For one of the best gaming laptop deals around — and one I’m personally tempted by — check out what Walmart has to offer. Right now, you can buy the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i for just $2,000. It normally costs $2,650 thanks to its high-end hardware, but right now you can save $650 and score a gaming laptop that will last you a long time to come. One of the best laptop deals around, let’s take a look at why you’ll love it.
Lenovo is one of the best gaming laptop brands out there and one that I have used extensively in the past. Its Legion range is the one to check out for gaming, and it’s always consistently great. With this Lenovo Legion Pro 7i, you get a 14th-generation Intel Core i9-14900HX CPU with 16GB of RAM and 1TB of SSD storage space. There’s also an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4080 graphics card, so you’re in great hands for some high-end gaming.
Granted, we would have liked to have seen more RAM at this price, but other than that the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is pretty well specced. It’s sure to rival many of the best gaming laptops. That’s even more the case when you look at its screen. It has a 16-inch WQXGA display with a 240Hz refresh rate, so it looks fantastic. Its size means it’s not the most portable of gaming laptops, but it does mean it works well as a desktop replacement. If you’re a student or have a small apartment, this could be a great space saving option.
The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i also has all the other essentials like a great looking backlit keyboard with a subtle gamer aesthetic, along with a webcam for any time you need to take video calls on the move. Ultimately though, the big highlight is its RTX 4080 GPU.
Usually $2,650, the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is down to $2,000 right now at Walmart. That $650 discount won’t be there forever, so if you’re keen to snag a 4080 GPU for less and don’t mind the average amount of RAM, grab it 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.