
Laptop gaming is always an interesting balance of performance, weight, and form factor. You want to have the fastest, most crisp graphics possible while also being able to take the laptop on a plane without risking a spinal injury trying to get your luggage into the overhead bins.
Acer’s updated Nitro and Predator lineup, while a little large, offer some pretty snappy performance with the Intel's new 14th gen chips and RTX 40-series GPUs without breaking your femurs if you rest them on your lap for even a moment as even the Helios Neo 18 is just 7.5lbs. They’re not ultrabooks, but they’re also not the Predator 21 X either.