Looking for a gaming Laptop

[EGYPTIANGHETTO]

Hello, I do not know much about computers in general and would appreciate any assistance. I want to buy a laptop that I can game on. I realize that a full tower is more powerful, but I need a laptop for school, which also means that i do not have too much money to spend on one. I want to play games like LoL and Dota, Skyrim, Civilization, BF4.

Alright so I have around $900 to spend, I am willing to go up to $1000 for a Laptop. I have been looking at the Lenovo Y40 (http://shop.lenovo.com/ca/en/laptops/lenovo/y-series/y40/index.html, the one in the second column, # 59423028) and the HP Envy (http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/hewlett-packard-hp-envy-15-6-laptop-silver-intel-core-i7-4710hq-1tb-hdd-12gb-ram-windows-8-1-15-k058ca/10298749.aspx?path=fbc388071248e6900fc33d6782d3c33cen02) or Dell Inspiron (http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/dell-dell-inspiron-15-15-6-touchscreen-laptop-silver-intel-core-i7-4510u-1tb-hdd-16gb-ram-windows-8-1-i5547-17500slv/10298308.aspx?path=fd6035a9d8a6ba44d3145f0b4398ddc7en02)

I would appreciate any input any of you would have, thanks.

 

[lightcloud]

With the $900, you can do plenty of things but can probably play only medium to low on Battlefield.

Yes Lenovo are one of the laptops that allows gaming within the budget. But it is the same as the Dell and has a low voltage processor not usually great for a gaming laptop. But good for casual gaming.

So my best recommendation out of the three is the HP Envy. It is certainly packed with power in a laptop that looks like a MacBook.

So that's what I would go for. However don't forget a laptop cooler.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Neither Lenovo, HP or Dell actually "make" a laptop....so choosing one over the other is a bit odd as they may have all been made in the same factory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1nPVLuWFNo

The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China.
Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
Clevo sells to most boutique manufacturers (WidowPC, Falcon NW, etc.) but also sells direct under their own name or thru Sager branding

In order to gain a pricing edge over the competition, they will use name brand components for CPU and GFX but then always cheap out with some 5400 rpm, crappy HD.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/91510-clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-reseller-info.html

CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers)… notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.

This is what my 3 kids took to school. (Clevo 170SM)
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np8278-special.html

I'd start w/ this one
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np7358.html


You will find some Canada resellers here

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sager-clevo/592609-clevo-guide-v3-0-faq-reseller-info-read-before-posting.html