It’s not too often that I do a double-take when looking at a deal, but today it happened. What caused the unexpected reaction is a deeply discounted ASUS ROG gaming laptop that’s brimming with desirable features, such as a fast OLED display powered by Intel’s flagship Meteor Lake processor, the Core 9 Ultra 285H. The rest of the specs look good, too.
Let’s start with the display. It’s a 16-inch OLED panel, which is a sweet amenity at this price. It’s made even sweeter with its fast 240Hz refresh rate, 2560×1600 resolution, and NVIDIA G-SYNC support to keep the action smooth and tear-free.
The Core 9 Ultra 285H is, as mentioned, the top Meteor Lake SKU with a 16C/22T config, up to a 5.1GHz clock speed, and 24MB of L3 cache. This laptop also features a GeForce RTX 4070 GPU, 16GB of LPDDR5X-6400 RAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 solid state drive (SSD), Thunderbolt 4 connectivity, an HDMI 2.1 port, two USB 3.2 Type-C ports, two USB 3.2 Type-A ports, Wi-Fi 6E support, and various other odds and ends. Simply put, this is a lot of laptop for the money.
It’s also a respectable configuration for the money. It features a 15.6-inch display with a 1920×1080 resolution and 144Hz refresh rate, which is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 7435HS processor (8C/16T, 3.1GHz to 4.5GHz, 16MB L3 cache), 16GB of DDR5-4800 RAM, a GeForce RTX 4060 8GB GPU, and 512GB SSD.
While not the fastest machine on the block, it’s a good value at $799.99 and is a capable machine for school work, lighter weight gaming, and so forth.
Here are a few more gaming laptop deals…
- 18″ ASUS ROG Strix (1600p@240Hz, i9-14900HX, RTX 4080, 32GB/2TB): $2,249.99 (save $350)
- MSI Stealth 16 AI (FHD+@165Hz, Ultra 9 185H, RTX 4070, 32GB/1TB): $1,849.99 (save $150)
- Alienware m16 R2 (1440@240Hz, Ultra 9 185H, RTX 4070, 32GB/1TB): $1,699.99 (save $400)
- 16″ Lenovo Legion Pro 5i (1600p@165Hz, i9-14900HX, RTX 4070, 32GB/2TB): $1,699.99 (save $200)
- ASUS ROG Zephyrus G14 (3K OLED, Ryzen 9 8945HS, RTX 4060, 16GB/1TB): $1,299.99 (save $300)
- 15.6″ ASUS TUF Gaming (1080p@144Hz, i7-13620H, RTX 4070, 16GB/1TB): $1,049.99 (save $350)
- 16.1″ HP Omen (1080p@165Hz, i9-13900HX, RTX 4060, 16GB/1TB): $999.99 (save $400)
- 15.6″ Acer Nitro V (1080p@144Hz, Ryzen 5 7535HS, RTX 4050, 16GB/512GB): $699.99 (save $250)