Acer Predator Helio 18P AI announced with ECC RAM support, Arrow Lake vPro CPU and an exorbitant price tag

Acer showed off its flagship Predator Helios 18 AI at CES 2025, complete with high-end hardware from Intel and Nvidia. It has now received a mid-cycle refresh in the form of the Acer Predator Helios 18P AI. While the laptop retains its gamer aesthetic, it can now double up as a portable workstation for demanding workloads.

For starters, the laptop now uses Intel's top-shelf Core Ultra 9 285HX vPro (vs Core Ultra 9 275HX on the Predator Helios 18). One can pair it with a GeForce RTX 5090 laptop GPU, up to 192 GB of ECC DDR5 RAM and 6 TB of storage via a mix of PCIe Gen5 and PCIe Gen 4 drives. Acer keeps the power-hungry components chill via two sixth-gen AeroBlade fans, liquid metal thermal paste and a network of heat pipes.

Other Acer Predator Helios 18P AI specs include a 4K (3,840 x 2,400) mini-LED panel with a peak brightness of 1,000 nits, 120 Hz refresh rate, 3 ms grey-to-grey response time and 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 colour gamut. A 99.9 Wh battery powers the notebook. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4, Thunderbolt 5, an HDMI 2.1 port and an SD card reader.

As expected, the Acer Predator Helios 18P AI won't come cheap. Its availability is unknown, but the laptop has an eye-watering price tag of EUR 4,999, likely for the base configuration.