Yes, the early Amazon October Prime Day sales (or Big Deal Days, if you really insist) are upon us already, and I've found a fantastic gaming laptop deal to kick us off with.
This RTX 5070 Ti-toting HP Omen Max 16 is down to $1,500 right now, beating out even the oft-discounted MSI Vector 16 HX before things have technically got started. It's an excellent gaming machine for a price that literally made me do a double take this morning, but you do have to be aware of a caveat or two.
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Let's kick things off with that GPU. HP doesn't list the TGP, which is a particular bugbear of mine, but some searching around suggests its a 140 W variant. That should be plenty powerful, especially when paired with a 1200p screen.
Yes, I can hear the complaints already. What, no 1600p? But the truth is, even the RTX 5070 Ti mobile can struggle at that resolution without some DLSS and Multi Frame Generation assistance, whereas 1200p is a much easier ask. Plus, I've tested plenty of 16-inch gaming laptops with 1200p screen, and the truth is that games (and just about everything else) look lovely once you've squeezed things down to a laptop panel size.
The CPU is excellent, too. It's an eight-core 16-thread Ryzen chip that should have no issues at all for gaming, and it's not exactly underpowered for productivity, either. Sure, an Intel chip with many, many cores might beat it out for task-based performance, but I'd still rate the mobile Ryzen chips as great all-round performers in virtually any scenario.
The RAM's a little meagre though, I will admit, at just 16 GB. Plus, it's only got a tiny little SSD, a mere 512 GB. That's not a lot of room on a modern machine, so out of the box you'd need to be very careful with how many games you have installed at once.
Luckily, both the RAM and the NVMe drive are easy to upgrade, and they're still relatively cheap components to stick in at a later date. We're currently finding great deals on SSD drives, too, so you could quite happily pick one up at the same time and still come in cheaper than just about every other similarly-equipped laptop on the market.
It's the best price on an RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop I've found to date, and that's made my morning very pleasant indeed. A handsome machine with good components for a mega price? This Prime Day's got some good omens going on right from the get-go, hasn't it?
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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 17-inch:
Gigabyte Aorus 17X
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