Average budget for a mid-high end laptop?

[Sherman242]

I'm looking for a gaming laptop that can run games well, has a good graphics card (700/800 GTX) and 16gb of ram. Any suggestions?

Additional info:
Planning to use this for Poly, so it can't be too bulky (around 2kg)
My budget is around $2000 SGD

Games I'm planning to play : Titanfall, League of Legends, Borderlands 2, Watchdogs

 

[Unknownx]

First of all 16GB RAM won't boosts the gaming performance compared to 8GB RAM. You only need 16GB RAM if you're doing heavy photoshop like more than 250MB of image.

Since Watchdogs haven't available yet, I'll use Titanfall to set a borderline which graphic card is sufficient since LoL and BL2 is lighter than Titanfall.

To play Titanfall smoothly(30fps at least) at high settings with 1366x768 resolution, you must get a laptop with GT 750M or above. To play it smoothly at high settings with 1920x1080 resolution, you must get a laptop with GTX 765M or above.

Since you got weight requirement, for now I only can think of Aftershock XG13 and MSI GE40

 

[watzup_ken]

I reckon you will need at least a GTX765M if you are an FPS player. I am not too sure if you can something near your budget at 2KG at this point in time. The Aftershock XG13 is probably the closest you can get which packs a very decent specs, but do note its 13.3 inch monitor is not exactly what I call ideal for gaming.

 

[Sherman242]

So what laptops could I get if there were no weight requirements?

 

[Unknownx]

So what laptops could I get if there were no weight requirements?

1080p screen + GTX 765M or above(price still below 2k): Aftershock XG15V2/XG17, MSI GE60

768p screen + GT 750M or above(price still below 2k): Lenovo Thinkpad E440, Lenovo Ideapad Y410P(from poly roadshow)

Gaming on 1080p laptop definitely looks better than gaming on 768p screen. I wouldn't recommend to get a 1080p laptop to play game on it with 768p resolution. Therefore I never listed all those laptops with 1080p screen + GT 750M

 

[Sherman242]

1080p screen + GTX 765M or above(price still below 2k): Aftershock XG15V2/XG17, MSI GE60

768p screen + GT 750M or above(price still below 2k): Lenovo Thinkpad E440, Lenovo Ideapad Y410P(from poly roadshow)

Gaming on 1080p laptop definitely looks better than gaming on 768p screen. I wouldn't recommend to get a 1080p laptop to play game on it with 768p resolution. Therefore I never listed all those laptops with 1080p screen + GT 750M

So for the MSI GE60, what are the differences between the names? E.g. GE60 2PL Apache/ GE60 2PC Apache etc. Thanks for helping with my laptop choice btw.

 

[Unknownx]

So for the MSI GE60, what are the differences between the names? E.g. GE60 2PL Apache/ GE60 2PC Apache etc. Thanks for helping with my laptop choice btw.

GE60 Apache series with GeForce 800 series haven't out yet and the difference between those two are the SSD capacity and keyboard backlight. The current GE60 2OE is the one using GTX 765M($1899) while the GE60 2OC is only using GT 750M($1599). FYI the new GE60 series are heavier by 200 grams compared to older one and when the Apache series released, the price should be more than $2000 for the GTX 860M model(GTX 765M's successor).