So that was you with the tower and monitor on the long train journey last week.

it's a £600 laptop with a 7th gen i5 and a 960.

1080p is what 96%+ of people are using so what's your issue with it? its also IPS so best technology you can get at this sort of price.

8GB RAM is more than enough for at least the next few years.

the fact other configs of this same laptop come with an SSD+HDD i would presume there is another slot (perhaps M.2) for you to add an SSD.

Just FYI, MSI's customer service is shocking. I'm in the middle of getting a GT72 traded in because of their poor advertising and disgusting attitude towards their customers.

True, never seen anyone play a game on a laptop. 1080ti is a minimum requirement with Titan XP being the recommended.

Plus an i5? I am surprised that can even load windows. You really need hyperthreading for optimal notepad launch speed.

/Sarcasm

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Ok so I missed out on the HP omen the other day from john lewis

I ordered the original £630 deal from John Lewis but it was rejected by the click and collect+ newsagent on Monday 17th and returned to John Lewis on Thursday 20th, they claimed they could not send back out to me until it was checked and put back to stock, nor could it be reserved for me when it was checked. In all honesty their customer service was rubbish and I ended up being refunded on the Friday so there may well be 1 coming back in to stock at some time, i was watching over the weekend and it remained OOS so i bought a different Omen (the one i have posted on here as a deal)

Im holding off upgrading until this 'mining faze' has passed - GPU costs are crazy currently, that being said this is a nice spec for the money but I think if your looking to drop £600+ I would ideally want a 1050 or better as performance improvement and with it future proofing (ps pro and xbox one x will raise the min spec a fair bit going forward) is significant, not that you couldnt play games perfectly well on this system (ignore the elite Pc gamers who disregard anything that cant run every game on ultra settings at 4K and 60fps - you can game perfectly well at 1080p high or medium and even as low at 30fps game type dependent.- honestly 'hairworks and all that other crazy GPU heavy stuff very rarely adds much to the gaming experience.

Was expecting sli 1080ti for that much lol.

Yeah, thats the full setup inclusive of a peripherals such as my ROG Swift monitor (PC includes 6700k, 1070, 32gb of RAM, 10tb of storage space etc etc)

I bought this back in Feb for about £600 from ebuyer...
I have since added a 240gb m. 2 SSD, and replaced the cd drive with a HDD caddy, where I installed a 2tb SSHD
Brilliant laptop... Sure it's got nothing on my £4k custom pc setup I built for home use, but for a total cost of £900 (after the SSHD and M.2 SSD) I can't knock it.. It does everything I want in a portable gaming laptop

The omen is back in stock now

Yes they are but it's unlikely they'd pair a 7700K with a 1050/1050 Ti unless they just needed the bare minimum in Pascal graphics (&had a more CPU intensive workload) that was available at the time, assuming that laptop would be purchased before the MX150 was released.
I wish my laptop had an unlocked CPU, I know that I'll probably get a HK when i upgrade in 4/5 years

Yes they are but it's unlikely they'd pair a 7700K with a 1050/1050 Ti unless they just needed the bare minimum in Pascal graphics that was available at the time, assuming that laptop would be purchased before the MX150 was released.
I wish my laptop had an unlocked CPU, I know that I'll probably get a HK when i upgrade in 4/5 years

Yes they are but it's unlikely they'd pair a 7700K with a 1050/1050 Ti unless they just needed the bare minimum in Pascal graphics that was available at the time, assuming that laptop would be purchased before the MX150 was released.
I wish my laptop had an unlocked CPU, I know that I'll probably get a HK when i upgrade in 3/4 years

Speaking from experience, it's very easy to get sucked into the 'numbers game'. It's nice to have a ridiculously specced PC for gaming, but unless you crave extracting every last bit of detail from a games it's not really necessary.

I sold my old gaming that I build new while back and built a 'budget gaming' rig using second hand components and a £400 budget including new case e.t.c.

