While we wait for Apple's future Mac mini to provide stronger gaming performances, the Asus ROG NUC will certainly suffice.

While it used to cost a whopping $1,400 when it first debuted, it's now being discounted at Best Buy, falling to a record-low price of just $950 for a limited time. That's $450 of

With Nvidia’s announcement of RTX 50-series GPUs for desktops and laptops, a new generation of computers is on the way and ASUS has kickstarted the lineup with its 2025 ROG NUC. The new NUC or Next Unit of Computing is powered by up to the RTX 5080 laptop GPU and the second generation of Intel’s Core Ultra processors.

Spotted by Wccftech, Best Buy has listed RTX 50-powered gaming laptops, including laptops from Asus and HP. While they're currently "Coming Soon" and not available to purchase, we now know the general pricing for several RTX 50-series laptop GPUs.

That’s because it’s the world’s first* Thunderbolt 5 external graphics card and one of the first Thunderbolt 5 docks, using the new 80 gigabit per second bidirectional link to do more things with a single cable than we’ve ever seen before.

Best Buy is in the midst of a four-day sale with discounts on all kinds of hardware, including gaming laptops. Here are some standouts.

The new Asus ROG NUC 2025 has a killer spec for such a small machine, including an Intel Core Ultra 9 CPU, and you can even overclock it.

The four GPUs in the lineup include the RTX 5070, RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5080, and the RTX 5090. They start off at just $549 and go up to $1999. For now, there is no information on the cheaper RTX 5060 models, but they can be expected to be somewhere in the $350 to $400 range.

Asus TUF Gaming models have up to Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Laptop GPU TUF Gaming A18 has an 18-inch WQXGA display with a 240Hz refresh rate All three laptops come with up to 32GB RAM and up to 2TB SSD

The listing includes gaming laptops featuring the new Nvidia RTX 5090, RTX 5080, RTX 5070 Ti, and RTX 5070 mobile GPUs

After a couple years without an update, at CES 2025 ASUS is giving the ROG Flow Z13 is big revamp and more powerful XG Mobile graphics dock.