Looking for help on what mid level gaming Laptop to buy

[warblade22]

1. What is your budget? 1600 us$

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering? 17” Display

3. What screen resolution do you want? Best for my budget.

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop? Gaming laptop

5. How much battery life do you need? Almost always plugged in.

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)?
Division, Diablo3, MineCraft, Monster Hunter World. Medium to High

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)
Web surfing and email

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?
I am a pack rat, so as much as possible

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


10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?
7+ years

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?
It would be nice to have a Blu-ray player to watch movies

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.
No real Brand Restriction.

13. What country do you live in?
USA

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
Was looking at a ROG G752VM with a NVidia 1060 but it took me too long to save up money, so now I am a bit lost on what to choose with all the options out there now. I would like to stay with at least an NVidia 1060 GPU.

 

[justin.m.beauvais]

Well, I don't see why you couldn't go with another ROG laptop. However these are juicy little gems that I came across after punching in your criteria. Although there isn't a laptop with a blu-ray drive, how about a 4k screen?

https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834332757 or https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA24G6KB3022

If screen quality isn't as important as storage there is this one https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAEYJ79U1024 of which I own a version of and it is pretty nice. This version has a 2 TB HDD.

I think your best looking Intel 8th gen i7 laptop looks to be https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834154813 but the SSD is kinda small and the bigger one pushes it out of your price range.

Although, if I were in your price range and had to pick one... it'd be this one https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1TS-001A-004H0

EDIT... and I'm an idiot because I didn't look at the 17" display ones... give me a moment.

EDIT OF EDIT: Ok, found a good 17" screen, though not as nice as some of the 15" ones https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1TS-001A-00997 it is pretty good.
Or better https/www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16834234956