College / Gaming Laptop

Elrondel

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I have a desktop already that I'm probably not bringing to college.

1. What is your budget? $1000

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? Any size, I guess.

3. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Portable, it's for college.

4. How much battery life do you need? Doesn't matter but >5hrs. would be nice

5. 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)? High on most games preferably. I play LoL and might get back into WoW.

6. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.) Maybe Photoshop at least but mostly for schoolwork or gaming

7. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need? 500GB is probably enough. Small SSD would be great.

8. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links. No specific site

9. How long do you want to keep your laptop? At least the 4 years of undergrad.

10. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ? DVD would be nice

11. I don't have a preference on brands, preferably not HP

13. What country do you live in? USA

Suggestions/Recommendations? Sorry for bad formatting. I'm on mobile.
 
Asus Rog laptops are lovely. I bought g46vw a couple years back and I can still play most games on high. I bought mine at bestbuy and had geeks quad to max out ram and replace hdd with an ssd.