Best Cheap Gaming Laptop of 2025: My Top Budget Picks

New budget gaming laptops are out with Nvidia’s latest RTX 50 series GPUs, and I’ve tested a bunch of them. Check out my favorites.

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and San Francisco and now lives in New Hampshire. When he's not writing about laptops, Matt likes to play and watch sports. He loves to play tennis and hates the number of streaming services he has to subscribe to in order to watch the various sports he wants to watch.