Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals 2024: we've found the best discounts on gaming laptops as Cyber Monday kicks off
The discounts are rolling out for Cyber Monday, and would ya know it's a mix of new and existing Black Friday deals.
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Black Friday's been and gone, Cyber Monday's now been and gone, and the gaming laptop deals keep rolling on. That's in part because we're now in phase three of the consumerist season, this one in the form of Cyber Week. Admittedly, great deals are fewer and farther between than last week, but there are still some great ones popping up here and there, and some of the previous ones have carried over. We're curating all the new deals over at our usual cheap gaming laptop deals page.
You might be asking why we even need a Cyber Week when Black Friday is largely web-based anyways. Well, you're not wrong there, but it gives retailers one more chance to shift stock as the holiday season kicks off. You get another crack at finding the perfect gifts for your loved ones (and that includes yourself) because this is the latest I can remember Cyber Monday and Cyber Week falling. It's practically Christmas.
There have already been some excellent gaming laptop deals over the Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which makes sense as we're expecting a whole new generation of gaming laptops to drop in the new year, as both CPUs and GPUs change up a generation.
That ought to make the existing RTX 40-series notebooks as affordable as they've ever been. We're still yet to see the most extreme deal; there's been no $500 RTX 4060 machine, or a $1,200 RTX 4080 setup, but there have been discounts on a host of very tempting gaming machines. And we're expecting more of the same as we continue through Cyber Week.
The key thing to look out for when your picking a new gaming laptop is what power level the GPU is running at. There are many different levels for a mobile graphics card, and we've seen similarly priced RTX 4060 gaming laptops with TDPs ranging from 45 W, to 75 W, to 140 W. And that can make a huge difference in terms of gaming frame rates.
Below are the best laptop deals we've found for Cyber Monday and Cyber Week.
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We've added a new "price watch" qualifier to all our individual deals, making it easy to see whether a price has gone up 🔼 or down 🔽 since we last checked it out. It's important to note that any deal in this guide (even if it's slightly risen in price) is still one of our top picks, as we only show you deals that are actually worth buying.
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals — US quick links
- Amazon: All the Amazon Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals
- Newegg: Newegg's Cyber Monday gaming laptop sale is on right now
- Best Buy: The Best Buy Cyber Monday deals are all here
- Asus: Asus RTX 4070 18-inch gaming laptop for $2,500
- Alienware: m16 R2 RTX 4070 gaming laptop for $1,900
- MSI: 14-inch RTX 4070 laptop for $1,185 @ Amazon
- Gigabyte: RTX 4070 Aorus 16 laptop for $1,600 @ Best Buy
- Walmart: Lenovo LOQ laptop with an RTX 4070 for $880
- Target: Manufacturer refurbs from Acer from $800
- Razer: $100s saved on RTX 40-series New Razer Blade gaming laptops
- Dell: G15 and G16 gaming laptops from $650
- RTX 4050 - HP Victus 15 | $663 @ Walmart
- RTX 4060 - Lenovo LOQ 15.6 | $840 @ Newegg
- RTX 4070 - Lenovo LOQ | $880 @ Walmart
- RTX 4080 - MSI Vector 16 HX | $1,949 @ B&H Photo
Best laptop GPU
Best budget
The RTX 4060 delivers genuinely impressive 1080p gaming performance to the sub-$1,000 laptop market and frame rates that would have been thoroughly mid-range one generation ago. You're also getting DLSS 3 and Frame Gen in the bargain.
Best mid-range
With the same level of gaming performance as the mobile RTX 3080 of the previous generation, the RTX 4070 really delivers a frame rate experience that belies its current pricing in the gaming laptop world. These PCs are seriously affordable now.
Best overall
With a great balance between power efficiency and outright gaming performance, the RTX 4080 is the best overall GPU to go into your laptop. It's up at the top end of gaming laptoppery, but it delivers the best all-round experience.
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals - under $1000
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HP Victus 15 | RTX 4050 | Ryzen 5 8645HS | 15.6-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz | 8 GB DDR5 | 512 GB SSD | $663 at Walmart
Let's be upfront about this—8 GB of RAM is not enough in 2024. But when you're talking about a gaming notebook that costs just $650, but with a decent RTX 40-series GPU inside it, I can swallow it. Especially when you can easily upgrade the RAM with just a wee screwdriver in hand. And 16 GB of fast dual-channel DDR5 is just $50-odd right now. The RTX 4050 is just a 75 W variant, so not the outright fastest, but will still definitely do the job at 1080p. For this sorta money, that's all you can ask.
