As the title says, I'm shopping for a gaming laptop... or at least a laptop which will run some of my games better than my 7 year old Asus (which really has had a great service life). I'm not the tech-head I used to be but doing some homework and I think an i7 quad core CPU with the GTX 1060 6gb GPU would be a sweet spot. In fact, the machine I'm looking at (Acer Predator Helios 300) offers just that, along with some other features including a 256gb SSD. Unfortunately it lacks a high capacity HDD as well as an optical drive. Which, call me old school, but I find a big deal. For one, I often times like to burn CD/MP3 discs for my car.
Anyhow, the price looks tough to beat in this performance range, so perhaps I would just convert the old machine to a linux box for media use. Any thoughts on the Acer or similar systems? Does anybody miss their integral large HDD or optical drives?
Anyhow, the price looks tough to beat in this performance range, so perhaps I would just convert the old machine to a linux box for media use. Any thoughts on the Acer or similar systems? Does anybody miss their integral large HDD or optical drives?