If you’re looking to save some money on a gaming laptop, you’re in luck. Best Buy’s selling the HP Omen 16 for $999.99 as an early Black Friday deal, which is a massive savings of $400.
This thing comes equipped with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050, which is powerful enough to run intense modern games on the Medium or High graphics preset, with performance pushing even higher in games that support Nvidia’s vaunted DLSS technology. It has a high refresh rate display as well as three vents and a five-way airflow system, which keeps things nice and cool during intense matches.
The HP Omen 16 features an Intel Core i7-13620H CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of SSD storage. The display is quite spacious at 16.1-inches with a resolution of 1920×1080 and a refresh rate of 144Hz. Gameplay should be smooth and the picture should be sharp enough for day-to-day productivity. The port selection is great, too. You’re getting one HDMI 2.1, three USB-A 3.2, and one USB-C 3.2. You can easily hook up to an external monitor, mouse, storage, and more.
This is a really good deal, but I don’t expect it to last much longer, so you better jump on it now while you can!
Author: Ashley Biancuzzo, Associate Editor, PCWorld
Ashley Biancuzzo manages all laptop and Chromebook coverage for PCWorld. She's been covering consumer tech since 2016, and her work has appeared on USA Today, Reviewed, Polygon, Kotaku, StarWars.com, and Nerdist. In her spare time, she enjoys playing video games, reading science fiction, and hanging out with her rescue greyhound.