Gaming Laptop

I highly recommend that you watch this video first:

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For the price of £3099.98, you could easily buy a desktop computer that blows that one out of the water, a nice monitor, and a serviceable laptop.

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I was going to add this edit to my previous comment, but I took too long:

EDIT: On the performance of that particular laptop...

Will it perform well? Yes. At least if it isn't having any thermal/overheating problems that causes it to throttle down, as is common with gaming laptops.

For comparison: I created the following list on pcpartpicker.com for £1816.96:

CPU: i7 6700k
CPU cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo
Motherboard: Asus MAXIMUS VIII HERO ATX LGA1151 Motherboard
RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 32GB (4 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory
Hard drive: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 1TB 2.5" Solid State Drive
Video card: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 8GB FTW Gaming ACX 3.0 Video Card
Case: NZXT Phantom 530 (White) ATX Full Tower Case
Power supply: EVGA 850W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply
Optical drive: Samsung SH-224DB/RSBS DVD/CD Writer

Then add ~£100.00 for Windows 10.

That leave you £1,283.02 for other things if you took this route instead of the laptop you list. You could use this money to buy a kick-ass monitor if you don't have one (or want a better one). You can buy a really good, low-latency, 1440p 144 hz monitor or 2160p (4k) 60 hz monitor for much less that that difference. That would probably leave you enough money to buy a decent laptop that would have good enough performance on the go for most non-gaming tasks, much battery battery life than a gaming laptop, and probably fewer thermal issues than a gaming laptop.

On top of all that, you get one of the best benefits of PC gaming: Upgradeability. You could spend ~£650.00 of the £1,283.02 savings to buy a second GTX 1080 graphics card (although you might needs a better power supply for that). And a few years down the line, you could upgrade to the newest graphics card if you wanted to. With laptops in general, you're stuck with what you have, except for maybe being able to upgrade RAM and maybe being able to upgrade the hard drive.

 

Out of curiosity, I'd be interested in knowing what you decided to do.

I hope no one minds that I'm bumping this thread. I was going to ask by PM, but forgot that I can't send PMs to people who aren't yet full members.

 

Haaaa no. 'Good' gaming laptops are big, heavy, loud, low on battery life (think very low) and are not actually that portable or convenient. Not to mention the cost is way more than a desktop machine of comparable power. Just...don't waste your money.

 

I made this mistake... now my gaming laptop sits on my desk plugged into a nice HD monitor, and I got a MacBook Pro to take to class. Works for lots of stuffs, then I have a high end gaming machine on my desk at home.

 

I have an issue where I can't properly play on a desktop, so I'd had my eye on higher power laptops for a while. (I've played every game on this $200 laptop since I was 12, with regular breakdowns and crashes.)

The dominant issue is I've learned to play games on a touch pad style mouse over the past 7 years and it's been awfully hard to try to switch over to a desktop. I don't care about the portability really, I just wish there was a way to get a desktop with a laptop mouse so I could get that power immediately without re-learning years of it.