Within the next few weeks, I am going to be buying my wife a new gaming laptop. My budget is about $3,500, give or take a few hundred. With all of the options out there, I was hoping to get some advice on what to get/where to buy. Here are my constraints:
1. Cannot build it myself - I build my own gaming PCs, but (a) I don't know anything about building laptops, and (b) it's for my wife and she wants something where she can read reviews and have support options, and, honestly, if it fails and we need to RMA it, I don't want it to be "my fault".
2. Must have a GTX1080, i7 processor, minimum 32GB ram, and at least 1 boot SSD, preferably dual SSDs in Raid 0. She does a lot more than game on her machine, hence the beefed up specs, and, honestly, while I think some of it is overkill, those are the things she's asked for and, being my wife, I want to deliver.
3. Needs to have minimum 2 years support, preferably with accidental damage coverage.
4. Screen needs to be 17.3"+ as she won't be using a separate monitor. It needs to have a num pad, which rules out the Razer model. Otherwise, size doesn't matter, she'll use it primarily from home, but it needs to be a laptop because she likes to be able to move around the house.
5. Needs to have a good cooling system - she had an MSI before that vented down and ended up burning her leg at one point.
I've always found the advice on these forums to be top-notch, so thanks in advance for the help!
1. Cannot build it myself - I build my own gaming PCs, but (a) I don't know anything about building laptops, and (b) it's for my wife and she wants something where she can read reviews and have support options, and, honestly, if it fails and we need to RMA it, I don't want it to be "my fault".
2. Must have a GTX1080, i7 processor, minimum 32GB ram, and at least 1 boot SSD, preferably dual SSDs in Raid 0. She does a lot more than game on her machine, hence the beefed up specs, and, honestly, while I think some of it is overkill, those are the things she's asked for and, being my wife, I want to deliver.
3. Needs to have minimum 2 years support, preferably with accidental damage coverage.
4. Screen needs to be 17.3"+ as she won't be using a separate monitor. It needs to have a num pad, which rules out the Razer model. Otherwise, size doesn't matter, she'll use it primarily from home, but it needs to be a laptop because she likes to be able to move around the house.
5. Needs to have a good cooling system - she had an MSI before that vented down and ended up burning her leg at one point.
I've always found the advice on these forums to be top-notch, so thanks in advance for the help!
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