A good gaming laptop can set you back hundreds, and often even several thousand dollars. And the options for a gaming laptop that's actually good under $1,000 are not many. If you've been waiting on a good deal to get one,

With patience, you can score a nice machine from for under $1,000. You don’t even have to do the searching yourself, as we’ve found the perfect offer for you — the HP Omen 17z gaming laptop for only $950,

A superb display and funky keyboard, let down by poor battery life and the loudest cooling system in the business.

HP is introducing a new entry into its PC gaming line with the Omen 16 Slim. As the name indicates, it’s a 16-inch gaming laptop with a “slim” profile — the thinnest portion being 20mm / 0.79 inches.

HP's new OMEN Slim 16 announced at Amplify 2025 offers a thinner chassis than the standard OMEN models, but it doesn't shave off any weight.

HP is launching a thinner and lighter version of its Omen 16 gaming laptop. The Omen 16 Slim is 16 percent thinner than the standard model, ranging from 0.78 to 0.89 inches (19.9 to 22.7 mm) thick when closed.

On Tuesday, the company announced multiple refreshes to its gaming laptop lineup, alongside the new HP Omen Slim 16 and the HyperX Cloud III S wireless gaming headset.

HP introduced its new Omen 16 Slim laptop with Intel's Arrow Lake and up to an RTX 5070 Laptop GPU inside. The company says it’s 16% slimmer than the regular Omen 16 at its thinnest point.