My absolute favorite little gaming laptops from Amazon Gaming Week, and one of them even has a lovely OLED screen. Mmm
Acer Predator 14 | RTX 4050 | Core i7 13700H | 14-inch | 165Hz | 1200p | 16GB DDR5 | 512GB SSD | $1,499.99$799.99 at Amazon (save $700)
This is probably the cheapest 14-inch laptop I've seen, and while I would absolutely have preferred the RTX 4060 over the RTX 4050, it is worth noting that it's a full 95 W version of that GPU. We've seen from our testing that means it will best RTX 4060 chips running at 65 W or less, such as the Nvidia GPU in the Transcend 14. You're also getting an Intel CPU that has 14 cores, 20 threads. Backing them up are 16GB of DDR5 RAM and, sadly, just a 512 GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD.
Price check: Newegg $988.97
It's Amazon Gaming Week, people, and if that isn't enough to get your blood pumping and your excitement levels through the roof… then you're probably quite a well-adjusted human being. Well done. I mean, it is just another way of Jeffy B trying to convince you to part with some money, because he simply doesn't have enough, but there are at least some good gaming laptop deals around today because of it.
This Acer Predator Triton 14 is just $800 at Amazon right now, and is my pick of the bunch. Now, it might only come sporting a relatively lowly RTX 4050 graphics chip, and I would normally not be recommending, but because of the TGP Acer has given it you're looking at gaming performance up there with the RTX 4060 GPUs dropped into other 14-inch laptops.
The Triton 14 is running its RTX 4050 at 95 W, which is the same as the Lenovo LOQ machine I tested not so long ago. The RTX 4060 inside the otherwise lovely HP Omen Transcend 14 is just a 65 W offering, on the other hand, and cannot deliver the same level of performance as the nominal lesser GPU.
You're also getting the full 14-core, 20-thread Intel chip you'll find in the more expensive RTX 4070 version of the Triton 14 and 16GB of DDR5 memory to back it up. You are taking a hit on the storage side, with just 512GB of SSD space to play with, but you do get a 1200p IPS screen with a 165 Hz
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