Help choosing a laptop ($1000-1400)

[Lucrece]

Hey guys, having missed on the Prime Day deal, I went shopping around for laptops anyways based on what I had seen listed by chaud.

My budget is to not exceed $1400, ideally land in $1300.

So I saw the following laptops.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

MSI GS Series GS63VR Stealth Pro-422 15.6" Intel Core i7 6th Gen 6700HQ (2.60 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 16 GB Memory 1 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop



$1300 bucks.


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834234455

ASUS ROG GL502VM-DS74 15.6" Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700HQ (2.80 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 16 GB Memory 128 GB SSD 1 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop

$1279


Seems like I get a better deal with the ASUS than the MSI.

What do you guys think? do you have any additional suggestions for laptops?


For reference, the list of the games I like to play:

WoW
FFXIV
Guild Wars 2
Dragon Age titles
Mass Effect Titles
Witcher 3
Total War: Warhammer
Skyrim

I don't care much for high end shooters, though I might give Bioware's anthem a try.

I loved the help you guys gave me with building a desktop 4 years ago (it's still running everything perfectly and I've only updated to a SSD and a new graphics card).

Thanks in advance!

[Lathais]

I'd go with this at the top of your budget:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP8156.html

and this at the lower end:
http://www.sagernotebook.com/Notebook-NP7850.html

[ali725]

Hey guys, having missed on the Prime Day deal, I went shopping around for laptops anyways based on what I had seen listed by chaud.

My budget is to not exceed $1400, ideally land in $1300.

So I saw the following laptops.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

MSI GS Series GS63VR Stealth Pro-422 15.6" Intel Core i7 6th Gen 6700HQ (2.60 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 16 GB Memory 1 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop



$1300 bucks.


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834234455

ASUS ROG GL502VM-DS74 15.6" Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700HQ (2.80 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 16 GB Memory 128 GB SSD 1 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop

$1279


Seems like I get a better deal with the ASUS than the MSI.

What do you guys think? do you have any additional suggestions for laptops?


For reference, the list of the games I like to play:

WoW
FFXIV
Guild Wars 2
Dragon Age titles
Mass Effect Titles
Witcher 3
Total War: Warhammer
Skyrim

I don't care much for high end shooters, though I might give Bioware's anthem a try.

I loved the help you guys gave me with building a desktop 4 years ago (it's still running everything perfectly and I've only updated to a SSD and a new graphics card).

Thanks in advance!

For 1080p they both should be fine prob could go cheaper. There was a laptop going for 900 with the same video card like a 2 weeks ago on amazon.

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Hey guys, having missed on the Prime Day deal, I went shopping around for laptops anyways based on what I had seen listed by chaud.

My budget is to not exceed $1400, ideally land in $1300.

So I saw the following laptops.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

MSI GS Series GS63VR Stealth Pro-422 15.6" Intel Core i7 6th Gen 6700HQ (2.60 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 16 GB Memory 1 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop



$1300 bucks.


https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16834234455

ASUS ROG GL502VM-DS74 15.6" Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700HQ (2.80 GHz) NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 16 GB Memory 128 GB SSD 1 TB HDD Windows 10 Home 64-Bit Gaming Laptop

$1279


Seems like I get a better deal with the ASUS than the MSI.

What do you guys think? do you have any additional suggestions for laptops?


For reference, the list of the games I like to play:

WoW
FFXIV
Guild Wars 2
Dragon Age titles
Mass Effect Titles
Witcher 3
Total War: Warhammer
Skyrim

I don't care much for high end shooters, though I might give Bioware's anthem a try.

I loved the help you guys gave me with building a desktop 4 years ago (it's still running everything perfectly and I've only updated to a SSD and a new graphics card).

Thanks in advance!

https://slickdeals.net/f/10398388-ba...6gb-for-866-00

just found this great deal prob better then prime deal

[Deleted]

Those US prices are crazy. $866 for an i7-7700, 16gb ram and a GTX 1060 at 6GB? A laptop like that sets you back €1.799-1.899 or the equivalent of $2.125 in Europe :/

[xxcloud417xx]

I'm partial to ASUS ROG. I've had 3 altogether over the span of like 5-6 years. All of them still work I just upgraded each time. Current series is solid, I got the top-end this time with the G752 series, but the 2 I got before were the entry-level ons at $1600CAD. Worth it, very well-designed pieces of tech.

MSi is also good and I definitely have heard good things but I can only truly vouch for what I know.

[Lathais]

Those US prices are crazy. $866 for an i7-7700, 16gb ram and a GTX 1060 at 6GB? A laptop like that sets you back €1.799-1.899 or the equivalent of $2.125 in Europe :/

Yeah, VAT is a killer.

[Deleted]

I'm partial to ASUS ROG. I've had 3 altogether over the span of like 5-6 years. All of them still work I just upgraded each time. Current series is solid, I got the top-end this time with the G752 series, but the 2 I got before were the entry-level ons at $1600CAD. Worth it, very well-designed pieces of tech.

MSi is also good and I definitely have heard good things but I can only truly vouch for what I know.

I've had a terrible experience with my very first €2.000 MSI laptop and probably would never buy them again. I'm also looking at ASUS as an alternative.

[Zensunni]

Best Macbook Pro you can afford, bootcamp Windows, last 2x as long as any other laptop /thread.

[Notdev]

Just get the same Acer Predator Helios 300 from the Prime Day deal. It'll only run you $1050, unless you really want to spend on the higher end of your budget, but you wouldn't have set your budget at $1000-$1400 if you preferred to stay low. I missed it, waited almost a month, couldn't find anything close to as good for the price, and pulled the trigger at $1049.99 anyway. I love it so far, it rivals my 7700k/rx 580 desktop.

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator...tor+helios+300

- 7700HQ
- Full 6GB GTX 1060
- 16GB DDR4
- 256 GB SSD
- Runs significantly cooler under load than my previous 6700hq/960m laptop
- IPS screen, not the best but still IPS
- Decent battery life
- Red backlit keyboard
- Stream capable, plays WoW really well, even plays PUBG really well which is terribly demanding since it's horribly optimized.

Only cons would be if you don't like red and/or need a bigger HD, in which case it wouldn't be hard to install your own.

Buy it with a credit card that will give you price protection (if it goes on sale again) and an extended warranty (mine gave me 2 years on top of the 1 year manufacturer warranty)

[Sorshen]

Best Macbook Pro you can afford, bootcamp Windows, last 2x as long as any other laptop /thread.

That's the joke.


@op

The Asus one seems fine, looks like you can find it even cheaper.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...2E16834234455R


LE: seems like the thread is almost a month old, the op probably made his decision already.