Good Gaming Laptop for around 800?

Looking to sell my Macbook Pro from 2014, hoping to get at most 800 bucks.

I was looking at this model:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=1TS-001A-00098&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-TechSource-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=7899552&SID=

Lemme know what you guys think, any help would be great.

I'd at least upgrade to the 960m video card if possible.

http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=34-232-848

$30 more for slightly better graphics and better longevity, plus better aesthetics in my opinion.. And that's without looking at refurbs/used or anything else.

That's a really low estimate. I'm seeing $1,200 as the average resell price on any 2014 model, with some better specs fetching $1,400+.

If you can get that extra cash you open yourself up to some significantly more powerful hardware.

At your budget however:
Lenovo Y40-80 - $800

And the ASUS listed in the post above. That's about it unless you want to buy used.

At the $1,200-ish price range you get much better options such as:

SAGER NP8657 - $1270

MSI GE72 APACHE-027 - $1100

ASUS G751JL-WH7 - $1100

For around $800 I would look at these two:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315164
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232848

I really like the Sager. I actually might pick that one up in a few weeks.

Okay it''s been a while but I think I'm going to get this model:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834315164

I still need something that won't really break the bank, and I'd like to have some money left over, and I'm going to need to take this in my backpack everyday to go to school, so this looks like a good choice.

Thoughts?

Be cautious of Acer. They have a huge reputation for cutting corners and building cheap. They look good, but aren't always. I am not saying they do it all the time as they do have some genuinely great products, but just be sure you find reviews, look up the laptop on forums and see if there are reported problems, and be 100% sure the laptop will work and not keel over in a month from just being used.

Should really build a desktop for gaming, even a $400/500 desktop will outperform a gaming laptop that costs 800

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Your only other real laptop option aside from the i7+960m would be the Y700 from Lenovo, the CPU would be weaker, but it has a free-sync display for gaming, at least it's supposed to have a free-sync display

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834319906&cm_re=Y700-_-34-319-906-_-Product

I'm mostly going to be using this for school but I wanted a good CPU since some of my classes require me to code and compile software, and the programs they're going to be giving me don't run on Mac, and I'd rather just get a decent windows laptop than run bootcamp

Could always go the desktop route and have way more CPU horsepower, here'd be the CPU heavy desktop for around $660

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/fwW9bv

lol I already have a desktop man I built it last November

Well then why not get a laptop with more focus on battery life and a large SSD? Makes for a much better portable device unless you needed the gaming laptop for lan parties or something

thats a better idea, what would you recommend then?

Well, you could always go for a convertible with a touch screen, always a useful feature

Bit over budget though for this Yoga

That actually looks like a really good option

Found a better one, used, but it's got an i7 and 1800p display

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA8TK3N44245

that one has a canadian/french keyboard lol

Probably worth it for the hardware though, otherwise just in general thinkpads seem to have pretty solid construction and what not, aside from lenovo's adware crap they put on their devices, just gotta wipe the hard drive when you get it

Think I might go for the Think Pad then