Best Gaming Laptop – Quick Guide to Portable Gaming
We've picked 5 of the best gaming laptops with great quality and affordable too.
Are you in the market to find the best gaming laptop in 2017, but aren’t sure where to start looking? “It should just be like any gaming peripheral”, you might be saying to yourself, “bigger and badder is better, right?”. Not entirely, as we learned in our best gaming PC list last week.
As you’ll find out in this review roundup, picking the top gaming laptop off the proverbial shelf isn’t always a simple matter of just pitting the best specs against the rest.
Just as there are dozens of different types of gamers, there are different gaming laptops which cater to every section of the market at a certain price point. Some are light and thin with a sleek profile, others are big and burly – so which one is going to be the right fit for you?
#1 Editor’s Choice/Asus ROG G75 – Best Affordable Gaming Laptop
The Asus G75 ranks #1 and is no exception when it comes to portable gaming.
WHY IT’S A TOP PICK: The G75 combines beauty and power unlike any other laptop.
When you get an Asus gaming laptop, you know you’re in for a solid piece of gaming hardware thanks to the company’s very own Republic of Gamers seal of approval.
All products in the ROG line, laptop or otherwise, maintain Asus’ notorious eye for packing more than enough quality, power, and price breaks into a machine that has no business costing as little as it does for all the extra frills you get on the side.We love the G75 because it encompasses everything we love about gaming in a single system, all without coming off as gaudy or audacious for what it achieves, which is why we name it our best gaming laptop of 2017.
#2 Pick Alienware 15 – Best Gaming Laptop Under $2,000
Ranking #2 is Alienware’s 15 gaming laptop.
WHY IT’S A TOP PICK: The Alienware Graphics Amplifier makes true AAA 4K gaming possible.
Alienware might be one of the oldest players in the premade PC game, but that doesn’t mean they still aren’t one of the best. With specs like an Nvidia GTX 970M and 1TB of hard drive space, this laptop does everything you need it to.
Not only that, but the Alienware 15 is also one of the few models that’s compatible with the company’s Graphics Amplifier box. The Graphics Amplifier is a separate station that users can use to ramp up their gaming power to the max with the help of an external GPU, giving you the option to run medium settings on the road, but crank the volume to ultra once you’re back home and plugged in.
#3 Pick MSI GT80S 6QE Titan SLI – Best MSI Gaming Laptop
Based on pure power alone, MSI GT80S would top our list if it had better battery life and a lighter footprint
WHY IT’S A TOP PICK: The MSI GT80S is the most powerful laptop we’ve ever tested.
If you need top of the line performance from a gaming laptop that takes no prisoners, the name of MSI’s GT80S 6QE “Titan” gaming laptop should be enough to convince you of what it can do.
With a dual GTX 980M SLI set of graphics cards and Intel Core i7-6820HK quad-core processor to boot, the Titan gives you the opportunity to completely demolish, destroy, and conquer any virtual opponent that might come your way, online or otherwise.
It may not be the lightest (or prettiest) gaming laptop out there, but what it lacks in polish and battery life it more than makes up for in the power department.
#4 Pick Razer Blade – Most Portable
Razer Blade, a top gaming laptop pick because of its sleek design and power.
WHY IT’S A TOP PICK: The sleek and sexy Razer Blade goes anywhere you do.
We love the Razer’s gaming laptop because of just how darn thin it is, and equally light to boot. The engineers over at Razer have somehow managed to pack as many specs into the Blade as we’d expect from other contenders twice its size and three times as heavy, all while maintaining a sleek, stylish finish that looks just as great on a counter at the coffee shop as it does tucked away in your side bag.
The Blade also includes a gorgeous 3200 x 1800 QHD+ screen that trounces any other laptop in its category, making it one of the slimmest, sexiest gaming laptops we’ve had the pleasure of using in a long, long time.
#5 Pick ASUS ROG Strix GL502VT
– Best Budget Gaming Laptop
How can a 5lb laptop still rock a 6GB video card? The wizards at ASUS, that’s how.
WHY IT’S A TOP PICK:
The ASUS ROG Strix GL502VT is impossibly light with tons of power to spare.
Somehow, someway, ASUS has managed to acheive the impossible with its latest entry into the ROG laptop lineup: the ROG Strix GL502VT. At only 4.85lbs and just short of 1″ thick, the Strix GL502VT still manages to sport an Intel Core i7-6700HQ processor alongside a huge (only in power, not size) Nvidia GTX 970M with 6GB of onboard GDDR5 VRAM.
All that extra VRAM means plenty of punch to game with, all on a laptop that easily slides into any sidebag or backpack with ease. Add to this a sleek, anodized aluminum casing and pro-gamer level keyboard trackpad combo, and you’ve got a laptop that’s fast enough to stand up with the big boys, but compact enough to fit on your airplane table tray without a sweat.
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