Acer Predator 17 G9-791

Unashamedly large, extremely powerful and housing more fans than a wind farm, it can hunt down and play games at a quality you'd normally believe was only possible on a desktop gaming PC. In many ways, the Acer Predator looks exactly how you'd expect —...

This top end gaming laptop is one to buy if you want responsive gaming performance with great sound, but it's unfortunately not that portable or easy to use, and its style is not going to appeal to...

More times than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the...

I have to admit, I did not expect this laptop to be as good as it is, given how it is Acer’s first try at a proper gaming machine, but the engineers behind it got all the important aspects right, from the build quality to the screen, from the typing experience to performance, thermals and acoustics.

Acer Predator 17 – Battery Life I anticipate poor battery results from gaming notebooks, but the Predator managed to subvert my expectations – at least initially. In the standard 40% brightness benchmark the Acer lasted six hours and thirty minutes....

Big and bulky, Acer's Predator may not offer the glitz and lights and total sense of customisation you get with some other gaming computer, but it still delivers quite a bit, and manages to even make itself stand out as one of Acer's best computers in...

The Acer Predator 17 is a premium laptop which manages to justify its eye-watering price with top-level performance, and its superb build quality make it a genuinely desirable machine. However, up against the Asus RoG G571JT and the Gigabyte P37W v4,...

Acer—yes, we said Acer—delivers a laptop to slug it out with Alienware, Asus, and MSI for heavyweight gaming supremacy, if you can spare the $2,599. Read...

The new Predator 17 was the most promising new laptop to debut at IFA 2015, and it lives up to that promise. While it's not the most exciting notebook at first glance, its conventional design, combined with excellent hardware, makes for an incredible...

The two new gaming notebooks from Acer, the Predator 15 and our test model Predator 17, are very similar in many regards, so our verdict is comparable as well. Besides the design, you will notice the size and the weight of the 17-inch device in...