What High-End laptop would best suit me ?

Dashrendar0226 · May 2, 2014

Hi all,

I'm looking for the laptop that would best suit me. I'll be in multimedia education in two months and I need one. Here's the requirements:

Relatively thin and relatively light (because I'll be carrying this thing A LOT)
great gaming
good battery life
VERY solid build
backlit keyboard
Stays cool and silent
Great sound
Great screen
good for any type of multimedia
and I need power. So much power. This thing will have to be reliable as hell.
under 3000$

So I'll need an SSD and since I'm a hoarder I'll need at least 1tb of space. Be it 120gb SSD and 1tb HDD I don't mind. And I'll need an i7 but that comes standard nowadays.

What models I thought about :

MSI GS60 Ghost (I heard it's noisy and hot)

MSI GS60 Ghost Pro

Razer Blade or Razer Blade Pro (The Blade has a crazy-high rez screen but 14in is small... But The Pro version only has 1080p display. Also it's soooooo expensive for 512gb SSD)

Also, Razer Blade Pro 2014 or older model?

Lenovo y510p MODIFIED (Kind of big...)

Lenovo Y50 (Not out yet but looks good so far)

Gigabyte P34G (I've heard great things about it but specs seem kinda low)

Gigabyte P35K

Aorus x7 (Heard great things but low battery life, and I'm not a fan of SLI, and no Optimus. But it comes with a buil-in dual SSDs and a HDD...)

So any suggestion or is greatly appreciated,

Thanks !

RazerZ · May 2, 2014

Is this mainly for gaming? Just a suggestion, but an option is to have a powerful desktop at home and a light laptop for travel. I've been doing it and it works great for me. Plus you can always upgrade your desktop, where as in a laptop after a few years you will need to buy a new one.

JackNaylorPE · May 2, 2014

Relatively thin and light is mutually exclusive with long battery life and great gaming. I have a powerful desktop and powerful laptop.... more often than not, I do my gaming on the lappie.

Gaming requires power .... power makes heat .... heat requires bug heat sinks and fans, power eats batteries..... these are the laws

So you can have everything you want but havng them means you won't get the 1st and 3rd on ta list.

Consider a SSD .... we have two high performance lappies here ... one with Samsng 840 pro and a 7200 rpm HD and the other with a Seagate 7200 rpm SSHD (basically a SSD and HD in one device). I have timed them and the SSD + HD boosts almost a second faster than the SSHD....otherwise can't tell the difference between them ... in fact w/o a stopwatch, we can't tell the difference on the boot thing.

i would suggest that you have the unit built to your own specifications.... all our lappies are custom built for AutoCAD ....well that's what the company PO says

.... after hours peeps seem to stay late and do LAN party stuff.

http://www.lpc-digital.com/notebooks.html

4.65 pounds / 13" 1920 x 1080 screen $1293
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np7338-features.html
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Processor (2.40GHz), 6MB L3 Cache
Switchable GPU by NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M GPU / Intel® GMA HD GPU
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
SAMSUNG® 840 EVO Series 250GB mSATA SSD - Preconfigured as an OS Drive
1 TB HGST Travelstar™ 7K1000 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
Removable 6 cell smart Lithium-Ion battery pack 62.16Wh
Free shipping

7.28 pounds 15.6" screen $1,973
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np8258-special.html
15.6” Full HD 16:9 LED-Backlit (1920 x 1080) Super Clear MATTE type
30 day Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels - FREE UPGRADE!
Switchable GPU by NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 880M GPU with 8GB GDDR5 VRAM / Intel® GMA HD GPU
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU - Free Upgrade Special!
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB - Free Upgrade Special!
1 TB HGST Travelstar™ 7K1000 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - Special!
SAMSUNG® 840 EVO Series 250GB mSATA SSD - Preconfigured as an OS Drive
6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software - Free Upgrade Special!
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 802.11ac 2x2 Plus Bluetooth 4.0** - Free Upgrade Special!
8 cells smart Lithium-Ion battery pack 76.96Wh
Shipping included

Don't forget to ask about the discounts which vary based upon how much ya spend....When we bought our last bunch I was on the fence about adding something and adding it actually wound up saving us money cause we went over the limit that boosted us to the next level of discount.

http://www.lpc-digital.com/notebook-review-members-military-and-student-discounts.html

ingtar33 · May 2, 2014

yeah... i'm with the others... your requirements are mostly mutually exclusive... you either can have a hard core gaming laptop which is loud, with poor battery life, or you can have a light, quiet non-gaming laptop who's battery lasts all day.

but you won't be getting both in the same package.

now if you get a little more modest... and are willing to compromise you can get both... but it will require a sub 1080p monitor, drop the backlit keyboard... there are plenty of energy efficient laptop gpus with a quad core laptop cpu, that can game very well at reduced resolutions like 1600x900 or 1366x768... those types of laptops will run you like 500-800, have a battery that will last all day long, and will game on high-ultra settings just fine.

