Gaming laptop Black Friday 2022 deals

The best gaming laptop Black Friday 2021 deals: including the biggest gaming laptop Best Buy discounts and other retailers

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The festive season is just around the corner and we all know what that means – Black Friday gaming laptop sales are about to start.

It might be a few months away yet, but you’ll soon see big retailers start prepping for the biggest sales event of the year.

If you’re looking for the best value gaming laptop Black Friday 2022 deals, look no further. We’re combing all the big-name retailers to bring you the cream of gaming laptop Black Friday deals this November, across all categories and price points.

We’ve got all the best offers on 144Hz and 165Hz gaming laptops, 17 inch gaming laptop deals, 15 inch gaming laptop deals, all within premium, mid-range, and budget gaming laptop price categories. We’ll be covering all the major gaming laptop brands including Acer, ASUS, Razer, Alienware, Dell, and Lenovo, as well as lesser-known brands such as Eluktronics, XMG, and the like.

Due to last year’s competitiveness, we saw several retailers offering Black Friday price match guarantees on gaming laptops. This meant that if the price dropped further between the purchase date and the close of Black Friday on retailer-specific gaming laptop Black Friday deals, you wouldn’t miss out.

Whether this will be the same this time around is yet to be known, but it’s always worth keeping your eyes peeled for similar deals this time around.

If you’re a first-time gaming laptop Black Friday buyer, have a scan of our Black Friday gaming laptop FAQ section at the foot of the page which should hopefully answer all your burning questions.

Top gaming laptop deals in 2022

While Black Friday is still a few months away, that doesn’t mean our deals team is in hibernation – quite the contrary. We’ve been scouring the web to find the best deals on offer so you can save big any time of year.

With Labor Day just coming to a close, there are still lingering deals on the table that are certainly worth your time and consideration

Below we have listed some of the best gaming laptop deals available right now:

• HP ZBook Studio G8 –  Intel Core i7 & NVIDIA T1200 – was $4,238, now $2,119
• GIGABYTE AERO 16″ 4K AMOLED – Intel i9-12900HK, RTX 3080 Ti, 32GB RAM, 2TB SSD – was $4,299.99 now $3,499.99
• GIGABYTE AERO 16″ 4K AMOLED – Intel i7-12700H, RTX 3070 Ti, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD – was $2,449.99 now $1,799.99
• Dell XPS 15 3.5K OLED Touch-Screen – 12th Gen Intel Core i9, 32GB RAM, RTX 3050 Ti, 1TB SSD – was $2,799.99, now $2,399.99
• Dell XPS 15 3.5K OLED Touch-Screen – 12th Gen Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, RTX 3050 Ti, 1TB SSD – was $2,499.99, now $2,149.99
• Samsung Galaxy Book Pro 360 13.3″ AMOLED Touch-Screen Laptop – Intel Evo Core i7, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD – was $1,399.99, now $1,199.99

Where to find the best gaming laptop deals for Black Friday 2022?

With Black Friday just around the corner, we’re already starting to see plenty of deals go live on some of the industry’s biggest retailers. With so many deals to cover, here’s a shortlist of all the retailers we’ll be using to find the best laptop Black Friday deals in 2022.

Black Friday gaming laptop deals: Retailer shortlist

Last year’s Black Friday gaming laptop deals

Last year’s best gaming laptop Black Friday 2021 deals

Below we’ve relisted our pick of all the best gaming laptop Black Friday 2021 deals.

Keep checking back as we will be adding new deals as they appear between now and the close of Black Friday itself on November 26th. This expandable list (simply click Load More) includes the full list of gaming laptop Black Friday 2021 deals, so you may find it more helpful to instead look in the various subcategories below to find the best deal on the type of gaming laptop you are looking for.

Last year’s premium gaming laptop Black Friday 2021 deals: Acer gaming laptops, ASUS gaming laptops, MSI and more

The best gaming laptop deals for you last Black Friday really depended on your budget, and your requirements. If you weren’t sure what to look for in a gaming laptop, we recommended checking out our Best gaming laptop, Best gaming laptop under $2,500, under $2,000, under $1,500, and under $1,000 to see what we rate as the best in each of these price categories.

We expected to see some great deals on the biggest names such as ASUS and Acer in particular, which offer both high-end gaming laptops like the ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 and the higher specced Acer Predator Triton 500.

