14in gaming laptops have just exploded
in popularity but even though they're so
small they are a big impact on your wallet except for ah this one right here
it's a medium big impact on your wallet
here we have the Predator Helios
neo4 it's like the Helios 14 but the Neo
means it's a little bit cheaper which honestly matters quite a bit in this
segment right now first thing that I'm noticing fingerprints
they really show up for power we have a 230 W brick which is delivered over a
real old school looking Barrel Jack now
I do wish that they had something that's a little bit more modern but at the same
time for that kind of power you aren't going to be able to deliver it efficiently over USB type c so they
can't just be using that so I guess Barrel Jack's fine do we have
stickers here we go we've got to do it it's the rules laptop comes with
stickers they go on the laptop do you like that real bow no training no enter
heck yeah there we go that's 5 FPS right
there for sure this laptop's clearly been uh through the review cycle a bit
we are not the first ones with it and you can tell because it's kind of
mangled back here look at how wavy that is for a 14-in gaming laptop we do have
quite a solid assortment of IO so on the right hand side we have a micro SD card
slot USB type-c with display out and
charging usba a and a full-size HDMI
port 2.1 and around on the left we have the input for our Barrel Jack another
USB type a Thunderbolt 4 and a headphone
microphone combo Jack now around the back and most of the sides we have a
whole lot of heat sink we can see there
all the way to there on the side that's all heat sink that's all heat sink this
thing better perform really freaking good cuz that's a lot of heat sink and
I'd be pretty embarrassed if it doesn't
it's not light it's not super heavy it is 4.29 lb
which is pretty good for something of this power it does have a 4070 in it and
for the rest of the world that is 1.95
kgs how heavy is this charger though
it's much larger than like the Gallum nitride ones that we see in some other
guys ooh 6 lb carry weight that's
getting up there for sure once you add this overall besides the e of
fingerprinting this machine I do think the build quality is quite High it
appears to be manufactured out of stamped aluminum and the chassis
rigidity is pretty good it's kind of soft over here actually I'll take it off
the map for you not that this area of the keyboard
really matters but it's something to note now before I turn it on it does
seem like it can be passable enough for
professional environments it isn't too wild with the gamer design but let's see
what happens once the RGB gets enabled oh that's a lot I guess you can turn
that off but uh you going to want to make sure that you turn it off before
you go to your lawyer or whatever sure
the RGB here looks pretty funky and that is largely because it's only three zones
so we have color color color instead of each individual key being its own RGB
light which doesn't allow you as much customization but at the same time it's
one of the things makes the Helios Neo just a little bit cheaper than the other
one and do you actually want to pay for individual lighting of your keys maybe
don't buy this then why is my mouse so big this is hilarious it's almost as
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here this thing is the Walmart special config you can only buy it from Walmart
and it comes with an Intel Core Ultra 7 155h that is 16 cores 22 threads with
that processor you get six performance cores eight efficiency cores and two low
power efficiency cores and it goes up to 4.8 GHz as for memory we have 16 GB
running at 6,400 megat transfers per second so may be able to be swapped
although it says row of trips here so probably not we also have a Samsung NVMe
SSD that is at 1 terte killer Wi-Fi 6E
for networking and of course the star of the show is our RTX 470 from envidia
this only has 8 GB of vram which is
questionably enough these days but it should be able to get you gaming pretty
good what isn't so good though is the npu uh all of Acer's marketing material
and every single laptop Maker's marketing material is AI wow AI so much
of it doesn't meet the in specs
Microsoft's co-pilot plus so uh I don't know get screwed it's kind of useless
now there are two panel options and we have unfortunately the worst of the two
but it is still really quite good it's 1600p 120 HZ we have gsync and advanced
Optimus in here and in our testing it performed really quite well Acer claims
that it's a 350 niip panel but we tested it at 374 so that's borderline able to
use it outside kind of brightness and the color accuracy even though the they
said almost nothing about it is quite good we measured an average Delta e2000
of 1.78 which gives us about enough color accuracy to be doing professional
color work on this although that said your Reds will be a little bit saturated
one thing that is completely missing though is HDR support which makes sense
it just simply does not get bright enough if this isn't quite enough for
you there is a higher resolution higher refresh rate display which is presumably
decent but we haven't measured it so this one right here decent all right
let's have a look at this keyboard here the first thing um it feels kind of
strange they have a bunch of keys over on the right here like uh your Predator
sense and your media Keys which shifts
everything over here but your trackpad
is centered so I end up just kind of on top of it why is there an avatar like
it's like knockoff Master Chief anyway let's look at the keyboard
this keyboard I'm going to give an astounding fine there's nothing wrong
with it per se I was able to get up to full speed pretty quickly I'm not making
