College Laptop

[clay_park]

Alright it's time for me to start my freshman year in college and I have my own self built pc (pc master race), but my dorm is very small and out of state so I don't hauling it there would be logistically sound so I was wondering what would be the best laptop for a student who wants to game, but stay light. I was looking at the razer stealth along with the core or the new razer blade. As well I was looking at Asus Gl502 and was just wondering what everyone's opinions were on any gaming laptops/ ultrabooks for college as well as if I were to get the stealth as well as the core would the dual core processor really bottleneck me that much?

[saladcrack]

Honestly if you're driving to college not flying across country I would bring your pc and maybe get a small light ultrabook for note taking in class or studying/writing outside your dorm room.  Depending on what games you play you won't find a laptop under like $2,000 that can run games as well as a desktop.  And if you're pc is huge (Air 540 case or full tower) I would maybe spend the money from the laptop on a new smaller case and a smaller motherboard like micro ATX or mini ITX so you can have a pc that fits.

[Dackzy]

you also get a oven with the Razer blade, not even joking it gets extremely hot.
 
1. Thermal throttleling, yep it has that and you don't even need to push it that far... 
2. Noise
3. Build "quality", I am not sure they know what that is, they use okay materials, but a 4 year old can put it better together
4. Quality "control", they have none, so you might get one that is fucked up from day one
5. "Support", biggest joke ever, if people think Asus support is bad, then you have not talked to Razer support, god damn they are bad and stupid
6. All of this eGPU is not very good right now and we should see improvement to it in the near future
7. DON'T TRUST LINUS WITH LAPTOPS

 

maybe look at rebranded Clevo laptops, you can get a 14inch with a 970m and a i7..