Price check: Newegg $679.95
Lenovo LOQ 15.6 | RTX 4060 | 15.6-inch | 144 Hz|16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | $839.99 at Newegg
It's not the flashiest laptop in the world, but it's 144 Hz and will do perfectly well for 1080p gaming. That's an 8-core processor, too, so it's not exactly a slouch on that front, either. It's only 512 GB storage, but for this price we can't expect much more. Upgrading that would definitely be my first port of call, though.
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Lenovo LOQ 15ARP9 | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 7435HS | 15.6-inch | 144 Hz | 16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | $1,199.99 $879.99 at Walmart (save $320)
This is the cheapest RTX 4070 gaming laptop I've seen so far this Black Friday/Cyber Monday period. Not only that, but it doesn't entirely suck in other ways. There's a reasonable amount of dual-channel memory and a speedy IPS screen. The 512 GB SSD does, however, suck, but you can easily upgrade it with the spare NVMe slot inside.
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HP Victus 16 | RTX 4070 | Ryzen 7 8845HS | 16-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz | 16 GB DDR5-5600 | 512 GB SSD | $1,399.99 $929.99 at Best Buy (save $470)
This is easily the cheapest RTX 4070 gaming laptop on the list right now, and the cheapest I think I've ever seen one on sale for. The RTX 4070 isn't a super low spec either, and seems to be a 115 W version. The only real concern I have is that the 512 GB SSD will get filled up fast, but there is a second SSD slot easily accessible in the back of the laptop, so is an easy upgrade. The screen isn't super bright, either, but at 300 nits it will be fine unless you're in a bright office or direct sunlight.
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Omen Transcend 14 | RTX 4060 | Core Ultra 7 155H | 14-inch | 2880 x 1800 | OLED | 512 GB SSD | 16 GB RAM | $1,599.99 $1,149.99 at HP (save $450)
This is a very specific type of laptop for a very specific type of person, but if you are that person, there's a good saving to be had. It's a teeny tiny little device with an RTX 4060 and one of Intel's Meteor Lake chips inside it. It has a more sleek chassis than most on this list, though that does come with a higher fee. It's basically RTX 4070 money for an RTX 4060.
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MSI Katana 15 | RTX 4070 | Core i7 13620H | 16-inch | 144 Hz | 1200p | 1 TB SSD | 16 GB DDR5 | $1,185 at Amazon
You're only getting a 1080p screen here, which is a bit of a shame as the rest of the components are all excellent. Still, that RTX 4070 will have no problem pushing that 144 Hz panel to its limits in many games at that res, plus the 10-core (six P-core, four E-core) CPU has some decent DDR5 to play with. It's not perfect, but for this money, it's a very solid deal.
Price check: Newegg $1,299
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Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 | RTX 4060 | Ryzen 9 8945HS | 16 GB LPDDR5X | 1 TB SSD | 1800p | OLED | 120 Hz | $1,599.99 $1,199.99 at Best Buy (save $400)
You're really paying for the form factor here, as you might have noticed this laptop is surrounded by similarly price machines with RTX 4070s in them. Though the G14 is a wonderfully compact machine with a gorgeous OLED and all-metal chassis. It's a premium pick—there's a reason they're competing with Razer's Blade laptops—and the premium price can only be avoided so much. Still, $400 off isn't bad.
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MSI Sword | RTX 4070 | Core i7 13700HX | 16-inch | 1200p | 144 Hz | 16 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | $1,599.99 $1,249.99 at Newegg (save $350)
A cheap RTX 4070 laptop with a powerful processor—who said Cyber Monday is just imitation Black Friday? Sure, the CPU is last-gen, but all of the models at this end of the market tend to be. The 1200p screen and well-sized SSD make this one of the top picks right now for value for money.
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Alienware m16 R2 | RTX 4070 | Core Ultra 7 155H | 16-inch | 1600p | 1 TB SSD | 16 GB DDR5 5600 | $1,699.99 $1,299.99 at Dell (save $400)
This Alienware gaming laptop not only offers what we'd expect to see in a $1,200 machine in 2024, but it also comes with one somewhat unexpected item. That's the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, a low-power processor from the Meteor Lake generation. With 16 cores total, this chip makes a good pairing with an RTX 4070 for a power-savvy gaming laptop.
Price check: Best Buy $1,899.99 | Dell $1,299.99 (with Core Ultra 9/RTX 4060)
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Acer Predator Helios 18 | RTX 4070 | Core i7 13700HX | 18-inch | 165 Hz | 1600p | 1 TB SSD | 16 GB DDR5-4800 | $1,499.99 $1,299.99 at Newegg (save $200)
We tend to like our gaming laptops on the small side, but this desktop-replacing behemoth is truly excellent value for what you get inside. There's a proper RTX 4070 handling the graphics duties, a nicely performant Core i7 13700HX and some decent DDR5 rounding off a powerful, if rather ginormous, gaming beast.
