Pricing a gaming laptop for the future

[PennySavre]

I may not get this right away but if or as soon as I get the money, I will be buying a laptop. Budget is roughly in the range of the laptop I have selected. If you ask me why I didn't select a SSD, I will say it's because I can get a 750GB hard drive for plenty of game storage for about $400 cheaper than a 480GB SSD, but I can still be swayed on this or anything at this point, even on a brand/company other than Cyberpower PC. So anyway, here is what I'm thinking about:

http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/system/Fang_III_-_Taipan_Gaming_Notebook/

Core i7 3740QM processor (max 3.7 GHz frequency)
16GB (8GB x 2) DDR3-1600 MHz SODIMM memory - Corsair or major brand
2x Radeon 7970M video cards
750GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
Clevo 6x Blu-Ray Reader
Windows 8 Pro 64-bit

$2321

 

[kiddagoat]

That's a nice machine.

Where are you from?? If you are in the US,

I'd look at www.xoticpc.com. Look at this: Sager NP9370

Same laptop as that CyberPower but probably a bit cheaper. I have had mine for almost 3 years, solid as a rock still plays everything I throw at it.

 

[Geekoid]

"Gaming" and "laptop" never did go well with me. I always choke at the prices and figure I could get 2 better quality gaming desktops for the same price... or maybe that 40" monitor I've always wanted Still, each to their own!

You'd want that SSD for its speed rather than its capacity. A 128GB one does me just fine, as I only put specific things on there (such as the OS for one). I pondered over getting a 256GB one, but 128 is doing me just fine. I like fast boot times. The rest of my data sits on the slow 7200 rpm HDDs.

Don't know if you've seen these - http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-systems/razer-blade - mainly for the switchblade UI.