As part of its Black Friday in July Sale, Dell has dropped the price of the new 2025 Alienware Aurora 16 gaming laptop equipped with an GeForce RTX 5060 mobile GPU for just $1,099.99 with free delivery. That is a big $400 discount from its official launch price and currently the best deal I can find on an RTX 5060 equipped laptop from any brand and any retailer. If you're specifically looking for a gaming laptop at the $1,100 or below price point, you'd be hard pressed to find a better deal on a "budget" gaming laptop during Amazon Prime Day.
Alienware Aurora 16 RTX 5060 Gaming Laptop for $1,099.99
The Alienware Aurora 16 is equipped with a 16" 2560x1600 120Hz IPS display, Intel Core 7 (Series 2) 240H processor, GeForce RTX 5060 GPU, 32GB of DDR5-5600MHz RAM, and a 1TB M.2 SSD. The Intel Core 7 Series 2 240H is an energy efficient CPU with a max turbo frequency of 5.2GHz with 10 cores. It's paired with an RTX 5060 GPU. The RTX 5060 is about 15%-20% more powerful than the RTX 4060 that replaces, making it a perfectly capable GPU for most games at up to 1600p. It approaches the performance of the RTX 4070 and overtakes it in games that support DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation. At a sticker price of $1,100, you'd bet won't find another laptop with a better GPU.
Compared to other Alienware laptops, the Aurora 16 is designed to look less like a gamer's laptop. It boasts a sleek, understated design with the absence of extraneous visual-only embellishments or unnecessary RGB lighting outside of the keyboard's white-only illumination. It's also priced more affordably than the higher powered Alienware 16X and Alienware 16 Area-51 laptops. Those laptops are more powerful, but they're also bigger and heavier.
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Alienware is a brand I would recommend for anyone looking for a quality gaming laptop. Alienware laptops feature solid build quality, top-of-the-line gaming performance, and excellent cooling (further improved on the newer models). Best of all, there are plenty of sales that happen throughout the year, so it's not difficult to find a good deal.
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