Today’s Amazon Prime Early Access deals feel like a prelude to Black Friday. Are there deals? Yes. But is there also a lot of junk to sort through? Also yes: if you’re not looking to buy an Amazon device like a Kindle, this Prime Early Access sale probably won’t blow you away.
We did find a few decent discounts on gaming laptops, though, which we’ve collected below.
The general rules of thumb for picking a gaming laptop deal is to go for the GPU that suits your needs. A gamer in this age needs an Nvidia RTX 30-series card or AMD equivalent to run modern games at top frame rates, so that’s the bar we’re using to measure what counts as a deal price.
I’d recommend not paying any more than $900 for an RTX 3050 or RX 6650 XT-powered machine, or $1,000 for one packing an RTX 3060 or RX 6700 XT. At the top end, RTX 3090 Ti and RX 6900 XT machines shouldn’t set you back more than $2,300 as an absolute maximum. At that price, it should at least come with a high refresh rate, 1440p panel. Check out our gaming laptop and PC guide for Amazon Prime Day (opens in new tab).
Keep in mind too, that it isn’t just Amazon we’ll be seeing discounted goods showing up on. Other sites like Newegg are offering some bargains, too.
If you’re after something more powerful, the Amazon Prime Early Access gaming PC (opens in new tab) and Prime Early Access gaming monitor deals (opens in new tab) might provide a more apt solution. There’s also a page with our top picks, and the full selection of Amazon Prime Early access PC gaming deals (opens in new tab) around today, from TVs to peripherals, and more.
Where are the best Prime Early Access gaming laptop deals?
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When is Amazon Prime Early Access 2022?
Amazon Prime Early Access began at 12 am PT, Tuesday October 11, and will run all the way through to 11.59 pm on Wednesday October 12. Expect 48 hours of potential PC gaming deals, before we get into the meatier discounts expected to drop on Black Friday—that’s November 25 for anyone willing to wait that long. Truly, Amazon isn’t messing around when it says Early Access. In fact, let’s just have a deal event every month.