Acer’s Predator Helios 18P is a gaming laptop with a business mindset, and the Swift 16 Air is a super light 16-incher that weighs less than smaller devices.
In the end, graphic-obsessed gamers only really care about maximizing frame rates. But that’s not all gaming laptops are good for. If you ignore the blinking RGB lights most gamer devices stuff into every crevice, they pack high-end CPUs and GPUs built for intensive graphics processing—handy for artists or AI developers. Whereas there are plenty of workstation laptops with high-end specs built for working stiffs, Acer said screw it and gave us a business-centric laptop that looks like a gamer’s dream device, even if it packs features players couldn’t give a fig for.Business in the streets, gaming the sheets
The Acer Predator Helios 18P is the latest in the company’s tank-like high-end mobile gaming rigs. The new 18-inch laptop packs extra features that would leave most gamers scratching their heads. It’s rocking Intel vPro, the chipmaker’s business security and management suite. Along with up to a whopping 192GB of ECC memory—a type of RAM that can correct small memory errors (which is important for those working on servers or other critical data infrastructure)—the Predator Helios 18P contains up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 285HX CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 mobile GPU. That CPU and GPU combo offered stellar performance in super-heavy laptops like the MSI Titan 18 HX.
