Advice on a New Gaming Laptop

[ispano]

Just as an FYI, most people go with the i5s for a few reasons. Cheaper obviously, but the other is that typically an i5 and i7 of the same clock speed will perform almost the same in games.

[Buffmage]

Just as an FYI, most people go with the i5s for a few reasons. Cheaper obviously, but the other is that typically an i5 and i7 of the same clock speed will perform almost the same in games.

Because no games (at the moment) take advantage of Hyper Threading (HT) that i7s have to offer, and in some cases can lower game performance by a mesley 1~2%, but with desktop you tend to buy for the future as well. all up to the buyer preference wants/needs