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Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 | RTX 4070 | Core i9-14900HX | 16-inch | 240 Hz | 1600p | 1 TB SSD | 16 GB DDR5 | $1,699.99 $1,349.99 at Best Buy (save $350)
Acer's Helios line of laptops goes up to some mighty (and mighty pricey) configs, but this one is a bit more affordable. You get that super-fast 240 Hz screen, a proper RTX 4070, and one of Intel's top mobile chips, the Core i9 14900HX. It'll likely run pretty toasty with that beefy Intel chip in the mix, but power-wise it's a pretty mean gaming machine.
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Lenovo Legion 5i | RTX 4070 | Core i9 14900HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz | 32 GB DDR5 5600 | 1 TB SSD | $1,849 $1,449 at B&H Photo (save $400)
Lenovo Legion gaming laptops have been excellent performers for a while now, and this one has specs to impress. The CPU is a 24-core (8 P-cores/16 E-cores) powerhouse, plus you get a proper 32 GB of RAM to play with. Match that with a 140 W RTX 4070 and a 240 Hz screen and this laptop is virtually flawless for the money. 2 TB of storage would be nice if I was being picky, but 1 TB will do you fine.
Price check: Best Buy $1,899.99
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Acer Predator Triton Neo 16 | RTX 4070 | Core Ultra 9 185H | 16-inch | 2000p | 165 Hz | 32 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | $1,575 $1,499.99 at Amazon (save $75.01)
Let's start with a caveat—the chassis here isn't exactly beautiful. But everything else about this laptop is great for the price, including a 140 W RTX 4070, a 16-core (six Performance, eight Efficient) Meteor Lake chip and a 16-inch 2000p LED-backlit IPS display. That resolution might be a bit much for the RTX 4070 in demanding games, but there's always DLSS 3 to keep the frame rate smooth. 32 GB of DDR5 is great to see, too.
Price check: Newegg $1,827.99
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MSI Vector 16 HX | RTX 4080 | Core i9 14900HX | 16-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz | 1 TB SSD | 32 GB RAM | $2,099 $1,949 at B&H (save 150)
Of the two MSI Vector machines we've highlighted here, I'd rather this one. It has a newer, more powerful CPU, a better screen resolution and refresh rate for an RTX 4080, and 32 GB of RAM. Altogether, that makes for a pretty sweet package and an upgrade worth the extra $100 over the cheapest RTX 4080 laptop we've found so far.
Price check: Microcenter $1,999.99
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Acer Predator Helios 18 | RTX 4080 | Core i9 14900HX | 18-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz | 32 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | $2,299.99 $1,999.99 at Best Buy (save $500)
As an 18-incher, this isn't the most portable of laptops. Still, if a desktop replacement is your desire the specs here make a whole lot of sense for the cash. You get a 24-core Core i9 CPU, 32 GB of delicious RAM, and an RTX 4080 for serious gaming firepower. The 1 TB SSD is a little stingy at this price, but we'll allow it.
Price check: Newegg $3,397.99
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Cyber Monday gaming handheld deals
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MSI Claw 7 A1M | Intel Core Ultra 5 135H | 7-inch screen | 512 GB SSD | Windows 11 | 16 GB RAM | $699 $429.99 at Newegg (save $269.01)
I have to admit the MSI Claw is not our favorite handheld gaming PC. Not even close. That would be the ROG Ally X, which hasn't recieved a tasty discount as of yet. However, below a certain price threshold, the MSI Claw 7 becomes worth a look, and I believe we're just about at that price threshold here. Powered by an Intel Core Ultra 5 'Meteor Lake' chip, this chip is the cheapest of those available, but it can deliver in games thanks to the same eight Xe-cores as the higher models. It's just not as reliable as AMD's options.
Price check: Amazon $429.99
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Lenovo Legion Go | Z1 Extreme | 8.8-inch screen | 16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | $699.99 $484.99 at Amazon (save $215)
The Legion Go is one of the more polished handhelds on the market, with a sleek 8.8-inch screen and detachable controllers. That screen is a little overkill for the lil' AMD chip inside this machine, the Z1 Extreme also found in the ROG Ally, but it's great for playing indies on while relaxing. One of the controllers also becomes a mouse if you need it, which is a bit of a gimmick but works pretty well.
Price check: Newegg $539.99 | Best Buy $749.99 (1 TB version)
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ROG Ally | Z1 Extreme | 7-inch screen | 16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | $589.99 $483.95 at Amazon (save $106.04)
The original ROG Ally—still a strong performer even next to its improved sibling, the ROG Ally X. That's because they are both powered by the same Z1 Extreme chip from AMD. Considering the money off the original Ally, there's something to be said for choosing this over the X, though the bigger battery life on the X is definitely a huge improvement.
