If you are looking for a cheap gaming laptop, Acer is offering the Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop for only $689. This is one of the Amazon Prime Day deals going on right now. It's a sturdy, lightweight system that supports Alexa, in case you want to control the smart lights in case you want to control them in between building something in Minecraft.

Right now, there are only 10 of these laptops left in stock, and with prices dropping intermittently, they are likely to sell out soon; for $1000, there is also a configuration on the same page with a 9th generation Core i7 CPU, 16GB ram, 144Hz display, and RTX 2060, Not bad here either.

For a budget laptop, this configuration has solid specs: Core i5 9300H, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, GTX 1650. It should be sufficient as a Fortnite machine if you are buying for young PC gamers.

The 256GB SSD is on the small side, especially if you play Call of Duty Warzone, but thankfully there are two PCIe M.2 slots available to upgrade with higher capacity storage options.