Acer Nitro V 16 AI 16” WUXGA IPS 180Hz Gaming Laptop, AMD Ryzen AI 5 240 Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 with 8GB GDDR7 VRAM, 16GB RAM, 512GB PCIe Gen 4 SSD, Obsidian Black

Really good laptop for the price, the performance is solid and the screen looks great once everything is set up. You do have to update the graphics and CPU drivers though because out of the box some people get screen flickering. That's just a driver issue not hardware. After updates it runs perfectly.

I picked this up at the beginning of November, when it dropped to just $629 and wow, I am thoroughly impressed. The RTX 5050 punches way above its weight class and with the added 2GB of VRAM (8 total) vs the last generation 50 series, it's probably the best leap in the whole Nvidia stack. I have been running a bunch of benchmarks and helping out a friend's channel (GoodTalkHQ) on YouTube. It's an impressive laptop as long as you realize the charger is only 135W and in 2 of the 4 power profiles, the laptop will send more power to the components than what the charger can provide, this will cause some battery drain while gaming even while plugged in. If you keep the laptop in the balanced power mode though, you lose only a little performance wise, and the battery drain issue is resolved. Check out GoodTalkHQ on YouTube to see how the laptop performs in modern more demanding games!