Best Gaming Laptops 2025: Tested, benchmarked and reviewed

This article has links to laptops with (deceptively) lower specs than those reviewed ie aorus links to a laptop with only 16gb ram a lot of buyers might miss that sort of change especially when the model number remains the same.
 
It'd be nice if in these gaming laptop reviews you included some information about the temps the CPU reached during testing. I've had many cooling problems with gaming laptops, often making certain games unplayable despite the GPU / CPU being capable of running it.
 
The laptop world is a perfect example of price mongering.

Go to any decent BestBuy in large city. There you will find 3-4 distinct areas for the laptops: really large decent section of Chromebooks for $200, the Mac section with $1-2k, the standard Windows laptops for $0.5-1 k and the gaming section starting with $2k and goes to $5k and even 8k. You will scratch your head thinking how manufacturers succeeded with $200 Chromebooks and what is so special inside the game laptops to cost $5000 ???

But those who are long with the PCs and knows how many processors are on a single wafer, how much TSMC charges for one wafer to develop, what are discounts when you buy processors by millions, how prices on new stuff quickly drop with time etc, understand that the only what makes the price difference between all of them is GPU which costs less than $100-200 to produce (the CPU itself is even much less than a $100). So the Bill-of-Materials (BoM) for the manufacturers of the most expensive game laptops is likely barely $1K at the most.

Then why these prices are that crazy (and do not forget to lift to feel the titanic weight of the Titan laptop!)? That reminds us that we are living at the times of AI Klondike, when the rivers of money flow into some hands of those who develop AI and the shops are fishing in the pockets of such people
 
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