Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel i7-10750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 6GB, 15.6 Full HD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display, 16GB Dual-Channel DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD, Wi-Fi 6, RGB Keyboard, PH315-53-72XD

I hadnt probably put more than 100 hours on this thing in the first 29 days when it took a massive dump. I was playing WoW on Ultra settings at the time with no other programs running. It crashed to the blue screen of death while just flying through a zone, it wasnt even a CPU intensive action. It failed to recover and restart. Upon trying to wipe and re-install windows it was only able to get 65% of the way through a windows re-install before taking a dump again.

2 Acer laptops defective out of the box within a week of each other. First was a Nitro 5 from Best Buy, the 2nd was this Predator. This one the track pad wasn’t installed correctly and had the top right corner above the plane of the surrounding surface.

Great build quality, decent screen (could be brighter) with good viewing angles, good response and refresh rate. The webcam, and microphone are mediocre.

Pros: Graphics quality is ultra high quality. Nvidia RTX 2600 is 43% faster than whats on my desktop (GTX 1080). Keyboard had a really nice touch/feel to it. (first keyboard on a laptop Ive owned, that feels like i could simply use it all day and feel comfortable.) The C: drive is exceedingly quick. I added another M.2 Drive from a common drive maker. (be SURE and swap the locations of the new drive and the standard drive << or it wont recognize the new drive.) CPU is very quick, as expected.

Overall, this started out as an amazing product, however, within the first month of getting this laptop, it gave me nothing but issues. Keys stuck causing issues with gaming, had troubles connecting to any wifi source without immense amounts of time and effort, and just recently, it had a windows update. The computer is too stupid to realize after so many repair diagnostics and troubleshooting that it was a windows problem. It is not letting me Uninstall the last update, therefore I am having to reset the entire computer. MONTHS of work on this computer. Including school documents, gaming work for my stream and SO much more, I have to delete every single file. I didnt think a laptop over 1000$ would cause me enough problems to have to back everything up, but here we are. I, as a tech nerd, know not to get onto any malicious websites on my laptop. I know what sites are sketchy. And all that stupid stuff. This laptop is terrible. I dont recommend getting it at all. And if you already have, I am terribly sorry.

Bought this for my gamer son and he loved it. Said it worked great but unfortunately burned out after 1.5 year. Warranty expired after 1 year. Sad didn’t last longer.

I received this laptop one week ago, and it has met my expectations. It is an excellent machine for the price. I havent had the possibility of playing a lot with it, but at least with a couple of games and applications I have tested, the laptop has worked as expected. Ill provide more information when I run more applications and games.

I bought this laptop as a last second mobile CAD workhorse (Im an Engineering Technician). I did a TON of research on laptops close to the $1K mark that were also prime available on amazon. There are a few configurations of this laptop on Amazon, this being the entry level RTX version. So far, Ive been blown away by the build quality and performance of this Helios 300. ACER has been my go-to for reliable computing for awhile now. Lets get to it:

Really good laptop!!

First off let me start off by saying that this was my first gaming laptop purchase ever. I did a bunch of research and finally settled with this amazing cpu. I couldn’t wait to receive it...until the day came which was today. I quickly opened the box and as I kept on opening I starting to question “Was this laptop used”? And to my surprise yup it was used, I suppose the previous owner didn’t like it so they returned it and Acer decided to push forward with sending an unsuspecting customer a used laptop that I completely paid money for under the pretenses of me knowing that I was expecting a brand new fresh out of the box device. I’m very disappointed VERY! ESPECIALLY AT THE PRICE THAT I PAID!