I'm buying my first gaming laptop and.....

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 14:56

My decision making skills are letting me down big time. A pre-emptive thanks for anyone's input.

A few months ago I was given a laptop from my place of work to do the usual boring work things with it. Bearing in mind I've not owned a pc for 7 years.

This laptop has given me the spark to get myself a decent rig except this time I've got 2 big life burdens (AKA children) that have selfishly taken my wonderful mancave so a desktop rig is a no go.

With my amazing 2 hours of googling skills I've found this:

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I've found this one for under £1200:

GeForce GTX 1050Ti Graphics card
17.3 Inch Screen
Intel Core i7 7700HQ Processor
16 GB RAM
1TB Hard Drive + 256GB SSD
1920 x 1080 Full HD Screen
Windows 10 Operating System
2 years warranty

That one seems ok to my laymens eye. It's also my whole budget

So I'm here to ask the people of this forum to guide me with your wisdom on selecting a gaming laptop with a budget of £1200. Or let me put it to you this way, if you had 1200 schmeckles to blow on a laptop, which would you buy?

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 15:38

@MiSJAH - It's tightish.... It's based off monthly repayments, I'll be using a credit card with 30 months interest free, works out at £40 a month, potential wiggle room for a bit more.

@Biz.Kid09 - 17" isn't critical, it'll be nice but performance trumps it.

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 15:45

@tamzzy - This my friend is why I'm here, to get people like yourself to steer me to something worth my cash.

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 16:08

@tamzzy - Wow, good call dude, just having a look through them now.

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 16:44

@Rroff - Yeah, future proofing with the budget I have is the way to go that's for sure. With my budget it'll have to be a 1060 minimum.

@tamzzy - That's £99 over budget but the monthly repayments only go from £40 to £43 so it's a very negligible increase. I got approved for a £4500 limit credit card but if I like the place where my testicles are then I better not spend £4500 on a laptop or at least not tell my better half. I'll check that lenovo out.

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 18:30

MiSJAH said:
This. Mech keyboard, 1070, overclockable i7, pcie ssd, ips display, and g-sync for £1,299 is unbeatable.

@tamzzy and @MiSJAH

It's done, I've just bought it. It should arrive this Tuesday....

Ooh boy, never spent that much on a piece of tech before, £43.33 a month for the next 30 months, not too bad actually, I've still got 20 years left on my mortgage for some perspective.

I've actually been looking for a laptop for a couple of weeks now, I simply couldn't make a decision on anything, very frustrating and I was very close to choosing any old crap to be done with it. Certainly dodged a bullet I feel. Thanks very much tamzzy and MiSJAH I really appreciate your help.

And thanks to everyone else for the input.

Now if you'd excuse me I'm going for a stiff drink of vodka to drink to the lack of buyers remorse

Muddy Funkster · 25 Nov 2017 at 18:44

MiSJAH said:
Hahaha, enjoy your vodka. Don't forget to give us an insight into the machine when it arrives

Will do, can't wait

Muddy Funkster · 3 Dec 2017 at 14:10

Update:

It arrived Thursday and it was glorious!.....

But it's going back

There's a fault with the 1070 card and now it won't even display anything. Even the motherboards built in display card had horizontal lines across the screen that wouldn't go. I'm super wounded about it. The Lenovo support center has your 9-5/mon-fri opening hours so I'v got a £1300 paperweight until I can contact them Monday.

I'v forgotten how much of head ache owning a pc can be when something goes wrong. Ah well..... first world problems I guess

Muddy Funkster · 3 Dec 2017 at 14:14

Ugly said:
That Ideapad Y910 is a great deal as long as you don't want VR support, apparently the hdmi routes thru to the Intel GPU

VR hasn't really gripped me enough to be concerned about it.... for now at least.

Muddy Funkster · 7 Dec 2017 at 19:32

tamzzy said:
oh no, that really sucks has lenovo support got it sorted for you?

you paid via cc, so you have section 75 protection should you need it

Yeah, they're taking care of it, no problems. The broken one went with TNT yesterday, as soon as they receive it they'll send me another one. Should get it sometime next week.