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But one way you can lighten the load is to just start with a gaming laptop, which packs in everything you need to get started in PC gaming without all the extra pieces. Of course, gaming laptops can be expensive, too, but plenty of budget options also exist.

If you figured Amazon Prime Day would be a good time of year to upgrade your gaming laptop, then you guessed correctly. Surprisingly however, Amazon isn't necessarily the best retailer with the best Prime Day gaming laptop deals.

Here’s a giant saving on the excellent Asus Vivobook S14, which is superb value at £459.99. The powerful but slim 14in laptop runs on the latest Snapdragon X Plus processor, giving it improved energy efficiency and an impressive 20-hour battery life, while the 16GB of RAM can comfortably handle multitasking the most demanding software.

We've found the best gaming laptop deals available in the Amazon Prime Day sale. Big savings on Acer, Alienware, ASUS and more.

Learn more› By The Deals Team The Deals team hunts for and highlights only the best discounts on picks made by our editorial experts. As Prime Day winds down, we’ve stopped our up-to-the-minute updates to this article.

You only have a short time remaining to cash in on Prime Day, as the big sale ends at midnight Friday night. We've got big price drops on high-end gaming PCs.

Apple and Samsung products are just some of the incredible tech deals offered during Amazon’s four-day Prime Day sale event.

The display measures in at 15.6 inches and is a touchscreen so you can choose to operate your laptop like you would a tablet with support for pinch, tap, and swipe controls. The screen has a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It’s flicker-free with an anti-glare panel so its comfortable to look at for extended periods.