Dealmaster: Get a Dell gaming laptop with 16GB of RAM and a GTX 1060 for $799

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Update (2:37pm ET 04/11/2019): Shortly after this article was published, Walmart lowered the price of our featured deal by another $50 to $799. We've updated our headline and the article below to reflect this.

Original article: Greetings, Arsians! The Dealmaster is back with another round of deals to share. Today's list is headlined by a deal on Dell's G5 15 gaming laptop-a configuration with Intel's Core i5-8300H CPU, 16GB of RAM, and Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1060 6GB GPU is down to $799 at Walmart. Dell usually sells this model for $1,100, so this is about a $300 discount.

To be clear, this is technically Dell's last-gen G5 15-the company slightly refreshed most of its gaming lineup earlier this year-and the notebook isn't without flaws. The chassis is mostly plastic, the 15.6-inch 1080p display isn't exactly high-end, and, this being a gaming laptop, the whole thing isn't very thin (0.98 in.) or light (5.76 lbs.). Its fans will make some noise, too. But such is life with a budget gaming laptop. What you're really paying for here is the ability to play newer games in 1080p-preferably on high, not ultra, settings-on the (relative) cheap. The 6GB GTX 1060 is Nvidia's lower-powered Max-Q variant, and it's not the most cutting-edge card these days, but until notebooks with newer GPUs like the GTX 1660 become more prevalent, it's still powerful enough to get the job done. The laptop itself includes a Thunderbolt 3 port and should get about five hours of battery through Web browsing. All told, it feels like a good value at this price.

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