This Acer Nitro machine is currently the cheapest RTX 4070-powered gaming laptop available, and it looks pretty impressive, too: in a 16" form factor, it doesn't weigh as much as a 17" or 18" display, which is the sweet spot for relatively large notebook screens! . And this 16-inch display is 2,560 x 1,600 with a refresh rate of 165 Hz. [With 140W of TGP, the graphics silicon is on par with the best RTX 4070 machines we tested, including the Razer Blade 14 and MSI Vector 17 HX. As such, it will perform quite well when playing the latest games at both 1080p and 1600p native resolution; Newegg currently has it at $1,200, a $100 discount from the original price.

Backing up this screen and GPU combo is a Ryzen 7 7840HS 8-core AMD Zen 4 CPU. It also has 16GB of DDR5 and a 1TB SSD to keep your games safe.

Being a bit of a chump, there is a slight compromise in the relatively low pricing of the RTX 4070 laptop. However, if you want a smarter Acer machine, you can also get the excellent Acer Predator Helio 16 for just a few dollars more.

This machine is a bit more expensive, but at a bigger discount. But for that you get a 240Hz panel, and the Intel chip gives you more multi-threaded performance than the Nitro's 8-core AMD chip.