What is the best laptop for gaming?

This question appears every week. And I am willing to give an answer hoping that this serves to “educate” more and more readers.

If we are just after the best laptop for gaming, the best one is the one with the best components. Period. If two laptops have the same components, then one should consider issues like heat dissipation, reliability, etc. However, gaming is a performance game and the best laptop is the one with top of lines components.

I could tell you the best is X or Y or Z but, ultimately, that would be down to personal opinions. I like 17 or even better 18-inch laptops. I like them to have the top GPU unit available at the time I buy. I like them with overclockable and possibly over-volt-able CPUs (there is also the issue of the cores and if you use your machine for serious “civilian” applications besides gaming, I want a minimum of 6 core CPUs, even better, 8).

Nevertheless, all this being said, like Andy Strain wrote in his answer, you need to consider the new Area 51 line of laptops by Alienware because they have upgradeable components! All laptops remain state of the arts for, maybe, 6 months, even if you spend $5–6,000 on them, and being able to replace CPU and GPU units is quite a thing. It is early to say if this product is going to be successful, but would I like the ability to swap my CPU and GPU units? Yes, I would, very much so! Dream come true!

Also, be very careful… some thin laptops pack (that is really the case here) high-end components, but high-end components develop a lot of heat and large-bodied laptops (possibly 17 inches or larger) are just better at dissipating heat than the “sole fish ” models that are nearly transparent but run hot like volcanoes.

The best gaming laptop for gaming

I figure you must be worried about the add-ons adding to the price, right? I get that. I’ve built my own computers for years, but I always bought my laptops because they’re hard to make from the ground up. That being said, all the “gaming add-ons” usually come as part of any gaming laptop and the only laptops that might compete are certain “high-end business laptops” or “high-end business notebooks”. These kinds of devices are usually slim, and sleek, have an extremely long battery life, and typically run over $1000. They’re designed for graphics work, accessing databases, doing computations, easily connecting to secure networks used in some industries, and also to make the person who owns them look important (the main feature that accomplishes that is the price tag though).

Basically, laptops don’t usually focus on “power”, they focus on “power” per watt of power. In other words, most people buying a laptop want portability and long battery life more than they want fast boot speed and intense gaming. In a computer like that, efficiency is the most important thing. That’s why most laptops are reasonably fast, but rarely as fast as a desktop of the same price.

Some gaming laptops exist, but most are prohibitively expensive (though still cheaper than a fancy business laptop meant for an executive). Personally, I got each of mine from cyberpowerpc.com. Their prices are a lot more reasonable than Alienware, and they have frequent sales, but honestly, a gamer is better off buying a $200 Chromebook to use as a laptop and spending the rest of their budget on a decent desktop. I used a cheap Toshiba laptop for schoolwork during boarding school and through college - that was a pretty long time with no upgrades, and it did word processing and web browsing perfectly well until the bitter end lol. But my desktop was a beast and still is. I don’t have a working laptop because I don’t need one currently, but if I needed one I’d buy a Chromebook or another cheap Toshiba (their more expensive computers can be pretty good, so they might be worth looking at).

It’s all the better if you can build a desktop yourself, and you can save some serious money if you’re patient and wait over a few months or a year to get your parts on sale. That’s how I do it, and I also tend to use more AMD and Radeon components because of the price point. My advice is to start with the motherboard, then choose the CPU, then the RAM and GPU, and pick your hard drives, sound card, disc drives, etc. last. Nothing is more irritating than having a case, drives, CPU, RAM, and everything else… But no motherboard lol. It can be hard to match all the other parts to a good motherboard, but it’s easy to find a good motherboard and use it as a starting point to figure out what else you’ll want or need to have a good, long-lasting gaming PC.

Also, if you do build your own, BE EXTRA CAREFUL WHEN SELECTING A CASE!!! You need decent airflow for a gaming computer, but more importantly, your motherboard needs to FIT in the case.

Which is the best laptop for gaming under ₹55000?

If you want a gaming laptop don't go with Dell, because Dell doesn't provide NVIDIA graphics card.

Laptops for gaming under 55k are :

1. HP Pavilion AU620TX: Amazing laptop with great specs that will surely enrich your gaming performance. It has I5 7th gen, 8GB Ram, 1TB storage, 2GB NVIDIA 940MX graphics, and Windows 10 with MS Office.

This laptop is very good for gaming and video editing and can do any regular tasks you want.

2. Lenovo Ideapad 510: It has the specs like HP, it also comes with a great design and has more input-output ports than HP. It also has an FHD display that lacks in the HP pavilion and also it has an inbuilt Win 10, If you like Lenovo go with this model it's a very good and value-for-money laptop.

3. Asus R558UQ: Asus is the company that gives you the best-in-class laptops for a very cheaper price. Asus gives you an i5 7th gen, 8GB ram, 1TB hard disk, 2GB NVIDIA 940MX, and a DOS Operating system. This laptop is very good as it comes under 45k with these awesome specs.

All these laptops are between 45 to 55k, but if you can increase your budget upto 60K go with the HP Pavilion Au624Tx that has an FHD display and 4GB NVDIA 940MX or you can go with the new Lenovo Ideapad 520 that has i5 7th gen, 8GB ram, 1TB Hard disk, win 10, 4GB NVDIA 940MX and lastly it has a fingerprint scanner.