Black Friday gaming laptop deals are here, and with them come some of the lowest prices I've ever seen on new generation devices. RTX 5060 machines are dropping under $1,000 and top-shelf RTX 5080 configurations of the best gaming laptops I've tested so far are seeing three-figure price cuts this week. And we're still two days away from the main event.
I was covering Black Friday before 'RTX' was even a thing, clocking in with years of experience hunting down the biggest price cuts on the highest value machines. I started out with our sister site TechRadar, where my entire day job was deal hunting. These days I spend a lot more time hands-on with the newest releases, benchmarking, working, and playing with all the year's biggest releases to find the best of the bunch.
Quick links
- Amazon: Acer from $579.99
- Best Buy: HP from $549.99
- Dell: Alienware from $899.99
- HP: Omen from $699.99
- Lenovo: Legion from $779.99
- Newegg: MSI from $679.99
- Razer: Blade from $1,449.99
- Walmart: Asus from $599
UK:
- Amazon: Asus from £589.99
- Currys: Lenovo from £599
- Dell: Alienware from £699
- Ebuyer: Medion from £499.99
- Very: HP from £679
The best Black Friday gaming laptop deals
Should you buy a gaming laptop on Black Friday?
If you're in need of a new machine, Black Friday is a fantastic time to take the leap. This is generally when I see gaming laptops dropping to their lowest prices of the year, and while other categories like controllers, headsets, and mice might return to these record-lows in the months afterward, laptops hit different.
These rigs are cheapest right at the end of the year, when both retailers and brands are preparing to unleash a whole new batch in January. CES marks the first we'll hear of new generation machines, and sales on these then-older rigs will slow. Stores like to get ahead of this, dropping prices on the year's best and brightest in order to make room for the next generation.
Black Friday is absolutely the best time to buy a gaming laptop, I've always waited for holiday sales before upgrading and never regretted it.
Live updates
OLED displays are better than ever this year
2025 isn't just the year of the RTX 50-Series, it's also the first time I've seen OLED displays adorning the majority of gaming laptop releases. These high-end panels were previously reserved for only the most expensive machines on the market, but they're sitting on rigs as cheap as $1,200 these days. If you're going all in on immersion and don't want to hook up to an external monitor it's well worth keeping an eye out.
