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Gaming laptop?
| Get a cheap laptop and build a gaming PC
| Do you honestly need a laptop to game on the go? Doesn't sound very comfortable to me. However if you're hell bent on a laptop, do expect to pay double the price for half the specifications.
With $1200 and careful shopping you could build a pretty powerful desktop for gaming that'll last you at least 5 years before upgrading parts.
| Besides the usual 'build a gaming pc' response, theres a decent amount of laptops on the market now that have full sized graphics cards (old nvidia had the 'm' identifier at the end for laptop gpus)
I have an asus with a 1060 in it, but i dont stay in one place too often but i always have power.
| Hence why i needed a laptop(already have a full rig at home) but it ran me $1600 for the laptop
| Although I would wait if I were you. RAM prices have skyrocketed and GPU prices are also still high because of mining cryptocurrencies. At this point in time you wont get much bang for your buck.
If anything just keep in mind what's important in a machine for gaming. CPU cores and clockspeed, GPU decent model with at least 2gb, and, depending on what games you play, at least 8gb of RAM. Some new games go over so be careful.
| In that case I've seen decent Lenovo Pcs for around that budget online. I personally stick with ASUS and tbh there should be some $1200 laptop in their gaming section on their website that's good.
| Honestly, get a cheap secondhand Acer Nitro or H
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HP Omen. GTX 8 or 9 series will do what you need unless you're looking for 60/ultra/1080 in super high end stuff or you want to do VR. Which is kinda baffling on a laptop if you have a rig.
| Owner of gaming laptop; gonna say that yeah, it's not really worth it unless you game a LOT and even if you do, expect it to be EXPENSIVE, or even impossible, to upgrade. My CPU socket type was some obscure bullshit that I had to pay 300 to upgrade the processor of, and the video card didn't come out.
You could always do what I do: stay behind the bleeding edge, and get tons of decent spec hardware to play 5 year old games.
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| I've been thinking about getting one, but I'm not sure if they're just regular overpriced laptops or not. My budget rn is like ~$1200 for reference. The cheaper the better, but I'm willing to sacrifice my wallet if the quality is nice.
Should I get a gaming laptop, and if not what's a good laptop to get instead?