Acer’s most fascinating gaming pocket book for Computex 2025 isn’t essentially a gaming pocket book in any respect. The Predator Triton 14 AI is a surprisingly skinny, creator-class pocket book that features each Intel’s Lunar Lake pocket book CPU alongside an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU cooled by one thing new: graphene.
Acer is also asserting the Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 AI, a barely cheaper model, plus refreshes of the Nitro lineup that go as giant as an 18-inch show.
Here’s what you have to learn about all three gaming laptops: Acer’s 14.5-inch Predator Triton 14 AI is simply 11mm thick at its thinnest level. Acer changed the normal liquid steel with graphene for improved cooling, and there’s a haptic touchpad (with its personal stylus!) for inking whilst you’re on the go. Acer’s new 14.5-inch Helios Neo 14 AI combines a Core Ultra 9 285H with an RTX 5070, and will value a bit much less. Acer is also delivery a number of variations of its Nitro gaming laptops, each 16- and 18-inch variations which deal with the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processors.
One of the questions I requested was if Acer is designing towards a value level, or to the part selections it deemed greatest for its customers. Acer executives mentioned they had been making the latter selection, which could be one of many causes that Acer is preserving the value and availability of the laptops mum for now.
“We will announce U.S. pricing, availability, and configurations closer to market availability in the United States/North America,” Acer mentioned in an announcement. Acer did present pricing and availability for Europe, which we’ve included right here for comparability’s sake.
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Acer’s new Predator Triton 14 AI jogs my memory of a classical gangster: darkish go well with, darkish tie, sun shades, coolly assured. That’s till the per-key RGB lights up, reminding you what you’re right here for.
Creator-class notebooks have at all times me, since they provide among the energy of a gaming laptop computer with out the entire weight. Just a few years in the past, you might need to consider whether or not a lower-end discrete GPU may supply sufficient gaming horsepower; at present, body era applied sciences are working to make {that a} moot level.
As I held the Triton 14 AI (PT14-52T) at Acer’s preview, I used to be impressed by how compact it felt: it measures 12.6 x 8.7 x 0.43 inches at its thinnest, sloping out to 0.68 in (17.31mm) at its thickest — it nonetheless weighs 3.7 kilos, however that’s a far cry from the laptops that weigh over 5 kilos or extra. (It earned Nvidia’s Studio Premium certification, which requires a thickness underneath 20 mm.) Acer handled the darkish chassis with an anti-fingerprint coating that appeared to actually work, and it’s the one certainly one of its new gaming notebooks that included it.
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Acer in-built a graphene thermal interface materials into the insides of the laptop computer, which the corporate estimates will truly supply 14.5 % higher cooling, mixed with the 0.5-mm-thin AeroBlade 3D steel followers that directs cooling air to the laptop computer’s sizzling spots. With the extra cooling, Acer has a option to both push clock speeds quicker or go thinner and lighter, and executives mentioned the goal market brought about them to go for the latter.
While Acer didn’t reveal the important thing journey, the RGB keyboard does supply per-key lighting, managed by the PredatorSense app. The touchpad joins the small however rising development of laptops that use haptics for a uniform click on expertise throughout the entire of the trackpad. I didn’t anticipate Acer to incorporate a bundled stylus, nevertheless it has completed so, with help for the AES 2.0, USI 2.0, and MPP 2.5 protocols with 4,096 strain degree and tilt help.
And take a look at the picture above. The trackpad nearly disappears!
Otherwise, the 14.5-inch 2,880 x 1,800 OLED show options 100% DCI-P3 colour at up 120Hz — with contact help, which in OLEDs isn’t at all times a given. There’s simply 340 nits of sunshine output, nevertheless. Inside is an Intel Core 288V “Lunar Lake” chip, as much as 32GB of DDR5-8533 reminiscence and a PCI Express Gen 4 connection permitting prospects to configure as much as 2TB of SSD storage. Intel’s Killer Wi-Fi 7 and Thunderbolt 5 additionally seem.
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Remember, Intel’s Lunar Lake processor and its 48-TOPS NPU makes this a Copilot+ PC, with help for all of Microsoft’s AI-powered options like Windows Recall.
The Predator Triton 14 AI (PT14-52T) might be obtainable in EMEA in July, beginning at 2,999 euro Acer mentioned.
Predator Helios Neo 14 AI
Acer’s Predator Helios Neo 14 AI laptop computer (PHN14-71), additionally with a 14.5-inch show, makes use of the Core Ultra 200H “Arrow Lake” chips, which carried out surprisingly properly in our laptop computer assessments with out the entire problems with their desktop cousins. They don’t supply the AI efficiency of the Lunar Lake household, nevertheless.
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Acer sometimes makes use of the “Neo” branding to indicate a step down, and among the improvements on the Predator Triton 14 AI don’t seem right here. For instance, Acer returned to the Fifth-gen AeroBlade know-how and the extra conventional liquid steel thermal grease and a vector warmth pipe. Likewise, the laptop computer makes use of a barely older WiFi 6e know-how alongside Thunderbolt 4, and the RGB keyboard is split up into three zones.
Physically, the Helios Neo 4 AI weighs 4.2 kilos, and measures 12.7 x 10.2 x 0.81 in., with the thinnest level being 11.5mm.
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Users could have an possibility between a 14.5-inch OLED (2880 x 1800, 120Hz, 400 nits, 10 % DCI-P3) or a 14.5-inch IPS (2560 x 1600, 165Hz, 400 nits, 100% sRGB) and selections of both a Core Ultra 9 285H/255H and an RTX 5060 or 5070 GPU. Users can select from as much as 32GB of DDR5-7467 reminiscence and as much as 2TB of PCI3 Gen 4 storage.
The Predator Helios Neo 14 AI (PHN14-71) might be obtainable in EMEA in July, beginning at 1,699 euro.
Nitro 18, 16, and 16S
Finally, Acer has the Nitro lineup of gaming notebooks, which generally embody nearly dozens of various variants. For Computex, Acer is launching the Nitro 18 AI and the Nitro 16 AI, in addition to the Nitro 16S and Nitro V 165 AI. They’re all oriented across the Ryzen AI 9 365 (Strix Point) architecture from AMD, which incorporates Copilot+ AI capabilities.
Typically, Acer prices about $1,200 to $1,500 for these laptops.
Here’s what we all know in regards to the Nitro 18: it is going to have an 18-inch show with 2560 x 1600 decision at 165Hz, with 32GB of DDR5 5600 reminiscence and a pair of TB of PCIe Gen 4 storage. Acer will use copper and vector warmth pipes inside to chill an Nvidia GeForce 5070 Ti.
As for the Nitro 16S AI, Acer is providing customers a Ryzen AI 9 365, as much as an RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5-5600 reminiscence and a pair of TB of SSD storage, all hidden under a 2560 x 1600, 180Hz show. The Nitro V 16S AI will supply the identical show, reminiscence, and storage choices, however an RTX 5070 as a substitute, plus USB4.