from a strictly pric to Performance standpoint the Acer Predator Helios 300
absolutely crushes any gaming laptop
that we've looked at before but in order
to get the same basic gaming specs as a
$1900 razor blade into a laptop for only
$1,100 what other sacrifices did they
have to make lots it turns out but that
doesn't mean that it's a bad product
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description we were pleasantly surprised by the Predator Helios 300 when first
opening it up the brushed aluminum on the back of the display and the Palm
rest of the keyboard gives the laptop an unexpectedly premium feel and the
rigidity of the chassis helps here as well it certainly looks the part of a
gaming laptop with red accents it's not
terribly subtle but in my opinion it doesn't go over the top in its attention
seeking Behavior there are areas like
around the screen and the bottom where materials like plastic rain Supreme and
it doesn't have the reassuringly solid feel of something by Alienware but
it avoids feeling cheap so I'm willing to forgive that two type a USB 2s and a
type A and type-c USB 3 plus Ethernet
HDMI 2.0 and even a full-size SD card
slot adds up to pretty good IO but
what's more than pretty good maybe even
fantastic are the internal specs of this shockingly potent little devil with a 6
gig GTX 1060 a core
i77700 HQ and 16 gigs of ddr4 memory at
just over 1,000 bucks this was legitimately the first time like I play
this game I'll guess how much something costs when I go around to people's
booths at trade shows this was the first time in years that I was shocked to see
the price tag on a laptop now obviously
there are differences here but for the
pieces of Hardware that actually affect
gaming performance the Acer Helios on
paper is the same as much more expensive
competing products but how about the
experience well let's put it this way you won't have to worry about having to
set a game at anything lower than high since this thing has no problem pinning
the frame rate at the 6 6 HZ refresh rate of the display so no surprises here
it turns out that whether you cram 370 horsepower into a charger or a two-door
Civic it's going to move pretty fast and
it's a bit on the chubby side at 31 mm
but unlike some of the sleeker and more expensive gaming machines we've seen
underload the Helios is able to stay nice and cool without becoming overly
loud either it even Sports a PR pretty
decent webcam but not all is hunky dory
to have an IPS screen on a budget oriented gaming laptop at all should be
the icing on the cake and it does have one whoa but how how do I put this
delicately it's kind of like a grocery store cake where you bite into it
expecting homemade cream cheese icing and you end up with some canned Betty
Crocker that's a little passed its best before I mean to be clear the viewing
angles and contrast ratio are great it's
still icing you just regret asking for a
corner piece maximum brightness could be better described as maximum glowi and
average Delta e values of 5.67 are only
okay if you don't see huge outliers and
you're covering more than 67% of the srgb color space
I don't want to sound ungrateful here I still wouldn't personally trade it for a
TN I'm just saying that you won't be doing any serious video editing or
photoshop unless you want to invest in a secondary monitor to check your work
another area that Acer skimped is the 48w hour battery to their credit Acer
was at least honest about this but with
this kind of showing in our standard battery test basically if you're cting
one of these around to class you should expect to be getting familiar with the
power outlet locations the trackpad though is a return to things that are
pretty good it's accurate and tap to click and gestures work well but I do
wish that the force required to press was a little less so that dragging and
dropping files was easier and the keyboard feels pretty good too again the
force to press the keys is a little too high and they are touch mushy so I can't
get quite as fast as I could on something like an Alienware or the
surface laptop which is a bummer because on a gaming laptop quick and accurate
key presses are a plus but overall it
does the job it needs to and the inclusion of both a backlight and a full
number pad are appreciated and the positives don't end there if the 250 gig
SATA SSD which can be upgraded to NVMe
by the way isn't quite enough to house your gaming collection adding up to 32
gigs of RAM or a 2 and 1/2 in hard drive
on the Helios is really easy each of those has its own compartment on the
bottom so it only takes one screw to access it should be noted though that
anything beyond that requires a full disassembly so then in response to our
original question what you're giving up is screen and battery so if you want a
laptop for productivity and you just want to game on it a little bit I'd go
for something at this price point with a G GTX 1050 TI a core i5 and potentially
nearly double the battery life but if
you want a machine that is laser focused
on price to Performance for gaming at
just over $1,000 the Predator Helios 300
knocks it out of the park highly
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