What's the better gift for a student: a handheld PC or this sweet gaming laptop for just $699?

pcgamer.com:

HP Victus | RTX 4060 | Core i5-12500H | 16GB DDR4 | 1TB SSD | 512GB SSD | 15.6-inch | 144Hz | $1099 $699 at Walmart (save $400)
At full price, there are better laptops on the market, but with a $400 discount, it's pretty hard to beat this HP Victus. You're getting a 12 core, 16 thread CPU, an RTX 4060 GPU, and 16GB of RAM. The storage is a bit small at only 512GB but at least there's is a lush IPS, 144Hz 1080p panel. Heck, you even get one month of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate too. Perfect for gaming on the go.

There's a lot to like about the HP Victus laptop, currently at a really low price for its power. Yes, the CPU is two generations old, but the Core i5 12500H still offers four P-cores, eight E-cores, and 16 threads in total.

It would be nicer to have a CPU that has fewer E-cores and more P-cores, but with a boost clock of 4.5GHz and a power limit of 95W, it'll cope with most games just fine. You'll even be able to throw in a bit of content creation.

To handle the graphics duties, there's a GeForce RTX 4060, which is a decent 1080p budget-level GPU. There's no indication as to what its power limit is, but hopefully it's not one of the low-end versions. In other HP laptops, such as its RTX 4050 models, they're typically towards the higher end of the power range.

But regardless of what its actual performance is like, it's a perfect match for the 1080p IPS panel. The refresh rate is suitably high for gaming at 144Hz, and if the GPU struggles to hit that level in games, then you might be able to enable DLSS upscaling or DLSS Frame Generation to boost things along.

You're getting a decent amount of RAM for the money and 16GB is more than enough for the vast majority of games. I can't tell what speed it is, but it's unlikely