Acer Triton 500 RTX 2060 Review
Gaming laptops are a bit of a crowded market, especially in this fairly premium end of the market, so why would you ever buy this one? Well, quite frankly, it’s amazing. Let’s run through why.
This is the Acer Triton 500, with an RTX 2060, i7 8750H, 16GB of RAM and a 512GB M.2 SSD. It retails for around £1800, which definitely puts it in the premium category. You can actually get it with an RTX 2080 Max Q as well, but this, the full fat 2060 is where I’d put my money.
Performance wise, this thing will happily crunch through any game on ultra settings, including at high FPS for the 144hz display it comes with, but don’t just take my word for it, let’s have a look at the benchmark results!
Speaking of the display, it’s 1080p, 144hz and really rather nice. It’s got good brightness, crisp image quality thanks to it’s 15.6” size, and great colours to the eye, although not perfect when tested with my spyder 5, showing just 94% of sRGB by volume. Not awful, but not exactly colour accurate.
Viewing angles are also great, especially side to side, so as a movie-in-bed watching experience, it’s a great choice. The panel is a little slow, with around 5-10ms of black to white response time, but it’s nothing you’d notice so I wouldn’t worry too much about it.
The rest of the usability stuff is pretty good too, I have basically nothing bad to say about the keyboard, which is a bit a surprise for me, but genuinely I enjoyed using it. It’s tactile enough without feeling fake, not overly mushy and I could see myself getting used to it pretty easily. The track pad is also good too, with all the usual gestures you’d expect, good tracking and decent palm rejection too.
I/O wise is also pretty good, you have Thunderbolt 3 in the usual USB C connector, 3 USB 3 Ports, gigabit ethernet, headphone and microphone jacks, DC in and HDMI and Mini DisplayPort out too.
It’s also crazy thin. Normally this means you have a very loud and hot laptop, especially with this much power, but Acer have done a brilliant job here with a hefty amount of heatsink inside to keep especially the overclockable GPU cool – the max recorded temperature I saw was only 75°c on the GPU which is brilliant, all while staying remarkably quiet for a gaming laptop. The CPU, as will all of these laptops, tries to turbo as high as it can, then throttle when it gets too hot, so as expected, it sat mostly at ~4GHz while gaming, but did sit at between 80 and 90°c, peaking at 98°c.
Speaking of gaming, again it’s a great experience, the 144hz display pairs well with the performance here making it an enjoyable and smooth experience. Definitely recommended.
So, I’ve rambled on for long enough about how amazing this laptop is, there has to be something wrong with it, right? Well, yes. A couple of little gripes I have are that it only comes with a single 512GB M.2 SSD, and no hard drive, meaning you don’t get all that much space. Getting into it is a bit of a pain as they’ve used T6 torx screws rather than standard philips heads, and if you want to upgrade literally anything you have to completely disassemble the machine.
The other downside is the price. At £1800+ with, and I say this lightly, only an RTX 2060, it feels a little too pricey, especially when you compare it to something like the PC Specialist Recoil RTX which has the same spec and performance, but at £1400, and comes with a 1TB HDD for that price too.
With that said, if you want one of the best build, quality feel, enjoyable gaming experience laptops around, and you’ve got £1800+ to spend, this is it. Genuinely one of the best laptops, at least for user experience anyway, that I’ve had my hands on. Would I put this on my desk? Yeah, I think I would. It’d hurt to part with so much money, but this thing does a very good job at making you feel like it’s worth it.
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