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This mighty Asus RTX 5060 laptop is a real deal now that it’s $290 off

Well, well, well… if it isn’t the best gaming laptop deal we’ve seen in a while. The Asus TUF Gaming F16 is a powerhouse 16-inch machine that’s normally $1,539.99, but Best Buy currently has it for just $1,249.99. That’s a smooth $290 discount that puts it on par (price-wise) with far lesser laptops, except you’ll love the specs in this one.

First off, the Asus TUF Gaming F16 has a gorgeous 16-inch IPS display with accurate colors that look great whether you’re gaming or streaming Netflix. The 1920×1200 resolution is crisp and roomy while the speedy 165Hz refresh rate is smooth for high-frame-rate games. It isn’t the brightest with 300 nits, but that’s more than enough indoors.

The crowning glory of this machine is the Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU, which is worth every penny as a budget-friendly access point for Nvidia’s DLSS 4 features including multi-frame generation. Combined with the powerful Intel Core i7-14650HX processor and the chunky 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM, you’ll be gaming like a king and handling everything else (e.g., Windows 11, Chrome, YouTube, Office) without choking.

Cap it off with a PCIe Gen 4 SSD with 1TB of capacity plus a surprising number of ports (1x HDMI 2.1, 2x USB-C, 3x USB-A 3.2, Ethernet, and 3.5mm audio) and you have a versatile device that’s able to do anything and everything you need of it. It’ll last you years, for sure.