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It\u2019s not a great time to shop for a gaming laptop<\/a>. The unprecedented rise in cost for RAM<\/a> (and storage to a slightly lesser extent) has made laptops with low-to-midrange specs cost much more than they should. Recent deals on gaming laptops worth your attention have been uninspiring, but one recently caught my eye: MSI\u2019s Katana laptop<\/strong> with a 15.6-inch 1440p display, Nvidia\u2019s RTX 5060 GPU, a fast Intel Core i7 CPU, and the pairing of 16GB DDR5 RAM and a 1TB SSD costs $1,133.67 at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It\u2019s a little painful to be able to recall a time when you used to be able to sometimes find the 4070 or the 5070 GPU variants in laptops around this price point, but those times are behind us for now (but hopefully ahead of us, too, sooner than later). Regardless, the Katana is a good value if you\u2019re shopping in the $1,100 ballpark. I particularly like that its screen has a fast 165Hz refresh rate, and that it\u2019s not hurting for ports. In addition to its barrel plug charging port, it has three USB-A 3.2 Gen 2 ports, a single USB-C 3.2 Gen 2 port that can output video, an HDMI 2.1 port supporting up to 8K at 60Hz or 4K at 120Hz output, Ethernet, and a headphone jack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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While RAM is bananas expensive right now, the Katana supports up to 96GB of DDR5 RAM clocked at 6,000MHz via two user-accessible slots. It has just one M.2 SSD slot, though. All of the specifications<\/a> are listed on MSI\u2019s site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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