20 PCWorld OCTOBER 2019NEWS ACER’S IFA ANNOUNCEMENT
steel beast of a cockpit, complete with Acer-
blue LED lights, a foot rest, and a camera
mount above the middle monitor for any
budding Twitch stars. Look for it in the fourth
quarter, but be warned: That sky-high sticker
price doesn’t include an actual gaming rig or
any displays.
You might not need a luxurious $14,
battlestation to get an awesome monitor
experience though. Acer’s updated Predator
Triton 500 gaming laptop bumps its refresh
rate all the way to a face-melting 300Hz. Yes,
300Hz. That’s so fast that the Core i7-8750H
and GeForce RTX 2080 Max-Q inside its slim
0.7-inch chassis might not even be powerful
enough to feed it at full-force in all scenarios
even at its 1080p resolution. Still, 300Hz.
Yes, please. It’ll start at $2,800 when it
launches in December.
Acer isn’t your only option though, as
Asus also announced a pair of gaming laptops
with 300Hz displays (go.pcworld.
com/300h).
Speaking of thin gaming laptops, the
Predator Triton 300 refresh crams a Core i
and Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1650 into a slim
5.07-lb., sub-0.8-inch frame, which sounds
reminiscent of the newly upgraded Razer
Blade Stealth (go.pcworld.com/st13). It
comes with 16GB or 32GB of RAM, up to two
1TB NVMe PCIe SSDs in RAID 0, and a 2TB
hard drive, along with a 1080p display
buzzing along at a speedy 144Hz.
I’m a huge fan of high refresh-rate gaming,The Acer Predator Triton 500.but equipping this particular laptop with such
a speedy screen is a bit of a head-scratcher, as
the entry-level GeForce GTX 1650 won’t
come anywhere near hitting those speeds in
anything but esports titles with the graphics
settings nerfed. Acer only announced EMEA
availability for the Predator Triton 300, where
it will cost €1,299 in October.
It wasn’t all gaming for Acer at IFA. The
company also announced updated versions of
its ConceptD creator notebooks, its Swift and
Nitro mainstream laptops, four new
Chromebooks, and even a portable projector.
Check out the company’s next@acer IFA page
to see more (go.pcworld.com/nxac).