Quick laptop check - is this any good?

[starcraft]

VanceIX said:

starcraft said:

VanceIX said:

Correct. You can always upgrade your RAM for relatively cheap if you so wish.

From what I see, neither the 850 nor the 860 are quite future-proof aftwr three years. No mobile graphocs card really is. I personally have a 750m in my laptop, and it plays most gamea just as well as the 7970 in my desktop.

If you really want to be safe, that 860 may be a better option, but if its out of your pricepoint I wouldn't sweat it. The 850 will do just fine.

I wouldnt worry bout the SSD. Just get one later on for cheaper and put it in there if you so wish.

Went WAY overboard in the end:

Standard Metabox Design
15.6" FHD (1920 x 1080) LED Matte
Nvidia GeForce GTX 860M with 2GB GDDR5 VRAM
Intel Core i7-4710MQ Processor (6M Cache up to 3.50 GHz)
16GB 1600MHZ Memory
Plextor 256GB M5 PRO XTREME SATA3 SSD
1TB 7200RPM HDD
802.11ABGN / Bluetooth
Blu-ray Reader / DVD +- R/RW DL
Windows 8.1 64BIT
2 Year Platinum Metabox Onsite Pickup

I really wanted to sub out the Blu-Ray player for a 95% Matte Gamut screen but that was a degree of customisation they couldn't do without adding hundreds to the (~1700) price.

The RAM was a free upgrade from 8 to 16 so I was like fine.

Here is hoping its awesome!

That sounds like a beastly laptop! You'll be golden for years to come, congrats!

Haha yes, but I wont be able to afford games for years to come

Fortunately my Steam backlog is enormous, so I'll just have to port my account to the new Laptop ASAP and get cracking!