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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Matt Safford

Acer’s new Predator Helios gaming laptops up the ante on performance and RGB – RTX 50 series and Intel Core 200HX CPUs meet a disco’s worth of glowing RGB

Acer Predator Helios Laptops.

On the desktop component side of things, we’ve seen a decided downturn in RGB this past year. But Acer clearly didn’t get the memo, because its latest Predator Helios 16 AI and 18 AI laptops sport an RGB light bar, a per-key RGB keyboard with (some) swappable switches, and diagonal RGB stripes that run across the right side of the keyboard deck and on the rear exhaust and cooling area. At least the lights on the deck are pretty subdued so as not to be distracting while you game.

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