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Save $350 on the HP Victus during Best Buy's Black Friday event
The HP Victus was featured on my list of the best cheap gaming laptops, and during Best Buy's Black Friday sale event this week, you can save $350 on the 15-inch model. That brings the price of this gaming laptop to just $450, making it a great choice for anyone looking to cross a gamer off their holiday shopping list or upgrade their gaming laptop on-the-cheap.
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HP includes an Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 GPU and a screen capable of a 144Hz refresh rate for buttery smooth action during fast-paced or action-heavy scenes in your favorite games. Additionally, this laptop uses an advanced technique for cooling the computer as hot air is blown out of the bottom of the laptop to ensure the computer maintains a good temperature while you game.
With 8GB of high-speed dedicated memory and an AMD Ryzen 5 7000 series processor, this system has quick speeds and the ability to put the power to where your system needs it most. But, you'd think with all the powerful components in this laptop, the battery life would suffer. Wrong. This laptop features a battery that can last up to 8 hours and 15 minutes while being able to be charged up to 50% in as little as 30 minutes.
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Lastly, if you plan on plugging accessories into this laptop, you're in luck. On the side of this laptop there are: an ethernet port, 2x USB Type-A Superspeed ports, a USB-C port, and HDMI inout, a combo audio jack, and an SD card reader. This HP Victus 15 has only seen a price this low once in the last four months, so Amazon knew that Black Friday was the best time to change that.