Picking between these two RTX 4070 gaming laptop deals is tearing me apart

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We've been umming and ahhing in the office today over this pair of RTX 4070 powered gaming laptop deals. Both of which are sat at a genuinely impressive price, though both of come with their own little caveats. Not huge ones, or we wouldn't be recommending them, but certainly enough to mean we can't quite decide which one we'd 100% recommend.

The options are thus: a $310 discount(opens in new tab) on one of the best RTX 4070 laptops around—the The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i—which has dropped down from $2,300 to just $1,990; or a cheaper RTX 4070-toting $1,479 MSI Katana(opens in new tab). That's the one with the caveat because it ships with a lower wattage GPU variant, therefore middling cooling, and a smaller discount of $20.

Now, to give some context we've been checking the numbers on the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i's RTX 4080 model(opens in new tab), and the numbers are so well balanced that, especially for its price, it's hard not to love. The similarly tempting Legion Pro 7i we're considering here is effectively the same laptop, complete with a powerful Intel Core i9 13900HX, only it's instead paired with Nvidia's RTX 4070.

You still get the same 1TB SSD, the same 16:10 screen, and although you're not getting 32GB of DDR5-6000 as with the RTX 4080 version, its sister gives us real hope. Our main issue has been with the 60 minute battery life, which is a little lacking against some other laptops we've been testing.

As for this little dealio dilemma, you're at least going to be bagging a slightly higher-power GPU with the Legion, than with the Katana listed here. That's the major difference between the two laptop's, actually. The Katana packs a 105W GPU against the Legion's 140W RTX 4070 variant, and it'll mean a slight downturn