Acer Predator Helios 300 Offers Great and Powerful Gaming, a Steal Price


During its Next@Acer global press conference New York event earlier this year, Acer presented what it referred to as the Predator Helios 300. This gaming laptop, now available after its official launch in India, has a great price for such strong performance and long battery life factors.

The Helios 300 is an extravagant new rig exclusively available through FlipKart, an electronic commerce company, founded in Bangalore, Karnataka. At $1,099.99 to start, it offers powerful, VR-ready components and features- certainly a made-to-order machine for game enthusiasts. For starters, its design is all aluminum and plastic, similar to the way other Acer gaming laptops look, and of course. It has that glowy red accompaniment to its black exterior, specifically two red stripes flanking the Predator logo. Measuring 15.4 x 10.5 1.5 inches and weighing in at 5.5 pounds, the Predator Helios 300 has a 15.6-inch Full HD (1080p) form factor, with a full keyboard and number pad featuring more of that red backlighting and red WASD keys.

Sometimes weight is an issue with gaming rigs, and the industry as a whole has done a good job at chopping some of that weight off with lighter internals. The Inspiron 15 7547 from Dell is a comparable rig, weighing 5.76 pounds (however priced at much less). This 5 to 6 pound range seems to run common among the gaming PC sector.

Inside, you’ll get an Intel Core i7 7700HQ or Core i5 7300HQ CPU processor, also configured with either an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, or 1050Ti for graphics. There is 8 or 16GB of onboard DDR4 RAM (expandable up to 32GB), and storage rests at 256 of SSD, and a 1TB hard drive.

There’s an additionally neato aspect to this machine’s cooling system. For example, take the Predator Helios 300 AeroBlade 3D Fan technology. Made to keep its cool even during the most intense of gaming sessions, the technology features aggressive air vents, cleverly engineered to form with the computer’s body. In fact, the AeroBlade 3D fan is touted as one of the thinnest fans, at a mere 0.1mm, custom designed to increase airflow by 35 percent. That’s some helpful performance right there, not to mention this thing is loaded with ports, including a USB 3.1 Type-C. Gigabit Ethernet, a pair of USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports, HDMI 2.0, an SD card slot and headphone jack. With all of this, are you game? This stylish, yet hardcore gaming laptop is up for grabs, and we can’t wait to hear what consumers think about it. As far as pricing, I was serious when I said hardcore. These run for $2,028 to start for the Core i5 model.

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