Amazon is often on the ball when it comes to beating other retailers in Black Friday and Cyber Monday price battles. As for gaming laptops, we've seen a good few where Amazon has smashed the competition over on our Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals page. When it comes to the MSI Vector, however, I thought I'd draw your attention away from the Amazon mainstay to Newegg, where you can nab the RTX 4080 MSI Vector for just $1,599.
That's a $500 saving on a gaming laptop with a GPU that often matches, even outperforms, the portable RTX 4090. That's made possible thanks to the 175W graphics config, and should see this laptop acing any game you throw at it through 2024.
It may not have a current-gen Intel CPU, but that Core i9 12900HX was top of the line a few years back. It'll still keep you covered when it comes to particle effects, and general processing goodness today. And since it supports DDR5 memory, MSI has been able to round off the config with a tasty 16GB of DDR5-4800 RAM. That's a terrific bit of bandwidth and more than enough memory to support your gaming habit, even if not as fast as some DDR5 kits nowadays.
1TB of storage will also mean you can fit a few of the bigger games of this past year on your new machine at once, so no need to worry about storage unless you're planning to download your entire Steam library at once.
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All this is topped off with a 1200p resolution panel running at 144Hz, so it'll be able to keep up with the kind of frame rates that are to be expected from a 175W RTX 4080. And all for half a grand less than what Amazon's trying to charge for it.
While the PCG hardware team have never been able to agree on how to intercap Newegg (NewEgg?)—Editor's note: we all agree it's Newegg, except Katie—we certainly agree that it's got some smashing deals on high-end gear this sales season. This MSI laptop is the cherry on the cake so far.
