Computer....recommendations? Looking for help.

[Wolfy]

Not sure if I'm allowed to ask this here, but I figured I'd make a topic.

I'm looking to purchase a budget gaming laptop for $1000 or under, and I'm not sure what to purchase. The one I've been looking at has everything I'd like, but it only has a 256gb SSD for storage space...and that seems to be the main thing that's cut down to make these laptops more affordable. xD

Does anyone have an recommendations for something? I'd like to play most modern games, but I'm mainly going to be focusing on Overwatch and FFXIV for the most part.

[Gypsy]

I've got a 17" MSI gaming laptop.  It has both SSD storage and a 1TB  HDD, plus a great NVIDIA graphics card.  I got it back in November for a bit less than $1000, with a couple of extras.

I've been quite happy with it.  :-)

Good luck with your purchase.

[Naiah]

I've got a 17" MSI gaming laptop.  It has both SSD storage and a 1TB  HDD, plus a great NVIDIA graphics card.  I got it back in November for a bit less than $1000, with a couple of extras.

I've been quite happy with it.  :-)

Good luck with your purchase.

Same! :D LOVING mine, though it was a HUGE improvement from my old one lol

[Marri]

Any laptop that's running on an SSD is using it for the sake of speed. Which is better for booting and running programs, but if you're talking having a large library of games installed and ready to go, probably won't do you much good. SSDs in general are more for Operating Systems and background programs than storage. A laptop running off a HDD is also likely to be cheaper, or at least offer much more storage for the price, so that would be my first advice.

You can always get the laptop you want and swap out the SSD for something bigger down the line, but that might void your warranty. Are you set on a laptop rather than a PC?

[Irvine]

By the sound of it, you want a good laptop for gaming so I hope you don't mind me asking; is there any particular reason you'd want a laptop over a PC? I understand there's portability but if it's just going to sit on your table at home then I highly recommend you a PC over a laptop. Usually for the price of a laptop you could get a PC that performs anywhere between 20% - 50% better (in terms of FPS for gaming). If portability is more important for you then, as one previous poster said, you shouldn't be too worried about SSD.

I'm not too sure what are laptop price these days but I reckon for that kind of budget you should be able to at least accommodate a GTX1050, 8 - 16GB RAM, i5/i7 processor. Anything less, skip.

Edit: Just wanted to add that a GTX1050, 8GB of RAM and i5 CPU is more than enough to run Overwatch and FFXIV on high. I'd really encourage you to get something with +500GB of Hard Disk though unless you're confident you can manage with 256GB.

[Tsenta]

Just keep in mind, laptops are always going to cost more than a desktop with the same specs.  That and GPUs are heavily overpriced right now due to crypto currency mining.