half decent laptops

[FireofDestruction]

well guys, i'm going to lay it all out here i'm in tech school which is basically college in the military i have 3 months before i can get my desktop(at my first station) and i'm currently sitting with a i3 3110M 8GB of ram and like a 750GB hard drive this cannot game at all its 4 years old. My budget for a new laptop is 600-800 ish USD suggestions are welcome anything that's a bit better than this would be gr8.

[TheGTXman]

Here is an excellent choice u wan't to game here you go

https://www.amazon.com/F555UA-EH71-Intel-Laptop-Windows-64bit/dp/B014LE6A6I/ref=sr_1_6?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1468708705&sr=1-6&keywords=asus+laptops

[TheGTXman]

Or you could go with a little less performance with this 

https://www.amazon.com/F556UA-AS54-15-6-inch-Full-HD-Laptop-Windows/dp/B01CGGOUJM/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1468708908&sr=1-2&keywords=asus+laptops

[FireofDestruction]

was actually looking at this one here as it seems to be pretty popular https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYZ0J6/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

[TheGTXman]

4 minutes ago, FireofDestruction said:

was actually looking at this one here as it seems to be pretty popular https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYZ0J6/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

looks great .... Do u want an optical drive????????????

and sorry i was so set on ASUS i just trust them the most.

[EunSoo]

2 minutes ago, FireofDestruction said:

was actually looking at this one here as it seems to be pretty popular https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYZ0J6/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

 

that's a good laptop, but the build quality is not very good. If you aren't moving it much and have a mouse/keyboard to replace the bad one on the laptop. I would at least get a mouse. 

[FireofDestruction]

1 minute ago, SCGazelle said:

that's a good laptop, but the build quality is not very good. If you aren't moving it much and have a mouse/keyboard to replace the bad one on the laptop. I would at least get a mouse. 

i had my mother ship my headset, mouse and webcam to me already  something i didnt mention in my posts so corsair 1500s and m65 and the logitech c920

[EunSoo]

1 minute ago, FireofDestruction said:

i had my mother ship my headset, mouse and webcam to me already  something i didnt mention in my posts so corsair 1500s and m65 and the logitech c920

 

Nice, then you should be fine, just be aware that you are trading good specs for build quality

[FireofDestruction]

2 minutes ago, TheGTXman said:

looks great .... Do u want an optical drive????????????

and sorry i was so set on ASUS i just trust them the most.

thats cool i understand if you can find an asus with like a dedicated gpu and a semi good processor ill look at it thanks for your suggestions so far.

[CtrlAltELITE]

15 minutes ago, FireofDestruction said:

was actually looking at this one here as it seems to be pretty popular https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B015PYZ0J6/ref=ask_ql_qh_dp_hza

 

My vote definitely goes to the dell 7559. Pal has one in i5 flavour and its a great bit of kit for the price.

[Hill]

The Dell 7559 is a much better choice than the ASUS. The U CPUs are not even in the same league as the quad core HQ's, plus you get a 960m. that's all you need for gaming currently. I'd even go for an i5HQ model if you're stretched for cash. 

I wish I could recommend a ThinkPad for that price range, simply cos of the durability. I've dropped mine out of cars, off of a ladder, and even dropped packs on it. Still the same beast its always been, lol.

I was an Aussie ET (electronics technician) in the same situation a few years ago.
Enjoy

[FireofDestruction]

52 minutes ago, Hill said:

The Dell 7559 is a much better choice than the ASUS. The U CPUs are not even in the same league as the quad core HQ's, plus you get a 960m. that's all you need for gaming currently. I'd even go for an i5HQ model if you're stretched for cash. 

I wish I could recommend a ThinkPad for that price range, simply cos of the durability. I've dropped mine out of cars, off of a ladder, and even dropped packs on it. Still the same beast its always been, lol.

I was an Aussie ET (electronics technician) in the same situation a few years ago.
Enjoy

this laptop wouldn't be moving too much at all just sitting in my barracks so mobility isn't really much of an issue to me its more of just simply running games, part of my training is ill be going out in the woods for 3 weeks and returning to a different dorm which with my desktop would be a huge inconvenience moving 45 pounds from one dormitory to another(and i don't trust people around here) plus a monitor but i'm going to think on the 7559 before i jump on it, not really stretched for cash because i don't really have any bills to pay lol.

[Hill]

Do we get a follow up as to your new laptop then ?