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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Andrew E. Freedman

Acer hedges its hardware bets, puts vPro and ECC memory in new high-end gaming laptop

Acer IFA 2025.

Based on its specs, Acer's new gaming laptop, the Predator Helios 18P, sounds like a business workstation. The system, announced at IFA in Berlin, has options for high-end processors with Intel vPro and ECC RAM to prevent data corruption.

But in person, it sure looks like a gaming laptop, with its Predator branding, liberal use of RGB lighting, and aggressive angles. But with vPro for managing PC fleets and ECC memory to ensure data integrity, there's definitely some incongruity there. The RTX 5090, however, at least makes sense in both gaming and workstation use cases.

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