Looking to buy a gaming laptop

[jevi32]

Hey guys, I've recently wanted to buy a laptop for school work and gaming to play some new games which will require some power. I'm looking to play Skyrim, Far Cry 3 and also a few new upcoming games like Saints Row 4 at around medium settings. My budget is around $1500, and it would really help if you guys could point me in the right direction. I was thinking about maybe the Battalion 101 W650SR, or the Lenevo thinkpad Y580. Thing is, is iBuyPOwer a safe site?

Here's the links:
Battalion: http/www.ibuypower.com/Store/Battalion_101_W650SR_Gaming_Laptop
Lenevo: http/shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/y-series/y580/index.html#features

 

[Madn3ss795]

I'd suggest going to xoticPC and customize one yourself.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

The "Battalion" is a Clevo W650SR which you could skip the middleman and buy directly from a Clevo distributor .... advertised prices usually same but direct distributors can give military-student-"other" discounts which range up to $140 in your budget range

http/www.lpc-digital.com/notebook-review-members-military-and-student-discounts.html

-15.6” Full HD 16:9 Wide screen (1920x1080) IPS Display in Matte Type
-NVIDIA® GeForce™ GT 750M GPU with 2GB GDDR3 Memory Plus Intel® GMA HD GPU Switchable GPU by NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology
-4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz)
-Genuine Microsoft Windows® 8 64-Bit Edition
-16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB (+70)
-750GB 7200rpm SATA Hybrid Hard Drive with 8GB SSD (+90)
-6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive
-Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
-Free Shipping

Should be under $1,300 .... $1250 ish after discounts. I think if ya pass $1350, the discount jumps to $100

BTW, Lenovo doesn't "make" a single laptop ..... neither does any of the brands ya likely are familiar with

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 to direct distributors as well as boutique vendors such as WidowPC, FalconNorthwest, Sager and Alienware (before Dell bought them out)

 

[bthizle1]

Better than any of the previously mentioned laptops and at around $1,200. The sager np8230. Comest with the GTX 770m which is MUCH better than that 750m, and about on par with the lenovo when it´s got the 750m SLI set up. Only it´s preferable to have one solid GPU than a SLI set up, compatability problems, micro stuttering etc...

Check that out, if it´s a bit much there´s the sager np7370 ($1,000) as well or the np7352 (same specs only 15¨ instead of 17¨) those two I´d recommed over the laptops previously posted as well. But all in all the sager np8230 is probably your best option for hardware-price.

 

[Momo Iko]

sager np8230 is good http/www.sagernotebook.com/index.php?page=products

Lenovo is also good : http/shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:category.details?current-catalog-id=12F0696583E04D86B9B79B0FEC01C087&current-category-id=AC523278A4F13F27A84F5F5622D1AC7A&action=init

 

[jevi32]

The "Battalion" is a Clevo W650SR which you could skip the middleman and buy directly from a Clevo distributor .... advertised prices usually same but direct distributors can give military-student-"other" discounts which range up to $140 in your budget range

http/www.lpc-digital.com/notebook-review-members-military-and-student-discounts.html

-15.6” Full HD 16:9 Wide screen (1920x1080) IPS Display in Matte Type
-NVIDIA® GeForce™ GT 750M GPU with 2GB GDDR3 Memory Plus Intel® GMA HD GPU Switchable GPU by NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology
-4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz)
-Genuine Microsoft Windows® 8 64-Bit Edition
-16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB (+70)
-750GB 7200rpm SATA Hybrid Hard Drive with 8GB SSD (+90)
-6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive
-Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
-Free Shipping

Should be under $1,300 .... $1250 ish after discounts. I think if ya pass $1350, the discount jumps to $100

BTW, Lenovo doesn't "make" a single laptop ..... neither does any of the brands ya likely are familiar with

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 to direct distributors as well as boutique vendors such as WidowPC, FalconNorthwest, Sager and Alienware (before Dell bought them out)

Hey, Thanks a lot man! I've decided to buy this laptop but I have another question. What's up with the "Canada Warranty" and stuff? Do people living in Canada (I live in Toronto) have to pick that warranty and pay an extra $30?