Acer unveils Nvidia RTX-based Predator Triton gaming laptops

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 7, 2019
Updated June 20, 2025
3 min

Acer unveiled two new Windows 10 gaming notebooks that use Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 2080 graphics processing units (GPUs) at CES 2019, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week.

The laptops are the Predator Triton 900, a 17-inch performance notebook featuring a slim design and convertible 4K display, and the Predator Triton 500, a 15-inch all-metal gaming laptop measuring just 17.9 mm (0.70 inches) thick.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.