What Do You Think Of This Gaming Laptop?

[Mrbluee]

I was thinking of getting this laptop for myself as I travel alot?

 

Specification:-
- Operating System: Choose from the drop down options!
- Display: 17.3" SuperBright LED True HD 120Hz 3D Display (1920x1080 Resolution)
- Graphics: 2x NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780M 4096MB GDDR5 in SLI
- Built in 3D IR emitter plus one NV 3D Vision 2 shutter glasses
- Storage: Choose from the drop down options!
- Optical: Choose from the drop down options!
- Sound Blaster HD Audio
- Mic Noise Suppression
- Dolby Home Theatre®
- 4W THX Stereo Speakers (2W x 4)
- 2 megapixel Webcam
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i7 4th Generation Haswell Processor - Choose exact model from drop down options!
- Memory: 4GB DDR3 System Memory at 1600MHz (4GB x 1) OR choose 8/16GB DDR3 Options
- Main Chipset: Intel HM87
- Communication: 10 / 100 / 1000 Gigabit Ethernet LAN,Wireless LAN, Widi Support
- WiFi Options: Choose from drop down menu
- 1x HDMI Port
- 1x DisplayPort
- 1x Mini-DisplayPort
- 3x USB3.0 Ports
- 1x USB2.0 Port
- 1x Mini IEEE 1394a port
- 1x eSATA Port (USB 3.0 Combo)
- 1x DC IN
- 1x RJ-45 Jack
- Kensington Lock: YES
- Full Range AC adapter, AC in 100~240V, 50~60Hz, DC output 19.5V, 11.8A, 230W 
- Removable 8 cells Smart Lithium-Ion battery pack, 76.96WH 
- Battery life: 300 minutes (with UMA mode, 76.96WH Battery) 
- Dimensions: 419 (W)x293 (D)x 39.3.3~49.7 (H)mm 
- 3.9Kg,including ODD and 76.96WH Battery 
- 9in1 Card Reader
- 2yr Warranty (1yr Parts, 2yr Labour)

 

£4172.92 inc VAT

 

- See for yourself (http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=LT-024-OE)

 

BTW I picked: Microsoft Windows 8 Pro, Samsung Slimline Blu-Ray Writer, Intel i7 4930MX, Killer 1103 Qualcomm Atheros 3x3, 2x Samsung 1TB SSD 840 Evo, Corsair Vengeance 16GB  

 

Do you think I should get this or have you got a better suggestion.

[Lord Pantaloons]

I think it's a beefy, expensive laptop

[Sarcasm]

Please don't tell me you actually plan to 3D game on a laptop...

[TechSage]

Expensive.

 

EDIT: That's $7001 dollars (Canada)

[Thunderjolt]

That is hella expensive. It's basically a desktop replacement? if you want it to take around you'll need to go smaller. If you really have that much cash to spend do it because £4.1k is A LOT of money on a laptop. You could make a PC for MUCH better at £4.1k

[simtransporter]

The specs are great. The form factor is think and ugly, but that's to be expected with high end gaming laptops like this one. Overall I still prefer ultrabooks for portability and desktops for gaming.

[Coombzy]

I think its not good for travelling with 2 780m's and all that cooling its not exactly going to be light

[Mrbluee]

Please don't tell me you actually plan to 3D game on a laptop...

No just game at high resolution 

[miyabwah]

A portable desktop would be better.

[amintha1992]

if you are not going to haul this around you might as well build a much better PC for that price and get a good* 3D monitor (subjective, personally i dont care about 3D unless its a cinema theatre)

 

 

No just game at high resolution 

then get a 2560x1440 or a 2560x1600 or even higher Display and build a beast of a PC for that Price

[Mixzzz]

Ok why the fuck would you need that powerful laptop? You can buy a good desktop PC and somekinda Gaming laptop for that price... Cmon, its not worth it...

[Bluejay0]

Not worth it. 2 Megapixel camera? PATHETIC!!!

