Before we get into the Little Fan That Could, let’s talk aesthetics. The Predator 17 is about as obvious a gaming laptop as you see these days. Big. Boxy. Black and red. This behemoth is the likes of which I’d expect to see out of Origin instead of Acer. And it’s emblazoned with the Transformers-esque Predator logo on the rear, to boot.the Acer Predator 17 packs a level of hardware meant to do its aggressive exterior justice. Our model came with an Intel Core i7-6700HQ clocked at 2.6GHz, an Nvidia GTX 980M, an absurd 32GB of RAM, a 512GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD.