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Jun 28 2015 11:34am

Budget:700-1200
More specific use (what games, what programs): General school work, and the ability to play games like wow and league well
Planned time until purchase: Any time this week
Postal: NFLD Canada, A1B3M5

Illumini

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Jun 28 2015 06:17pm

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Jun 29 2015 06:39am

Any?

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Jun 29 2015 11:22am

lower end of budget:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314724CVF

Higher end of budget:
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA7RD2VC2663

Do you pay full tax at newegg? like 12% right? I chose your highest end laptop thinking you pay somewhere around that.
We don't really do laptops here, so open to suggestions from others, but they are not totally blind picks ^^.

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Jun 29 2015 11:59am

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232574

not newegg canada but if you can find this on the canadian website, i'd get that

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Jun 29 2015 12:41pm

Quote (Rapture @ Jun 29 2015 02:52pm)

Yup 13% gst, and thanks for suggestions I have no idea whats good or not, so ill just wait for more suggestions in the next 2-3 days before buying

This post was edited by Illumini on Jun 29 2015 12:41pm

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Jun 29 2015 02:12pm

http://www.amazon.ca/G551JW-DS71-CA-Republic-15-6-inch-i7-4720HQ-GTX960M-2G/dp/B00VVU4NGA/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1435608643&sr=1-4

If you can swing it.

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Jun 29 2015 03:08pm

Quote (Bubbler @ Jun 29 2015 03:29pm)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232574

not newegg canada but if you can find this on the canadian website, i'd get that

Not on canadian

Quote (DeXaFiLaH @ Jun 29 2015 05:42pm)

http://www.amazon.ca/G551JW-DS71-CA-Republic-15-6-inch-i7-4720HQ-GTX960M-2G/dp/B00VVU4NGA/ref=sr_1_4?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1435608643&sr=1-4

If you can swing it.

Not sure if sellers on amazon apply to sales tax, will look into it

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Jun 29 2015 03:47pm

Quote (Illumini @ Jun 29 2015 02:41pm)
Yup 13% gst, and thanks for suggestions I have no idea whats good or not, so ill just wait for more suggestions in the next 2-3 days before buying

Well to help you do your own research, you mainly want to look at the GPU.
In the more expensive laptop i posted, it has a GTX 860m and Dex's has a 960m.

So you can estimate a laptops performance by checking out the GPU on notebookcheck:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-860M.107794.0.html

If you scroll down youll see various performance benchmarks on games.
on the side it has other laptop GPU's to look at, so you can just click 960m or whatever to see how it performs.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-960M.138006.0.html

The coolest feature though is you can click the numbers and it compares to the other numbers in the database so you wont have to do math. example on arkham knight it shows 860m is 23% weaker than 960m ^^

In general, all the laptops we are choosing are overkill for league and WoW so don't stress too much on maxing your budget on one of these as well.

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Jun 29 2015 03:56pm

Quote (Rapture @ Jun 29 2015 07:17pm)

Well to help you do your own research, you mainly want to look at the GPU.
In the more expensive laptop i posted, it has a GTX 860m and Dex's has a 960m.

So you can estimate a laptops performance by checking out the GPU on notebookcheck:
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-860M.107794.0.html

If you scroll down youll see various performance benchmarks on games.
on the side it has other laptop GPU's to look at, so you can just click 960m or whatever to see how it performs.
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-960M.138006.0.html

The coolest feature though is you can click the numbers and it compares to the other numbers in the database so you wont have to do math. example on arkham knight it shows 860m is 23% weaker than 960m ^^

In general, all the laptops we are choosing are overkill for league and WoW so don't stress too much on maxing your budget on one of these as well.

Alright thanks.
And yeah the laptop is only for school and if I ever wanna play wow at a friends house, but wasn't sure what money got you so I just put a broad range

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