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Jacob Roach / Digital Trends You got some Christmas cash. You game. 2023 has been a blowout year for gaming with Baldur’s Gate, Starfield (sorta), and a plethora of other fun games. Conclusion? You need one of the best gaming laptops. But you’re also thrifty and shopping on a Christmas-card budget, so you need to shop deals. The best deals around. These are those deals. And, in the spirit of gaming, we’re sorting them by the AMD vs Intel rivalry that you’ve come to love. Best After-Christmas gaming laptop deals…

Around a year ago, I claimed that gaming laptops were lying to us. It was hard not to when you couldn’t trust the spec sheet to give you an idea about how a laptop would perform. I hoped my annual check-in would bring some improvements, but unfortunately, the situation with gaming laptops has only gotten more complicated. Problems with graphics card power are still present, but now processors are dissuading buyers as well. The spec sheet should tell you a lot about how a gaming laptop performs, but the situation in…

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D MSRP $450.00 “The fastest gaming CPU you can buy, even beating out much more expensive options.” Pros Chart-topping gaming performance Great value Solid multi-core and productivity performance AM5 is getting cheaper Cons Weak single-core performance…

AMD’s latest laptop CPU range is huge, and the lineup covers not just Zen 4 processors. In fact, buying a laptop with a Ryzen 7000 processor could mean you’re getting a Zen 2, Zen 3, Zen 3+, or Zen 4 chip. Because the naming scheme is so confusing, it’s easy to imagine that less inquisitive consumers might feel a little lost. AMD seems to have found a way to remedy this, but is this really the perfect solution? Jacob Roach / Digital Trends AMD is serving up some of the best processors for laptops in this…

One of the best gaming PC deals for anyone keen to see gaming at its best comes courtesy of Dell. The Alienware Aurora R14 Ryzen Edition Gaming PC is currently $1,500 instead of its usual price of $2,450. A considerable saving of $950, this is a great time to enjoy upgraded gaming without spending upgraded prices. If you’ve been looking for a new gaming PC, keep reading while we tell you why this could be the one for you. Remember — it won’t stay this price for long. Why you should buy the Alienware Aurora R14…

Against all odds, it appears that Intel is still on course with its next-gen graphics cards, and its plans reach far into the future. A new report tells us that Intel may have ordered a large number of GPU chips from TSMC. While Intel Arc struggles to compete against the best graphics cards, this is still great news for the GPU market as a whole — here’s why. Compared to AMD and Nvidia, Intel is still very new to the discrete GPU market, and it only has a limited number of cards up for grabs. The range is…

If you need a new laptop but you’re on a tight budget, don’t worry because there are laptop deals that can get very cheap. Here’s a good example — the dependable Lenovo IdeaPad 1 for just $200 from Best Buy, after a $130 discount on its original price of $330. With laptops becoming an even greater necessity for students and work-from-home employees, we don’t expect stocks of this device to last long, so buy it now while you still can. Why you should buy the Lenovo IdeaPad 1 The IdeaPad is Lenovo’s budget and…

If you're looking for one of the most high-end laptop deals around, Lenovo continues to knock things out of the park with a deal on the Lenovo ThinkPad P16 Mobile Workstation. As with all Lenovo laptop deals, it's been given a fairly hefty estimated value price by Lenovo of $9,649 but given the spec, that could be possible here. Right now, the laptop is discounted by a huge $5,564 so it's down to $4,085. That's no impulse buy price but if you're looking for a supremely powerful laptop, it could be worth the…

Lenovo Lenovo continues to offer some of the best laptop deals with a hefty discount on the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 2. Usually priced at $3,469, the business-focused laptop is down to $1,088 for a limited time only. The $2,381 saving sounds amazing but it’s worth taking it with a pinch of salt given Lenovo’s use of the estimated value system. Despite what the actual discount could be, it’s still clear that this is a well-priced laptop for what it offers. Keen to know more? Let’s take a look. Why you should buy the…

LOQ, pronounced “lock,” is a weird name, yes, but it’s the name of a new brand in the world of PC gaming from Lenovo. You might wonder — don’t we already have Legion? Lenovo’s Legion brand has made a name for itself over a number of years, especially in the world of gaming laptops. And that’s where LOQ is looking to make an impact as well. Lenovo is announcing a number of new gaming laptops — the LOQ 15, 15i, 16, and 16i — and the prices are aimed at a much more affordable demographic. These start at just $900, which…