# New laptop - thoughts?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-laptop-thoughts/824975>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [November 23, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-laptop-thoughts/824975 "2018-11-23T16:12:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-laptop-thoughts/824975/1 "2018-11-23T16:12:09Z")

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The time has come to buy a new gaming laptop. Old one is going on 5 years and while it does fine with most games, it just can’t cut it with new ones.

This one is on sale for Black Friday. I’ve upgraded a few things from stock, and it is $1894.00 as configured.

I’ve got a 1TB SATA3 SSD to pop in to the HDD bay when I get it for extra storage.

Thoughts?  
Sager NP8374

[ul]  
[li]8th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-8750H Processor ( 9MB Smart Cache, 2.20GHz )[/li][li]17.3" Full HD, 120Hz 3ms, Wide View Angle 94% NTSC Matte Display (1920 x 1080)[/li][li]NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GPU with 8GB GDDR5 Video Memory[/li][li]IC Diamond Thermal Compound - CPU + GPU [+$35.00][/li][li]Windows® 10 Pro 64-Bit Edition Preinstalled [+$50.00][/li][li]16GB DDR4 SDRAM at 3000MHz - 1 X 16GB [+$75.00][/li][li]1TB WD Blue M.2 SSD [+$160.00][/li][li]Killer Dual Band Wireless-AC 1550 M.2 AC Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Module [+$25.00][/li][/ul]  
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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2018, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-laptop-thoughts/824975/2 "2018-11-24T19:11:51Z")

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Looks awesome. It seems like there is little reason to develop faster personal computers other than games, so…thanks!