all right ladies and gentlemen time for yet another high-end gaming laptop with
a top-of-the-line NVIDIA GPU and Intel processor this time it's the Acer
Predator 15 specifically the g95 n174
KNN well compared against other competing gaming laptops in terms of raw
performance so stay tuned to see how it Stacks
up the Scimitar RGB from Corsair features 17 program buttons a 12,000 DPI
Optical sensor and a shape designed for comfort in MMO and mobile gaming learn
more in the link in the description down below starting on top of the lid there's
a snazzy looking Predator logo and name with a pair of red LED bars on the sides
there is also an Acer logo visible on the bottom area that is fixed in place
as it's part of the main body and not the back of the screen the main material
used here is a matte black plastic that almost feels slightly rubbery to the
touch I personally like this a lot as it's not glossy and cheesy looking like
glossy plastic and it won't look bad over time like brushed aluminum the
bottom of the unit features a bunch of venting near the back four rubber feet
that help the venting Breathe by getting it up off of whatever surface it's on
and to help the laptop stay in place by gripping said surface there's a red
subwoofer that is a part of the predator sound pound 2.1 audio system that
features doly surround and there's a sliding latch that releases your Blu-ray
Drive why the hell would you want to quickly release your Blu-ray Drive well
just in case you want to install the Predator Frost core basically you turn
your laptop off pop the optical drive out pop The Cooler Master designed
Predator Frost core in and now you have a third fan instead of an optical drive
which you probably wouldn't have been using is it cool yes is it effective
kind of no major changes but in Crisis 3 Skybox load tests it did bring the
temperature down of the CPU and GPU by
one degree each nothing to break into song and dance over but definitely
something I'm happy to see I wish they also included a like Predator Drive core
or something where you could mount an additional 2 and 1/2 in drive that abely
would have been kind of cool it's been done before but it would have been kind of cool under the hood it's rocking a
shiny i76700 HQ Intel processor which
turbes up to 3.5 GHz an NVIDIA 980m 32
gigs of RAM for all your browser tab needs killer 1535 AC Wi-Fi and gigabit
Ethernet alongside Bluetooth 4.1 a 6,000
mamp hour battery which claims 6 hours of battery run time A 1 TB 7200 RPM hard
drive and a 512 GB NVMe SSD which is
like crazy not only because NVMe drives are super freaking fast and totally
awesome check out this video to see just how much more powerful these drives are
but it's also crazy because they don't really tell you it has one on the
website it just says solid state drive no other information on any part of the
page on the box it states that it's a pcid which isn't wrong but it also
doesn't properly claim the awesome power that is NVMe anyways moving on on the
left side other than the Predator Frost core there's an SD card slot two 3.5 mm
audio jacks for headphone and microphone and a dual USB 3.0 ports on the right
hand side there are two USB 3.0 ports a Thunderbolt 3.0 port HDMI DisplayPort
killer gigabit Ethernet port and a Kensington lock slot where your hands go
there's a wonderful chicklet keyboard with four lighting zones and cool
outlined WD buttons just above the keyboard there's five macro keys and a
profile button which allows you to swap between three profile groups for a total
of effectively 15 possible hotkeys the
touchpad is nicely sized and has a noticeable Ridge around it and separate
buttons so you can easily find your way around without needing to to look down
which I super definitely like just up and to the right of the touchpad is a
toggle button to turn off or on said touchpad just in case you're plugging in
a mouse and don't want the touchpad to randomly decide to send pointer inputs
when you're just trying to type or whatever also a cool feature the screen
itself is a 15.6 in 1080P IPS comfy view
panel which has a little bit too much Bezel around it for my liking but suits
the laptop quite well regardless the panel does not Port g-sync despite a
sticker that says g-sync on it if you look a little bit closer in the slightly
smaller print you'll notice that it states monitor support meaning that if
you plug in a g-sync monitor it will function as intended performance- wise
we compared it against the ASUS g751 the
review of which you can also see up here under the hood the g751 has the same
980m GPU an older model i7 4710 HQ and a
little bit more weight near the back in the form of bigger heat sinks it's also
considerably cheaper but that can probably be blamed on that massive super
badass NVMe Drive in terms of power draw from the wall and Battery Jane when not
plugged into the wall both during our Crisis 3 Skybox test the Predator 15
dominated from wall it drew 29 Watts
less than the g751 and during the battery drain test it lost 4% less over
16 minutes of gameplay which is actually pretty significant for temperatures the
g751 consistently had better CPU temperatures with The Predator including
the not so impactful Frost core installed having better GPU temperatures
moving on to game performance there's a bit of trading blows that went on here
when looking at battery power game performance the Predator wins by five
FPS in both Battlefront and Crisis 3 but loses by three in Tomb Raider when
plugged into the wall however they tie in Crisis 3 with the Predator losing by
four in Tomb Raider and three in Battlefront okay so that's all fine and
good but what are the takeaways here well I think there's three main ones if
you want to no compromises compared to a desktop performance laptop and don't
mind hauling around basically a bag of bricks maybe check out the Sager that we
reviewed up here it's a similar price point to the Predator but not nearly as
elegant if you want great gaming performance and don't mind lugging a bit
of extra weight but don't quite want to haul a bag of bricks and want to spend
some money but maybe not quite as much as this guy or the Sager maybe check out
the g751 if you want a gaming laptop that still
manages to look Sleek despite the stereotype of big bulky gaming laptops
one that has Beast gaming performance one that performs relatively well on
battery and has what has very recently been a revolutionary storage drive maybe
check out the Predator if your bank account can take that big of a hit mine
cannot so I guess I'll keep using the lonus hand-me-down laptop that he gave
me at swivels and stuff whatever thanks
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