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Refurb: Acer Predator Laptop: 16" QHD+ 240Hz, i9-13900HX, RTX 4080, 16GB DDR5
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Acer via eBay has Acer Predator Helios 16 Laptop (Certified Refurbished, PH16-71-93FR) w/ 16GB RAM + 2-Year Allstate Warranty for $1655.99 - 20% when you apply coupon code BESTOFBRANDS at checkout = $1324.79. Shipping is free.
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- 16" QHD+ (2560x1600, WQXGA+) 16:10.
- 240Hz 3ms, 500-nits Peak Brightness, 100% DCI-P3, DisplayHDR, NVIDIA Advanced Optimus & G-SYNC, IPS Display
- Intel i9-13900HX 24-Core/32-Threads 5.4GHz Processor (13th Gen)
- 16GB (1x 16GB) or 32GB (2x16GB) SO-DIMM DDR5 Memory
- 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB GDDR6 GPU
- Intel Killer WiFi 6E AX1675 + Bluetooth 5.1
- Lithium Ion Battery (90W)
- RGB Backlit Keyboard w/ Precision Corning Gorilla Glass Touchpad
- 90Whr Battery
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (w/ DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 4, USB charging 5 V)
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x HDMI 2.1 with HDCP Support
- 1x RJ-45
- Ports:
- Acer via eBay has Acer Predator Helios 16 Laptop (Good - Refurbished, PH16-71-948L) w/ 32GB RAM + 1-Year Allstate Warranty for $1655 - 20% when you apply coupon code BESTOFBRANDS at checkout = $1324. Shipping is free.
Editor's Notes
Written by ValPal2011 | Staff- This item is Certified Refurbished. It has been professionally restored by an Acer approved vendor. Units are usually cosmetically indistinguishable from New products, but some may show signs of light use. Functionally, these units are equivalent to New. Certified Refurbished units will be shipped in a New Brown Box.
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Acer via eBay has Acer Predator Helios 16 Laptop (Certified Refurbished, PH16-71-93FR) w/ 16GB RAM + 2-Year Allstate Warranty for $1655.99 - 20% when you apply coupon code BESTOFBRANDS at checkout = $1324.79. Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member Dr.Wajahat for finding this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to community member Dr.Wajahat for finding this deal.
Specs:
- 16" QHD+ (2560x1600, WQXGA+) 16:10.
- 240Hz 3ms, 500-nits Peak Brightness, 100% DCI-P3, DisplayHDR, NVIDIA Advanced Optimus & G-SYNC, IPS Display
- Intel i9-13900HX 24-Core/32-Threads 5.4GHz Processor (13th Gen)
- 16GB (1x 16GB) or 32GB (2x16GB) SO-DIMM DDR5 Memory
- 1TB M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe Solid State Drive SSD
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 12GB GDDR6 GPU
- Intel Killer WiFi 6E AX1675 + Bluetooth 5.1
- Lithium Ion Battery (90W)
- RGB Backlit Keyboard w/ Precision Corning Gorilla Glass Touchpad
- 90Whr Battery
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (w/ DisplayPort, Thunderbolt 4, USB charging 5 V)
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 1x HDMI 2.1 with HDCP Support
- 1x RJ-45
- Ports:
- Acer via eBay has Acer Predator Helios 16 Laptop (Good - Refurbished, PH16-71-948L) w/ 32GB RAM + 1-Year Allstate Warranty for $1655 - 20% when you apply coupon code BESTOFBRANDS at checkout = $1324. Shipping is free.
Editor's Notes
Written by ValPal2011 | Staff- This item is Certified Refurbished. It has been professionally restored by an Acer approved vendor. Units are usually cosmetically indistinguishable from New products, but some may show signs of light use. Functionally, these units are equivalent to New. Certified Refurbished units will be shipped in a New Brown Box.
- Please see the original post for additional details & give the WIKI and additional forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
- Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.
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The mobile 4080 is essentially a desktop rtx 4070. This is why it has 12GB of ram. Performance-wise, mobile 4080 has nowhere near the power and thermal headroom of a desktop gpu. Fortunately, Nvidia's design & TSMC manufacturing process = very efficient chips, and the end result in mobile form are surprisingly close to their desktop counterparts. Mobile rtx 4080 performance varies depending on the designs by Acer/Asus/Lenovo/etc, but roughly approximates a 4070 Super with weaker 1% lows (lack of clock speed).
Thin laptops like Asus Zephyrus and Zenbooks are often given less power or clock speed to the cpu, gpu, or both and have worse performance. Meanwhile thick tanks like this deal or huge 18" desktop-replacement laptops often have the best performance (or at least better cooling). This 16" Helios is on the upper-end of performance, but Acer in general seems like they've spent most of the past 2-3 years trailing Asus and Lenovo laptops on design and/or software. Can't say Acer isn't trying though as I think they updated this laptop like 3x in the 4-5 years. That kind of competition has been great for us consumers and probably explains at least part of why they fire-sale this laptop to get rid of it.
I CANCELLED MY ORDER ON 32GB because 16GB had two year warranty and was Certified refurbished which apparently is Like new compared to the 32Gb version which only had 1 year and is the lowest tier of reburbished on ebay 16GB of ram is $40 the extra year of warranty is worth it for me
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I CANCELLED MY ORDER ON 32GB because 16GB had two year warranty and was Certified refurbished which apparently is Like new compared to the 32Gb version which only had 1 year and is the lowest tier of reburbished on ebay 16GB of ram is $40 the extra year of warranty is worth it for me
Something I gotta mention about waiting for deals versus just buying. Last Nov 2023, Dr.Wajahat or Suryasis posted a sweet deal on a refurbished 16" Legion 7i w/ rtx 4090, 32GB ram, and 2x 1Tb ssd. That sold out quick, so I bought the 4080 version. I think my price after taxes was like $1997 or thereabouts.
