ACER PREDATOR HELIOS 18 (2024) 18" INTEL CORE I9-14900HX 2.2GHZ / NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 4080 LAPTOP / 32GB RAM / 1TB SSD

NikoB

09.02.2024

Quote from: Damian on February 09, 2024, 09:04:47 Quote from: Damian on February 09, 2024, 09:04:47 If these are games, then why not. In other cases, this is extremely dangerous - the failure of one of the SSDs will automatically lead to the loss of all information on both. Unfortunately, it is impossible to build fault-tolerant and fast RAID10 on modern laptops. This was possible on the MSI Titan 18" 2022 with 4 x M.2, but in the 2023 and 2024 models MSI removed the fourth M.2 port...

Damian

09.02.2024

anybody use other ssd or maybe raid0 to speed up system? Thinking about 2x Samsung 990 PRO 4TB in raid0

David Chang

13.11.2023

Quote from: Xtone on October 28, 2023, 13:56:59 Quote from: Xtone on October 28, 2023, 13:56:59 Quote from: Cristian Laszlo on October 28, 2023, 07:56:52 Quote from: Cristian Laszlo on October 28, 2023, 07:56:52 I have a Predator Helios 3D 15 Spatiallabs Edition, it is basically a Helios 16 with a 3D screen, regarding to the speaker, I found that the sounds tuned by DTS:Ultra is too strong for the speakers in the helios 16 chassis, so I purchased Dolby Atmos to soften the sound a bit, need a bit of tuning in the Dolby Atomos settings, it doesn't sound that bad now.

David Chang

13.11.2023

The full screen shot for the stress test is way too informal, also the full screenshot for when running The Witcher 3 stress test is missing. The table should contain also the CPU and GPU power, as these can let readers have a quick glance at the wattage allowed for each mode: For example: Quiet Mode CPU 25W GPU 90W Balanced mode CPU 30W GPU 100W Performance mode CPU 30W GPU 140W Turbo Mode CPU 50W GPU 175W

Xtone

28.10.2023

Quote from: Cristian Laszlo on October 28, 2023, 07:56:52 Quote from: Cristian Laszlo on October 28, 2023, 07:56:52 I bought predator 16 with same panel 240hz IPS and Rtx4080- same impressions, especially with speakers (already tried to make research-no luck, totally crap comparing to my asus zephyrus g14 ) and huge heavy power brick (also tried research-only solutions with not fully tested GaN bricks). Turbo is unusable, my hairdryer is more quiet. Acer softer is also rather simple and not well optimized, for e.g:keyboard backlight stop responding, cannot adjust cpu, GPU and memory manually at all, no fan curve settings, or color profiles. Lightbar on back is like throw back to 80' neon flashy design-not in a good way. But aside of all above: it is very good laptop with very strong performance. Build 'old fasion' way-no clogging of fans after 2 months-blades are spaced far enough, good cooling(comparing to asus g14). Study build. When backligt for keyboard is working it has some very nice effects. I think all above relates to predator 18, as it looks as scaled up 16.

Enma45

28.10.2023

For that price an Intel wouldn't be crazy before I choose a Zen 4 7040 Phoenix which is cheaper.

Cristian Laszlo

28.10.2023

Well, i bought this one one day before this review because although it was quite expensive at 2600 Eur, having this configuration (same but with 240 500nit display) for this money seemed the best option. The laptop flies, overall installation was quite painful - i will post a video about this and come with the link here. Main drawbacks right are: - screen has some backlight bleeding at almost max brightness - strange drivers with .cmd and .bat executable - this thing is heavy. an extra 1.5 kg laptop + charger compared to my previous scar 17 - speakers are a joke, i am really considering upgrading them if there is a possibility - keyboard has around the 'd' area some minor flex Main advantages: - it flieeees - screen at max brightness is like staring into a light bulb - good and large screen - stays cool while office-ing - no coil whine until now Well i've had it only since one day and surely if other important issues arrise i will update. Overall i am satisfied by my purchase. I'm an automation engineer and need mobile power with a big screen.