HP Victus | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 8845HS | 16.1-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz | 16 GB DDR5 5600| 512 GB SSD | $1,399.99$899.99 at Best Buy (save $500)
This Victus might not be perfect, but the headline news here is that you get a 115 W RTX 4070 gaming laptop for RTX 4060 prices. It's only got a 1080p display, and that 512 GB SSD will fill up very quickly, but slam a cheap 1 TB SSD in there and this becomes a bit of a budget bargain.
Gaming laptops can often be expensive things. If you're in the market for anything under $1,000, it can be difficult to find something with a properly muscular GPU—and while the mobile RTX 4060 is a perfectly decent 1080p gaming performer, it still feels like much more powerful RTX 4070 lappys are determined not to drop below that magic thousand buck figure.
Which makes this RTX 4070 gaming laptop deal so special. I've found this HP Victus 16.1-inch model for $900 at Best Buy, and while it's not a perfect machine, it's very difficult to argue with the graphics horsepower it provides for the cash.
Let's kick off with a caveat: it's not the full beans 140 W TGP RTX 4070, but a 115 W version instead. While that might initially sound like a disappointment, it'll still outperform a mobile RTX 4060 GPU by some margin—and it's much better equipped to deliver high frame rates to that 144 Hz display.
Speaking of the panel, that refresh rate is pretty decent for a laptop at this price point. It's only a 1080p unit, but that should at least mean that RTX 4070 will have plenty of grunt spare to reach those 144 frames per second you desire.
It's not like the rest of the components are underpowered, either. The Ryzen 7 8845HS is a Zen 4 eight-core 16-thread CPU with plenty of go in it, and it's been paired with 16 GB of DDR5-5600, which is faster RAM than I'd expect to see at this price.
There's a final caveat though, and it's the storage space. Unfortunately, once you get below the $1,000 mark in the gaming laptop market you often only see 512 GB of storage,
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