Gaming Laptop for College?

Josh

Alright guys, my budget is around $1600 (already calculated out warranty). And i need a gaming laptop that will last me and not end up being a buggy piece of junk. It has to be a name brand probably not dell because alienware sucks :P, because it needs that warranty that i mentioned earlier. Any ideas?

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There is a general supply gap in the Intel Ivy Bridge, and it may be to clear inventory. The custom's which are modified Clevo's and MSI's are possible, but I do not trust that cooling has been designed in properly. You can browse for example ibuypower and avadirect.

My recommendation at your price point is checking Newegg, Tigerdirect, BHPhoto, Toshiba.com, and googling a model you find for a slightly better price.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/244419/laptop_reliability_and_satisfaction_macbooks_rule.html
(Average in the table is alphabetical and Mac's cost a fortune and not gaming level)
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphic-Cards.13849.0.html
Graphics card(IC) is the biggest factor in gaming.
Added CPU + GPU on another tab:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
And, you can also browse Game-debate after you find something.

As of this minute, subject to change, and I assume you want a 17.3" and not for carrying to class.
An idea might be a 15.6 and display for your room.
This Toshiba at $1050 gets you most of the way there for gaming. Starting as a base model to compare, you will find you pay somewhat more for only small improvement.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834214604
TOSHIBA Qosmio X775-Q7170 i5 2450M(2.50GHz) 17.3" 6GB Memory DDR3 1333 640GB HDD 7200rpm DVD Super Multi NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560M 1.5GB GDDR5
You can go to squaretrade.com and add a 3 year warranty including accidental damage and stay under budget.
MSI at $1250 if the rebate holds moves up to GTX 570M, i7 quad core, 17.3" 1080p, overflowing RAM:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152293
There is a little bigger HDD model in Raid at $100 more with more GDRAM also.
And at the top of your price:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834152336
GTX 670M and Ivy Bridge i7 CPU has you a little better than GeForce GTX 550 Ti of desktops.
GTX 660M as a little lower gets Bluray and is decent:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2355975&CatId=4938
or w/o Bluray a little cheaper:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+17.3%26%2334%3B+Laptop+-+8GB+Memory+-+1TB+Hard+Drive/5176239.p?id=1218621250769&skuId=5176239
Check taxes and warranty costs.

gaming/college laptop?

Andre

i'm going to college and i need a good laptop that'll benefit me in college but i also like to play games. anyone know a good model?

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For the best gaming, Performance, Reliability and customer service get an Asus. Alienware are way overpriced and use poor parts on their PC's, Any Asus model will work just look for a strong Graphics card like a GTS 260 ME or Dual Graphics card's. They also have really good customer service and great warranties where you get your Laptop back the same night you ship it.

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What is better and more practical for college?

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Brad Truxi

I want a gaming laptop and im willing to spend about $3300 on one, but this laptop will also be the laptop i will be using for college. Currently i am looking at the alienware m17x or the Sager Np9280. What im worried about is the size and weight of these computers, they are 17inches and and the sager is about 12 lbs. Do i really want to be carrying these powerful machines around with me, another option i was thinking about was to get an HP mini or another small computer with this laptop, but idk

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For that amount of money, you should be able to get about any gaming laptop you want. A 12 lb. laptop would definitely not be very portable. . .if you intend on carrying it around with you often, that probably won't be your best option.

I did a quick search for 17" gaming laptops using Laptop Scout
(http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-laptop-scout/default.aspx), and found some that might work. One of the matches was the Alienware model you listed, and another was the Falcon FragBook NW TLX. It's priced at about $2446, but it weighs in at about 7lbs., boasts a great looking LCD screeen, a great graphics card, and uses the fastest processor that Intel makes. It might be a good fit for you.

There are a couple other laptops at the site, I recommend you head there and use the Compare tool to see how they match up with one another. Hopefully it'll help you find the gaming machine that's right for you.

Cheers,
Cody
Windows Outreach Team

What is the best gaming laptop, with a price range of £600 to £800?

Trent

Just wanted to buy a laptop for college that may be used a little for gaming as well. If anyone could suggest some good makes or even websites it would be much appreciated.

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You'll want to focus on two aspects: The GPU, and the display.

The GPU is the primary determining factor for game performance. Game performance tends to be bottlenecked by the GPU before any other performance-related spec -- CPU, RAM, etc. -- makes its way into relevance for concern.

The display is a key point to focus on, in that once you start getting into price ranges that make it reasonable for you to get a decent display, you want to try to get a decent display. The differences between available displays is one of the things that makes the most difference, because of how significant the differences are between displays, and because it literally affects everything you do. 15.6" 1920x1080 displays and 17.3" 1920x1080 displays are examples on the good end of the spectrum. They're great in that the resolution lets you fit a lot onscreen, and in that displays with those size-resolution combinations tend to be decent quality LCD panels with good colors/contrast. This is in contrary to displays such as 15.6" 1366x768 and 17.3" 1600x900, which make things onscreen large and tend to be low-grade LCD panels with very poor image quality due to low contrast. You should make a point to avoid displays like that when it is reasonable to do so, unless you require the larger text for eyesight-related reasons.

