Need Laptop (Specifications in post)

[ajpaolello]

Budget: under $4000

Uses: Gaming and Twitch Streaming, school

Notes: I know I should get a desktop, however I am going to college in a year and I plan on using this laptop there as well.

 

[Veepeein]

Get a desktop and a laptop or get the MSI Shadow + Gaming dock. The shadow is just a a super fast laptop but the graphics arn't great however it has a docking port that let's you hook up a desktop GPU so you could basically hook it up to a TITAN. There are a few other laptops that can use a docking station with but I don't remember off the top of my head.

 

[ajpaolello]

Yes I know about the shadow. The only thing that bothers me is that you need a screen, keyboard, and mouse for it. And the whole buying a graphics card.

The other "dock" would be the graphics amplifier from Alienware. Same concept, but it only houses a graphics card.

I've tried getting both. Nothing will convince my parents to let me build or buy a desktop.

 

[Veepeein]

Can you get two laptops? one with an i5-i7 and 8-16gbs of ram and no GPU (for streaming) and one with an i7 and maybe 2 970m gpus (for gaming) That way the gaming laptop can use all of its CPU for gaming and doesn't get slowed down by streaming.

 

[ajpaolello]

Oh geez. I'd like to, but I don't know how my parents would feel about that.

 

[Veepeein]

Really your best bet is to talk to them and explain the benefit of having a desktop. (Much more powerful, much more reliable, always there (incase battery dies, laptop breaks or gets stolen), you get to learn about computers, it can be helpful for your major (autocad = engineering, render times = art , cloud computing = business , programming = cis ) Just what ever you say DO NOT SAY you want it so you can play games.

 

[ajpaolello]

Trust me. I've used all the arguments. All the reasons. They will not budge.

 

[Veepeein]

Then I would suggest an ASUS, MSI, or maybe LENOVO with a 970m or 980m maybe sli, 16gb+ ram and some sort of SSD. just go on their sites and customize them. pick one that is slim enough to carry. Trust me you don't want to carry around a 9 pound brick with thousands of LEDs on the side. Go for something slim try to get a monitor/mouse/keyboard too.

 

[ajpaolello]

msi gt80 Titan too much?