I bought a gaming laptop for work. I find the extra power is nice when testing and running cpu-intensive tasks. At the time I was looking for a gaming laptop with a crappy gpu but that's hard to find. I ended up getting the Acer V Nitro (great specs, terrible mobo), but as it turns out the graphics card really helps when I need to unwind... I wouldn't recommend Acer ever, but the price was right for my limited budget and time-frame. Turns out the bios craps the bed when you destroy Windows with fire "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdwin"
I bought a gaming laptop for work. I find the extra power is nice when testing and running cpu-intensive tasks. At the time I was looking for a gaming laptop with a crappy gpu but that's hard to find. I ended up getting the Acer V Nitro (great specs, terrible mobo), but as it turns out the graphics card really helps when I need to unwind... I wouldn't recommend Acer ever, but the price was right for my limited budget and time-frame. Turns out the bios craps the bed when you destroy Windows with fire "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdwin"
Edit: specs for those interested
Aspire VN7-592G
Quad core Intel Core i7-6700HQ
16 GB 2400 DDR4
NVIDIA GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M]
QCA6174 802.11ac
Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
SAMSUNG_MZNLN256 256G SSD
ST1000LM024_HN 1TB HDD
battery: 3 hours max (terrible)