I am going to be starting my first year at college this fall and am starting to go computer shopping. I need something that will be portable with decent light use battery life and decently low heat output, but with enough power to run some fairly large games well. My budget is about $1,500, though I may consider going up to $1,800 if necessary. I have been considering the MSI GE62 Apache Pro and GS60 Ghost Pro as they seem to fit my bill. From my current system, I have had very good experience with MSI, though the killer NIC has given me troubles once in a while. Though it is a bit shallow, I would like the keyboard to have programmable RGB lighting also. Windows 10 is also a must.
To put things into scale, my current system has a GTX 970, i7-5820K, 16 (soon to be 32) GB DDR4, and currently a little over 3TB drive storage space with a 250GB SSD. I know it isn't reasonable to expect on-par performance from a laptop that will cost about $500-750 less than my desktop, but I would like enough power for some moderate to heavy gaming in my free time and some video/photo editing in PS/AE/Premiere Pro.
What would be my best bet of these? Is there something else that I may be better off with? Thanks!
To put things into scale, my current system has a GTX 970, i7-5820K, 16 (soon to be 32) GB DDR4, and currently a little over 3TB drive storage space with a 250GB SSD. I know it isn't reasonable to expect on-par performance from a laptop that will cost about $500-750 less than my desktop, but I would like enough power for some moderate to heavy gaming in my free time and some video/photo editing in PS/AE/Premiere Pro.
What would be my best bet of these? Is there something else that I may be better off with? Thanks!