Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop | 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H | GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 17.3 Full HD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR5 | 512GB Gen 4 SSD | Killer Wi-Fi 6E | PH317-56-70XJ

I am writing this amendment to my review on my older laptop, which the Predator was supposed to replace. Why is this? Well, lets follow the timeline.

Just amazing i just switch to gaming on laptop soon to build my own PC

This laptop had a black screen within 6 month of owning it. I had to ship it back to acer for repairs as they wouldn’t replace it ... that’s a 15-30 day process. I still haven’t gotten it back. ok update I got it back but unfortunately its now overheating and has to go back to acer once again , also they scratched it while repairing it

This little laptop is a Beast.. actually, a “Predator.” Out of the box it is ready to go. 16 GB Ram in Dual Channel, the 1660ti is far more powerful than I thought it would be. The backlit keyboard does indeed have four zones to control the color... I prefer the wave pattern.

Why a company would lock the bios from the user and require physical modification to the chip is beyond me. Cant dual boot this machine as I would have to take it into a repair facility because Acer for some reason doesnt think that the community cant take care of their own devices. I wont be purchasing an Acer again.

My teenage son is a big gamer and was constantly complaining about graphics quality, lag and disconnects with the previous system. This computer works great with none of those problems on these performance hungry games. It is a perfect size, light and portable and the killernetworks feature really helps online gaming performance. The graphics are awesome and it is cool looking too. I also wanted a good computer for him to take to college in another year, with plenty of storage and decent portability for its size. We havent has many issues with Windows 10 as with previous PCs so Im crossing my fingers. It has been a happy purchase so far.

Purchased in December of 2020 just stopped working took it to be repaired. Found out the motherboard went and they do not recommend repairing because its an issue with this model. Waste of money

So far it’s worked pretty well for the last 2 days in regards to drafting in AutoCAD’s Civil3D 2020. I don’t game at all but after a couple recommendations by others who have used similar gaming laptops with a hexa core intel i7 processorS, 16GB or more of RAM & NVIDIA GTX 1660 series card I figured I would give it a try. 15.6” screen is a little smaller for drafting which a cheaper wireless mouse. Fans kick up speed occasionally when I’ve built a DEM surface with a lot of definition. But definitely a nice machine so far for AutoCAD Civil 3D usage. Should something change in my experience I’ll update later

My son loves it thanx!!

Save your money and buy a better product. Highly disappointed in the product.