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hey how's it going Dave 2d here this is the 2018 Helios 300 the previous version the 2017 Helios 300 was one of the best if not the best valued gaming laptop from last year it had a bunch of great features for a really good price point and they've updated a bunch of things particularly the things that I'd had issues with last year and they've made a significantly revamped product so the big three changes are the screen the CPU as well as the thermal design so the exterior casing hasn't changed at all it's still running this black and red color scheme it looks almost a little dated to me like a lot of the newer generation laptops are going with a more muted look as well as a less angular design this has that whole predator DNA going on it looks pretty aggressive and it looks really gamer kind of over the top gamer but it still looks decent if you're into this look I personally don't love it but that's just a personal preference one thing that this doesn't have is fundable 3 port it has a USB see support just like the previous generation but once again it doesn't support Thunderbolt 3 the rest of the port selection is good and they're well positioned just knoweth honorable 3 so if you want to connect up an external GPU you can't do it the internals are just as difficult to get into this year as it was last year you have to be careful not to snap the tabs when you're opening it up especially on the back part once you're in though you have access to the Wi-Fi card but they were to give you a great one your two RAM slots and the two drive bays you also have access to the fans now the fans have been upgraded this year these are actually running metal fins which is actually something I don't see very often in gaming laptops it's these thin metal blades that actually help quite a bit with the airflow the battery and the speakers weren't great in the 2017 model I don't think they've changed on this year it's 48 watt hour battery you're getting around 4 hours of battery life not a very long time you will have to bring a charge with you and the speakers also remain quite mediocre they give pretty loud not a lot of bass but they sound kind of flat now in 2017 I don't care too much about these speakers but in 2018 a lot of the mid and even entry level gaming laptops have really decent speakers and these ones fall a little bit short inside they have a brand new screen I think it's actually the most surprising and best feature of this laptop it's a 144 Hertz screen on a reason we priced gaming laptop it's fast it's bright it's reasonably color accurate it's actually really cool they're able to use a screen like this at this price point and I actually think that this particular gaming laptop is going to have an effect on the entire industry because almost every other gaming laptop at this price point is taking a 60 Hertz screen on to those devices and this product just sticks out as being the most visually enticing and visually attractive gaming experience for the people that are unfamiliar with gaming refresh rates the difference between a 60 Hertz screen and a 144 or even a 120 Hertz screen is massive everything looks just so much more fluid on a high refresh screen and I'm not gonna say that if you purchase one of these screens you're gonna instantly become a better gamer it's not that it's just the gaming experience is a lot better and I think it'll help you achieve better results you're essentially seeing double the number of frames versus a 60 Hertz screen so it's just a better experience the keyboard and the trackpad haven't changed from the previous generation I didn't love either of them the keyboards decent it's got relatively soft stroke but the layout is good the only thing a little bit weird of the lair is the shift key again they haven't changed that it's just right beside the up arrow and depending on how you type you might hit that accidentally but decent keyboard overall the trackpad the buttons are a little bit stiff but it's using Windows precision drivers so it's got good gestures and tracking performance on this device is great now this models running in GTX 1060 and is comboed with the six core i7 and it delivers really respectable frame rates for most gaming titles out there if you're playing something heavier you obviously have to drop your visual quality to keep up the frame rates but it's a good combination you won't be able to max out the 143rd screen on most games at Ultra but you can for a lot of games especially competitive games on high now the thermal performance on this laptop is improved this year not that it was terrible last or anything but it is better there's no throttling and the temperatures are a little bit lower fan noise is also very respectable nothing too loud even on Max and you also get fan control through predator sense one last thing to note there's a special edition of the Helios 300 that's gonna be available later comes in white and gold no changes internally it's just an aesthetic change so overall the Helios 300 is once again a fantastic value for gaming laptops it's amazing that they're able to stick a 144 Hertz screen into this kind of price point it's a really good screen now if you're fixated on that screen like if you're interested in this device exclusively because of that screen understand that there are ways to stick high refresh screens on to other devices it's more do yourself route cost like 100 maybe 150 dollars but if you want something out of the factory you want just that you know the whole experience right out of the box you don't want to mess around with installing high refresh screens into cheaper devices I seriously think this is the best value for this kind of device okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs to be liked it subs if you'd love to see you guys next time