laptop for 800

[Kain-]

title says most of it, my friend wants a new laptop for 800 dollars, mainly for gaming wise, i alrdy tried persuading him to a desktop for gaming and i would help build it, but he stil wants a laptop. anyone out there for 800 that are decent for gaming?

lr;dr gaming laptop for 800

 

[reflex99]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246006

spend the extra $100 it will be worth it.

Top of the line sandy bridge quad core, nice GPU

 

[PewPewBangBang]

alienware m11x?

 

[mad pistol]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834246006

spend the extra $100 it will be worth it.

Top of the line sandy bridge quad core, nice GPU

That's a beastly laptop for $900. :drool:

 

[DeathOnTwoLegs]

I recomend an ASUS. AWESOME! local bestbuys should carry one around 800 and one around 1000 depending where u live

 

[a pet rock]

Don't ever ever ever ever buy anything from Best Buy. They got their PhD in scamming you out of your money. I went down to a Best Buy to get a DVD drive and I realized I could get a better one overnighted to me from newegg that would still be cheaper. I've seen external HDDs costing at least $50 more than what they're worth there. I disapprove.

 

[reflex99]

Don't ever ever ever ever buy anything from Best Buy. They got their PhD in scamming you out of your money. I went down to a Best Buy to get a DVD drive and I realized I could get a better one overnighted to me from newegg that would still be cheaper. I've seen external HDDs costing at least $50 more than what they're worth there. I disapprove.

their laptop prices are pretty consistent with other retailers.

I don't understand how it is a scam if you willingly purchased it.

 

[runo]

Maybe it isn't a scam, but it's no less of an attempt to rip off their customers who don't know better. I've sworn off ever buying anything from Best Buy. $60 HDMI cables, $300 external HDDs, and pre-builts with $500 in parts selling for $1000? lolz

@OP: The laptop that Reflex recommended is pretty boss. For a little over $800 you can get an Alienware Mx11, depending on how big your friend needs the actual laptop screen to be. If he can deal with a 10.8"(?) screen, he should be groovy. Honestly I'd probably choose that Lenovo that Reflex linked over the Mx11, though.

 

[PewPewBangBang]

if you know how to shop......then you will get the best prices.

Best buy may sell some expensive HDMI cables (hence monster) but its not only them selling those $100 hdmi cables.

Best buy offers some good prices on laptops. They sell the Asus G73 for like $1,200 compared to around $1,500 on other sites

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Asus+-+...=1218243761956&skuId=1257894&st=g73&cp=1&lp=1

[ame]http://www.amazon.com/G73JW-XA1-Republic-Gamers-17-3-Inch-Gaming/dp/B0044BCZ0E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295286856&sr=8-1[/ame]

So yea, if you know how to shop....then you will find the best prices and not overpay. It's not scamming, just know what your doing

 

[Kain-]

thanks for the responces guys, i send him the links to the alienware and the 800 dollar one more options would be nice though

 

[Tsunade]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220715

You can upgrade the CPU later to a Core 2 Quad. Only thing is the 1368x768 screen is terrible but I've seen people swap out the screen to a 1920x1080. Should be able to handle most modern games as the GTX260M is like a desktop 9800GT. ASUS makes good stuff too.

Without buying refurbished/used you aren't really going to get above a 5650/5730(OC version of 5650) brand new.