Tech Advisor – October 2019

OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 13

REVIEW

But again: we didn’t experience any serious issues,
and nothing that would dissuade us from buying the
Predator Helios 300.

Best upgrades
Perhaps the best feature of this laptop is the mostly
friendlyapproachtouserupgrades.Acerputsthe
RAMslots and a 2.5in hard drive bay behind two doors
(see below). Assuming you purchased this particular
model, with 16GB of DDR4/2667 RAM in dual-channel
mode, we don’t think you should invest in increasing
the RAM. Instead, we’d open up the door for the 2.5in
drive bay and drop in a 1- or 2TB hard drive. This
upgrade is critical for anyone who plans to use the
Helios 300 as a gaming laptop, as games today can
take up to 50GB of space.

Two screws gives you easy access

to the a 2.5in SATA drive bay and

two SO-DIMM memory slots