To buy or not to buy

[th3anyk3y]

So I guess I've been mulling over the idea of a Laptop for gaming for quite some time. I've weighed my options, brands, features, what I really want out of a laptop. I've made my decision (almost) for what I want.

The question I have is, should I wait?

Everything this year seems to be "meh". Intel is delayed with Broadwell, DDR4 is coming out the end of the year. GDDR6 rumors? I don't REALLY need a laptop, I'm wanting one out of a lot of wanting of convenience. I'll only be spending about $1400 on the configuration I want. It's just something that will get the job done for the games I play. But I cant wait if the new Intel's and DDR4 will really make it worth it.

I also don't care about DDR4 costing more, non-issue really. I'll spend the money if it will make me happier.

Should I wait?

Thanks in advance!

 

[GoldenGamerUK]

It's up to you dude, DDR4 isn't going to offer Much in speed, like I get told repeatedly, you could buy something top of the range, and then a month later it would be outdated, if depends what you need it for, if I was you, I would just make sure there is no catches in the hardware you buy, and you will be smooth sailing, I posted a thread earlier asking for advice on a new laptop, and i ended the thread with a ~$800-900 i7 laptop with 8tb of ram and a nvidia 850, it's like £650 and it's a beast!

JUST GO FOR IT DUDE! for the amount of money you are going to spend, I wouldn't worry about a different laptop of the next 2-4 years!!

 

[dasulman]

broadwell I personally think won't be worth it. each new iteration normally only improves performance by around 10-15% at best - a 3630M I7 is still close the 4700MQ - yet they still warranted whole different iterations of gaming PCs and laptops - have you actually seen how many sockets of motherboards there are?
DDR4 however... that's a toughy since its much harder to gauge the difference in performance - the transition between DDR2 and DDR3 was massive, but that was because of the growing potential of technology - Moore's law and whatnot (google it). However Moore's law I think is coming to an end, if we've got pc manufacturing on 22NM then it can't get much smaller.
the new GPU release of maxwell for laptops has spiked prices up a bit, but honestly not as much as I thought they would. When Maxwell get's unleashed on desktops that's when prices will really spike, and by that association laptops will as well - If it were I would take the plunge within the next few months before that price kick happens