Two highly effective, OLED-equipped gaming laptops are a whole lot off

Whether you’re contemplating a 16-inch gaming laptop computer, or a extra compact 14-inch mannequin, there’s a take care of your title on it occurring proper now at Best Buy. The 2025 fashions of Acer’s Predator Helios Neo 16S and the Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 are a whole lot off, though it’s the mannequin with the larger display screen that’s at the moment the cheaper of the 2. The sale on the Neo 16S will expire on the finish of the day, whereas the Zephyrus G14 low cost will possible be out there via President’s Day.

Starting with the favored Zephyrus G14, which has a 3K decision Pantone-validated OLED that may show as much as a 120Hz refresh price, you may get a high-end configuration at Best Buy for $1,899.99, down from its authentic value of $2,399.99. In addition to nice display screen specs, it has AMD’s Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor — one of many quickest out there on a laptop computer — plus Nvidia’s RTX 5070 Ti GPU with 12GB of VRAM, 32GB of LPDDR5 RAM clocked at 8,000MHz and a 1TB SSD. This mannequin is good for many who need to have the ability to play any 2026 title at nice body charges with none (or many) compromises to visible constancy.

For context on the worth, Best Buy is providing the step-down configuration for $100 much less, with a barely worse CPU, a considerably much less succesful GPU (the RTX 5060), and half the RAM. You’re getting loads of further energy with the discounted mannequin at $1,899.99.

The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S is larger and has a bigger OLED display screen, but on the entire it’s nonetheless pretty skinny for a gaming laptop computer. And, it begins at $1,469.99, down from $1,899.99 at Best Buy. It has comparable specs to the Zephyrus G14 — a succesful processor within the Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX, the RTX 5070 Ti, 32GB of DDR5 6,400MHz RAM, a 1TB SSD — however its 16-inch display screen is barely decrease res at 2560 x 1600 (albeit with a 240Hz refresh price) versus 2880 x 1800 within the Zephyrus G14. Either approach, you’ve received two nice potential upgrades to contemplate.