This is a bargain hunters best friend, offering fantastic 1080p gaming with some sacrifices along the way.
Design
The HP Victus 16 keeps things low profile.
This is a cheaper gaming laptop, so an all-plastic construction is to be expected.
Theres also no extended lip around the top bezel to help either.
Overall, I prefer the internal slab of the Victus over the fairly heavily gamerfied Asus TUF A15.
It also looks far more grown up than the heavy white bordering on the Acer Nitro 16 as well.
Features
The HP Victus 16s configuration options are fairly typical of a budget laptop.
Its a little dulled in everything from contrast to sharpness as well.
However, the Acer Nitro 16 does go beyond this average with a more vibrant panel overall.
The display of the Asus TUF A15 performs similarly to that of the Victus.
The keyboard is much the same.
Yes, youre getting smaller half keys for the arrow buttons, but overall everything looks pretty solid.
I could feel that lower price tag under the fingertips, though.
If youre a streamer you might need to grab a dedicated webcam for this one.
After all, at the top weve got an RTX 4070 GPU in the Acer Nitro 16.
In fact, it holds steadily firm in a solid set of scores.
In everyday use, despite the lower quality display, the HP Victus 16 never let me down.
Should you buy the HP Victus 16?
The HP Victus 16 is a master of 1080p performance even in a super cheap RTX 4050 form factor.
The second week was spent purely running the Victus for all work, play, and streaming content.
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