Looking for a 15" laptop for gaming and college

[alias95]

Looking for a 15.6" laptop, will be used for some gaming as well as for college use, so it should be reasonably portable (under 7 lbs).

1. Budget: $1300

2. 15.6" screen

3. United States

4. Preferred brands: None
Disliked brands: HP, Dell

5. No refurbished laptops

6. Primary tasks: Gaming, school use, programming

7. Will be taken to class

8. Games: Guild Wars 2, Skyrim, League of Legends, Borderlands 2

9. At least 2.5-3 hours of battery life

10. Online is fine

11. Windows only

12/13. FHD or 1080p Matte screen

14. Build quality is reasonably important, should be sturdy enough to last a few years and regular travel

15. Buying within the next 2 months

16. The laptop should last around 4 years

17. Need at least 128 GB of hard disk space

18. Optical drive would be preferred

Another issue I did not mention is cooling, having a reasonably decent cooling system is a must.

I'm currently looking at a few laptops, the Asus N56Vz, and the Sager NP6165 and NP9130 from Xoticpc, also perhaps the HP dv6 or the Lenovo Y580 but those seem to be of a cheaper make and quality then the other two.

[Zymphad]

I'd get this from LPCdigital. Ask him about the maximum discount. For a Sager notebook, he gets you the best price, guaranteed.


Sager NP6350 (Clevo W350ETQ)
Configuration:
Product Price Quantity Subtotal
15.6” Full HD 16:9 LED-Backlit MATTE 95% NTSC Color Gamut Ultra Bright $95.00 1 $95.00
NVIDIA® GeForce™ GTX 660M with 2GB GDDR5 Video Memory $0.00 1 $0.00
3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM Processor ( 6MB L3 Cache, 2.30GHz) $70.00 1 $70.00
Stock Standard Thermal Compound $0.00 1 $0.00
None - Drivers & Utility Software Only $0.00 1 $0.00
8GB Dual Channel DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 2 X 4GB ** $0.00 1 $0.00
Sager Branding $0.00 1 $0.00
Non-RAID Storage $0.00 1 $0.00
500GB Seagate Momentus XT 7200RPM 500GB (w/ 4GB SSD Memory)-Free Upgrade Back to School Special $0.00 1 $0.00
8X DVD±R/RW/4X +DL Super-Multi Drive & Software $0.00 1 $0.00
Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6235 - 802.11A/B/G/N Wireless LAN + Bluetooth Combo Module $25.00 1 $25.00
Removable 8 cell smart Lithium-Ion battery pack 76.96Wh $0.00 1 $0.00
LIFETIME Limited Labor and 1 Year Premium** Parts Warranty $0.00 1 $0.00
FREE UPS Ground (CONUS Only) $0.00 1 $0.00
Product summary: $1,139.00

I would go with the GTX 660M since that is the new Kepler core and it runs cool and fast. You should be able to overclock that nicely. Good battery life also.

[alias95]

Bump, I've heard poor things about the 6350 so I'm questionable about that one