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New laptop for travel purposes

BrachusBrachus Member UncommonPosts: 97
in Hardware
Let me start by saying that I hate gaming on a laptop and would never make 1 my primary gaming machine. However, it appears that I will be doing a good bit of traveling for work in the coming months. As such, I still want to be able to do some gaming while I am on the road, rather than just sitting in a hotel room watching some lousy tv. Since it will only see gaming use while I am travelling, I don't want to spend a fortune, so I was looking at the following:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834890015

Think this will be sufficient for some moderate gaming for a few months? Right now, mostly playing Black Desert.

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  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507
    That actually looks pretty good.  I'm surprised to see such sensible specs in a prebuilt laptop.
  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414
    Ha so rare, Quizzical on a gaming laptop finds it meets the OPs needs adequately. Thats probably the best you can do without touching $1200. Mobile GPUs tend to be pretty bad without a large number next to it. The 960m won't be anywhere close to the GTS 960, but it should meet your needs.
  • BrachusBrachus Member UncommonPosts: 97
    I went ahead and ordered it. I couldn't find anything else comparable for such a reasonable price. I would have preferred a 970m, but every machine with a 970 seems to step up to 17" and an i7 with the price jumping to $1200. An i7 is completely unnecessary for my use and since I will only be using it to game while on the road, I just can't justify paying that much.
  • Loke666Loke666 Member EpicPosts: 21,441
    Great find really. You could of course go cheaper since it is for traveling but it should last you some years. I have to admit I get a little tempted myself (my VAIO was great 4 years ago but is getting old), even though I don't play so much on my laptop, I mainly have it to watch movies and series when I work away from home.

    You could get a SSD and replace the HD with though. Would make things faster while increasing the battery time. Not something you need to do right away of course and if you leter get a Samsung SSD you even get a clone program that easily helps you transfer everything you have on the regular HD to the new SSD. Not a must but something worth considering since it makes the laptop last longer. :)
  • QuizzicalQuizzical Member LegendaryPosts: 25,507
    That laptop already has an SSD.  It's got a quad core Sky Lake CPU, a GTX 960M video card, a 128 GB SSD, a 1 TB hard drive, and 8 GB of memory, all for $850.  The only obvious thing it's missing is an IPS monitor.

    New Egg says it's a New Egg exclusive part, so maybe New Egg asked Asus to make something with those exact specs so that people who know what they're doing can get a nice gaming laptop off of New Egg, rather than being stuck with whatever stupid configuration laptop vendors think they can get clueless people to overpay for.  Which leads people who know what they're doing to ignore New Egg and buy from somewhere that you can actually configure parts.

    As for a gaming laptop meeting someone's needs, wanting to play games while traveling is the major situation where gaming laptops actually make sense.  This isn't the common situation of someone thinking he needs a gaming rig and also needs a laptop, so he wants to get them both in a single, awkward device.
  • BrachusBrachus Member UncommonPosts: 97
    Quizzical said:
    That laptop already has an SSD.  It's got a quad core Sky Lake CPU, a GTX 960M video card, a 128 GB SSD, a 1 TB hard drive, and 8 GB of memory, all for $850.  The only obvious thing it's missing is an IPS monitor.


    Quiz, all of that is true except they had a promo code for an extra $50 off, so it actually only cost me $800.
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