Re: Gaming laptop
"Gaming laptops" are pretty much the definition of wasting your time and money. Laptop parts are cut down versions of their desktop counter parts not simply because of price but also because of TDP constraints: laptop cooling is usually not up to the job of handling a i5-2500k CPU for example...
Paying top dollar for the latest top of the line GPU is a sensible investment by comparison, at least that card will retain value two or three years down the line.
Consumer laptops do not. They wear out too quickly, and even modest tech improvements render them obsolete as high end machines fairly quickly too. Expect them to last perhaps 2-3 years before either components start to break down or they are simply outdated. (Business laptops can last longer but only through the magic of depreciation and bunging old kit at those who are lower on the tech totem pole.)
So with that in mind the smart thing to do is buy a reasonable mid range to high end laptop and stick in a SSD. You will have money and options left to be picky about things like screens, a quality headphone or extra batteries. A good SSD (Intel, Samsung) should be reliable enough to survive fairly heavy use and last you a couple of laptop upgrades. Then ditch the laptop later but keep the SSD.
If you do have lots of money to burn you could get yourself a mobile workstation (Dell makes those, for example) but then you should know this: that is not a laptop, just a small-ish desktop with a screen attached which so happens to look a bit like a laptop and has a limited capacity to let you save your work when there's a power outage. Unlike the Sagers, however those machines will last a bit longer and will provide a lot more oomph and probably produce more noise as well.
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Originally Posted by Lemur
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