Tech Advisor – October 2019

10 TECH ADVISOR • OCTOBER 2019

REVIEW

the newer version will also tax the battery. We had the

same complaint with the SE version.

Remember,ofcourse,thatyourbatterymileage

willvarydependingonhowyouusethelaptop.

Tryingtoplayanygamesawayfromthemainswill

quicklydraintheAcer’s little battery.

Heat

Scroll through any reviews of the Predator Helios 300,

and you’ll likely run across someone with stories of

major overheating and falling performance.

To see how well the Acer holds up under a load,

we cranked up the Unigine Heaven benchmark

and let it loop for five hours while monitoring the

GPU’s performance clock speeds. Because graphics

Battery life on the Acer Predator

Helios 300 is a little underwhelming