Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI Review

You can turn off the noise in BIOS. I saved a second there. Acer Predator Helios Neo Ai makes a terrifying sound after starting, and you will hear it several times during configuration, when Windows downloads updates and restart. The mute button does nothing. Instead, press F2 when it starts, enter the advanced BIOS mode and select Main, then switch the post animation and remove before reaching F10 to save and exit. You will not see the animation anyway, because the screen does not wake up in time, but you will definitely hear Wooooooosh.

In addition, and an apology for the sound like a grumpy aged man who does not need this kind of nonsense when he turns on the laptop in the morning, Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI is a really nice game laptop. This may be better than the Helios 18 predator, which I reviewed last year, because it is slightly more portable and weighs half a kilo less, while spending similar frames if you turn on DLSS.

The fresh multifunctional generation NVIDIA pushes FPS Cyberpunk 2077 FPS in the native Ultra-Ray Ultra mode in Ultra mode above 60. It has the same five USB ports as Helios 18, although none of them is USB4 or Thunderbolt, but we can allow you to move, because laptops from games are extremely swift, and 10 gbps is Start Piles-SS. This.

One of the type-C ports has an ambiguous tiny lightning next to it, but it seems that it is because it can be charged for it-there is a vast supply brick, which has its own plug and can also spend over 200 W. 16-inch Helios, however, gets a reduction in the number of Wi-Fi department, which has 6E to the aged 18-inch W-Fi i7.

The thing that will attract you the most to the artificial intelligence of the Helios Neo 16 predator (honestly, laptop names begin to get out of control in the same way as motherboards) is the price. After $ 1,800 (1999 £) Emphasizes the Razer 14 Dave blade had such a time of Jorts, as well as Asus Rog Zephyrus G14. The smarts among you will notice that these are smaller laptops, and although ROG has RTX 5070Ti, Razer uses an ordinary aged 5070.

That is why there are a lot of money for money, and this gives a different reason to overlook USB 3.2 ports. Eight -year technology at this point. It doesn’t bother me.

However, having Core Ultra 9 and RTX 5070 Ti puts Helios 16 AI on the most up-to-date game, and the performance is quite good, beating both Blade 14 and ROG G14 (fair) in the time of Extreme Synthetic Reference point.

In real games in which it is in, ROG tends to move forward, while the blade and Helios Jostle for a position – Acer mentions Helios Neo as 115 in total graphic power, as well as a blade and a little more than ROG.

Tetrakosa processor (8p, 16e, 24 threads, 5.4 GHz max turbo) is one that we saw a lot in laptops for games from Lenovo, MSI, HP and ASUS, and Acer jumped on the AI group, sliding the term to the laptop-it’s not Copilot+machine GPU.

Cooling is achieved thanks to 3D fans from the 5th generation of Acer and seem to do a very reasonable job, because during testing it was never warmer than 94 ° C-moving cooler than HP Omen Max 16 and Lenovo Legion 7i Pro Gen10, but warm than ASUS ROG ZEPYUS G16. Ventilation on the back and sides can be warm during apply, so you will not necessarily want it on the actual knees, but the fans are surprisingly well -preserved, considering how much heat they have to change.

The screen is IPS rather than OLED and is fine; Panel 16:10, 1600p, 240 Hz, which supports G-Sync and presents a huge 635 rivets (it can also display 99% of the color range DCI-P3, if it’s something that interests you). On the back there is a full-size HDMI port, thanks to which it can be connected to the outer screen, and one of the USB-C ports is also DisplayPort. I am a large fan of placing the monitor and charging connections on the back edge of the laptop housing in this way, because it seems that it is much more than the jumping spaghetti on the side.

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When laptops become larger, you can fit better keyboards in them, and the 16-inch Helios Neo receives a decent numepad, shorter than the average Space belt, comically vast Copilot key, which simply asks you to hit by mistake, if you rummage the left arrow, double input and power button in a reasonable position. There are dedicated media control elements and a regular line F, which works in cooperation with the FN key. The keys have a nice journey and RGB backlight, which you can control in the Predator software that has your own key.

The trackpad is shifted to the left and maybe it is not as large as you can expect from a 16-inch laptop, but it performs the task and has a nice positive click after pressing.

There are also built -in speakers. Exist. Just like battery life.

Acer has to do laptops so far, doing so from the time in the 90s, and you don’t start a fresh predator, expecting that it will be something less than completely competent.

And this is where we have. The laptop, which may be located at the bottom of the vast frame chart per second for the RTX 5070Ti machine in some games, but it still works very properly. There is also no quarrel with the price of this thing – building it over more exorbitant competitors saves enough cash for a fresh headset or gaming mouse, and this is a matter that can go a long way when you buy a fresh portable set.

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