Budget Gaming Laptop for College

TheCurse

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May 24, 2013
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1. What is your budget?
$1000

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?
15.6

3. What screen resolution do you want?
1920x1080

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?
Both portable and replacement when in College since leaving my Gaming PC at home

5. How much battery life do you need?
3-5hrs would be fine

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games. (Low,Medium or High)?
I plan to continue playing BF4 and maybe Titanfall. Medium settings is fine, 60fps hopefully

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
College work that's required, might need to use laptop for computer science major

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
500GB with 7200RPM minimum, 1TB is fine but still with 7200RPM

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.
Newegg or Amazon are fine

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
4 years in College please, don't want it to break down until then

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
Don't need anything fancy here, basic DVD Rom is fine OR nothing at all is ok too

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.
MSI seems good for gaming

13. What country do you live in?
USA, Massachusetts

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
Already researched a bit and was considering the Levano Y510P but it has a 5400rpm drive and the SLI video cards encounter problems in BF4. Would rather want a single powerful video card, probably the 765M would do fine.