Bang for my buck laptop South Africa

I just want the best value for money options . The alienware one was just to illustrate that it costs roughly $1000 on Amazon but when the Rands price is converted it more than doubles. Spending between $700 and $1000 is probably where im at anyway. Been eyeing the Asus rog too. Anymore suggestions?

Why? Because the market, exchange rates, sales and such are in motion. If I pick one then it's not going to be the best bang for the buck as we would have to re-evaluate the other dozen models and then in minutes it's not the best for the buck.

My son went with the Asus ROG for just under 1K. It's very nice.

Do you mean this ROG? https://laptopninja.io/finding-the-best-gaming-laptops-under-1000-dollars/. Saw a couple of other nice options there too but i reckon the ROG is still the best option. Your thoughts?

And we cloned the HDD to a 500GB SSD soon after arrival. Here 480 to 512GB SSDs run from just under 99USD to about 180USD. In fact my old laptop was just replaced and it came with a 120GB C which we all know is a pain. So that was swapped out the first day.

My son says Metal Gear Solid 5 runs like butter now.

ThankS !! Gonna get the ROG. Youve sold me .

But here's the reports on issues and a few crashes. THESE ARE NORMAL. I don't want to get into how Windows PCs are not perfect but you may see the following.

1. Graphics drivers are in an auto update model on arrival with Nvidia's update tool.
Two issues here.
a. My son had a game that stopped working. He went on Reddit and it was in the news. 2 days later a new update and it's all good again.
b. My new laptop did not update out of the box. "Could not contact Nvidia" was the message. Back to google and you have to install the latest Geforce Experience.
-> Bottomline. Typical Windows PC experience.

2. I've seen a couple BSODs that seem to be the WiFi driver. Not sure if that's it but it''s there and rare enough it's not a problem. Will update the WiFi driver if they issue another.