Dashrendar0226 · May 3, 2014

RazerZ :

Yeah I thought about it but I'll need a workhorse laptop

Dashrendar0226 · May 3, 2014

Thank you guys all so much for your help. So yeah, I came to the same conclusion. I'm heading towards the MSI GS70 Stealth which has mostly everything, but the MSI GS70 Stealth Pro is coming and with SuperRaid 2.... Does anyone have experience with the GS70 ? I just want it to stay cool and quiet at least when not ultra gaming,

Dashrendar0226 · May 3, 2014

JackNaylorPE :

Relatively thin and light is mutually exclusive with long battery life and great gaming. I have a powerful desktop and powerful laptop.... more often than not, I do my gaming on the lappie.

Gaming requires power .... power makes heat .... heat requires bug heat sinks and fans, power eats batteries..... these are the laws

So you can have everything you want but havng them means you won't get the 1st and 3rd on ta list.

Consider a SSD .... we have two high performance lappies here ... one with Samsng 840 pro and a 7200 rpm HD and the other with a Seagate 7200 rpm SSHD (basically a SSD and HD in one device). I have timed them and the SSD + HD boosts almost a second faster than the SSHD....otherwise can't tell the difference between them ... in fact w/o a stopwatch, we can't tell the difference on the boot thing.

i would suggest that you have the unit built to your own specifications.... all our lappies are custom built for AutoCAD ....well that's what the company PO says

.... after hours peeps seem to stay late and do LAN party stuff.

http://www.lpc-digital.com/notebooks.html

4.65 pounds / 13" 1920 x 1080 screen $1293
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np7338-features.html
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4700MQ Processor (2.40GHz), 6MB L3 Cache
Switchable GPU by NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 860M GPU / Intel® GMA HD GPU
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB
SAMSUNG® 840 EVO Series 250GB mSATA SSD - Preconfigured as an OS Drive
1 TB HGST Travelstar™ 7K1000 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive
Internal 802.11 B+G+N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module
Removable 6 cell smart Lithium-Ion battery pack 62.16Wh
Free shipping

7.28 pounds 15.6" screen $1,973
http://www.lpc-digital.com/sager-np8258-special.html
15.6” Full HD 16:9 LED-Backlit (1920 x 1080) Super Clear MATTE type
30 day Guaranteed no dead or partially-lit pixels - FREE UPGRADE!
Switchable GPU by NVIDIA® Optimus™ Technology - NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 880M GPU with 8GB GDDR5 VRAM / Intel® GMA HD GPU
4th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-4810MQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.80 GHz)
IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU - Free Upgrade Special!
16GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 8GB - Free Upgrade Special!
1 TB HGST Travelstar™ 7K1000 7200 RPM SATA 6Gb/s Hard Drive - Special!
SAMSUNG® 840 EVO Series 250GB mSATA SSD - Preconfigured as an OS Drive
6X Blu-ray Reader/8X DVD±R/2.4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software - Free Upgrade Special!
Intel® Dual Band Wireless-N 7260 802.11ac 2x2 Plus Bluetooth 4.0** - Free Upgrade Special!
8 cells smart Lithium-Ion battery pack 76.96Wh
Shipping included

Don't forget to ask about the discounts which vary based upon how much ya spend....When we bought our last bunch I was on the fence about adding something and adding it actually wound up saving us money cause we went over the limit that boosted us to the next level of discount.

http://www.lpc-digital.com/notebook-review-members-military-and-student-discounts.html

Thanks ! I sent you a private message.

Dashrendar0226 · May 3, 2014

I want that one http://www.excaliberpc.com/630485/msi-gs70-stealth-pro-210-17.3.html#TabDescription

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