Gaming Laptop Help!

[Pintuition]

Hello friends!

I hope I've posted this in the right place, I think so, but I'm not positive.

I'm looking to buy a gaming laptop and was wondering if anyone has any good recommendations. I find that reviews online are always mixed so I thought I should ask you all! Here's some more information about my budget/situation...

I have always been more of a console person but I find myself increasingly wanting to play PC games. I don't have room to build a huge setup and really can only accommodate a laptop right now. I was thinking I want to keep it in the $1500-2000 range or so in terms of costs. Just a good mid tier gaming laptop. I'd be looking for something not to huge- 15 inch screen or so. I'd also be using it to work from home for the next few months.

Does anyone use a gaming laptop that is similar that they like? Or bought and didn't like? Please let me know. I'm a total newbie to this so any help would be most appreciated.

 

[Dwayne Johnson]

Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming Laptop, 15.6" FHD (1920x1080) IPS Screen, AMD Ryzen 7 4800H Processor, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GTX 1660Ti, Windows 10, 82B1000AUS, Phantom Black : Amazon.ca: Electronics

Lenovo Legion 5 Gaming Laptop, 15.6" FHD (1920x1080) IPS Screen, AMD Ryzen 7 4800H Processor, 16GB DDR4, 512GB SSD, NVIDIA GTX 1660Ti, Windows 10, 82B1000AUS, Phantom Black : Amazon.ca: Electronics

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This one is pretty good and is in your price range. 16 gigs is a great amount of ram, but 512 gb of storage is kind of small, it can be expanded though

it can run most games at good settings. if you're not looking for something with a ton of storage for games i think this could be good for you

 

[Sharksheep]

They have a youtube channel but they have many gaming laptop reviews there but there's some on the website.

Homepage, Most Recent | GamersNexus

www.gamersnexus.net

https://www.youtube.com/user/GamersNexus/

Obviously a laptop is better if you are still in school and have to take it with you to class. But with a budget of $1500-2000, you could build a computer with a mini ITX case. That was my last PC build and it cost around $1400 and it was basically a 1ft cube I could set on my desk. I'll have to look up the model again but it fits a 1080ti which is around $500-550 on the second hand market and a GPU is probably the most expensive thing you'll buy for a build.

Here's the case for reference: https://www.newegg.com/black-thermaltake-core-v1-mini-itx-tower/p/N82E16811133260

 

[Pintuition]

Thank you both for the recommendations, I have a lot to think about now!

 

[EmeraldJourney]

Hello friends!

I hope I've posted this in the right place, I think so, but I'm not positive.

I'm looking to buy a gaming laptop and was wondering if anyone has any good recommendations. I find that reviews online are always mixed so I thought I should ask you all! Here's some more information about my budget/situation...

I have always been more of a console person but I find myself increasingly wanting to play PC games. I don't have room to build a huge setup and really can only accommodate a laptop right now. I was thinking I want to keep it in the $1500-2000 range or so in terms of costs. Just a good mid tier gaming laptop. I'd be looking for something not to huge- 15 inch screen or so. I'd also be using it to work from home for the next few months.

Does anyone use a gaming laptop that is similar that they like? Or bought and didn't like? Please let me know. I'm a total newbie to this so any help would be most appreciated.

Hi there, this is literally my job and I always seek gaming laptops. If you care about brand, go for an MSI, they are robust and a great price for what they offer. My second choice would be an Asus Rog. When searching for a computer it's important to know and understand specs, so let's go through with them.

In modern computers the processor should be 10th generation, but some are 9th, so give that a check if you care about the latest hardware. You processor, for a gaming computer, should be an i7 (i9 is overkill but with your budget you could do it and tell your friends how awesome your computer is).

RAM, this is the stuff that makes your programs run memory-wise, it's important to have AT LEAST 4GB on modern systems, but this can go up to 16GB. The more you have, the better.

Hard drive, with todays portability in external hard drives its easy to use with a computer already set up with low memory. You should get at least 1TB of hard drive space to accommodate all of your games and software, this is the standard size these days.

Graphics card, your graphics card amongst your processor are the two most important things to look at. RAM can be upgraded. Your graphics card should certainly meet modern requirements, typically its a Nvidea graphics card with dedicated memory, it will say next to it "6GB" Something like Nvidia Geforce 2080Ti 6GB and this is telling you it has a dedicated graphics card.

Last but certainly not least, the design. Make certain you get what you are buying, if you like buttons on your trackpad get buttons. If it's a desktop and you care about lights, go for it. With your budget you can get a powerful pc that looks good too.

And please, don't go with a Mac.

Good luck!

 

[TemalRustic]

Hello, I have an Asus Rog Buy ASUS ROG STRIX G15 15.6" Gaming Laptop - Intel® Core™ i7, RTX 2060, 1 TB SSD | Free Delivery | Currys

it's a lightning laptop with awesome specs and an awesome ability to run all of my programs and games, it's within your budget too! yay!