Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 PHN18-71

Skillfully made gaming laptops with properly set priorities. The models series belongs to the category of large and hefty laptops — they are equipped with an 18-inch IPS screen with a resolution up to Quad HD, a response time of 3 ms, and a refresh rate of 165 Hz. The displays boast 100% sRGB color gamut coverage and support NVIDIA G-Sync frame synchronization technology to eliminate screen tearing.

The laptops operate on 14th generation Intel Core processors (Raptor Lake). In the base version, it's the Core i5-14450HX, while the top configuration features the Core i9-14900HX (24 cores and 32 threads). Discrete graphics cards from the NVIDIA Ada Lovelace family provide high graphics performance, and they also support ray tracing with the AI tool DLSS 3.5.

Heat dissipation from the "hardware" guts is the responsibility of a well-thought-out cooling system with a full-metal AeroBlade fan. The Acer Predator Helios Neo 18 PHN18-71 laptops are available in configurations with 16 or 32 GB of DDR5-5600 RAM, and SSD M.2 NVMe storage with a capacity of 1 TB (an additional PCI-E 4.0 4x slot is also available). The series interface includes two Thunderbolt v4 ports, a built-in card reader for microSD cards, an HDMI v2.1 port, and wireless communications Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth v5.3. Additionally, the laptops impress with a solid battery capacity (90 Wh) that supports charging via Power Delivery 3.0, a four-zone RGB keyboard backlight system, and crystal-clear voice transmission (thanks to PurifiedVoice 2.0 noise-cancelling microphones). However, the laptops are quite heavy, weighing about 3.4 kg.