Acer Predator Triton 500 PT515-52-73L3 Gaming Laptop, Intel i7-10750H, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER, 15.6 FHD NVIDIA G-SYNC Display, 300Hz, 16GB Dual-Channel DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD, RGB Backlit KB

For the price of the computer, you would expect the build quality to be higher. Battery life is terrible. The screen gets scratched from the keyboard. The keyboard feel is gross. Had a keycap break within 1st month only way to replace it is to send the whole laptop in for 4-10 business days. It can run games well if you prop up the back with something. Otherwise, it gets way too hot.

Tl;dr Acer Predator Triton 500 (PT516-52S-73YD) has quality control issues. Heat dissipation from the GPU goes through the w,a,s,d keys on the keyboard making for VERY uncomfortable gaming unless you use an external keyboard. GPU started glitching after a week of use. Acer warranty support technicians couldn’t fix it after 3 attempts and 6 weeks of back-and-forth with their repair center. The technicians damaged the laptop during the repairs. Acer Corporate Support tried to replace it with an inferior machine (Acer Nitro 5 with lower specs), which I refused, and Acer has so far refused to issue a refund.

It has an on-boot feature where it plays this loud sound and does some silly RGB keyboard animation. The sound can be disabled through BIOS and/or the PredatorSense app. The RGB keyboard animation CANNOT. This animation occurs on-boot and whenever the laptop wakes up. This basically ruins the laptop for me.

This is an excellent laptop for gaming, office or school. Its understated design (other than the fan outlets) help it fit in anywhere. It also delivers on speed, fabulous, fast & bright screen, good battery life, excellent keyboard & good sound (although, you will probably want headphones if the fans get humming during a long gaming session).

This slim and dense laptop packs a six core CPU that can turbo up to 5ghz, a 2070 super, and all the LEDs to light up a carnival into a laptop with a great screen. The heft and performance mean business, though the loud startup sound and fireworks display on the keyboard betrays a bit more whimsy. It can fill both niches nicely, as can it be a portable desktop replacement. I say portable, but at a very dense 5lbs (feels much heavier) and with a 4 hour battery life, its not a typical laptop. Between the low base CPU speed and the various max Q tricks used by the GPU, it can and does make sacrifices to allow for this portability. Most evident is the 230watt power pack, which is ridiculous for a laptop, but the GPU alone could draw more on the desktop, but upgradability is another issue.

Acer Predator Helios 300 & Triton 500

Absolutely incredible laptop

The laptop works great with games that are graphically demanding! There is no lag when I play any games. However, it does tend to overheat after about 30 mins of use so I highly recommend you to buy a cooling pad to prevent it from overheating. As for the battery life it does last about a whole day and then you would need to charge it but it depends on what programs you are using and on what power mode. I always have mine on best battery life.

Didnt get to use it much.

The Acer - Predator Triton 500 SE 16 2560x1600 165Hz Laptop with Intel 11th Gen i7 processor, GeForce RTX 3060 GPU, 16GB DDR4 RAM, and 512GB SSD is an absolute beast! At first glance it seemed boring, bland, straightforward, and very simple, things that a gaming computer shouldnt ever be. The power button was replaced, or so I thought, with a Turbo button and like every kid-at-heart thats been told not to push the red button, I pushed the red button once past the setup process. This Acer Predator Triton 500 SE gaming laptop is amazing. From the moment it started up, I love it. It feels very well built, sturdy and yet thin for a gaming laptop. There are well ventilated sides, but it also looks sleek and yet something youd see in a transformer movie...in a good way. Keyboard: The keyboard works fairly well for gaming, though most purists will likely use an external one anyway. If you will be using it for gaming, I suggest disabling the touch pad otherwise you will inadvertently cause it to trigger (I dont know of a way to do this only while a specific app is running).