good laptops sub $1400?

[Aefweard]

So I find myself in the market for a new laptop

 

my budget is $1000-1400 US

primary use would be gaming (I know, gaming on laptops isn't the greatest but that's where I find myself atm), with some photo editing.

I don't really care about weight, good battery would be nice though. I'd probably lean towards something with a 15 inch screen, but could easily be talked into a 17 inch.

[genexis_x]

3 hours ago, Aefweard said:

good battery would be nice though

Min how many hours?

[BlockedTheShot]

5 hours ago, Aefweard said:

So I find myself in the market for a new laptop

 

my budget is $1000-1400 US

primary use would be gaming (I know, gaming on laptops isn't the greatest but that's where I find myself atm), with some photo editing.

I don't really care about weight, good battery would be nice though. I'd probably lean towards something with a 15 inch screen, but could easily be talked into a 17 inch.

At this price-point, there aren't a lot of gaming laptops with good battery life per-say(you'd probably either need to spend less or more for good battery life)

 

the best battery life i can find at this pricepoint is the Acer Predator Helios 300, and it's only considered "decent"

[Aefweard]

thanks for the replies and sorry and the delay on my end.

in regard to battery life, 4-6 hours? more is nice but not really essential.

 

looking at a few, I see the new rtx mobil cards seem to be going live at the end of the month, so I'm thinking of holding out till they are released and either picking up something new with a 2060, or find one of the old ones with a 1060 on sale due to the new release.

[Super Spartan]

On 1/14/2019 at 6:52 AM, Aefweard said:

So I find myself in the market for a new laptop

 

my budget is $1000-1400 US

primary use would be gaming (I know, gaming on laptops isn't the greatest but that's where I find myself atm), with some photo editing.

I don't really care about weight, good battery would be nice though. I'd probably lean towards something with a 15 inch screen, but could easily be talked into a 17 inch.

Check this one out, it's on sale right now and has awesome specs for the money: Custom Built MSI GP63 Leopard 8RE-602 15.6" w/ nVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060

[genexis_x]

10 hours ago, Aefweard said:

so I'm thinking of holding out till they are released and either picking up something new with a 2060

you need to wait for reviews too

[Aefweard]

yeah, it'll probably come down to if I can limp my current system along until then.

[Aefweard]

so, I found a semi deal on a Alienware 17 r5

 

1060, 16gigs of ram, 128 ssd +1tb hd, gsynch for $1300, only caveat is its a refurbish, thoughts?

[markr54632]

4 hours ago, Aefweard said:

so, I found a semi deal on a Alienware 17 r5

 

1060, 16gigs of ram, 128 ssd +1tb hd, gsynch for $1300, only caveat is its a refurbish, thoughts?

Gsync uses the dgpu only and eats up battery quick.

[genexis_x]

16 hours ago, Aefweard said:

Alienware 17 r5

1060, 16gigs of ram, 128 ssd +1tb hd, gsynch for $1300, only caveat is its a refurbish

A bit overpriced and outdated design (bulky). Not a good deal unless you want GSYNC (which kills battery life)