Acer Predator Triton 900 gaming laptop with screen tilt system costs 4200 euros
Acer presented a Predator gaming laptop Triton 900 at the CES trade show in Las Vegas. The device is in fact a 2-in-1 laptop that has a mechanism that allows the screen to be placed in various positions and can also be used as a tablet. The Triton 900 costs 4199 euros.
Acer introduced the Triton 900 at IFA, but now the manufacturer has also revealed the specifications, price and a release period. The gaming laptop has a 17″ touch-sensitive screen with an IPS panel and a 4k resolution. Acer inserts the mobile Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 into the device and the laptop supports G-Sync, although it is not clear at which frequency range the synchronization between gpu and screen is possible.
The laptop can also be equipped with a hexacore from Intel, an i7 CPU of the eighth generation. Furthermore, users can choose an NVME SSD and a maximum of 32GB of DDR4 memory. Acer has also added an Xbox wireless receiver to the Triton 900, allowing users to use a wireless Xbox controller without using a USB receiver.
Acer has also officially presented the smaller and less powerful Triton 500. This is a 15.6″ laptop with a full-HD screen with a refresh rate of 144Hz, an IPS panel that reaches a maximum of 300cd/m² and a response time of 3ms. An Nvidia GeForce RTX 2080 can also be used with this laptop. as well as an Intel i7 hexacore, an nvme ssd and a maximum of 32GB ram.G-Sync support seems to be only present on the variant with the RTX 2080 and not with the RTX 2070 or 2060.
The manufacturer reports that this laptop is 17.9mm thin, weighs 2.1kg and has bezels of 6.3mm; that would give the laptop a relative screen size of 81 percent. The battery of the Triton 500 lasts eight hours when using an RTX 2060 or 2070.
The Acer Predator Triton 900 will be released in Europe in March for a price starting at 4,199 euros. The Triton 500 will be launched in Europe in February for at least 1999 euros. It is still unclear which basic specifications belong to these minimum prices.
Update: Two versions of the Predator Triton 900 appear in the Benelux, both with RTX 2080 GPU. The cheapest model has 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD and costs 4199 euros. The more expensive variant costs 4599 euros and has 32GB of RAM and 1TB of SSDs.