Well, well, well, it’s not every day you see a top-of-the-line gaming laptop make its way to Nepal so it’s a lucky break to see the Helios 18 finally available. It’s got the powerful i9 14900HX, plenty of fast RAM, and most noticeably the all-mighty RTX 4090 from NVIDIA. In this piece, let’s take a quick look at the Acer Predator Helios 18 (2024), its features and specifications, and its price in Nepal.
Acer Predator Helios 18 (2024) Overview
Design and Display
Being an 18-inch gaming machine, the Predator Helios is a chunker weighing over 3 kilos and occupying quite a footprint. It features a multi-color Predator logo on the lid followed by similar RGB strips on the bottom. You got your two Thunderbolt 4s at the back, alongside an HDMI, and a power jack. The rest of the Type-A, SD card slot, and ethernet options are divided across the sides.
The screen on the Predator Helios 18 is especially impressive given that you can go with a mini-LED panel running at a whopping 250Hz with up to 1000 nits of brightness all across. The WQXGA resolution sports a 16:10 ratio and the screen is creative-ready with its accurate 100% DCI-P3 colors.
- Check out all the pricing and details of Acer Predator Helios laptops here
Performance and Memory
Under the hood, the Predator Helios 18 from Acer ships with top-of-the-line components for a laptop. You’ve got the 14th gen Core i9 14900HX Raptor Lake refresh CPU with 24 Cores, 32 Threads, and a boost clock of 5.8GHz paired with the RTX 4090 (16GB) from NVIDIA drawing up to 175W of power. Complementing that, you get plenty of RAM (64GB DDR5) and storage (2TB NVME Gen 4) for your games and other files. With such a powerful combo, the Helios 18 is sure to provide desktop-grade performance with the added benefit of being mobile. Besides gaming at ridiculously high frame rates, it’s plenty capable of editing at 4k, rendering animations, or dabbling in 3d modeling.
Things are kept under wraps by a combination of 5th Gen AeroBlade fans and liquid metal on the GPU and GPU that help keep the temperatures in check.
Connectivity and Extras
Moving on to the rest of the stuff, you get WiFi 7 support, AI-based noise reduction, tons of RGB customization, and a large 90 Wh battery. The laptop ships with a 330W brick to provide sufficient juice to the system and the maximum quoted runtime is 5.5 hours on the company’s website.
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The colorful keyboard is an eyecatcher with its individual-lit keys and ‘MAGSPEED’ WASD accents. The company claims that their patented Magclick tech uses a mechanical switch with short key travel for satisfying mechanical feedback as well as shorter actuation for faster clicks.
Acer Predator Helios 18 (2024) Specifications:
- Display: 18-inch IPS/min-LED, 165/240/250Hz
- Resolution: WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600), WUXGA (1,920 x 1,200),
- Processor: Up to Intel i9-14900HX
- RAM: 64GB of DDR5 RAM (4800MHz)
- Storage: 2TB NVMe PCIe Gen 4 SSD
- Graphics: Up to NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 (175W)
- Keyboard: Per-key mini LED backlight with RGB
- Battery: 90 Wh Li-ion polymer
- Power Supply: 330W adapter
- Ports: 2x Thunderbolt 4.0 ports, 1x HDMI 2.1 port, USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A, 1x Ethernet, 1x micro SD
Acer Predator Helios 18 (2024) Price in Nepal and Availability
The Helios 18 with Core i9 14900HX and RTX 4090 is now available in Nepal via IT Global. Acer Predator Helios 18 (2024) price in Nepal is NPR 555,000 with the gaming combo set. There’s also a 4080 version that costs NPR 4,30,000. You get 3 years of warranty from the company with the purchase.
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