It has a soft, shallow typing feel that isn't particularly responsive. The keyboard features dedicated Home, End, Page Up, and Page Down keys as well as a numeric keypad, though they and other top-row keys like Escape and Delete are puny. We used Extreme for our benchmark tests, though we did try a few with Turbo and saw a 2% or 3% improvement in some tests (but no improvement in our game tests, which already maxed out the fans). It also lets you choose among Quiet, Default, Extreme, and Turbo performance modes, the last two advertising CPU and GPU overclocking and Turbo increasing cooling fan noise to a deafening roar. An RGB Light ShowĪ special key launches the PredatorSense utility, which monitors system temperatures, offers multicolor animated patterns for the backlit keyboard, and lets you toggle settings such as the keyboard lighting timeout and a clashing startup sound. The laptop's left side holds two USB 3.2 Type-A ports, Ethernet and audio jacks, and a security lock slot.Ī third USB-A port joins the Thunderbolt 4, mini DisplayPort, and HDMI ports on the right the AC adapter plugs in at the rear.
#Acer predator helios 300 2022 windows
With neither a fingerprint reader nor a face recognition webcam, you'll have to type passwords instead of logging in with Windows Hello. Handsome in black aluminum with a stylized, illuminated Predator logo on the lid, the Acer is advertised as weighing 5.5 pounds, but my scale pegged it at the same 4.8 pounds as the Nitro 5, whose size it matches exactly at 0.9 by 14.3 by 10 inches (HWD).įairly thick bezels surround the screen, which like the keyboard shows some flex under pressure. The top of the line is $2,299.99 with a GeForce RTX 3080, 240Hz screen, 32GB of memory, and a 1TB SSD. They even have the same ports in the same places, though the Predator adds a mini DisplayPort and its USB-C port supports Thunderbolt 4.įor $1,199.99, the lowest-priced Helios 300 offers a six-core Core i7 CPU and Nvidia's previous-generation RTX 2060. But the two Acers share Intel's eight-core, 2.3GHz Core i7-11800H processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 144Hz, 1,920-by-1,080-pixel display.
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