You've got some big balls to come round here claiming this is the cheapest online laptop.

your desktop gtx660 is better or equal at worse than the gtx970m, you should change the CPU possibly on the desktop because must be very weak, tell me what you got and might help to verify. On the other hand the cpu of this laptop is strong hence the better performance of the gtx970m

It doesnt have gigabit ethernet, that is bonkers, I mean just how little would that cost the manufacturer to add.

Expired :disappointed:

On topic, it's expired at that price.

I had a gtx 870m, 970m and I maxed out most games at 40-60fps

Build a gaming PC or wait till the more expensive laptop models reduce in price. 1080p 60fps will be the norm for laptops of this price soon.

I've got a high-end overclocked 980 Ti PC, but everyone else other than you has adjusted their expectations accordingly. People who buy laptops should never expect 1080p/60fps on ultra settings with new games for under £1200.
However, 30fps and higher is a good standard - which is better performing than consoles as well.
Laptops should never be compared directly to desktop PCs because the price/performance ratio is sky high for the smaller parts. For a gaming LAPTOP this is a great deal, even back at £879 which this currently sits at now.

well, if you got no option then this laptop is nearly the best you can find and I must admit that the price is good. My argument was against people that do not know what they are talking about when it comes to gaming. If they are happy they are happy but do not expect miracle, just lower the settings for a very smooth play

Talking rubbish. I have. 970m and it plays those games on high just fine

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Don't listen to him. Look at notebookcheck as that guy stated. It'll churn through games at 1080p easily. It's a very tasty deal for a gtx 970m laptop, which even has in-built G-Sync and an IPS display. The laptop also allows for GPU overclocking.
Performance looks V good, 54 fps on BF4 with ultra settings at 1080p. 40 fps on DOOM with ultra settings at 1080p.
Bobo is clearly clueless

​What would you suggest then? I need a laptop not a desktop and i want to play games on it at a decent quality aswel as need it to do video editing etc. Budget is about 1k.

That's either a very poor attempt at humour, or a serious facepalm-worthy statement.

Are u serious? i hope u are not.

I agree, but everyone perceives frame rate differently. I cant stomach under 60fps it makes me literally nauseous, but most seem fine with anything over 30fps. With a GTX 970 I could play gta 5 at 60fps across 3 monitors (3240x1080) if i sacrificed shadow and vegetation quality, it looked pretty damn good but most importantly very smooth. So a 970m on a single monitor with a few tweaks should reach pretty good frame rates IMO, its all a balancing act. The fact it has gsync is a huge bonus.

For £800 he isn't going to get better than a 970m. However, If were him id just buy a PC instead.

This is not the cheapest online laptop

if you like to play at low fps it is ok otherwise you need to lower the settings drastically. Here we play with sli/cf's about 6 times the power of this card and we always find problems to get decent fps. Just good for a laptop but wasting of money in a way. With £800 you can build a decent desktop pc far more powerful than this laptop. Anyway I do not get people that are at all costs happy to play at lower frames, it is really annoying. As an example, on a 30hz monitor=30pfs max feel, how can you play a game at that fps, or even at 45 or so in a 60hz tv/monitor. Anything less than 55fps should not be considered hence the need to lower the settings for a smooth not annoying game play. Anyway, just got one myself to play space invaders in bed hoping it will not lag that much.
Beware of the way they conduct these reviews especially when it comes to a laptop and if you want to take it in consideration, this GPU is slightly less than a 5 years old gtx660

Will this still be worth it running the painful Windows 8 given that the Windows 10 upgrade will no longer be free?

​Thanks for that info. Dont want to spend £800 to find out i have to run things in low settings like bobo has said.

Ignore Bobo, he seems upset about something. 970m paired with i7 will give 30fps at 4k. It'll give 60fps at 1080p no trouble at all.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-970M.126694.0.html

Good deal bu rumors of next generation of laptops with new Mobile Nvidia GTX1060 in the next few months but price likely to be 400-500 quid higher - but this still a good deal if you do a lot of Gaming /Photo editing / video editing and encoding

real specifications are not an opinion, we cannot make changes

it will run doom with decent settings no problem. it also has G-Sync do help keep things smooth.... A decent machine for the price...

​Oh. Seems contrary to a post above.

Can this max out graphics on something like battlefield or doom?

good specs but history already, lets move on. Also, Window10 offer ends today

That's an incredible spec for the money. 970m is usually in the realm of the £1000 laptop and that's not counting the i7, 16gb RAM and SSD

It will be faster than an i3/i5, though I'm not sure why an i3 or i5 would be slow to render.

You've got some big balls to come round here claiming this is the cheapest online laptop.

​Also is the i7 processor in this capable of video editing/rendering? My i3 laptop and i5 pc are extremely slow.

Always best to add the spec so people on mobiles don't have to be checking links. Heat added