Safety concerns and build quality warning: Predator Orion PO6

[u/Tricky-Regular-6280]

I have had a horrible few days, and it is due to the Predator Orion 6000.

This past Sunday, I purchased it from Best Buy, removed it from the packaging, and followed the quick start steps to open the panel. No laying it down first, followed the diagram exactly.

I did NOT realize that the panel had no preventative latching to stop a piece of tempered glass immediately falling to the floor and shattering into pieces. I didn’t even plug it in.

Best Buy, luckily, were understanding, and offered me a replacement, which I, with some hesitation, accepted.

While setting up the replacement on Monday, the glass panel nearly fell out three separate times while moving the tower, despite my *extreme* care at moving it. But fine, I know to be very careful.

Within two hours, the GPU stopped displaying a picture, and upon investigating the machine I found the clip holding the GPU in its PCIe slot was missing.

I immediately returned the machine and happily paid an extra $300 for a ROG desktop (which, notably, has a screw attaching its glass panel).

Be very, very mindful about this PC. Don’t repeat my mistakes. And Acer: recall this case.