Hi everyone
I'm thinking of getting a good gaming laptop. Budget is around $1,500-1,800. I have my eye on a Dell Alienware 14 but the high specs one is still $1,954 ($2,299 less 15% discount from powerbuy). I was wondering if any of you could please suggest a better value for money alternative?
Thanks
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If you are getting a laptop just for gaming, then I think a desktop or even a console is better.
However if you are getting a laptop for work, study or other purposes AND wanting to be able to play games on it, there are quite a lot of choices. At your budget maybe looking at something with at least NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860m on it.
Personally I own a Clevo / Metabox which I spend lots of time on it for work, but it also runs many recent games beautiful if I need to take a 15 minutes break fragging someone. They do have terrible keyboard & trackpad though so if I need to type a lot I'll grab an external keyboard as well. You can buy them at Logical Blue One, Affordable Laptops or Kong Computers.
How heavy ur Clevp/Metabox, Mr Scotty?
W230SS (the one that's currently on sale at LogicalBlueOne) — 2kg. A bit heavy for a 13.3" & feels bulky. However a good performer. Would be a lot better if the keyboard & trackpad are better. Even my $250 Acer Chromebook has better trackpad than this.
I bought a gaming laptop 2 months ago as I have been traveling alot. Bad mistake! My issue is not with the price (I can afford it) or specs, it is that NVidia Optimus gave me so much grief I returned it after 3 weeks of use.
Read some forum, NVidia Optimus is the worst and with some gaming laptop it is impossible to get a decent framerate through an external monitor due to the way its dedicated GPU routed through the intel onboard video card. It is a design issue,
Not sure about these new GeForce 980M laptops though (the best money can buy for now for a mobile GPU), apparently it should be 80-90% benchmark performance against its desktop counterpart. Again though NVidia Optimus will give you grief.
Also another issue with laptop gaming, you can't turn off the Intel onboard GPU as it powers the laptop monitor. So yeah have fun
Buy a desktop, seriously
But if you have your heart set on a gaming laptop and a cheaper alternative to Alienware, get one of those Asus ROG, the 850M version will set you back around 1650ish at JB (it is currently on sale)
Hi everyone
I already have a powerful desktop with 2 big monitors for gaming. However, I was thinking with a laptop I might be able to play games/ work (writing games) while travelling (not very often) or in other parts of the house.
Thanks for your comments and suggestions so far. Please keep them coming.
The two computers have to be on the same network, so essentially it only works at home.
If you haven't used it, it's pretty decent. I have my laptop stream from my gaming desktop without any issue.
wifi or ethernet?
If you have poor wifi (i.e. you're on 2.4ghz and the airspace is crowded) what you'll find is that there may be a lot of jitters and input delays. It helps if the host computer is connectected via ethernet — the client can stay on wifi.
whirlpool has a whole heap of posts for this. check a couple out.
I got an MSI GT70 Dominator for ~$1,800 , decent specs for the price.
Runs DA:Inquisition and BF4 quite well
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Keep checking back on a daily basis, the list is constantly updated.
Hi everyone
Thanks for your feedback. I've upped my budget to $2000. Still looking…
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Hey Guys, Anyone can recommend a Gaming laptop for ~2k?
Why are you even gaming on a laptop..?