Looking for a laptop

[bk-201]

Hey guys,

Ok this is my first post here so i don't know how to start this.

So i need a laptop that i would be able to do some gaming, things like Skyrim if possible

so a core i7 atleast 6 gb ram a good graphics card and a 512 (ssd or hdd whichever possible)

i also need this laptop to be portable which makes the request difficult

but the most challenging part is my 1700usd budget

if anyone knew of such an amazing laptop i'd like to know about it,

and Thank You.

[Samppa221]

This looks gr8: https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GE62-Apache-Pro-254-i5-6300HQ/dp/B01FG9XS4E/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1470587935&sr=1-2

(Idk how portable it is)

But with that budget you are looking for a 970m/960m and 16Gb of ram and a i7.

[bk-201]

4 minutes ago, Samppa221 said:

This looks gr8: https://www.amazon.com/MSI-GE62-Apache-Pro-254-i5-6300HQ/dp/B01FG9XS4E/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1470587935&sr=1-2

(Idk how portable it is)

But with that budget you are looking for a 970m/960m and 16Gb of ram and a i7.

this seems like a great laptop, i would just like to ask if you've had any experience with it.

[Himommies]

For portability alone and performance go with a Razer laptop

[bk-201]

Just now, Himommies said:

For portability alone and performance go with a Razer laptop

the razer laptop is over my budget

its 2000$ right?

 

[don_svetlio]

7 minutes ago, bk-201 said:

the razer laptop is over my budget

its 2000$ right?

 

Don't waste your money on a Razer piece of shit. They overheat, run 3-4 times louder than other laptops and Razer support is downright atrocious. Stay away from Razer and Acer

go for a Lenovo Y700. It has okay battery life (5 hours), can handle games pretty well, doesn't run absurdly loud or hot. If you want a more powerful and thinner laptop. Asus RoG GL502 Strix. 970M (60% faster than a 960M) and doesn't overheat (like the Razer Blade)

 

11 minutes ago, bk-201 said:

this seems like a great laptop, i would just like to ask if you've had any experience with it.

GE62 is fine but the battery life is terrible

[Dackzy]

10 minutes ago, Himommies said:

For portability alone and performance go with a Razer laptop

LOL, These are the only problems with them:

- Thermal throttle

- No quality control, so you might get one that is okay from the start, but you might also get one that is broken from the start.

- meh build quality, they use okay materials, BUT a 4 year old can put them better together, so there is that.

- Keyboard, kek not what you should get on a 2000$ laptop, more 600$ laptop

- "support" There is none, they are just stupid

- Short life time, because thermal throttling, so yeah 1-1½ years, that is just great... NOT

 

 

@bk-201 A lot of sagers laptops seem to be decent, since they are just clevo rebranded laptops, so go have a look there

[bk-201]

6 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

go for a Lenovo Y700. It has okay battery life (5 hours), can handle games pretty well, doesn't run absurdly loud or hot. If you want a more powerful and thinner laptop. Asus RoG GL502 Strix. 970M (60% faster than a 960M) and doesn't overheat (like the Razer Blade)

 

GE62 is fine but the battery life is terrible

ill look into those laptops you mentioned

Asus RoG GL502 Strix

Lenovo Y700

and the previously mentioned ge62

and thank you.

[don_svetlio]

1 minute ago, bk-201 said:

ill look into those laptops you mentioned

Asus RoG GL502 Strix

Lenovo Y700

and the previously mentioned ge62

and thank you.

What do you want most? Battery life, screen quality, audio quality, build quality, performance, cooling?

[bk-201]

Just now, don_svetlio said:

What do you want most? Battery life, screen quality, audio quality, build quality, performance, cooling?

Performance and portability.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, bk-201 said:

Performance and portability.

GL502 then

[bk-201]

 

2 minutes ago, don_svetlio said:

GL502 then

definitely looks really good, probably the one i'm gonna get.

[Pendragon]

2 hours ago, bk-201 said:

definitely looks really good, probably the one i'm gonna get.

When do you need this? MSI is releasing their Pascal August 16th. 

[bk-201]

9 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

When do you need this? MSI is releasing their Pascal August 16th. 

It would probably be expensive.

 

[Dackzy]

33 minutes ago, bk-201 said:

It would probably be expensive.

 

but the other laptops should go down in price...

[bk-201]

14 minutes ago, Dackzy said:

but the other laptops should go down in price...

just wondering but has the ever happened before?

 

[Dackzy]

5 minutes ago, bk-201 said:

just wondering but has the ever happened before?

 

that the laptops with last gen GPUs went down in price? Yes, they NEED to get rid of them or else they wasted a lot of cash. The news about new GPUs and CPUs spread fast and I mean really fast and most people only want the new things.

[bk-201]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

that the laptops with last gen GPUs went down in price? Yes, they NEED to get rid of them or else they wasted a lot of cash. The news about new GPUs and CPUs spread fast and I mean really fast and most people only want the new things.

So how long would it take for other laptops to get the pascal?

[Dackzy]

Just now, bk-201 said:

So how long would it take for other laptops to get the pascal?

as @Pendragon said MSI is releasing their Pascal GPUs the 16th of August, so 9 more days or so, depending on where you are in the world and how your local retailers are.

[bk-201]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

as @Pendragon said MSI is releasing their Pascal GPUs the 16th of August, so 9 more days or so, depending on where you are in the world and how your local retailers are.

where i live in the world i don't think laptops are released right away so i'm not sure if the prices will drop at the release.

[Dackzy]

Just now, bk-201 said:

where i live in the world i don't think laptops are released right away so i'm not sure if the prices will drop at the release.

then maybe wait 16 days, most of the time here in Denmark we have to wait a couple of weeks more with laptop releases for them to come here, sometimes even longer.

 

I know for a fact that I would be mad if I could just have waited 1 month more and then have gotten something better for the same price or the product with a nice discount. Sometimes even up to realeses they dump the priceses, they have done that here in Denmark, where they have a sale on lots of laptops, because next week the new models will come in and most people doesn't know that the new laptops are coming out, so they rush out and buy the ones that are on a really good sale.

[bk-201]

1 minute ago, Dackzy said:

then maybe wait 16 days, most of the time here in Denmark we have to wait a couple of weeks more with laptop releases for them to come here, sometimes even longer.

 

I know for a fact that I would be mad if I could just have waited 1 month more and then have gotten something better for the same price or the product with a nice discount. Sometimes even up to realeses they dump the priceses, they have done that here in Denmark, where they have a sale on lots of laptops, because next week the new models will come in and most people doesn't know that the new laptops are coming out, so they rush out and buy the ones that are on a really good sale.

then i guess ill just wait

that you for informing me