Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop PC, 15.6 Full HD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display, Intel i7-9750H, GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB, 16GB DDR4, 256GB NVMe SSD, Backlit Keyboard, PH315-52-78VL

I bought this laptop to replace my old RoG GL553VD.

Clean, sleek, and simple but also aesthetically pleasing. Ive been taking very good care of it and so far it causes no problems and holds strong buut my one complaint is everytime you try to plug in the power cable it feels like I have to forcefully push it in and feels like I might eventually break something within it, defective design maybe?

This laptop is the best when it comes to value. Great screen, and its a lot thinner and lighter than it looks. And the trackpad is superb. I find myself unknowingly ditching my MX Master for the trackpad. The refresh is butter. In terms of battery, Im getting around 3 - 4 hours consistently. Not sure how people are getting 6 hours. Finally, if you do a clean install, remember to undervolt the CPU. Out of the box, its undervolted at 0.125v. Mine is undervolted at 0.128v.

I LOVE this gaming laptop. I could go on and on about it, but I’ll just break it down into pros and cons so you can get the info you care about, but the most important thing to take from all this is definitely buy this laptop!

Overall great laptop, smooth keyboard & trackpad, 4-5 hours battery life.

I do not use this for gaming, I use it for CAD related software

The memory comes along with it is very less but atleast they have the slots to fill it up.

The fans can get really loud. But otherwise it was great. WAS because it died randomly, I think it was a problem with the keyboard, because it understood it was charging, but the power button did nothing. I am currently in the process of getting a replacement.

While the internals for this are nice on paper, it would appear that theres just generally poor quality. Ive seen several reviews about backlight bleed around the edges of the monitor, and mine definitely had this. Any dark screen had the corona effect going on. I also experienced poor operating stability; at times I would get hung up just running a single program and have to force restart or force shutdown. A brand new unit shouldnt have these issues. Returned.

Granted Ive only had this laptop in my possession for a couple of days, but so far I like it a lot. Gaming on a 15.6 screen will take some getting used to. (My previous gaming laptops were ASUS ROG models with 17 inch screens, and my desktop has a 27 monitor.) but the picture quality is the best Ive seen. The Predator has some great components with the 9th gen i7 processor, the Nvidia 1660 Ti GPU, 16 GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD. The SSD is 256 GB so I added a Seagate Firecuda 2TB hybrid drive for an additional expense of $80. In addition, the Killer networking hardware/software seems to work very well.