A few questions about gaming laptops

[KrMaH]

Hey beautiful techies!

So my poor, trustworthy and beloved Lenovo ThinkPad E330 is nearing the end of its useful life as it's getting quite old, and it's i3 and 8 gigs of ram (originally 4gigs, second smartest upgrade ive ever done next to an ssd) are no longer enough to be doing what I need it to do as I've started an engineering degree where we have to do lots of work in both revit and Autocad.

It is to my understanding that both of these programs are both quite CPU, ram and GPU intensive, which has made my eyes look into gaming laptops.

I've been eying both the Lenovo Y700 and some of the ROG laptops, as well as some from MSI. and I've been wondering which of these are looked upon as the most reliable?

I've had some of my friends suggest HP and Dell, but I am of the opinion Dell is overpriced and the quality I've experienced with my previous HPs are worse than poor.

I'm not looking for direct suggestions, as I haven't decided on a budget yet (though the 1500 USD range looks rather tempting) but I'd love the Internet service opinion on the general reliability, support and upgrade options (m.2 ports with nvme support, extra ram slots...) that MSI, Lenovo and Asus ROG has?

Thanks in advance for any input, and please have a wonderful day!

 

[Samsterstorm]

21 minutes ago, KrMaH said:

Hey beautiful techies!

So my poor, trustworthy and beloved Lenovo ThinkPad E330 is nearing the end of its useful life as it's getting quite old, and it's i3 and 8 gigs of ram (originally 4gigs, second smartest upgrade ive ever done next to an ssd) are no longer enough to be doing what I need it to do as I've started an engineering degree where we have to do lots of work in both revit and Autocad.

It is to my understanding that both of these programs are both quite CPU, ram and GPU intensive, which has made my eyes look into gaming laptops.

I've been eying both the Lenovo Y700 and some of the ROG laptops, as well as some from MSI. and I've been wondering which of these are looked upon as the most reliable?

I've had some of my friends suggest HP and Dell, but I am of the opinion Dell is overpriced and the quality I've experienced with my previous HPs are worse than poor.

I'm not looking for direct suggestions, as I haven't decided on a budget yet (though the 1500 USD range looks rather tempting) but I'd love the Internet service opinion on the general reliability, support and upgrade options (m.2 ports with nvme support, extra ram slots...) that MSI, Lenovo and Asus ROG has?

Thanks in advance for any input, and please have a wonderful day!

 

Hey man, I just picked up a MSI GE62 6QF about month and half ago and its a great laptop, NVME drive and great build quality! 16GB of RAM and a GTX 970M, and of course the 6700HQ, screen is a delight and the laptop as a whole is great! I highly recommend! I do a simmilar workload to you and its never let me down always buttery smooth

[KrMaH]

2 minutes ago, Samsterstorm said:

Hey man, I just picked up a MSI GE62 6QF about month and half ago and its a great laptop, NVME drive and great build quality! 16GB of RAM and a GTX 970M, and of course the 6700HQ, screen is a delight and the laptop as a whole is great! I highly recommend! I do a simmilar workload to you and its never let me down always buttery smooth

Hmmm! Just looked it up, and looks super sweet!
Problem is, where i Live, that thing is WAAAAAY out of my budget! like, 1100 USD out of my budget!
Norway is expensive
Been looking at this one though: https://www.asus.com/ROG-Republic-Of-Gamers/ROG-GL502VT/
My only gripe is that the specific model Ive been looking at only has 8 gigs of ram, but that can easily be upgraded

[Pendragon]

3 hours ago, KrMaH said:

though the 1500 USD range looks rather tempting

 

3 hours ago, KrMaH said:

Norway is expensive

): ur just out of range for the pascal laptops. 

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/defianceII-15/ Maxwell

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/defianceIII-15/ Pascal if you can up your budget.

[KrMaH]

3 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

 

): ur just out of range for the pascal laptops. 

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/defianceII-15/ Maxwell

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/defianceIII-15/ Pascal if you can up your budget.

I know!
Makes me sad! A GTX1060 would do wonders!
Cant afford to buy a new laptop right now, unfortunately, but by the time I can afford one I'm hoping the prices for pascal specced laptops will have decreased.