It's a great time to buy a gaming laptop, with Nvidia's latest GTX and RTX cards now available nearly a year after their release, and while prices have come down, you can still get the most power-efficient components available today! For example, an HP laptop with an RTX 2060 graphics card is now only $1,099.99 at Walmart.

According to HP's website, this model is powered by a 6-core/12-thread Intel Core i7-9750H processor with a boost clock of 4.50 GHz. It also has 16GB of RAM, a 256GB boot SSD, a 1TB hard drive for game storage, and a 15.6-inch IPS 1080p display. The combination of a small SSD and a large HDD is a bit annoying, as many other laptops in this price range simply have large-capacity NVMe SSDs, but both drives can easily be swapped out for higher-capacity components. On a related note, the RAM can also be upgraded to 32GB.

The graphics card is the biggest selling point of this machine, and you can get an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics card with 6GB of VRAM. There is no indication that this is the low-power "Max-Q" version that most laptops in this price range use, so you get the full RTX 2060 experience. This is especially true for 1080p displays, as they don't need to push as many pixels to the GPU (compared to laptops with 1440p or 4K screens) and can even use ray-tracing graphics in some titles. See our RTX 2060 review for more details, but keep in mind that this review is for a desktop GPU, so the performance is not exactly the same.

As with most gaming laptops, there are plenty of connectivity options. This Omen model has one Thunderbolt 3 port, three USB 3.0 Type-A connectors, an Ethernet jack, a headphone/microphone combo jack, and a Mini DisplayPort connector. preinstalled.

Overall, this is a pretty good package for $1,100, and the upgrade options allow for a bit more performance in the future.