The Getac X600 laptop offers a unique combination of a large display and powerful workstation-grade components in an almost indestructible enclosure for a staggeringly high price.
HP's All-in-One 24-cb1144z packs a likeable-enough loadout of a Ryzen CPU, twin drives, and plenty of RAM, but it needs a better, possibly bigger display to play in the near-$1,000 zone.
Acer's Predator Helios Neo 16 is a hefty budget gaming laptop that maximizes GPU performance for the money, which should appeal to power-hungry gamers less fixated on portability.
MSI's Raider GE68HX 13VF gaming laptop makes the most of an amped-up Core i9 CPU and a GeForce RTX 4060 GPU. Only a so-so screen keeps it from being a fiercer contender.