Can Acer Change Gaming Laptops With The Predator Triton 900?

Aug. 31, 2018

While Windows ultraportables and smaller notebooks have experimented with various form factors and hybrid designs for some time now, you don’t really see the same approach when it comes to gaming notebooks.

Of course that makes sense in theory but there’s still the big question of whether this is something gamers have asked for. Acer certainly seems to think so and one must credit the company for this brave approach. The company said it wanted to carry forward the tradition of being the first to release unique devices, specifically giving us the example of thePredator 21 X.

Unlike many other gaming laptops these days which are going for a monolith look, the Triton 900 looks like an alien artifact from a sci-fi movie. The side hinges have an aggressive design and the single block construction should keep the screen from wobbling about. We couldn’t of course test the sturdiness because Acer had kept the laptop under a glass case, but the hinge looked quite firm.

Another thing that’s changed in the Triton series is the trackpad, which now sits to the right of the keyboard. Most gamers would prefer to use a mouse, which is why Acer decided to ditch the weird glass-panel touchpad from the previous generation which sat above the keyboard. That result in some hot fingers as the heat sinks were directly under this touchpad. Obviously the new solution isn’t the best either if you use the laptop without a mouse, but it’s certainly better.

While we couldn’t test the keyboard, Acer told us it’s largely unchangedfrom the last-gen Triton notebook.Once again, the keyboard is closer to the bottom edge than in most laptops, but when the display is swiveled forward, the keyboard placement works very well in creating that immersive feeling.Triton 700