$1000 "Gaming Laptop"?

No brand (except MSI) you'd actually know actually makes a laptop.

The vast majority of laptops on the market (94% in 2011) are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM), although their production bases are located mostly in mainland China. Major relationships include:

Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP

Clevo sells direct to boutique shops and retail thru Clevo / Sager distributors. You can cut out the middle man and buy direct as well as selecting each of the components to fit your usage ..... unlike most brands, you're not stuck with name brand CPU / GFX card and no name RAM, Storage etc and 5400 rpm HDs

http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np7155.html
 

okcnaline

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Oh... Every time I say the Y50, they'll be like "No, NO!!! Bad display". I'm like "WTF, that thing is cheap and has what you're looking for". Oh well...

By the way, JackNaylorPE, isn't Pegatron essentially the same company as Asus?