This Acer gaming laptop delivers a ton of bang for your buck with a 2000p 165 Hz display, a proper RTX 4070, and 32 GB of DDR5 for $1,500

Acer Predator Triton Neo 16 | RTX 4070 | Core Ultra 9 185H | 16-inch | 2000p | 165 Hz | 32 GB DDR5 | 1 TB SSD | $1,899.99$1,499.99 at Amazon (save $400)
Let's start with a caveat—the chassis here isn't the best-looking we've seen. 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 $1549.99

Sometimes I feel like the magnificent Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 has ruined other laptop chassis designs for me. It's a milled aluminium wonder and makes just about every other slim 16-inch laptop look lesser by comparison.

That being said, while this Acer Predator Triton Neo 16 is less of a looker, the components you get inside are well worth the money—especially when you can find it at a discount for $1,500 at Amazon. It might not be quite as stunning to behold, but what you get here is seriously tempting for the cash.

Let's start out with one of the most important components in a gaming laptop build—the GPU. It's a proper 140 W RTX 4070, which is pretty impressive given that this is still quite a slim and portable laptop design. 

The other most important component, I would argue, is the screen. There's no point pushing a load of glorious gaming pixels if the display's a bit of a turkey, but you should have no such worries here. This is a 2000p LED backlit IPS panel, with a 165 Hz refresh rate. Again, it's not going to be as gorgeous or as fast as the OLED display in the Asus, but it's still plenty speedy and very well-specced.

That 3200 x 2000 resolution might be a bit much for even a full-strength mobile RTX 4070, but you can always drop it down a touch, or lean on DLSS 3 and the wonders of Frame Generation to pump it full of frames at a decent rate. 

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