I’ve just spotted a brand new RTX 5070 gaming laptop for $999 in Best Buy’s ‘Rival Prime Day’ sale, is it too good to be true?

This week is set to be a busy week for deals. Not only is Amazon hosting its annual Prime Day event, but Best Buy has its own ‘Tech Fest’ sale with pretty great price cuts across the board.

One such example this Acer Nitro V Slim 16 gaming laptop for the absurdly low price of $999 (was $1,299) at the retailer. I spotted this one while looking through the retailer’s listings today and almost did a double-take because it’s so cheap.

With the RAM price crisis, it’s extremely rare to see an RTX 5070 gaming laptop for under $1,500, let alone $1,000 these days. With a price this low, there has to be a catch, right?

Well, scanning through the specs sheet, this machine is listed as featuring an ‘AMD Ryzen 7 2000 Series’ chipset. That’s a very vague description, and if that’s not a mislabelling, that could be a very, very old processor indeed.

What’s happening here, I believe, is that Best Buy has incorrectly listed a modern Ryzen 7-260 chipset as an ancient 2000 series. That would explain why the 16GB of RAM featured on this machine is a more recent DDR5 version, rather than the older DDR4. If that is the case, then you’re getting a really, really cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop here.