In conjunction with the Computex Taipei event that will take place next week, Acer Malaysia has held a small event for the local media to see a number of their products early.
One of the products introduced is the Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 AI gaming laptop. It is a powerful gaming laptop that comes with great gaming power through the combination of Intel Arrow Lake H CPU and the latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 series graphics cards.
Design
If you have seen or used the Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 laptop before, the design of this laptop has not changed much. It still uses the same aluminum frame, and comes with a 14.5-inch OLED screen display with WQXGA+ resolution (2560×1600) along with a 120Hz refresh rate and can process 100 percent of the DCI-P3 color gamut.
In terms of port options, the Predator Helios Neo 14 AI comes with two Thunderbolt 4 ports, two USB 3.2 Type-A ports, one HDMI 2.1 port, one 3.5mm audio port and a built-in MicroSD card reader.
Using an aluminum frame, even with all the powerful components and the cooling system used to cool this laptop, we were told that the Predator Helios Neo 14 AI weighs less than 2kg.
This laptop also has a keyboard with blue LED lighting, and unfortunately not RGB unlike other larger Acer Predator laptop options.
Specifications
The Predator Helios Neo 14 AI comes with the usual combination of Intel and NVIDIA processing chips, where it is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 9 285H chip and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card, along with 32GB of LPDDR5X memory and 2TB of PCIe4 SSD storage.
For a 14-inch laptop, the Predator Helios Neo 14 AI specs seem powerful enough to run a variety of modern computer games without any problems and in a way that can take advantage of the OLED display used.
This laptop also uses a Vortex Flow cooling system that combines Vortex heat pipes and 5th generation Aeroblade cooling fans as well as liquid metal thermal grease that will help in transferring heat from the CPU and GPU components to the heat pipes and cooling fans more efficiently.
When we saw the laptop, we were not allowed to test its performance, because according to Acer, the driver software for the graphics card has not been optimized yet.
Conclusion
If you are looking for a compact gaming laptop with powerful specifications, the Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 AI could be one of your choices, especially with the combination of powerful Intel and NVIDIA chips and the use of an OLED panel with a high refresh rate.
Its compact design also allows users to take it anywhere, home, office or events such as LAN Parties.
Acer Malaysia has confirmed that this laptop will be entering the local market soon, but has not yet said when it will happen. It will most likely arrive around June or July this year.