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

Pretty good for the price, would recommend to other people

Alright here’s the deal. I have been an HP and Apple customer for over 14 years. Never cheated in those two ever! Now i needed a super mobile, not too expensive, good quality laptop for gaming when i am not home which happens very often! This Predator was kinda of a risky for me, never trusted Acer! Well now i can say that not just changed my mind, I actually think they did a great job! Using high end parts, charging lowest price on the market, get a good looking rig and works really well!

The laptop arrived on time and was well packaged. The first day I was able to use it the 300 exceeded my expectations. Its a lightweight laptop with a terrific screen. The exterior looks real enticing and gives it that gamer look. The SSD it came with was only 256 GB so I installed my Steam games on an exterior SSD. When I closed it and later reopened the laptop the screen did not come back on. I let it sit for about 10 minutes and tried again and the screen came back. In the short time I had it I was able to play some games on it such as Dead By Daylight, Car Mechanic Sim 2018 and Rocket League. The laptop played them all with ease for the most part at 60 fps in 1080p, but had some stuttering once in a while. I had this laptop for about a week and was unable to try out another games as the screen blacked out after the logo loading screen popped up when booting up. I was really disappointed, but thankfully Amazon offered me a full refund and I am going to purchase a different laptop. This was the first and possibly last Acer product I will ever buy.

144hz panel is super nice!

Very good value. Powerful and can handle demandind loads for music production with heavy plugin use. It has anice feature where you can control fan speed and regulate the temperature manually. I like everything about this laptop except the battery life. Its terrible. I get about an hour maybe an hour and a half of life off the charger on airplane mode with lowest screen brightness and only running my DAW.

Runs pretty well, only issues Ive had so far are:

This thing said VR ready but IS NOT compatible with Oculus Rift...!!!! WHAT THE HELL?!!!! And theres no way to return it... SO PISSED!

Have had this for several months now and LOVING it!!!! I don’t use it for gaming so can’t speak to that, but needed it for the high end graphics card and processor speed for my graphics programs. The storage is relatively small, but can be expanded so not worried about that much. No complaints at all. (Except that I’m a 50-year old woman who looks like a teenage boy with this thing LOL!)

This is an extremely high performance laptop with a few of the expected cons of being in this price range (battery life, limited storage out of the box, can get quite hot). Overall the pros far outweigh the cons and I feel great about the purchase. It runs newer games extremely well on high settings without any kinds of performance issues. If you want to get full use of the beautiful 144 hz screen you might need to turn a few graphical settings but its well worth it. I should point out that I did initially have some heat issues with this laptop where temperatures would consistently be above 90c on demanding games which caused throttling and massive frame drops. I fixed this by undervolting the CPU by 100 MV using throttlestop and running the fans at max speed during gameplay. This has completely solved the issue for me. If you wanted to you could also apply a quality thermal paste or buy a cooling pad but its probably not necessary.

Bought on sale. A laptop with 8th gen i7, 256gb SSD, 16 gb ram, GTX 1060 graphics card for $999 is an amazing deal. The 144hz screen is sharp and a very rare feature at this price point, most are 60hz. The body is black aluminum with red backlights. It feels sturdy and looks great. The bloatware was minimal, I was able to uninstall in minutes. I have been playing the Division 2. I haven’t experienced any of the overheating issues described by other reviewers. I plan on cloning the 256ssd to a 1gb SSD for more adequate storage. This laptop is a no brainer, Costco doesn’t even have a deal this good.