Amazon has a hell of a one day-deal on a killer Acer Predator gaming laptop. Nab this 15-inch Acer Predator Triton 500 Thin for best gaming laptops out there (one of our personal favorites with ray tracing) that gives you the performance without feeling you're dragging a concrete slab in your backpack.
This model of the Acer Predator Triton 500 has an Intel i7-8750H U, 16GB RAM, a 512 SSD, and a Geforce RTX 2080 with Max-Q graphics card. This thin gaming laptop won't give you quite the same performance as a desktop with RTX 2080, but you'll be happy with the performance for a gaming laptop that's only five pounds. You'll be able to comfortably play most games at high settings at 1080p with a pretty solid framerate. It also has enough USB ports in case you wanted to venture into VR.
The Predator features a bright 144Hz 1080p IPS G-Sync display with a 3ms response time. Personally, for $2,000, I would have liked at least a 1TB SSD over the 512GB since it can fill up pretty fast. The PredatorSense software could do better at making things like overclocking and control fan speeds a bit easier to do.
