While gaming laptops used to be really big and bulky and made life quite a bit difficult, modern gaming laptops are nice, sleek, and surprisingly powerful under the hood. While they are still expensive, they aren’t prohibitively so, and you can find a lot of great deals to save you quite a bit. For example, this Lenovo Legion Pro 7 has an excellent RTX 4090 mobile under the hood, and you can grab it from Lenovo for just $2,604, rather than the usual $3,500 it goes for. That’s a whopping $896 in savings you’re getting, so it’s well worth grabbing if you want one of the best gaming laptops on the market.
The Lenovo Legion Pro 7 is a paired-down version of the Legion Pro 7i, but there really isn’t a ton of difference, and that’s obvious given that the Legion Pro 7 still runs the powerful RTX 4090 mobile. That’s roughly equivalent to a desktop RTX 4080 in terms of power, so you’ll easily be able to push the 16-inch, 2560 x 1600 resolution screen close to its limits. The screen can even handle a whopping 240Hz refresh rate, although you may have to make some graphical compromises if you want to hit that, even with the powerful GPU.
As for the CPU, you get an AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX, one of the most powerful processors on the market, and it will easily handle gaming, creative tasks, and even streaming if you want to get into that. The 32GB of DDR5 RAM will also help give you a smoother experience, and if you’re the sort of person who does programming or CAD work, then it will help there, too. Finally, the 2TB of storage space will be more than enough, especially if you supplement it with one of these external hard drive deals for non-gaming files.
Overall, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7 is probably one of the best laptops on the market, and the discount from Lenovo that brings it down to $2,604 makes it an absolute steal. Even so, if you’d like a couple more options to check out, these gaming laptop deals are worth looking at.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.