Price check: Best Buy $499.99
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals — UK quick links
- Amazon: MSI RTX 4080 laptop for £1,741
- Laptops Direct: RTX 4060 gaming laptops from £747
- Overclockers: Asus RTX 4060 laptop for £900
- Scan: Asus TUF Gaming RTX 4070 laptop for £1,100
- PC Specialist: Configurable RTX 40-series laptops
- Cyberpower: £100s off gaming laptops
- Currys: £1,099 RTX 4070 MSI machine
- Handheld gaming PC: ROG Ally for £400 at Argos
- RTX 4060: Gigabyte G5 | £811 @ Amazon
- RTX 4070: MSI Katana A15 AI | £1,099 @ Currys
- RTX 4080: MSI Vector 17 I £1,741 @ Amazon
Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals in the UK
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Steam Deck LCD | SteamOS | 256 GB | £349 at Steam
There's no deal on the Steam Deck right now, but since the launch of the OLED model, you can buy the mid-sized LCD for a good price. It's still a wicked handheld, too, most of all because of its custom SteamOS operating system.
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ROG Ally | Z1 Extreme | 7-inch screen | 16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | £399.99 at Argos
If you're eyeing up a handheld gaming PC for the holiday period, you can't go wrong with the ROG Ally. This is the version with the full-power chip inside it, the Z1 Extreme, which is absolutely the version to go for. It's a savvy handheld that's still worth a look even with the improved ROG Ally X on the market. Most importantly, it's now the price of a Steam Deck but more powerful and runs Windows 11, which is both a good and bad thing.
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Lenovo Legion Go | Z1 Extreme | 8.8-inch screen | 16 GB RAM | 512 GB SSD | £699.99 £479 at Amazon (save £220.99)
The Legion Go is a lot like the ROG Ally crossed with a Nintendo Switch, and much bigger than both. It has detachable controllers, one of which can turn into a mouse, and which make for a simple relaxed set-up. The big screen runs at 1600p, which is great for browsing Windows 11, but not really in the ballpark of the Z1 Extreme chip in terms of playable performance. Still, you can run it at 1080p just fine, and this is one of the more polished gaming handhelds on the market.
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Gigabyte G5 | RTX 4060 | Core i5 13500H | 15.6-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz | 16 GB DDR5-4800 | 512 GB SSD | £849 £749 at Currys (save £100)
We're big fans of this little budget gaming laptop, and our Jacob loved its great gaming performance (check out our review). With some genuine 1080p gaming chops on offer for a substantially lower price than we've seen previously, this makes for a tidy little gaming laptop for not much cash at all.
Price check: Amazon £811.14
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Gigabyte Aorus 7 | RTX 4060 | Core i5 12500H | 17.3-inch | 1080p | 360 Hz | 16 GB DDR5-3200 | 512 GB SSD | £999.95 £899.99 at Overclockers (save £99.96)
A slightly odd set of components here, but if you're looking for a large-screen laptop with decent gaming performance at a budget price point, this is a darn good shout. That large screen might be only 1080p, but it's super speedy, and it's well matched with an RTX 4060 and a 12th Gen (but still performant) Intel mobile chip.
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Acer Predator Triton Neo | RTX 4070 | Core Ultra 9 185H | 16-inch | 2000p | 165 Hz | 32 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | £1,599 £1,499 at Amazon (save £100)
This might not technically be on discount, but it's still a lot of laptop for the cash. Here you get a 2000p speedy panel in combination with an efficient yet very gaming-capable CPU, paired with 32 GB of RAM and a decent 1 TB SSD. It's not the prettiest machine, but it's a very portable, very powerful gaming powerhouse in a slim chassis.
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MSI Vector 16 | RTX 4080 | Core i9 13980HX | 16-inch | 1200p | 165 Hz | 16 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | £1,741.83 at Amazon
When it comes to the hardware running under the bonnet, this 16-inch MSI Vector certainly has the goods, what with that Intel Core i9 processor and an RTX 4080 making a very tempting package indeed. Bit of a shame about the 1200p display and 16GB of RAM, but at least the screen's a good 'un with a 144Hz refresh rate and a nice and bright panel. There's a huge amount of performance here, making this machine a sizeable chunk of power for a little over £1,700.
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What should I look out for in a Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal?
The best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals will deliver high-performance hardware for a knockdown price, or at the very least not come with an overly inflated price tag.
But it doesn't automatically scan that just because something has a three-figure discount that it will be worth the money. You need to keep an eye on what parts are being used, what else you get for your cash, and whether it's actually right for you.
I've put together an article explaining what I think are the five things to look out for when buying your first gaming laptop, which I hope will help you decide.
When is Cyber Monday 2024?
Cyber Monday is today, December 2. While some major deals events claim to be ending on Tuesday, there will be deals continuing through Cyber Week and into the holiday season.
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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.