If I was labouring under the weight of one thousand and five hundred dollar bills, and was hankering after a new techie toy with which to dispense with my cash, then these are the Amazon Fall Prime Day gaming laptops I'd been throwing my money at. It's actually a pretty good haul, too, even if this Big Deal Days schtick hasn't provided really spectacular deals across the board.
There are quality laptops around the $1,500 mark, but also a selection of good quality machines for well under $1,000, too.
This Asus machine at the top is my pick, though. The Asus TUF A17 is on sale at Amazon for $1,369 right now, and that feels like a bit of a bargain for an RTX 4070 gaming laptop. It's not really that portable a notebook really, more of a desktop replacement with its 17.3-inch screen, so you're not going to be dropping it into a satchel for the morning commute.
But with that RTX 4070 backed up by a full Ryzen 9 7940HS processor and 16GB of DDR5 memory, it's got some serious productivity chops. It's only a 1080p 144Hz display, but it will happily output to a good gaming monitor should you wish to put some of those extra pennies towards another toy.
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If you wanted a higher resolution, but with a smaller screen, then the $1,390 MSI Crosshair 15 is a decent option and another RTX 4070-toting gaming laptop, too. It is one of the budget brands of MSI, so don't expect the most stunning chassis, but at this price I'm more interested in the components at its heart. And it offers a really solid spec.
Then there are three really impressive sub-$1,000 gaming laptop deals that I wouldn't say no to, either. The super-cheap $870 Gigabyte G5 KF is the most affordable, but it does only come with a 512GB SSD and just 8GB of DDR4 memory. That would probably turn me off, to be honest.
So it's a question of either the $949 MSI Katana 15 or the $950 Lenovo Legion Slim 5. Both have similar specs, rock an RTX 4060, and will make for a quality, affordable gaming laptop.
Of the two, though, I think I would absolutely go for the Lenovo—it's been smashing it out of the park recently in terms of new systems, and the combination of the Ryzen 7 Zen 4 mobile CPU and the 16-inch 16:10 screen would mean it gets my money.
