As Kevin Garnett said in his famous quote, “Playing video games is something I enjoy in my spare time. I’m a gamer, always have been.” If you have the same passion for games, then this is obvious you won’t choose a wrong thing. Gamer’s laptop is a world full of adventure and the hidden surprise. Being a gamer, you won’t compromise with your comfort and satisfaction, you know well which devices are best for you, which brand you should choose, and many more. If you’re going to buy a gaming laptop then once run your eyes to these tips. You may get the good suggestion.
1. Portability
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Minimal Portability
If you’re one of them those who want to keep their laptops at home and leave it on your desktop, then a 17 or 18-inch display will be the ideal option for you. Laptops those come in this range are the most powerful, because they grip plenty of room for heat-generating components. However these devices are quite heavy, and you can hardly fit these laptops into your bags, and of course, you can’t use this laptop unplugged for so long. It will be good if you make a specific space for this device at your home.
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Medium Portability
If you’re fond of carrying your laptop, then go for a 15-inch notebook like OriginPC Eon 15-S. The weight of these devices would be 4.6 to 7.2 pounds, and the battery lasts for 5 hours and 50 minutes on a charge.
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Best Portability
If your nature is of traveler, then you should go for 13 or 14-inch laptops such as Razer Blade. Notebooks in this size range normally hold the weight of 5 pounds with amazing battery backup (7 hours and 38 minutes). Well, these devices usually don’t come with the most powerful GPU or CPU because of its space issue. These laptops’ have not enough space to dissipate all that heat.
2. Graphics
The graphics card or GPU is the gem of your gaming laptop. By processing the data and transferring the signal to the monitor, it delivers the pictures on your screen.
For Mainstream Gamers
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060
You can easily relish the taxing games like Mass Effect: Andromeda or Witcher 3 if you’ve got 1060 cards. The card provides you stunning visual including water reflections and realistic hair at 1929×1080. If you’ve your Rift or Vive headset then can relish the environment of VR world as well.
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050/1050 Ti
The GTX 1050 will churn out some framerates in mid-range games such as Battlefield 1 at very meek settings. In some cases of supporting Oculus Rift and its multiple titles, 1050 Ti is more powerful and effective. If you’re an insane gamer then, of course, you would like to choose a high-performance system.
Outstanding Performance
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
You can say this one is the middle kid of Nvidia’s suite of cards, the 1070 GPU is VR-ready and capable of producing some amazing frame rates as well; but in comparison of 1080, it’s not that good.
Game Maniacs and VR-ready
- Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080
Nvidia 1080 can easily support all your VR adventures. You just need to spend amount a good amount as we know it only found in high-end systems such as Razer Blade Pro or the Acer Predator 17X.
- SLI
Some laptops provide two GPUs in Nvidia’s Scalable Link Interface configuration. The technology allows more than four GPUs to work together, scaling graphics’ performance for good rendering at brilliant high frame rates.
3. Display
Well, there’s no smooth frame rates and stunning graphics if you haven’t an impressive or suitable display. Here we have few guidelines for you:
- Resolution: As we know the minimum resolution for any gaming laptop is 1929×1080. Laptops those are blessed with QHD (2560 x 144) or 4K (3840 x 2160) panels are gaining popularity rapidly. Many gamers go for 1366×768 because of the high frame rates.
- Touch Screens: Some gaming laptops grip touch screen function. Well, if you’re fond of games like Candy Crush or Cut the Rope, then touchscreen laptop will be the best option for you.
- Matte or GLossy: Which one you’re going to choose? Glossy or matte? Those who are in favor of glossy they enjoy the vibrant colors, but that surface is very susceptible to irritating glare. Those who’re fond of the matte panel, they no need worry about distracting reflections.
- OLED: The term is described as the upcoming time of display, an Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) panel is made up of an organic compounds’ film that produces light when an electrical current flow. The Alienware 13 R3 OLED is the only laptop blessed with this technology.
- G-SYnc or FreeSync: As we know many laptops hold panels that support Nvidia’s G-Sync or AMD’s FreeSync technologies, both of them hold the same purpose of eliminating unsightly graphical tears and ghosting on monitors (1080-4K).
4. Audio
We no need to tell the importance of audio. You probably have headphones or earphones that you will use most of the time, but sometimes you want to relish your favorite game without the headset. It’s important to check that the audio which is stepping out of speakers is pleasing your ears or teasing your ears. The MSI-exclusive, Nahimic audio software is one of the bests which provides the best surround sound in both headphone and speakers. You can also check Alienware’s Dell Audio software and Dolby Home Theatre v4 in Lenovo notebooks.
5. Storage
Storage plays an essential role because when we talk about gaming notebooks, the good speed is always better. A lot of people love SSDs, specifically the new PCIe cards, which deliver acute file transfer speed. If you can’t afford SSD then this recommendable that at least go for a 1TB hard drive with a 7,200-rpm speed.
6. Keyboards
If you’re looking for a decent sense of actuation force, then you need to bring a good keyword. If you’ve keyword is not that then you will feel mushy and squishy. Remember here we’re talking about gaming laptops; if you’re a true gamer, then you have to keep many things in your mind such as the keyboard, storage, and display, etc. Many gaming keyboards provide built-in lighting as well. At night time you can comfortably type and relish your gaming session. The fancier laptop keyboards are blessed with customizing RGB lighting.
7. RAM
Quad-core laptop from Intel will be the recommended option for you. Anything above four cores usually goes to waste when we talk about gaming because games are not optimized for them. Some Intel chips do feature hyperthreading, which is best for productivity but has little-to-no impact on most games.
8. Brands
We all are fond of different brands and also a loyal customer of some specific brand as well. Which laptop brand you’re going to choose is all up to you because we all have different tastes and of course being a gamer you also have some brands on your mind. Here we have some suggestions; these might help you out:
- Alienware
- Asus
- Razer
- OriginPC
- Lenovo
- MSI
- HP
- Gigabyte/Aorus
- Acer
