This Ryzen-powered RTX 4070 gaming laptop is one heck of a great deal at just $1,100
Acer Nitro | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 7735HS | 16-inch | 1600p | 144 Hz | IPS | 16 GB DDR5 | 512 GB SSD | $1,099.99 at Newegg
That eight-core Ryzen CPU and fast RTX 4070 GPU are a great combination and perfect for gaming at the screen's resolution. The display is lovely and big, there's a decent amount of RAM, and a teeny SSD. Oh, well you can't have everything!
When we spotted this Acer RTX 4070 gaming laptop deal, we all thought that there must be something wrong with it for it to be this cheap. But no—it's the real deal. It's sold and shipped by Newegg, and it's brand new, so none of this refurbished malarky. This is one thing that's amiss but it shouldn't stop you from snapping it up at $1,100.
Acer's Nitro series of gaming laptops are great little machines and this particular model is especially nice. That's because you're getting a fast Ryzen 7 7735HS central processor paired with a GeForce RTX 4070 laptop GPU. The former has eight cores, 16 threads, a boost clock of 4.75 GHz, and a maximum power consumption of just 54 W.
The RTX 4070 laptop GPU is great for 1080p gaming and depending on what you're playing or what settings you're using, it'll certainly handle 1440p gaming too. For the Nitro 16 AMD series, Acer typically uses up to a 140 W power limit for the GPU but I can't tell exactly what limit this model has. But even if it's only 105 W, for example, it'll still run the latest games well enough, especially if you enable DLSS upscaling or frame generation.
For me, though, the star of the show is that big 16-inch 2560 x 1600 IPS screen. With a refresh rate of 144 Hz and a 16:10 aspect ratio, it's perfect for gaming, media consumption, schoolwork, and content creation. Where 15-inch laptops are a little too small for my tastes (and 17 inches is more of a desktop replacement), laptops this size are the real sweet spot.
The amount of RAM you're getting is perfectly acceptable, too. Sure, 32 GB would be really nice to have but we're still way off the point where
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