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

Used this laptop for less than a week then blue screened. Only played Overwatch, a small games on steam and did homework. Price seemed too good to be true and I wasnt wrong

I absolutely love it

Simply put, this is the perfect computer for Ableton Live.

Based on several reviews I saw, I was hesitant to buy this laptop. I still decided to give this laptop a chance. Big mistake! After a week of using the laptop, the wireless driver randomly stopped working for no reason. Reinstalled the drivers, reinstalled windows, and still wireless drivers wouldnt work. I had no access to a wired connection for days, so eventually plugged it and updates fixed the issue. However, I returned the laptop to avoid such issue happening again. So I got a replacement and guess what? A week after using the replacement laptop, blue screen of death! Error message saying FAULTY_HARDWARE_CORRUPTED_PAGE. Unacceptable that two brand new Acer laptops have issues. The pictures speak for themselves. Though it restarted and seemed to work fine, I was not going to risk having faulty hardware. Acer customer service wanted to send it for repair, which would take 2-3 weeks to receive back. I decided not to deal with them and returned everything back to Amazon. Thankfully, everything happened within the return period and Amazons great customer service accepted with no issues. Instead, I bought the HP Omen 15 and couldnt be happier! Im sure Acer makes some good laptops, but this specific product has lots of issues! If you do end up getting this laptop with no issues, consider yourself lucky. It has great specs for the price. Start up is blazing fast. Upgrading hard drive and RAM is super easy. Screen is great except for that massive screen bleed. Oh and good luck dealing with the terrible thermals and loud fans. Had to reduce the processor power management (advanced settings on Edit Power Plan setting) by like 30-40% to achieve decent thermals. The good thing is Predator Sense software allows full control of fan speed. I apologize for the lengthy review but it had to be said. I suggest to save your money and invest in a better laptop if possible.

(Update: been three weeks since I got this laptop and Im still having no issues. Predator sense sometimes bugs or, but thats a software issue and I found out how to fix it whenever it does. I also found a solution to the battery problem. There are portable laptop chargers that are about $100 that can keep the laptop charged and running for and extra 6-8 hours depending on the chargers MaH.)

La lap llego bien en caja y todos sus sellos, pero en realidad si tiene un muy serio problema de calentamiento

This is an upgrade from the 2017s Helios 300, and a good upgrade it is. I got this during Black Friday sale, but been eyeing it for long time. Compare to other laptop with same specs, you are getting a better deal with this. Pretty much a full 144hz display and an overclock i7 chip. The build is quite strong and there is barely any form of flex on both keyboard and display. With the 1060 6GB, you are pretty much getting a full desktop power in a portable system. The keyboard isnt super bright, nor dim. Sadly you cant change the brightness level of the keyboard nor the colors. The track pad is right about the good size and uses standard windows drivers and it has soft clicks, same goes with the keyboard. Having an access to HDD upgrade and Ram upgrade is a great bonus as it is one screw away to upgrade.

The laptop is fine and all but the lid at certain angles, will hit the hibernation button causing the computer to go fully into hibernation. Doesnt sound too bad except it happens often and can take 5 to 10 seconds to get back into what you are doing.

Its a great laptop for gaming when you can actually have it stay plugged in and have all of the internal fans working but other than that its not worth the price imo. Whenever its not plugged in to the charger expect to get 20-30 fps in all games cause it switches the gpus for whatever reason and the charger on mine randomly disconnects and reconnects at its own will. Another problem is the overheating it gets heated up a lot and slows down your gaming even more. I have never had problems with most of my other gaming laptops until I bought this one, so Id recommend looking into other non acer gaming laptops cause apparently these things arent that well designed.

Great computer.. 16GB is more than enough to support anygame. There are a couple issues I am having with video playback. Im not sure if its the program I am using (steam) or what but when I try to enlarge a video the background display shows over the video.