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

Hello i am a verified buyer and i will make my honest review

Acer has absolutely come a long way. I reviewed one of their first Predator Helios 300 gaming laptops approximately 2 years ago. It was big, bulky, ran hot, but it performed better than 73% of all PCs tested, it was a phenomenal beast.

-Screen showed a lot of light bleeding as shown in the photo.

The bottom cover for a ram upgrade gets a big huge boooo! Is not easy and you have to wrench on a brand new computer to get the cover off, and acer could not spring for a piece of plastic you use that would not affect the cosmetics of the case. Big huge boo!

Hinges for the screen to close down broke and the screen (lid) came apart ie, the front and back of the screen separated.

This laptop is designed for gaming but for a serious coder it works very well. The gaming is a good bonus but the purchase was based on the need for a computer that could support the classes and coding I need. It is fast, the fans are a bit noisy but Id rather have noise than a computer killed by heat. This is the best of all worlds, great for gaming and butt kicking for college level coding.

Great gaming laptop or for everyday use. Had an issue within the first few days; it was only running on one graphics card (I’m lousy with computer speak). It had an issue processing the graphics from the cpu to the Nvidea card. Luckily my son is a wizard with all things computer, and was able to locate an error in a driver and correct it. Now it runs like a rocket. I’m guessing I could have called the tech support number that came with it and they would have handled it as well. Battery life on a full charge gets me 2 hours of usage at best. I’m ok with that because it typically stays plugged in while gaming. I’m told that settings can be changed to go into a low power mode while running on battery to help. Since it is running two fans at performance settings and a battery hungry graphics card, it’s a trade off that’s fair. For a gamer, it has the hardware to pretty much do it all. It gives you way more features for the cost than pretty much anything else.

Specs to price this is a hard deal to beat I was worried it was gonna look really gamer boy but in person its definitely not as aggressive as the picture make it look way slimmer too

Upon opening I couldn’t do anything with it because it said no hard drive detected. It was replaced & I’ll give another review on the replacement. ***Received replacement & changed from 1 star to 5! The sound is amazing! Graphics great. I also want to add the manufacturer was going to have me wait a month for replacement whereas Amazon sent it out right away. That was very much appreciated as I needed it for school & that was a lot of money to be out of for a not functioning laptop.

Best Gaming Laptop for 1200 bucks. I have upgraded from old 2013 asus notebook and it has been a great spec bump. RTX 2060 with i7 10750H is best combination for performance with less money. It would have better if acer has provided AMD version!