Best Gaming Laptop sub-$1500?
Hi guys, new to Snapzu here. I was hoping that someone could recommend me a viable budget gaming laptop in the price range of $1000-$1500. Preferably, not too large of a screen, 15.6 inch would be around ideal, and with better than usual gaming laptop battery life. Specs are not too big of a deal as long as they're workable. If anyone has any suggestions, that would be really helpful, thanks!
8 years ago by C2H6Ethane
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The most important thing to check when buying a laptop gaming machine is the graphics card. Laptop companies often skimp rather heavily on the graphics card because of their enormous power, space, and heat dissipation needs (all great enemies to the portable form factor).
I find tomshardware to be the best source on PC hardware and they keep a regularly updated hierarchy chart to make it easy to know what you're getting. Refer to http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html The entries labelled discrete are non-laptop graphics cards. As you can see, currently NVIDIA has the best laptop graphics card, the geforce gtx 980m. With your budget I would suggest aiming for a laptop that has one of these upper end GPUs. At the upper range of your budget you can probably afford a 970m. For example: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232202