Acer Nitro 16 | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 7840HS | 16-inch | 1600p | 165 Hz | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB SSD |
Ignore the size of the saving and just look at the specs you're getting for $1,200. An eight core, 16 thread CPU paired with a 140W RTX 4070, plus lots of RAM and storage. Even the screen is decent, and that 16:10 aspect ratio is great for office and school work. This is a fantastic deal, especially when the 7940HS version is over $200 more expensive. It might not be the flashiest of [[link]] gaming laptops, but you certainly can't complain about the price.
This Acer Nitro machine is just about the cheapest RTX 4070 toting gaming laptop around right now, and it's a pretty damned impressive-looking one, too. It's a 16-inch form factor, which is just about the sweet spot at the moment for relatively large notebook screens without the heft of a 17- or 18-inch display. And it's running that 16-inch display at 2560 x 1600 with a 165 Hz refresh rate.
With that 140W TGP, that puts the graphics silicon right up there with the best RTX 4070 machines we've tested, such as the and . So yeah, it's going to perform pretty well when it comes to the latest games at both 1080p and the native 1600p resolution. And with a $100 discount on its original price tag, that makes it .
Acer Predator Helios 16 | GeForce RTX 4070 | Core i7 13700HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240Hz IPS | 16GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB SSD |
We're big fans of the latest Acer Predator laptop () and this RTX 4070 machine has got a lot about it, too. The Core i7 13700HX CPU is ostensibly an eight-core chip with E-core benefits. That means you get 16 full power processing threads, and a further eight cores to take it up to a total of 24 threads. For a $1,300 laptop that's pretty tasty. It's [[link]] also sporting some [[link]] speedy DDR5 memory, a full 1TB SSD and a 500nit IPS display with a 2560 x 1600 native resolution. Sadly, it's not the Mini-LED version in the top Helios 16 models, but it's still a bright, colorful screen.
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That machine is on a bigger discount even if it is a little bit more pricey. But you do get a 240Hz panel for that extra and the Intel chip does give you more multithreaded performance for your money compared with the eight-core AMD chip in the Nitro.