As you get ready to finish up your first semester back at school, are you finding that you could use a new laptop and want one that also has some gaming chops? If so, take note that Dell's Alienware 16 Aurora with RTX 50 firepower is back on sale, with Walmart advertising a massive $900 discount. That's admittedly a bold claim, but there is still reason to take notice.
Alienware 16 Aurora Gaming Laptop Is $900.99 Off At Walmart
Right now, you can score Dell's Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop for $1,099 at Walmart. While the retail juggernaut advertises this as a $900 savings off the laptop's supposed $1,999.99 list price, which is quite ambitious for a system with a GeForce RTX 5050 GPU, the real value lies in its competitive positioning.
We took a look at Best Buy's lineup of gaming laptops and this is right around the least expensive models with the same discrete GPU. The only cheaper ones are a pair of Acer Nitro models, one of which is just $12 less expensive.
Alienware as a brand carries some cachet, so finding one priced competitively makes this all the more attractive. In addition to the GeForce RTX 5050, this setup is configured with an Intel Core 7 240H 'Raptor Lake' processor with 10 cores (six Performance cores clocked at 2.5GHz to 5.2GHz and four Efficient cores clocked at 1.8GHz to 4GHz), 16 threads, and 24MB of L3 cache.
Other specs include 16GB of RAM, a 512GB solid state drive (SSD), and a 16-inch display with a 2560x1600 resolution, 120Hz refresh rate, and 500 nits of brightness.
If you're not feeling this Alienware model for whatever reason but want to stay in this price range, here are some other options:
- Acer Nitro V (Core 7 240H, RTX 5050, 16GB/512GB): $999.99 (save $500)
- Acer Nitro V16 (Ryzen 5 240, RTX 5050, 16GB/512GB): $1,088 (save $172)
- Lenovo LOQ (Ryzen 7 170, RTX 5050, 16GB/512GB): $1,193 (save $306.99)
The RTX 5050 is fine for more casual gaming and gives you access to NVIDIA's suite of RTX goodies, such as real-time ray tracing and DLSS support, but if you want more graphics muscle, you'll need to shop models with a higher-end GPU. Here are some options:
- Lenovo LOQ (Ryzen 7 250, RTX 5060, 16GB/512GB): $1,199.99 (save $320)
- MSI Cyborg A15 (Ryzen 9 270, RTX 5060, 16GB/1TB): $1,339.99 (save $229.51)
- Gigabyte Gaming A16 (Core i7-13620H, RTX 5070, 16GB/512GB): $1,629 (save $700)
- MSI Vector 16 HX AI (Core Ultra 7 255HX, RTX 5070 Ti, 16GB/512GB): $1,780.99 (save $350)
Paul is a seasoned geek who cut this teeth on the Commodore 64. When he's not geeking out to tech, he's out riding his Harley and collecting stray cats.