loves it.

Excellent Acer Predator laptop! Great features and got it on sale for its value!

Great product. bought it 1 yr ago, still working well.

Great laptop, runs well. Slightly warm with intense graphics

so good for school and gaming, great specs for the price

Great product for the price. Have had for a couple months and loving it.

Beautiful display; easy set up. Best Buy staff are the Best.

Nice gaming laptop with good values and technical spec. Highly recommended !

amazing computer..love it great for your everyday needs

Awesome laptop! Does everything needed for me! A++

This is my first gaming laptop and I’m very happy about it.

It is working very well so far . For work ,playing game

Good product Good product Good product Good product

Battery life is terrible. At a full charge, I get about 1 hour playing Battlefield 2042 beta before it will die.

Games tested: Maneater Slay the Spire Subnautica (topped out settings) Crysis 3 (topped out settings) This machine handled everything I could throw at it, without so much as a frame rate hiccup. That was at the OOTB settings in Predator Sense! However, when playing more graphic intensive games, you will notice some definite heat coming off the keyboard. If you happen to be using the keyboard at the time, it's not really the most pleasant experience. Display: The display clarity is phenomenal, I just wish it were larger. It's not terrible for gaming, it's actually a bigger pain for things outside gaming such as dealing with Gaming apps like Game Pass, Steam, etc, or just browsing in general. I ended up going to 80% zoom in browsers so I felt like I could see everything. Along the same lines you won't be able to crank your resolution settings in games beyond 1920x1080. There is an HDMI connection for an external monitor, which at this point I would consider standard on any laptop. I wish there was a Display port, as I believe that allows for better performance to an external monitor (the internal one boasts 144Hz but I don't think that's technically possible over HDMI). Keyboard: The keyboard works fairly well for gaming, though most purists will likely use an external one anyway. If you will be using it for gaming, I suggest disabling the touch pad otherwise you will inadvertently cause it to trigger (I don't know of a way to do this only while a specific app is running). Power: There is a sticker that claims 'long battery life' right on the unit. I think our definitions of 'long' may be different, as you MAY get 3 hrs out of a single charge while gaming. I'd definitely plug this thing in while gaming if possible. Sound: Sound is serviceable. You'll likely be using a headset if your gaming with friends anyway, so it's kind of a moot point. There is 3.5mm jack, but see below if you need to use USB. Portability: Machine is small, but on the heavy side. Comes with a nice carrying case for surface protection, but won't help if you drop it. Accessory connections: The unit comes with 2 USB ports. If you need more connections beyond a wired keyboard and mouse, you'll need a HUB of some sort. You can go wireless, but depending on how you are about your gaming gear, you may not consider that an option. OS: Standard Windows 10 fare. The only issue I had was that the default Power settings the system hard-locked on me when it self powered down while on battery. I ended up turning that off just to avoid the potential problem. Anyone who has owned a laptop should be familiar with these settings already, and probably already has their preference for how it's setup. Other: Norton A/V installed, and as anyone who has had the joy of using it, knows that if you can uninstall it your life will be better (omg the pop-ups!). Predator sense and branding are both cool. The app let's you control a bunch of settings, including things like lighting, overclocking related, game enhancements, etc. FYI, you only have the option of turning off the boot sound AND the splash screen here (not one or the other). I'd actually like to leave the boot screen, just kill the sound (it is very loud, and not tied to your Windows sound levels as far as I can tell).

And.... brand new out of the box and the thing doesn't register as being plugged in. Also at 80% power (and dropping) there's about 3 hours of life left (according to the readout on the screen). So yeah. I really expected better out of a $1000 computer.

Not at all my favorite style and it’s not perfect expectation

Within one week battery will not hold a charge. Unfortunately the display also started not working properly.