Best Buy often has some great gaming PC deals, with one highlight available today: Right now, you can buy the iBuyPower Trace 7 gaming PC for $1,000 instead of $1,300. The PC includes the RTX 4060 GPU, so it’s ideal for mid-range gaming. It even comes with a keyboard and mouse, so you only need to make sure you have a screen to add to it. If you’re looking to upgrade your gaming PC for less, here’s what it has to offer.
You won’t see anything from iBuyPower in our look at the best gaming PCs, but don’t let that discourage you. This is still a good option for those on a budget. This particular model has great hardware for the price. It has an AMD Ryzen 7 5700 CPU teamed up with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage. More pivotal for a gaming PC is its graphics card: a GeForce RTX 4060 with 8GB of VRAM.
Those are all the core specs you could need for some quality mid-range gaming. It’s also contained within a great looking case. The iBuyPower Trace 7 has a side window so you can easily see all your components as they work away. iBuyPower has designed it so it looks stylish, and great cable management keeps things looking good. It also has RGB fans installed along with a tower air fan, so cooling is great but also looks good too.
All iBuyPower PCs are hand assembled, so you’re in safe hands, and the iBuyPower Trace 7 also comes with a mouse and keyboard. While you probably want to upgrade those to the best gaming keyboards and the best gaming mice, it’s still a useful starting point while you figure out what setup you like. Just remember to add on one of the best gaming monitors and you’re all set. Don’t worry about spending too much, but do check out the full HD or 1440p models.
Usually $1,300, the iBuyPower Trace 7 is currently down to $1,000 at Best Buy, which is a pretty good price for a mid-range gaming PC. The $300 discount won’t be around forever, so if it sounds good to you, check it out now before you miss out.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.
Google DeepMind's AI world model Genie 4 can now build interactive worlds that you can explore and reshape as they run. It also generates ambient sounds, music, and dialogue that respond to your actions.
The new world model builds on Genie 3 with improved realism, more natural human movement, and better simulations of real-world physics. It could eventually help with everything from game development to training robots.
Apple has an incredible talent for making me admire its products while simultaneously questioning what on earth it's thinking with the pricing. This isn't even something as bizarre as a monitor stand, but the audacity for starting a new laptop lineup from $2,000 doesn't surprise me.
The newly announced 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 is just the latest to showcase this. The funny thing is, I already know that it's going to be a reliable workstation. You get a powerful new 2nm M6 processor, a gorgeous Liquid Retina XDR display, and up to 24 hours of battery life. We were impressed by the M5 MacBook Air, so the high-end M6 powered MacBook Pro definitely won't let us down.