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Good gaming laptop deals are tough to find right now, but you can still pick up this beastly RTX 5080 machine with a $1,300 discount

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An HP Omen Max 16 RTX 5080 gaming laptop on a pink and white background
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HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop
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Actually this one is particularly good, as our Ian found in his HP Omen Max 16 review. The keyboard is great, too, and while this 16-inch machine isn't the smallest gaming laptop around, it's still slim enough to slip inside a backpack without too much issue.

Now, the downsides. Given all the high spec hardware inside, the Max 16 can be very noisy under load, and sometimes struggles to keep all of those components cool—which means it did throw the odd head-scratching performance figure in our testing. You can keep temps and noise in check with the Balanced performance profile in HP's software, but you will lose a fair bit of gaming performance as a result.

Luckily, this Omen Max 16 has such a lofty specs sheet that I'd say those quirks were worth putting up with, especially when you can find this portable gaming monster for hundreds of dollars cheaper than almost all of its nearest competition at the moment.

It's not a perfect machine, and it's not the cheapest deal I've found all year. But right now? It's the best of the lot, and a lappy worth some serious consideration. I'm no Nostradamus, but given what's happening to component prices overall at the moment, I'm expecting a tough 2026 for all hardware deals, cheap gaming laptops included. Dare I suggest it might be worth getting in while the going's still good?

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