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

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This has a few feautres that are cool, custom keyboard color and fan control; however, the laptop I bought from ASUS for the same price 5 years ago was far superior in gaming quality. I excpected at least the equivalent. Do not buy this for gaming until they realize youre supposed to increase in quality as time moves forward, not the other way around. I was never going to buy from ASUS again after I bought a lemon last time, but gave it second thought. Never second guess yoruself, ASUS is a ripoff company.

I bought this laptop in July 2020 and everything ok, very fast I even added an additional solid hard drive, but it turns out that in November I left the laptop disconnected since I was going on vacation and on my return (8 days later) I tried to turn it on but it would not turn on, I assumed that the battery had been completely discharged, however when the charge was completed it did not turn on again, I contacted Acer Support and they generated an order to take it to a technical service center, it turns out that the main board had failed and it requires change. Now I will have to wait 3 WEEKS! for the spare part since I have the laptop in Peru. Thanks Acer because I wont be able to use my laptop until after the holidays, until 2021.

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this was everything needed for both gaming and for school/work, performance is great stands for everything it represents had for about a month so far and still next best thing to a great laptop best purchase highly unlikely that you would be disappointed

My wife uses this laptop. Absolutely love that you can customize the keyboard lights. The keyboards keys look and feel great. Fans are quiet. Runs all the games she plays with ease. Beautiful looking laptop. Looks a like quality, feels like quality, and runs like quality. The software that is used to keep track of and adjust the settings on GPU, cpu, fans, lights, etc is easy to understand and use and provides a good overview of stats. No issues. Love this laptop. Would highly recommend.

WIFI constantly drops in and out, all other devices including my old lap top have no problems. it is definitively related to this computer. i have tried all sorts of things to fix with no success.

The computer works amazing for everything I use it for - running my works virtual desktop, streaming on discord, playing in roll20, running casual games like stardew valley and the sims 4. However, the fans are ridiculously loud, even when the computer is idling. I read in reviews that this unit has loud fans, and I thought, how loud could they really be? They are ASTOUNDINGLY loud, it will make you reevaluate your previously held notions of loudness. Any time its on, even if youre just looking at it from across the room and not asking anything of it, It sounds like an ancient desktop tower that has been baking in the sun for hours and is on its last breath from a lifetime of mining bitcoins.

This has been a really great laptop, no issues with it, it runs top tier games at full graphics quality without a hitch and with other programs running in the background. The one tiny problem I did have was with the printing wearing away on a single key on the keyboard, and I contacted Acer support and asked them to send me a new keyboard and they did! Also in case youve had horror experiences with the battery replacement process on other gaming laptops, I checked before I bought this one and the battery is really easy to replace. The keyboard is designed in a way that I think will keep small particles from getting stuck under them, and the keys are easy to replace if you have the same problem I did with the printing wearing off. Its also really nice to have a keyboard with a full numpad on a laptop.

When it works its a pretty good gaming laptop, has a good battery life, runs games well and has beautiful picture. Problem is after a year its practically useless. I bought it in August of last year and now 1 week after the 1 year warranty expired the screen goes black and displays nothing, so if you do buy it at least be sure to get the extended warranty because it will stop functioning. Honestly itd be a much better option to sacrifice some of the performance for durability because 1 year of use is pretty pathetic.