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

My career requires that I work with mathematical models that require high resolution visualization. I also design 3D animations for documentaries and other video production projects. Until now, Ive worked with non-Windows systems geared for this type of work.

Great clarity and definition on the screen. Video card does not overheat, but adjacent touchpad area gets very hot after several hours of play. Zoom events are crystal in both video and audio. Still getting used to keyboard sensitivity; I find during normal computer use that some keys need more pressure than others during normal typing.

Over heats easily and battery dies after an hour.

This computer is great, highly reccomended.

If you’re thinking on getting this laptop, please do it you won’t be disappointed, for the value of this it’s has amazing performance and quality. The shipping was a little rough since surprisingly they didn’t put any protection on the package but everything else was fine. NOW if you’re getting this I would recommend to undervolt it and so you have the best temps all the time. I played Destiny 2, warzone, Raimbow Six and the temps never went to 70c which is awesome for a laptop this thin and it’s components.

I bought this laptop specifically to use with The Golf Club 2019 golf simulation package, which powers my home golf simulator (however it runs Gears Tactics and Wasteland 3 very well). It does everything I need and has some great features. I am a Mac user and the last Windows I used was Windows 7. Windows 10 is serviceable but still has bloatware installed and the default email client does not seem to work with gmail or yahoo - I do not have the patience to try and work through it at this point. For gaming the laptop is good especially for the money. This said I have had the laptop for about 8 weeks and it is clear after talking with Acer technical support that the battery is defective. Gaming it lasts less than 30 minutes and simply surfing the web at power saving settings the battery lasts an hour at best. My only option is to package the entire laptop up and send it to Texas, at my own expense (including risk for any damage that occurs during shipping), for repairs. This may require my hard drive to be erased which would also require me to go through an extensive machine code process to reinstall my golf simulation software (which is extremely expensive and has usage tied to a single machine). All of this is very disappointing for a laptop at this price point. My Apple MacBook Pro was only slightly more expensive and if something like this happened with Apple I would have a box for return shipped directly to me (at Apples expense, not mine) for me to send the laptop back to them for repairs. Given that this is a battery issue alone, I would have at least expected an option to have them send me a new battery and do a self-repair / return - but that does not seem to be an option. Were it not for the battery issue this review would be a 4/5 or 5/5. An excellent value - if your machine is not defective....

I did not use the laptop for gaming, so I cannot comment on those aspects. I bought it for the graphics card that I needed for advanced 3D modeling. It worked great for some enormous Solidworks projects. When it was just 4 months old, the hard drive died. Acer tech support agreed that it needed to be sent in for hardware replacement. They told me that the entire repair and warranty system was down and only tech support was available and to call back in a couple of days. I overnighted the laptop to a trusted computer repair center and they diagnosed it as a bad hard drive, but they cant replace it without an image from Acer. Guess what else is down? Recovery image website is also down. I ordered a new Lenovo with a similar graphics card because this laptop has been down for a week now and I cant even submit a repair ticket, much less send it off for repair. I am down another $1500 just to keep my business going. One week later and they tell me again to call back in a couple of days. I will send this one in for repair and sell it. This is my last Acer purchase.

The best value laptop you can buy right now. Love the expandable storage.

My six year old gaming desktop is better, audio blew the first time i used it. Middle of the line gaming laptop for a premium price

Runs hot but that is to be expected from a gaming laptop. Specs wise this can run basically anything you throw at it from teardown, to Pavlov vr, to tarkov. This pc is highly capable and perfect for its price point, if youre looking for a starter pc thats also compatible with vr equipment as powerful as the valve index, this is what you need. 10/10 would recommend. Also who wants a touch screen gaming pc????? Dumb. Oh and the included extra storage options are amazing. I have 2 extra terabytes from a seagte 25 hdd.