As covered a little bit above, less important are CPU and RAM. Most concern for these specs stems from dishonest marketing courtesy of manufacturers, resellers, and retailers. Focus on the things that are important and, more often than not, the computers you'll find that do well in the areas that are important to be concerned with, come with more than enough in these areas.

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That said, here are a number of laptops that do well in these two areas.

MSI GE60: 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £729
- http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_GE60_1360310.html

MSI GE60: 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GTX 660M, £838
- http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_GE60_1345458.html

MSI GE70: 17.3" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £799
- http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_GE70_1357972.html

Dell Inspiron 17R SE: 17.3" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £599
- http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n0017s34&model_id=inspiron-17r-se-7720&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&opcode=add
- Avoid any of the models that say they come with the "900p" display. With the Inspiron 17R SE, you want to be careful to make sure that the model you're buying comes with the "1080p" (1920x1080) display, and not the "900p" (1600x900) display.

Lenovo Y500: 15.6" 1920x1080 glossy display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £749
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Ideapad-Laptop-Black-Graphics-Windows/dp/B00B2HVYRI

PCSpecialist Optimus IV: 15.6" or 17.3" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GTX 660M, ~£749 / ~£773
- 15.6" version: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusIV-15/
- 17.3" version: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusIV-17/
- Processor: Select the i3-3210M or i5-3210M.
- RAM: Select 4GB or 8GB. 2GB (default) is a bit on the low side; and past 8GB is unnecessary. But I'd also suggest looking into the prices of upgrading this after-market. It's often cheaper.
- Hard Disk: Upgrades here are cheap. I'd probably suggest the 500GB 7200RPM or 750GB 7200RPM.

PCSpecialist Enigma IV: 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, ~£699
- http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/enigmaIV/
- Display: Select one of the two 1920x1080 options. You should avoid buying this laptop with either of the two 1366x768 display options (one of which is the default).
- Processor: Select the i3-3210M or i5-3210M.
- RAM: Select 4GB or 8GB. 2GB (default) is a bit on the low side; and past 8GB is unnecessary. But I'd also suggest looking into the prices of upgrading this after-market. It's often cheaper.
- Hard Disk: Upgrades here are cheap. I'd probably suggest the 500GB 7200RPM or 750GB 7200RPM.
- If you can get the Optimus IV for a similar price by downgrading a thing or two in its configuration (namely CPU and RAM), then I would. GPU is the most important thing to be concerned with for gaming, and the Optimus IV has a faster GPU.

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What is the best gaming laptop, with a price range of £600 to £800?

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Trent

Just wanted to buy a laptop for college that may be used a little for gaming as well. If anyone could suggest some good makes or even websites it would be much appreciated.

Answer
You'll want to focus on two aspects: The GPU, and the display.

The GPU is the primary determining factor for game performance. Game performance tends to be bottlenecked by the GPU before any other performance-related spec -- CPU, RAM, etc. -- makes its way into relevance for concern.

The display is a key point to focus on, in that once you start getting into price ranges that make it reasonable for you to get a decent display, you want to try to get a decent display. The differences between available displays is one of the things that makes the most difference, because of how significant the differences are between displays, and because it literally affects everything you do. 15.6" 1920x1080 displays and 17.3" 1920x1080 displays are examples on the good end of the spectrum. They're great in that the resolution lets you fit a lot onscreen, and in that displays with those size-resolution combinations tend to be decent quality LCD panels with good colors/contrast. This is in contrary to displays such as 15.6" 1366x768 and 17.3" 1600x900, which make things onscreen large and tend to be low-grade LCD panels with very poor image quality due to low contrast. You should make a point to avoid displays like that when it is reasonable to do so, unless you require the larger text for eyesight-related reasons.

As covered a little bit above, less important are CPU and RAM. Most concern for these specs stems from dishonest marketing courtesy of manufacturers, resellers, and retailers. Focus on the things that are important and, more often than not, the computers you'll find that do well in the areas that are important to be concerned with, come with more than enough in these areas.

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That said, here are a number of laptops that do well in these two areas.

MSI GE60: 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £729
- http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_GE60_1360310.html

MSI GE60: 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GTX 660M, £838
- http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_GE60_1345458.html

MSI GE70: 17.3" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £799
- http://www.saveonlaptops.co.uk/MSI_GE70_1357972.html

Dell Inspiron 17R SE: 17.3" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £599
- http://configure.euro.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?oc=n0017s34&model_id=inspiron-17r-se-7720&c=uk&l=en&s=dhs&cs=ukdhs1&opcode=add
- Avoid any of the models that say they come with the "900p" display. With the Inspiron 17R SE, you want to be careful to make sure that the model you're buying comes with the "1080p" (1920x1080) display, and not the "900p" (1600x900) display.

