Acer Predator Helios 300 PH315-54-760S Gaming Laptop | Intel i7-11800H | NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 GPU | 15.6 FHD 144Hz 3ms IPS Display | 16GB DDR4 | 512GB SSD | Killer WiFi 6 | RGB Keyboard

I should have spent more for a better laptop. This is above average only but not supreme

Got it for son to use at college. Work and gaming. Loves it.

I researched for hours and came up with this Acer Predator Helios. Worked right out of the box. Note - my edition had two 8 GB memory sticks, and I bought two more 16 GBs to replace it and go all the way. I also bought a 1 TB hard drive to finish the job.

This Acer Predator laptop is more expensive than other Acer brand lower level gaming laptops, but its hardly upgradable. It has weird design in the bottom case with very sticky parts on the hinge and side. Even with proper toolkit, its difficult to open the entire bottom case for RAM and SSD expansion. Most importantly, the laptop comes with Windows 10 Home 20H2 version OS. After initial set up of the laptop, it requires to do mandatory updates to keep up with the current system. After a few seconds of wait, the laptop tries to restart and said Windows updates are running. Then the nightmare loop happens again and again. The restart process has repeated over 50 times, but the laptop has not finished Windows updates for more than 10 hours. Just returned the laptop with original box and accessories to Amazon within 24 hours receiving it. Do not bother to contact the manufacturer for technical support, since they will tell you to do the same. The only way to resolve the issue is to open the bottom case and take out the SSD to wipe out the defective Windows 10 Home OS 20H2 version (its not compatible with latest 11th gen intel processor), and then reinstall Windows 10 Home 21H1 or Windows 11 on the laptop. You cannot do that on your own, since the laptops bottom case is very difficult to open.

Me gusta mucho el teclado, lo veloz que es el equipo, se puede jugar muy bien en ella y los programas para diseño de ingeniería o arquitectura van muy muy bien, en resumen un buen equipo. Compra recomendada.

The Good:

Came in today, already making games in UE5, love it.

This replaces a 4 year old predator that my son spilled a glass of water on. Nice replacement. He said it was faster for gaming.

Great quality. System is a huge upgrade from my old laptop. The only thing that I recommend is getting a good sized M.2 SSD and installing it since the SSD already installed is only half a terabyte.

Got this laptop and was very pleased. I was able to set things up but then the issues started. I could use the trackpad all day with no issues but as soon as I would go to use the keyboard, the computer would shut down. Sent the computer into Acer and they said the couldnt replicate the issue. I recreated it within 5 minutes of having the laptop back so I sent it back in. They ended up replacing the motherboard. But again, the issue still occurred after getting it back from Acer. Sending the laptop back for a refund because Im done dealing with Acer. This laptop was beautiful and had great performance when I was able to actually use it.