Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 PHN14-51
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Reviews for the Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 PHN14-51
Source: Laptop Mag
The Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 isn’t a love-at-first-sight laptop. But after getting to know it, I could see myself being happy using it every day for gaming and working. I’m not thrilled with its trackpad, but its keyboard is one of the most comfortable I’ve ever used for typing short emails or long pages of text. It’s much cheaper than flashier gaming laptops, cranks out high frame rates even in demanding games, stays cool, and the battery lasts over eight hours. It’s everything you’d expect from a gaming laptop, plus a little extra.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 10/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: USA Today
Yes, it’s a great laptop for on-the-go content developers who can’t compromise on graphics performance. The Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 is a tad chunky for a 14-inch laptop, but it’s still easier to tote around than a 16-inch laptop with similar performance. It doesn’t just push out frames—it runs its Nvidia RTX 4070 graphics card at a higher power than most other gaming laptops, and it does so while still keeping cool enough to avoid throttling. The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 isn’t quite as powerful (its RTX 4070 is power-capped at 90 watts unlike the Helios Neo 14’s), but in return, you get a laptop with one of the best OLED displays on the market, fantastic audio, a 12-hour battery life, and aesthetics that rival Apple’s MacBooks.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/14/2024
Source: Laptop Media
Support, online available, Short, Date: 08/07/2024
Source: Laptop Media
The Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 (PHN14-51) ticks the most important checkmarks when it comes to a gaming laptop. This includes very good CPU and GPU performance, a great display, and goodies such as MUX switch and G-SYNC. So, that’s a 14-incher, but the P and E cores of the Core Ultra 7 155H can boost to 3.70 GHz / 2.65 GHz in long processor stress such as 3D rendering which is a superb result. The GPU runs at ~2514 MHz / 124W during gaming which is enough for a high FPS alongside bumped visuals. Now, in “Turbo” mode, the fans are noisy but not too intrusive. If you apply the “Performance” preset, this will result in much less noise, a bit hindered CPU clocks, and ~100W GPU TGP which is still fine even for more demanding games. In this scenario, the right side of the board feels hot (but not too much) while the thermals of the WASD section are normal.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/06/2024
Source: Matthew Moniz
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 04/25/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Laptopmedia CN
zh-CN→ENPositive: High gaming performance; beautiful display; powerful hardware; long battery life; fast SSD storage. Negative: Overheats while using; non-expandable RAM.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 08/06/2024
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NVIDIA NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 Laptop GPU: High-end graphics card for laptops based on the Ada Lovelace architecture. Offers 8 GB GDDR6 (128 Bit) and is configurable with a TGP of 35 - 115W (+ Dynamic Boost).
These graphics cards are able to play the latest and most demanding games in high resolutions and full detail settings with enabled Anti-Aliasing.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
Ultra 7 155H: A high-end Meteor Lake chip that debuted in December 2023. This 1st Gen Core Ultra processor has come to replace 13th generation Core chips; it has 16 cores (6 + 8 + 2) and 22 threads at its disposal. Its Performance cores, of which there are 6, run at up to 4.8 GHz while its Efficient cores, of which there are 10 (8 main cores plus 2 extra ones found in the Low Power Island) run at up to 3.8 GHz. The integrated AI Boost NPU offers two Gen 3 engines for hardware AI workload acceleration. This laptop processor's Base power consumption is 28 W while its Turbo power consumption is supposed to stay within 115 W. » Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
14.50":
14 inch display size represents a middle ground between the small subnotebook formats and the screens of the standard 15 inch laptops.
The reason for the popularity of mid-sized displays is that this size is reasonably easy on the eyes, provides good resolutions with usable detail sizes, yet does not consume too much power and the devices can still be reasonably compact.
In the past, 14-inch devices were very rare, but now they are the standard for laptops after the 15-inchers.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Acer: In 1976, the company was founded in Taiwan under the name Multitech and was renamed Acer or Acer Group in 1987. The product range includes, for example, laptops, tablets, smartphones, desktops, monitors, TVs and computer peripherals. Since 2007, the group has merged with Gateway Inc. and Packard Bell, which also market their own laptop product lines.
Acer computers are designed for a variety of purposes, including ultrabooks for mobile use, gaming laptops for gamers, affordable options for everyday tasks, and 2-in-1 convertible laptops for versatility. Acer's product portfolio also includes tablets that offer portable computing and multimedia capabilities.
70%: This rating is poor. More than three quarters of the models are rated better. That is rather not a purchase recommendation. Even if verbal ratings in this area do not sound that bad ("sufficient" or "satisfactory"), they are usually euphemisms that disguise a classification as a below-average laptop.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
