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Acer Predator Helios 500 with Ryzen 2700 and Vega 56 @ £1700.
While it's similar to the Asus number from last year (Ryzen 1700 and RX 580), it's got a number of improvements including a 144hz 1080P panel.
Spec wise it seems pretty bang on, only thing missing is TB3 (for obvious reasons but not sure if a deal breaker yet). It's also a big fat desktop replacement at 17.3" and 4KG, no Aero 15X/GS65 levels of portability.
Spec and price wise for me, it looks great. Aesthetically, it looks naff but then Acer does tend to opt for the try-hard look. Performance wise, it smashes every other laptop at Cinebench, trades blows with other flagship Intel laptops in other benchmarks and hovers around GTX 1070 levels for gaming.
Interestingly, like the Asus Ryzen laptop before it, the CPU is a desktop part - so in theory is upgradeable... Is there a better laptop for content creation and gaming?
Full specs - https://www.acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/predator-series/predatorhelios500
Anyone have any thoughts, opinions or equally interested by it?
Acer Predator Helios 500 with Ryzen 2700 and Vega 56 @ £1700.
While it's similar to the Asus number from last year (Ryzen 1700 and RX 580), it's got a number of improvements including a 144hz 1080P panel.
Spec wise it seems pretty bang on, only thing missing is TB3 (for obvious reasons but not sure if a deal breaker yet). It's also a big fat desktop replacement at 17.3" and 4KG, no Aero 15X/GS65 levels of portability.
Spec and price wise for me, it looks great. Aesthetically, it looks naff but then Acer does tend to opt for the try-hard look. Performance wise, it smashes every other laptop at Cinebench, trades blows with other flagship Intel laptops in other benchmarks and hovers around GTX 1070 levels for gaming.
Interestingly, like the Asus Ryzen laptop before it, the CPU is a desktop part - so in theory is upgradeable... Is there a better laptop for content creation and gaming?
Full specs - https://www.acer.com/ac/en/GB/content/predator-series/predatorhelios500
Anyone have any thoughts, opinions or equally interested by it?