Gaming laptop?

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HavocXphere

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So between my PC getting drop-kicked off a cliff (kinda) and me travelling on business for the next couple months I'm considering a gaming laptop for the first time.

Being uncharted territory for me I thought I'd ask mygaming.co.za for thoughts.

Not looking for anything overly ambitious here...but I am a little concerned about the gfx side. From what I can tell a ultrabook will still not get me nice 1080p Skyrim even if it has a top of the line 4400 integrated. (ie less performance than my 2 year old desktop that cost half as much)

Not looking for specific suggestions yet - more thoughts on gaming laptops in general - and if I'm reading the mobile gfx situation right. Since I know you'll ask though - assume 15-20 budget.
 
I gamed on a laptop (Lenovo Y500A) for about 2 years until I got my gaming desktop PC. Since then I also got hold of an HP Envy 15 with a modest GT 840M GPU. I can do Skyrim at 1080p fairly comfortably, and the same goes for most other games. If the frames drop a bit, I just lower the resolution slightly and it's completely playable again. If you're looking at playing games from the past 2-3 years at their highest settings in 1080p, a mid-range gaming laptop will suit you perfectly.

And yes, for 15-20k you will get a fairly well-specced machine!

/off-topic: How's the new country?
 
I am a huge fan of the Asus gaming notebooks and highly recommend them! If u not looking for anything to expensive then look at their N-series laptops, but if u have the $$$ then go all out on their ROG laptops.
 
I went for an MSI over an alienware, and would do so again. The MSI gaming range has excellent keyboards and speakers. Other specs are comparable.
 
MSI is not bad, but Dell sweeps the floor with after sales support and extended warranties and other bolt-on extras like free data recovery if your HDD fails. Dell's warranty is also not country exclusive/specific, which means that if your bloody expensive Dell breaks while you're in say China they will honor the warranty and fix/replace whatever is broken.
 
Eish those alienw ones get expensive fast if you spec then....20k and then you get a modest gfx...

Good point on the warranty psycho...not actually sure which countries I'll be in so global warranty would make sense.

Anybody know which of these have Kensington lock slots?

Farlig - yeah having a blast this side. Aside from missing family absolutely all changes have been an improvement. Annoyed that my PC died in the process though.
 
HavocXphere said:
EFarlig - yeah having a blast this side. Aside from missing family absolutely all changes have been an improvement. Annoyed that my PC died in the process though.
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Good thing I checked this thread. @mentions have only been implementer a short while and I'm already depending on them to notify me. :p

But having your PC die is probably a small price to pay for leaving this hell hole. Seems like you got out just in time as well - things don't seem to be on the up-and-up. Electricity price, petrol price, corruption, murder... No wonder ZA is nr 3 on list of worst economies globally.

/rant
 
I have an MSI gaming Laptop! Love it so much! Built in Steel Series Keyboard, very good sound and runs all of the modern games! MSI>Alien.

They are very heavy though, and without the charger plugged in the laptops are pretty much only useful to open Note pad Documents
 
Really battling to see value in these laptops. 30k for a laptop that is likely to get shot down by a 15k desktop... Eish. Starting to lean towards the <15 range and accepting that I'll not be able to play some games. Maybe in 3 months time I'll build a monster rig...for now a mid range laptop will have to do I think.

How big is the difference between integrated vs discrete gfx? Assuming similar price range

FarligOpptreden said:
Seems like you got out just in time as well
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The timing is largely coincidence I assure you. Well at least in respect to the latest developments.
 
Hmm... Seems I can get a decent spec Asus rog for <13k. i7/8gb/860m.

The cube custom builds are interesting too though. Similar money and double the ram and double the ssd. Wary of unknown brands with unknown quality and thermal profiles.
 
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