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TheBr0wnMamba

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Hey, I'm looking for the best gaming laptop I can get for under 1000$ which will give me the most bang for the buck deal! I want the laptop to be a beast and tear through games to the best of its ability! (I know everyone is going to say build a PC but I need the laptop for college) Any suggestions will help! Please and thank you! P.S. It needs to be somewhat portable as I will be needing to carry this around my college campus! (I can still handle something big easily though)
 
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I would just get some cheap laptop for school and then use the rest on a desktop pc. It's no use having a gaming laptop for a school work. Not to mention that for 1000$, you can't really get "gaming" laptop in the first place. Just very high end multimedia laptop.
 
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didn't i say that I know i can build a pc... looking for something for college. when i am done with college i will switch back to a pc i have money to spend on it..
 
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A cheap example would be a X205T.

I have one and it's super light and smooth. You can watch any YouTube video on it fine without lag.

I would build the desktop.

If you don't want to build, then a place like CyberPowerPC is a good place to start.

You can keep your desktop at your dorm.
 
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I will be gaming on this, not browsing YouTube, if i wanted to do that i can grab a tablet or use my phone.
 
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Are you going to be gaming on the go? An example would be having the laptop on your lap and gaming on it. If you will be gaming in a dorm, then a desktop is the right choice. But by reading your previous comment, it looks like you will be gaming on a laptop as of now and building a pc after college.

What games do you play? This will play an important part in selecting your laptop. For example, if you play an old title such as Starcraft II, then a laptop in your budget can run it very well in around 40 to 60 fps. But if you are playing a big title like GTA V, then I think a laptop that fits in your budget will run low settings at around 30 fps. This is a pure estimate so it might be wrong.

How much storage do you want on the laptop? SSD or HDD? Because you are on a budget, I would recommend a HDD, but if you are impatient (like me) then maybe you can fit a SSD for the OS and maybe one or two priority programs on it.

And lastly, what else will you be doing with the laptop? Because you are in college, you might be working on projects or typing up essays, etc. This will also play and important role because usually gaming laptops are used for gaming and gaming only. For rendering or encoding they are decent, but not as good as the Xeons or Quadros or FirePros, which are way out of your budget. These are some questions I would ask you because I went through the same thing as you.
 
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I prob wont be gaming on the go, but when i head to my dorm at the end of the night i want to play some games. But i need some portability since i want to code on the go. I was also thinking about getting a monitor to throw into my dorm in case if i want to run a dual monitor set up
I want to play games like CSGO, LoL, Battlefeild, GTA V (im obv not expecting to run them at max cause that's absolutely impossible with my budget)
I 100000% want an SSD!
I also am going to college as a computer engineering major so I will be using this laptop for coding and other stuff along those lines.
 
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I know you have said that you don't want to build one, but considering what you need to do...it would be the most efficient.

Have cheap laptop to keep with you on classes and do basic work. Then when you get to the dorm, you can move the stuff from laptop to desktop pc and work on the encoding etc. on much more powerful pc.

I can say with experience that you will never do proper gaming on the go.
Except some old, quick solo games from time to time.
A lot people have thought the same thing as you but in the end the only place they played games at, was in dorm or at home.
And if they did play on the go, they used tab, phone or played some basic games on emulator or something.

And building a mITX sized pc, will make it somehow portable when you move somewhere else from dorm.
 
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I totally understand everything your saying and there all true facts, but it is not in my best interest to get a PC right now. I really want a gaming laptop at the moment, in 4-5 years i will def be investing in a PC!
 
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yea it might actually be better to stick with and HDD....
 
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It depends. Do you want your codeing program to load up faster? Do you also want your games to load faster? Or do you just want your laptop to reboot quicker? The smallest size SSD that I would think would fit your needs is a 120gb one plus maybe a 750gb hdd.

Update: Because you are on a budget maybe a 64gb ssd is good but only for an OS and maybe one program.
 
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definitely my OS and my coding
 
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How big is the coding program and which OS are you planning to use? As of right now, a laptop that is unfortunately only $70 above your budget with a 250gb SSD is the Sager NP6659. Here is the link:

http://www.sagernotebook.com/customize.php?productid=712

Go to the customize tab and scroll down to the MSATA SSD Drive and select the $100 Crucial 250GB SSD. Make sure it is under the configured as OS area. The reason for the 250GB instead of the 120GB is because they are the same price, and who does not want more 😀


Edit: The SSD is actually 256GB not 250 my bad.

Second Edit: Spelling
 
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Here.

It's the best one. However, it's 50 dollars above your budget.

It comes with an SSHD (HDD with 8GB of SSD) and that's all. The performance is between an HDD's and a SSD's, leaning closer to the SSD.

It also has a GTX 860M, which has 2GB of GDDR5 VRAM, instead of DDR3.

Both my friends have it and they like it.
 
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My personal opinion is that I would not recommend this because first, the GPU is a Kepler which uses more power than the newer Maxwell gpus, and the laptop does not have an integrated GPU and therefore chews up the battery life. Also, the CPU is a bit outdated. But because this statement is completely opinionated, it is up for TheBr0wnManba to decide.
 
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actually i read up on some more reviews and many people said its a crazyyyy fingerprint magnet, along will poor air flow... I know that i am being very picky with this only because im throwing down some serious cash so i want it to be the best it can be, I obviously know i can't find anything perfect but I want to finding something near it
 
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Most are.
You can't really find one which wouldn't have one or the other of those problems.
 
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