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Choosing Weapon for Battlefield
Choosing Weapon for Battlefield
With their powerful components, colorful designs and premium prices, gaming laptops are a different beast than typical mainstream notebooks. And they need to be if you want to play demanding games like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Grand Theft Auto V and enjoy smooth gameplay on high frame rates. They're also a different beast when it comes to design, offering chassis with more aggressive lines and multicolor keyboards.
Depending on your budget, your lifestyle and the games you want to play, you could end up spending anywhere from $800 to $4,000 on a system that's likely to weigh between 4 and 8 pounds. To find the right gaming laptop, follow the tips and advice below.
Quick Tips
- Don't buy a gaming laptop for low-end titles like World of Warcraft or Candy Crush.
- Avoid Touch Screens. They're more expensive and drain the battery.
- 17- or 18-inch laptops are the fastest but least portable while 13-, 14- and 15-inchers are easier to carry but often lack high-end components.
- Make sure the keyboard is comfortable. If you can, take a trip to the store and try out the keyboard before you buy.
- Nvidia's 960M graphics card is good enough if you want to play the latest titles at 30 fps, but you'll need to step up to 970M if you want better performance and 980M if you want to game in 4K resolution.
- Avoid laptops with a low-res display (less than 1920 x 1080).
- Get solid state storage. Invest in a SSD for faster game installs and load times.
- Get a laptop with at least an Intel Core i7-6820HK processor, an Nvidia desktop 980 GPU and a HDMI 1.3 port if you want to be able to enjoy virtual reality games with an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive.
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