Acer’s New Predator Helios Neo Gaming Laptops Offer Rtx 5070 Ti Gpus And Lots Of Ports

Nvidia’s RTX 5090 and 5080 desktop GPUs benignant of launched past month, but connected nan laptop front, we’re still awaiting nan avalanche of 50-series notebooks to recreation crashing in, starting pinch these hefty caller mid-rangers from Acer.

The (deep breath) Predator Helios Neo 16 AI and Predator Helios Neo 18 AI tin beryllium configured pinch up to Intel’s Core Ultra 9 275HX CPU and RTX 5070 Ti GPUs. They each characteristic a boatload of ports and will commencement astatine $1,899.99 for nan 16-inch and $2,199.99 for nan 18-inch. The 16 launches successful nan US successful April (other countries successful May), and nan 18 launches successful May (other countries successful June).

Both laptops characteristic RGB logos connected their lids, four-zone keyboard lighting, and up to 64GB of RAM and 2TB of storage. Also successful nan high-end configs is simply a 240Hz 2560 x 1600 OLED for nan 16-inch exemplary and 250Hz Mini LED of nan aforesaid solution for nan 18-inch. Both sizes of laptop characteristic 90Wh batteries and Wi-Fi 6E support. Each exemplary comes modular pinch tin ports to support you free and clear of dongle town. There’s 1 Thunderbolt 4 port, 1 USB-C 3.2 Gen 2, 3 USB-A ports, 1 HDMI 2.1, a 3.5mm headphone / mic combo jack, and moreover an ethernet port. Oddly, for specified ample and dense laptops, they’ve sewage microSD insubstantial slots alternatively of full-size. That seems for illustration nan only constituent “micro” astir these laptops weighing arsenic overmuch arsenic 7.28 pounds.

But nan bigger constituent to beryllium alert of is that nan RTX 5070 Ti GPUs, Core Ultra 9 CPUs, and OLED / Mini LED screens are each optional. At nan starting configurations for immoderate sizes you’re getting a overmuch humble Core Ultra 7 255HX and RTX 5070. That doesn’t sound terrible, but nan base-model displays are conscionable 1920 x 1200.

We reached retired to Acer astir nan costs of nan higher-end Predator Helios Neo configurations, but did not comprehend backmost earlier publication.