If you thought the Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals (opens in new tab) were going to be a pale shadow of what was on offer on Black Friday then I’ve got news for you. In fact, I’ve got one of the best laptop deals we’ve had this year for you: this Asus RTX 3070 ultra-portable for just $1,000 at Best Buy (opens in new tab).
The Asus TUF Dash 15 was launched as part of Intel’s ultra-portable initiative that paired lightweight processors with quality graphics cards in order to deliver machines that were thinner and cheaper than their standard counterparts with chonkier CPUs inside them.
But that’s not what we’ve got here. Yes, it’s still the same relatively slimline Dash 15 chassis, but here the RTX 3070 has been paired with a genuine 12th Gen Core i7 CPU, with ten cores and 16 threads of Alder Lake processing power. This is no productivity wallflower, in other words.
It’s also rocking 16GB of DDR5-4800 memory, too, as well as a 512GB SSD. That’s probably the weakest part of the package, in all honesty, but it is relatively simple to take the back off the laptop and stick a new SSD inside. It’s got a second NVMe slot just waiting to take an extra SSD, which means you don’t need to mess around with the boot drive if you want a bit of extra space to store your games.
Because this is, at heart, a gaming laptop and that RTX 3070 running at 105W will happily run any game you care to throw at its 144Hz 1080p display. There’s also a 76WHr battery in there, which ought to keep it running relatively well away from the plug socket. Well, as long as any gaming laptop can keep it’s GPU going on battery anyways.
All told, that makes this a fantastic Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal for anyone with a tight $1,000 budget. And means if you’d held off buying a machine on Black Friday, but were worried you’d somehow missed out, you don’t need to worry anymore.
BUT, if you can stretch that budget a little more, and aren’t wedded to some weird anti-AMD ideology, then there’s another Asus rig that will deliver more gaming power for just $100 more.
It’s a chunkier machine, and that eight-core Ryzen 9 CPU doesn’t have the productivity chops of the 12th Gen Alder Lake chip in the Dash 15, but that Radeon RX 6800M is the real notebook GPU deal. It can deliver RTX 3070 Ti levels of gaming performance, comfortably beating the RTX 3070 in this other machine.
Where are the best Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals?
- Amazon – RTX 3050 laptops from Acer and Dell starting at $650 (opens in new tab)
- Asus – high-end ROG Zephyrus 14 with Ryzen 9 and RTX 3060 at Best Buy (opens in new tab)
- MSI – RTX 3080 gaming laptops up to $200 off at Newegg (opens in new tab)
- gigabyte – up to 50% off Gigabyte gaming laptops at Newegg (opens in new tab)
- Walmart – cheap Gateway laptops. Remember them?! (opens in new tab)
- B&H Photo – up to $500 off Lenovo, Asus, & MSI gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
- target – sub-$1,000 gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
- Staples – up to $300 off MSI gaming notebooks (opens in new tab)
- Lenovo – $1,000+ discounts on Legion laptops (opens in new tab)
- Razer – discounts on Razer Blade laptops, our favorite notebooks (opens in new tab)
- Newegg – $500+ off RTX 30 series gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
- Best Buy – save up to $500 on gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
- Microsoft – up to half price on last-gen laptops (opens in new tab)
- Dell – save over $300 on Dell and Alienware gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
- RTX 3060 – Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 |
$1,399.99$899.99 at Best Buy (save $500) (opens in new tab) - RTX 3070 – Asus TUF Dash 15 |
$1,499.99$999.99 at Best Buy (save $500) (opens in new tab) - RTX 3070 Ti – Gigabyte Aero 16 XE4 |
$1,499.99$1,309.99 at Newegg (save $190) (opens in new tab) - RTX 3080 – Asus Zephyrus G15 |
$1,999.99$1,699.99 at Best Buy (save $300) (opens in new tab) - RX 6800M – Asus ROG Strix G15 |
$1,699.99$1,099.99 at Best Buy (save $600) (opens in new tab)