Best Laptop for less than $1500

[Stardar1]

Requirements:

- Must be Windows

- Must have GPU

- Must have at least 500GB of total drive space

 

 

what would you guys recommend?

[ShadowCaptain]

Requirements:

- Must be Windows

- Must have GPU

- Must have at least 500GB of total drive space

 

 

what would you guys recommend?

 

MS GS60 Ghost

HP Omen

Acer Nitro

Clevo (various models)

Alienware 13/15

 

All worth looking at

[CurlyCucumber]

Lenovo seems to make great laptops. I recommend you check them out.

[givingtnt]

gs60 ghost ? or gs70 http://www.ncix.com/detail/msi-gs70-stealth-i7-4720hq-5c-105867-1079.htm

[Stardar1]

Lenovo seems to make great laptops. I recommend you check them out.

anything specific you recommend?

[DarrenP]

Lenovo seems to make great laptops. I recommend you check them out.

In this price range OP can do better than Lenovo for gaming laptops. Most Lenovo laptops if not all If I remember correctly cap out at a GTX 860M. OP Could easily get a 970M in this price range. 

[DarrenP]

Requirements:

- Must be Windows

- Must have GPU

- Must have at least 500GB of total drive space

 

 

what would you guys recommend?

OP, What other things do you want? Screen Size? 

[Stardar1]

Would like to note that this isn't necessarily a gaming laptop, just needs a GPU that isn't integrated, the 860M would do just fine.

[Stardar1]

OP, What other things do you want? Screen Size? 

Screen size doesn't matter as long as it is more than 13"

At least 8 GB of RAM

At least Intel I5

[DarrenP]

Screen size doesn't matter as long as it is more than 13"

At least 8 GB of RAM

At least Intel I5

I recommend this laptop: '

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8268s-clevo-p150sma-eta-march-p-6987.html?wconfigure=yes

 

Leave it as configured, or add 16GB of RAM, and a bigger SSD (240/250/256GB) and call it a day. 

 

edit: DON'T FORGET TO ADD WINDOWS

[Stardar1]

I recommend this laptop: '

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8268s-clevo-p150sma-eta-march-p-6987.html?wconfigure=yes

 

Leave it as configured, or add 16GB of RAM, and a bigger SSD (240/250/256GB) and call it a day. 

 

edit: DON'T FORGET TO ADD WINDOWS

Link isnt working for me right now because I am at school, but ill check it out later

[CurlyCucumber]

anything specific you recommend?

Y50, Y510, Y410

[CurlyCucumber]

In this price range OP can do better than Lenovo for gaming laptops. Most Lenovo laptops if not all If I remember correctly cap out at a GTX 860M. OP Could easily get a 970M in this price range.

That's true.

[cjm86]

I recommend this laptop: '

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np8268s-clevo-p150sma-eta-march-p-6987.html?wconfigure=yes

 

Leave it as configured, or add 16GB of RAM, and a bigger SSD (240/250/256GB) and call it a day. 

 

edit: DON'T FORGET TO ADD WINDOWS

I would go with this ^^^. I have the Sager NP8278-S and I love it.

[elfensky]

Lenovo in general, especially their dual GPU Gaming laptop.

 

MSi Ghost (Pro) series (13/15/17)

 

XMG C504/C505 series which are customizable rebrands of the Gigabyte P35v2 and P35v3 series. The first has the 800 series Nvidia GPUs (860/870) while the latter has the newer 900 series ones (970/980).

Especially the C504 (v2) variant should be a lot cheaper because of it's newer brother coming out.

 

Mind that most of my knowledge relates to thin gaming laptops, as this is what I did my research on when buying mine. Because of this you're not always getting the best band for your buck spec-wise, seeing as some go for thinness over power.

 

There's also the Aorus brand, again from Gigabyte that has SLI and is also thin, but that's out of your price range, being over 2k$.
 

Second hand market has a lot of relatively powerful laptops for a low price. I would especially look at alienwares, as they often come dirt cheap, and sometimes even with warranty.

 

Just a general thought - With your budget, if you don't mind the laptop being... FAT, you can go way better specced laptop than some mentions. Asus ROG series come to mind.

 

Xotic has been mentioned a few times, I'd like to confirm it's good reputation.

 

What else is there.. Hmm...

[D2ultima]

Lenovo seems to make great laptops. I recommend you check them out.

.... where? Their business-class line... maybe. But consumer/gaming? No.

 

Screen size doesn't matter as long as it is more than 13"

At least 8 GB of RAM

At least Intel I5

You've been linked a P150SM-A already, but in case it's a bit too expensive for you, you can get this model here as it starts cheaper and allows you to more freely add SSDs/warranty/etc.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np7155-clevo-n155sd-eta-mar-30th-p-8083.html?wconfigure=yes

[CurlyCucumber]

.... where? Their business-class line... maybe. But consumer/gaming? No.

 

You've been linked a P150SM-A already, but in case it's a bit too expensive for you, you can get this model here as it starts cheaper and allows you to more freely add SSDs/warranty/etc.

http://www.xoticpc.com/sager-np7155-clevo-n155sd-eta-mar-30th-p-8083.html?wconfigure=yes

Their "Y" series?

[D2ultima]

Their "Y" series?

Yeah, those suck, despite popular opinion on this forum.