Great RTX 4080 gaming laptops are hard to find under $2,000, but this Alienware M16 is a whole lot of horsepower for $1,900
Alienware M16 | RTX 4080 | Ryzen 9 7845HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz | 32GB DDR5-5200 | 1TB SSD | $2,699.99$1,899.99 at Best Buy (save $800)
This Alienware is a bit of a chonky machine, but for this price its got some serious components that are well worth looking at. There's a 175 W TGP RTX 4080 for proper graphics horsepower, 32 GB of decently fast DDR5, and a 12-core Ryzen 9 processor with plenty of gaming grunt. A 240 Hz 1600p panel rounds off a high-performance laptop with proper credentials.
Alienware is a brand that many associate with distinctive chassis designs, speedy components, and a high price tag. While this Alienware M16 gaming laptop has the first two covered, I've spotted it for $1,900 at Best Buy, and at that price it's one of the best RTX 4080 gaming laptop deals I've seen in a while.
It's a bit of a chonky chassis design this, what with a fairly substantial rear lip and a significantly large lower deck, but it does manage to cram some truly high-performance components into that frame. For a start, let's talk about the GPU. Here you're getting the mobile RTX 4080 with a 175 W TDP, and that's a much better shout for a mobile GPU than the RTX 4090 laptops we test on the regular.
It's got a much better chance of delivering high performance without throttling back, and it shaves a significant amount off the price. In fact, it's about as high as we recommend you go in Nvidia's mobile GPU range, and should have no problem at all scything through the most demanding games, especially with DLSS 3 and Frame Generation to push those frame rates up into the stratosphere.
The 16-inch 240 Hz 1600p panel should have no problem displaying as many of those frames as possible, too. Plus with 32 GB of DDR5-5200, you won't have to do the browser-tab-dance every time you boot into a game either—unlike a lot of other gaming laptops that are still getting away with 16 GB, which is a little on the tight side these days for a modern gaming system.
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