Gaming laptop around $1000?

miklentomrobinson

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I'm looking to buy a laptop for school. It will probably be used for casual use and somewhat intense gaming. (Ex: Minecraft, TF2, Planetside 2, Battlefield)

1. What is your budget?
I'm looking around 1000. If it is something very worth it, maybe up to 1100?

2. What is the size of the notebook that you are considering?

15.6" hopefully...

3. What screen resolution do you want?

1920 x 1080

4. Do you need a portable or desktop replacement laptop?

whatever is cheaper or gives more bang for the buck

5. How much battery life do you need?

not to important maybe 3 or 4 hours

6. Do you want to play games with your laptop? If so then please list the games that you want to with the settings that you want for these games.
Most games I play I play around medium. (Ex: Minecraft, TF2, Battlefield, Planetside 2)

7. What other tasks do you want to do with your laptop? (Photo/Video editing, Etc.)

Gaming and casual work

8. How much storage (Hard Drive capacity) do you need?

Probably around 750GB to 1TB performance is more important.

9. If you are considering specific sites to buy from, please post their links.

Either from a retailer like bestbuy or websites like amazon.

10. How long do you want to keep your laptop?

Around 4 years hopefully more.

11. What kind of Optical drive do you need? DVD ROM/Writer,Bluray ROM/Writer,Etc ?

Don't need one

12. Please tell us about the brands that you prefer to buy from them and the brands that you don't like and explain the reasons.

I don't want an apple (really expensive and I don't believe in brand loyalty), I don't like HP (i've had overheating problems), and I will take, but would rather not have an acer (overheating and other problems i've had).

13. What country do you live in?

US of A

14. Please tell us any additional information if needed.
n/a

I've looked at this one:

http://www.amazon.com/Lenovo-Y50-Laptop-Computer-Generation/dp/B00K71W5SC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1401236341&sr=8-1&keywords=lenovo+y50

If you could either give me opinions on the above or give other suggestions I would really appreciate it.

Thanks