New laptop for everything including games needed

[metalangel]

My 2010 Macbook Pro is at the end of its life now - it has the logic board fault that will require about $300 to fix, and it's driving me nuts.

With the current MBPs well overdue for a refresh and underspecced for their price tag, I'm looking at other options.

I'm considering an Acer Aspire V15 Nitro Black Edition:
https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834314702

But I'm open to suggestions. It pretty much has to be a 15" laptop, and I want to play games on it.
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[CaNsA]

Wait until monday.

[metalangel]

For the price drops - naturally.

I am wondering just when the new GT900 M GPUs will appear but as it stands my MBP is borderline unusable. I called into my local Mac shop and was told the cost of repairing it could be roughly what it's worth when it's fully operational, all things told.
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Previous: 2002 Honda CB500 (sold), 2007 Suzuki SV650SK6 (crashed), 2005 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer (sold). Currently bikeless
"A faired bike will get you 10x more clunge than a unfaired one." -Marlboro Matt

[Rigga]

[metalangel]

I'm also considering the MSI GS60 series since it has the new GTX970M GPU... price is higher but it's awful when you run out of puff on a relatively new machine (which the Acer above is)

https://www.amazon.ca/MSI-GS60-2PL-061US-15-6-Inch-Laptop/dp/B00PAX4AVW/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1417300346&sr=1-2&keywords=msi+gs60+gtx970m

EDIT: Oh, and the Asus one too (which I just realized is 17", oh well):
https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834232227&cm_re=asus_rog-_-34-232-227-_-Product
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Previous: 2002 Honda CB500 (sold), 2007 Suzuki SV650SK6 (crashed), 2005 Yamaha FZ6 Fazer (sold). Currently bikeless
"A faired bike will get you 10x more clunge than a unfaired one." -Marlboro Matt

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[metalangel]

Having fiddled around with the Eurocom configurator, here's what I have come up with. The X3 probably wins because it has twice the RAM on the GPU, even if it's a bit larger and heavier.

[Rigga]