Reddit mentions of Acer Predator 15 Gaming Laptop, 15.6” Full HD, Core i7, NVIDIA GTX980M, 16GB DDR4, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, G9-591-70XR

This Acer Predator 15 G9-591-70XR Laptop would be an excellent choice for you. It has;

• An extremely powerful processor
  
  
• Excellent graphics card.
  
  
• Great Memory (RAM)
  
  
• Brilliant storage space and speed (a 1 TB Hard drive + an SSD)
  
  
• Great resolution
  
  
• Over 6 hours battery life which is decent.
  
  
• Great cooling system
  
  And many more specs that have it standing out. How could I not mention how sturdy it is( great build quality).
  
  This would run The Witcher 3 easily on max settings with great FPS.

The Acer Predator 15 G9-591-70XR gaming laptop looks the perfect choice for you. Excellent all- round laptop with amazing power, terrific build quality, great battery life.It has a wonderful i7 quad core 6th generation processor along with a gtx 980m 4 GB Graphics card which is terrific for gaming.. This laptop also has 16 GB RAM which is wonderful and of course an amazing storage of a 1TB HDD plus a 256 GB SSD that will give you some great speeds in gaming and just about all computing. This laptop also has a very good cooling system that will do you very well and that will not be too noisy. Will you be doing a lot of typing? Well, if so this laptop has a very solid keyboard which is complimented by a nice touch pad. It will also run the latest and most demanding games on ultra settings with great Frame rates.

http://www.sagernotebook.com/Gaming-Notebook-NP8657-S.html

From any retailer. Be sure to keep the processor/GPU at 970M minimum. Feel free to up it to 980M if you need more power. You can also opt for a 256SSD if you have a super large steam library.

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-Computer-GS60-Ghost-Pro-002

Or this one, same suggestions as above.

http://us.acer.com/ac/en/US/content/predator-15-series

This one's a bit heavier, but comes with the beefier 980M

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-G9-591-70XR-15-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B0161CFAQY

Go for the one with 128/970M if you want to save some money.

The Acer Predator 15 G9-591-70XR gaming laptop looks the perfect choice for you. Excellent all- round laptop with amazing power, terrific build quality, great battery life.It has a wonderful i7 quad core 6th generation processor along with a gtx 980m 4 GB Graphics card which is terrific for gaming.. This laptop also has 16 GB RAM which is wonderful and of course an amazing storage of a 1TB HDD plus a 256 GB SSD that will give you some great speeds in gaming and just about all computing. This laptop also has a very good cooling system that will do you very well and that will not be too noisy.
Will you be doing a lot of typing? Well, if so this laptop has a very solid keyboard which is complimented by a nice touch pad.
It will also run the latest and most demanding games on ultra settings with great Frame rates.

okay, you could get that, which is a really good choice, or THIS

980M and an SSD.

4k gaming doesnt really matter to me and then i cant really wait for august/september unfortunately today my laptop has stepped closer to dying and lasts about a hour before freezing so i would like to buy a laptop as soon as possible. The only changes to the op i made would be preferring 15 inch, however i believe the 980m will be sufficient for what i am looking for if you can provide your opinion on what the best laptop is for what i am looking for (in another very similar topic someone suggested https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0161CFAQY/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=thpcgaha-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B0161CFAQY&linkId=bc2348033520f32c1cf3d2ebc209dd8e).

Basically im pretty bad with seeing different specs and how they relate and all advice is greatly appeciated!

any specific criteria cos I'm just gonna spam a link

http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-G9-591-70XR-15-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B0161CFAQY/ref=sr_1_80?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1454108763&sr=1-80

Found it. Acer Predator 15 G9-591-70XR I'd still like to see if someone can provide some other options.

http://www.amazon.com/G752VY-DH72-17-Inch-Gaming-GeForce-Titanium/dp/B01578ZM6Q/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_2?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1458000644&sr=1-2-fkmr0&keywords=ASUS+ROG+G752VY-DH72+Intel+i7+2.6GHz+32GB+Memory+256GB+SSD+%2B+1TB+HDD+GTX980M+4GB This is the one I am currently looking at for Asus. You are correct 100% on battery life with their machines. You basically have to have them connected all the time if you are doing anything that really makes them work. The is the Acer: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0161CFAQY/ref=twister_B016P5U9J0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1 The Acer laptop that I am looking at weighs a bit less due to it being 15.6" instead of the 17.3" Asus and has a longer battery life by quite a bit actually.

Since you are welling to go over 1500 for something more powerful then I would recommend the Acer Predator the specs are

Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz (6 MB Cache)
16GB DDR4 Dual-Channel Memory
1TB 7200RPM Hard Drive, 256GB Solid-State Drive
15.6-inch Full HD Screen, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M with 4GB GDDR5 VRAM

https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-G9-591-70XR-15-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B0161CFAQY

With your budget and gaming expectations I would get a 980M laptop. Usually, they don't have very good battery life, but I did find one: what about the [Acer Predator 15 G9-591-70XR] (http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-G9-591-70XR-15-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B0161CFAQY)?

Intel Core i7-6700HQ 2.6 GHz, 15.6", 1920 x 1080, 16 GB, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 980M, Windows 10 Home 64-Bit

Here is the gaming performance you can expect from a 980M GPU:

http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-980M.126692.0.html

(scroll down to Game Benchmarks)

I think that should give you excellent gaming performance today and a reasonable one for the newer games in 3-4 years.