Acer Predator Triton 500
Price: £2,499 (inc VAT) from fave.co/2BA1yxp
I’ve tested a lot of gaming laptops over the years, but the newly refreshed Acer Predator Triton 500 is the best one I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing on.
For many years, you could only coax enthusiast-class performance out of mammoth gaming laptops that threatened to throw out your back while you carried them around in your bag. The introduction of Nvidia’s energy-efficient Max-Q technology resulted in more portable play-worthy notebooks, but the truly notable ones usually topped out with graphics options below the upper echelon of performance. Gaming on the go always required some sort of compromise.
No more. The Acer Predator Triton 500 brings it all, pairing a 6-core, 12-thread Intel Core i7-10750H processor with Nvidia’s potent new GeForce RTX 2080 Super graphics chip. All that power somehow squeezes into a sublime 2.2kg aluminium chassis with a lightning-fast 300Hz G-Sync display that offers drop-dead gorgeous contrast ratios. Is it perfect? Not quite. But I love it.
Specs and features
Acer sent us the highest-end Triton 500 on offer, loaded with every feature you could ask for.
CPU: Intel 10th-gen Core i7-10750H
Memory: 32GB DDR4/3200 in dual-channel mode
GPU: Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 Super Max-Q
Display: 15.6in (1,920x1,080), Full-HD IPS screen with Nvidia G-Sync
Storage: 1TB Samsung NVMe SSD
Dimensions: 358.5x255x117.9mm
Weight: 2.2kg
There’s not much more you could ask for. The included Samsung NVMe SSD blazes along, but if you want even faster speeds, there’s another M.2 slot for expansion, and Acer loaded the laptop with Intel software ready to get a dual-SSD set-up humming in RAID 0.
The storage and RAM are difficult to access, however. The Triton 500 uses an inverted motherboard design, which means you’ll need to yank out ribbon cables and the entire motherboard to access the expansion slots. Fortunately, the stock configuration comes with plenty of firepower.
Even the Internet is fast on this beast. The Acer Predator Triton 500
