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Gear Of The Year 2017 – Your favourite gaming laptops

Desktop-grade gaming performance in a laptop has become more and more common in recent years with full-fat graphics cards being shoved into portable units.

It can be a real challenge deciding which gaming laptop is right for you, especially if it is going to multi-task as a work machine. Sure, the high power processors in gaming laptops make short work of any word processing or web browsing, but this comes at the expense of cost, weight and heat

A gaming laptop that can run the latest games is great, but making a racquet in a lecture hall or business meeting when you’re taking notes is not ideal.

With all that in mind, South Africans still went with something big and brash in the Alienware 17 with 29,6% of the votes.

While Alienware has been criticised in recent years for its overtly flashy design choices and high prices, it’s name is so synonymous with powerful prebuilds and brand strength that prompt many to zero in on it as their first choice.

Looking at the 17 objectively, however, and a GTX 1080 paired with an i7 and a 4K screen, all with you on the go, makes a compelling package, even if it does come at a high cost.

The Acer Predator 17 comes in second at 15,4% with a variety of models to pick from for your power and price tastes.

And at third place Dell continues its spree of picking up placements in our surveys, coming in at 13% of the votes for their Inspiron 7567 Firelord. While we’d love to say that the name “Firelord” was enough to bring it a bronze, Dell has had such a strong showing that we know it’s definitely more than that.

Staff Pick – MSI GS63VR

The idea of a laptop that’s beefy enough to game on, but still light and cool enough to actually use on my lap, is a difficult one to put into a product. It was just about impossible a few years back, and it’s not becoming more mainstream with some very expensive machines.

The MSI GS63VR, as the name suggest, is ready for VR and any gaming you can throw at it in a variety of configurations.

It has NVIDIA’s Max-Q tech for performance that’s closer to desktop, and MSI’s great cooling to keep everything from getting too hot. Yes, it’s still very expensive, but that “unicorn” gaming laptop that can balance size, power, and price does not exist yet, and the GS63VR is a great compromise.

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