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Which should I go for?

by Mar 29, 2016 7:43PM PDT

I'm a high school student and I'm looking for a gaming laptop that will last me for a long time. My parents set the budget at a max of 40K PHP so thats' about 860 USD. Since electronics here in the Philippines are overpriced, these two were the best specced in their price point, maxing out my budget. Which of the two should I go for? I play CS:GO, CoD: BO (the first one), GTA IV and it's expansion packs, and maybe GTA V. Assassin's Creed III doesn't hurt also. I also do the common tasks on a laptop like browsing the web, watching videos etc. P.S. I can't upgrade anything in the future, and also if you're wondering, the base configed Inspiron 7559 here is over a thousand US dollars and I can't upgrade anything.


Lenovo Y40-70

- 4th Generation Intel Core i7-4510U Processor (2.00GHz 1600 MHz 4MB)
- Windows 8.1 64
- 14.0 FHD LED AntiGlare Backlight (1920x1080)
- AMD Radeon R9 M275 2GB
- 8.0GB PC3-12800 DDR3L SDRAM 1600 MHz
- Hybrid 500GB 5400 RPM+8GB SSHD
- Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 3160
- Hard Drive 500 GB

Dell Inspiron 14 7447

Processor : Intel Core i5-4200H Processor (3M Cache, up to 3.40 GHz)
HDD : 500GB HDD
RAM : 4GB DDR3L
Graphics : 4GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M DDR3
Display : 14.0 inch LED Backlit Display with Anti Glare and HD resolution (1366 x 76Cool
Optical Drive : Tray load DVD Drive (Reads and Writes to DVD/CD)
Battery : 6-cell battery
Operating System : Windows 8.1

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Try this.
by Forum moderator Mar 29, 2016 8:16PM PDT
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Website in your area for gaming laptop selections
by Apr 8, 2016 3:09PM PDT

Hey, I found this website in your country. If you wish to have this computer for a long time, maybe you'd like to get the best CPU and GPU from the main stream that around your budget. Also, consider the first tier brands for more stable performance and hopefully better service.
http://www.lazada.com.ph/shop-gaming-laptops/?price=38500-189995

So I were you, I would consider among MSI, Dell, Lenovo. Other than you can easily see from the SPEC sheet, MSI has specific gaming features, separate cooling systems for CPU and GPU, Dynaudio, Steelseries, and so on; while Dell and Lenovo cover full range of laptops, from consumer to commercial for you to leverage, which I thought your parents may prefer. But when you're talking about the gaming laptops, go for those with real gaming feature specialties as their core competence, such as MSI, Alienware, ROG. FYI~

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