Acer Predator Helios 300
Price: £1,049 from fave.co/30JG5cg
Acer’s Predator Helios 300 has achieved something we never thought a gaming laptop could do. It manages to be popular, powerful, and affordable. We reviewed the original Helios 300 and called it a “great notebook”. Months later, we tested a model updated with Intel’s 8th-gen Core i7, and clad in an eye-catching white-and-gold chassis. With a markup in price of several hundred pounds, our opinion was far more muted.
This is basically that same updated laptop, but without the marked-up price to go with that white exterior. That’s why we decided to bring in this laptop to get a closer look at what it offers – and why it’s managed to hit such a sweet spot.
Looking into the specs, we can see why it’s powerful (relatively, anyway): with its
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