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Once upon a time, I was an Acer gaming laptop girlie. As a uni student, having that sort of hardware power at my fingertips and on the go was pretty essential—the fact it could also play The Sims 4 on reasonably high settings was revolutionary for me at the time. As an ageing gamer, I've settled into that desktop life, but gaming laptops certainly haven't lost their appeal.
As such, I have not one but two gaming laptop deals for you today.
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- Acer Nitro V 16 | RTX 5070 (85 W) | $1,400 (save $100)
- Lenovo Legion 5i | RTX 5070 (115 W) | $1,500 (save $501)
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I'm going to start with the Acer Nitro V 16 Gaming Laptop for more reasons beyond simple nostalgia. The headline here is that this is an RTX 5070 gaming laptop with a tasty 32 GB of DDR5 RAM. With the still very much raging memory supply crisis, that's steadily becoming a rarer sight these days, so if you have the budget you may want to scoop this gaming laptop up for $1,400 from Amazon.
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If you need something to handle both notes, meeting, and more alongside many midnight Marathon matches, you're in good hands with the Acer Nitro V 16. It's worth noting that, though very similar to the Acer Nitro V 16 AI our Zak rated, this deal actually concerns a slightly different model number that isn't strictly speaking a Copilot+ AI PC. Along similar lines, the subject of this deal enjoys an Intel Core 9 270H CPU rather than any hardware from team red.
Furthermore, poking around the specs sheet reveals that this model only enjoys a 'maximum graphics power' of 85 Watts.
If that's a whole lot less juice than you'd like your GPU to be slurping up, I do have another suggestion. You can also get the Lenovo Legion 5i gaming laptop, with a 115 W TGP version of the RTX 5070, for $1,500 from B&H Photo.
You're getting 32 GB of DDR5 RAM here too, but that's coupled with an Intel Core Ultra 7 255HX CPU. The screen is a smidge smaller here at 15.1-inches—but it is also a shiny, shiny 165 Hz OLED. Alongside the comparatively juiced up RTX 5070, you'll likely make the most of the 2560 x 1600 resolution display here.
For comparison's sake, the Acer Nitro V 16 features a 16-inch, 1920 x 1200 IPS display with a slightly higher refresh rate of 180 Hz. It's not an OLED, no, but it will be nice enough for most splashing that kind of cash. Though, with a 76 Wh battery though, I'd keep it plugged in during gaming sessions you expect to breeze past the two-hour mark. The Lenovo Legion 5i fares only slightly better with a 80 Wh battery, though how much time you'll get out of that can vary significantly depending on what you're doing. Alas, the scourge of a swiftly dwindling battery is the price all portable gamers must pay.
1. Best overall:
Razer Blade 16 (2025)
2. Best budget:
Lenovo LOQ 15 Gen 10
3. Best 14-inch:
Razer Blade 14 (2025)
4. Best mid-range:
MSI Vector 16 HX AI
5. Best high-performance:
Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10
6. Best 18-inch:
Alienware 18 Area-51
