While $550 is an amazing price for a gaming laptop, you have to set your expectations accordingly. The Ryzen 5 7235HS processor is a bit long in the tooth, and ditto for the RTX 3050 graphics card with 6GB of video memory. It’ll run most new games, but you may have to settle for medium settings to hit 60 FPS.

We've pulled out offers from entry-level portables on the cheap to high-end machines that are great for content creation as well as gaming, for hundreds of dollars off. Here are the top gaming laptop deals for October.

Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device The Alienware x14 might be the brand's lowest-spec gaming laptop, but it's also the thinnest - coming in at an almost impossible 0.

Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane… no wait, it’s actually Black Friday 2024. The sales event of the year takes place on November 29. But why queue in line outside your local superstore with a bag of leftover Thanksgiving turkey sandwiches under your arm when you can take advantage of great tech deals right now?

There are two things we love at PCMag: reviewing laptops and then finding them on sale. The best new tech + saving our readers money is what we're all about! So let's check out today's deal!

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Starting this week, Dell is offering the Alienware x14 R2 RTX 4050 gaming laptop for only $999.99 after a $700 instant discount. This is the lowest price we've seen for Alienware's slimmest and lightest laptop.