Everything You Need to Know Before Buying a Gaming Laptop

Find out what are the top 5 features you should look out for when purchasing a gaming laptop

In order to buy the right tool for the job, you have to know what to look for. It seems obvious but this advice applies as much to shopping for a gaming laptop as it does buying a car or smartphone. It is very easy to buy into the look, or the marketing buzz around a product but it is far more important to learn to look below the surface and know what internal features can give you most bang-for-your-buck.

After all, if you buy a gaming laptop that cannot deliver the performance needed for the games you have bought it to play, it’s not really worth the investment - and there is so much more behind a great gaming laptop experience than just the graphics card and CPU.

Here’s what you need to look for:

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