College/Gaming Laptop

[Harlan Pounders]

My college requires me to have a laptop with:
Windows 10 (64-bit version)
6th Gen Intel Core i5 or i7 processor
16 GB RAM
256 GB SSD
(and touch screen if possible)

But I also wanna use the computer for gaming purposes (No Man's Sky and other PC games) and was wondering if anyone had any advice on the best laptop for this without completely blowing the budget. The college recommended Lenovo or Fujitsu for their purposes and I really dont know what would be best. Thanks!!!

 

[Intel_man]

Well first and foremost. What's your budget and where do you live (Country is good enough)?

 

[Harlan Pounders]

Well first and foremost. What's your budget and where do you live (Country is good enough)?

I live in the US and my budget is probly around $1750 but I would prefer to be around $1000-$1500

 

[Intel_man]

Ok. That's a pretty good budget. Is a touchscreen a definite requirement? I hardly see anyone use the touchscreen interface unless they're running those Surface Pro like tablets.

 

[Harlan Pounders]

Ok. That's a pretty good budget. Is a touchscreen a definite requirement? I hardly see anyone use the touchscreen interface unless they're running those Surface Pro like tablets.

Touchscreen is not a necessary at all, but if it isnt I will just have to get a cheap tablet that runs windows which wont be a problem

 

[Harlan Pounders]

Touchscreen is not a necessary at all, but if it isnt I will just have to get a cheap tablet that runs windows which wont be a problem

That is, a tablet along with the laptop, so dont worry too much about the touchscreen capability

 

[Intel_man]

The Surface 3 is probably the cheapest "tablet" that's worth getting on the Windows 10 platform.

 

[Cisco001]

This tick all boxes
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232930

 

[Intel_man]

This sager notebook's good too. I'd grab that 32GB ram for like $30 more though. (one of their promos)

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Gaming-Notebook-NP8657-S.html

 

[Harlan Pounders]

This sager notebook's good too. I'd grab that 32GB ram for like $30 more though. (one of their promos)

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Gaming-Notebook-NP8657-S.html

I really like both but either are gonna put me at the top of the budget because I would need a tablet with the sager to complete the requirements, any with a little lower pricing?

 

[Intel_man]

The Asus one Cisco001 linked should be in your budget and has a touchscreen. Just a shame it's only on the 960M platform.

 

[FuryRosewood]

zenbook is kind of pricey for what it is, id recommend this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...m_re=insprion_7559-_-1TS-000A-00ED2-_-Product (add a samsung 850 evo and another 8 gigs of ram yourself, and it will come in about 1200 dollars, skip the whole SSD they include, just stick with the harddrive, samsung has a nice cloning utility, though you will have to reformat and give the harddrive a new ID via diskpart)