The perfect last-minute back-to-college gaming laptop deal: get an RTX 4060 Asus TUF for just $649

The retailer Staples has just surprised us with one of the best cheap gaming laptop deals of the year so far. Right now, you can get an Asus TUF A15 with an RTX 4060 for just $649 (was $899) at the retailer.

As an overview, this machine is a little older now, but it’s still more than capable of playing all the latest games. If you’re willing to tweak a few settings here and there, then this is easily one of the best bang-for-the-buck options currently on the market.

Inside, you get an excellent RTX 4060 graphics card, a decent Ryzen 5 chipset, 16GB of RAM, and a 512GB SSD. This isn’t a super high-end configuration, but these are great starter specs for both 1080p gaming and everyday use.

At $649, this one is definitely a steal. By my reckoning, it’s a match for the cheapest RTX 4060 gaming laptop I’ve ever seen. And, despite this GPU not being the latest on the market anymore, it’s still pretty rare to see laptops with it for under $749 right now.

Note, if you’re interested in something a little more powerful, then I’ve also attached a few of this week’s best gaming laptop deals from Best Buy’s excellent ongoing back-to-school sale just down below.

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Alex is TechRadar’s deals editor, specializing in getting our readers the best bang for the buck on the tech that we know and love. He’s a dab hand at covering retailer events like Black Friday and Amazon Prime Day having over seven years of e-commerce experience at Future PLC; including bylines at our sister sites T3 and GamesRadar. Alex’s expertise touches on most areas of TechRadar but he has a particular love for phones, laptops, and cameras, being an avid photographer. Outside of work, you’ll find him indulging his love for street and travel photography, at home working on music, or down at the local climbing gym.