This Acer Nitro machine is just about the cheapest RTX 4070 toting gaming laptop around right now, and it's a pretty damned impressive-looking one, too. It's a 16-inch form factor, which is just about the sweet spot at the moment for relatively large notebook screens without the heft of a 17- or 18-inch display. And it's running that 16-inch display at 2560 x 1600 with a 165 Hz refresh rate.
With that 140W TGP, that puts the graphics silicon right up there with the best RTX 4070 machines we've tested, such as the Razer Blade 14 and MSI Vector 17 HX. So yeah, it's going to perform pretty well when it comes to the latest games at both 1080p and the native 1600p resolution. And with a $100 discount on its original price tag, that makes it $1,200 at Newegg at the moment.
Backing up that screen/GPU combo is a smart eight-core AMD Zen 4 CPU of the Ryzen 7 7840HS variety, which will make short work of all but the most intense of computational loads. You also get 16GB of DDR5 and a 1TB SSD to keep your games safe.
It is a bit of a chonky boi, so there is a slight compromise to that relatively low RTX 4070 laptop pricing. But if you want a more svelte Acer machine you can also pick up the excellent Acer Predator Helio 16 for only a few dollars more, and that also comes with a 13th Gen Intel chip inside it, too.
That machine is on a bigger discount even if it is a little bit more pricey. But you do get a 240Hz panel for that extra and the Intel chip does give you more multithreaded performance for your money compared with the eight-core AMD chip in the Nitro.
