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Acer’s massive 18-Inch Predator Helios AI laptop wants to replace your gaming desktop

XDA ·Patrick O'Rourke·6 months ago
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Published May 29, 2026, 9:04 AM EDT

Patrick O'Rourke is XDA's News Editor and Entertainment Segment Lead. Previously, he was Pocket-lint's Editor-in-Chief, the Editor-in-Chief of Canadian tech publication MobileSyrup , and earlier in his career, he worked as the technology editor at the Financial Post and Postmedia . He's based in Toronto.

Over the past 15 years, he's written thousands of articles. Patrick has also interviewed dozens of tech industry executives and covered GDC, E3, Gamescom, WWDC, Apple keynotes, Samsung Unpacked events and more.

Patrick has a BA in journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Summary

Acer's Predator Helios 18 AI: 18-inch mini-LED, up to Core Ultra 9 and RTX 5090, 256GB RAM, 6TB, Dual-Mode display.

Nitro 16 adds a Ryzen 9 9955HX3D with 2nd-gen 3D V-Cache, up to an RTX 5070 Ti, 2560 x 1600 at 240Hz, and Wi-Fi 6E.

Acer also revealed the Predator Aethon 750 TKL keyboard with magnetic switches.

Just ahead of Computex , Acer has revealed…

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