14-inch gaming laptops are useful, but if you don't have the screen space or don't mind the extra weight, a 16-inch is the ideal step up. Fortunately, there are many excellent 16-inch laptops on sale, including this Acer Nitro 16, with some pretty good discounts.

Newegg has this laptop for $1,200. That's $100 off the asking price, but considering what you get, it's a pretty good deal for a laptop. This includes an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070, AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS, 16GB of DDR5, and a 1TB SSD.

The GPU is the star of the show. The GPU puts a lot of the power needed to actually reach the maximum refresh rate of the 2560 x 1600 panel on the Nitro 16 into play in some games. This is a pretty tough combination for any laptop, but a 140W RTX 4070 like the one on the Nitro 16 will cope much better than most mobile GPUs found in the affordable laptop market.

The CPU is one of our absolute favorites: AMD's excellent Ryzen 7 7840HS. Not only is this an 8-core, 16-thread machine, but it also has the 780M iGPU found in many of today's mobile gaming PCs. with an RTX 4070, this may not seem like an advantage, but it does save a lot of power since the GPU does not need to run unless absolutely necessary. significant power savings.

The system comes with 16 GB of DDR5 memory and a 1 TB SSD. Most modern gaming notebooks should use a larger SSD, as the install size of the latest titles cannot be underestimated, but 1 TB is the minimum for an affordable machine.

The laptop's chassis is a run-of-the-mill design, lined with black plastic and covered in more black plastic, like the Asus Zephyrus G14 2024, Razer Blade 14 2024, and HP Omen Transcend 14 The Asus Zephyrus G14 2024, the Razer Blade 14 2024, and the HP Omen Transcend 14. But these are more expensive and come with only a 1TB SSD. Ugh.

A bit plain in design, but more so in specs. But if that's not your bag, you can check out our page covering the best gaming laptop deals today for more options.