Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop PC, 15.6 FHD IPS w/ 144Hz Refresh, Intel i7-8750H, GTX 1060 6GB, 16GB DDR4, 256GB NVMe SSD, Aeroblade Metal Fans PH315-51-78NP

This laptop is too slowly

Id love to write an in depth review, and may later, but I will have to keep this short. For the money, I feel that this is likely the best off the shelf laptop you can buy. After doing a fair bit of research, I pulled the trigger on this purchase and could not be happier with it. This was a bit of a necessity buy as my other laptop essentially bit the dust. I didnt want to spend a lot of money, but had to have something that was powerful enough to do everything that I needed it to do. This laptop did not disappoint. 5/5 would recommend.

I wanted to like this laptop. However, the heating issues are irredeemable and I’m returning the laptop.

Before buying this laptop I couldnt play solitare. My previous laptop was an hp stream with an apple sticker on the back for some reason. Its version of windows was very strange and called the hp a MacBook air I didnt know what it meant, and I was angry that I couldnt play Microsoft solitare. Once I installed an app called solitare on its app store I was disappointed it wasnt solitare for Microsoft windows. Youre probably saying Its just solitare Its not just solitare…. Its solitare for Microsoft windows. When I was tired of this hp stream, I let my dog use it as a chew toy, but then he got electrocuted. It was a good chew toy for about 4 minutes. I went online to search for a new laptop, thinking to myself I could really use some solitare for Microsoft windows right now. Then I found this laptop, it was marketed as a gaming laptop. So I knew it would have to have solitare for Microsoft windows. When it came I was hooked on the design and feel. Backlit keyboard and such. I searched solitare in the start menu and there it was! Solitare for Microsoft windows! I played it and fell in love with this laptop. My niece wanted to play fortnite on it once, but I told him, its suppose to play solitare for Microsoft windows! He scoffed and turned away. This laptop is awesome playing solitare for Microsoft windows. Would recommend for anyone in the market for a laptop that can play solitare for Microsoft windows.

I love the quality of the build, love the predator sense software. Makes tweaking and over locking simpler. Battery life is abysmal but it’s a gaming laptop it’s to be expected. It’s great that it automatically switches GPU for demand And needs.

I bought this product this year, but for unknown reason it freezes and turned to pixilized screen.

Very powerful laptop. I needed something for mobile gaming and also for productivity on my down time at work. The computer is very powerful and with the nvme ssd it is also fast. The stock storage is small but there is room for a sata ssd. The main downfall ids the battery life which under heavy load is just more than an hour. But with everything crammed in here it is expected. It does get hot when gaming and you can feel it through they keys but its not unbearable.

The laptop is well built and performs well for gaming with the 144hz screen, but the screen does have some screen bleed towards the top that isnt noticeable during regular use, unless the screen is black. However, the battery life is horrid, as expected from a gaming laptop and the laptop does not use the GPU for gaming, unless it is plugged in. Frame rate goes down from 144 fps to 30 fps when unplugged from battery, so if that is a concern for you, do not purchase. Also, there would be occasional massive frame drops in games like Fortnite where the fps would drop to 10-30 fps for 3-10 seconds. I fixed this by disabling GameDVR using regedit, which you can search up tutorials on how to do so. Also, its been about 2 weeks and my Black Ops 4 code has still not been sent and I doubt it will ever be sent.

While playing a very normal game online through my browser during the first couple of days of receiving the laptop , the laptop freezes and screen went blue indicating a restart, then screen turned black with a message saying No Bootable Device

This computer overall is very good. It’s screen is crisp despite the protective cover and it’s overall a very smooth and powerful computer. My only hang up would be that if you are playing a graphically intense game, about five or ten minutes in, its frames will drop drastically as it hits a plateau in its heat. After about 30 seconds of this frame drop, it’ll return to normal and won’t do it again.