Asus TUF A17 | Nvidia RTX 4070 | AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS | 17.3-inch | 144Hz | 1080p | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB SSD | $1,799.99$1,369 at Amazon (save $430.99)
If you're after a large-screen laptop for school with a little Triple-A gaming on the side, the TUF A17 will certainly deliver. It is only a 1080p panel, which is a bit of a shame, but its RTX 4070 will run pretty much everything at that resolution. It also has an 8-core, 16-thread Ryzen CPU that sports the 780M integrated graphics. That's the same as in all the latest handhelds so it can give decent gaming performance on the go and should offer more gaming battery life than running on the RTX 4070 when away from a plug socket.
Price check: Newegg $1,399.99
If I was labouring under the weight of one thousand and five hundred dollar bills, and was hankering after a new techie toy with which to dispense with my cash, then these are the Amazon Fall Prime Day gaming laptops I'd been throwing my money at. It's actually a pretty good haul, too, even if this Big Deal Days schtick hasn't provided really spectacular deals across the board.
There are quality laptops around the $1,500 mark, but also a selection of good quality machines for well under $1,000, too.
This Asus machine at the top is my pick, though. The Asus TUF A17 is on sale at Amazon for $1,369 right now, and that feels like a bit of a bargain for an RTX 4070 gaming laptop. It's not really that portable a notebook really, more of a desktop replacement with its 17.3-inch screen, so you're not going to be dropping it into a satchel for the morning commute.
But with that RTX 4070 backed up by a full Ryzen 9 7940HS processor and 16GB of DDR5 memory, it's got some serious productivity chops. It's only a 1080p 144Hz display, but
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