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The speakers are also surprisingly decent. The 240Hz refresh rate is perfect for competitive shooters, reducing input lag and motion blur in one fell swoop. Colors are enjoyably saturated and there’s enough brightness to make images pop. The Helios comes with an impressive 1440p (2K) IPS display. Part of that limited battery life is because the hardware doesn’t exactly sip power, but the bigger element is its high performance screen. Thankfully, it supports USB charging, so a high-wattage GaN charger will do the trick with a much smaller footprint. It comes with a big 90 wHr battery, but you’ll still need to pack some kind of charger for more than a few hours of active use. It also tips the scales at 5.73 pounds and includes a giant power adapter that is two pounds all on its own.

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It’s 14 inches wide, 11 inches deep, and just shy of a full inch thick. Because of the positioning of the keyboard my thumb was often just too high on the pad to easily press.Īs you might have guessed from the expanded keyboard, the Helios isn’t exactly thin and light. My fingers glided easily over its glass surface, but the integrated buttons were finicky. It’s oddly positioned, off-center from both the deck and the typing area, and feels an inch too narrow. All the way on the left, above the function row, is a silver Turbo button that instantly overclocks the GPU and turns the fans on high. Above that are dedicated keys for Play/Pause, Next, and Previous Track. A PredatorSense button is positioned just to the right of Backspace and puts power modes, fan options, and lighting presets at your fingertips.

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It took me less than an hour to adapt.Įxpanding the keyboard also gives the Helios room for dedicated buttons to launch its PredatorSense customization software and one-click overclock the GPU. The keys are tactile and have good travel at 1.8mm. Adding those extra keys shifts everything a bit to the left and demands that every button be a bit smaller, but it’s not hard to get used to. It’s great if you plan to use the laptop for work and doubles as a macro pad for gaming. It’s also completely programmable with custom lighting schemes if you crave more personalization.ĭespite being a 15.6-inch laptop, Acer has managed to squeeze an entire numpad onto the deck. Its per-key RGB is driven by Mini LEDs that are brighter and more power-efficient than last year's model. The keyboard is brighter than ever before and is one of the most vibrant I’ve seen on a gaming laptop. It’s business in the front and party in the back. It looks much more grown up and refined while still having that unmistakable bit of Predator edge. Instead of RGB, the lid now uses a mix of brushed aluminum across the majority of its surface and straight matte black on the upper third. The second tier configuration bumps that size to 17 inches and 144Hz at $169.99.Ĭompared to last year’s model, Acer has scaled back and streamlined the design, removing the RGB light bars from the lid and shrinking the logo down to a small prismatic stamp. The more affordable $1349.99 model uses a 15.6-inch 165Hz display.

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Both models scale the resolution back to 1080p and use lower-powered Nvidia RTX 3060 GPUs. Our review sample is the highest configuration currently available, but if you don’t need all of that power, two other options are available at a reduced price.

Ports: 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C with PD, Thunderbolt 4 and USB charging, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2 with Power Off Charging, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 2, 1 x USB 3.2 Gen 1, 1 x HDMI 2.1 w/HDCP support, 1 x Mini Display 1.4, 1 x RJ45 Ethernet, 1 x headset combo port, 1 x Kensington Lock.

Memory: 16 GB LPDDR5, 4800 MHz (upgradeable to 32GB).

Processor: 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700H.

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