Hey lads, laptop prices in the UK are fucked...

Hey lads, laptop prices in the UK are fucked. With a promo code a Dell 7577 with a 1050 ti card and i7 processor is £967.

Do you think it's worth it?

Dell are a shitty brand and the 1050 is trash. Avoid!

I assume it's for gaming? Check out Alienware for better quality stuff.

>Laptop
>with a GPU
No.

Don't buy a gaymur laptop. They are all shit. Buy a normal laptop AND PC. It will be less expensive in total, performance of PC will be better and the laptop will actually be mobile, able to work on its battery, not thermal throttle after moving the mouse and doesn't need a charger that looks like it's stolen from Stonehenge.

no
i wouldnt pay more than 300 usd for a laptop

I know! I would buy a PC otherwise but I move around a lot for work and don't always have the space/means for a proper PC

Then forget the gaming part.

Gaming laptops are a pain in the ass even when they are fully functional and won't last for very long. Expect to buy a new one in 1.5-2 years if you move it daily.

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This has to be bait

But I want to play Rust (;´∩`;)

I've been trying to research this for a while and the 'gaming' laptop market (especially in the UK) is such a fucking scam. Shitty quality hardware for extortionate prices

Rust is unoptimized garbage. Did valve make that shit? I'm embarrassed to be a valve fan after seeing how shitty rust turned out

Don't worry mate, when we leave the EU we won't have to pay those fucking tariffs anymore.

>a fucking scam
You are completely right. Don't feed the scam. Don't ever give your hard earned (or any) money to these scammers. If no-one did it would just disappear.

Fuck off street shitter.

Play Rust on a desktop PC. Your laptop doesn't need a discrete GPU.

>Play
>rust
I'd rather kill myself than play rust or ark survival for 5 minutes

This, seriously consider this.

My laptop doesn't have a GPU and it doesn't have a very powerful CPU either. It does have a IPS HD screen - but no back-lit keyboard.

If you don't have a desktop PC at home then fine, go buy a gaming laptop if that'll be your only computer.

I have a desktop PC at home. A laptop which can do the basics like spreadsheets, web browsing, text editing and those kinds of things and play HD videos (doesn't require much) is enough. What really matters on a laptop for this kind of use is: a) a good screen b) a good keyboard, preferably red back-lit (I really miss this on trains and buses late at night).

I'd pick a 4k or fullHD IPS on my laptop over a GPU any day. You're not going to play games on a train-ride, and battery wouldn't last long if you did.

Alienware is over-priced trash. And the 1050 is more than good enough for a laptop. It's just redundant because all i7's have a iGPU which is more than good enough for a laptop and those chips have x264 and HEVC hardware decoding built-in.

If I had a settled living situation I would really never consider a gaming laptop over a PC, it's simply the fact I move every few months. As such I likely won't be getting a PC in the foreseeable future so a laptop will be the only computer I use.


The fact they're generally bullshit aside, are there any laptops you guys would recommend then?

**laptops capable of handling stuff like GTA 5 that is

>are there any laptops you guys would recommend then
Yes, one without dedicated GPU but with SSD (huge difference) and an i5/7 with the U suffix (low power consumption).

>it's simply the fact I move every few months
Oh, I see. In your case I'd absolutely buy a 17" gaming laptop.

this is what you get for being a kos fag and turning the community into toxic waste, otherwise it wouldve been a great game

>b) a good keyboard
I find that much harder to find than one might expect. Whenever I try out a laptop in a store, the keyboard virtually always shows one of two problems: Either it doesn't react to key-presses that are too fast, or, even worse, they sometimes double-register keys.
I can reproduce the former problem almost 100% reliably on my current Thinkpad L412. No matter how hard I press the key, if it's too fast it doesn't register.

>back-lit
Why though? Don't tell me you have to look at the keyboard to type?

the prospect of setting up a PC on the kitchen table of a shared apartment just so I can indulge in a pastime is generally what I want to avoid.

What is your living situation that requires this? Just curious.

I'm an archaeologist! I usually end up in shared accommodation for weeks on end while working on various digs over the year.

Cool stuff, user. I hope you find something that suits you.

In my experience, ~£1,000 is about par for the course for a laptop with a discrete GPU that isn't completely worthless. If you were in the US you might be able to get it cheaper, but probably not anywhere in Europe.

Thanks man! I think I might end up waiting for black friday/cyber monday deals before committing.

>information i wish i could have sent to myself in the past - the post
but no i bought a 17" "gaming" laptop that gets so hot i cant use it on my lap, with hinges so bad you need two hands to open the screen and you can't run the nvidia GPU with the lid closed because of the vent design.

also PC gaming is total shit now so it's an overpriced Sup Forums machine.
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Just order it from somewhere else you dumb sandnigger

>not knowing how VAT works