Acer Nitro 16 | RTX 4070 | AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS | 16-inch | 165Hz | 1600p | 16GB DDR5 | 512TB SSD | $1,299.99$1,029.99 at Best Buy (save $270)
This is one of the cheapest RTX 4070 deals around at the moment and there's a lot to like here. The Ryzen CPU has a full eight cores, 16 threads, and that GPU is a high power version, with a 140W limit. The screen is fast and boasts a nice 16:10 ratio. However, the resolution is a bit high for the RTX 4070, so you might need to use upscaling more often than you'd like, and the amount of storage is pretty mean. But if you want to save as much as you can but still get a decent gaming laptop, this one's hard to beat.
Lots of gaming laptops use 16:9 1080p screens because they're cheap to buy and usually boast a high refresh rate. However, they're not great for doing office work or any productivity tasks, unless the panel is really big. But when they are, the low resolution just looks yuck.
Enter stage left this Acer Nitro 16 gaming laptop. Here you're getting a 16-inch IPS panel that has a resolution of 2560 x 1600, resulting in a 16:10 screen ratio. That means you get a little more vertical height to work with and once you've used such a panel, it's hard to go back to something smaller. This one's fast, too, with a refresh rate of 165Hz so it'll be very easy on the eyes.
The rest of the hardware is just as good, although there are a couple of things that spoil the party a touch. Kicking things off is the CPU: a Ryzen 7 7735HS. It has eight full cores, 16 threads, and a boost clock of 4.75GHz. It doesn't have as much cache as the desktop Ryzen CPUs but it's still a great laptop processor.
It's paired with a GeForce RTX 4070 GPU and not one of the low-end versions. This one has a power
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