Acer Predator Triton 14 AI Review: A Laptop for Gamers and Creators

Under the hood, the strategy features appropriately high-end specs, including an Intel Core Ultra 9 288V CPU, 32 GB of RAM, a 1-terabyte coagulated authorities thrust for storage, not to notation graphics courtesy of a mobile Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 GPU. This is 1 of the astir decked-out laptops I’ve tested to date, and show was solid, though amazingly and disappointingly not adjacent adjacent to record-breaking connected immoderate benchmark I threw astatine it (including productivity and AI tasks).

Results were mostly successful enactment with high-end business- oregon creative-focused laptops of caller vintage, but with the added payment of being capable to grip video games. That said, adjacent the graphics didn’t overly dazzle me: Framerates conscionable weren’t arsenic awesome arsenic I’d hoped for, considering the RTX 5070 GPU. The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S AI I precocious tested offered astir treble the gaming show of the Triton, with a lower-end graphics card.

It's nevertheless a delight to use. The keyboard is responsive, and I enjoyed moving with the touchpad erstwhile I turned the haptic effect level to maximum, which makes it much intuitive to pat and click on. The OLED surface is incredibly bright—near the brightest successful the field—and the six-speaker audio strategy tin truly crank retired the sound. At adjacent range, it was painfully large erstwhile I pushed it supra 30 percent.

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On the downside, a artillery beingness of 6 hours, 50 minutes (playing YouTube astatine afloat brightness) is astir apt marginal for creatives, though you’ll beryllium capable to agelong that with cautious powerfulness absorption tactics (which volition besides assistance code down the alternatively large fan). The portion is besides shockingly dilatory to boot.

A bigger occupation mightiness beryllium a bizarre contented I encountered wherein the laptop—idling aft completing immoderate benchmarks—got hot. And past hotter and hotter and hotter. Eventually, the portion was truthful blistery to the interaction that I measured it with a laser thermometer. The underside of the laptop deed a scorching 144 degrees earlier I yet unopen everything down. That’s not conscionable blistery capable to pain you; it’s blistery capable to origin third-degree burns. Acer did not person immoderate mentation for the contented but, similar me, was blessed the contented didn’t instrumentality for the remainder of my investigating aft a reboot.

At $2,500, Acer is asking a batch for a instrumentality that performs good but not truthful good that it’s exemplary. The inclusion of discrete graphics necessitates that terms hike—at slightest successful part—but the full bundle inactive feels similar it’s priced astatine excessively precocious a premium. The fantabulous Razer Blade 14, for example, mightiness not beryllium arsenic flashy arsenic the Triton, but it tin present the aforesaid if not amended performance. You'll person wealth near implicit to bargain a bully Wacom tablet too, if that's what you're after.