(Image credit: Future) With prices still at or near all-time highs and no relief in sight, users have almost no choice but to turn away and upgrade to something else. We’ve seen several laptop deals lately, and this one from B&H Photo is a doozy. For only $1,499.99 ($500/25% off) you get the 16” Acer Predator Helios Neo IPS gaming laptop with its 16-inch 2560x1600 IPS panel, fast latest Intel Core Ultra 9 275 HX mobile processor, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, 1TB of storage, and the pièce de résistance for a gaming laptop, the Nvidia RTX 5070 8GB graphics card for desktop-level performance anywhere. Starting with the brain of the bunch, you get the high-end mobile processor in the 24-core (8p/16e) Core Ultra 9 275HX. The eight performance cores run up to 5.4 GHz, while the efficiency cores run up to 4.6 GHz, which is plenty of speed for any activity, including gaming. The 55W base TDP (about 70-80W nominally) should happily run without thermal throttling, so you get the most out of your system.…