Testseek.co.uk have collected 74 expert reviews of the Acer Predator 17 G9-791 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Acer Predator 17 G9-791.
January 2016
(83%)
74 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(91%)
29 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Display
Design
Powerful
Nice looking and sturdily built
Excellent display
Keyboard and trackpad
Fast performance and do traces of throttling
Runs cool and quiet
Packs a large battery
Scythes through any game at 1080p
Impressive keyboard and trackpad
Good screen and speakers
Surprisingly good battery life
Solid build quality
Pleasant keyboard and touchpad
Loud
Bass-heavy sound system
Excellent performance in all areas
Surprisingly long battery life
Bundled gaming mouse
Sheer power
Stunning sound - best we've ever heard on a laptop
Top end graphics
DVD drive
The editors didn't like
Bulky
Heavy
Tall and uncomfortable front edge
Many LEDs that won't shut off
Slow WiFi once you get away from the router
No GSync support
Rivals offer slightly better screen and sound
Heavy and bulky build
Mediocre SSD
Divisive design
Derivative design
Mediocre display
Very heavy
Keyboard is too far from the edge of the machine
Video playback quality doesn't reflect the very high resolution graphics
Sheer power, Stunning sound - best we've ever heard on a laptop, Top end graphics, DVD drive
Very heavy, Keyboard is too far from the edge of the machine, Video playback quality doesn't reflect the very high resolution graphics, Style will not appeal to everyone, Very loud fan
This top end gaming laptop is one to buy if you want responsive gaming performance with great sound, but it's unfortunately not that portable or easy to use, and its style is not going to appeal to everybody...
nice looking and sturdily built; excellent display, keyboard and trackpad; fast performance and do traces of throttling; runs cool and quiet; packs a large battery
tall and uncomfortable front edge; many LEDs that won't shut off; slow WiFi once you get away from the router; no GSync support
The Predator G9-791 is Acer's first attempt at building a proper 17-inch gaming laptop, and although some minor aspects could have been done better, the laptop ticks all the important boxes and earns our recommendation. Hopefully Acer will price it compet...
Scythes through any game at 1080p, Impressive keyboard and trackpad, Good screen and speakers, Surprisingly good battery life
Rivals offer slightly better screen and sound, Heavy and bulky build, Mediocre SSD, Divisive design
Acer Predator 17 – Battery Life I anticipate poor battery results from gaming notebooks, but the Predator managed to subvert my expectations – at least initially. In the standard 40% brightness benchmark the Acer lasted six hours and thirty minutes. That'...
The Acer Predator 17 is a premium laptop which manages to justify its eye-watering price with top-level performance, and its superb build quality make it a genuinely desirable machine. However, up against the Asus RoG G571JT and the Gigabyte P37W v4, it's...
Solid build quality, Pleasant keyboard and touchpad, Loud, bass-heavy sound system, Excellent performance in all areas, Surprisingly long battery life, Bundled gaming mouse
Derivative design, Mediocre display
The new Predator 17 was the most promising new laptop to debut at IFA 2015, and it lives up to that promise. While it's not the most exciting notebook at first glance, its conventional design, combined with excellent hardware, makes for an incredible al...
Published: 2015-09-08, Author: Andrew , review by: techradar.com
Display, Design, Powerful
Bulky, Heavy
If it was quieter and shed a few pounds, the Predator 17 would be a close-to-perfect gaming machine. As it stands, it will have to settle for merely being a great one, combining solid performance with (mostly) wise design and a dependable battery. Just do...
Features one of the best laptop keyboards ever, "Extra fan" gimmick is satisfying to swap
Fans are loud, even at idle, 980M is handily outpaced by desktop 980-packing laptops, Screen's viewing angles are poor
There's something so uniquely PC about that damn ejectable fan though. It's nothing but a gimmick, but it's a gimmick that captures the imagination—the modern-day equivalent of the old TURBO buttons you used to see on PCs. It feels good to pop out the...
optical drive or additional fan, useful tools (Dust Defender etc.), USB 3.1 Type C incl. Thunderbolt 3, UHD panel with big color space, low temperature, extensive lighting, premium performance, useful battery life, good input devices, big storage capacit
battery drains under full load (mains operation), G-Sync only available on external displays, GPU throttling in extreme scenarios, rubber coating smells unpleasant, heavy and bulky chassis, questionable design elements, suboptimal position of the keyboar
We liked the second generation Predator 17 much better than the first trial. Although the lighting and the design of the 4.1 monster are a matter of taste, there is no doubt about the powerful cooling system and the enormous performance. Most competitors...
Questionable utility, Weak trackpad, Not quite VRready
More times than not, the Verge score is based on the average of the subscores below. However, since this is a non-weighted average, we reserve the right to tweak the overall score if we feel it doesn't reflect our overall assessment and price of the produ...
Published: 2016-02-10, Author: Andreas , review by: notebookcheck.net
bright and high-contrast IPS display, comfortable touchpad surface, USB 3.1 with Thunderbolt, good build quality, cool palm rest, replaceable optical drive, illuminated keyboard, very good battery runtime, useful tools, high performance
CPU Turbo cannot be utilized completely, GTX 970M with 3 GB RAM instead of 6 GB, GPU throttles in extreme situations, pretty high noise development, G-Sync only for external monitors, heavy chassis, limited maintenance, battery is drained under maximum l
The two new gaming notebooks from Acer, the Predator 15 and our test model Predator 17, are very similar in many regards, so our verdict is comparable as well. Besides the design, you will notice the size and the weight of the 17-inch device in particular...
