$1300 Gaming/Usage Laptop

[clay_park]

My friend is going into college this fall and looking for a desktop replacement, that he can also take around from class to class. It can be a bit bulky, but still needs to be fairly portable. I was just wondering for the price what would be the best balance. Games can be run at low to med settings if it lowers size and just mainly needs to run photoshop and illustrator and maybe some light video editing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

[Josephdalepi]

Just now, clay_park said:

My friend is going into college this fall and looking for a desktop replacement, that he can also take around from class to class. It can be a bit bulky, but still needs to be fairly portable. I was just wondering for the price what would be the best balance. Games can be run at low to med settings if it lowers size and just mainly needs to run photoshop and illustrator and maybe some light video editing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

oh look at that

razer blade stealth

[clay_park]

Just now, Josephdalepi said:

oh look at that

razer blade stealth

Looks a bit out of his price range.:/

[clay_park]

Just now, clay_park said:

Looks a bit out of his price range.:/

I mean with the core and discrete gpu as well seems possibly out of range.

[Josephdalepi]

Just now, clay_park said:

Looks a bit out of his price range.:/

tis 1k

either way, there are other things

and i just found this

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Inspiron-i7559-763BLK-Full-HD-GeForce/dp/B015PYYDMQ/ref=sr_1_9?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1455218324&sr=1-9&keywords=razer+blade

[mikat]

15 minutes ago, clay_park said:

My friend is going into college this fall and looking for a desktop replacement, that he can also take around from class to class. It can be a bit bulky, but still needs to be fairly portable. I was just wondering for the price what would be the best balance. Games can be run at low to med settings if it lowers size and just mainly needs to run photoshop and illustrator and maybe some light video editing. Any help is greatly appreciated.

edit: lenovo y700

http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/y700-series/y700-15-inch/

6700HQ + 960M 4G + 8 GB + 1 TB HDD

=1145$

 

and upgrade it with this:

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

Memory: Crucial 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory  ($75.99 @ B&H) 
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO 250GB M.2-2280 Solid State Drive  ($84.99 @ Micro Center) 
Total: $160.98
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-02-11 14:30 EST-0500

[509Vince]

http://store.asus.com/us/item/201510AM170008065/A18486 (1TB HD + 128GB SSD)

 

Pretty good idea to look at

 

 

 

 

[exercutor5]

Sager NP7258

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP7258.html

6700HQ + 965M (the new 965M, not the old 965M) + 8GB DDR3L + 1TB HDD

US$999