Best gaming laptops for [Year]?

Hey everyone! I'm looking to pick up a gaming laptop and this one caught my eye
, so I wanted to get your take on it.

I'm wondering if it's actually worth dropping this much cash on this specific model, or if I should just find something around $1,200 with the same GPU. Is the graphics card really the main thing to focus on here? Thanks a lot.

Look, if you're eyeing high-end gaming laptops north of $1,000 $0.00, you're probably overpaying. You can almost always build a much more powerful desktop setup—monitor and all—for significantly less cash. Plus, those laptops lose their resale value faster than you can blink. But, if your goal is strictly heavy-duty gaming, the GPU is the one component that really matters.

I see there’s a laptop with an RTX 3060 for $2400 and up... click

Now, this specific model is a step up from the standard versions; it features a high refresh rate screen, a beefier processor, and a combo of NVMe SSD plus HDD storage. You really need to decide if that extra hardware is worth it for you. An RTX 3060 isn't exactly a powerhouse designed for ultra-high refresh rates, unless we're talking about titles like League of Legends or CS:GO, which are usually what people are aiming for when they buy these types of monitors.

Unfortunately, my job keeps me away from home way too often, so a laptop is really my only move here..
What I’m mostly trying to figure out is if gaming performance stays about the same if I go with a laptop from $2500 that only has 8GB of RAM and a weaker processor, versus the one I mentioned for $4167 since they both have the same RTX 3060..

Thx 🙂

In 95% of cases, you really ought to have