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Best gaming laptops under $1,000: Best overall, best battery life, and more

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If you’re looking to pick up an affordable laptop that can easily handle 1080p gaming, the MSI Thin GF63 is your best bet. For a gaming laptop, it’s actually quite lightweight and portable at just over four pounds, which is good news if you like to game on-the-go. As for the internal components, it’s a good amount of power for a budget gaming machine. Let’s get into it.

The MSI Thin GF63 is rocking an Intel Core i7-12650H CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4050 GPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage. Given the hardware, you should be able to run most games on the Medium or High graphics preset. For more intensive titles where speed is everything, we’d recommend scaling things back a bit. The 15.6-inch display has a resolution of 1920×1080 and a refresh rate of 144Hz. Although it manages just 300 nits of brightness (which is common for a budget gaming laptop), gameplay should be relatively smooth thanks to the high refresh rate. It’s not the most vibrant or color-accurate screen we’ve ever seen, but it’s passable, especially for under $1,000. If you can live with some of the compromises, then the MSI Thin GF63 is a great budget option for most people.

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