The very next day the Steam Deck OLED was announced and of course I bought one. Deck is awesome. Then I returned the Legion and saved myself $1200 with no regrets. I know it'll sound silly, but I was annoyed that instead of it being a single 2TB ssd in the Legion, it was a pair taking up both slots. I had a 4TB ssd ready to go, and felt like I was wasting money since I had zero use for a spare 1TB ssd. The screen not being mini-led or oled was an even bigger deal since I was used to the better displays on my TV and Nintendo Switch.
Now here we are 1yr later, and I'm saving ~$500 for a very similar product, but still lacking the better displays *and* I missed out on 1 yr of use. That Legion also impressed me with its build quality. My Alienware laptop has been a very durable tank; definitely got my money's worth, but I think the Legion is even more impressive. My understanding is the Helios 16" got better in 2024, but I think this is probably a 2023 model. Decent chance I'll return it and pay the $2500-3000 in 2025 for something with a better screen. Or maybe keep using my Deck, Switch, and ps5 while spending that money on a motorcycle or watercraft or something. The crazy gpu duopoly and crypto/ML/etc have ruined the year-over-year price drops that used to be normal for pc hardware.
Edit: the links to the deals from 1yr ago as a reference
Legion rtx 4090
https://slickdeals.net/share/ipad_app/t/17040775
Rtx 4080
https://slickdeals.net/share/ipad_app/t/17048323
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17.3" QHD 165Hz, Ryzen 7 7840HS, RTX 4060, 16GB DDR5, 1TB SSD
Certified Refurbished
Something I gotta mention about waiting for deals versus just buying. Last Nov 2023, Dr.Wajahat or Suryasis posted a sweet deal on a refurbished 16" Legion 7i w/ rtx 4090, 32GB ram, and 2x 1Tb ssd. That sold out quick, so I bought the 4080 version. I think my price after taxes was like $1997 or thereabouts.
The very next day the Steam Deck OLED was announced and of course I bought one. Deck is awesome. Then I returned the Legion and saved myself $1200 with no regrets. I know it'll sound silly, but I was annoyed that instead of it being a single 2TB ssd in the Legion, it was a pair taking up both slots. I had a 4TB ssd ready to go, and felt like I was wasting money since I had zero use for a spare 1TB ssd. The screen not being mini-led or oled was an even bigger deal since I was used to the better displays on my TV and Nintendo Switch.
Now here we are 1yr later, and I'm saving ~$500 for a very similar product, but still lacking the better displays *and* I missed out on 1 yr of use. That Legion also impressed me with its build quality. My Alienware laptop has been a very durable tank; definitely got my money's worth, but I think the Legion is even more impressive. My understanding is the Helios 16" got better in 2024, but I think this is probably a 2023 model. Decent chance I'll return it and pay the $2500-3000 in 2025 for something with a better screen. Or maybe keep using my Deck, Switch, and ps5 while spending that money on a motorcycle or watercraft or something. The crazy gpu duopoly and crypto/ML/etc have ruined the year-over-year price drops that used to be normal for pc hardware.
Edit: the links to the deals from 1yr ago as a reference
Legion rtx 4090
https://slickdeals.net/share/ipad_app/t/17040775
Rtx 4080
https://slickdeals.net/share/ipad_app/t/17048323
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The mobile 4080 is essentially a desktop rtx 4070. This is why it has 12GB of ram. Performance-wise, mobile 4080 has nowhere near the power and thermal headroom of a desktop gpu. Fortunately, Nvidia's design & TSMC manufacturing process = very efficient chips, and the end result in mobile form are surprisingly close to their desktop counterparts. Mobile rtx 4080 performance varies depending on the designs by Acer/Asus/Lenovo/etc, but roughly approximates a 4070 Super with weaker 1% lows (lack of clock speed).
Thin laptops like Asus Zephyrus and Zenbooks are often given less power or clock speed to the cpu, gpu, or both and have worse performance. Meanwhile thick tanks like this deal or huge 18" desktop-replacement laptops often have the best performance (or at least better cooling). This 16" Helios is on the upper-end of performance, but Acer in general seems like they've spent most of the past 2-3 years trailing Asus and Lenovo laptops on design and/or software. Can't say Acer isn't trying though as I think they updated this laptop like 3x in the 4-5 years. That kind of competition has been great for us consumers and probably explains at least part of why they fire-sale this laptop to get rid of it.
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The mobile 4080 is essentially a desktop rtx 4070. This is why it has 12GB of ram. Performance-wise, mobile 4080 has nowhere near the power and thermal headroom of a desktop gpu. Fortunately, Nvidia's design & TSMC manufacturing process = very efficient chips, and the end result in mobile form are surprisingly close to their desktop counterparts. Mobile rtx 4080 performance varies depending on the designs by Acer/Asus/Lenovo/etc, but roughly approximates a 4070 Super with weaker 1% lows (lack of clock speed).
Thin laptops like Asus Zephyrus and Zenbooks are often given less power or clock speed to the cpu, gpu, or both and have worse performance. Meanwhile thick tanks like this deal or huge 18" desktop-replacement laptops often have the best performance (or at least better cooling). This 16" Helios is on the upper-end of performance, but Acer in general seems like they've spent most of the past 2-3 years trailing Asus and Lenovo laptops on design and/or software. Can't say Acer isn't trying though as I think they updated this laptop like 3x in the 4-5 years. That kind of competition has been great for us consumers and probably explains at least part of why they fire-sale this laptop to get rid of it.
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The rtx 4080 gpu is gimped in the acer compared to other brands and the cooling system is not the best. Very Noisy when gaming.
If all of this is ok for you, just pull the trigger.
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