new gaming laptop

[The_Captainn]

Hi guys,

I'm starting to look at buying a new laptop for gaming. I'm looking to future-proof it for a while and my (possibly misguided) thinking is that the new generation of game consoles coming out is going to spur forward PC hardware that has been stagnating a bit in the last few years. I have some limited understanding of the hardware but I'm not a particularly technical guy and I'd like people's opinions on whether I'm under/overpowering my future machine in any way.

The spec I'm currently looking at is:

CPU: Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz) 6MB
RAM: 16GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 770M 3Gb
Hard drive: 120GB KINGSTON V300 SSD, SATA 6 Gb (450MB/R, 450MB/W)
Data drive: 500GB WD SCORPIO BLACK WD5000BPKX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 16MB CACHE (7200 rpm)

Thoughts please?

Thanks in advance.

 

[AARental]

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[mc962]

a budget would help, otherwise you may get $4000 recommendations

On the low end of the budget scale, although still managing to hit most of your points, I would recommend:
14" lenovo y410p or it's 15" bigger brother the y510p
y41op comes with:
cpu: 4700mq ; gpu: gt755m ; 8 gb ram; 1 tb 5400 rpm hdd :: base model is around $700-800
with options to upgrade to blu ray, more ram, sshd or ssd, some other stuff you can check out on lenovo's site

If you want to go higher i would check around msi, sager, clevo; a lot seem to be happy with them. The specs you're listing look pretty good, although the ram might be a bit overkill (and ram is usually the easiest to upgrade from what i've seen).

*Sadly it's even more difficult to "future proof" a laptop than a desktop as you usually can't just do something like yank out the gpu when you need a faster one

**Main issue i'd have with renting is that I would probably damage the laptop, and so presumably would have to pay for repairs/replacements. Although if you don't have those issues, then maybe aarental has the answers

 

[The_Captainn]

Thanks for your input. Yes I should have put down my budget. The best deal I'm looking at for a system like this is coming in at about £1,250 which I think works out as about $2000 (although I think electronics are a bit cheaper in the US so it may actually cost a little less over there). The absolute most I'm willing to go is another 10% or so.

What are your thoughts on the processor? I've been trying to decide between an i5 and an i7 some of my friends seem to think the i7 might be more than I'll need.

 

[mc962]

It will unless you do stuff like video editing that needs it. I got an i7 because the y410p was such a good deal for me overall for unrelated reasons, but normally i would have stuck with an i5.

If you can find it go with a 4xxx series cpu (like the 4700mq i listed above as an example). Other than that, go with an i5 (unless you still have budget left over, and an i7 fits, then i'd say why not)