Acer Predator 17 review: who would want a gaming laptop?

It’s easy to see why PC makers are targeting gamers — what other consumer demographic is willing to pay high prices for premium Windows hardware? But the problem with PC gamers is that many of them don’t need PC makers to assemble components for them, since you can get better results for less money when you build it yourself.

You can’t really do that with laptops, though, which perhaps explains why a number of PC makers have produced high-end, super-powerful notebooks with the express purpose of gaming on them. And Acer is the latest to jump into this arena with the new Predator 17, one of ts first portable gaming machines. It’s everything you’d expect from a gaming laptop: huge, heavy, and hefty specs.

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