Recent content by GregoryDude

You can get a refurbished Lenovo Y50 in that price range and sport a respectable GTX 860M discrete video card. Newegg has some and so does the Lenovo website. Or you can go with a Lenovo Y40 which is a little smaller and sports an AMD R9 M275 GPU for $500...

If money is not an issue and I could choose a laptop, this is what I would go with. It's thin, so convenient to travel (not too heavy) but has a good size 15.6 screen, it also has a dvd drive (most laptops this thin do not) and it sports a GTX 980m which is more closely comparable to yoru R9...

I just recently undertook the arduous research process in finding a gaming laptop and it was a bit daunting. At the end of the day I went with one of those specialized stores such as the ones that folks have mentioned. I'm in the U.S. and I purchased through cyberpowerpc.com. A UK equivalent...