Moving and need a new laptop.

As someone who spent a good amount of money on a gaming laptop 3 years ago, don't. It’s not that I regret my purchase, I still use it with an external graphics setup 980ti and a 1440p monitor. I get great performance out of it and have considered upgrading my RAM from 8 to 16 gigs.

The thing it price wise, you can build a top/high end desktop. Unless you absolutely require a laptop and can’t have it any other way! Just a suggestion.

I have an Alienware 15 r2 that had a 970m and it’s been great. My entire setup cost over 2k though and if I would have just built a desktop then I could have had better hardware and saved some coin.

Do you travel a lot for work and that’s the reason for wanting one??

I would wait until the new RTX cards come in laptops and then maybe the GTX ones will drop in price

I'm also looking to buy a laptop for a deployment coming up.


Have you made a decision yet?

I'm looking at anything with a 1050ti, 16GB RAM, and a SSD.

I got the Dell G7 with the RTX 2060 and so far I've been happy with it other than the screen (apparently the good ones come out in May). It was my first push back to windows after decade of Mac ownership. Runs Witcher 3 on ultra incredibly well. Fans sound like a jet taking off while gaming, the battery life doing normal task is only 4 hours..

Like the other poster said I would have been better off building a desktop but I'm happy.