Amazon Prime Early Access sale has rolled in, or Prime Day two as many are calling it. It's brought a whole bunch of excellent PC gaming deals in with it, including some excellent discounted laptops. If you want to get your outdoor game on but prefer the trusty old keyboard and mouse (or trackpad) to the Steam Deck's sticks and buttons, you'll find yourself well-served by this event's slate of portable powerhouses.
Even if you aren't dead-set on playing games at your local Starbucks, the extra oomph offered by a gaming laptop will come in handy if you're doing heavy editing work, running a bunch of programs at once, or trying to open more than four Chrome tabs. There's no force like brute force, and being able to chuck oodles of power at basic productivity tasks can come in very handy indeed.
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Below, I've rounded up a selection of currently-discounted gaming laptops going for under $1,000, and there's some real bright spots in there. The Gigabyte A7 K1, for example, is a behemoth of a machine, equipped with an RTX 3060; 16GB of RAM; and a 17.3 inch, 1080p panel that runs at 144hz. It's normally $1,299, but the current sale has cut that down to a seriously tempting $999.
There is, admittedly, one drawback here: the laptops listed below top out at 512GB of storage, with one of them — the Acer Nitro 5 — coming in at just 256GB. That's gonna get cramped no matter how you slice it, unless you restrict yourself to very old or very indie games.
Not to worry, though, because we've collected the best Amazon Prime Day SSD deals on one handy page. If you're buying an SSD for a laptop, you'll want to skip past the internal drives, but there are numerous well-priced and speedy external SSDs to hook up to your new machine.
