Gaming laptops often have to balance form factor, weight, heat, and performance to try and give users a lightweight, portable powerhouse of a machine. It is something of an impossible task, but when you aren’t restricted to a specific budget you can eke out a pretty decent bit of performance and portability with fancy vapor chamber cooling systems and high-end components.
Budget gaming laptops, on the other hand, need to do all of that but without breaking the bank. Which is why you typically see budget gaming laptops repping last gen processors and low-end GPUs. They often come with less storage and less RAM as well to keep costs down. So when Lenovo announced a gaming laptop for under $800 I was pretty sceptical.
