I would highly highly HIGHLY recommend that you don't get a laptop and instead get a desktop. Desktop gaming computers are usually cheaper, more friendly to cooling parts, and more powerful.
The only time I would recommend a gaming laptop was if you had the money and that was your one and only option.
Laptops tend to have a harder time cooling off and it costs more money to cram components into a small area rather than a tower.
Not only would you save more money that you could then use for games/peripherals, but you would also have better performance per dollar.
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if one needs a laptop with a reasonable power anyways, and travels multiple times a year for a total of some 3 months, then a good laptop can be the one option to take
if one only plays at home where he is based on basically all year, then yes, the choice is straightforward
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First and foremost - is a laptop necessary rather than a desktop and is it for stationary gaming? If so, consider a desktop. If not, I don't know much about laptops. Lenovo seems to be the "good" thing around these days.
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Lenovo is a solid company, not known very much for their gaming systems. I would say if the buyer went with a Lenovo, it should be something along the lines of this
Note that I currently do not know which gaming laptops are up to snuff.
There are certainly other companies that sell them, but every Lenovo I've bought has been reliable, so they win that for me.
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Not the Lenovo y50 70 at least. The screen is horrendous(from viewing at the side) and because eventually the cable connecting from base.to screen goes loose and causes horizontal lines to appear. Not to mention the screen will black out at times. I had to get the laptop repaired over the holiday. I hope the laptop isn't fixed so I can get my refund and get an ASUS laptop. Probably not going to be fixed successfully because there have been comments from people who sent their y50 70s to the repair shop too with the screen flashing/flickering again.
Edit: 41 page thread about the screen issue. The solution given is not a guarantee to fix the screen too(I.e. like for me)
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-P-Y-and-Z-series/Y70-screen-flashing-blinking/td-p/1839531
Tl;dr: Don't buy the y50 70
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Yep, nice specs, good performance, and a really great price– but not on the basic model, because not having an SSD pretty much means it cannot really be a gaming laptop in 2016. (same goes for any desktop, by the way.) The one with the M.2 SSD is a great one though (especially if ASUS also made sure it can boot from it… which is less common than one would think. :P)
The "slight" downside of course is that it could barely survive a train trip watching a movie and the battery would die in 60-90 minutes the moment the dedicated GPU is powered up. So, it is more like a portable desktop. ^.^'
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It's not a question of preference, it is a question of how they physically store and access data. On ext3/ext4 file systems, HDDs are a little better, but on FAT and NTFS, they are horrible for system and are large part of the dreaded Windows slowdowns over time. This is why even laptops started to sport two disks or at least a hybrid.
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I still rather have my 750 Gb 7200rpm than a 256 SSD. I can hardly live without a minimum of 750 in my machine at all times. So yes, it's also a question of preference. Also, as I also said, if one wants an SSD for gaming, it might be more beneficial to have the game on an SSD instead of the OS, since in practice there isn't space for both (unless you only play 1 game).
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From someone who first owned a Lenovo and now owns a MSI laptop. Don't go for Lenovo, their cooling is terrible, all fan control is locked in the BIOS and they value their laptops being silent instead of, you know, being properly cooled.
I've had a MSI GT72 for a few months and it's wonderful, for about $1100 it came with 12GB of RAM and a GTX 970M with 3GB. It runs Witcher 3 amazingly with high settings.
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Nah, dont go for a gaming laptop hell no.... sooo expensive. Go for a desktop computer instead. easier to change components and last longer then a laptop.
But if he's sure about the choice then I think MSI will do.
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this is basically what you might need: http://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/UQPts/recommendations-for-laptops-for-college-and-beyond
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http://www.ibuypower.com/Store/MSI-PE70-Prestige-Laptop
Pretty much your wanted specs and price. I have a powerful gaming laptop myself, it is much cheaper if you look for custom buildable sites for laptops.
Ibuypower and PCspecialist are places I look at which do that.
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You can get an ASUS laptop with the 970m on Newegg.
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Hello SG,
I'm trying to convert my cousin from PS4 to Steam.
I managed to get him hyped about it, now we need to find a good laptop for him to buy.
The specs he wants are:
nvidia graphics card geforce gtx 960~ 2gbVRAM+
8-16gb ram
full hd 1920x1080
17.3inch
1TB HDD+
The maximum budget is around 1200$
Any recommendations?
Thanks guys! My cousin would want to go with the ASUS G752.
Thank you for all your support!
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