many errors but the whole experience is just not super enjoyable the key travel
is very short we have a lot of kind of
mushy feel like if you look here it doesn't take very much to flex the
keyboard even though like if I push hard on it it doesn't go any further but if I
push just just a little bit it moves it moves a little bit there and that's
enough to kind of make it feel mushy the key consistency not great like if we
look at this here the J key is kind of floppy it's easy to move around I can
get that kind of below the chassis before it actuates whereas K is really
quite a good key K is doing just fine
and that inconsistency is going to make your typing experience just kind of
worse that said it's acceptable you'll get used to it you'll just not love it
I'm giving it a B A flat B not a plus not a minus just a
b still a quick Palmer ejection test since this is directly under where my
hand is H the Palmer rejection seems okay
enough you aren't going to get inputs if you just have your hand on top of it but
it is really easy to click the mouse and that always clicks the most so try and
avoid that I don't love it that said though the trackpad itself self is quite
good it isn't particularly large it's a little bit on the small side but at the
same time it's using up most of the space that's available I guess all of
this could have moved up it's good enough it is the sort of
trackpad where when I first started using it it was not the best I was
having some kind of sticking issues like if you look here I can kind of get that
right there there's a big
bounce you can get sort of a bounce over the track pad but once you get your hand
grease on it and all of that nice finger Lube on there it works just great no
more skipping around yay gross all right let's see how
this does in rocket League we are currently screen recording so that will
be a little bit of a performance hit but at the same time it should be fine
enough and yeah we're getting 160 FPS
easy we are looking at ooh 100° on the
CPU is pretty hot that isn't unheard of for gaming laptops like this like the
Alienware that we just had was similar but it's not great that it's just
immediately at 100° it's also just
clearly reading wrong I don't think it's
at 9 GHz we are in our performance mode
right now and we are at about 80° on the
GPU which is where it will start to get slower but it hasn't yet and also the
fans are loudish but they aren't crazy like that
alien wear that we had last time that I guess we're just going to dunk on for a
bit overall though this is quite a good laptop to play games on from my short
bit of testing right here 120 HZ display g-sync nice and colorful I'm having a
good time overall the gaming performance of this thing is quite good Labs tested
it and when you have it in turbo mode where that 4070 is going up to 125 watts
it was able to beat the Asus G14 and yeah basically everything all of the
gaming tests this thing right here one compared to the G14 but with its ryzen
processor the Asus G14 was able to Edge
out in some of our more professional benchmarks let's give crab r a listen
given our last Acer laptop that we had in here my expectations are not
high wow that's already on 100 H
treble that is comically lacking in
volume and base and mids and in staging uh I do
want to hear it without this cuz it does
have some down firing speakers and it's
still yeah those are abysmal we're going to compare to a MacBook Pro 14 Ju Just
for a second so you can really hear just how butt sounding these are
wow yeah Acer fix it oh my God webcam it
looks fine it's 1080P and I'm kind of
blown out and I'm really fuzzy it's completely dying when we look towards
the lights here if we go around this way I'm still completely blown out and now
I'm both too dark and blown out
excellent the most disappointing thing here though is that I don't see any
Windows hello facial recognition or fingerprint sensors so you need to just
log in like a caveman typing out your password nine T5 screws later and we are
inside we can see here that
uh guys look at this look at this fake
vents they're Liars they only have heat
sink right here that explains why we're hitting 100° even though I thought that
we had a freaking heat sink all the way across the back anyway there are three
heat pipes here and they do do good enough of a job and we have a fair bit
of heat sink on the sides and the back even if it isn't as much as I thought we
had for repairability you can swap out the Wi-Fi card you can swap out your SSD
although there are no extra SSD slots and the RAM is soldered down so there is
no getting at that we also have a 76w
battery which Acer has been able to really push to its limits in their eco
mode we able to get 9 hours and 40 minutes away from the wall which is just
exceptional for a laptop like this you typically see these maybe getting eight
sometimes 6 seven so seeing them be able to get over 9 and 1/2 hours in this
thing is incredibly impressive now can it pass our double-sided drive test
check get in here goes down yep you're all good if you want to
upgrade to a double-sided drive if we look at our Walmart config for this
right here here it comes in at $1,600 for that 47d and an ultra 7 which is
pretty darn good similarish laptops will
be coming with a 4060 for that kind of a price but at the same time if you're
willing to spend 2300 more dollars you
will be able to get much better speakers and like an OLED display if that's
something that you want if you're just looking for battery life and performance
though this thing's pretty darn good do you know what also is pretty darn good
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