[Bluethulhu]

You can get an amazing mini-ITX rig and something like a Y500 for that kind of money. Desktop replacement laptops are almost never worth it. I have a laundry list of reasons why not to get one, and I think most people would agree with them.

[bottenfield125]

If you really dont need a laptop, pleeeeease dont get one for gaming.....please....you could run a triple monitor setup for that much money, or anything! 

[LapX]

I didn't go trough all the specs, but I expect to get 2 minutes of battery life when gaming.

[Arshdeep]

Please don't tell me you actually plan to 3D game on a laptop...

Where is your igloo?

[Sarcasm]

Where is your igloo?

This isn't Omegle, I don't do A/S/L

[Lays]

@Mrbluee you can literally build my pc+setup for that price, and have some leftover

[megadarkwood]

This isn't Omegle, I don't do A/S/L

oh snnnapppp

[Arshdeep]

This isn't Omegle, I don't do A/S/L

I never asked it that way... why would you even think of it... why? haha

[SteepGnomeKing]

So, Hi, I'm going to offer an actual opinion from someone with a gaming laptop and who travels for work.

To everyone saying to get a desktop, that is the most unrealistic thing ever to do while traveling. You have a suitcase to take on the plane. Your not going to carry your monitor, tower, mouse, and keyboard with you on these flights. Everyone including the OP knows that he can get a better desktop for the price but that isn't what he is asking for so your point is moot. While it is a bulky laptop, especially compared to new ultrabooks, this is a desktop replacement where you have it as a carry-on, sit it down on a desk in your hotel room, and it stays there. You can still play games at a great resolution and fidelity, with the large access to PC games.

 

The 4930mx is a waste of money imo. You can get a 4800mq and overclock it to 3.0 ghz if you want, but you shouldn't be bottlenecked by the cpu. So you can save yourself like $500 just from that. The 780m sli is the best on the market so you can't do any better. That will drive the 120hz monitor you got. 16gb memory is fine, I'd keep it since you will have this laptop for a while I assume.

The keyboards on these are pretty good, back-lit and decent spacing.. I use it all the time and have no problem. Just need to get an external mouse and your good to go.

The speakers are decent, loud enough for what you need and good sound.

 

This is going to be a good laptop for traveling. Get a notebook cooler, or really anything to raise it up a little bit and your temps shouldn't cross 75c. Can even overclock the GPU is you need some extra power.

 

This is the way to go for traveling and still wanting to game. Can't get any better.

[old reece frost]

2x780 in a laptop THE POWER. 

[YeroJero]

If you want a gaming laptop, go for something thin and easy to carry like a MSI GS70. I bought a Asus G53 a few years back and I hated lugging that thing around school with me.

 

Trust me, you'll regret having such a heavy laptop even if it is the most powerful thing out there. Thin and powerful's the way to go.

[TheRetiredSlave]

Just going to throw this out there:

I bought a high end gaming laptop a year and a half ago because at the time I thought my needs justified both the extra expense and limited performance (compared to desktops).. A year and a half later, my needs have changed and I kind of regret the decision. If I build a desktop, my only two options for my laptop would be to sell it at a very low price (PCs don't hold their value), or I can have a semi-useless machine sitting around my house. If I don't build a desktop, my performance in newer games is limited..

 

My advice to you is this: Don't buy anything that you might regret a year or two down the road.. 

 

 

As for specs, like SteepGnomeKing said, the 780M SLI is the fastest GPU solution available to laptops right now. If you need the ballsiest and more powerful laptop possible, this is the only way to go. However the price on a laptop with that GPU setup is pretty ridiculous, so I would generally consider it to be not really worth the cost. Personally I wouldn't overspend on a laptop, because you're never going to get around the inherent limitations of laptops. A Clevo P170 (or comparable 17" single-GPU DTR) with a i7-4800MQ and a single 780M should save you a ton of money, and still offer reasonable performance for games without being too* expensive.

[Lil Chillbil]

http://pcpartpicker.com/parts/partlist/

 

 

dude, just get this and pay attention to the custom part I threw in there.