If I was buying one gaming laptop this Prime Day, it'd be this glorious 240 Hz RTX 4080 Asus M16 for $1,800

Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 | RTX 4080 | Core i9 13900H | 16-inch | 1600p | 240 Hz | 16 GB DDR5 4800 | 1 TB SSD | $2,299.99$1,899.99 at Best Buy (save $400)
While we're huge fans of the brand new G16, the slightly older M16 is still a lovely, lovely thing. This is a properly portable, fantastic-looking gaming powerhouse, with an RTX 4080 providing some serious GPU performance and a beefy Intel Core i9 13900H delivering tons of processing power. It might be slightly older now, but the tech hasn't changed much and I'd have one of these in a heartbeat.

Price check: Asus $2,799.99

We've been finding some superb gaming laptop deals over this Prime Day sales period, and I've been like a kid in a candy store picking out the best ones. But, with my hand on my heart, I can say that this one makes my wallet itch more than all the others.

We're huge fans of the Zephyrus G16 here at PC Gamer, but this ever-so-slightly older Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 is still a truly beautiful thing. And I've found an RTX 4080 version for $1,900 at Best Buy, which is a very good price for any RTX 4080 gaming laptop.

But what you'll usually find in a laptop sporting this GPU for this sort of money—if you can find one at all—is a big, hulking bruiser of a machine, more suited as a desktop replacement than something you can shove in your bag. But this super-slim and svelte lappy is all things to all gaming laptops—it's properly portable, fabulously good-looking, and an absolute powerhouse of gaming performance.

Take another look at that sleek, black chassis. Not only does it look more than professional enough to pull out in a meeting, but it contains a set of gaming components that'll allow it to outpace most other gaming laptops by a country mile. You get a Core i9 13900H, still one of the fastest CPUs you can cram in a laptop chassis, along with 16 GB of DDR5-4800. 

That's not the fastest or the largest amount of RAM in the world, but still perfectly decent even compared to brand new machines—and unlike the