Temperatures are dropping as we barrel towards the holidays, and that means the early Black Friday deals are heating up as retailers try to entice you to start shopping.
I know because I cover laptops for a living here at Tom's Guide, and I just spotted the best deal I've seen all year on a modern RTX 5080 gaming laptop. The Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is $2,399 at B&H right now, which is a whopping $1,100 off the usual $3,599 asking price for this svelte gaming machine.
Sure, it still costs a pretty penny, but by shaving over a thousand bucks off the price tag B&H has chopped this high-end gaming laptop down to the lowest price I've ever seen it.
So if you've been meaning to upgrade your gaming laptop or if you have an enthusiastic PC game fan in your life who you really want to spoil, this is the best opportunity I've seen all year to do it. I know because I wrote our Lenovo Legion Pro 7i review earlier this year, and it was the most fun I've ever had doing my job.
You can read the review to see why I say so since I walk you through my experience with it and the results of our lab testing, which reveal this beastly gaming machine delivers great performance in even the best Steam games (like Apex Legends, Cyberpunk 2077 or Red Dead Redemption 2) without breaking a sweat.
That's thanks to the Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 laptop GPU that are packed inside the Legion Pro 7i's slim black chassis. They work together with the 32GB of RAM to let you run as many games as you can fit on the 2TB of SSD storage at great framerates on the 16-inch (2560 x 1600) 240Hz OLED display.
I've been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and for my money there's no upgrade worth splurging on more than a quality OLED screen because it makes everything you do on the laptop (from games to movies to photos) look better thanks to its striking contrasts, vibrant colors and inky blacks. And since this Lenovo's OLED supports HDR and Nvidia G-Sync you can count on great gaming experiences that are buttery-smooth at up to 240 frames per second.
You get a very useful array of ports on this beauty to boot, including USB-A and USB-C as well as HDMI 2.1 for gaming on a big screen and an RJ-45 Ethernet jack for plugging into wired Internet. And when you can't secure that kind of speed, you can fall back on the Wi-Fi 7 support for wireless gaming on the go.
Just be sure to pack the charger if you take this beast out for a jaunt, because (like most gaming laptops) it doesn't last long on battery power—roughly 90 minutes while gaming or 4-5 hours while browsing the web.
But power efficiency isn't why we rank the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i among the best gaming laptops on Earth. No, it's because this is the first gaming laptop I've ever reviewed that genuinely feels like a desktop replacement—and right now you can score one for the lowest price I've ever seen.
I doubt this high-end gaming laptop will get any cheaper by Black Friday, so it's probably a good idea to buy now if you want one!
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