We're talking $1500 and under

The age of the gaming laptop is finally here. Gone are the days of paying twice as much as a desktop for half the performance. Modern gaming laptops have the same performance components as their desktop cousins and not the price you would expect.

We've rounded up five of the best budget gaming laptops you can buy right now. "Budget" in this case means under $1,500, but we're talking about gaming laptops here. $250 laptops for web browsing and Microsoft Office are still out there if you need them!

Acer's Nitro 5 is probably as low as you could realistically want from a budget gaming laptop in terms of specs. Packing a quad-core, eight-thread i5 CPU and a GTX 1650 GPU, you can expect to hit anywhere between 30 and 60 frames per second on modern titles at their respective "high" presets. If you're willing to aim for console-quality settings, a steady 60 frames per second or better is certainly possible.