One of the other laptops that we managed to get a glance at here Acer’s booth at Computex 2023 is the Predator Triton 16, a gaming laptop that walks the path of the slim form factor. Not only that, but its aesthetics retain that same minimalist exterior that only bears the brand’s insignia on the edge of the display panel’s rear.
I know it feels a bit odd for that to be the first thing you read, but it really is a minimalist design – the back of the Triton 16 is plain and if nothing else, is a really wide fingerprint magnet. Just the sheer the number of visitors that crowded the product literally left their mark on the laptop, plain for all to see.
It’s the same story at the bottom and the side of the Triton 16 but credit where it is due, it is impressive how Acer shaved off the grams from the laptop and make it look so uniform at the same time. Honestly, it’s almost like a cross between a Razer and Lenovo laptop.
Having said that, the Triton 16 isn’t exactly what I would describe as light. Out of the box, the gaming laptop weighs 2.4kg. For comparison’s sake, the Acer Swift Edge 16, a 16-inch laptop that is also present at the booth, is nearly half that weight, but to be fair, it doesn’t have a discrete GPU inside of it.
Speaking of hardware specifications, the Triton 16 sits on the opposite end of the spectrum of the Swift Edge 16; we’re looking at a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900H CPU, an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 8GB mobile GPU, up to 32GB dual-channel DDR5 running at 5200MT/s, and up to 2TB NVMe Gen4 SSDs running in RAID 0. On top of that, it also supports Wi-Fi 7, although, at this stage, there really isn’t anything I can test it out with, and the unit that was on show? Acer actually had it connected to the internet via LAN.
For all that power, the output of the Triton 16 is a 16-inch 2560 x 1600 (WQXGA) display with 240Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of 500 nits. Not only that, but it also supports NVIDIA G-Sync, thanks to its gaming nature.
As for when the Acer Predator Triton will be available, the company is aiming for a September launch for the product, but at the time of writing, we still don’t have local pricing.
