Where to look to buy a laptop

[FuZion]

If you do end up getting a laptop for gaming built, do yourself a favor and put an SSD in that thing. It will help the longevity of that laptop by a lot. #1 Reason - Heat. The old hard drives heat up like crazzzzy in laptops, replacing with SSD, I noticed barely any heat coming from my laptop except for the CPU, which is nice. You can get a decent 240GB ssd now a days for a really good price. So my suggestion is go cheap with the hard drive they put in and replace it yourself with a good SSD Deal from black friday. Xotic PC and Sager both have decent prices. but if you look around, you can find better deals this black friday / cyber monday. The only nicety that Sager and Xotic offers is the warranty's are awesome in comparison to newegg/amazon/tiger direct. And of course customization, but you will pay a premium for it.

 

[built[4]sin]

definitely looking at ssd. so tired of platters :/ so 1980's

 

[Jam]

@FuZion
+1
That's what I did. I got an SSD then just got external hard drives later on for more storage. 240gb will suffice.

 

[v.Kamikaze]

external? pfft... get an mSATA SSD + HDD... storage and speed, without the external blah blah blah. oh, just make sure the laptop supports mSATA, lol. many high end laptops should, esp the 15-inchers.

 

[IcEWoLF]

@built[4]sin , there is an offer at newegg: Computer Parts, Laptops, Electronics, and More - Newegg.com it's in your price range for Black Friday, if you are buying it use the above link so we get credit for it.