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The Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop is on sale for under $1,000
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TL;DR: The specs-packed Acer Predator Helios 300 gaming laptop (16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD) is on sale for $999.99 at Amazon, saving you $300.
Get your RGB keyboards and gaming gloves ready, boys and girls — a crop of new PC games are about to take over your life.
Fall and summer 2019 will be a whirlwind of highly awaited releases including World of Warcraft Classic on August 27, the Blair Witch Project on August 30 (just in time for spooky season!), Call of Duty: Modern Warfare on October 25, and Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order on November 15.
Don’t wait for Black Friday sales to get a new laptop: The Acer Predator Helios 300 is one of the best Windows laptops and best budget gaming laptops, and it’s on sale for $999.99 at Amazon.
As a budget option (if you’d call spending a grand “budget”), Acer had to cut costs somewhere — here, it was high-end speakers and a good fan system (it makes up for this with 360-degree sound and Waves MaxxAudio® through your headphones.) What’s amazing, though, is what Acer did manage to pack into a laptop in this price range. The GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, 6-core Core i7-8750H, 16GB of RAM, and a 1080p/144Hz panel make it an impressively configured laptop with speeds comparable to that of the MSI GS65. PGMag’s review calls it a compelling midrange gaming laptop in a premium suit.
Outside, the Helios 300’s keyboard and trackpad are sick enough to distract you from slight clunkiness. The trackpad is extremely responsive, and the four-zone RGB keyboard is customized to the Predator interface and see-through keycaps for WASD.
Regularly $1,299.99, you can save $300 and snag it for $999.99 with Prime shipping.
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