Razer and Alienware gaming laptops still offer superb display and build quality for a premium price, so Black Friday 2021 was the ideal opportunity to pick one of these up at a discount. MSI is another brand that specializes in mid-to-high-end laptops for gaming, and the MSI GE76 Raider (17″, 1080p) is one of the best gaming laptops we’ve tested if you’re looking for something high-end.

Last year’s best mid-range gaming laptop Black Friday deals 2021

The ASUS ROG Strix G15 Advantage Edition is our pick for best mid-range gaming laptop, already offering great value even at its normal MSRP, and we’ve already seen some discounts on it from some retailers.

Last year’s best budget gaming laptop Black Friday deals 2021

Besides their premium models, Acer have more budget-friendly offerings such as the Acer Nitro 5 Gaming Laptop. Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptops, such as the Lenovo Legion 5 with a GTX 1650 Ti GPU, also offer solid budget gaming performance.

When will the best Black Friday Gaming laptop deals start in 2022?

The biggest deals across most retailers will begin on November 25th, 2022.

With that in mind, it won’t be long before we start seeing retailers and brands go live with early Black Friday laptop deals.

Like always, we will carry out a continuous search looking for the very best deals over the coming weeks, ensuring you get the perfect gaming laptop deal for the festive period.

How to get the best Black Friday deals in 2022

We always get asked a lot of questions between now and the run-up to Black Friday, but how to get the best laptop deals is easily one of the biggest.

With Black Friday being one of the busiest times of the year, we like to share out tricks of the trade so you can get the best gaming laptop deals on the web.

For me, doing your research prior to Black Friday is one of the most important steps you can take.

Firstly, get a better understanding of market price – this will enable you to dictate which deals are good and which deals aren’t worth your time.

Secondly, make a list of requirements for your gaming needs and be sure to stick to these when searching for Black Friday gaming laptop deals. With so many deals to choose from on Black Friday, you don’t want to be swayed into a more expensive purchase when the deals start to land.

Finally, we recommend bookmarking this page and keeping an eye on our daily deals pages as we’ll be rounding up all the best Black Friday laptop deals each day has to offer. You won’t miss a thing.

Things to consider when looking for a Black Friday gaming laptop deal

Like any hardware purchase, learning what the main features of a laptop are will ultimately enable you to make a more informed decision come Black Friday.

If you’re after a gaming laptop deal:

• The maximum refresh rate of the display should be 100Hz minimum (particularly when playing shooters)
• Seek the most powerful GPU & CPU you can afford
• a minimum of 16GB RAM is recommended
• if you’re going to be using headphones then speaker quality may be less important

Black Friday gaming laptop deals FAQs

Are there good gaming laptop deals on Black Friday?

Black Friday always plays host to some absolutely fanastic deals around this time of year – especially on laptops.

Big brands like Acer, Razer, Gigabyte, and ASUS all feature big deals on high-end laptops – with expectations for Black Friday 2022 being very similar.

Where to find the best gaming laptop deals?

Gaming laptop Black Friday deals can be found across the web, but which retailers produce the biggest savings?

Well, it’s safe to say that Amazon will feature some of the biggest offers when it comes to this year’s Black Friday. Alternatively, Best Buy, Walmart, and others will also feature excellent discounts on some of the year’s most prestigious products.

What size price reductions can I expect during Black Friday on gaming laptops?

The short and unhelpful answer to this is: it depends. Some brands are less likely to have deals on than others, and older generation gaming laptops are more likely to be reduced than newer tech, though you don’t necessarily need the very latest machine to play the latest games. It’s not unheard of to see up to 40% off on some rare items, but the majority of gaming laptop Black Friday deals tend to be between 10% – 30% off. Still, if you’re forking out on a premium or even mid-range gaming laptop, this can be a difference of hundreds of dollars – quite the saving! All-in-all, there’s no doubt that Black Friday (and the weeks before it) is the best time of the year to get the best price on a gaming laptop deal.

What stock levels can I expect on gaming laptops during Black Friday 2021?

Although the global silicon shortage has affected a whole host of electronic products, gaming laptops have been spared the worst of it. An RTX 3080 gaming laptop for instance is much easier to get hold of than a standalone RTX 3080 graphics card, and this applies to the rest of the 30-series GPUs and also the latest AMD GPU gaming laptops. That being said, demand for gaming laptops is growing all the time, and as they are expensive items, we can expect to see the best deals be snapped up quickly, so we’d advise jumping on them before everyone else does, especially if the deal in question comes with a Black Friday price match guarantee.