Currently, you can get the HP Pavilion i5 GTX 1650 Gaming Laptop for just $449 (opens in new tab). Usually, it retails for $589, so that’s $180 in savings. It’s the lowest price we’ve ever seen for this laptop and one of the best Black Friday laptop deals we’ve seen so far. As an alternative, Walmart also offers the MSI GF65 Thin Gaming Laptop for $799 (opens in new tab) ($180 off).
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HP’s Pavilion gaming laptops are among the most affordable of their kind. The laptop in this deal packs a 15.6.-inch (1920 x 1080) 144 Hz IPS display, a 2.4-GHz 9th Gen Intel Core i5-9300H quad-core CPU, 8GB of RAM, a 256GB SSD, and GTX 1650 graphics with 4GB of dedicated memory, In our HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop review, we liked its great battery life and affordable price. We gave it a 4 out of 5 star rating for its solid gaming and overall performance. What makes the Pavillion stand out from other gaming laptops is its black stealth design with emerald accents. At 5 pounds and 14.2 x 10.1 x 0.9 inches, it’s lighter than the Acer Nitro 5 (5.7 pounds, 15.9 x 11.1 x 1.1 inches) and the Dell G5 15 SE (5.6 pounds, 14.2 x 9.9 x 0.8 inches). However, the 14.2 x 9.9 x 0.8-inch Asus ROG Zephyrus G GA502 is the lightest system at 4.5 pounds. During the Geekbench 4.3 overall performance test in our lab, the Pavilion 15 surpassed the G5 15 (16,722, i5-9300H CPU), the Zephyrus (14,106, AMD Ryzen 7 3750H) and the Nitro 5 Core (11,603, i5-8300H CPU) with a score of 21,326. The HP also easily surpassed the 15,566 entry-level gaming laptop average. Battery-wise, the HP Gaming Pavilion 15 lasted 5 hours and 26 minutes on our battery test. That’s pretty long for a gaming laptop and on par with the 5:27 entry-level gaming average. It also surpassed the Zephyrus’ of 4:48 and the Nitro 5’s 4:22. Walmart’s Black Friday deals are as good as stock permits, so we recommend you act fast. Black Friday falls on November 27 and we expect to see tons of deals on the industry’s best mobile tech. Be sure to bookmark our Black Friday 2020 deals hub for this year’s best Black Friday discounts.
