Looking to buy a 'gaming' laptop.

Mario95

I am looking to buy a laptop, something that I will still be able to use after 3/4 years.

My budget is €1000.
CPU: i7 3rd/4th gen.
RAM: 6GB.
GPU: HD 8970m / GTX 780m.
Screen: 15"/17" FHD.
HDD: 750GB.

So I have found a Sager laptop built on clevo P150SM, it costs about €1000 but the shipping from US and the import tax will make it much too expensive.

I am wondering where I could buy something like this but from a European shop.
Any other suggestions are welcome too

vex

Bought my Dell 17 inspioron 17 r SE a few months back for 900 euro from Dell.ie. (google discount codes and it will knock off 100 euro or so thats what i did )

17inch
Icore 7 quad core 3.2ghz
8 gigs ram
1 TB HDD
2 Gig nivida 650 graphics

can play BF3 / FC3 on very high settings with no lag etc.

http://www.dell.com/ie/p/laptops?~ck=mn#!facets=111726~0~1780115,93410~0~1450395&p=1

Torqay

Mario95 wrote: »

I am looking to buy a laptop, something that I will still be able to use after 3/4 years.

My budget is €1000.
CPU: i7 3rd/4th gen.
RAM: 6GB.
GPU: HD 8970m / GTX 780m.
Screen: 15"/17" FHD.
HDD: 750GB.

So I have found a Sager laptop built on clevo P150SM, it costs about €1000 but the shipping from US and the import tax will make it much too expensive.

I am wondering where I could buy something like this but from a European shop.
Any other suggestions are welcome too

PC Specialist and MYSN/Schenker sell Clevo laptops in the UK, Custom PC in Ireland (but they're rather expensive). However, there's a snowball's chance in hell to find a Core i7 laptop with a GTX 780M for 1000 yoyos anywhere in Europe. A GTX 765M is the best you can hope for with your budget.

The Vortex IV is the cheapest model with high end GPUs at PC Specialist, with a Haswell Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD and HD 8970M it costs 1,455 (€1,660 w GTX 780M).

The Optimus V costs €1,018 in the following configuration:



And that is avout as good as it gets (you can save €95 if you already have an operating system).

Mario95

Torqay wrote: »

PC Specialist and MYSN/Schenker sell Clevo laptops in the UK, Custom PC in Ireland (but they're rather expensive). However, there's a snowball's chance in hell to find a Core i7 laptop with a GTX 780M for 1000 yoyos anywhere in Europe. A GTX 765M is the best you can hope for with your budget.

The Vortex IV is the cheapest model with high end GPUs at PC Specialist, with a Haswell Core i7, 8 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD and HD 8970M it costs 1,455 (€1,660 w GTX 780M).

The Optimus V costs €1,018 in the following configuration:



And that is avout as good as it gets (you can save €95 if you already have an operating system).

Thanks for the answer.
I wonder why prices in Europe are higher than prices in US + shipping + import tax. Is it a lack of competition on the market or is it something else?

I don't really need a laptop for right now, so I guess I will wait a couple months until the prices go down. I hope they will go down to €1000 in about 5 months, right?

Torqay

Mario95 wrote: »

I wonder why prices in Europe are higher than prices in US + shipping + import tax. Is it a lack of competition on the market or is it something else?

Well, 23% VAT is obviously the biggie.

But that's not all. I don't really know why but if you replace the $ sign with a € sign, add 10% and then apply the VAT you'll get a pretty accurate estimate of what a computer will cost here compared to the US.

Mario95 wrote: »

I don't really need a laptop for right now, so I guess I will wait a couple months until the prices go down. I hope they will go down to €1000 in about 5 months, right?

I'm afraid not. I don't think you'll get a Core i7 laptop with a GTX 780M in 5 months for €1,000... unless you'll buy 2nd hand, and even that I doubt very much.