A good $800ish laptop

[Mem Boi]

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1. What is your budget? around $800 (950 most)

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
I dont really know, nothing too small though

3. What screen resolution do you want?
Nothing to <Mod Edit>

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
?

5. How much battery life do you need?
Would love a long battery life but its not a big deal if I cant get one

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
Yes
Gmod
Rust
TF2
Older source games

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
3d Modeling, (Im going to be going into CNC Machining)


8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
As im going into CNC machining, I would love a 1tb storage,

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
amazon, best buy, ect

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
long time

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
n/a

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
n/a

13. What country do you live in?
USA

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
I NEED the ability to plug in a "dock", like this thing

 

[Lutfij]

The suggestions made in this thread of yours are good. A month later I'd stick to those suggestions for the sort of workloads you're looking at. I would however ask you to look through this shortlist from BestBuy.