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[Motörhead]

I will need one too, I'll stay 3-4 months away starting from August.

Do you guys know a good site that ships in Europe ?

Anyway I've seen the game on a Lenovo Y510P and it runs fine (and it has a 755m with an i7, so anything higher will do)

[Catamount]

Macksheen, on 02 July 2014 - 07:32 PM, said:

I've not seen a Sager yet, though I have seen the Razer / MSI / Alien ones up close. Are they truly that solid?

I'm likely getting a new laptop in the fall, so I'm curious.

Budget?

For you, Sager is the way to go, hands down, I think. They're as good as the other actually-good gaming laptop brands out there, without the Razer/Alienware price premium, and you get access to the latest hardware with them, and they're very customizable. They also cool reasonably well, whereas many machines do not. They're Clevo machines, so there's good quality there.

They also come with some frills that you won't find on many other machines, including massive numbers of drive bays (three or four, usually), customizable lit keyboards, and an amplified headphone out, which isn't as useful as it sounds if you want actually-decent sound, but it's still kind of cool.

The downside to them is battery life. They're portable; they're not especially mobile. The NP8268 was measured at 4.5 hours while web browsing, here. AMD's cards may be less because unless they've cleaned it up, their GPU-switching technology isn't as developed (that's last I heard, which was admittedly some time ago). That shouldn't matter in a hotel though.


You haven't said what you want to spend, but they have everything up and down the price spectrum, up to a back-breaking dual-GPU monstrosity (which, hilariously, still doesn't cost as much as an underpowered Macbook Pro ).

Edited by Catamount, 03 July 2014 - 07:00 AM.

[Peter2k]

Motörhead, on 02 July 2014 - 10:08 PM, said:

I will need one too, I'll stay 3-4 months away starting from August.

Do you guys know a good site that ships in Europe ?

Anyway I've seen the game on a Lenovo Y510P and it runs fine (and it has a 755m with an i7, so anything higher will do)

where in europe

otherwise

casking
alternate
overclockers.co.uk
alienware

bit hard to say without knowing where and which budget

but to be honest since you know at least something about PC's/Laptops I guess
an i7 that's boosts as high as possible you can find and a mediocre graphics card (or well better if you can burn through cash) will do otherwise
MWO is CPU bound

[Peter2k]

Depending on budgets
The new ROG GX700 should come out in a bit
Desktop clas gtx980, up to 64GB DDR4 ram and a skylake i7, while being a mobile variant, is still overclockable
Rounded out with actual watercooling, G-Sync, 1080p or 4K display

Might be something actually considered a gaming laptop

[xWiredx]

The cooling solution immediately makes it not a laptop, though... that's just a slim desktop replacement with an attached screen at best. lol

[Oderint dum Metuant]

Yea I really wouldn't call that a portable machine.. IE a laptop.