Buying a new laptop

[David_222]

Hello,

I am going to college next year and as she did for my brother and sister, my mom will buy me a laptop for my studies. My older brother chose an Asus (Republic of Gamers) Gaming laptop a few years ago, but he, of course, was playing games i stead of studying. My mother got upset and she told me she wouldn't buy me a gaming laptop, just a standard (lame) laptop. She then paid around 1200$ for a Macbook Pro for my sister, so I'm guessing she will pay the same amount for me.

So my question is, what laptop could I buy, that is NOT directly gaming related (not a Republic of Gamers or MSI, for example), but that I could run decent fps with on most games? My budget is around $1000, could probably increase to $1200.

I guess I could maybe build a laptop too, but I've never done it before..

Thanks a lot,
David

 

[saywhut]

Skip the games and get a Microsoft Surface Pro.

It will be perfect for school, as you can use the pen to actually draw/write in OneNote or Windows Journal. Not to mention how thin it is, even with the detachable keyboard.

 

[superninja12]

http://www.amazon.com/CybertronPC-Tesseract-Laptop-Intel-i7-6700HQ-Microsoft/dp/B017HE1DNY/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1458912655&sr=1-8&refinements=p_n_availability%3A1248800011%2Cp_74%3A100000-149999%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A2423841011%2Cp_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A2057441011%2Cp_n_feature_seven_browse-bin%3A3012497011

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-15-6-Inch-Gaming-Windows-80NV0026US/dp/B014MIBR7K/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1458912732&sr=1-2&keywords=lenovo+y700&refinements=p_n_operating_system_browse-bin%3A12035945011%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A2423841011

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4HM3NP4190

doesnt look like a gaming laptop but is a good gaming laptop

 

[JQB45]

http://www.amazon.com/CybertronPC-Tesseract-Laptop-Intel-i7-6700HQ-Microsoft/dp/B017HE1DNY/ref=sr_1_8?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1458912655&sr=1-8&refinements=p_n_availability%3A1248800011%2Cp_74%3A100000-149999%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A2423841011%2Cp_n_feature_fourteen_browse-bin%3A2057441011%2Cp_n_feature_seven_browse-bin%3A3012497011

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-15-6-Inch-Gaming-Windows-80NV0026US/dp/B014MIBR7K/ref=sr_1_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1458912732&sr=1-2&keywords=lenovo+y700&refinements=p_n_operating_system_browse-bin%3A12035945011%2Cp_n_size_browse-bin%3A2423841011

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA4HM3NP4190

doesnt look like a gaming laptop but is a good gaming laptop

Sadly each of those laptop descriptions say "Gaming Laptop" in the description...

 

[David_222]

Skip the games and get a Microsoft Surface Pro.

It will be perfect for school, as you can use the pen to actually draw/write in OneNote or Windows Journal. Not to mention how thin it is, even with the detachable keyboard.

Clearly, you didn't get what I said.. I want to play games, not spend 1200$ to run Microsoft Word without lagging lol

 

[saywhut]

Skip the games and get a Microsoft Surface Pro.

It will be perfect for school, as you can use the pen to actually draw/write in OneNote or Windows Journal. Not to mention how thin it is, even with the detachable keyboard.

Clearly, you didn't get what I said.. I want to play games, not spend 1200$ to run Microsoft Word without lagging lol

You're going to college, which I presume you will mainly use it to study / notes.

Good luck getting a "gaming" laptop that's not a gaming laptop.

 

[superninja12]

yeah people got a point gaming laptops are made for gaming, you got to talk your mom around it.

 

[David_222]

Skip the games and get a Microsoft Surface Pro.

It will be perfect for school, as you can use the pen to actually draw/write in OneNote or Windows Journal. Not to mention how thin it is, even with the detachable keyboard.

Clearly, you didn't get what I said.. I want to play games, not spend 1200$ to run Microsoft Word without lagging lol

You're going to college, which I presume you will mainly use it to study / notes.

Good luck getting a "gaming" laptop that's not a gaming laptop.

Listen, my mother wants to buy me a laptop for studying, which I will do but not 24/7, which means I can still play games when I have free time. I just want a decent laptop that's not written "THE BEST GAMING LAPTOP EVER" on it, cause then my mom won't buy it for me. I just want a laptop that can run games like Csgo in a decent fps rate, and in the best of worlds, games like Arma III, but I doubt it's possible since I don't want a laptop only for gaming.

Hope you understand,

 

[saywhut]

Here, I think you're looking for something like this:
http://www.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/model/NX.G6JAA.002

It has a GTX 960m which you can find benchmarks here almost down the bottom of the page:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-960M-Review.137893.0.html

 

[David_222]

Wow, you got that right! It's exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for your time!

 

[saywhut]

NP. That looks like a solid laptop, so you can't go wrong with it.

That being said, if you want to explore several options, that should give you a starting ground to research others like it.