Tech Advisor – October 2019

14 TECH ADVISOR • OCTOBER 2019

REVIEW

If you want to upgrade the M.2 SSD in the Acre

Predator Helios 300, it’ll take a little more work

as you have to remove more screws and then

carefully pry the bottom off of the laptop

With a mere 256GB Intel NVMe SSD for the

operating system, you’ll likely run out of space in

a month on the SSD. And that leads to our only

realcriticismoftheupgradeoptions.If youwantto

upgradethe M.2 slot to a larger drive, you’ll have to

remove the entire bottom of the laptop.

The good news is that it’s pretty easy to do. Just

remove the screws on the bottom and then carefully

splitthebodyopenwitha plasticshim.Thereare

plentyof video examples on YouTube.

Withthebottomremoved,youcanswapthe

battery,M.2 SSD or M.2 Wi-Fi module. There are

Predator Helios 300 owners who even remove the