Excellent gaming laptop for $1,200

[Madcut]

I thought I'd purchase this for anyone who is looking to buy a laptop. Personally I had been looking for a laptop for college and moderate gaming, but hated how most all laptops with decent GPUs looked, in addition to weighing over 8lbs. An alternative would be Macbooks for moderate gaming needs as well as good processing power. I enjoy Mac computers, but I don't agree with some of the ethical choices Apple has made in recent years.

I found this laptop on Newegg which offers great hardware for $1,200, as well as comes with an Xbox, which I plan to sell to cover the accidental damage 2 year warranty I purchased with it ($173). The Nvidia GeForce GTX 660m card offers surprisingly good power for a mobile GPU. It can run BF3 on high and nearly run BF3 on ultra. I think it will be plenty for running Planetside 2 on high settings. The laptop weighs under 5.5lbs, which is awesome. This makes it something that I can actually carry to school and not break my arm/back.

The laptop has an mSATA connector on the mobo, so I will be adding a 256gb mSATA SSD so I don't have to replace the 750GB HDD the laptop comes with.

I'm not a big fan of the aesthetics of the computer, but it's better than some of the stuff I've seen out there. I wish PC oems would start going with more aluminum cases, but that'll take some time.

With equivalent hardware, a monitor, and peripherals you would probably spend MORE on a desktop, though you'd get better processing power on most i7 desktop CPUs as well as a bigger 1080p screen. When comparing costs on Newegg for a desktop built, I used a gtx 550ti for comparable graphical processing power to the gtx 660m.

Anyways, I thought I'd post this for anyone considering a laptop purchase and would like something that can run PS2 on good settings when it comes out.

EDIT: Reposting URL for laptop as it's a bit hard to see where link is on original post.

Newegg: MSI G Series GE60

[Pancake]

Nice find! If I were buying a laptop I would definitely go with this.

[Whalenator]

660M is not enough

[Goku]

Do you need the mobility of the laptop going back and forth between home? If not just get a desktop IMO. Seems most people going to college think they must have a laptop. I rarely even used my ultra portable around school, mostly was used to browse the web on my bed lol.

[Pancake]

Originally Posted by Goku

mostly was used to browse the web on my bed lol.

Bed > Chair

[Ailos]

Originally Posted by Pancake

Bed > Chair

Buy a tablet.

[Bags]

I couldn't live in college without my laptop, use it to take notes -- much faster than handwriting as you can easily correct mistakes, no riped paper, etc.

[OnexBigxHebrew]

Originally Posted by Whalenator

660M is not enough

I have a 560m in my asus laptop and I run BF3 on ultra, lol.



It's, on its worst day, 'enough' lol.

[Ailos]

Originally Posted by Bags

I couldn't live in college without my laptop, use it to take notes -- much faster than handwriting as you can easily correct mistakes, no riped paper, etc.

You have yet to discover the world of tablets, young cricket.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Ailos

You have yet to discover the world of tablets, young cricket.

Tablets suck. Fuck touch screens.

[Rbstr]

Originally Posted by Ailos

You have yet to discover the world of tablets, young cricket.

The world of objects absolutely worthless for document writing or spreadsheets?

I love a tablet for dicking around but my typing speed is worse than a 10th as fast. "Why can't I fucking insert my cursor here?!"
Just the addition of arrow keys on the on-screen keyboard would be a miraculous improvement.
They are worse than paper.

[Goku]

Not trying to get off topic, but I have the Transformer TF300. Its a great tablet and I bought the dock for it. The dock is just awesome IMO if you type enough. If I'm just browsing I take off the dock and and just use that. Not a bad machine even w/o the dock that has a nvidia quad core for $350 on sale, not to mention the Nexus 7, that is 7 inches w/ a Tegra 3 for $200...