Buying Guide: 10 best gaming laptops 2016: top gaming notebook reviews

Buying Guide: 10 best gaming laptops 2016: top gaming notebook reviews

By Kevin Lee

Buying Guide: 10 best gaming laptops 2016: top gaming notebook reviews

Gaming laptops we recommend

Don’t even bother asking your friends advice on buying a gaming laptop. They’ll tell you to just build a desktop, but we both know that’s not going to happen. Investing endless hours into finding all the right components and putting them together sounds like a chore. You’d rather get to the fun part: actually playing games. Warranty coverage on the entire system rather than a subset of parts is simply an added bonus.

Being able to take your rig on the go, complete with a built-in monitor and keyboard, however, isn’t cheap. A decent gaming laptop starts at about $1,400 (about £900). That’s on the low end.

If you want to play 4K games at a consistent frame rate, you can expect to pay over $3,000 (around £1,900, AU$4,000) for qualifying hardware. Fortunately, this could soon change thanks to AMD’s low-cost Polaris GPUs and Nvidia’s insanely powerful-for-the-price Pascal cards being integrated in laptops like these.

Gaming laptops are sleeker and more powerful than ever, with many of them featuring top-end desktop GPUs. In some cases, as with the Acer Predator 21 X, even a full-size mechanical keyboard is present. Here you’ll find the gaming …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Gaming

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