OCTOBER 2019 • TECH ADVISOR 9REVIEWas we see it just barely edging out the other GTX 1060
laptops. We’ll call it a tie again – which is good news.
Our last gaming test uses Rise of the Tomb Raider
settoVeryHighin DX11modeand,yup,it’sa tie
again.And yes, that’s a good thing.
Our final test looks at battery life. We set the PC
in airplane mode to eliminate network interference,
attach ear buds with volume set to medium, and set the
screen brightness to a comfortable 250- to 260 nits. We
charge the battery to full, unplug the laptop, and loop
a 4K video until the machine shuts down.
The result with the current Predator Helios 300 is
slightly better than what the SE version of the laptop
achieved, but still pretty below average overall. Blame
part of this on the battery size: at 48 watt-hours, it’s
a fairly small supply. The higher-refresh-rate panel inThe performance of the Acer Predator Helios
300 is as expected in Rise of the Tomb Raider