Lenovo Y500: 15.6" 1920x1080 glossy display, NVIDIA GT 650M, £749
- http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-Ideapad-Laptop-Black-Graphics-Windows/dp/B00B2HVYRI

PCSpecialist Optimus IV: 15.6" or 17.3" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GTX 660M, ~£749 / ~£773
- 15.6" version: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusIV-15/
- 17.3" version: http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/optimusIV-17/
- Processor: Select the i3-3210M or i5-3210M.
- RAM: Select 4GB or 8GB. 2GB (default) is a bit on the low side; and past 8GB is unnecessary. But I'd also suggest looking into the prices of upgrading this after-market. It's often cheaper.
- Hard Disk: Upgrades here are cheap. I'd probably suggest the 500GB 7200RPM or 750GB 7200RPM.

PCSpecialist Enigma IV: 15.6" 1920x1080 matte display, NVIDIA GT 650M, ~£699
- http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/enigmaIV/
- Display: Select one of the two 1920x1080 options. You should avoid buying this laptop with either of the two 1366x768 display options (one of which is the default).
- Processor: Select the i3-3210M or i5-3210M.
- RAM: Select 4GB or 8GB. 2GB (default) is a bit on the low side; and past 8GB is unnecessary. But I'd also suggest looking into the prices of upgrading this after-market. It's often cheaper.
- Hard Disk: Upgrades here are cheap. I'd probably suggest the 500GB 7200RPM or 750GB 7200RPM.
- If you can get the Optimus IV for a similar price by downgrading a thing or two in its configuration (namely CPU and RAM), then I would. GPU is the most important thing to be concerned with for gaming, and the Optimus IV has a faster GPU.

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What is the bast way to buy a gaming laptop that is cheap.?

chris s

I'm low on cash all the time and I'm in college. I need a laptop for college but I want to be able to play FPS shooter games on it like Half-Life 2: Deathmatch and Counter Strike: Source. Everytime I get close to having enough money to buy one I get hit with some bill that I have. I have tried to get it through my finace department in school but they say that I can't, But I still see everyone else getting it through them. I don't want to to have to get a credit card or any drastic measures that could hurt my credit in the future. any advice will help.

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You must spend your money for the best brand.

As I know HP and Dell are the best in laptops for a long time and they are very reliable too. I trusted HP and I bought a HP laptop 2 years before, and still like the day I bought it. Didn't even have to service it at least once up to now.

I recommend you to buy a HP (with experience) or Dell laptop.

On www.hp.com you can even customize your laptop. And also you can check the price.

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What is the best laptop I can get for under 1500$?

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Mark

I hate macs and want to avoid windows 8 if possible. I was thinking about maybe getting a gaming laptop, but it's my primary goal to get a computer for college, which I begin my first year soon.

I know that is a very picky list of wants but if you can think of anything it would be a great help.

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You can get a pure gaming laptop under $1500 but I would not recommend you to go for. As you want a laptop for other tasks of schools than it is better to go for other multitasking good laptop in this price range.

I will recommend a laptop from ASUS which has the price of under $1500. Also it has really good features which are perfect for different tasks. Its features include:

It has Intel Core i7-3517U 1.9 GHz for fast working
It has 4 GB DDR3
500 GB 5400 rpm Hard Drive with 128 GB Solid-State Drive
13.3-Inch Screen with Intel GMA HD which is portable and perfect for students
Windows 8 because most of the latest laptops has it.

The above features are perfect for a good laptop. Alongside this, it is very good in its performance as well for that you'll be interested on this actual user review, talking about actual good performance on this laptop:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R3F28OYXN5WUM8/ref=cm_cr_pr_perm?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B009F1J4QQ&linkCode=&nodeID=&tag=daieom-20

So a perfect laptop for perfect performance makes it a good choice to go for. But I would like you to see other options as well to broaden your choices. See the list here for most popular laptops under $1500, those on the top of the list are normally good offers:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=sr_nr_p_36_0?bbn=565108&qid=1370937598&rh=n%3A172282%2Cn%3A%21493964%2Cn%3A541966%2Cn%3A565108%2Cp_36%3A-40000&rnid=2421885011&low-price=1000&high-price=1500&x=5&y=17&tag=daieom-20

what is a good laptop for occasional gaming and college work?

jlh Hook

i want a pc that can run bf3 at decent graphics settings and not be a full blown gaming laptop. all i want is one for the occasional game or two at a price of $1000 or less. maybe a little more

Answer
The Alienware M14x is your best choice. It is a portable size laptop that powerful for Battlefield 3.

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