![]() ![]() As usual I wrote this review entirely on the Helios 300, and I had many more errors than I am used to. The key travel is quite nice, but for me the keys somehow felt very soft, and not in a good way. The keyboard on the Acer Predator Helios 300 is quite good. So if you combine the laptop and it’s power brick, it loses a bit of the portability aspect. ![]() It is good for the kind of laptop it is, but this does mean that you will need to carry the charger around for any work lasting more than 2 hours, and that charger is huge. The Helios 300 lasted me about 3 hours on regular usage, with the backlights turned off and brightness at around 80%, while watching a live stream. Sure it’s not the best for media consumption but you wouldn’t expect that. With good colours and games looking crisp, this monitor is perfect for gaming and all daily tasks. In the Acer Predator Helios 300, you get a brilliant 1080p 144Hz monitor. You can also see the benchmark results here: The laptop handled everything we threw at it like a champ, shure eventually it hits thermal throttling, but it is genuinely a great gaming laptop. It gets pretty loud and you would be better off getting a pair of noise cancelling headphones to drown it out. But when you plug-in this puppy in and hit that turbo button, you awaken the wrath of Poseidon hitting you with a consistent barrage of monosyllabic waves. The fans on regular, battery optimised, office use are extremely quiet, making me feel like they weren’t running at all. Personally this is great and adds an extra level of upgradability. The same goes here, while the review unit didn’t come with an extra SSD pre-installed, Acer provides you with the cables and screws needed to add your own SSD. If you have read our previous review you would also notice that the storage was 256 NVMe + 1TB SSD, what we didn’t realise was that the 1TB was a SSD that can be added later. Other than the RAM being a strange 20GB, the rest of it makes sense. These specs are what you would expect as a natural upgrade, we see it as the most logical generational step from the previous Helios 300 we tested. Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 (with 6GB GDDR6 RAM).Intel Core i7-10750H – 2.6 Ghz Hexa-Core.Here are the specific specs of the unit we got: Still keeping the same design while upgrading internals can ensure that performance is the main focus. Not that it’s become fatter, but more that thin and lights have become thinner and lighter. The Helios 300 is not as thin and light as it was when it first came out. Minimal bezels on the sides of the monitor but still quite sizable on the top and bottom, here is probably where Acer could do a bit of tweaking.Īs before you also get the pads at the bottom to lift the laptop up, along with the caution signs everywhere warning you that this system is muy caliente (a.k.a hot). ![]() The blue design elements still remain, except for the trackpad, and gives you the same gamer-esque feel here. It’s light enough and solid enough to give you all the confidence that this laptop will last you a while. The design and dimensions might be a bit dated at this point, but it’s a tried and tested formula and it works. The laptop feels just as sturdy as before. The chamfered edges around pretty much everything, even the trackpad gives a very nice premium feel. ![]()
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