Acer Predator Helios 300 Gaming Laptop, Intel Core i7, GeForce GTX 1060, 17.3" Full HD, 16GB DDR4, 1TB HHD + 256GB SSD, Black, PH317-51-787B

Great pc. There's no game I can't play on it :) Had it for a full year and I'm a pretty heavy gamer. Everything from DS3 to stellaris to old games like Fallout 3 and NV to Witcher 3. Nothing has failed me yet.Tip: Put Rainbow Six Siege on the SSD drive. Shooters will lag if you use the side storage. So save that for your shooters or intense multiplayer games. If you have a lot of these games, look for a different computer with extra SSD. Laptops are notorious for this, and it's not a fault with this laptop specifically. This is laptops in general if you are a gamer. But with Siege on my SSD, it has no lag. I have Siege and Total war Warhammer 2 and they both run great. I still have space for another game or two. If that helps conceptualize what sort of space this specific pc has on its SSD. Your single player games should all sit on the regular storage, as it doesn't impact it much.Gotta watch out for overheating. Try setting it on a hard surface. It makes a big difference. Also keep the fans at full blast if you're doing something intense. It helps. I can't really fault this PC for heating issues. That's just a normal laptop issue. Especially gaming laptops....Screen size is amazing. I won't settle for anything less than 17'' as a gamer. But ultimately I hook it up to my main TV... But still! You can't do that at school or on campus.This computer will probably last me another two years before I move on to something in the 11 or 12 series. Three years for games is pretty solid, honestly. Then i'll wipe it and use it purely for work. :)

Nothing but positive things to say about this laptop. I use it for World Of Warcraft, Final Fantasy, and Photoshop primarily. The SSD is lightning fast, from pressing the power button to being ready to use takes less than 10 seconds. World of Warcraft runs beautifully on it; the graphics card handles even highly populated raid settings incredibly well. I swapped all my graphic settings to maxed out in-game and I’m still getting between 80-160 FPS depending on how crowded the area is. The backlit keyboard is beautiful. I’m not 100% happy with the touchpad, but I NEVER use it without an external mouse anyway. The screen is absolutely breathtaking. Colors are gorgeous. I would recommend getting a USB hub depending on which peripherals you use because it only has 3, and if you use a secondary monitor with it, the USB port that’s directly under the HDMI port is VERY close and you’ll have a hard time getting anything plugged into it.The only con I can think of is the touchpad, but again that doesn’t bother me one bit since I use a USB mouse.As far as Photoshop is concerned, I have it installed on the SSD and opening it is blazing fast. It took 17 seconds from double-clicking the shortcut to being ready to open an image. The 16GB of RAM is great here, I can work with large files without stuttering or lag.Again, absolutely LOVE this laptop. Would highly recommend to anyone at all, not just gamers or designers. Blazing fast, GORGEOUS screen color, very responsive, comfortable, heavy but not bulky, and so much more.

Was great while it lasted, but died after 1.5 years. Screen flickering and eventually not powering on at all, keyboard not responding. Very disappointing.

This Laptop is Amazing, Price wise its affordable for the specs, in terms of Performance "its a Beast", it boots up in few seconds even when i have lots of Apps running on startup, Battery stays for 5-6 Hours of Multi-tasking, and 2 hours playing Games. i play all the games on Ultra setting and its very smooth. The laptop is a bit Heavy but that is fine, the cooling system "Keeps things cool even when playing Mad Max or GTA V", it might get a bit noisy under pressure. the Screen is so bright and the Quality is Perfect. the Keyboard Back-light looks cool when playing in the Evening.will try to update my review as i use it more in depth.

Someone needs to tell the factory or it may just be amazon laptops ,not to load up the SSD {like256gb } then the 1tb hdd has only 400mb full ! I run my laptops in Pinterest ! Bill Gates is a friend and made a visit to pinterest ! After 20 to 30 minutes of pinning Dallas Cowboys stuff and all the Dcc cheerleaders. It stops or cant even pull down the slide to pin to which board ! THEY ARE KNOW I HAVE TO LEAVE TO CLEAN OUT THE SSD WIT CC CLEANER THEN I GO BACK, this has been happening for 2 plus years. Someone from Acer went in my pc and tried to clear it , The C Drive is now labeled Acer C Drive ! My Rog Asus 17.3inch I bought in 3/34/2016 last more than 6 months because I couldn't get anyone to understand or knew how to fix. Bought a new Cog Asus inoct 2017 and returned it ! Also people need to looked for old sofrtware from there old pc ,before putting a new pc on there network! Amazon has a great return policy and help with me getting a label last time as I don't have a printer ,but sent me to The Ups Shop that said they cant do it! somehow after explaning to amazon I went back the next day and amazon contacted them and had them send it over to the carrier center in Sherman tx . UPS show up at 6pm 2 days later and it got returned 5 star to amazon ,Now I have to do that again! The Most Important thing you can do is ask The amazon sellers or box store first about this problem first . also after the pc shut down 1000s of time it will cause you big problems! I will be returning the acer predator and predator mouse ! Had a very hard time with acer!