Acer x Intel at CES 2025: Predator Helios and Low-Cost Lunar Lake | Talking Tech | Intel Technology

Acer brought a trio of new Predator Helios gaming laptops to #CES2025, with configurations scaling up to an Intel Core Ultra 9 processor 285HX and RTX 5090 graphics. The Swift Go 14 remains a staple in Acer’s mainstream thin-and-light lineup, this year with an Intel Core Ultra 200H series processor. The $799 Aspire 14 AI is one of the most affordable Copilot+ ready PCs featuring an ultra-efficient Lunar Lake processor. Then there’s the Aspire Vero 16, which is designed to delight more eco-conscious users with a chassis composed of 70% post-consumer recycled material.

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[damienlobb]

Are you guys still cutting deals with OEMs to bar AMD from the higher end configurations? I'm noticing not many models of X3D laptops with 5080/5090. Seems a bit fishy.

[tonyk]

where to put the triton line up, since the helios neo 16s is meant to be slim and lightweight, the sliver color on the past tritons is really cool looking

[_lisan_al_gaib]

i have an acer conceptd7 with a really bad fan, it runs but makes this horrible grinding noise, it's broken, i was wondering if i could drop in one of these newer aeroblade fans into an older laptop like mine because i can't find parts for the conceptd7 (which is based on an older predator laptop from what i can tell), hoping someone from acer sees this

[VazgShah]

Why there is no word about really cool, which brought anything new to the industry, Predator Project Dualplay model. Why it had been forgotten?

[larryyeung]

no 14 inches? i wish acer would make a more compact one like asus tuf a14.

[luckyone]

i have the predator 2019 helios 300, and in comparison to my daughters Asus f15 laptop which is few years newer, my laptop always sounds like a server running also when being idle, i am not enabling the boost on 9300h and keep it at 2.4, just because it is such a noisy device and fan levels to manual minimum, i sincerely hope acer improved their device cooling because otherwise i love it, but cooling solution is kinda letting it down a bit. Maybe it's more Intels and 9300h fault, don't need a jet high pitch sound while reading pdf in silence. Looking forward to Jarrod's review. Not looking forward to hearing price of 16inch AI of starting 2300 dollars, i paid my predator 1200 eur, now i need to add an extra 1000 if i want to keep the style and color which i like.

[bio_stack]

Sorry but those 100 blade fans work well for half a year, and then they are clogged up forever.

[SquirrelGir]

I hate the emotional marketing of AI on products that aren’t using AI. Microsoft if anything should have say “Windows AI”. What they need is detail what makes it AI. an NPU doesn’t make it AI; it makes it AI capable

[NotMrToast]

Hey Intel, Not Sure If You Read Comments, But For Your Next Gen CPUs After Arrow Lake Please Please Give Us Something Really Good At Launch Like A 32 Core CPU And Also Better Performance Than The 9800x3D cause I Really Don’t Want You Guys To Crash And Burn. 😅

[aaryankartik...]

I had predator 16 worst experience
Heating issues
Buggy apps
And worst service

[LouisDuran]

Intel needs to get rid of Jim Johnson. Needs new blood to run client computing

[batuhanguvenc]

Gaming perf is important and is most costomer's first priority . Change your desktop CPU design . Maybe put p cores on same die with memory controller, e cores can be on separate die with increased counts .i don't know but fix gaming perf, don't aim a tie, AMD calls your products a bad product