It can seem a little doom-and-gloom when shopping for computers in the current climate. Trying to find a laptop that has your desired hardware specifications and doesn’t require selling your firstborn is getting harder and harder. Prices have been creeping up thanks to massive spikes in RAM and storage costs, with the AI boom sucking up all the manufacturing and stock resources. The future is uncertain, but what is currently available can sometimes be found with a decent discount. Best Buy is currently running a limited-time deal on Gigabyte’s Aero X16 gaming laptop with RTX 5060 graphics, and asking $1,199. This is a quick $100 saving off the usual $1,299 asking price.
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The Aero X16 is powered by a Ryzen AI 7 350 processor, which is based on AMD’s Zen 5 architecture. It has four Zen 5 cores and four Zen 5c cores, with a max boost of 5 GHz (3.5 GHz for the Zen 5c cores). Not only does it come with the powerful AMD processor, but it’s also packing dedicated graphics processing power, with Nvidia’s RTX 5060 laptop GPU with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM. A solid combination for chomping through the latest games and giving respectable frame rates on sensible settings.
Another boon to this budget laptop deal is the inclusion of a healthy amount of memory. This model of the Aero X16 comes with 32GB of precious DDR5 RAM installed. This alone gives this deal an advantage, as upgrading memory capacity has now become an extremely expensive affair.
The laptop’s native resolution on the 16-inch IPS panel is 2560 x 1600px. A very crisp resolution for a small screen that offers tight pixel density. The display has a max refresh rate of 165 Hz, with a 3 ms gray-to-gray response time, and 100% sRGB color space coverage. The screen also outputs a reasonable 400 nits of brightness, so the games and media can be easily viewed in both darkened and overly light environments.
As for physical ports, the laptop features plenty of connectivity with three USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports, a USB-C port (USB4), an HDMI 2.1 port, a GbE port, and a 3.5 mm headphone jack. For wireless connectivity, there’s Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2.
