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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
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- 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.
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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 always stress test new hardware thoroughly during the return period to see if I got a lemon, and as the quote above mentions there are a lot of reports out there of these Helios being hit or miss. For people used to just running Cinebench/3dMark/etc, I STRONGLY recommend you also take the time to flog several different game engines (even if you're mostly just idling and not really playing) while simultaneously running other hardware taxing processes in the background. This is a good way to initiate flaws & crashes that might otherwise go hidden.
If that mini-led pops up tho… that is tempting. Don't think I'll splurge an extra ~$340 to upgrade the screen versus this deal, but if mini-led model drops another ~$150-200 by early Dec, I'll jump all over that and return this. A better screen would be very valuable in the long run when I'm traveling and can't use an external oled display. Thank you for the heads-up!
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I always stress test new hardware thoroughly during the return period to see if I got a lemon, and as the quote above mentions there are a lot of reports out there of these Helios being hit or miss. For people used to just running Cinebench/3dMark/etc, I STRONGLY recommend you also take the time to flog several different game engines (even if you're mostly just idling and not really playing) while simultaneously running other hardware taxing processes in the background. This is a good way to initiate flaws & crashes that might otherwise go hidden.
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What would you recommend? I was thinking about either getting a Lenovo slim or Asus zephyrus (but non upgradable ram makes me want to go with Lenovo)
This laptop does fit most marks except weight.
Do you think these prices can be expected during black Friday and how is the return policy on this?
I was thinking that it could also be interesting to go for a 800$ laptop and then have an egpu if I ever need the extra power.
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