Ended up with an i5 2500k @ 4.2GHz (can't be bothered pushing it harder, in the past I had a 2550k I ran at 4.6GHz), 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, GTX 780ti (may upgrade this to a 980ti once the values drop a bit more), 1440p Korean monitor, 600W EVGA PSU (nothing special but better than a cheapo no-name one).

I have more than enough money to run something ridiculous like a dual 1080ti setup and a 12 core CPU or something else daft but I then find I obsess more about the figures and spend more time benching than I actually do kicking back and enjoying the games.

Oh, as for resolution, I have a 51" Samsung plasma (1024x768) next to my monitor for retro gaming - I swear old console ROMs look so much better on a huge old screen with low resolution than a modern high res screen where you end up having to apply loads of filters e.t.c. to try and emulate the effect of an older screen :smiley:

I suggest you take a look at this:

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

like i said, ~96% of gamers use 1080p (or less - admittedly something i omitted previously but still proves my point)

Sorry only just seen this - here ya go:

https://www.johnlewis.com/hp-omen-15-ax203na-gaming-laptop-intel-core-i5-8gb-ram-1tb-nvidia-gtx-1050-15-6-full-hd-shadow-mesh-pattern-twinkle-black-base/p3152916

How many gamers do you know that use a 15" 1080p screen and only 8gb of ram - proper gamers would laugh at you if you told them that's what you had. To be more future proof you need 4k or at least a better resolution than 1080p
My 2009 spec laptop has a better screen than this.

one year ago 600 is ok but now ?? lol

Yes my mistake - typing too quickly ha!.

OP - the John Lewis HP Omen is back in stock online if you thought you had missed it.

1050 is a fair amount better than a 960

Just FYI, MSI's customer service is shocking. I'm in the middle of getting a GT72 traded in because of their poor advertising and disgusting attitude towards their customers.

Could you hook up oculus rift to this?

presumably yes, but there are laptops with a 7700K..

You mean 7700hq right?

Its more than likely I was just unlucky but just like anything else, if you had a bad or frustrating experience, you kind of dont want to use that brand anymore.

For what this Laptop is, Pop in an SSD and get that up to 16GB and its a decent portable gaming laptop. Same spec as I had and could do BF1 and Medium settings :smile:

Reasonable price but the screen is average, memory is low, battery is basic - no details of the hard drive other than size?

for gaming, laptop is never a good option.

no worries, Thank you.

This argument ceased to have any value about 5 years ago, been gaming on laptops for quite some time, at home it sits in a dock connected to 25" inch display, but at 2kg it's easy to take it everywhere I go.

I've had two warranty issues and both were dealt with promptly and professionally. so it's not all bad news.

My experience with their after sales support is so poor. The moment they get know it is not about new sales that is it !!!

Try giving a call to their after sales support ... New customer calls are answered very quick but if it is for support then it is all about luck... been on the phone for so many hours wanting somebody to answer !

ie, the manufacturer i was referring to not the seller ...

True, never seen anyone play a game on a laptop. 1080ti is a minimum requirement with Titan XP being the recommended.

Plus an i5? I am surprised that can even load windows. You really need hyperthreading for optimal notepad launch speed.

/Sarcasm

Really decent spec in terms of value for money. Add a SSD and it'll do very nicely, thank-you-very-much!

Incidentally, I enjoy laptop gaming and this is more than capable and therefore pretty future proof, for my needs.

Thanks OP

Who's ranting?
Lots of people do laptop gaming. Ergo, Laptops are an option.

Again, rant wont help. Laptops are not a option for gaming unless you have money and you just want to throw at it.

I got a laptop with a GTX 1060 from argos last year for £850 (after cashback) you should really consider spending the extra pounds just for the the 1060, it really is substantially ahead of the 960

That sounds way better

Does this have a second bay for an SSD?

FYI Amazon have the same laptop with a 128gb SSD for £50 more Link

Looks like there is a spare slot for an M.2 NVMe drive. Good deal if you ask me. Love my MSI laptop.