I’ve looked through hundreds of gaming laptops today — this highly-rated model with an RTX 5070 for £1,199 is the obvious pick

As someone who regularly writes about gaming laptops, it’s usually the US retailers that have the lion’s share of deep price cuts. But today, I’ve found an excellent deal for our UK readers — a deal so good that the Americans will be jealous, in fact.

It’s the Acer Nitro V16 for £1,199 (was £1,299) at Very, which, by my estimation, appears to be a record-low price on this wallet-friendly RTX 5070 gaming laptop.

The Acer Nitro V16 is what I’d call a lower mid-range laptop, but this is the highest spec you can get right now, with an AMD Ryzen 7 chipset, 1TB SSD, and 16GB of RAM accompanying the RTX 5070. For the price, these are very impressive specs indeed, although it would have been nice to have a little extra RAM.

Annoyingly, like all laptops right now, you won’t find 32GB of RAM on a machine at this level due to the ongoing RAM shortage. What you will get, however, is a gaming laptop that’s still very quick and capable of running all the latest titles at respectable graphical settings. The RTX 5070 will do a lot of heavy lifting here, that’s for sure.

We haven’t reviewed this machine personally at TechRadar, but our sister-site GamesRadar published a detailed review a few days ago with a full run-down of the machine.

They tested the cheaper RTX 5060 variant, but the laptop chassis is the same, so expect the same understated black design and IPS display. You should, however, get a decent bump in performance here with the RTX 5070 under the hood.

As an overall package, the Acer Nitro V 16 is a decent buy for the price, but you do miss out on a few of the higher-end touches like an OLED display or metal chassis. It’s a laptop that’s been built to a price, but it is pretty slim, and performance is decent for a machine at this level.