Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-54-760S Gaming Laptop | Intel i7-11800H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 15.6 FHD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB SSD | Killer WiFi 6 | RGB Keyboard

Heres what I like

Terrible

This was a very exciting purchase and the fastest loading laptop Ive ever owned, until the Windows 11 upgrade. It would turn on and load almost without delay and the same with any game I ran on it from any of many online services and downloaded games. Once it upgraded itself to Windows 11, it crashed constantly trying to play any game, either online or downloaded games. After I tried a restore, I started getting the never ending reboot cycle and no matter what option I chose, when it would actually let me choose an option, it didnt help. My bad for not creating a restore on a USB drive as soon as I received it but its not a priority when youre setting your device up and have an NVMe drive , or so I thought. When I called the Predator Premium Service line that is supposedly 24/7 support, I got a voice mail box that was full. When I tried to call and order, and pay for, restore media, I got the same thing. I finally got through to a support agent who told me I would need to call their sales department to get the media, which I did and got the same message, you have reached a voice mail box that is full. Seemed like a great purchase until I unfortunately needed support which seems almost impossible to get from Acer, on a premium product that is supposed to have its own dedicated support group, which it does not.

I needed a laptop that could run the Valve Index, for a super cool art project that I got a grant for. After many, many hours of researching laptops and one whole purchase-and-return of an Alienware machine, I got this one. It runs its video right off the graphics card through the mini DispalayPort and it handles the hard specs of the Index amazingly well. And it does it for cheap. GET IT GET IT GET IT!

Great quality. System is a huge upgrade from my old laptop. The only thing that I recommend is getting a good sized M.2 SSD and installing it since the SSD already installed is only half a terabyte.

Possibly a defective unit but the laptop stopped working after two days. Apparently running google chrome and trying to open the start menu is too much for an advanced gaming laptop: it froze and I had to hard restart it. After which it didn’t actually pull up again, just cycled at the login.

The computer worked great for about 2 months, albeit loud and overheating...it still played the games well enough. However, the battery went out after that, and the computer wouldnt even work when plugged in. It would shut down in the middle of gaming. Acer was no help, and now the Turbo has stopped working.

Prompt delivery matching description. Quality keyboard and monitor.

This is a good laptop and does everything that I want it to do. HOWEVER the battery life on this laptop is horrible. Within in hour of it running without being plugged in, the battery has completely died. It has been like this since I purchased in April/May 2022. Very disappointed that if I want to use this when traveling, it has to remain plugged in at all times.

I researched for hours and came up with this Acer Predator Helios. Worked right out of the box. Note - my edition had two 8 GB memory sticks, and I bought two more 16 GBs to replace it and go all the way. I also bought a 1 TB hard drive to finish the job.